Investigation of the flow inside an urban canopy immersed into an atmospheric boundary layer using laser Doppler anemometry
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DOI: 10.1007/s00348-018-2532-1
Abstract: Laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) is used to investigate the flow inside an idealized urban canopy consisting of a staggered array of cubes with a 25% density immersed into an atmospheric boundary layer with a Reynolds… read more here.
Keywords: urban canopy; flow inside; boundary layer; canopy ... See more keywords
Pathway using WUDAPT's Digital Synthetic City tool towards generating urban canopy parameters for multi-scale urban atmospheric modeling
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DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100459
Abstract: Abstract The WUDAPT (World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools project goal is to capture consistent information on urban form and function for cities worldwide that can support urban weather, climate, hydrology and air quality… read more here.
Keywords: digital synthetic; city; synthetic city; urban canopy ... See more keywords
The impact of inhomogeneous urban canopy parameters on meteorological conditions and implication for air quality in the Pearl River Delta region
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DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100494
Abstract: Abstract A high-resolution urban canopy parameters (UCPs) dataset for the Pearl River Delta (PRD) was used in a regional model to quantify its impact on meteorological parameters and ozone (O3) concentration. This dataset (PRD_UCPs), with… read more here.
Keywords: urban canopy; river delta; canopy parameters; inhomogeneous urban ... See more keywords
Evaluation of boundary-layer and urban-canopy parameterizations for simulating wind in Miami during Hurricane Irma (2017)
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DOI: 10.1175/mwr-d-20-0278.1
Abstract: The simulated winds within the urban canopy of landfalling tropical cyclones are sensitive to the representation of the planetary-boundary and urban-canopy layers in numerical weather prediction models. In order to assess the sub-grid-scale parameterizations of… read more here.
Keywords: urban canopy; boundary layer; bep; irma 2017 ... See more keywords
A new urban canopy parameterization scheme for wind environment simulations
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DOI: 10.1177/1420326x17741338
Abstract: This paper concerns urban canopies populated with tall slender buildings. To clarify the controlling factors of urban canopies, we simulated a series of single high-rise buildings under fully developed turbulence at a realistic scale by… read more here.
Keywords: length; recirculation; recirculation area; area ... See more keywords
The Influence of Refined Urban Morphological Parameters on Dynamical and Thermal Fields in a Single-Layer Urban Canopy Model
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DOI: 10.3390/atmos14040719
Abstract: In this study, localised and non-uniform urban morphology (UM) and urban fraction (UF) parameters are implemented in a single-layer urban canopy scheme in the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale meteorological model. The purpose of… read more here.
Keywords: surface; single layer; heat; model ... See more keywords
Observation Analysis on Microphysics Characteristics of Long-lasting Severe Fog and Haze Episode at Urban Canopy Top
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DOI: 10.4209/aaqr.2017.10.0416
Abstract: A field experiment based in a 255 m meteorological tower in Tianjin was conducted from Dec. 29, 2016 to Jan. 8, 2017, to study microphysical characteristics of the urban canopy top and their effect on… read more here.
Keywords: haze; canopy top; fog; urban canopy ... See more keywords