Meteorological and air quality models for urban areas - Jason Ching, Adel Hanna, Fei Chen, Steven Burian, Torrin Hultgren (auth.),

 

1. Urban morphology and databases,

 

2. Parameterisations of urban canopy,

 

3. Strategy for urbanization of different types of models,

 

4. Evaluation and city case studies / field studies.

 

The chapters were concerned with 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.

 

The book is oriented towards numerical weather prediction and air quality modelling communities.

 

Categories:

 

Earth Sciences - Meteorology, Climatology

 

Year:

 

2009

 

Edition:

 

1

 

Publisher:

 

Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg

 

Language:

 

english

 

Pages:

 

184

 

ISBN 10:

 

3642002986

 

ISBN 13:

 

9783642002984