Category Archives: Boundary layer

Uncrewed Aircraft for Cloud and Atmospheric Electricity Research

Posted on 5 December, 2022 by danaallen

By: Keri Nicoll The popularity and availability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), has led to a surge in their use in many areas, including aerial photography, surveying, search and rescue, and traffic monitoring.  This is also the case for atmospheric … Continue reading →

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A Different Kind Of Turbulence

Posted on 13 June, 2022 by danaallen

By Miguel Teixeira It might be thought that turbulence is essentially the same everywhere. However, its mixing efficiency depends not only on its intensity (as might be expected intuitively), but also on more subtle properties, such as its anisotropy (which … Continue reading →

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Where Do All My Balloons Go?

Posted on 21 February, 2022 by danaallen

By: Andrew K. Mirza Turbulence! If you have ever travelled by aeroplane, then you may have experienced atmospheric turbulence during the flight: It is when the captain switches on the seat-belt sign; requests all passengers return to their seats and … Continue reading →

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Air Quality in Reading during COVID-19

Posted on 27 April, 2020 by danaallen

By Helen Dacre I’ve been working from home for exactly a month now and like everyone else have been adapting to a new routine.  This involves taking a daily shuffle around Caversham to get some exercise. There’s been a noticeable … Continue reading →

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Trading Evil lasers for MAGIC Doppler lidars

Posted on 4 November, 2019 by danaallen

By: Janet Barlow  Lasers may have an evil reputation in Hollywood, but they are very good for observing urban meteorology. We recently took part in the MAGIC project field campaign in London, deploying a Doppler lidar to measure wind-speed around … Continue reading →

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Challenges in the closure of the surface energy budget at the continental scale

Posted on 15 July, 2019 by danaallen

By: Bo Dong Since satellite observations began in the late 1970s, our knowledge of energy flows in and out of the Earth’s climate system has been greatly advanced. Taking advantage of state-of-the-art Earth Observation (EO) programmes such as the Clouds … Continue reading →

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The sky is the limit – How tall buildings affect wind and air quality

Posted on 29 April, 2019 by danaallen

By: Denise Hertwig Based on current UN estimates, by 2050 over 6.6 billion people (68% of the total population) will be living in cities. Across the world, tall (> 50 m height) and super-tall (> 300 m) buildings already define … Continue reading →

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The Boundary Layer and Submesoscale Motions

Posted on 1 April, 2019 by danaallen

By: Alan Grant Science is an exciting career, although what you may consider to be exciting will depend on your field. Sometimes things get most exciting when what initially appears to be a frustrating problem turns into an interesting problem. … Continue reading →

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SuPy: An urban land surface model for Pythonista

Posted on 18 March, 2019 by danaallen

By: Ting Sun Python is now extensively employed by the atmospheric sciences community for data analyses and numerical modelling thanks to its simplicity and the large scientific Python ecosystem (e.g., PyData community). Although I cherish Mathematica as my native programming … Continue reading →

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Remodelling Building Design Sustainability from a Human Centred Approach (Refresh) project overview

Posted on 4 February, 2019 by danaallen

By: Hannah Gough In 2014, 54 % of the world’s population resided in an urban area and this is projected to rise to 66 % by 2050 (United Nations, 2014). It is also estimated that 90 % of people’s time in … Continue reading →

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