TY  - JOUR
AB  - City centers have to cope with an increasing amount of air pollution. The supply of fresh air is crucial yet difficult to ensure, especially under stable conditions of the atmospheric boundary layer. This case study used the PArallelized Large eddy simulation (LES) Model PALM to investigate the wind field over an urban lake that had once been built as a designated fresh air corridor for the city center of Münster, northwest, Germany. The model initialization was performed using the main wind direction and stable boundary layer conditions as input. The initial wind and temperature profiles included a weak nocturnal low-level jet. By emitting a passive scalar at one point on top of a bridge, the dispersion of fresh air could be traced over the lake’s surface, within street canyons leading to the city center and within the urban boundary layer above. The concept of city ventilation was confirmed in principle, but the air took a direct route from the shore of the lake to the city center above a former river bed and its adjoining streets rather than through the street canyons. According to the dispersion of the passive scalar, half of the city center was supplied with fresh air originating from the lake. PALM proved to be a useful tool to study fresh air corridors under stable boundary layer conditions.
AU  - Biehl, Jonathan Lukas
AU  - Paas, Bastian
AU  - Klemm, Otto
DA  - 2021-03-20
DO  - 10.17879/72089470196
KW  - stable boundary layer
KW  - large eddy simulation
KW  - urban climatology
KW  - fresh air corridor
KW  - air ventilation assessment
KW  - city planning
LA  - eng
N1  - Atmosphere 12 (2021) 3, 401, 1-14
N1  - Finanziert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster (WWU Münster).
PY  - 2021-03-20
TI  - Ventilation of a Mid-Size City under Stable Boundary Layer Conditions: A Simulation Using the LES Model PALM
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hbz:6-62069546599
Y2  - 2024-12-27T10:47:27
ER  -