https://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/396351
標題: | Impact of an improved WRF urban canopy model on diurnal air temperature simulation over northern Taiwan | 作者: | JR-CHUAN HUANG | 公開日期: | 2016 | 卷: | 16 | 期: | 3 | 起(迄)頁: | 1809-1822 | 來源出版物: | Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics | 摘要: | This study evaluates the impact of urbanization over northern Taiwan using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model coupled with the Noah land-surface model and a modified urban canopy model (WRF-UCM2D). In the original UCM coupled to WRF (WRF-UCM), when the land use in the model grid is identified as "urban", the urban fraction value is fixed. Similarly, the UCM assumes the distribution of anthropogenic heat (AH) to be constant. This may not only lead to over- or underestimation of urban fraction and AH in urban and non-urban areas, but spatial variation also affects the model-estimated temperature. To overcome the abovementioned limitations and to improve the performance of the original UCM model, WRF-UCM is modified to consider the 2-D urban fraction and AH (WRF-UCM2D). The two models were found to have comparable temperature simulation performance for urban areas, but large differences in simulated results were observed for non-urban areas, especially at nighttime. WRF-UCM2D yielded a higher correlation coefficient (R2) than WRF-UCM (0.72 vs. 0.48, respectively), while bias and RMSE achieved by WRF-UCM2D were both significantly smaller than those attained by WRF-UCM (0.27 and 1.27 vs. 1.12 and 1.89, respectively). In other words, the improved model not only enhanced correlation but also reduced bias and RMSE for the nighttime data of non-urban areas. WRF-UCM2D performed much better than WRF-UCM at non-urban stations with a low urban fraction during nighttime. The improved simulation performance of WRF-UCM2D in non-urban areas is attributed to the energy exchange which enables efficient turbulence mixing at a low urban fraction. The result of this study has a crucial implication for assessing the impacts of urbanization on air quality and regional climate. © Author(s) 2016. |
URI: | http://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/396351 | DOI: | 10.5194/acp-16-1809-2016 | SDG/關鍵字: | air quality; air temperature; climate modeling; diurnal variation; human activity; urbanization; weather forecasting; Taiwan |
顯示於: | 地理環境資源學系 |
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