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Andreas Christen @envmet.bsky.social · Jul 2

Today was another unusually hot day in Freiburg, with temperatures above 38°C. Our urban weather station network operated by @uni-freiburg.de and funded by @erc.europa.eu reveals intra-urban differences and where it was coolest (in a forest). Explore the map weather.uni-freiburg.de/map/freiburg...

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Andreas Christen @envmet.bsky.social · Jun 2

New weather stations on lamp-posts across Bristol, UK reveal interacting urban, orographic and coastal effects in real time. Last night, we observed an urban heat island of 5ºC. Multi-institutional effort between urbisphere ‪@erc.europa.eu‬, @urbanair.bsky.social‬ and ASSURE: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

The city centre of Bristol has the highest nocturnal air temperatures measures, 5K warmer than a rural site to the west of the city at same elevation. Note also that the station in the NW near the coast stays even warmer (12.2ºC), while the Avon Gorge is relatively cool (8.8ºC).

A weather station on a lamp-post measures at 3 m in a typical street canyon, here in the Windmill Hill neighborhood. Data are transmitted every 5 minutes over the cell-phone network and shared as open-data as part of several UK and EU research projects enhancing urban-scale weather and climate modelling.

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Andreas Christen @envmet.bsky.social · Jun 21

During the current #UKHeatWave we measured for the first time a #TropicalNight across our Bristol street-level weather network. Stations outside the city and on hills cooled down to < 20°C while the urban heat island kept the city core above 20°C last night. weather.uni-freiburg.de/map/bristol/...

Stations colored in red show a tropical night, i.e. that air temperature at those weather stations did no drop below 20°C all night on Jun 21, 2025.

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Andreas Christen @envmet.bsky.social · May 21

Using high-resolution weather models and a network of 25 LiDAR-ceilometers over Berlin, Germany, we explore how large cities modify the atmospheric boundary layer. New preprint on collaborative work by @uniofreading.bsky.social‬, @metoffice.bsky.social‬ and @uni-freiburg.de
doi.org/10.5194/egus...

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Andreas Christen @envmet.bsky.social · Dec 18

Our new article in @eurogeosciences.bsky.social Geoscientific Instrumentation - How meteorological data streams from diverse instruments, scales, and campaigns are integrated in a data management approach to support urban climate modelling @suegrimmond.bsky.social gi.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

Modular approach to near-time data management for multi-city atmospheric environmental observation campaigns

Abstract. Urban observation networks are becoming denser, more diverse, and more mobile, while being required to provide results in near time. The Synergy Grant “urbisphere” funded by the European Res...

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Sue Grimmond @suegrimmond.bsky.social · Nov 29

Interested In Agent Based Modelling linked to weather and climate in cities? Linking to different disciplines? Skills in Python?
Recent relevant papers
BAMS journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
GMD gmd.copernicus.org/articles/13/...
Job:
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Closing: 11/12/24

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Sue Grimmond @suegrimmond.bsky.social · Nov 25

Job: DWL/LAS analysis with NWP
jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Recent papers relevant to this:
doi.org/10.1175/BAMS...
doi.org/10.1002/qj.4...
doi.org/10.1002/qj.4...

Work with the MO/ECMWF/ERC urbisphere /NERC ASSURE at University of Reading.
Closing date: 11/12/2024

Methodology to evaluate numerical weather predictions using large‐aperture scintillometry sensible heat fluxes: Demonstration in London

To evaluate numerical weather prediction (NWP) models using observations, the horizontal and vertical resolution characteristics need to be considered to ensure variables are spatially and temporally...

doi.org

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Sue Grimmond @suegrimmond.bsky.social · Nov 25

Relevant recent papers to PDRA position
Fenner et al. 2024 BAMS
Hall et al. 2024 QJRMS
Saunders et al. 2024 QJRMS

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Sue Grimmond @suegrimmond.bsky.social · Nov 25

Experience in analysing Doppler Wind Lidar or Large Aperture Scintillometry data? Interested in Numerical Weather Prediction?

Sue Grimmond @suegrimmond.bsky.social · Nov 25

jobs.reading.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Tristan Quaife @tquaife.bsky.social · Nov 14

University of Reading will have a lot funded PhD places in climate related areas over the next five years. Applications will open soon for some schemes. Watch the university website for details. Please pass on to anyone who might be interested.

www.reading.ac.uk/news/2024/Re...

New PhD centres support environmental sustainability studies - University of Reading

www.reading.ac.uk

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Rachel O'Brien @reobrien.bsky.social · Nov 12

ACS ES&T Air is accepting submissions for a special issue dedicated to the work of John H. Seinfeld, featuring contributions from many fields including air quality, aerosol microphysics and climate, and organic aerosol formation and dynamics. Closing date is 3/3/25. Please repost!! go.acs.org/bC7

Image of John Seinfeld and information about this call for papers (promotional image)

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Sue Grimmond @suegrimmond.bsky.social · Jan 27

tinyurl.com/37y745za
Job details

Postdoctoral Researcher – UrbaNE: Urban Numerical weather prediction Expedited:Whiteknights Readin...

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Sue Grimmond @suegrimmond.bsky.social · Jan 27

PDRA UrbanE working to better represent cities at appropriate scales within NWP. Http: //tiny.url.com/37y745za

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