Towards Understanding the Urban Surface Energy Budget

Abstract

The primary goal of the project was to use satellite derived remote sensing data to advance our understanding of urban surface energy budget. The urban surface energy balance, key to understanding the surface-atmosphere interactions in urban areas is yet unknown. Surface heterogeneity is the central limiting factor urban environments are made up of bricks, steel, asphalt, vegetation which all have different thermal and physical properties resulting in complex exchanges of heat and momentum.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 29, 2020
Accession Number
AD1113203

Entities

People

  • Prathap Ramamurthy

Organizations

  • City College of New York

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Temperature
  • Artificial Satellites
  • Energy
  • Environment
  • Geosynchronous Satellites
  • Ground Based
  • Heat Flux
  • High Resolution
  • Measurement
  • Neural Networks
  • New York
  • Physical Properties
  • Remote Sensing
  • Surface Energy
  • Technology Transfer
  • Urban Areas
  • Weather Forecasting

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Hydraulic Engineering.
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Urban Planning and Geography.

Technology Areas

  • Space