2.6.2. BCT

2.6.2.1. Introduction

Cromwell tower in the Barbican estate in the City of London. Scintillometer transmitters and recievers, and a Davis weather station have been deployed here. This is the same roof as BCTW, which is slightly to the west of BCT.

2.6.2.2. Site metadata

Site ID	BCT
Full Name	Barbican Cromwell Tower
Network	LUMA
Longitude	-0.092951	degrees
Latitude	51.520559	degrees
Start date	2014-03-20	UTC
End date	2018-10-31	UTC
Displacement height	-999.0	m
City	London

2.6.2.3. Deployments at site

Table 2.54 All site deployments

Deployment ID	Instrument ID	Instrument serial	Type	Deployment name	Start date	End date
					UTC	UTC
1	DAVIS	AJ130401024	single	Davis3	2014-03-20	2018-10-31
323	LASMKII	120028	scintillometer	LASMkII Rx	2014-04-01	2017-03-16

Table 2.55 Position of deployments

Deployment ID	Height	Yaw	Pitch	Roll
	m asl	degrees	degrees	degrees
1	145.0	305.0	0.0	0.0
323	144.5	272.0	0.63496290715264

Table 2.56 Metadata specific to scintillometers

Deployment ID	Target distance	Target site	Target height
	m		m asl
323	3203.2058574409	BTT	180.0

2.6.2.4. Photos

Fig. 2.4 Panoramic view facing West 09-04-2014.

Fig. 2.5 Panoramic view facing East 09-04-2014.

Fig. 2.6 View the tower from the ground 14-11-2013.

Fig. 2.7 DAVIS station, LASMKII reciever from BTT (left) and LASMKII transmitter to IMU (right) 09-04-2014.

Fig. 2.8 DAVIS and LASMKII on the roof 09-04-2014.

2.6.2.5. Data acquisition

Data can be requested from Prof. Sue Grimmond (c.s.grimmond@reading.ac.uk).

2.6.2.6. Data availability

Double click on legend to isolate instruments.

2.6.2.7. References

1. Morrison, W., Yin, T., Lauret, N., Guilleux, J., Kotthaus, S., Gastellu-Etchegorry, J.-P., Norford, L. and Grimmond, S. (2020) Atmospheric and emissivity corrections for ground-based thermography using 3D radiative transfer modelling. Remote Sensing of Environment, 237. 111524. ISSN 00344257 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2019.111524

2. Crawford, B., Grimmond, S. B., Gabey, A., Marconcini, M., Ward, H. C. and Kent, C. W. (2018) Variability of urban surface temperatures and implications for aerodynamic energy exchange in unstable conditions. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 144 (715). pp. 1719-1741. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.3325

3. Warren, E., Charlton-Perez, C., Kotthaus, S., Lean, H., Ballard, S., Hopkin, E. and Grimmond, S. (2018) Evaluation of forward-modelled attenuated backscatter using an urban ceilometer network in London under clear-sky conditions. Atmospheric Environment, 191. pp. 532-547. ISSN 1352-2310 doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2018.04.045

4. Crawford, B., Grimmond, C. S. B., Ward, H. C., Morrison, W. and Kotthaus, S. (2017) Spatial and temporal patterns of surface-atmosphere energy exchange in a dense urban environment using scintillometry. Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society, 143 (703). pp. 817-833. ISSN 1477-870X doi: https://doi.org/10.1002/qj.2967

2.6.2.8. Acknowledgements

We thank Barbican for site access.

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