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Title: Impact of land surface heterogeneity on urban heat island circulation and sea-land breeze circulation in Hong Kong
Authors: Wang, Y
Di Sabatino, S
Martilli, A
Li, Y
Wong, MS 
Gutierrez, E
Chan, PW
Issue Date: 27-Apr-2017
Source: Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres, 27 Apr. 2017, v. 122, no. 8, p. 4332-4352
Abstract: Hong Kong is one of the most high-rise and highly compact cities in the world. The urban land surface is highly heterogeneous, which creates low-level convergence zones in urban areas, particularly the Kowloon Peninsula. The low-level convergence zone is due to the combined effect of urban heat island circulation (UHIC) and sea-land breeze circulation (SLBC) under weak northeasterly synoptic flow. To study the impacts of anthropogenic fluxes and built-up areas on the local circulation, the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale model is combined with the multilayer urban canopy building effect parameterization/building energy model (BEP/BEM) parameterization to produce a 3day simulation of an air pollution episode in Hong Kong in September 2012. To better represent the city land surface features, building information is assimilated in the central part of the Kowloon Peninsula. The WRF-BEP-BEM model captures the 2m temperature distribution and local wind rotation reasonably well but overestimates the 10m wind speed with a mean bias error of 0.70m/s. A dome-shaped feature with a high level of moisture is captured in the convergence zones due to intensified UHIC and inflowing SLBC. The anthropogenic heat increases the air temperature by around 0.3 degrees C up to 250m, which in turn modifies the SLBC. A new drag coefficient based on lambda(P), plan area per unit ground area, is tested. Besides the basic physical characteristics captured by the WRF-BEP-BEM model, the stagnation of wind in the lower level convergence zone is better captured by this approach than by the traditional constant value coefficient.
Keywords: WRF
UCM modeling system
Urban heat island circulation
Sea-land breeze circulation
Hong Kong
Air pollution
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Journal: Journal of geophysical research. Atmospheres 
ISSN: 2169-897X
EISSN: 2169-8996
DOI: 10.1002/2017JD026702
Rights: © 2017. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.
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