Part I Urban Morphology and Databases
1 Facilitating Advanced Urban Meteorology and Air Quality
Modelling Capabilities with High Resolution Urban Database
and Access Portal Tools ...................................... 3
Jason Ching, Adel Hanna, Fei Chen, Steven Burian, and
Torrin Hultgren
2 Relating Small-Scale Emission and Concentration
Variability in Air Quality Models ........................... 11
Stefano Galmarinl, Jean-François Vinuesa, and Alberto
Martilli
3 Performance of Different Sub-Grid-Scale Surface Flux
Parameterizations for Urban and Rural Areas ................. 21
Sylvia Bohnenstengel and Heinke Schlünzen
Part II Parameterizations of Urban Canopy
4 How to Use Computational Fluid Dynamics Models for Urban
Canopy Parameterizations .................................... 31
Alberto Martilli and Jose Luis Santiago
5 Review of Japanese Urban Models and a Scale Model
Experiment .................................................. 39
Manabu Kanda
6 Urban Soil-Canopy-Atmosphere Exchanges at Submesoscales:
Learning from Model Development, Evaluation, and Coupling
with LES .................................................... 47
Isabelle Calmet and Patrice Mestayer
7 The Effect of Stratification on the Aerodynamic Roughness
Length ...................................................... 59
Sergej Zilitinkevich, Ivan Mammarella, Alexander Bak
Janov, and Sylvain Joffre
Part III Strategy for Urbanization of Different Types of
Models
8 FUMAPEX Experience of Model Urbanisation .................... 69
Alexander Baklanov and FUMAPEX Team
9 Evolution of Urban Surface Exchange in the UK Met Office's
Unified Model ............................................... 77
Peter Clark, Martin Best, and Aurore Porson
10 Sensitivity Tests in the Dynamical and Thermal Part of the
MRF-Urban PBL Scheme in the MM5 Model ....................... 87
Aggeliki Dandou and Maria Tombrou
Part IV Evaluation and Case Studies/Observations
11 Urban Surface Energy Balance Models: Model Characteristics
and Methodology for a Comparison Study ...................... 97
C.S.B. Grimmond, Martin Best, Janet Barlow, A.J. Arnfield,
J.-J. Baik, A. Baklanov, S. Belcher, M. Bruse, I. Calmet,
F. Chen, P. Clark, A. Dandou, E. Ereil, K. Fortuniak,
R. Hamdi, M. Kanda, T. Kawai, H. Kondo, S. Krayenhoff,
S.H. Lee, S.-B. Limor, A. Martilli, V. Masson, S. Miao,
G. Mills, R. Moriwaki, K. Oleson, A. Porson, U. Sievers,
M. Tombrou, J. Voogt, and T. Williamson
12 Measuring Meteorology in Urban Areas - Some Progress
and Many Problems .......................................... 125
Sven-Erik Gryning and Ekaterina Batchvarova
13 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 ...................................... 133
Stefan Emeis
14 Verification and Case Studies for Urban Effects in HIRLAM
Numerical Weather Forecasting .............................. 143
Alexander Mahura, Alexander Baklanov, Claus Petersen,
Niels W. Nielsen, and Bjarne Amstrup
15 Model Urbanization Strategy: Summaries, Recommendations
and Requirements ........................................... 151
Alexander Baklanov, Jason Ching, C.S.B. Grimmond, and
Alberto Martilli
Appendix 1: Program of the COST 728 Workshop on Model
Urbanization Strategy, UK Met Office, Exeter,
UK, 3-4 May 2007 .................................. 163
Appendix 2: List of Workshop Participants ..................... 167
Colour Plate .................................................. 171
Index ......................................................... 179
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