Long-line Tower and Balloon-borne

Ozone and Ozone Precursor Vertical

Profile Sampling for Upper Green
Winter Ozone Study 2011
David Bush
T&B Systems, Inc.
William Hauze
Meteorological Solutions, Inc
Cara Keslar
Wyoming DEQ

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 Overview
Background
UGWOS
WY DEQ Ozone Forum
UGWOS 2011 Efforts
Long-line Measurement Methodology
Tower
Tethered Balloon
Preliminary Data

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Upper Green Winter Ozone Study (UGWOS)
Upper Green River Wintertime Ozone Study UGWOS
2007
Lack of snow and no elevated ozone episodes
Learned enough for planning future years
UGWOS 2008
Significant elevated ozone observed
Documented spatial scale of problem and developed
conceptual model
UGWOS 2009, 2010
Focused on additional chemistry
Improved mesonet monitoring coverage and communications

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UGWOS Ozone, Met Profiles

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UGWOS Spatial Monitoring

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UGWOS Spatial Monitoring

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 WY DEQ Ozone Forum
2009, 2010 Ozone Forum
Review collected data
Discuss remaining issues and questions
Discuss additional monitoring

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What is the diurnal vertical structure of the
ozone concentrations?

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What is the diurnal vertical structure of
ozone precursors?

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What is the vertical diurnal structure of
ozone precursors?

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UGWOS 2011
Tethered Balloon
Tall Tower
Supplemental
measurements at
WY DEQ Boulder
site

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Long-line Measurements

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 Long-line Measurement Equipment

Teledyne/API Model 200E NO/NO2/NOx Analyzer

Teledyne/API Model 400E Ozone Analyzer
Baseline-Mocon Series 9000 NMHC Methane/Non-Methane
Analyzer
Campbell Scientific CR10 Data Logger w/ A6REL-12 Relay
Drive
RM Young Wind Monitor and temperature sensors at Tower
Hobo Pro temperature/RH sensors on Tethered Balloon

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Dedicated 5/16 ID Teflon tubing to minimize
pressure drop within line at 4 lpm
Four levels, with worst-case residence time of
20 seconds
Tower 4m, 25m, 50m, 75m
Tethered Balloon 4m, 33m, 67m, 100m

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To Pump

Valved Rotameters

Solenoids To Analyzers

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Using solenoid control, sampling switches
sequentially to next level every 3 minutes
First two minutes used to purge lines and allow
analyzers to stabilize to new sample pressure
and concentrations (most critical for THC
analzyer)
Final minute averaged
Thus, 12 minute cycle, with each hour
consisting of five 1-minute averages

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UGWOS Tower

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UGWOS Tower

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UGWOS Tower

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UGWOS Tower

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UGWOS Tower

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Tethered Balloon

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Tethered Balloon

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Tethered Balloon

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Preliminary Data - Tower

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Preliminary Data Tethered Balloon

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Preliminary Data Tethered Balloon

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 Acknowledgements
Wyoming DEQ
Meteorological Solutions, Inc.
Air Resource Specialists
Environ
Sacramento Metropolitan AQM, California ARB

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Suggestion for Future Studies A Bigger Truck

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