Xiaoming Cai

TL;DR: This article reviews and assesses the current status of urban meteorological networks, by examining the fundamental scientific and logistical issues related to these networks, and making recommendations for future deployments based on the challenges encountered by existing networks.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the UHI contributed around 50 % of the total heat-related mortality during the 2003 heatwave in the West Midlands, and it is found that taking a geographical, rather than population-weighted, mean of temperature across the regions under-estimates the population exposure to temperatures by around 1 °C, roughly equivalent to a 20 % underestimation in mortality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extended a large eddy simulation model used to simulate turbulent flow in an urban street canyon to the dispersion and transport of reactive pollutants (NO, NO2 and O3).

TL;DR: Emission inventories, especially of the soot yield from gas flaring should give adequate consideration to the variation of fuel gas composition, and to combustion characteristics, which are strong determinants of the nature and quantity of pollutants emitted.

TL;DR: In this paper, a large-eddy simulation of the turbulent flow inside an idealized urban street canyon with an aspect ratio of one is studied by means of largeeddy simulation, where the mean velocity components, resolved-scale turbulent kinetic energy (RS-TKE), the skewness and kurtosis of the resolved scale velocity components (u along the canyon and w vertically) are compared with wind-tunnel measurements.