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The Uppsala urban meteorology project

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An extensive urban meteorology project in Uppsala, Sweden, is described. The city itself is considered suitable as a kind of model city, being almost circular, having sharp urban/rural boundaries and being situated in a relatively flat area. The project incorporates numerous measurements. A main station with a 100-m mast is situated at the NE urban/rural border. Its instrumentation consists of a slow-response (‘profile’) system and a turbulence system. The profile instrumentation is described in detail. In addition to the main station, the project comprises: measurements from two 14-m masts, one on the top of a centrally located building, the other mobile; pilot balloon ascents; tethered balloon soundings, car-borne temperature traverses etc. Some preliminary results are presented: analyses of wind profiles from the mast and three-dimensional heat island studies.

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  1. Department of Meteorology, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ulf Högström, Roger Taesler, Stig Karlsson, Leif Enger & Anns Ofi Smedman Högström

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Högström, U., Taesler, R., Karlsson, S. et al. The Uppsala urban meteorology project. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 15, 69–80 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00165506

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