Improving the Urban Subgrid Building Energy Parameterization in the Community Terrestrial System Model

Xinchang Li1, Lei Zhao1, Keith W Oleson2, Yuyu Zhou3 and Yue Qin4, (1)University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Urbana, IL, United States, (2)Climate and Global Dynamics Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Iowa State University, Dept. of Geological & Atmospheric Sciences, Ames, United States, (4)Peking University, Beijing, China