Fine Scale Meteorology & Air Quality Models - School of Architecture ...

ASI2_Lecture 3_7/12/2011
NUDAPT gridded UCP database being installed at NCAR
for supporting WRF urban model applications
11 UCPS for 44 US cities
gridded at 1km & 250m
derived from NIMA’s airborne
lidar data sets
(Courtesy NBSD: Burian &Brown
Installed into
WPS in CONUS
(enlarged to
include Honolulu)
Supports SLUCM,
BEP, BEP+BEM, &
future urban options
Albuquerque Des Moines Minneapolis Raleigh-Durham
Baltimore Detroit New Orleans Richmond, VA
Beaumont Fort Lauderdale New York Riverside, CA
Boston Herndon-Dulles Oakland, CA Salt Lake City
Buffalo Honolulu Oklahoma City San Antonio
Chicago Houston Orlando San Diego
Cincinnati Jacksonville, FL Philadelphia San Francisco
Cleveland Kansas City, MO Phoenix Savannah
Dallas Las Vegas Pittsburgh Seattle
Daytona Beach Los Angeles Portland, OR St Louis
Denver Miami Providence Washington ,DC
Example of UCPs in NUDAPT: Harris County‐Houston
1 km gridded fields from processed digitized lidar data
300
250
Heig ht (m )
200
150
North
West
Northwest
100
50
0
0.000 0.001 0.002 0.003 0.004 0.005 0.006 0.007 0.008 0.009
af(z)
Gridded Frontal Area (packing
density) Index as a function of
height and approach angle of
wind (based on Lidar data).
ASI 2: URBAN CLIMATE AND AIR POLLUTION School of Architecture, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7-8 Dec 2011
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