A Simple Single-Layer Urban Canopy Model For Atmospheric Models: Comparison With Multi-Layer And Slab Models

By H. Kusaka, H. Kondo, Y. Kikegawa, F. Kimura. 2001

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A microscale three-dimensional urban energy balance model for studying surface temperatures (2007, methodology): “Equation 9 gives very similar results to Kusaka et al. (2001) for a range of typical H/W values, but is significantly higher than Masson (2000 )f orH/W Kusaka et al. (2001 ) a nd toMasson (2000) (except for low H/W), and additionally incorporates increased speeds near the canopy top and continuit”
Parametrization of Drag and Turbulence for Urban Neighbourhoods with Trees (2015, background): “…means of calculating vertical profiles of wind speed and momentum flux, and the exchange of scalars between and above the canopy (e.g., Masson 2000; Kusaka et al. 2001), while some add additional theoretical detail such as the vertical diffusion of momentum (e.g., Coceal and Belcher 2004; Kondo et…”
Urban surface modeling and the meso-scale impact of cities (2006, methodology): “Mills (1997) chose a geometry kernel based on building blocks, with roads at right angles. Kusaka et al. (2001) is very similar to”
Nested Mesoscale Large-Eddy Simulations with WRF: Performance in Real Test Cases (2012, positive): “Over urban areas, Noah is coupled to the urban canopy model (UCM) of Kusaka et al. (2001) to compute ﬂuxes for a given urban density, street alignment, and urban cover fraction.”
Influence of grid aspect ratio on planetary boundary layer turbulence in large-eddy simulations (2015, methodology): “A single-layer urban canopy model (Kusaka et al., 2001; Kusaka and Kimura, 2004) Appendix B: Numerical stability1050 In this model, we use the second-order central difference scheme for the spatial differential terms of the pressure gradient and the divergence of mass flux, and the fourth-order…”
A Simple Energy Balance Model for Regular Building Arrays (2005, methodology): “An alternative approach has been to develop simple urban energy balance models for use in mesoscale simulations (Arnfield, 1982; Masson, 2000; Kusaka et al., 2001; Martilli et al., 2002; Sailor and Fan, 2002).”
Roughness Lengths for Momentum and Heat Derived from Outdoor Urban Scale Models (2007, background): “Recent studies using urban canopy models (UCMs) have rapidly progressed (e.g., Masson 2000; Kusaka et al. 2001; Martilli et al. 2002; Kanda et al. 2005), mainly to estimate surface energy balances, and the computed energy budgets are more complicated than in the MOST framework.”
CFD analysis of convective heat transfer at the surfaces of a cube immersed in a turbulent boundary layer (2010, background): “So-called Urban Canopy Models [5-7], which are developed to assess the climate in urban areas, e.”
Derivation of an urban materials spectral library through emittance and reflectance spectroscopy (2014, positive): “…temperature directly, i.e. ignoring effects of emissivity) is often used tostudy the surface urbanheat island phenomenon (Voogt and Oke, 2003), to model surface energy exchanges (Voogt and Grimmond, 2000; Xu et al., 2008), and to evaluate and improve urban canopy models (Kusaka et al., 2001).”
Cooling hot cities: a systematic and critical review of the numerical modelling literature (2021, methodology): “The development of ENVI-met was first published in 1998, and the first widely-adopted urban canopy models were documented shortly thereafter (Masson 2000, Kusaka et al 2001, Martilli et al 2002).”
The International Urban Energy Balance Models Comparison Project: First Results from Phase 1 (2010, background): “This allows for more realistic representations of radiative trapping and turbulent exchange (Masson 2000; Kusaka et al. 2001; Harman et al. 2004a,b; Lee and Park 2008).”
Green and cool roofs to mitigate urban heat island effects in the Chicago metropolitan area: evaluation with a regional climate model (2016, methodology): “The study uses a single-layer urban canopy model (SLUCM: Chen and Dudhia 2001, Kusaka et al 2001, Kusaka and Kimura 2004, Liu et al 2006, Chen et al 2011) which was less computationally intensive and performed well in comparison to other urban parameterizations.”