Meteorological and Air Quality Models for Urban Areas - Baklanov, Alexander; Grimmond, Sue.; Mahura, Alexander; Athanassiadou, Maria; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Urban Morphology and Databases -- Facilitating Advanced Urban Meteorology and Air Quality Modelling Capabilities with High Resolution Urban Database and Access Portal Tools -- Relating Small-Scale Emission and Concentration Variability in Air Quality Models -- Performance of Different Sub-Grid-Scale Surface Flux Parameterizations for Urban and Rural Areas -- Parameterizations of Urban Canopy -- How to Use Computational Fluid Dynamics Models for Urban Canopy Parameterizations -- Review of Japanese Urban Models and a Scale Model Experiment -- Urban Soil-Canopy-Atmosphere Exchanges at Submesoscales: Learning from Model Development, Evaluation, and Coupling with LES -- The Effect of Stratification on the Aerodynamic Roughness Length -- Strategy for Urbanization of Different Types of Models -- FUMAPEX Experience of Model Urbanisation -- Evolution of Urban Surface Exchange in the UK Met Office's Unified Model -- Sensitivity Tests in the Dynamical and Thermal Part of the MRF-Urban PBL Scheme in the MM5 Model -- Evaluation and Case Studies / Observations -- Urban Surface Energy Balance Models: Model Characteristics and Methodology for a Comparison Study -- Measuring Meteorology in Urban Areas - Some Progress and Many Problems -- 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 -- Verification and Case Studies for Urban Effects in HIRLAM Numerical Weather Forecasting -- Model Urbanization Strategy: Summaries, Recommendations and Requirements.
Keywords: Atmospheric sciences; Meteorology; Regional planning; Urban planning; Environmental monitoring; Atmospheric Sciences; Meteorology; Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis