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BT Tower research

BT Tower research. Best exposed platform over London Climatology of turbulent mixing 2006-2008 (Wood et al. 2010) Carbon dioxide and water vapour fluxes (Helfter et al. 2010). APRIL network meeting on BT Tower research 26 th January 2010

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BT Tower research

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  1. BT Tower research • Best exposed platform over London • Climatology of turbulent mixing 2006-2008 (Wood et al. 2010) • Carbon dioxide and water vapour fluxes (Helfter et al. 2010) APRIL network meeting on BT Tower research 26th January 2010 http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/environmentalpolicy/research/environmentalquality/april/events/bttowermeeting

  2. ACTUAL Advanced Climate Technology Urban Atmospheric Laboratory (5 years, started March 2009) “Buildings don’t just withstand climate, they change it” Aim: to challenge urban engineering practice by incorporating urban climate knowledge Funded by EPSRC under the Challenging Engineering programme Partners: Met Office, Arup, GLA

  3. ACTUAL: setting up the Laboratory BT at 190 m • Aim: Long-term observations of London’s atmosphere • Develop BT Tower measurements platform • Westminster City Council rooftop platform • Doppler lidar, sodar • Installation Summer 2010 • www.actual.ac.uk Roof top at ~20m

  4. ClearfLo • NERC funded consortium, Principal Investigator: Prof. Stephen Belcher at Uni. of Reading • Collaborators: York, Leeds, Manchester, Salford, Hertfordshire, KCL, UEA, Birmingham, Reading, NCAS • £2.8million over 3 years, combined meteorological and chemical observations and modelling • Start date January 2010

  5. ClearfLo • Objectives are to: • Establish an infrastructure for air quality research • Measure a meteorological and chemical “climatology” of London • Determine meteorological and chemical processes governing concentrations • Focus on ozone, nitrogen dioxide and particulates • Evaluate air quality modelling

  6. Sites at different heights and locations in and around London • Medium term measurements (2 years) study of met and chemical processes

  7. A growing “urban observatory” • DAPPLE project rooftop site (continuous since October 2006) turbulence www.dapple.org.uk • REPARTEE BT Tower and Regent’s Park gas, particulates, boundary layer turbulence (2007) http://www.cas.manchester.ac.uk/research/projects/cityflux/repartee/ • BT Tower measurements (Oct 2006 to May 2008) Water vapour,CO2, turbulence • ISB52 – Uni. of Salford, London rural/urban transition turbulence • LUCID – running Met Office Unified Model at 250 m resolution over London heat fluxes, temperature, heatwaveswww.lucid-project.org.uk • Sue Grimmond at King’s College London: urban micrometeorology http://geography.kcl.ac.uk/micromet/Index.htm • Ralf Toumi/Claire McConnell at Imperial: interaction between particulates and urban climate; London Grid for Learning http://weather.lgfl.org.uk/

  8. Conclusions • Basic research into urban atmosphere essential to underpin policy decisions • Timeliness: critical mass in urban climate and pollution research, established input from policy makers, industry • Urban Meteorology at Reading: • http://www.met.reading.ac.uk/Research/boundary_layer/research/urban.html • Janet Barlow: j.f.barlow@reading.ac.uk

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