Boundary-Layer Meteorology (BLMet)

Janet F. Barlow

Reader in Urban Meteorology (SMPS) and Director of the Centre for Technologies for Sustainable Built Environments (TSBE, SCME)

E-mail: j.f.barlow@reading.ac.uk
Tel: 0118 378 6022
CV: available here

Research Interests

• Urban Meteorology
• Boundary Layer Meteorology
• Experimental methods (micrometeorology, windtunnel physical modelling)
• Renewable energy

Current Projects

• The ACTUAL Project - EPSRC Challenging Engineering award winner 2008
• Clearflo - NERC Consortium on infrastructure for urban atmospheric research
• The Breathing City - collaboration between an urban meteorologist, a digital musican and two designers

Previous Projects

• UK Met Office funded (2009): A review of urban roughness sublayer turbulence, Technical Report 527 report supplementary figures
• EPSRC First Grant Scheme (2003-2006): Quantifying urban heat fluxes using naphthalene sublimation - collaboration with EnFlo
• EPSRC/Home Office funded (2002-2009) Dispersion of air pollution and penetration into the local environment (DAPPLE)
• Scalar transport from urban streets - first experiments using naphthalene sublimation
• Ventilation of pollution out of urban streets - collaboration with University of Bristol
• The Salfex 2002 Urban Meteorology Campaign
• Biometeorology of high-altitude insect layering as revealed by vertical-looking radar - collaboration with Rothamsted Research

People supervised

Post-docs

• Curtis Wood, 2007-2009 DAPPLE-HO project; 2009-present ACTUAL project
• Frauke Pascheke, 2004-2006 First Grant project
• Adrian Dobre, 2002-2006, DAPPLE project
• Sam Arnold, 2002-2006, DAPPLE project

PhD students

• Wagner Nogueira Neto, 2010-present: "The dependence of urban climate on building layout and design"
• Sian Lane, 2010-present: "Assessing the validity and impatc of urban scale numerical weather prediction"
• Aidan Brocklehurst, 2010-present: "THe effect of urban climate on urban energy supply and demand"
• Rosario Nobile, 2009-present: "Building integrated wind energy"
• Tyrone Dunbar, 2007-present: "Using Doppler lidar to estimate surface sensible heat flux in urban areas"
• Dan Drew, 2008-present: "The application of small wind turbines in urban environments"
• Phil Coker, 2007-present: "Assessing the variability of UK renewable energy"
• Anil Padhra, 2010: "Estimating the sensitivity of urban surface drag to building morphology"
• Curtis Wood, 2007: "Biometeorology of high-altitude insect layers using vertical-looking radar"

Other Responsibilities

• Board member of American Meteorological Society Board for the Urban Environment, 2010-2013
• Board member of the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) 2003-2007
• Member of Steering Committee for the APRIL network (Air Pollution Research in London)
• Lab Manager, Department of Meteorology, 2008-present

Teaching

• Teaching in Department of Meteorology (Boundary Layer Meteorology; Atmospheric Analogues; Fluid Dynamics of the Atmosphere and Ocean)
• Teaching for MSc in Intelligent Buildings (Department of Construction Management)

Outreach

• Participation in See Further, the Royal Society 350th Anniversary Festival of Arts and Science

Publications

Recent publications are listed on the Boundary Layer Group publications page.