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9. Notation#

λF#

Frontal area index

ΔQS#

Storage heat flux

BLUEWS#

Boundary Layer part of SUEWS

Relation between BLUEWS and SUEWS

Fig. 9.1 Relation between BLUEWS and SUEWS#

CDD#

Cooling degree days

GDD#

Growing degree days

HDD#

Heating degree days

CBL#

Convective boundary layer

DEM#

Digital Elevation Model

DSM#

Digital surface model

DTM#

Digital Terrain Model

ESTM#

Element Surface Temperature Method [Offerle et al., 2005]

L↓#

Incoming longwave radiation

LAI#

Leaf area index

LUMPS#

Local-scale Urban Meteorological Parameterization Scheme [Loridan et al., 2011]

NARP#

Net All-wave Radiation Parameterization [Loridan et al., 2011, Offerle et al., 2003]

OHM#

Objective Hysteresis Model [Grimmond and Oke, 1999, Grimmond and Oke, 2002, Grimmond et al., 1991]

Q*#

Net all-wave radiation

QE#

Latent heat flux

QF#

Anthropogenic heat flux

QH#

Sensible heat flux

SOLWEIG#

The solar and longwave environmental irradiance geometry model [Lindberg and Grimmond, 2011, Lindberg et al., 2008]

SVF#

Sky view factor

θ#

Potential temperature

tt#

Time step of data

UMEP#

Urban Multi-scale Environmental Predictor

WATCH#

The WATCH project has produced a large number of data sets which should be of considerable use in regional and global studies of climate and water. see WATCH webpage

zi#

Convective boundary layer height