WRF-urban canopy model evaluation for the assessment of heat island and thermal comfort over an urban airshed in India under varying land use/land cover conditions

WRF-urban canopy model evaluation for the assessment of heat island and thermal comfort over an urban airshed in India under varying land use/land cover conditions

Abstract Urban heat island effect has been assessed using weather research and forecasting model (WRF v3.5) focusing on air temperature and surface skin temperature in the sub-tropical urban Indian megacity of Delhi. Impact of urbanization-related changes in land use/land cover (LULC) on model outpu...

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Main Authors: Shweta Bhati, Manju Mohan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2018-11-01
Series:Geoscience Letters
Subjects:
Urban heat island
WRF model
UHI hotspots
Model evaluation
Land use–land cover
Urban canopy model
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40562-018-0126-7

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