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The energy supply of industrialized regions is ultimately transformed into waste heat and reaches the atmosphere. In the Upper-Rhine Region (inventory area 27 500 km2) the mean annual waste heat emission is about 1.6 W/m2, and thus exceeds the mean global anthropogenic heat release by a factor of 100. The heat emission consists of energy conversion (16%), major industry (33%), small industry and domestic consumption (38%) as well as transportation (13%); it is released in the form of radiative (17%), sensible (69%) and latent heat (14%). The largest amount of waste heat is released in urban and industrial areas showing flux densities of about 30 W/m2 on 2 km × 2 km grid areas. The influence on regional climate is studied using a non-hydrostatic mesoscale simulation model, which calculates the topographically influenced wind field.
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Pankrath, J. (1980). Impact of Waste Heat Emissions in the Upper-Rhine Region. In: Bach, W., Pankrath, J., Williams, J. (eds) Interactions of Energy and Climate. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9111-8_20
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