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Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-405-2025
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Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
Development and technical paper
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24 Jan 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 24 Jan 2025

Coupling the urban canopy model TEB (SURFEXv9.0) with the radiation model SPARTACUS-Urbanv0.6.1 for more realistic urban radiative exchange calculation

Robert Schoetter, Robin James Hogan, Cyril Caliot, and Valéry Masson

Model code and software

Source code, numerical simulations, and postprocessing scripts described in the research article ''Coupling the urban canopy model TEB (SURFEXv9.0) with the radiation model SPARTACUS-Urbanv0.6.1 for more realistic urban radiative exchange calculation'', submitted to Geoscientific Model Development Robert Schoetter et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11244064

The SURFEXv7.2 land and ocean surface platform for coupled or offline simulation of earth surface variables and fluxes (http://www.umr-cnrm.fr/surfex/spip.php?article387) V. Masson et al. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-6-929-2013

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Radiation is relevant to the atmospheric impact on people and infrastructure in cities as it can influence the urban heat island, building energy consumption, and human thermal comfort. A new urban radiation model, assuming a more realistic form of urban morphology, is coupled to the urban climate model Town Energy Balance (TEB). The new TEB is evaluated with a reference radiation model for a variety of urban morphologies, and an improvement in the simulated radiative observables is found.

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The externalised surface model SURFEX