Urban Climate Observatory Berlin

About us

The Urban Climate Observatory (UCO) Berlin is an open science institution. Its purpose is long-term and integrative research on weather, climate and air quality in Berlin and the surrounding area. Long-term observations of the urban atmosphere at various locations enable investigations into the interactions between atmospheric processes and urban structure as well as climate variability and climate change. The UCO Berlin comprises three components:

  • The Urban Climate Observation Network (UCON), including Citizen Weather Stations (CWS), is used for ground-level measurements of atmospheric variables. To the UCON

  • The meteorological towers are used for the local recording of the turbulent exchange of carbon dioxide, heat and humidity, short and long-wave radiation and for phenological observations. To the measuring towers

  • Ground-based remote sensing is used to study the urban boundary layer, in particular for measuring profiles of air temperature, humidity, aerosols, wind speed and wind direction as well as for recording clouds and precipitation. To Remote Sensing

Team

The UCO Berlin is headed by the Chair of Climatology, Institute for Ecology at the Technische Universität Berlin. Team:

Prof. Dr. Daniel Fenner (Profil)
Dr. Fred Meier (Profil)
Achim Holtmann (Profil)
Dr. Marco Otto (Profil)

Contact

Projects

The UCO Berlin is involved in the following reasearch projects and networks:

  • Integrated Carbon Observation System, ICOS (Link)
  • Stadtklima im Wandel – Urban Climate under Change [UC]² (Link)
  • Urbisphere (Link)
  • Open Urban Climate Observatory Berlin for environmental research and applications, OpenUCO (Link)
  • Urban Water Interfaces (Link)
  • Climate and Water under Change, CliWaC, Einstein Research Unit (Link)
  • E-PROFILE (Link)
  • PhenoCam Network (Link)

Partners

  • Institut of Meteorology, Freie Universität Berlin (Link)
  • Climate Geography, Geography Department, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Link)
  • Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory, Richard Assmann Observatory, German Weather Service (Link)
  • Berlin University Alliance (Link)
  • Senate Department for Urban Mobility, Transport, Climate Action and the Environment (Link)
  • Chair of Environmental Meteorology, Universität Freiburg (Link)
  • Remote Sensing Lab, Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Foundation of Research and Technology Hellas (Link)
  • Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Link)
  • Leibniz Institute of Fresh Water Ecology and Inland Fisheries (Link)
  • Working Group Climatology and Environmental Meteorology, Institute of Geoecology, Technische Universtität Braunschweig (Link)
  • Orbisens GmbH (Link)