EGU24-12850, updated on 10 Jun 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-12850
EGU General Assembly 2024
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High-resolution air temperature modeling during the summer 2022 heat waves over Dijon

Alexandre Berger1, Julien Crétat1, Julien Pergaud1, Benjamin Pohl1, Mélissa Poupelin1,2, and Yves Richard1
Alexandre Berger et al.
  • 1University of Burgundy, Biogeosciences, Centre de Recherches de Climatologie, Dijon, France (alexandre.berger@u-bourgogne.fr)
  • 2Laboratoire ThéMA, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

1Centre de Recherches de Climatologie/Biogéosciences, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France - alexandre.berger@u-bourgogne.fr

2Laboratoire ThéMA, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France

 

Heat waves (HWs) become more frequent, severe and longer under climate change. In cities, their impact is exacerbated by urban heat islands (UHIs). Proposing efficient adaptation plans necessitates upstream studies to further understand air temperature space-time variability within cities during HWs, their drivers, and associated mechanisms and processes.

This study aims at understanding 2 m air temperature (T2m) space-time variability during the four HWs that occurred in Dijon during summer 2022 based on the dense MUSTARDijon network of 92 thermometers. We used a 150 m mesoscale simulations performed with the Meso-NH atmospheric model coupled with the TEB and ISBA surface schemes optimized for urban and rural environments, respectively. First, we evaluate the capability of Meso-NH to simulate the diurnal cycle of T2m for the four HWs over urban and rural environments. We show that Meso-NH more skillfully simulates the T2m diurnal cycle over urban than rural environments, despite a systematic cold bias in early morning and late afternoon. Second, we focus on the drivers of T2m space-time variability by using different predictors including land cover, energy budget, soil and atmospheric humidity and atmospheric dynamics. Buildings and roads contribute to warm the urban environment mostly at night, but these contributions are exaggerated by Meso-NH during all HWs. By contrast, vegetation contributes to cool the urban environment all day long for low vegetation and at night only for high vegetation in both observations and simulations. Also, wind speed seems having a strong impact on UHI intensity.

How to cite: Berger, A., Crétat, J., Pergaud, J., Pohl, B., Poupelin, M., and Richard, Y.: High-resolution air temperature modeling during the summer 2022 heat waves over Dijon, EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-12850, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-12850, 2024.