Urban Canopy Model

Publications

• A simple single‐layer urban canopy model for atmospheric models: comparison with multi‐layer and slab models.
  Description

  Kusaka H, Kondo H, Kikegawa Y, Kimura F. 2001. A simple single‐layer urban canopy model for atmospheric models: comparison with multi‐layer and slab models. Boundary‐Layer Meteorology 101: 329– 358.

• An urban surface exchange parameterization for mesoscale models
  Description

  Martilli A, Clappier A, Rotach MW. 2002. An urban surface exchange parameterization for mesoscale models. Boundary‐Layer Meteorology 104: 261– 304.

• Verification of a Mesoscale Data-Assimilation and Forecasting System for the Oklahoma City Area During the Joint Urban 2003 Field Project
  Description

  Liu, Y., F. Chen, T. Warner, and J. Basara, 2006: Verification of a Mesoscale Data-Assimilation and Forecasting System for the Oklahoma City Area During the Joint Urban 2003 Field Project. J. Appl. Meteorol. and Climatology, 45, 912-929.

• The integrated WRF/urban modeling system: development, evaluation, and applications to urban environmental problems.
  Description

  Chen, F., H. Kusaka, R. Bornstain, J. Ching, C.S.B. Grimmond, S. Grossman-Clarke, T. Loridan, K. Manning, A. Martilli, S. Miao, D. Sailor, F. Salamanca, H. Taha, M. Tewari, X. Wang, A. Wyszogrodzki, and C. Zhang, 2011: The integrated WRF/urban modeling system: development, evaluation, and applications to urban environmental problems. International Journal of Climatology, 31, 273-288. DOI: 10.1002/joc.2158

• Enhanced modeling of latent heat flux from urban surfaces in the Noah/single-layer urban canopy coupled model.
  Description

  Miao, S., and F. Chen, 2014: Enhanced modeling of latent heat flux from urban surfaces in the Noah/single-layer urban canopy coupled model. Science China Earth Sciences, Doi: 10.1007/s11430-014-4829-0

• Enhancing hydrologic modeling in the coupled WRF-urban modeling system.
  Description

  Yang, J., Z.-H Wang, F. Chen, S. Miao, M. Tewari, J.A. Voogt, S. Myint, 2015: Enhancing hydrologic modeling in the coupled WRF-urban modeling system. Boundary Layer Meteorol., 155, 87–109, DOI 10.1007/s10546-014-9991-6.

• Impact of physics parameterizations on high-resolution weather prediction over complex urban areas.
  Description

  Barlage, M., S. Miao, and F. Chen, 2016: Impact of physics parameterizations on high-resolution weather prediction over complex urban areas. J. Geophys. Res., 121, 4487–4498, doi:10.1002/2015JD024450.

• Evaluation of the Noah-MP land surface model coupled to WRF in a semiarid urban environment.
  Description

  Salamanca, F., Zhang Y., M. Barlage, F. Chen, A.Mahalov, and S. Miao, 2018: Evaluation of the Noah-MP land surface model coupled to WRF in a semiarid urban environment. J. Geophys. Res., DOI: 10.1002/2018JD028377

• Using WRF-Urban to assess summertime air conditioning electric loads and their impacts on urban weather in Beijing.
  Description

  Xu, X., F. Chen, S. Shen, S. Miao, M. Barlage, W. Guo, and A. Mahalov, 2018: Using WRF-Urban to assess summertime air conditioning electric loads and their impacts on urban weather in Beijing. J. Geophys. Res., 123, https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD028168

• World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT), an urban weather, climate and environmental modeling infrastructure for the Anthropocene.
  Description

  Ching, J., et al. G. Mills, 2018: World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT), an urban weather, climate and environmental modeling infrastructure for the Anthropocene. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 99(9), 1907-1924

• A tale of two cities: different urban heat mitigation efficacy with the same strategies. Theoretical and Applied Climatology
  Description

  Gao, M., F. Chen, H. Shen, and H. Li, 2020: A tale of two cities: different urban heat mitigation efficacy with the same strategies. Theoretical and Applied Climatology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00704-020-03390-2.

• Exploring the effects of rooftop mitigation strategies on urban temperatures and energy consumption
  Description

  Zonato, A., A. Martilli, E. Gutierrez, F. Chen, C. He, M. Barlage, D. Zardi and L. Giovannini (2021): Exploring the effects of rooftop mitigation strategies on urban temperatures and energy consumption, J. Geophys. Res.-Atmos, 126(21), https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JD035002