The Erie Tower 2008 project is a short-term informal, collaborative study linking air quality and climate goals in an urban area in the proximity of complex terrain. This project temporarily enhances NOAA Carbon Cycle long-term measurements with an additional suite of anthropogenic pollution measurements.  This study overlaps with test flights of ESRL remote-sensing instrumentation on the NOAA Twin Otter in the Colorado Front Range region.

Summer, 2008

Erie, CO 40.0500°N, 105.0039°W

A ground-based sampling site located at the base of the Boulder Atmospheric Observatory, a continuously instrumented tall tower operated by NOAA ESRL researchers.

Participating investigators are from several NOAA ESRL divisions:

On-going GMD Measurements at Erie Tower

Summer 2008 Intensive Measurements at Erie Tower

Other Summer 2008 Measurements

Twin Otter Remote-sensing Instruments

CSD Ground-based Wind Profiler

Physical Sciences Division Wind Profiles/Met Station

GMD Mobile Surveys (link coming soon)

BEACHON-Southern Rocky Mountains Summer 2008 Study

Forecasting and Analysis Products

WRF and FLEXPART forecasts

NWS O3 forecasts

Colorado DPHE O3 monitors (Table) Choose "Ozone" on the "Air Quality by Parameter (all sites)" to get current day's hourly O3 concentrations at all Colorado monitors.

Colorado DPHE O3 monitors (Map)

NPS Longs Peak O3 monitor (Plot)

NPS Longs Peak O3 monitor (Table)