Research Article

Improving Wind Speed Forecasting for Urban Air Mobility Using Coupled Simulations

Table 5

Description of S1, S2, S3, S4, S5, and S6 including type, resolution, domain name, time steps, and coupling method.

Simulation identifierSimulation typeHorizontal resolution (m)DomainTime step (s)Coupling methodPBL scheme

S1Mesoscale3,000 × 3,000D136N/AYSU
S2Mesoscale1,000 × 1,000D212N/AYSU
S3Mesoscale1,000 × 1,000D212N/AMYJ
S4Microscale400 × 400D34N/AN/A
S5Coupled∼5–30 mCFD domain0.5Cressman (rh = rz = 1 km)N/A
S6Coupled∼5–30 mCFD domain0,5Barnes (Lh = Lz = 1 km)N/A