ASSURE: Across-Scale processeS in URban Environments

2021-12 – 2025-11 · completed · NERC · NE/W002868/1

Members:

Maarten van Reeuwijk

NERC Highlight Topic project focusing on Bristol. We lead the study on quantifying the effects of distributed drag in convective urban boundary layers. GBP 2.5M (GBP 377k to Imperial).

Publications acknowledging this grant

Parameter investigation for urban surface‐energy balance: A large‐eddy simulation study
Christopher E. Wilson, Jonathan K. P. Shonk, Sylvia I. Bohnenstengel, Athanasios Paschalis, Maarten van Reeuwijk · Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society · 2026

SEB LES uDALES Urban form Parameterization Vegetation Machine Learning
2026

Three-dimensional pollutant dispersion in tree-lined urban canyons: Combined wind-tunnel and LES analysis
Sofia Fellini, Dipanjan Majumdar, Pietro Salizzoni, Maarten van Reeuwijk · Atmospheric Environment · 2026

Dispersion Air Quality LES Experiments Vegetation uDALES Drag
Multi-scale Analysis of Flow over Heterogeneous Urban Environments
Maarten van Reeuwijk, Jingzi Huang · Boundary-Layer Meteorology · 2025

LES Multiscale Urban form NWP Parameterization Drag
Large-eddy simulation of a diurnal cycle in a coastal urban environment
Sam Owens, Owen Beckett, Andy Acred, Maarten van Reeuwijk · Building and Environment · 2025

LES uDALES SEB Microclimate Urban form Convection
Urban neighbourhood classification and multi-scale heterogeneity analysis of Greater London
Tengfei Yu, Birgit S Sützl, Maarten van Reeuwijk · Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science · 2022

Urban form Urban planning Multiscale Machine Learning