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).