Our research group works on interactions between land-surfaces and the atmosphere with a focus on cities, forests and complex terrain. We study flow, turbulence and exchange processes in urban and forest canopies. Our goal is to develop new methods and tools to quantify, analyze and model the exchange of greenhouse-gases, energy, radiation, and water between the canopy layer and the atmosphere. This will be of use to a number of practical applications such as sustainable design and operation of buildings, the assessment of renewable energy potential, management of forests, safety, air pollution, weather forecasting and climate projections.

Eddy-covariance system to measure emissions and uptake of carbon-dioxide on top of our urban climate research tower "Vancouver-Sunset"
 

Andreas Christen
Associate Professor

Department of Geography and
Atmospheric Science Program
University of British Columbia
132 - 1984 West Mall
Vancouver BC, V6T 1Z2
Canada

Currently on sabbatical at the
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Laboratory of Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Prof. Marc B. Parlange
GR B0 422
Station 2
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Phone: +41 21 693-59-38