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URBMET: Universities Weather Research Network (UWERN) measurements
The NERC URGENT thematic programme was set up to integrate urban environmental research across the geological, ecological, freshwater and atmospheric sciences. It worked in partnership with city authorities, industry and regulatory bodies.
The thematic programme began in 1998 and lasted for 7 years.
Universities Weather Research Network (UWERN) Urban Meteorology Programme (URBMET) was a NERC Urban Regeneration and the Environment (URGENT) Air project (GST/02/2231 - Duration: 1/01/1999 - 30/6/2002) led by Dr Stephen Belcher, University of Reading.
The key issues of this project were:
-how boundary-layer motions drive small-scale street-level circulations within the urban canopy
-how street-level circulations feed back into the larger-scale boundary-layer above by mixing heat, moisture and momentum
-how small-scale circulations within the streets mix pollutants from street-level into the boundary-layer above
-how larger-scale motions above affect the mixing.
This work brought together expertise from dynamical and observational meteorology, and theoretical and experimental fluid dynamics to make full-scale and laboratory measurements of the atmospheric boundary-layer over urban areas. The project developed a sound understanding of the processes of mixing and transport from the street-level into the boundary-layer. It also developed methods for parameterising these processes in urban-scale dispersion models and in numerical weather prediction models through an urban canopy model of urban areas.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2001-12-10T02:44:45
- Date (Creation)
- 2001-12-10T02:44:45
- Identifier
- NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 1e3b57d54fe4c4f5c0f1e4a319f53186
- Maintenance and update frequency
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- series Series
- Keywords
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- URGENT
- URBMET
- Wind
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- atmospheric conditions
- Access constraints
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- Other constraints
- Please contact the data centre for assistance on accessing data from this dataset collection.
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- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 1999-06-20T23:00:00
- End date
- 2001-04-02T23:00:00
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84
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- OnLine resource
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CEDA Data Catalogue Page
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URGENT website
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BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
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BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
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BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
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URGENT Data Protocol
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Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
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Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
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- series Series
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.
- File identifier
- 1e3b57d54fe4c4f5c0f1e4a319f53186 XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646 UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- series Series
- Hierarchy level name
- series
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-09T02:30:38
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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