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Urban Roughness Elements

Urban Roughness Elements is a construct in urban boundary layer meteorology that denotes the collective physical obstructions in built environments, such as buildings, trees, and infrastructure, which enhance surface roughness and thereby modify wind flow, turbulence, and heat exchange characteristics relative to natural terrain.

15

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2.8K

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59

Authors

28

Institutions

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2017–2026

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Variants

Urban Surface Roughness Elements

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Publications

15

Aerodynamic Properties of Urban Areas Derived from Analysis of Surface Form

Sue Grimmond, T. R. Oke · Journal of Applied Meteorology · 1999 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Improving the wind environment in high-density cities by understanding urban morphology and surface roughness: A study in Hong Kong

Edward Ng, Chao Yuan, Liang Chen et al. · Landscape and Urban Planning · 2011 · 546 citations · Full text

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A canopy model of mean winds through urban areas

Omduth Coceal, S. E. Belcher · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2004 · 332 citations

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Flux and turbulence measurements at a densely built‐up site in Marseille: Heat, mass (water and carbon dioxide), and momentum

Sue Grimmond, Jennifer Salmond, T. R. Oke et al. · Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2004 · 278 citations · Full text

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Turbulent kinetic energy budget in the boundary layer developing over an urban-like rough wall using PIV

Karin Blackman, Laurent Perret, Isabelle Calmet et al. · Physics of Fluids · 2017 · 62 citations

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Authors

59

  1. SG
    Sue Grimmond

    University of Reading, United Kingdom

    3 publications · 1.6K citations

    3

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  2. SZ
    Sergej Zilitinkevich

    Finnish Meteorological Institute, Finland

    2 publications · 72 citations

    2

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  3. TR
    T. R. Oke

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    2 publications · 1.5K citations

    2

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  4. HK
    Hrvoje Kozmar

    University of Zagreb, Croatia

    1 publications · 12 citations

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  5. AR
    Andre Ringeler

    University of Göttingen, Germany

    1 publications · 12 citations

    1

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Institutions

28

  1. University of Reading

    Reading, United Kingdom

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    715 citations

  2. University of British Columbia

    Vancouver, Canada

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    1.5K citations

  3. Indiana University Bloomington

    Bloomington, United States

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    1.8K citations

  4. Laboratoire de Recherche Hydrodynamique, Energétique et Environnement Atmosphérique

    Nantes, France

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    248 citations

  5. University of Birmingham

    Birmingham, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    278 citations

  6. Finnish Meteorological Institute

    Helsinki, Finland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    51 citations

  7. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1

    Villeurbanne, France

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    76 citations

  8. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    224 citations

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Venues

  1. 3

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  2. Physics of Fluids

    2 publications · 103 citations

    2

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  3. Journal of Hydrology

    1 publications · 56 citations

    1

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  4. 1

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  5. Journal of Applied Meteorology

    1 publications · 1.3K citations

    1

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