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 …

Flow and dispersion in urban areas

RE Britter, SR Hanna - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2003 - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Increasing urbanization and concern about sustainability and quality of life issues
have produced considerable interest in flow and dispersion in urban areas. We address this …

An urban surface exchange parameterisation for mesoscale models

A Martilli, A Clappier, MW Rotach - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2002 - Springer
A scheme to represent the impact of urban buildings on airflow in mesoscale atmospheric
models is presented. In the scheme, the buildings are not explicitly resolved, but their effects …

[HTML][HTML] An observational and modeling study of characteristics of urban heat island and boundary layer structures in Beijing

S Miao, F Chen, MA LeMone, M Tewari… - Journal of Applied …, 2009 - journals.ametsoc.org
An Observational and Modeling Study of Characteristics of Urban Heat Island and Boundary
Layer Structures in Beijing in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 48 Issue …

A canopy model of mean winds through urban areas

O Coceal, SE Belcher - Quarterly Journal of the Royal …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
An urban canopy model is developed for spatially averaged mean winds within and above
urban areas. The urban roughness elements are represented as a canopy‐element drag …

Review of urban surface parameterizations for numerical climate models

GF Garuma - Urban Climate, 2018 - Elsevier
Built environment changes the radiative, thermal and hydrological properties of the land
surface creating higher temperature over urban regions known as the Urban Heat Island …

Urban surface modeling and the meso-scale impact of cities

V Masson - Theoretical and applied climatology, 2006 - Springer
New developments of the international community in modeling the urban canopy surface
energy balance are presented and classified into five main categories:(i) models statistically …

[HTML][HTML] An urban parameterization for a global climate model. Part I: Formulation and evaluation for two cities

KW Oleson, GB Bonan, J Feddema… - Journal of Applied …, 2008 - journals.ametsoc.org
An Urban Parameterization for a Global Climate Model. Part I: Formulation and Evaluation for
Two Cities in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 47 Issue 4 (2008) Jump …

[HTML][HTML] Verification of a mesoscale data-assimilation and forecasting system for the Oklahoma City area during the Joint Urban 2003 field project

Y Liu, F Chen, T Warner… - Journal of applied …, 2006 - journals.ametsoc.org
Verification of a Mesoscale Data-Assimilation and Forecasting System for the Oklahoma City
Area during the Joint Urban 2003 Field Project in: Journal of Applied Meteorology and …

Modeling the surface energy balance of the core of an old Mediterranean city: Marseille

A Lemonsu, CSB Grimmond… - Journal of Applied …, 2004 - journals.ametsoc.org
Modeling the Surface Energy Balance of the Core of an Old Mediterranean City: Marseille in:
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology Volume 43 Issue 2 (2004) Jump to Content …