The rapid urbanization and growing number of megacities and urban complexes requires
new types of research and services that make best use of science and available technology …

Online coupled mesoscale meteorology atmospheric chemistry models have undergone a
rapid evolution in recent years. Although mainly developed by the air quality modelling …

Increasing awareness of the urban heat island (UHI) effect has raised attention about the
outdoor thermal comfort in cities worldwide. Several studies in the last decades have …

This paper focuses on the benefits on the local microclimate and the building energy saving
resulting from green roof retrofits. The research investigates a case study located in a …

The outdoor thermal comfort in an enclosed courtyard has been studied numerically by the
three dimensional prognostic microclimate model, Envi-met 3.1. The effect of wind, and …

The review of major 3-D global and regional real-time air quality forecasting (RT-AQF)
models in Part I identifies several areas of improvement in meteorological forecasts …

Abstract According to World Health Organization, 9 out of 10 people breathe polluted air and
the ambient air pollution accounts for nearly 4.2 million early deaths worldwide. There is an …

The Environment–High Resolution Limited Area Model (Enviro-HIRLAM) is developed as a
fully online integrated numerical weather prediction (NWP) and atmospheric chemical …

This paper investigates the accuracy and limitations of wind profile modeling using the
power-law (PL), especially for low speed conditions in which air and thermal pollution can …

Obstacles considerably influence boundary layer processes. Their influences have been
included in mesoscale models (MeM) for a long time. Methods used to parameterise …