The Salt Lake Basin Cold-Air Pool Exchange Process Study was sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Utah Department of Air Quality. The goal of the study is to investigate meteorological processes responsible for mixing and transport  in wintertime persistent cold-air pools (PCAPs). The project augments the NOAA aircraft-based Utah Wintertime Fine Particulate Study (UWFPS) by adding meteorological observations to the chemistry dataset collected during January and February 2017.

In-situ meteorological and air chemistry equipment and remote sensing equipment (LiDAR and SoDARs) were strategically deployed to investigate the role of thermally driven canyon flows and of the lake breeze from the Great Salt Lake in modulating concentrations of particulate pollution (PM2.5) and ozone (O3). 

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The Salt Lake Valley PM2.5 Pollution Study is a multi-university study sponsored by the the Utah Department of Air Quality. The goal of the study is to investigate the reactive pathways for the formation of secondary particulate pollutants during persistent wintertime cold air pool episodes

My role is to capture the meteorological conditions during the air pollution episodes. Instrumentation ranging from small inexpensive temperature dataloggers deployed along a height-transect from the valley floor up the basin sidewall, to sophisticated remote-sensing equipment such as a Doppler Wind LiDAR, are used to monitor the spatial and temporal variation of the atmospheric conditions of the valley cold pools.

Key components of the meteorological measurements include the timing and strength of mixing in the early morning, when two reservoirs of air, the surface layer and the upper part of the cold pool, are combined and allow chemical reactions to take place.

The influence of other meteorological phenomena, such as the lake breeze, clean air inflows from tributary valleys (Parleys Canyon, Mill Creek, etc.), and top-down erosion of the basin cold air pools are also investigated.

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The Mountain Terrain Atmospheric Modeling and Observations Program (MATERHORN) is a multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) sponsered by the Office of Naval Research.

Goal of the project is to evaluate the predictability of atmospheric flows in complex terrain using state-of-the-art atmospheric models, to pin-point the model's weaknesses by comparing to a comprehensive new data-set collected during two month-long field experiments, and to then improve the models with new parameterizations.

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