Impact of remotely sensed albedo and vegetation fraction on simulation of urban climate in WRF-urban canopy model: A case study of the urban heat island in Los Angeles

Using remote sensing to quantify albedo of roofs in seven California cities, Part 1: Methods

(2015) George A. Ban-Weiss et al.   SOLAR ENERGY

Quality and sensitivity of high-resolution numerical simulation of urban heat islands

(2014) Dan Li et al.   Environmental Research Letters

Incorporating an Urban Irrigation Module into the Noah Land Surface Model Coupled with an Urban Canopy Model

(2014) Pouya Vahmani et al.   JOURNAL OF HYDROMETEOROLOGY

Strong contributions of local background climate to urban heat islands

(2014) Lei Zhao et al.   NATURE

Quantifying the Impact of Land Cover Composition on Intra-Urban Air Temperature Variations at a Mid-Latitude City

(2014) Hai Yan et al.   PLoS One

Surface urban heat island in China's 32 major cities: Spatial patterns and drivers

(2014) Decheng Zhou et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Generating daily land surface temperature at Landsat resolution by fusing Landsat and MODIS data

(2014) Qihao Weng et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Improving mesoscale modeling using satellite-derived land surface parameters in the Pearl River Delta region, China

(2014) Mengmeng Li et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Relationships between land cover and the surface urban heat island: seasonal variability and effects of spatial and thematic resolution of land cover data on predicting land surface temperatures

(2013) Weiqi Zhou et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Accuracy assessment of NLCD 2006 land cover and impervious surface

(2013) James D. Wickham et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Examination of Errors in Near-Surface Temperature and Wind from WRF Numerical Simulations in Regions of Complex Terrain

(2013) Hailing Zhang et al.   WEATHER AND FORECASTING

Simulating smoke transport from wildland fires with a regional-scale air quality model: Sensitivity to uncertain wind fields

(2013) Fernando Garcia-Menendez et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES

Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies

(2012) I. D. Stewart et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Roles of Urban Tree Canopy and Buildings in Urban Heat Island Effects: Parameterization and Preliminary Results

(2012) Christopher P. Loughner et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Impact Assessment of Daily Satellite-Derived Surface Albedo in a Limited-Area NWP Model

(2012) Jure Cedilnik et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Investigation of the Effects of Different Land Use and Land Cover Patterns on Mesoscale Meteorological Simulations in the Taiwan Area

(2012) Fang-Yi Cheng et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

The potential for air-temperature impact from large-scale deployment of solar photovoltaic arrays in urban areas

(2012) Haider Taha   SOLAR ENERGY

Evaluation of the meteorological forcing used for the Air Quality Model Evaluation International Initiative (AQMEII) air quality simulations

(2011) Robert Vautard et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Positive effects of vegetation: Urban heat island and green roofs

(2011) T. Susca et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Surface Urban Heat Island Across 419 Global Big Cities

(2011) Shushi Peng et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Accuracy of the Wind Speed Profile in the Lower PBL as Simulated by the WRF Model

(2011) Susumu Shimada et al.   SOLA

The Aerosol Modeling Testbed: A Community Tool to Objectively Evaluate Aerosol Process Modules

(2010) Jerome D. Fast et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

The integrated WRF/urban modelling system: development, evaluation, and applications to urban environmental problems

(2010) Fei Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

A Study of the Urban Boundary Layer Using Different Urban Parameterizations and High-Resolution Urban Canopy Parameters with WRF

(2010) Francisco Salamanca et al.   Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Trade-offs and responsiveness of the single-layer urban canopy parametrization in WRF: An offline evaluation using the MOSCEM optimization algorithm and field observations

(2010) Thomas Loridan et al.   QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool

(2009) Jason Ching et al.   BULLETIN OF THE AMERICAN METEOROLOGICAL SOCIETY

Numerical simulations of the atmospheric and land conditions over the Jinta oasis in northwestern China with satellite-derived land surface parameters

(2009) Xianhong Meng et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Remote sensing of the urban heat island effect across biomes in the continental USA

(2009) Marc L. Imhoff et al.   REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT

Application of high resolution land use and land cover data for atmospheric modeling in the Houston–Galveston metropolitan area, Part I: Meteorological simulation results

(2008) Fang-Yi Cheng et al.   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Meso-urban meteorological and photochemical modeling of heat island mitigation

(2008) Haider Taha   ATMOSPHERIC ENVIRONMENT

Episodic Performance and Sensitivity of the Urbanized MM5 (uMM5) to Perturbations in Surface Properties in Houston Texas

(2008) Haider Taha   BOUNDARY-LAYER METEOROLOGY

Trends in fog frequencies in the Los Angeles Basin

(2007) M.R. Witiw et al.   ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH

A time-split nonhydrostatic atmospheric model for weather research and forecasting applications

(2007) William C. Skamarock et al.   JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS