期刊
URBAN CLIMATE
卷 20, 期 -, 页码 228-250出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.uclim.2017.04.010
关键词
Urban heat island; Land use change; Urban canopy model; Sensitivity analysis; WRF; Malaysia
资金
- Ministry of Science Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) of Malaysia
- University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus
- [06-02-12-SF0346]
The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) mesoscale model is used to study the effect of urban heating on the local climate of the largest urban agglomeration of Malaysia, Greater Kuala Lumpur (GKL) during a period of weak synoptic forcing. Urbanization has induced a modelled daily mean urban heat island (UHI) intensity of 0.9 degrees C with a more severe heating (1.9 degrees C) at night. The diurnalwind field of GKL is greatly affected by the circulation of land/sea breeze. The immense heat generated in the city accelerates themoisture-bearing sea breeze during the day and the induced vertical lifting simultaneously creates a conducive environment for convective precipitation on the upwind region. The urban heating effect and surface roughness weakens the evening flow circulations in the region and potentially inhibits dispersion of heat and atmospheric pollutants. Simulation of UHI phenomenon is especially sensitive to the characterization of urban grids through sensitivity evaluation of numerous land use maps and urban canopy model (UCM) settings. When compared to observations, the WRF model best captures the urban heating phenomenon with updated land use map and calibrated single layer UCM, while the simple bulk UCMsetting performs better than the default complex single layer UCM. (C) 2017 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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