Clean Mountain Air - or not? Air Quality in the Colorado Front Range.
Tuesday, Nov 12, 2019 @ 6:30 @ Blake Street Tavern (Tailgate Room)
About the Topic
The Northern Front Range Metro Area (NFRMA) currently violates the U.S. EPA National Ambient Air Quality Standards for ozone on a regular basis in the summer and is expected to be downgraded to a “serious” rating because of these violations. The American Lung Association has given the Denver Area an “F” for Air Quality.
In 2014, NCAR, in collaboration with NASA, NOAA, a number of partner Universities, and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) conducted a large experiment using aircraft and ground observations to investigate the summertime air quality in our region in-depth. We will present results from this study, explain how ozone pollution is formed, what the main contributors to air pollution are and how the transport of all our activities down here in the Front Range affect our mountains.
Bio
Gabi is originally from Austria and came as a scientist to the Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling Laboratory (ACOM) at NCAR in 2002. She specializes in the integration of chemistry transport modeling with field campaign and satellite data to investigate air pollution from the global down to the local scales.
Frank has been a scientist at ACOM in NCAR since the early 90s after moving to Boulder from Germany. His specialty is measurements of air quality tracers, mainly on aircraft. He has decades of experience in aircraft measurements and the experimental design of aircraft measurement campaigns.
Dr. Pfister and Dr. Flocke are both atmospheric researchers at UCAR/NCAR in Boulder.