Climate scientists need better virtual cities

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Current models of urban areas aren’t good enough to understand the interactions between climate and cities. Despite the amount of available data increasing, US researchers point out that available models don't take account of spatial differences in land cover, urban forms, pollutants, transport, and energy uses across cities. More detailed models are required, and it is likely that purpose-built models will be necessary that match computational resources with the needs of stakeholders and decision-makers.

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conference: AGU Advances

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Organisation/s: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA

Funder: Funded through interagency support from the U.S. Department of Energy, the Army Research Office, NASA, and NOAA. Ashish Sharma was also partially supported by the Illinois State Water Survey, Prairie Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana‐Champaign

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