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

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Official Journal of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS)

Table 2 Statistical evaluation of WRF model performance for temperature for different types of observation sites

Sites	Input LULC	MB	MAE	RMSE	COR	IoA
Urban	USGS	5.16	5.17	5.44	0.95	0.69
	MODIS	6.13	6.13	6.30	0.97	0.64
	Modified	4.48	4.49	4.81	0.95	0.73
	UCM	3.38	3.41	3.87	0.95	0.81
Green	USGS	6.02	6.03	6.31	0.91	0.66
	MODIS	7.82	7.82	7.99	0.93	0.58
	Modified	6.00	6.01	6.28	0.92	0.67
	UCM	4.99	5.02	5.29	0.94	0.73
Open	USGS	4.83	4.86	5.18	0.93	0.73
	MODIS	6.60	6.60	6.77	0.94	0.64
	Modified	4.16	4.23	4.62	0.92	0.77
	UCM	3.41	3.50	4.05	0.91	0.82
River	USGS	4.90	4.92	5.20	0.94	0.72
	MODIS	6.49	6.49	6.65	0.96	0.63
	Modified	4.35	4.38	4.73	0.94	0.76
	UCM	3.66	3.71	4.10	0.92	0.79