This book for the first time gives an overall view of the current situation in urbanization of meteorological and air quality models around the world. It discusses and makes recommendations on the best practice and strategy for urbanization of different types of meteorological and air quality models.

Based on the selected presentations given at the COST728 workshop, the contributions are arranged in four parts: urban morphology and databases; parameterizations of urban canopy; strategy for urbanization of different types of models; and evaluation and city case studies / field...

This book, based on the selected presentations given at the COST-728/NetFAM workshop, focuses on on-line modelling and feedbacks, off-line modelling and interfaces, validation and case studies, and integration of atmospheric chemical transport models with numerical weather prediction.