COSMO-BEP-Tree v1.0: a coupled urban climate model  with explicit representation of street trees

Mussetti, Gianluca; Brunner, Dominik; Henne, Stephan; Allegrini, Jonas; Krayenhoff, E. Scott; Schubert, Sebastian; Feigenwinter, Christian; Vogt, Roland; Wicki, Andreas; Carmeliet, Jan

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1685-2020

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1685-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1685-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 3

Development and technical paper

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01 Apr 2020

Development and technical paper |

| 01 Apr 2020

COSMO-BEP-Tree v1.0: a coupled urban climate model with explicit representation of street trees

Gianluca Mussetti, Dominik Brunner, Stephan Henne, Jonas Allegrini, E. Scott Krayenhoff, Sebastian Schubert, Christian Feigenwinter, Roland Vogt, Andreas Wicki, and Jan Carmeliet

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-1685-2020-supplement

Data sets

Data for "COSMO-BEP-Tree v1.0: a coupled urban climate model with explicit representation of street trees" Gianluca Mussetti https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3377392

Model code and software

UCPgenerator v1.1 Gianluca Mussetti https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3352214

LUCY: Large scale Urban Consumption of Energy S. Grimmond, F. Lindberg, L. Allen, N. Yogeswaran, and S. Kotthaus https://doi.org/10.17864/1947.149

Short summary

Street trees are regarded as a powerful measure to reduce excessive heat in cities. To enable city-wide studies of the cooling effect of street trees, we developed a coupled urban climate model with explicit representation of street trees (COSMO-BEP-Tree). The model compares well with surface, flux and satellite observations and responds realistically to changes in tree characteristics. Street trees largely impact energy fluxes and wind speed, while air temperatures are only slightly reduced.