Graduate Student, Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Group
PhD student
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Sue Grimmond
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About
The focus of my PhD project is the evaluation of the urban parameterization in the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF). The Land Surface Model integrated in WRF (Noah/LSM) was recently coupled to a Single Layer Urban Canopy Model (SLUCM) and we propose to evaluate the coupled system with meteorological and energy flux data obtained from previous urban field campaigns. Model weaknesses should be investigated in order to improve the current system in cooperation with the National Center of Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Once updated the complete WRF-SLUCM system will be applied to simulate surface heat fluxes at high resolution (1 km x 1 km) over central London. This part of the project is carried out in colaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and funded by a High Performance Computing (HPC) – Europa2 Transnational Access Award.
The project is funded by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), project ATM-0710631 : « Influence of urbanization on weather in the arid Phoenix metropolitan area ». In collaboration with the National Center for Atnospheric Research (NCAR) and Arizona State University (ASU).
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