2025 Volume 81 Issue 16 Article ID: 24-16193
A comparison and validation of different sensible heat transport processes in three single-layer urban canopy models were conducted. The differences among them lie in their assumptions regarding the sensible heat transport processes between the various components of the urban canopy. The validation was performed using data from 17 geographically and climatically diverse cities that have been recently compiled. There was no single model that produced good results for all three fluxes: longwave radiation, sensible heat, and ground heat. The two models that aggregated sensible heat at the urban canyon particularly showed the impact of urban geometry. All three models produced similar phase changes to the observed data.
