micro-meteorology Articles
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The COST 732 Best Practice Guideline for CFD simulation of flows in the urban environment: a summary
This paper is a summary of the "Best Practice Guideline" (BPG) document (Franke et al., 2007) produced in the framework of the European COST Action 732 "Quality assurance and improvement of micro-scale meteorological models", available from the site given in the reference section. The full document provides guidelines for undertaking simulations that are used to evaluate micro-scale ...
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Quality assurance and improvement of micro-scale meteorological models
Models have begun to play an important role in environmental assessment and urban climate studies. Their increasing use, however, is paralleled by a growing awareness that the majority of these models have never been the subject of rigorous evaluation. Consequently there is a lack of confidence in the modelled results. The paper reports on a European initiative (COST 732) which was launched 2005 ...
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COST 732 in practice: the MUST model evaluation exercise
The aim of this paper is to describe the use of a general methodology tailored to the evaluation of micro-scale meteorological models applied to flow and dispersion simulations in urban areas. This methodology, developed within COST 732, has been tested through a large modelling exercise involving many groups across Europe. The major test case used is the Mock Urban Setting Test (MUST) experiment ...
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Towards a model evaluation protocol for urban scale flow and dispersion models
This paper reports on the stages forming a model evaluation protocol for urban flow and dispersion models proposed within the COST Action 732 on "Quality Assurance and Improvement of Micro–Scale Meteorological Models". It discusses the different components forming model evaluation with emphasis on validation and implementation of the protocol for the test case Mock Urban Setting Test (MUST). The ...
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Raindrop fall velocities from an optical array probe and 2-D video disdrometer
Abstract. We report on fall speed measurements of raindrops in light-to-heavy rain events from two climatically different regimes (Greeley, Colorado, and Huntsville, Alabama) using the high-resolution (50 µm) Meteorological Particle Spectrometer (MPS) and a third-generation (170 µm resolution) 2-D video disdrometer (2DVD). To mitigate wind effects, especially for the small drops, both ...
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