ANALYSIS OF HORIZONTAL AND VERTICAL COMPONENTS OF ADVECTION IN SENSIBLE HEAT BALANCE IN URBAN SPACE USING WRF

Abstract

The final goal of this study is to elucidate the causal factors of the thermal environment in urban space by analyzing the horizontally and vertically decomposed advection and turbulent diffusion components of the sensible and latent heat balances. In this paper, the advection component of the sensible heat balance was evaluated by decomposing it into horizontal and vertical components. It was found that even on sea-breeze days, the influence of the vertical component in the advection was also significant, together with the influence of the horizontal component.