Publications

If you are using FRAPPÉ and/or DISCOVER-AQ data in publications, please ensure to contact the data PIs and acknowledge the campaigns and the funding sources. If you have an additional publication to add to this list, please contact us.

Abdi-Oskouei, M., Pfister, G., Flocke, F., Sobhani, N., Saide, P., Fried, A., Richter, D., Weibring, P., Walega, J., and Carmichael, G.: Impacts of physical parameterization on prediction of ethane concentrations for oil and gas emissions in WRF-Chem, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 16863-16883, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-16863-2018, 2018.

Baidar, S., Kille, N., Ortega, I., Sinreich, R., Thomson, D., Hannigan, J., and Volkamer, R.: Development of a digital mobile solar tracker, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 9, 963-972, doi:10.5194/amt-9-963-2016, 2016.

Baier, B., Brune, W., Miller, D., Blake, D., Long, R., Wisthaler, A., Cantrell, C., Fried, A., Heikes, B., Brown, S., McDuffie, E., Flocke, F., Apel, E., Kaser, L., and Weinheimer, A. (2017), Higher measured than modeled ozone production at increased NOx levels in the Colorado Front Range, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 11273–11292, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-11273-2017.

Bahreini, R., Ahmadov, R., McKeen, S. A., Vu, K. T., Dingle, J. H., Apel, E. C., Blake, D. R., Blake, N., Campos, T. L., Cantrell, C., Flocke, F., Fried, A., Gilman, J. B., Hills, A. J., Hornbrook, R. S., Huey, G., Kaser, L., Lerner, B. M., Mauldin, R. L., Meinardi, S., Montzka, D. D., Richter, D., Schroeder, J. R., Stell, M., Tanner, D., Walega, J., Weibring, P., and Weinheimer, A.: Sources and characteristics of summertime organic aerosol in the Colorado Front Range: perspective from measurements and WRF-Chem modeling, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 8293-8312, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-8293-2018, 2018.

Battye, W. H., C. D. Bray, V. P. Aneja, D. Tong, P. Lee, Y. Tang, Evaluating ammonia (NH3) predictions in the NOAA National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) using in situ aircraft, ground-level, and satellite measurements from the DISCOVER-AQ Colorado campaign, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 140, Pages 342-351, ISSN 1352-2310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.06.021, 2016.

Benedict, K. B., Prenni, A. J., Sullivan, A. P., Evanoski-Cole, A. R., Fischer, E. V., Callahan, S., … Collett Jr, J. L., Impact of Front Range sources on reactive nitrogen concentrations and deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park. PeerJ, 6, e4759. http://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4759, 2018. 

Benedict, K. B., Zhou, Y., Sive, B. C., Prenni, A. J., Gebhart, K. A., Fischer, E. V., Evanoski-Cole, A., Sullivan, A. P., Callahan, S., Schichtel, B. A., Mao, H., Zhou, Y., and Collett Jr., J. L.: Volatile Organic Compounds and Ozone in Rocky Mountain National Park during FRAPPÉ, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 19, 499-521, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-19-499-2019, 2019. 

Cheadle LC, Oltmans SJ, Petron G, Schnell RC, Mattson EJ, Herndon SC, et al.. Surface ozone in the Colorado northern Front Range and the influence of oil and gas development during FRAPPE/DISCOVER-AQ in summer 2014. Elem Sci Anth. 2017;5:61. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.254

Chen, X., Millet, D. B., Singh, H. B., Wisthaler, A., Apel, E. C., Atlas, E. L., Blake, D. R., Brown, S. S., Crounse, J. D., de Gouw, J. A., Flocke, F., Fried, A., Heikes, B. G., Hornbrook, R. S., Mikoviny, T., Min, K.-E., Müller, M., Neuman, J. A., O'Sullivan, D. W., Peischl, J., Pfister, G. G., Richter, D., Roberts, J. M., Ryerson, T. B., Shertz, S., Treadaway, V., Veres, P. R., Walega, J., Warneke, C., Washenfelder, R. A., Weibring, P., and Yuan, B.: On the sources and sinks of atmospheric VOCs: An integrated analysis of recent aircraft campaigns over North America, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2019-115, in review, 2019.

