Urban surface modeling and the meso-scale impact of cities

By Valéry Masson. 2006

293 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Building and Construction, Environmental Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/768b2d5ace27f50ddf87fe9677e2ae30e13ba1c9

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In Building and Construction

1. Sho Meno
2. Koji Nagayama
3. Aya Hagishima
4. Jun Tanimoto

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1. Sho Meno
2. Koji Nagayama
3. Aya Hagishima
4. Jun Tanimoto

Citations in the corpus

• Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: evaluation with a regional climate model (2016, background): “Urbanization with varying building heights, configurations, and surface materials coupled with lake breeze leads to a complex boundary layer structure (Masson 2006, Han et al 2015).”
• Aerodynamic Parameters of Regular Arrays of Rectangular Blocks with Various Geometries (2009, methodology): “The model treats groups of urban obstacles as a porous medium and estimates the momentum deficit due to the obstacles using momentum equations incorporating a volumetric momentum sink term (e.g., Masson 2006 ); −0.5Cd,zaz|Uz|Uz.”