[Bldg-sim] City Climate Model

[JRR]

John Ross wrote;

    I think we will find these models essential in predicting the impact 
of widespread ~ 300 sq miles at a
    time, use of CHP in large commercial buildings. Without it  it will 
be much  harder to make the case
    for /*required */CHP systems in large buildings....

Larry Degelman wrote:
> Hello Mohamad,
>
> The ASHRAE "Climatic Information" committee is currently attempting to 
> convince ASHRAE to initiate a research project on developing mesoscale 
> climate models.  The fruition of this is probably still in the distant 
> future.  In the meantime, you may be interested in several of these 
> references that relate to this topic.
>
> 1.    METEONORM, Global Meteorological Database for Engineers, 
> Planners and Education, www.meteonrom.com
> 2.    Deng, A., D.R. Stauffer, and G.K. Hunter, 2007: "A comparison of 
> high-resolution mesoscale forecasts using MM5 and WRF-ARW", Proc. 22nd 
> Conf on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/18th Conf. on Numerical. 
> Weather Prediction., Park City, UT.
> 3.    Tewari, M., F. Chen, T.T. Warner, W.J. Coirier, and S. Kim, 
> 2005: "Numerical modeling study of wind flow for the Salt Lake City 
> region using the integrated WRF-Noah-UCM model at meso-gamma scale", 
> Proc. 6th WRF User's Workshop, Boulder, CO.
> 4.    Erell, Evyatar and Terry Williamson, 2006: "A Computer Model for 
> Predicting Air Temperature in Urban Street Canyons from Measured Data 
> at a Standard Weather Station", ASHRAE Annual Meeting, Quebec City, 
> June 24-28.
> 5.    Erell, E. and T. Williamson, 2006: "Simulating Air Temperature 
> in an Urban Street Canyon in all Weather Conditions Using Measured 
> Data at a Reference Meteorological Station", International Journal of 
> Climatology.
> 6.    Guilyardi E, R. Budich, G. Komen, and G. Brasseur, 2003: PRISM 
> System Specification Handbook, Version 1. PRISM Report series No. 1, 
> 230p. (Partnership for Research Infrastructures in earth System 
> Modeling, 
> http://www.prism.enes.org/Publications/Papers/PRISM_sustained_support.pdf) 
>
> 7.    Malkin, Stuart 2008: "High-Resolution Weather Analyses for Net 
> Zero Building Design", Seminar 78, Weather Data for Computer 
> Simulation: More Accurate Tools for a Climate Change World, ASHRAE 
> Winter Meeting, New York City, January.
> 8.    Whitlock, Charles H., William S. Chandler, James M. Hoell, David 
> J. Westberg, Taiping Zhang and Shashi Gupta, 2007:  "Status of NASA 
> Buildings-Related Climate Parameters for the Globe, A Special Report 
> for the ASHRAE Technical Committee 4.2 on Climatic Information", 
> ASHRAE 2007 Winter Meeting Dallas, Texas, January 27-31.
> 9.    GFDL 2004, "Climate Impact of Quadrupling Atmospheric CO2 - An 
> Overview of GFDL Climate Model Results"; Geophysical Fluid Dynamics 
> Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 7 May.  (Web site at: 
> http://www.gfdl.gov/~tk/climate_dynamics/climate_impact_webpage.html )
> 10.    Hendler, Albert, 1992: "RP-606, Determination of Climate 
> Variations within Metropolitan Areas", ASHRAE Research Report 
> D-RP-606, Atlanta, GA.
>
> Best regards,
> ===================================
> Larry O. Degelman, P.E.   ldegelman at suddenlink.net
> Professor Emeritus of Architecture
> Texas A&M University
> Current chair, ASHRAE TC-4.2, Climatic Information.
> ===================================
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "M F A Ramadan" <M.Fahmy at sheffield.ac.uk>
> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 5:31 AM
> To: <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>
> Subject: [Bldg-sim] City Climate Model
>
>>
>> Hello everybody:
>>
>> Has any one experienced, used or heard about softwares that can run 
>> complete
>> mesoscale climate models!!
>> (i.e. fluid thermodynaimcs, water content, vegetation, built 
>> environment,
>> ....etc).
>> I wonder what a great, powerfull and superior creator who can operate 
>> such huge
>> issues in reality whilst We may spend days running only a small detailed
>> microscale climate simulation !!
>>
>> However, any guide would be appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mohamad.
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