A5012561627- Plant responses to elevated CO2
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Wind and Air Flow Studies
- Urban Heat Island Mitigation
- Climate variability and models
- Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
- Forest Insect Ecology and Management
University of Birmingham
2019-2023
Forest Research
2019-2023
Risk Management Solutions (United Kingdom)
2022-2023
Abstract In 2017, the Birmingham Institute of Forest Research (BIFoR) began to conduct Free Air Carbon Dioxide Enrichment (FACE) within a mature broadleaf deciduous forest situated in United Kingdom. BIFoR FACE employs large‐scale infrastructure, form lattice towers, forming ‘arrays’ which encircle plot ~30 m diameter. consists three treatment arrays elevate local CO 2 concentrations (e[CO ]) by +150 µmol/mol. practice, acceptable operational enrichment (ambient [CO ] + e[CO is ±20% set...
Abstract Forests cover nearly a third of the Earth's land area and exchange mass, momentum, energy with atmosphere. Most studies these exchanges, particularly using numerical models, consider forests whose structure has been heavily simplified. In many landscapes, simplifications are unrealistic. Inhomogeneous landscapes unsteady weather conditions generate fluid dynamical features that cause observations to be inaccurately interpreted, biased, or over‐generalized. Part I, we discuss...
Abstract Cities intimately intermingle people and air pollution. It is very difficult to monitor or model neighbourhood-scale pollutant transport explicitly. One computationally efficient way treat neighbourhoods as patches of porous media which the flow adjusts. Here we use conceptual arguments large-eddy simulation formulate two regimes based on size different frontal-area density within neighbourhoods. these distributes pollutants in counter-intuitive ways, such producing pollution ‘hot...
Abstract. In forests, the residence time of air – inverse first-order exchange rates influences in-canopy chemistry and exchanges momentum, energy, mass with surrounding atmosphere. Accurate estimates are needed for chemical investigations reactive trace species, such as volatile organic compounds, some whose lifetimes on order average times. However, very few observational residence-time have been reported. Little is known about even basic statistics real-world times or how they influenced...
Abstract. Forest environments contain a wide variety of airborne biological particles (bioaerosols), including pollen, fungal spores, bacteria, viruses, plant detritus, and soil particles. bioaerosol plays number important roles related to livestock health, human disease allergenicity, forest wider ecology are thought influence biosphere–atmosphere interactions via warm cold cloud formation. Despite the importance bioaerosols, there few measurements aerosol, is lack understanding how climate...
Earth and Space Science Open Archive This work has been accepted for publication in Reviews of Geophysics. Version RecordESSOAr is a venue early communication or feedback before peer review. Data may be preliminary. Learn more about preprints. preprintOpen AccessYou are viewing the latest version by default [v1]Realistic forests modeling forest-atmosphere exchangeAuthorsEdwardBannisterA. RobertMacKenzieiDXiaomingCaiSee all authors Edward BannisterUniversity Birminghamview email addressThe...
Abstract. In forests, air-parcel residence times – the inverse of first-order exchange rates influence in-canopy chemistry and exchanges momentum, energy, mass with surrounding atmosphere. Accurate estimates are needed for chemical investigations reactive trace species, such as volatile organic compounds, some whose lifetimes in order average times. However, very few observational residence-time have been reported. Little is known about even basic statistics real-world or how they influenced...
<p>Cities intimately intermingle people and air pollution. However, is very difficult to assess the efficacy of pollution policy. Permanent in-situ observations are usually too sparsely spaced monitor transport processes within a city. The post-processing maintenance costs associated with calibrated low-cost sensors remains high for them simply fill gaps in permanent networks. behaviour pollutants around scale neighbourhood (1-2km) particularly interpret model. This gap our...
Abstract. Forest environments contain a wide variety of airborne biological particles (bioaerosols), including pollen, fungal spores, bacteria, viruses, plant detritus and soil particles. bioaerosol plays number important roles related to livestock health, human disease allergenicity, forest wider ecology, are thought influence biosphere/atmosphere interactions via warm cold cloud formation. Despite the importance bioaerosols, there few measurements aerosol, is lack understanding how climate...