Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Facilitating Advanced Urban Meteorology and Air Quality Modelling Capabilities with High Resolution Urban Database and Access Portal Tools....Pages 3-9
Relating Small-Scale Emission and Concentration Variability in Air Quality Models....Pages 11-19
Performance of Different Sub-Grid-Scale Surface Flux Parameterizations for Urban and Rural Areas....Pages 21-27
Front Matter....Pages 29-29
How to Use Computational Fluid Dynamics Models for Urban Canopy Parameterizations....Pages 31-37
Review of Japanese Urban Models and a Scale Model Experiment....Pages 39-46
Urban Soil-Canopy-Atmosphere Exchanges at Submesoscales: Learning from Model Development, Evaluation, and Coupling with LES....Pages 47-58
The Effect of Stratification on the Aerodynamic Roughness Length....Pages 59-66
Front Matter....Pages 67-67
FUMAPEX Experience of Model Urbanisation....Pages 69-76
Evolution of Urban Surface Exchange in the UK Met Office’s Unified Model....Pages 77-86
Sensitivity Tests in the Dynamical and Thermal Part of the MRF-Urban PBL Scheme in the MM5 Model....Pages 87-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Urban Surface Energy Balance Models: Model Characteristics and Methodology for a Comparison Study....Pages 97-123
Measuring Meteorology in Urban Areas – Some Progress and Many Problems....Pages 125-131
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....Pages 133-141
Verification and Case Studies for Urban Effects in HIRLAM Numerical Weather Forecasting....Pages 143-150
Model Urbanization Strategy: Summaries, Recommendations and Requirements....Pages 151-162
Back Matter....Pages 163-183