Christine Susan Betham Grimmond is a New Zealand scientist and professor of urban meteorology at the University of Reading.
Grimmond is a pioneer of the fields of urban meteorology and micrometerology, which deal with the atmospheric boundary layer.
[2] In 1984, she obtained an MSc in physical geography, specialising in climatology and hydrology, from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
In 2006 she was appointed professor and chair of physical geography in the Environmental Monitoring & Modelling Group of King's College London, UK.
[4] Grimmond has contributed to wide range of topics within boundary layer and urban meteorology, publishing around 240 papers which have attracted approximately 26,000 citations, generating a h-index of 85.