Urbanization impact on regional climate and extreme weather: Current understanding, uncertainties, and future research directions

Y Qian, TC Chakraborty, J Li, D Li, C He… - … in Atmospheric Sciences, 2022‏ - Springer
Urban environments lie at the confluence of social, cultural, and economic activities and
have unique biophysical characteristics due to continued infrastructure development that …

Flow and dispersion in urban areas

RE Britter, SR Hanna - Annual review of fluid mechanics, 2003‏ - annualreviews.org
▪ Abstract Increasing urbanization and concern about sustainability and quality of life issues
have produced considerable interest in flow and dispersion in urban areas. We address this …

[ספר][B] Urban microclimate: designing the spaces between buildings

E Erell, D Pearlmutter, T Williamson - 2012‏ - taylorfrancis.com
The quality of life of millions of people living in cities could be improved if the form of the city
were to evolve in a manner appropriate to its climatic context. Climatically responsive urban …

An urban surface exchange parameterisation for mesoscale models

A Martilli, A Clappier, MW Rotach - Boundary-layer meteorology, 2002‏ - Springer
A scheme to represent the impact of urban buildings on airflow in mesoscale atmospheric
models is presented. In the scheme, the buildings are not explicitly resolved, but their effects …

Dynamics and dispersion modelling of nanoparticles from road traffic in the urban atmospheric environment—a review

P Kumar, M Ketzel, S Vardoulakis, L Pirjola… - Journal of Aerosol …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Reducing exposure to atmospheric nanoparticles in urban areas is important for protecting
public health. Develo** new or improving the capabilities of existing dispersion models …

Numerical simulation of atmospheric pollutant dispersion in an urban street canyon: Comparison between RANS and LES

SM Salim, R Buccolieri, A Chan… - Journal of Wind …, 2011‏ - Elsevier
Prediction accuracy of pollutant dispersion within an urban street canyon of width to height
ratio W/H= 1 is examined using two steady-state Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) …

Adjustment of a turbulent boundary layer to a canopy of roughness elements

SE Belcher, N Jerram, JCR Hunt - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2003‏ - cambridge.org
A model is developed for the adjustment of the spatially averaged time-mean flow of a deep
turbulent boundary layer over small roughness elements to a canopy of larger three …

Recent progress in CFD modelling of wind field and pollutant transport in street canyons

XX Li, CH Liu, DYC Leung, KM Lam - Atmospheric Environment, 2006‏ - Elsevier
With rapid development in computer hardware and numerical algorithms, computational
fluid dynamics (CFD) techniques are widely utilized to study the wind field and pollutant …

Climate and more sustainable cities: climate information for improved planning and management of cities (producers/capabilities perspective)

CSB Grimmond, M Roth, TR Oke, YC Au, M Best… - Procedia Environmental …, 2010‏ - Elsevier
In the last two decades substantial advances have been made in the understanding of the
scientific basis of urban climates. These are reviewed here with attention to sustainability of …

Large-eddy simulation of turbulent organized structures within and above explicitly resolved cube arrays

M Kanda, R Moriwaki, F Kasamatsu - Boundary-Layer Meteorology, 2004‏ - Springer
Large-eddy simulations have been performed for fully developed turbulent flow within and
above explicitly resolved simple cube arrays. The results from our model, hereafter LES …