Sensitivity Analysis of WRF-LES Simulations of Urban Areas to Soil Moisture Spinup, Land Cover Conversion, and Urban Canopy Models

Mahdad Talebpour, Johns Hopkins University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Baltimore, United States, Claire Welty, Center for Urban Environmental Research, Baltimore, United States; University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education and Dept of Chemical, Biochemical and Environmental Engineering, Baltimore, MD, United States and Elie Bou-Zeid, Princeton University, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton, NJ, United States