[Bldg-sim] City Climate Model

M F A Ramadan M.Fahmy at sheffield.ac.uk
Fri Feb 13 14:26:03 PST 2009


Many thanks to all who responded and took time to reply;

Marques da Silva, Haider, Crawley, and special thanks for Prof. Larry. 

Sallam,
Mohamad.
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Quoting Larry Degelman <ldegelman at suddenlink.net>:

> 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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