Urban, suburban and rural flux, profile and tracer measurements in Basel (BUBBLE)
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Basel Urban Boundary Layer Experiment, 2001–02: a year-long network of energy-balance towers across urban, suburban and rural sites, with a June–July 2002 intensive period adding a wind profiler, sodar/RASS, lidar, a street-canyon tower and four SF6 tracer releases. A reference for urban roughness-sublayer turbulence and energy balance.
Access
The old public download (the BUBBLE intensive-period data package) is no longer online. Email Andreas Christen, now at the University of Freiburg, who curated the data package during BUBBLE, and say which sites, periods and variables you need.
University of Basel, & ETH Zurich. (2002). Urban, suburban and rural flux, profile and tracer measurements in Basel (BUBBLE) [Data set]. https://www.urbanfluidmechanics.org/data-portal/urban-suburban-and-rural-flux-profile-and-tracer-measurements-in-basel/
Please also cite the publication below that describes it.
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