An improvement to the basic energy balance model for urban thermal environment analysis

Abstract An improvement is made to the basic energy balance model for urban thermal environment analysis by incorporating the important building mass effect on the surface energy balance. Results show better correlation with typical city temperatures in Malaysia, suggesting that the mass effect should be considered in all advanced urban climatological models.

[1]  L. Myrup,et al.  A Numerical Model of the Urban Heat Island. , 1969 .

[2]  N. Tapper,et al.  Modeling the Winter Urban Heat Island Over Christchurch, New Zealand , 1981 .

[3]  T. Saitoh,et al.  THREE-DIMENSIONAL SIMULATION OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND , 1985 .

[4]  R. Viskanta,et al.  Modeling of the Effects of Gaseous and Particulate Pollutants in the Urban Atmosphere. Part I: Thermal Structure , 1973 .

[5]  M. H. Halstead,et al.  A PRELIMINARY REPORT ON THE DESIGN OF A COMPUTER FOR MICROMETEOROLOGY , 1957 .

[6]  Kohji Yamashita,et al.  On relationships between heat island and sky view factor in the cities of Tama River basin, Japan , 1986 .

[7]  K. Torrance,et al.  Response of the urban boundary layer to heat addition and surface roughness , 1975 .

[8]  M. A. Atwater,et al.  The Radiation Budget for Polluted Layers of the Urban Environment , 1971 .

[9]  M. A. Atwater.  Thermal Changes Induced by Urbanization and Pollutants , 1975 .

[10]  Fred M. Vukovich,et al.  A Theoretical Study of the St. Louis Heat Island: The Wind and Temperature Distribution , 1976 .

[11]  Samuel I. Outcalt,et al.  The Development and Application of a Simple Digital Surface–Climate Simulator , 1972 .

[12]  Frederick E. Boland,et al.  Analysis of Urban-Rural Canopy Using a Surface Heat Flux/Temperature Model , 1978 .

[13]  T. Kunitomo,et al.  One-dimensional simulation of the thermal structure of urban atmospheres , 1986 .

[14]  T. Ackerman.  A Model of the Effect of Aerosols on Urban Climates with Particular Applications to the Los Angeles Basin , 1977 .