Atmospheric Remote Sensing: Measurements

LIDAR data is collected during field campaigns examining air quality and climate. These measurements are obtained from mobile and ground-based platforms during coordinated field projects. Projects spanning multiple years are listed when measurements began.

• David Skaggs Research Center (DSRC) intermittent installations

2025

• System Integration and Test Experiment (SITE) II microDop 2025
• Boulder TOPAZ 2018-2025
• TOLNet (Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network) Ground-Based Profiling of Tropospheric Ozone from TOPAZ

2024

• Airborne Methane Mass Balance Emissions in Colorado (AMMBEC) 2024

2023

• Airborne Measurements and analysis of Emissions over the Denver-Julesburg & Piceance (AMED) microDop 2023
• American WAKE experimeNt (AWAKEN) microDop 2023
• Coastal Urban Plume Dynamics Study (CUPiDS) 2023

2022

• California Fire Dynamics Experiment (CalFiDE) 2022

2021

• Southwest Urban NOx and VOC Experiment (SUNVEx) DALEK 2021
• System Integration and Test Experiment (SITE) microDop 2021
• Washington D.C. Flux Study (DCFlux) HALO 2021-2025

2020

• PickUp based Mobile Atmospheric Sounder (PUMAS) microDop 2020
• Atlantic Tradewind Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Interaction Campaign (ATOMIC) microDop 2020

2019

• Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ) microDop 2019

2018

• Propagation of Intra-Seasonal Tropical Oscillations (PISTON) microDop 2018
• Cloud Properties Experiment (CPEX) DALEK 2018

2015 - 2017

• Table Mountain DALEK 2017
• Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) DALEK 2017
• Indiana Flux Study (INFlux) DALEK 2017
• Fires, Asian, and Stratospheric Transport - Las Vegas Ozone Study (FAST-LVOS) 2017
• Southern California Ozone Observation Project (SCOOP) TOPAZ 2016
• California Baseline Ozone Transport Study (CABOTS) TOPAZ 2016
• Indiana Flux Study (INFlux) HALO 2016-2019
• 2nd Wind Forecast Improvement Project (WFIP2) 2015-2017
• Experimental Measurement Campaign (XMC) for Planetary Boundary Layer (PBL) Instrument Assessment (XPIA) 2015

2014

• Denver-Julesburg Basin Flux Study (DJFlux) HRDL 2014
• Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality (DISCOVER-AQ) in coordination with Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Éxperiment (FRAPPÉ) 2014
• Arctic Stratification 2014
• Lidar Uncertainty Measurement EXperiment (LUMEX) HRDL 2014
• Indiana Flux Study (INFlux) HRDL 2014

2013

• Deriving Information on Surface conditions from Column and Vertically Resolved Observations Relevant to Air Quality (DISCOVER-AQ) Houston 2013
• Las Vegas Ozone Study (LVOS) TOPAZ 2013
• Indiana Flux Study (INFlux) HALO 2013-2015
• Texas Flux Study (TXFlux) HRDL 2013
• Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study (UBWOS) 2013

2012 and prior

• Denver-Julesburg Basin CH₄ Flux Study 2012
• Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study (UBWOS) 2012
• Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) 2011
• Gulf of Mexico 2011
• CalNex 2010
• Pre-CalNex 2009
• Front Range Air Quality Study (FRAQS) TOPAZ 2008
• Vamos Ocean Cloud Atmosphere Land Study (VOCALS) 2008
• Texas Air Quality Study (TexAQS) 2006
• Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean Experiment (RICO) 2005
• New England Air Quality Study (NEAQS) 2004
• Lamar Low-Level Jet Program (LLLJP) 2003
• New England Air Quality Study (NEAQS) 2002
• Eastern Pacific Investigation of Climate (EPIC) 2001
• Aircraft Plume Study 2001
• VTMX 2000 TEACO₂
• Texas Air Quality Study (TexAQS) 2000
• CASES 1999 HRDL