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    Assessment of Three Dynamical Urban Climate Downscaling Methods

    Authors
    Hamdi, R.
    Van de Vyver,H.
    De Troch,R.
    Termonia, P.
    Delcloo, A.
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    Discipline
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Subject
    Natural sciences
    Earth and related Environmental sciences
    Audience
    General Public
    Scientific
    Date
    2014
    Publisher
    IRM
    KMI
    RMI
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    Description
    A new high-resolution dynamical downscaling strategy to examine how rural and urban areas respond to change in future climate, is presented. The regional climate simulations have been performed with a new version of the limited-area model of the ARPEGE-IFS system running at 4-km resolution coupled with the Town Energy Balance scheme (TEB). In order to downscale further the regional climate projections to a urban scale, at 1 km resolution, a stand-alone surface scheme is employed in offline mode. We performed downscaling simulations according to three model set-ups: (i) reference run, where TEB is not activated neither in 4-km simulations nor in 1-km urban simulation, (ii) offline run, where TEB is activated only for 1-km urban simulation and (iii) inline run, where TEB is activated both for regional and urban simulations. The applicability of this method is demonstrated for Brussels Capital Region, Belgium. For present climate conditions, another set of simulations were performed using European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts global reanalysis ERA40 data. Results from our simulations indicate that the reference and offline runs have comparable values of daytime and nocturnal urban heat island (UHI) and lower values than the inline run. The inline values are closer to observations. In the future climate, under and A1B emission scenario, the three downscaling methods project a decrease of daytime UHI between −0.24 and −0.20 °C, however, their responses are different for nocturnal UHI: (i) reference run values remains unaltered, (ii) for the offline runs, the frequency of present climate weak nocturnal UHI decreases to the benefit of negative UHIs leading to a significant decrease in the nocturnal UHI over the city, (iii) for the inline run, nocturnal UHIs stays always positive but the frequency of the strong UHI decreases significantly in the future by 1 °C.
    Citation
    Hamdi, R.; Van de Vyver,H.; De Troch,R.; Termonia, P.; Delcloo, A. (2014). Assessment of Three Dynamical Urban Climate Downscaling Methods. , Issue Air Pollution Modeling and its Application XXIII ; NATO Science for Peace and Security Series C: Environmental Security, 379-383, IRM,
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    uri: https://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/9023
    Type
    Article
    Peer-Review
    Yes
    Language
    eng
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