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Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas

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Editors:
  1. Alexander Baklanov

    1. Danish Meteorological Institute, Koebenhavn, Denmark

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  2. Grimmond Sue

    1. Dept. Geography, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

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  3. Mahura Alexander

    1. Danish Meteorological Institute, Koebenhavn, Denmark

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  4. Maria Athanassiadou

    1. Prediction and Research, Hadley Centre for Climate, Exeter, United Kingdom

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  • Gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world
  • Discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Urban Morphology and Databases

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Facilitating Advanced Urban Meteorology and Air Quality Modelling Capabilities with High Resolution Urban Database and Access Portal Tools

      • Jason Ching, Adel Hanna, Fei Chen, Steven Burian, Torrin Hultgren
      Pages 3-9

    3. Relating Small-Scale Emission and Concentration Variability in Air Quality Models

      • Stefano Galmarini, Jean-François Vinuesa, Alberto Martilli
      Pages 11-19

    4. Performance of Different Sub-Grid-Scale Surface Flux Parameterizations for Urban and Rural Areas

      • Sylvia Bohnenstengel, Heinke Schlünzen
      Pages 21-27

  3. Parameterizations of Urban Canopy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
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    2. How to Use Computational Fluid Dynamics Models for Urban Canopy Parameterizations

      • Alberto Martilli, Jose Luis Santiago
      Pages 31-37

    3. Review of Japanese Urban Models and a Scale Model Experiment

      • Manabu Kanda
      Pages 39-46

    4. Urban Soil-Canopy-Atmosphere Exchanges at Submesoscales: Learning from Model Development, Evaluation, and Coupling with LES

      • Isabelle Calmet, Patrice Mestayer
      Pages 47-58

    5. The Effect of Stratification on the Aerodynamic Roughness Length

      • Sergej Zilitinkevich, Ivan Mammarella, Alexander Baklanov, Sylvain Joffre
      Pages 59-66

  4. Strategy for Urbanization of Different Types of Models

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 67-67
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    2. FUMAPEX Experience of Model Urbanisation

      • Alexander Baklanov, FUMAPEX Team*
      Pages 69-76

    3. Evolution of Urban Surface Exchange in the UK Met Office’s Unified Model

      • Peter Clark, Martin Best, Aurore Porson
      Pages 77-86

    4. Sensitivity Tests in the Dynamical and Thermal Part of the MRF-Urban PBL Scheme in the MM5 Model

      • Aggeliki Dandou, Maria Tombrou
      Pages 87-94

  5. Evaluation and Case Studies / Observations

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. Urban Surface Energy Balance Models: Model Characteristics and Methodology for a Comparison Study

      • C.S.B. Grimmond, Martin Best, Janet Barlow, A. J. Arnfield, J.-J. Baik, A. Baklanov et al.
      Pages 97-123

    3. Measuring Meteorology in Urban Areas – Some Progress and Many Problems

      • Sven-Erik Gryning, Ekaterina Batchvarova
      Pages 125-131

    4. Derivation of Vertical Wind and Turbulence Profiles, the Mixing-Layer Height, and the Vertical Turbulent Exchange Coefficient from Sodar and Ceilometer Soundings in Urban Measurement Campaigns

      • Stefan Emeis
      Pages 133-141

    5. Verification and Case Studies for Urban Effects in HIRLAM Numerical Weather Forecasting

      • Alexander Mahura, Alexander Baklanov, Claus Petersen, Niels W. Nielsen, Bjarne Amstrup
      Pages 143-150

    6. Model Urbanization Strategy: Summaries, Recommendations and Requirements

      • Alexander Baklanov, Jason Ching, C.S.B. Grimmond, Alberto Martilli
      Pages 151-162
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This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models.

Based on the selected presentations given at the COST728 workshop, the contributions are arranged in four parts: urban morphology and databases; parameterizations of urban canopy; strategy for urbanization of different types of models; and evaluation and city case studies / field studies. The chapters treat either dynamic (on wind and turbulent) and thermal effects (on temperature and energy in general). The final chapter of this volume summarizes the discussion and conclusions from the four main topics and provides recommendations and future requirements.

This monograph is oriented towards numerical weather prediction and air quality modelling communities.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Danish Meteorological Institute, Koebenhavn, Denmark

    Alexander Baklanov, Mahura Alexander

  • Dept. Geography, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

    Grimmond Sue

  • Prediction and Research, Hadley Centre for Climate, Exeter, United Kingdom

    Maria Athanassiadou

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