Dingle, J. H., Vu, K., Bahreini, R., Apel, E. C., Campos, T. L., Flocke, F., Fried, A., Herndon, S., Hills, A. J., Hornbrook, R. S., Huey, G., Kaser, L., Montzka, D. D., Nowak, J. B., Reeves, M., Richter, D., Roscioli, J. R., Shertz, S., Stell, M., Tanner, D., Tyndall, G., Walega, J., Weibring, P., and Weinheimer, A.: Aerosol optical extinction during the Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Éxperiment (FRAPPÉ) 2014 summertime field campaign, Colorado, USA, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 11207-11217, doi:10.5194/acp-16-11207-2016 , 2016.

Duvall, R.M., R. W. Long, M. R. Beaver, K. G. Kronmiller, M. L. Wheeler, J. J. Szykman, Performance Evaluation and Community Application of Low-Cost Sensors for Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide, Sensors, doi:10.3390/s16101698, 2016.

Ebben, C. J., Sparks, T. L., Wooldridge, P. J., Campos, T. L., Cantrell, C. A., Mauldin, R. L., Weinheimer, A. J., and Cohen, R. C.: Evolution of NOx in the Denver Urban Plume during the Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Experiment, Atmos. Chem. Phys. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-2017-671, in review, 2017.

Eilerman, Scott. J., Jeff Peischl, J. Andrew Neuman, Thomas B. Ryerson, Kenneth C. Aikin, Maxwell W. Holloway, Mark A. Zondlo, Levi M. Golston, Da Pan, Cody Floerchinger, and Scott Herndon, Characterization of Ammonia, Methane, and Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations in Northeastern Colorado,  Environmental Science & Technology 2016 50 (20), 10885-10893, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02851

Evans J.M., and Helmig D. (2017) Investigation of the influence of transport from oil and natural gas regions on elevated ozone levels in the northern Colorado front range, J. Air. Waste. Manag. Assoc., 67(2), 196-211.

Flocke, F., Pfister, G., Crawford, J. H., Pickering, K. E., Pierce, G., Bon, D., & Reddy, P. ( 2020). Air quality in the Northern Colorado Front Range Metro Area: The Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Éxperiment (FRAPPÉ). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 125, e2019JD031197. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JD031197

Flynn, Clare M., Kenneth E. Pickering, James H. Crawford, Andrew J. Weinheimer, Glenn Diskin, K. Lee Thornhill, Christopher Loughner, Pius Lee, Sarah A. Strode, Variability of O3 and NO2 profile shapes during DISCOVER-AQ: Implications for satellite observations and comparisons to model-simulated profiles, Atmospheric Environment, Volume 147, December 2016, Pages 133-156, ISSN 1352-2310, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.09.068.

Fukami, C.S., A.P. Sullivan, S.R. Fulgham, T. Murschell, T. Borch, J.N. Smith, D.K. Farmer. 2016. Technical note: An improved approach to determining background aerosol concentrations with PILS sampling on aircraft. Atmospheric Environment. DOI: 10.1016/j.atmosenv.2016.04.005

Gordon, T. D., Wagner, N. L., Richardson, M. S., Law, D. C., Wolfe, D., Eloranta, E. W., … Murphy, D. M. (2015). Design of a Novel Open-Path Aerosol Extinction Cavity Ringdown Spectrometer. Aerosol Science and Technology, 49(9), 717–726. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02786826.2015.1066753

Halliday, H. S., A. M. Thompson, A. Wisthaler, D. Blake, R. S. Hornbrook, T. Mikoviny, M. Müller, P. Eichler, E. C. Apel, and A. J. Hills, Atmospheric benzene observations from oil and gas production in the Denver Julesburg basin in July and August 2014, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JD025327, 2016.

Kaser, L., E.G. Patton, G. G. Pfister, A. J. Weinheimer, D. D. Montzka, F. Flocke, A.M. Thompson, R. M. Stauffer, H. Halliday, The Effect of Entrainment through Atmospheric Boundary Layer Growth on Observed and Modeled Surface Ozone in the Colorado Front Range, J. Geophys. Res., DOI:10.1002/2016JD026245, 2016.

Kenagy, H. S., Sparks, T. L., Wooldridge, P. J., Weinheimer, A. J., Ryerson, T. B., Blake, D. R., et al. (2020). Evidence of nighttime production of organic nitrates during SEAC4RS, FRAPPÉ, and KORUS-AQ. Geophysical Research Letters, 47, e2020GL087860. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL087860

Kille, N., Baidar, S., Handley, P., Ortega, I., Sinreich, R., Cooper, O. R., Hase, F., Hannigan, J. W., Pfister, G., and Volkamer, R.: The CU mobile Solar Occultation Flux instrument: structure functions and emission rates of NH3, NO2 and C2H6, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 373-392, doi:10.5194/amt-10-373-2017, 2017.

