He holds MSc degrees from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Z�rich and the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver and a PhD from UBC. His research interests include micro and boundary-layer climatology with emphasis on the meteorology of the urban atmosphere. His current research projects include methodological considerations for urban observations of turbulence and the measurement of CO2 and energy balance fluxes in Singapore. Dr Roth is a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological Society (UK), a certified consulting meteorologist (CMOS, Canada), Secretary of the International Association for Urban Climate (IAUC) and President-elect of IAUC.