SURF: understanding and predicting urban convection and haze

Liang, X., Miao, S., Li, J., Bornstein, R., Zhang, X., Gao, Y., Cao, X., Chen, F., Cheng, Z., Clements, C., Dabberdt, W., Ding, A., Ding, D., Dou, J. J., Dou, J. X., Dou, Y., Grimmond, C. S. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3166-9415, Gonzalez-Cruz, J., He, J., Huang, M., Huang, X., Ju, S., Li, Q., Niyogi, D., Quan, J., Sun, J., Sun, J. Z., Yu, M., Zhang, J., Zhang, Y., Zhao, X., Zheng, Z. and Zhou, M. (2018) SURF: understanding and predicting urban convection and haze. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99 (7). pp. 1391-1413. ISSN 0003-0007 doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0178.1

Abstract/Summary

Urbanization modifies atmospheric energy and moisture balances, forming distinct features, e.g., urban heat islands (UHIs) and enhanced or decreased precipitation. These produce significant challenges to science and society, including rapid and intense flooding, heat waves strengthened by UHIs, and air pollutant haze. The Study of Urban-Impacts on Rainfall and Fog/Haze (SURF) has brought together international expertise on observations and modeling, meteorology and atmospheric chemistry, and research and operational forecasting. The SURF overall science objective is a better understanding of urban, terrain, convection, and aerosol interactions for improved forecast accuracy. Specific objectives include: a) promoting cooperative international research to improve understanding of urban summer convective precipitation and winter particulate episodes via extensive field studies; b) improving high-resolution urban weather and air quality forecast-models; and c) enhancing urban weather forecasts for societal applications, e.g., health, energy, hydrologic, climate change, air quality, planning, and emergency-response management. Preliminary SURF observational and modeling results are shown, i.e., turbulent PBL structure, bifurcating thunderstorms, haze events, urban canopy model development, and model forecast evaluation

Item Type	Article
URI	https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/id/eprint/75601
Identification Number/DOI	10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0178.1
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Science > School of Mathematical, Physical and Computational Sciences > Department of Meteorology
Publisher	American Meteorological Society
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