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Position Paper | Open Access

CFD modelling: The most useful tool for developing mesoscale urban canopy parameterizations

Riccardo Buccolieri1( )Jose Luis Santiago2Alberto Martilli2
Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, University of Salento, S.P. 6 Lecce-Monteroni, Lecce 73100, Italy
Environment Department, Research Center for Energy, Environment and Technology (CIEMAT), Madrid 28040, Spain
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Buccolieri R, Santiago JL, Martilli A. CFD modelling: The most useful tool for developing mesoscale urban canopy parameterizations. Building Simulation, 2021, 14(3): 407-419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12273-020-0689-z

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Received: 11 December 2019
Accepted: 16 July 2020
Published: 19 August 2020
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