Meteorological and air quality models for urban areas / edited by Alexander Baklanov, CSB Grimmond, Mahura Alexander, Maria Athanassiadou

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Part I: Urban morphology and databases 1. Facilitating advanced urban meteorology and air quality modelling capabilities with high resolution urban database and access portal tools / Jason Ching, Adel Hanna, Fei Chen, Steven Burian, and Torrin Hultgren -- 2. Relating small-scale emission and concentration variability in air quality models / Stefano Galmarini, Jean-François Venuesa, and Alberto Martilli -- 3. Performance of different sub-grid-scale surface flux parameterizations for urban and rural areas / Sylvia Bohnenstengel and Heinke Schlünzen.
Part II: parameterizations of urban canopy 4. How to use computational fluid dynamics models for urban canopy parameterizations / Alberto Martilli and Jose Luis Santiago -- 5. Review of Japanese urban models and a scale model experiment / Manabu Kanda -- 6. Urban soil-canopy-atmosphere exchanges at submesoscales: learning from model development, evaluation, and coupling with LES / Isabelle Calmet and Patrice Mestayer -- 7. The effect of stratification on the aerodynamic roughness length / Sergej Zilitinkevich, Ivan Mammarella, Alexander Baklanov, and Sylvain Joffre.
Part III: strategy for urbanization of different types of models 8. FUMAPEX experience of model urbanisation / Alexander Baklanov and FUMAPEX team -- 9. Evolution of urban surface exchange in the UK Met Office's unified model / Peter Clark, Martin Best, and Aurore Porson -- 10. Sensitivity tests in the dynamical and thermal part of the MRF-Urban PBL Scheme in the MM5 Model / Aggeliki Dandou and Maria Tombrou.
Part IV: Evaluation and case studies/observations Urban surface energy balance models: model characteristics and methodology for a comparison study / CSB Grimmond, Martin Best, Janet Barlow, A. J.Arnfield, J.-J. Baik, A. Baklanov, S. Belcher, M. Bruse, I. Calmet, F. Chen, P. Clark, A. Dandou, E. Erell, K. Fortuniak, R. Hamdi, M. Kanda, T. Kawai, H. Kondo, S. Krayenhoff, S.H. Lee, S.-B. Limor, A. Martilli, V. Masson, S. Miao, G. Mills, R. Moriwaki, K. Oleson, A. Porson, U. Sievers, M. Tombrou, J. Voogt and T. Williamson -- Measuring meteorology in urban areas: some progress and many problems / Sven-Erik Gryning and Ekaterina Batchvarova -- Derivation of vertical wind and turbulence profiles, the mixing-layer height, and the vertical turbulent exchange coefficient from sodar and ceilometer soundings in urban measurement campaigns / Stefan Emeis -- Verification and case studies for urban effects in HIRLAM numerical weather forecasting / Alexander Mahura, Alexander Baklanov, Claus Petersen, Niels W. Nielsen, and Bjarne Amstrup -- Model urbanization strategy: summaries, recommendations and requirements / Alexander Baklanov, Jason Ching, CSB Grimmond, and Alberto Martilli.