MOSAIK

Timestamp:

Sep 15, 2016 12:18:45 PM (8 years ago)

Author:

maronga

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project/mission

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 The central goal of MOSAIK is the development of a new, modern, user-friendly, highly-efficient, and high resolution urban climate model (UCM), which allows simulations of large cities of size of up to 2.000 km² with grid-resolved buildings. Besides large massively-parallel computers, the model shall also run on local PCs and workstations with limited resources. To achieve this goal, the new model will be based on the modern highly-parallelized large-eddy simulation (LES) code PALM, instead of using one of the existing UCMs that have been used for more than two decades, which are well-established but difficult to adapt to state-of-the-art parallel and future many-core computer architectures.   
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 The new model will be able to perform runs for climate scenarios for entire city environments at moderate resolution (about 100 m grid spacing) as well as short episodes such as daily cycles with building-resolving resolution (1-10 m) on large massively parallel computers. Moreover, it will be possible to run the model on desktop PC systems for different applications, e.g., to run planning scenarios for single city quarters.
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 The new high performance UCM that will be developed will not only allow to study climate change impacts on urban areas, it will also enable to develop new city planning strategies to reduce such impacts on humans (e.g. green corridors or roof greening). Due to its Open Source character, the model can also contribute to the improvement of other urban micro- and mesoscale models. A special emphasis will be put on usability and sustainability for daily use by developing an intuitive and easy-to-use graphical user interface. With the MAM approach, an innovative technique will be implemented that allows for incorporating social-economic data into the UCM.
 
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-Model development work flow within MOSAIK
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