Skip to main content

Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

TableĀ 1 Distribution of different land use types in input terrestrial data sets for WRF model

From: WRF-urban canopy model evaluation for the assessment of heat island and thermal comfort over an urban airshed in India under varying land use/land cover conditions

Type

USGS (%)

MODIS (%)

Modified and UCM (%)

Satellite (Mohan et al. 2011) (%)

Urban (built-up/high-low residential/commercial/industrial)

25.17

90.66

49.83

52

Non-urban

Ā Cultivated green (cropland and pastures)

59.03

6.08

27.43

20

Ā Natural green (grassland/scrubland/woodland)

14.58

0.83

18.92

14

Ā Water

1.22

2.43

3.13

12

Ā Barren/sparsely vegetated/sandy

0.00

0.00

0.69

2