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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-5841-2016
© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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Research article
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12 May 2016
Research article |
| 12 May 2016
Impact of buildings on surface solar radiation over urban Beijing
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering and
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Kuo-Nan Liou
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering and
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering and
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Cenlin He
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering and
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Wee-Liang Lee
Research Center for Environmental Changes, Academia Sinica, Taipei,
Taiwan
Xing Chang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution
Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
Qinbin Li
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering and
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Shuxiao Wang
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution
Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of
Air Pollution Complex, Beijing 100084, China
Hsien-Liang R. Tseng
Joint Institute for Regional Earth System Science and Engineering and
Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, University of California,
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA
Lai-Yung R. Leung
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352, USA
Jiming Hao
State Key Joint Laboratory of Environment Simulation and Pollution
Control, School of Environment, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
State Environmental Protection Key Laboratory of Sources and Control of
Air Pollution Complex, Beijing 100084, China
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Short summary
We examine the impact of buildings on surface solar fluxes in Beijing by accounting for their 3-D structures. We find that inclusion of buildings changes surface solar fluxes by within ±1 W m−2, ±1–10 W m−2, and up to ±100 W m−2 at grid resolutions of 4 km, 800 m, and 90 m, respectively. We can resolve pairs of positive-negative flux deviations on different sides of buildings at ≤ 800 m resolutions. We should treat building-effect on solar fluxes differently in models with different resolutions.
We examine the impact of buildings on surface solar fluxes in Beijing by accounting for their...
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