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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2023 France, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, United Kingdom, United KingdomPublisher:Wiley Funded by:ARC | ARC Centres of Excellence..., UKRI | Ghosts from summers past:..., NHMRC | A vision of healthy urban... +7 projectsARC| ARC Centres of Excellences - Grant ID: CE170100023 ,UKRI| Ghosts from summers past: quantifying the role of vegetation legacy to climatic extremes ,NHMRC| A vision of healthy urban design for NCD prevention ,NWO| The windy city ,NSF| The Management and Operation of the National Center for Atmoshperic Research (NCAR) ,DFG ,EC| urbisphere ,NSF| Meteorological Islands: How the Atmosphere Interacts with Large Individual Patches of Heterogeneity ,UKRI| Building Resilient Cities for Heat Waves ,UKRI| Building Resilient Cities for Heat WavesLipson, Mathew; Grimmond, Sue; Best, Martin; Abramowitz, Gab; Coutts, Andrew; Tapper, Nigel; Baik, Jong‐jin; Beyers, Meiring; Blunn, Lewis; Boussetta, Souhail; Bou-Zeid, Elie; de Kauwe, Martin; de Munck, Cécile; Demuzere, Matthias; Fatichi, Simone; Fortuniak, Krzysztof; Han, Beom‐soon; Hendry, Margaret; Kikegawa, Yukihiro; Kondo, Hiroaki; Lee, Doo‐il; Lee, Sang‐hyun; Lemonsu, Aude; Machado, Tiago; Manoli, Gabriele; Martilli, Alberto; Masson, Valéry; Mcnorton, Joe; Meili, Naika; Meyer, David; Nice, Kerry; Oleson, Keith; Park, Seung‐bu; Roth, Michael; Schoetter, Robert; Simón-Moral, Andrés; Steeneveld, Gert‐jan; Sun, Ting; Takane, Yuya; Thatcher, Marcus; Tsiringakis, Aristofanis; Varentsov, Mikhail; Wang, Chenghao; Wang, Zhi‐hua; Pitman, Andy;doi: 10.1002/qj.4589
AbstractAccurately predicting weather and climate in cities is critical for safeguarding human health and strengthening urban resilience. Multimodel evaluations can lead to model improvements; however, there have been no major intercomparisons of urban‐focussed land surface models in over a decade. Here, in Phase 1 of the Urban‐PLUMBER project, we evaluate the ability of 30 land surface models to simulate surface energy fluxes critical to atmospheric meteorological and air quality simulations. We establish minimum and upper performance expectations for participating models using simple information‐limited models as benchmarks. Compared with the last major model intercomparison at the same site, we find broad improvement in the current cohort's predictions of short‐wave radiation, sensible and latent heat fluxes, but little or no improvement in long‐wave radiation and momentum fluxes. Models with a simple urban representation (e.g., ‘slab’ schemes) generally perform well, particularly when combined with sophisticated hydrological/vegetation models. Some mid‐complexity models (e.g., ‘canyon’ schemes) also perform well, indicating efforts to integrate vegetation and hydrology processes have paid dividends. The most complex models that resolve three‐dimensional interactions between buildings in general did not perform as well as other categories. However, these models also tended to have the simplest representations of hydrology and vegetation. Models without any urban representation (i.e., vegetation‐only land surface models) performed poorly for latent heat fluxes, and reasonably for other energy fluxes at this suburban site. Our analysis identified widespread human errors in initial submissions that substantially affected model performances. Although significant efforts are applied to correct these errors, we conclude that human factors are likely to influence results in this (or any) model intercomparison, particularly where participating scientists have varying experience and first languages. These initial results are for one suburban site, and future phases of Urban‐PLUMBER will evaluate models across 20 sites in different urban and regional climate zones.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2023Publisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | urbisphereEC| urbisphereAuthors: Xie, Xiaoxiong; Luo, Zhiwen; Grimmond, Sue; Blunn, Lewis;Building and Environ... arrow_drop_down Building and EnvironmentArticle . 