Boundary layer wind tunnel tests of outdoor airflow field around urban buildings: A review of methods and status

Y Zhao, R Li, L Feng, Y Wu, J Niu, N Gao - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2022 - Elsevier
Outdoor airflow fields have received increasing attention in the building aerodynamics
community in virtue of the airflow distributions around buildings are closely related to issues …

The Arctic surface climate in CMIP6: Status and developments since CMIP5

R Davy, S Outten - Journal of Climate, 2020 - journals.ametsoc.org
Here we evaluate the sea ice, surface air temperature, and sea level pressure from 34 of the
models used in phase 6 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP6) for their …

Shift in the temporal trend of boundary layer height in China using long‐term (1979–2016) radiosonde data

J Guo, Y Li, JB Cohen, J Li, D Chen… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The knowledge regarding how the boundary layer height (BLH) changes over time is still
poor. Here we analyze the spatial and temporal changes in radiosonde‐derived …

Urban buoyancy-driven air flow and modelling method: A critical review

SJ Mei, C Yuan - Building and Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
The evaluation of buoyancy effect on urban ventilation, especially on low wind conditions, is
important for the extreme urban heat islands to improve urban climate resilience. To provide …

Climate change impacts on wind energy potential in the European domain with a focus on the Black Sea

R Davy, N Gnatiuk, L Pettersson, L Bobylev - Renewable and sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
We may anticipate that climate change will bring changes to the intensity and variability of
near surface winds, either through local effects or by altering the large-scale flow. The …

Isothermal and non-isothermal flow in street canyons: A review from theoretical, experimental and numerical perspectives

Y Zhao, LW Chew, A Kubilay, J Carmeliet - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban street canyon flows play a central role in microclimate control, from street canyon to
neighbourhood and city scale, which affect pollutant dispersion, thermal comfort of residents …

A reassessment of temperature variations and trends from global reanalyses and monthly surface climatological datasets

AJ Simmons, P Berrisford, DP Dee… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The ERA‐Interim and JRA‐55 reanalyses of synoptic data and several conventional
analyses of monthly climatological data provide similar estimates of global‐mean surface …

Integrating continuous atmospheric boundary layer and tower-based flux measurements to advance understanding of land-atmosphere interactions

M Helbig, T Gerken, ER Beamesderfer… - Agricultural and Forest …, 2021 - Elsevier
The atmospheric boundary layer mediates the exchange of energy, matter, and momentum
between the land surface and the free troposphere, integrating a range of physical …

Anthropogenic and natural drivers of a strong winter urban heat island in a typical Arctic city

M Varentsov, P Konstantinov, A Baklanov… - Atmospheric …, 2018 - acp.copernicus.org
The Arctic has rapidly urbanized in recent decades with 2 million people currently living in
more than a hundred cities north of 65∘ N. These cities have a harsh but sensitive climate …

On the summertime planetary boundary layer with different thermodynamic stability in China: A radiosonde perspective

W Zhang, J Guo, Y Miao, H Liu, Y Song… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.ametsoc.org
Strongly influenced by thermodynamic stability, the planetary boundary layer (PBL) is key to
the exchange of heat, momentum, and moisture between the ground surface and free …