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.

Identification info

Metadata Language: English (en)

Dataset Reference Date (): 2001-12-10T02:44:45

Dataset Reference Date (): 2001-12-10T02:44:45

Identifier: http://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1e3b57d54fe4c4f5c0f1e4a319f53186

Identifier: NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) / 1e3b57d54fe4c4f5c0f1e4a319f53186

NERC URGENT URBMET campaign participants - author

Unavailable - Barlow, Janet ( author )

Unavailable - Belcher, Stephen E. ( author )

Unavailable - Cheng, Hong ( author )

Unavailable - Davies, Fay ( author )

Unavailable - et. al, ( author )

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - custodian

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - distributor

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - point_of_contact

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC) - publisher

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

Maintenance and update frequency: unknown

Update scope: series

Keywords

URGENT
URBMET
Wind

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

atmospheric conditions

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Spatial representation type: grid

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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Begin date: 1999-06-20T23:00:00

End date: 2001-04-02T23:00:00

Code: WGS 84

Distribution Information

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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource

Resource Locator: URGENT website
No further details.

Resource Locator: BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
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Resource Locator: BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
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Resource Locator: BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
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Resource Locator: URGENT Data Protocol
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Resource Locator: Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
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Resource Locator: Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
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Resource Locator: CEDA Data Catalogue Page
Detail and access information for the resource

Resource Locator: URGENT website
No further details.

Resource Locator: BADC Doc: URGENT Projects
No further details.

Resource Locator: BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List
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Resource Locator: BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format
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Resource Locator: URGENT Data Protocol
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Resource Locator: Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom
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Resource Locator: Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)
No further details.

Quality Scope: series

Report

Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: Please see data lineage statements for each dataset within this collection for data lineage details.

Metadata

File identifier: 1e3b57d54fe4c4f5c0f1e4a319f53186 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646

Resource type: series

Hierarchy level name: series

Metadata Date: 2023-12-07T01:23:09

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)

British Atmospheric Data Centre , STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory , Harwell Oxford , OX11 0QX , UK

+44(0)1235 446432

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