Evaluation of 30 urban land surface models in the Urban‐PLUMBER project: Phase 1 results

MJ Lipson, S Grimmond, M Best… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Accurately predicting weather and climate in cities is critical for safeguarding human health
and strengthening urban resilience. Multimodel evaluations can lead to model …

Representing the effects of building height variability on urban canopy flow

J Lu, N Nazarian, MA Hart… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We conducted large‐eddy simulations over 98 urban arrays with varying building densities
and height distributions. Compared with uniform‐height urban arrays, the influence of height …

ECLand: The ECMWF land surface modelling system

S Boussetta, G Balsamo, G Arduini, E Dutra… - Atmosphere, 2021 - mdpi.com
The land-surface developments of the European Centre for Medium-range Weather
Forecasts (ECMWF) are based on the Carbon-Hydrology Tiled Scheme for Surface …

A long-term simulation of land surface conditions at high resolution over continental China

P Ji, X Yuan, C Shi, L Jiang, G Wang… - Journal of …, 2023 - journals.ametsoc.org
With the improvement of meteorological forcings and surface parameters, high-resolution
land surface modeling is expected to provide locally relevant information. Yet, its added …

[HTML][HTML] Harmonized gap-filled datasets from 20 urban flux tower sites

M Lipson, S Grimmond, M Best… - … system science data, 2022 - essd.copernicus.org
A total of 20 urban neighbourhood-scale eddy covariance flux tower datasets are made
openly available after being harmonized to create a 50 site–year collection with broad …

Assessment of the Paris urban heat island in ERA5 and offline SURFEX-TEB (v8. 1) simulations using the METEOSAT land surface temperature product

M Nogueira, A Hurduc, S Ermida… - Geoscientific Model …, 2022 - gmd.copernicus.org
Cities concentrate people, wealth, emissions, and infrastructure, thus representing a
challenge and an opportunity for climate change mitigation and adaptation. This urgently …

The water balance representation in urban‐PLUMBER land surface models

HJ Jongen, M Lipson, AJ Teuling… - Journal of Advances …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Urban Land Surface Models (ULSMs) simulate energy and water exchanges
between the urban surface and atmosphere. However, earlier systematic ULSM comparison …

An Urban Scheme for the ECMWF Integrated Forecasting System: Global Forecasts and Residential CO2 Emissions

J McNorton, A Agustí‐Panareda… - Journal of Advances …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The impact of urbanization on local weather patterns affects over half the global population.
Global numerical weather prediction systems have reached a resolution at which urban …

[HTML][HTML] An urban module coupled with the Variable Infiltration Capacity model to improve hydrothermal simulations in urban systems

Y Wang, X Xie, B Zhu, A Tursun, F Jiang… - Geoscientific Model …, 2024 - gmd.copernicus.org
Global urban expansion has altered surface aerodynamics and hydrothermal dynamics,
aggravating environmental challenges such as urban heat and urban dry islands. To identify …

High‐resolution land surface modeling of the effect of long‐term urbanization on hydrothermal changes over Beijing metropolitan area

P Ji, X Yuan, XZ Liang, Y Jiao… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The impacts of urbanization on terrestrial thermal and hydrological changes should be
considered for sustainable development of urban environment and economy. However …