The Birmingham Urban Climate Laboratory-A high density, urban meteorological dataset, from 2012-2014

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Volumn 3, Issue , 2016, Pages

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 84976418070     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20524463     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2016.38     Document Type: Article

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