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SUMMARY:Urban boundary layers - investigating urban flows from building to
  city scale - Janet Barlow (University of Reading)
DTSTART:20140310T141500Z
DTEND:20140310T153000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Amanda Maycock
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, the world's population became predominantly 
 urban for the first time\, and will become increasingly so as climate chan
 ge takes greater effect. As most people will be exposed to an urban microc
 limate it becomes more important to understand and accurately model urban 
 fluid dynamics. This has benefits for weather forecasting\, air pollution 
 modelling\, wind engineering and sustainable building design. This talk pr
 esents an overview of the ACTUAL project (Advanced Climate Technology Urba
 n Atmospheric Laboratory)\, combining observations in London\, windtunnel 
 experiments and numerical modelling simulations. The aim was to explore th
 e fluid dynamics of urban boundary layers as a function of scale from buil
 ding (10m) to city (10km) scale\, focusing on problems relevant to polluti
 on dispersion and wind engineering.
LOCATION:Unilever Lecture Theatre\, Department of Chemistry
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