Climate & Atmospheric Science
Decades of investment in meteorological and trace gas monitoring by the
University of Utah has provided the foundation for diverse environmental
research, served civic needs (Horel et al., 2002) and resulted in one of
the longest continuous records of urban carbon dioxide
(CO2) concentrations in the nation (Lin et al., 2018;
Bares et al., 2019). This investment has better elucidated the factors
contributing to poor air quality in the Salt Lake Valley, including
population growth (Mitchell et al., 2018) and secondary formation of
PM2.5 through reactions of aerosols containing ammonium
with a variety of other pollutants emitted from local sources (Moravek
et al., 2019; Womak et al., 2019). Results from recent studies also have
provided new modeling and empirical tools for monitoring air quality and
transport processes of air pollutants (e.g., Mallia et al., 2017; Bares
et al., 2018).