FRAPPÉ - Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Éxperiment
The NCAR FRAPPÉ report is now public. This report has been prepared by NSF NCAR/ACOM for the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Download here: Report Appendix
The EOL FRAPPE project page provides an overview and links.
The Field Catalog provides forecasting and real-time data and the Plan of the Day.
The Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Éxperiment (FRAPPÉ) field campaign took place during summer 2014. This was a collaborative effort between the Colorado Department of Public Health and the Environment, the University of Colorado and Colorado State University, UC Berkeley, and other university collaborators, local projects and agencies including local school districts, NASA, NOAA, and NSF NCAR. The mission was be closely coordinated with the NASA DISCOVER-AQ project, which agreed to conduct their final aircraft deployment in the Colorado Front Range. DISCOVER-AQ brought three aircraft to Colorado. The NASA P-3 was instrumented for comprehensive in-situ measurements, the NASA King Air measured aerosol parameters with a downward looking LIDAR as well as integrated column measurements of some tracers. The NASA Falcon carried the GeoTASO instrument which measured column amounts of a number of tracers as well. We were joined by the Mooney TLS aircraft, which measured CH4 and NMHC emissions at low altitude, bringing the number of research aircraft to five.
Principal Investigators: Gabriele Pfister (NCAR), Frank Flocke (NCAR), Jim Crawford (NASA).
All of the observations made during FRAPPÉ and DISCOVER-AQ are listed in this table of measurements. It demonstrates the impressive suite of measurements assembled for this mission.
The 4-week intensive deployment of the aircraft is augmented by extensive ground-based activities at some of the established local measurement sites such as the BAO tower, Platte Valley, Niwot Ridge, Rocky Mountain National Park.
We will fly the instrumented NCAR / NSF C-130 aircraft to provide complementary measurements during DISCOVER-AQ, characterizing the local to regional chemical environment including photochemistry, oxidant and aerosol formation and fate, flow and recirculation patterns and large-scale inflow.
Please find downloadable documents and other information such as upload and installation schedules, logistics, etc.under the appropriate tabs on top of the page.
For questions about FRAPPÉ, please contact Gabriele Pfister and Frank Flocke.