Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6349-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6349-2020
Model evaluation paper
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14 Dec 2020
Model evaluation paper |  | 14 Dec 2020

Incoming data quality control in high-resolution urban climate simulations: a Hong Kong–Shenzhen area urban climate simulation as a case study using the WRF/Noah LSM/SLUCM model (Version 3.7.1)

Zhiqiang Li, Bingcheng Wan, Yulun Zhou, and Hokit Wong

Data sets

High-resolution (100 m) urban land surface dataset for the Hong Kong-Shenzhen area Zhiqiang Li and Yulun Zhou https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3687362

Evaluation dataset for urban climate simulation Zhiqiang Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4016909

Completed Dataset and the New Static Data Released with v3.7 of WRF Preprocessing System (WPS) Geographical Input Data National Center for Atmospheric Research http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/get_sources_wps_geog.html

NASA EOSDIS Land Processes DAAC/USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center: MODIS/Aqua Land Surface Temperature and Emissivity Daily L3 Global 1 km Grid SIN, Data file MODIS https://modis.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/dataprod/mod11.php

Model code and software

The technical note for the programming technical preparation package in high-resolution urban climate simulation: Hong Kong-Shenzhen area urban climate simulation using WRF/Noah LSM/SLUCM model Zhiqiang Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3996876

WRF Model 3.7.1, Computer software National Center for Atmospheric Research https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/get_source.html

WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) 3.7.1, Computer software National Center for Atmospheric Research https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/get_source.html

Short summary
Our results provide evidence of the effects of incoming land surface data quality on the accuracy of high-resolution urban climate simulations and emphasize the importance of the incoming data quality control.