Toward Improved Forecasts of Sea-Breeze Horizontal Convective Rolls at Super High
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Horizontal convective rolls form in coastal areas around Sendai Airport during sea-breeze
events. Using a building-resolving computational fluid dynamics model nested in an
advanced forecast system with a data assimilation scheme, the authors perform a series of
sensitivity experiments to investigate the impacts of land use and buildings on these rolls.
The results show that the roll positions, intensities, and structures are significantly affected
by variations in land use and the presence of buildings. Land-use heterogeneity is …