2023 . Peer-reviewedData sources: European Union Open Data Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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description Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2023 France, France, Netherlands, Switzerland, Australia, United Kingdom, United KingdomPublisher:Wiley Funded by:ARC | ARC Centres of Excellence..., UKRI | Ghosts from summers past:..., NHMRC | A vision of healthy urban... +7 projectsARC| ARC Centres of Excellences - Grant ID: CE170100023 ,UKRI| Ghosts from summers past: quantifying the role of vegetation legacy to climatic extremes ,NHMRC| A vision of healthy urban design for NCD prevention ,NWO| The windy city ,NSF| The Management and Operation of the National Center for Atmoshperic Research (NCAR) ,DFG ,EC| urbisphere ,NSF| Meteorological Islands: How the Atmosphere Interacts with Large Individual Patches of Heterogeneity ,UKRI| Building Resilient Cities for Heat Waves ,UKRI| Building Resilient Cities for Heat WavesLipson, Mathew; Grimmond, Sue; Best, Martin; Abramowitz, Gab; Coutts, Andrew; Tapper, Nigel; Baik, Jong‐jin; Beyers, Meiring; Blunn, Lewis; Boussetta, Souhail; Bou-Zeid, Elie; de Kauwe, Martin; de Munck, Cécile; Demuzere, Matthias; Fatichi, Simone; Fortuniak, Krzysztof; Han, Beom‐soon; Hendry, Margaret; Kikegawa, Yukihiro; Kondo, Hiroaki; Lee, Doo‐il; Lee, Sang‐hyun; Lemonsu, Aude; Machado, Tiago; Manoli, Gabriele; Martilli, Alberto; Masson, Valéry; Mcnorton, Joe; Meili, Naika; Meyer, David; Nice, Kerry; Oleson, Keith; Park, Seung‐bu; Roth, Michael; Schoetter, Robert; Simón-Moral, Andrés; Steeneveld, Gert‐jan; Sun, Ting; Takane, Yuya; Thatcher, Marcus; Tsiringakis, Aristofanis; Varentsov, Mikhail; Wang, Chenghao; Wang, Zhi‐hua; Pitman, Andy;doi: 10.1002/qj.4589
AbstractAccurately predicting weather and climate in cities is critical for safeguarding human health and strengthening urban resilience. Multimodel evaluations can lead to model improvements; however, there have been no major intercomparisons of urban‐focussed land surface models in over a decade. Here, in Phase 1 of the Urban‐PLUMBER project, we evaluate the ability of 30 land surface models to simulate surface energy fluxes critical to atmospheric meteorological and air quality simulations. We establish minimum and upper performance expectations for participating models using simple information‐limited models as benchmarks. Compared with the last major model intercomparison at the same site, we find broad improvement in the current cohort's predictions of short‐wave radiation, sensible and latent heat fluxes, but little or no improvement in long‐wave radiation and momentum fluxes. Models with a simple urban representation (e.g., ‘slab’ schemes) generally perform well, particularly when combined with sophisticated hydrological/vegetation models. Some mid‐complexity models (e.g., ‘canyon’ schemes) also perform well, indicating efforts to integrate vegetation and hydrology processes have paid dividends. The most complex models that resolve three‐dimensional interactions between buildings in general did not perform as well as other categories. However, these models also tended to have the simplest representations of hydrology and vegetation. Models without any urban representation (i.e., vegetation‐only land surface models) performed poorly for latent heat fluxes, and reasonably for other energy fluxes at this suburban site. Our analysis identified widespread human errors in initial submissions that substantially affected model performances. Although significant efforts are applied to correct these errors, we conclude that human factors are likely to influence results in this (or any) model intercomparison, particularly where participating scientists have varying experience and first languages. These initial results are for one suburban site, and future phases of Urban‐PLUMBER will evaluate models across 20 sites in different urban and regional climate zones.
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For further information contact us at helpdesk@openaire.eudescription Publicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 2023Publisher:Elsevier BV Funded by:EC | urbisphereEC| urbisphereAuthors: Xie, Xiaoxiong; Luo, Zhiwen; Grimmond, Sue; Blunn, Lewis;Building and Environ... arrow_drop_down Building and EnvironmentArticle . 2023 . Peer-reviewedData sources: European Union Open Data Portaladd ClaimPlease grant OpenAIRE to access and update your ORCID works.This Research product is the result of merged Research products in OpenAIRE.
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