AAAR 32nd Annual Conference
September 30 - October 4, 2013
Oregon Convention Center
Portland, Oregon, USA
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BEACON: A High Density Urban Network for Observing Air Quality and Greenhouse Gases
RONALD COHEN, Virginia Teige, Katja Weichsel, David Holstius, Andrew Hooker, Holly Maness, UC Berkeley
Abstract Number: 522 Working Group: Portable and Inexpensive Sensor Technology for Air Quality Monitoring
Abstract BEACON (www.beacon.berkeley.edu) is a new instrument designed to map urban concentrations of greenhouse gases a (CO2) nd criteria pollutants (CO, NO2, O3) with high spatial resolution (2km) and time resolution of minutes. The initial pilot consists of separate nodes functioning as a single instrument and spanning Oakland, CA and the surrounding cities to the north and south and extending across the Bay to San Francisco. Performance of the instrument and initial results will be described.