Mattila, J. M., Brophy, P., Kirkland, J., Hall, S., Ullmann, K., Fischer, E. V., Brown, S., McDuffie, E., Tevlin, A., and Farmer, D. K.: Tropospheric sources and sinks of gas-phase acids in the Colorado Front Range, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 18, 12315-12327, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-18-12315-2018, 2018.

McDuffie, E.E., et al., Influence of oil and gas emissions on summertime ozone in the Colorado Northern Front Range, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi:10.1002/2016JD025265, 2016.

McKenzie, Lisa M., Benjamin Blair, John Hughes, William B. Allshouse, Nicola J. Blake, Detlev Helmig, Pam Milmoe, Hannah Halliday, Donald R. Blake, and John L. Adgate, Ambient Nonmethane Hydrocarbon Levels Along Colorado’s Northern Front Range: Acute and Chronic Health Risks, Environmental Science & Technology, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b05983, 2018. 

Oltmans, S.J., Cheadle, L.C., Johnson, B.J., Schnell, R.C., Helmig, D., Thompson, A.M., Cullis, P., Hall, E., Jordan, A., Sterling, C., McClure-Begley, A., Sullivan, J.T., McGee, T.J. and Wolfe, D., 2019. Boundary layer ozone in the Northern Colorado Front Range in July–August 2014 during FRAPPE and DISCOVER-AQ from vertical profile measurements. Elem Sci Anth, 7(1), p.6. DOI:http://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.345

Pfister, G.G., P. Reddy, M.C. Barth, F.F. Flocke, A. Fried, S.C. Herndon, B.C. Sive, J.T. Sullivan, A.M. Thompson, T.I Yacovitch, A.J. Weinheimer, A. Wisthaler: Using observations and source specific model tracers to characterize pollutant transport during FRAPPÉ and DISCOVER-AQ, J. Geophys. Res., DOI: 10.1002/2017JD027257, 2017.

Pfister, G., Wang, C.‐T., Barth, M., Flocke, F., Vizuete, W., & Walters, S. ( 2019). Chemical Characteristics and Ozone Production in the Northern Colorado Front Range. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 124. https://doi-org.cuucar.idm.oclc.org/10.1029/2019JD030544

Richter, D., Weibring, P., Walega, J.G. et al., Compact highly sensitive multi-species airborne mid-IR spectrometer,  Appl. Phys. B, 119: 119. doi:10.1007/s00340-015-6038-8, 2015.

Samuel Rossabi, Jacques Hueber, Wei Wang, Pam Milmoe, Detlev Helmig; Spatial distribution of atmospheric oil and natural gas volatile organic compounds in the Northern Colorado Front Range. Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene 21 January 2021; 9 (1): 00036. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/elementa.2019.00036

Schroeder, J. R., et al. (2016), Formaldehyde column density measurements as a suitable pathway to estimate near-surface ozone tendencies from space, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, 13,088–13,112, doi:10.1002/2016JD025419.

Schroeder, J. R. et al (2017), New Insights into the Column CH2O/NO2 Ratio as an Indicator of Near-surface Ozone Sensitivity, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, doi:10.1002/2017JD026781.
 
Spuler, S. M., Repasky, K. S., Morley, B., Moen, D., Hayman, M., & Nehrir, A. R. (2015). Field-deployable diode-laser-based differential absorption lidar (DIAL) for profiling water vapor. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 8(3), 1073-1087. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-8-1073-2015
 
Sullivan, ,J.T., T.J. McGee, A.M. Thompson, R.B. Pierce, G.K. Sumnicht, L.W. Twigg, E.Eloranta, and R.M.Hoff, Characterizing the lifetime and occurrence of stratospheric-tropospheric exchange events in the rocky mountain region using high-resolution ozone measurements, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 120, 12,410–12,424, doi:10.1002/2015JD023877, 2015.
 
Sullivan, ,J.T., et al., Quantifying the Contribution of Thermally-Driven Recirculation to a High Ozone Event along the Colorado Front Range using Lidar, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 121, doi: 10.1002/2016JD025229, 2016.
 
