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Optimal water use strategies for mitigating high urban temperatures
Bin Liu
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
School of Software Engineering, Chengdu University of Information
Technology, Chengdu, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Shuang Liu
Key Laboratory of Mountain Hazards and Earth Surface Processes,
Institute of Mountain Hazards and Environment, Chinese Academy of Sciences,
Chengdu, China
Yujing Zeng
Program in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, Princeton University,
Princeton, New Jersey, USA
Ruichao Li
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Longhuan Wang
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Binghao Jia
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Peihua Qin
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Si Chen
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Jinbo Xie
State Key Laboratory of Numerical Modeling for Atmospheric Sciences
and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics, Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Chinese
Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
ChunXiang Shi
National Meteorological Information Center, China Meteorological
Administration, Beijing, China
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Short summary
We implemented both urban water use schemes in a model (Weather Research and Forecasting model) and assessed their cooling effects with different amounts of water in different parts of the city (center, suburbs, and rural areas) for both road sprinkling and urban irrigation by model simulation. Then, we developed an optimization scheme to find out the optimal water use strategies for mitigating high urban temperatures.
We implemented both urban water use schemes in a model (Weather Research and Forecasting model)...