2001 Phoenix Sunrise Experiment

14 June 2001 - 30 June 2001

Lead Scientist: Carl Berkowitz

Observatory: osc, osc

This field experiment was carried out in Phoenix during June 2001 to examine the role of vertical mixing on the O3 chemistry of the boundary layer during the morning transition from stable to unstable atmospheric conditions. Surface instruments, instruments located on 16th (50 m) an 39th (140 m) floors of a building in downtown Phoenix, and flights of the DOE G-1 aircraft were used to characterize the evolving chemistry in the lowest 650 m of the atmosphere. Remote sensing and in situ platforms were used to obtain detailed profiles of winds and temperatures during the early morning hours and for several hours after sunrise.

Co-Investigators

J. Christopher Doran
Jerome Fast
Stephen Springston

Timeline

2006

Berkowitz CB, JC Doran, WJ Shaw, SR Springston, and CW Spicer. 2006. "Trace-gas mixing in isolated urban boundary layers: Results from the 2001 Phoenix sunrise experiment." Atmospheric Environment, 40(1), 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2005.08.039.

2004

Strutz J, B Alicke, R Ackermann, A Geyer, S Wang, A White, E Williams, C Spicer, and JD Fast. 2004. "Relative humidity dependence of HONO chemistry in urban areas." Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 109(D3), D03307, 10.1029/2003jd004135.

2003

Doran JC, CM Berkowitz, RL Coulter, WJ Shaw, and CW Spicer. 2003. "The 2001 Phoenix Sunrise experiment: vertical mixing and chemistry during the morning transition in Phoenix." Atmospheric Environment, 37(17), 10.1016/s1352-2310(03)00134-1.

Wang S, R Ackermann, CW Spicer, JD Fast, M Schmeling, and J Strutz. 2003. " Atmospheric observations of enhanced NO -HONO conversion on mineral dust particles ." Geophysical Research Letters, 30(11), 10.1029/2003gl017014.

Spicer CW, AJ Savage, DW Joseph, CM Berkowitz, JC Doran, and JD Fast. 2003. Diurnal Changes in the Vertical Distribution of Trace Pollutants over Phoenix: The Phoenix 2001 Sunrise Air Quality Study. In 83th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, Fifth Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry: Gases, Aerosols, and Clouds, Long Beach, CA.

2002

Kleinman LI, PH Daum, D Imre, Y Lee, LJ Nummermacker, SR Springston, J Weinstein-Lloyd, and J Rudolph. 2002. "Ozone production rate and hydrocarbon reactivity in 5 urban areas: A cause of high ozone concentration in Houston." Geophysical Research Letters, 29(10), 1467, 10.1029/2001gl014569.


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