2.6.7. BTT

2.6.7.1. Introduction

BT tower is a 189 metre tall tower in the London borough of Camden. It has been the site of several deployments, notably of Large Aperture Scintillometer.

2.6.7.2. Site metadata

Site ID	BTT
Full Name	BT Tower
Network	LUMA
Longitude	-0.138843	degrees
Latitude	51.521454	degrees
Start date	2009-01-01	UTC
End date	2019-03-17	UTC
Displacement height	-999.0	m
City	London

2.6.7.3. Deployments at site

Table 2.65 All site deployments

Deployment ID	Instrument ID	Instrument serial	Type	Deployment name	Start date	End date
					UTC	UTC
322	BLS	T-E-0470	scintillometer	BLS Rx	2014-06-29	2017-03-16
358	LAS150	60029	scintillometer	LAS150_KGG_BTT	2010-03-09	2011-09-23
384	WXT510	E1620005	single	WXT	2017-01-01	2019-03-17
386	CNR4	090065	single	CNR4	2017-01-01	2019-03-17

Table 2.66 Position of deployments

Deployment ID	Height	Yaw	Pitch	Roll
	m asl	degrees	degrees	degrees
322	180.0	78.0	-2.1783124262028
358	180.0	119.0	-15.811517867267
384	190.0	360.0	0.0	0.0
386	190.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Table 2.67 Metadata specific to scintillometers

Deployment ID	Target distance	Target site	Target height
	m		m asl
322	2339.8237940338	IMU	91.0
358	4163.3030234551	KGG	-999.0

2.6.7.4. Photos

Fig. 2.20 LASMKII transmitter to BCT. Looking South West 05-03-2014.

Fig. 2.21 BLS and LASMKII 30-11-2016.

Fig. 2.22 LAS150 reciever from KGG 13-09-2011.

2.6.7.5. Data acquisition

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

2.6.7.6. Data availability

Double click on legend to isolate instruments.

2.6.7.7. References

1. 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

2.6.7.8. Acknowledgements

We thank BT tower for site access.

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