patikit/Land_Cover-Specific_Atmospheric_Responses_to-Soil_Warming: Land Cover-Specific Atmospheric Responses to Soil Warming

Urban areas exhibit a complex thermal behavior, shaped by e.g. land cover heterogeneity, atmospheric processes, different soil properties and manifold anthropogenic influences. A detailed understanding of land cover-specific thermal behavior in relation to anthropogenic heat storage in the soil remains limited in current research. We use the PALM-4U urban microclimate model to examine how a uniform +5 K increase in soil temperature at 2.91 m depth affects surface energy fluxes and near-surface atmospheric parameters depending on land cover and sky cover.