The birmingham urban climate laboratory: An open meteorological test bed and challenges of the Smart city

Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1545-1560

  Chapman, Lee ^a   Muller, Catherine L ^a   Young, Duick T ^b   Warren, Elliott L ^a   Grimmond, C S B ^b   Cai, Xiao Ming ^a   Ferranti, Emma J S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EQUIPMENT TESTING;

BIRMINGHAM; MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; URBAN CLIMATES;

SMART CITY;

EID: 84944062720     PISSN: 00030007     EISSN: 15200477     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-13-00193.1     Document Type: Article

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