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The urban energy balance

Oke, T. R., 1988: "The urban energy balance," Progress in Physical Geography, 12, 471-508.

Evaluation of spatially-averaged fluxes of heat, mass and momentum in the urban boundary layer

Oke, T. R., H. A. Cleugh, C. S. B. Grimmond, H. P. Schmid and M. Roth, 1989: "Evaluation of spatially-averaged fluxes of heat, mass and momentum in the urban boundary layer," Weather and Climate, 9, 14-21.

An objective heat storage model and its comparison with other schemes

Abstract Abstract--An objective hysteresis model to predict the storage heat flux in urban areas is presented. A review of observational and theoretical work reveals this approach to be more appropriate than the linear relation between soil heat flux and net all-wave radiation. A scheme to implement the model in any urban area is developed. In essence the model only requires land cover and net all-wave radiation as input, but it can be further ...

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