Articles | Volume 18, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-405-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-405-2025
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

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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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