Urbanization impact on regional climate and extreme weather: Current understanding, uncertainties, and future research directions

Y Qian, TC Chakraborty, J Li, D Li, C He… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Urban environments lie at the confluence of social, cultural, and economic activities and
have unique biophysical characteristics due to continued infrastructure development that …

Environmental impacts of reflective materials: Is high albedo a 'silver bullet'for mitigating urban heat island?

J Yang, ZH Wang, KE Kaloush - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2015 - Elsevier
Studies on urban heat island (UHI) have been more than a century after the phenomenon
was first discovered in the early 1800s. UHI emerges as the source of many urban …

The SURFEXv7. 2 land and ocean surface platform for coupled or offline simulation of earth surface variables and fluxes

V Masson, P Le Moigne, E Martin… - Geoscientific Model …, 2013 - gmd.copernicus.org
SURFEX is a new externalized land and ocean surface platform that describes the surface
fluxes and the evolution of four types of surfaces: nature, town, inland water and ocean. It is …

[图书][B] Urban microclimate: designing the spaces between buildings

E Erell, D Pearlmutter, T Williamson - 2012 - taylorfrancis.com
The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city
were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban …

Approaches to study urban heat island–abilities and limitations

PA Mirzaei, F Haghighat - Building and environment, 2010 - Elsevier
Urban Heat Island (UHI) has significant impacts on the buildings energy consumption and
outdoor air quality (OAQ). Various approaches, including observation and simulation …

[HTML][HTML] The international urban energy balance models comparison project: first results from phase 1

CSB Grimmond, M Blackett, MJ Best… - Journal of applied …, 2010 - journals.ametsoc.org
The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First Results from
Phase 1 in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 49 Issue 6 (2010) …

Initial results from Phase 2 of the international urban energy balance model comparison

CSB Grimmond, M Blackett, MJ Best… - International …, 2011 - centaur.reading.ac.uk
Urban land surface schemes have been developed to model the distinct features of the
urban surface and the associated energy exchange processes. These models have been …

[HTML][HTML] A study of the urban boundary layer using different urban parameterizations and high-resolution urban canopy parameters with WRF

F Salamanca, A Martilli, M Tewari… - Journal of Applied …, 2011 - journals.ametsoc.org
In the last two decades, mesoscale models (MMs) with urban canopy parameterizations
have been widely used to study urban boundary layer processes. Different studies show that …

A multi-layer urban canopy meteorological model with trees (BEP-Tree): Street tree impacts on pedestrian-level climate

ES Krayenhoff, T Jiang, A Christen, A Martilli, TR Oke… - Urban Climate, 2020 - Elsevier
Vegetation alters urban climates via transpirational cooling; however, unlike shorter
vegetation, trees additionally provide shade and shelter. Urban canopy models (UCMs) are …

Scaled outdoor experimental investigation of thermal environment and surface energy balance in deep and shallow street canyons under various sky conditions

J Hang, D Wang, L Zeng, L Ren, Y Shi… - Building and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates the characteristics of the thermal environment and surface energy
balance (SEB) in idealized outdoor scaled street canyons with different height-to-width ratios …