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.

Date (Publication): 2001-12-10T02:44:45

Date (Creation): 2001-12-10T02:44:45

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1e3b57d54fe4c4f5c0f1e4a319f53186

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

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC URGENT URBMET campaign participants		unknown	Author
Unavailable	Barlow, Janet	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Belcher, Stephen E.	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Cheng, Hong	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	Davies, Fay	Unavailable	Author
Unavailable	et. al,	Unavailable	Author
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Custodian
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	pointofContact
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Publisher

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

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

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

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

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

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Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/1e3b57d54fe4c4f5c0f1e4a319f53186	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://urgent.nerc.ac.uk/	URGENT website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Projects.html	BADC Doc: URGENT Projects

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Sites/	BADC Doc: URGENT Air Sites List

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Format.html	BADC Doc: URGENT Files Structure and Format

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://artefacts.ceda.ac.uk/badc_datadocs/urgent/Protocol.html	URGENT Data Protocol

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356333	Source Apportionment of Airborne Particulate Matter in the United Kingdom

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://zenodo.org/record/7356463	Urban regeneration and the Environment Metadata Capture Tool User Guide (URGENT)

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Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

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File identifier: 1e3b57d54fe4c4f5c0f1e4a319f53186 XML

Metadata language: English

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Hierarchy level: Series

Hierarchy level name: series

Date stamp: 2026-03-08T03:28:38

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NCAS British Atmospheric Data Centre (NCAS BADC)		badc@rl.ac.uk	Point of contact

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