Sun, Kang, Lei Tao, David J. Miller, Da Pan, Levi M. Golston, Mark A. Zondlo, Robert J. Griffin, H. W. Wallace, Yu Jun Leong, M. Melissa Yang, Yan Zhang, Denise L. Mauzerall, and Tong Zhu, Vehicle Emissions as an Important Urban Ammonia Source in the United States and China, Environmental Science & Technology 2017 51 (4), 2472-2481, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.6b02805
 
Szykman, Jim, R. Long, R. Duvall, T. Knepp, M. Beaver, K. Cavender, R. Clarke, AND E. Olsen. The use of LIDAR Technology for Measuring Mixing Heights under the Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Program; leveraging research under the joint DISCOVER-AQ/FRAPPÉ Missions. EM: AIR AND WASTE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION'S MAGAZINE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGERS. Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA, , 1-7, 2016.
 
Tevlin, A. G., Li, Y., Collett, J. L., McDuffie, E. E., Fischer, E. V., & Murphy, J. G. (2017). Tall tower vertical profiles and diurnal trends of ammonia in the Colorado Front Range. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122, 12,468–12,487. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD026534
 
Townsend-Small, A. et al., Using stable isotopes of hydrogen to quantify biogenic and thermogenic atmospheric methane sources: A case study from the Colorado Front Range", Geophysical Research Letters, 3: 11462-11471, doi: 10.1002/2016GL071438.
 
Treadaway, V., Heikes, B. G., McNeill, A. S., Silwal, I. K. C., and O'Sullivan, D. W.: Measurement of formic acid, acetic acid and hydroxyacetaldehyde, hydrogen peroxide, and methyl peroxide in air by chemical ionization mass spectrometry: airborne method development, Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2017-344, in review, 2017. 
 
Valerino, M. J., J. J. Johnson, J. Izumi, D. Orozco, R. M. Hoff, R. Delgado, and C. J. Hennigan (2017), Sources and composition of PM2.5 in the Colorado Front Range during the DISCOVER-AQ study, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 122, 566–582, doi:10.1002/2016JD025830.
 
Vu, K. T., Dingle, J. H., Bahreini, R., Reddy, P. J., Campos, T. L., Diskin, G. S., Fried, A., Herndon, S. C., Hornbrook, R. S., Huey, G., Kaser, L., Montzka, D. D., Nowak, J. B., Richter, D., Roscioli, J. R., Shertz, S., Stell, M., Tanner, D., Tyndall, G., Walega, J., Weibring, P., Weinheimer, A. J., Pfister, G., and Flocke, F.: Impacts of the Denver Cyclone on Regional Air Quality and Aerosol Formation in the Colorado Front Range during FRAPPÉ 2014, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 16, 12039-12058, doi:10.5194/acp-16-12039-2016, 2016.
 
Wang, L., Newchurch, M. J., Alvarez II, R. J., Berkoff, T. A., Brown, S. S., Carrion, W., De Young, R. J., Johnson, B. J., Ganoe, R., Gronoff, G., Kirgis, G., Kuang, S., Langford, A. O., Leblanc, T., McDuffie, E. E., McGee, T. J., Pliutau, D., Senff, C. J., Sullivan, J. T., Sumnicht, G., Twigg, L. W., and Weinheimer, A. J.: Quantifying TOLNet Ozone Lidar Accuracy during the 2014 DISCOVER-AQ and FRAPPÉ Campaigns, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 10, 3865–3876, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3865-2017. 
 
Weckwerth, T. M., Weber, K., Turner, D. D., & Spuler, S. M. (2016). Validation of a Water Vapor Micropulse Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL). Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/jtech-d-16-0119.1
 
Wild, R. J., Dubé,W. P., Aikin, K. C., Eilerman, S. J., Neuman, J. A., Peischl, J., et al. (2017). On-road measurements of vehicle NO2/NOx emission ratios in Denver, Colorado, USA. Atmospheric Environment, 148, 182–189.
 
Zaragoza, J., Callahan, S., McDuffie, E. E., Kirkland, J., Brophy, P., Durrett, L., et al. (2017). Observations of acyl peroxy nitrates during the Front Range Air Pollution and Photochemistry Éxperiment (FRAPPÉ). Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 122. https://doi.org/10.1002/2017JD027337 
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