RESEARCH ARTICLE
Recent Trends and Remaining Limitations in Urban Microclimate Models
Manmeet Singh, Debra F. Laefer*
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2015Volume: 1
First Page: 1
Last Page: 12
Publisher Id: OUSDJ-1-1
DOI: 10.2174/2352631901401010001
Article History:
Received Date: 18/3/2014Revision Received Date: 22/4/2014
Acceptance Date: 28/4/2014
Electronic publication date: 22/1/2015
Collection year: 2015
open-access license: This is an open access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the work is properly cited.
Abstract
Problems such as natural ventilation, pollutant dispersion, changes in wind environments, and urban heat islands are gaining increasing prominence in both public concern and research. In response, urban microclimate modelling researchers are continually striving to develop new strategies to rapidly and inexpensively generate more accurate results. Numerical modelling is a common way to address these concerns. However, to generate realistic results requires significant investment in model creation, especially with respect to the detail to which a model is populated. This paper provides an overview about this and other recent trends within the research community by considering nearly 100 recent papers. Findings show that despite more computational capacity there has not been a major trend towards increasing the model complexity to obtain more realistic results.