Long-Term Impact of Urban Areas on Meteorological Conditions Over Central Europe.

ABSTRACT: The impact of urban areas on relevant meteorological variables, especially on temperature and wind speed, is well-known, and several studies have evaluated this effect. However, fewer of them have focused on the effect of urban areas on cloud cover and precipitation. To evaluate this, a total of 15 simulations were performed using the Weather Research and Forecasting model on a Central European domain at 9-km horizontal resolution. The novelty of this study is the number of cities considered and ensembles used over a 10-year period including not only the impacts of the urban scheme but also the effects of two other relevant parameterizations, namely, convection and microphysics, on the representation of the urban meteorology island (UMI) variables with a special focus on less studied varia

SUBMITTER: Villalba-Pradas A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12645272 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature