Stephen Belcher is Joint Met Office Chair in Weather Systems at the Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, where he has served as Head of Department and Head of School of Mathematics, Meteorology and Physics. He is an expert in atmospheric turbulence and boundary layer meteorology, with a particular interest in the meteorology of urban areas. He has published nearly 100 papers and is currently leading the ClearfLo project which aims to measure and model London’s urban air quality.
Urban Meteorology aims to understand and predict winds and temperatures within cities and provides the atmospheric context for much engineering design and practice. The urban boundary layer has particular wind and temperature characteristics that are very different from outlying rural areas. Our understanding of these characteristics has developed very rapidly over the last 10 years through fundamental improvements in our understanding, in the ability of models to simulate the turbulent flow through groups of buildings, particularly large-eddy simulation, and in new measurement techniques, particularly remote sensing. London is one of Europe’s mega cities and has become a focus for research activity, with large-scale measurement and modelling campaigns aiming to develop long-term data sets and predictive models.
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Scruton Lecture 2011 - How can urban meteorology help engineering design for the city?
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