Validation of a Fast-Response Urban Micrometeorological Model to Assess the Performance of Urban Heat Island Mitigation Strategies

Daniel Nadeau1, Pascale Girard2, Matthew Overby3, Eric Pardyjak4, Rob Stoll II4, Peter Willemsen3, Brian Bailey4 and Marc B Parlange5, (1)Laval University, Civil and Water Engineering, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (2)Laval University, Quebec City, QC, Canada, (3)University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth, MN, United States, (4)University of Utah, Mechanical Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT, United States, (5)Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland