Implementation of a new urban energy budget scheme in the MetUM. Part I: Description and idealized simulations

Porson, A., Clark, P. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1001-9226, Harman, I. N., Best, M. J. and Belcher, S. (2010) Implementation of a new urban energy budget scheme in the MetUM. Part I: Description and idealized simulations. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 136 (651). pp. 1514-1529. ISSN 1477-870X doi: 10.1002/qj.668

Abstract/Summary

This paper describes the formulation of a new urban scheme, MORUSES (Met Office–Reading Urban Surface Exchange Scheme) for use in the Met Office Unified Model. The implementation of the new scheme ensures that (1) the new scheme offers more flexibility in the parametrization of the building properties, and hence provides a more realistic representation of the fluxes; (2) the bulk outputs are in satisfactory agreement with previous observational studies; and (3) the impact of the new scheme on the energy balance fluxes is similar to the impact of the current urban scheme when set up to mimic it. As well as having a better physical basis, MORUSES also gains in flexibility in applications and adaptations to different urban materials as well as urban planning. The new scheme represents the urban area as a composition of two tiles, a canyon and a roof, using a simple 2D geometry. Sensitivity analysis to canyon geometry and thickness of the roof canopy emphasizes the gain in flexibility captured by the new scheme. Copyright © 2010 Royal Meteorological Society and Crown Copyright

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/26983
Identification Number/DOI	10.1002/qj.668
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Uncontrolled Keywords	urban parametrization;energy balance for canyon and roof;surface fluxes;NWP
Publisher	Royal Meteorological Society
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