The aim of the SW-IFL Observation team activities are:
Develop a regional data clearinghouse
Deploy additional field measurements sites (including testbeds)
Conduct intensive observations campaigns each summer (IOPs):
Mobile observations
New monitoring networks
Flux towers
Form new field campaign collaborations
Current and Recent Activities
Established operational eddy covariance systems at four Phoenix locations:
- Desert Botanical Garden (open desert in city with nearby urban land covers)
- Maryvale Neighborhood (low rise residential neighborhood)
- City of Phoenix's Encanto Golf Course (managed & irrigated turf grass)
- ASU Polytech Campus (barren land, low-rise residential, and mid-rise construction)
- Registration pending with DOE AmeriFlux
Completed design for second CMAS mobile observatory from Brookhaven National Laboratory for use in summer Intensive Observational Periods (IOPs). These mobile laboratories will enable deployment on rooftops/ground if needed, collect data on titled terrain, and double spatial coverage during data collection
This quarterly webinar series is a collaboration between AmeriFlux Management Project and the DOE Urban Integrated Field Laboratories (UIFLs) to disseminate observations and modeling of urban atmospheric exchange across US cities.
On Nov. 7, 2024 Dr. Kenneth J. Davis of the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Earth, and Environmental Systems Institute at Penn Stat University presented a webinar on "The experimental Design of the Indianapolis Flux Experiment Eddy-Covariance Flux Network."
Site mapping for identifying observational assets and targets in preparation for future activities, including summer IOPs in Flagstaff, Phoenix, and Tucson areas.