Gliding to Study Air Temperature Inversions (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Gliding to Study Air Temperature Inversions

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Motorized glider pilot Chris Santacroce ascends toward Lone Peak in the Wasatch Range above Salt Lake City with automated weather sensors attached to his helmet. He was a volunteer in a two-month field campaign to study temperature inversions that trap smog in the urban Salt Lake Valley. The field work was ending Feb. 7, 2011, and scientists from the University of Utah and other institutions planned to spend the next two years analyzing the data.

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Amanda Oliver, University of Utah

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