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Table 11.1 Urban surface energy balance models. Acronyms, model names and publications with
key details

CODE Model name Reference with details of model

BEP02 ∗ Building Effect Parameterization Martilli et al. (2002)

BEP05 Building Effect Parameterization Hamdi (2005); Hamdi and Schayes

(2007)

CAT ∗ Canyon Air Temperature Erell and Williamson (2006)

CLMU ∗ Community Land Model - Urban Oleson et al. (2008a, b)

ENVImet ∗ Envi ronmental Meteorology Model Bruse and Fleer (1998)

GCTTC ∗ Green Cluster Thermal Time Constant

model

Shashua-Bar and Hoffman (2002,
2004)

HIM Heat Island Model Saitoh et al. (1996)

HIRLAM-U ∗ Urbanised version of DMI-HIRLAM
model

Baklanov et al. (2006, 2008);
Mahura et al. (2006);
Zilitinkevich et al. (2006)

LUMPS ∗ Local-scale Urban Meteorological

Parameterization Scheme

Grimmond and Oke (2002); Offerle
et al. (2003)

MM5u ∗ Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Model

model, where urban modifications have
been incorporated

Dandou et al. (2005)

MOSES1T ∗ Met. Office Surface Exchange Scheme 1

Tile

Best (2005); Essery et al. (2003)

MOSES2T ∗ Met. Office Surface Exchange Scheme 2

Tile

Best et al. (2006); Essery et al.
(2003)

MOUSES ∗ Met Office Urban Surface Exchange

Scheme

Harman et al. (2004a, b)

MUCM ∗ Multi-layer Urban Canopy Model Kondo et al. (2005); Kondo and Liu

(1998)

MUKLIMO ∗ Microscale Urban Climate Model Sievers (1995)

NSLUCM Noah land surface model/Single-layer

Urban Canopy Model

Kusaka et al. (2001); Chen et al.
(2004)

PTEBU Photovoltaic Town Energy Balance for an

Urban Canopy

Tian et al. (2007)

R-AUSSSM Revised Architecture-Urban-Soil-
Simultaneous Simulation
Model

Tanimoto et al. (2004)

RUM ∗

Reading Urban Model Harman and Belcher (2006)

SEBM Surface Energy Balance Model Tso et al. (1991)

SHIM Surface Heat Island Model Johnson et al. (1991)

SLUCM Simple Single-layer Urban Canopy Model Kusaka et al. (2001)

SM2U ∗

Soil Model for Submesoscales, Urbanized
Ve r s i o n

Dupont and Mestayer (2006);
Dupont et al. (2006)

SUEB ∗

Slab Urban Energy Balance Model Fortuniak et al. (2004, 2005)

SUMM ∗

Simple Urban Energy Balance Model for
Meso-Scale Simulation

Kanda et al. (2005a, b)

SUNBEEM Simple Urban Neighbourhood Boundary

Energy Exchange Model

Arnfield (2000)

TEB ∗

Town Energy Balance Masson (2000); Masson et al.

(2002); Lemonsu et al. (2004)

TEB07 ∗ Town Energy Balance 07 Hamdi and Masson (2008)

TUF2D ∗ Temperatures of Urban Facets in 2D Krayenhoff and Voogt (2007)