Dr. Curtis Wood has recently been to Denmark, where he made a presentation to the NORFLUX Network (Nordic Research Network). If you’d like to find out more, please access the NORDFLUX link. More updates will follow soon.
The presentations given at the Royal Meteorological Society Student Conference in Exeter by the ACTUAL PhD students Aidan Brocklehurst, Sian Lane and Wagner Nogueira Neto are now available in the outputs page for download. Should you have any problems, please contact the webmaster. See the Contacts page.
Professor Stuart Bradley, from the University of Auckland, visited our department during the month of june and july, where he worked on the development of a new equipment to be added to the ACTUAL Urban Laboratory. Professor Bradley will be working with the ACTUAL group throughtout the duration of the project. For more information on Prof. Bradley’s research interest, visit his personal website.
Details of his next visit will be posted here in the News page.
The International Workshop on Urban Weather and Climate, Observation and Modelling will take place between the 12th and 15th of July. The ACTUAL group director, Dr. Janet Barlow and project manager, Dr. Curtis Wood will be attending the event.
Two aspects of the ACTUAL project will be presented in the workshop. Dr. Barlow talk will be on “Evaluating Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) of Urban Boundary Layer Structure” and Dr. Wood will be giving his talk on “Boundary Layer Dynamics over London, UK, as Observed Using Doppler Lidar and Scintillometers”. For more details, please access the event’s website in English and Chinese.
A full list of talks can be found here.
The Royal Meteorological Society Student Conference will be held from the 30th of June to the 2nd of July, 2011 at the University of Exeter. The ACTUAL Ph.D. students Aidan Brocklehurst, Siân Lane and Wagner Nogueira Neto will be presenting their projects. For more information, please access the Student Conference website and for more details on the ACTUAL students presentation, visit our outputs page.
Dr. Janet Barlow has been appointed as the new directior of the Centre for Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments (TSBE) within the School of Construction Management and Engineering. For more details, click here.
The ACTUAL website is launched and presented to all project members on 4th April 2011 at ARUP, London.
The ACTUAL website is currently under development.