Boundary-Layer Meteorology (BLMet)
Past Presentations
Note: PDF's not yet available are marked by '*' and the presentations/plots are marked as 'PDF'
Spring Term, 2012
| Week 0 | 13/01/12 | Curtis - Observing Helsinki's Urban Boundary Layer and Other Stuff (ROOM GU01 at 14:00) | PDF* |
| Week 1 | 20/01/12 | Bring-a-Plot | PDF* |
| Week 2 | 27/01/12 | Bring-a-Plot | PDF* |
| Week 3 | 03/02/11 | Lionel Soulhac - To Be Confirmed | PDF* |
| Week 4 | 10/02/12 | Matteo Carpentieri (University of Surrey) - Postponed | PDF* |
| Week 5 | 17/02/12 | Bring-a-Plot | PDF* |
| Week 6 | 24/02/12 | Matteo Carpentieri (University of Surrey) - "Linking urban morphology with flow and pollutant dispersion in urban areas" | PDF* |
| Week 7 | 02/03/12 | Quo-Vadis Talk: Wagner, Aidan and David | PDF* |
| Week 8 | 09/03/12 | ClearfLo Update Talk | PDF* |
| Week 9 | 16/03/12 | Omduth/Humphrey | PDF* |
| Week 10 | 23/03/12 | Christos Halios | PDF* |
| Week X | 23/03/12 | TBA | PDF* |
Summer Term, 2011:
| Week 1 | 28/04/11 | No Meeting | * |
| Week 2 | 05/05/11 | Bring-a-Plot | * |
| Week 3 | 12/05/11 | Paper Review: P. Seibert (2000) - Lead by Curtis | Paper and PDF |
| Week 4 | 19/05/11 | Alan Grant and David McNamara on Mixed Layer Depth and Turbulence | PDF |
| Week 5 | 26/05/11 | Dr. Cris Castillo from KCL on Inner and Outer Layer Turbulence Over Very Rough Surfaces - ROOM *1L61* | PDF |
| Week 6 | 02/06/11 | Bring-a-Plot (Wrong Plots too) | * |
| Week 7 | 09/06/11 | Luca Caporaso on the BASE ALFA PROJECT (Postponed) | * |
| Week 8 | 16/06/11 | Prof. Stuart Bradley from University of Auckland. Topic: Just how good is ground-based remote sensing of winds? - ROOM *GU01* | PDF |
| Week 9 | 23/06/11 | Luca Caporaso on the BASE ALFA PROJECT | PDF* |
| Week 10 | 30/06/11 | TBA | PDF* |
Extra Summer Sessions: July, 2011
| Week 1 | 08/07/11 | Alan Grant: "Turbulent Budgets and Designing a Parameterization Scheme" | PDF |
| Week 2 | 15/07/11 | Bob Plant: "Terra Incognita and Stochastic Modelling of the Boundary Layer" | PDF |
| Week 3 | 22/07/11 | Stephen Belcher and/or Sylvia Bohnenstengel: "The Thermodynamics of the Diurnal Cycle of Screen Level Temperature and the Urban Heat Island" | PDF |
Autumn term, 2011:
| Week X | 19/08/11 | John Finnigan (CSIRO - Australia) - The "Diabolical Problem", Reconciling Climate Mitigation and Global Change." | PDF |
| Week X | 16/09/11 | Alex Taylor (Uni. of Exeter) - Title: "The Dispersion of Pollution by Transitional Atmospheric Boundary Layers" - ROOM 1L61
Abstract: We consider the dispersion of passive tracer particles within the atmospheric boundary layer through the development of two different methods, Lagrangian stochastic modelling and large-eddy simulation. Initially we focus on obtaining agreement with previous studies and observations for the case of a slowly evolving convective boundary layer, moving on to address the case of a typical evening 'decaying' convective boundary layer and investigating the role of residual convective turbulence on dispersion. | PDF* |
| Week 1 | 14/10/11 | Bring-a-Plot | PDF* |
| Week 2 | 21/10/11 | Summer Conferences Review | PDF* |
| Week 3 | 28/10/11 | Annika Nordbo (University of Helsinki) - Title: "A Wavelet-Based Method For The Spectral Correction of Turbulent Fluxes" (1L61) | PDF* |
| Week 4 | 04/11/11 | Short Talks by Natalie Harvey, David McNamara, Judith McConnell and Brodie Pearson | PDF* |
| Week 5' | 10/11/11 | Joint BL/Radar Group (1L61 - 2pm) - Dr. Ian Brooks, University of Leeds - Arctic Boundary Layers | PDF* |
| Week 5 | 11/11/11 | Elisa Goulart | PDF* |
| Week 6 | 18/11/11 | Janet Barlow - Book Review | PDF* |
| Week 7 | 25/11/11 | Stephen Belcher and Alan Grant - The OSMOSIS Project (11am in GU10) | PDF* |
| Week 8 | 02/12/11 | Sylvia Bohnenstengel - Rehearsal | PDF* |
| Week 9 | 09/12/11 | Dr. Xaoming Cai (University of Birmingham) - "A Challenge For Parameterisation of Heated Urban Surface - Characteristics of Fluxes Above a Heated Street Canyon" | PDF* |
| Week 10 | 16/12/11 | No Meeting - MET BL SOCIAL | PDF* |
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