Gao said an urban planner could use it to create 3D digital models of a neighborhood to help study a development proposal or generate impressive fly-through video of the area to give residents at a ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1988-2005), Vol. 43, No. 12 (December 2004), pp. 1899-1910 (12 pages) ABSTRACT A single-layer urban canopy model is incorporated into a simple two-dimensional ...

Before ground is broken or bricks are laid on any building, architects get to work on a smaller scale, creating models of what buildings and sometimes whole landscapes could look like. City of ...

Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed a first-ever urban heat wave simulation that takes into account the compounding effects from building ...