Boundary-Layer Meteorology (BLMet)

Stephen Belcher

Professor of Meteorology and Head of the Met Office Hadley Centre

E-mail: s.e.belcher@reading.ac.uk
Tel: 0118 378 6646

Research Interests

• Atmospheric and oceanic turbulence
• Boundary layer meteorology, especially urban meteorology
• Ocean mixed layer
• Dispersion and transport in the atmosphere
• Impact of climate change on urban areas

Current Projects

• OSMOSIS: Ocean Surface Mixing, Ocean Submesoscale Interaction Study
• ClearfLo: Clean Air for London
• LUCID: The development of a Local Urban Climate Model and its Application to the Intelligent Development of Cities
• DAPPLE: Dispersion of Air Pollution and Penetration into the Local Environment
• NCAS Weather: Weather directorate of National Centre for Atmospheric Science
• DYCE: Dynamic deployment planning for monitoring chemical leaks using an ad-hoc sensor network

Other Responsibilities

• Member, NERC Science and Innovation Strategy Board

Publications

• Recent publications are listed on the Boundary Layer Group publications page.
• Download my CV (PDF), which includes my full list of publications.
  
• My book with Jake Hacker and Richenda Connell on adapting buildings to climate change is no longer available from UKCIP but can be downloaded here
  Beating the Heat: Keeping UK buildings cool in a warming climate
  

Recent Presentations

• How can urban meteorology help engineering design for the city? Scruton Lecture, Institution of Civil Engineers, December 2011
• How we build a parameterisation scheme presented at Isaac Newton Institute, September 2010
• Synoptic controls on moist boundary layer structure presented AMS Boundary Layer and Turbulence Conference, August 2010