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The dynamic variability of weather conditions and complex geometry and semantics of urban domain impose significant constraints on the empirical study of urban microclimate. Thus, numerical modeling is being increasingly deployed to capture the very dynamics of urban microclimate. In this context, the present paper illustrates the basic processes of calibrating and preparing a numerical model for the simulation of the urban microclimate.
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Maleki, A., Kiesel, K., Vuckovic, M., Mahdavi, A. (2014). Empirical and Computational Issues of Microclimate Simulation. In: Linawati, Mahendra, M.S., Neuhold, E.J., Tjoa, A.M., You, I. (eds) Information and Communication Technology. ICT-EurAsia 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8407. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55032-4_8
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