A21REL-12

Utah: Air Quality/Meteorological Monitoring

Case Study »  Utah: Air Quality/Meteorological Monitoring

Project Summary
Application Type:
Recording baseline air quality and meteorological data at proposed power plant sites

Location:
Utah, USA

Products Used:
CS105  COM210  CR23X  Q7.1-L  CS106  A21REL-12  LI200X-L  HMP45C-L 

Contributors:
William J. Hauze, Meteorological Solutions, Inc.

Contracting Agencies:
Various energy concerns

Measured Parameters:
Horizontal wind speed/direction, vertical wind speed, sigma theta of the wind direction, air temperature, delta temperature, solar radiation, net radiation, relative humidity, barometric pressure, precipitation, sulfur dioxide, PM10, PM2.5

Controlled Equipment:
Atmospheric gas samplers

Meteorological sensors we either mounted on 50 or 100 meter towers. Wind and temperature sensors were boom-mounted on electrically powered instrument lift carriages at 100 or 50 meters and at 10 meters. The tower sensor configuration included Met One 010C/020Cs, and RM Young RTD temperature probes with aspirated shields at 2, 10, and 50 or 100 meter levels. This arranged allowed for a variety of delta temperature calculations to satisfy different dispersion model input requirements. Atmospheric stability was calculated using three different methods.