Published In
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-2009
Subjects
Meteorology, Urban climatology -- Meteorological factors
Abstract
Based on the need for advanced treatments of high resolution urban morphological features (e.g., buildings, trees) in meteorological, dispersion, air quality and human exposure modeling systems for future urban applications, a new project was launched called the National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT). NUDAPT is sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and involves collaborations and contributions from many groups including federal and state agencies and from private and academic institutions here and in other countries. It is designed to produce and provide gridded fields of urban canopy parameters for various new and advanced descriptions of model physics to improve urban simulations given the availability of new high-resolution data of buildings, vegetation, and land use. Additional information include gridded anthropogenic heating and population data is incorporated to further improve urban simulations and to encourage and facilitate decision support and application linkages to human exposure models. An important core-design feature is the utilization of web portal technology to enable NUDAPT to be a "Community" based system. This web-based portal technology will facilitate customizing of data handling and retrievals (http://www.nudapt.org). This article provides an overview of NUDAPT and several example applications.
DOI
10.1175/2009BAMS2675.1
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/12866
Citation Details
Ching, J., Brown, M., Burian, S., Chen, F., Cionco, R., Hanna, A., Hultgren, T., Sailor, D., Taha, H., and Willians, D., 2009. ''National Urban Database and Access Portal Tool (NUDAPT): Facilitating a new generation of advanced urban meteorology and climate modeling with community-based urban database system," Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), August.
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