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phenomenon, to work out plans about sustainable strategies for future urban planning together with the local stakeholders. The operators of these models contributing to this report are manifold. On the one hand side there are meteorological
services like the HMS (Hungarian Meteorological Service) and research institutes
like the KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. On the other side there are
Universities like Prague and Freiburg or territorial alliances like ARPA Emilia
Romagna. In the following, the models used by the project partners trying to forecast the UHI are listed.
In the following, a broad range of different tools and studies are presented
which have been carried out by the project partners in the course of the activities in
working package WP3. The studies range from climate change projections for
central European cities with the regional climate model (RCM) WRF, to regional
climate modelling with RegCM and statistical downscaling approaches. Further,
the microclimatic model RayManis used to assess climate change on street scale
and another study investigates urban effects by coupling a town energy model
(TEB) to the surface modelling platform SURFEX.
All the information is collected by the working package leader PP5 – Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology and presented according to the requirements introduced in
the WP3 methodological document.
1.2 Overview of Models and Tools
Collection of models for investigating the extend of Urban Heat Islands and the
impact of climate change for Central European urban regions in the course of WP
3 – activities
EnviMet (http://www.envi-met.com/)
• Commonly agreed to serve as primary model for simulating urban climatology
and mitigation scenarios
• three-dimensional microclimate model designed to simulate the surface-plant-air
interactions in urban environment
• typical resolution of 0.5–10 m in space and 10 s in time.
• ENVI-met is a Freeware program based on different scientific research
projects
• ENVI-met is a prognostic model based on the fundamental laws of fluid dynamics and thermo- dynamics. The model includes the simulation of:
– Flow around and between buildings
– Exchange processes of heat and vapour at the ground surface and at walls
– Turbulence
– Exchange at vegetation and vegetation parameters
– Bioclimatology
– Particle dispersion and pollutant chemistry
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phenomenon, to work out plans about sustainable strategies for future urban planning together with the local stakeholders. The operators of these models contributing to this report are manifold. On the one hand side there are meteorological
services like the HMS (Hungarian Meteorological Service) and research institutes
like the KIT (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. On the other side there are
Universities like Prague and Freiburg or territorial alliances like ARPA Emilia
Romagna. In the following, the models used by the project partners trying to forecast the UHI are listed.
In the following, a broad range of different tools and studies are presented
which have been carried out by the project partners in the course of the activities in
working package WP3. The studies range from climate change projections for
central European cities with the regional climate model (RCM) WRF, to regional
climate modelling with RegCM and statistical downscaling approaches. Further,
the microclimatic model RayManis used to assess climate change on street scale
and another study investigates urban effects by coupling a town energy model
(TEB) to the surface modelling platform SURFEX.
All the information is collected by the working package leader PP5 – Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology and presented according to the requirements introduced in
the WP3 methodological document.
1.2 Overview of Models and Tools
Collection of models for investigating the extend of Urban Heat Islands and the
impact of climate change for Central European urban regions in the course of WP
3 – activities
EnviMet (http://www.envi-met.com/)
• Commonly agreed to serve as primary model for simulating urban climatology
and mitigation scenarios
• three-dimensional microclimate model designed to simulate the surface-plant-air
interactions in urban environment
• typical resolution of 0.5–10 m in space and 10 s in time.
• ENVI-met is a Freeware program based on different scientific research
projects
• ENVI-met is a prognostic model based on the fundamental laws of fluid dynamics and thermo- dynamics. The model includes the simulation of:
– Flow around and between buildings
– Exchange processes of heat and vapour at the ground surface and at walls
– Turbulence
– Exchange at vegetation and vegetation parameters
– Bioclimatology
– Particle dispersion and pollutant chemistry
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