LA-Pico Rivera, California


 

Instrument Mentors

John Seinfeld

California Institute of Technology

Site PI

Pico Rivera
Richard Flagan

California Institute of Technology

Site PI

Pico Rivera
Haroula Baliaka

California Institute of Technology

Graduate Student

Pico Rivera
Ryan Ward

California Institute of Technology

Graduate Student

Pico Rivera

Description

The LA-Pico Rivera site is located in Los Angeles County, CA and is operated by the South Coast Air Quality Monitoring District (AQMD). The Los Angeles basin is one of the most polluted airsheds in the United States; its urban landscape, housing a variety of anthropogenic and biogenic pollution sources, and its basin topography have contributed substantially to decades of poor air quality. Within ASCENT, it is paired with the Rubidoux and Joshua Tree sites to study the transport and transformation of pollutants across Southern California.

Complementary Instrumentation 

ParameterInstrumentSampling FrequencyNetwork*
O3Thermo 49iContinuousS
NO2TAPI T200ContinuousS
COHoriba APMA 370ContinuousS
PM2.5Thermo Partisol 2025i1-in-6S
LeadGMW 1200 TSP1-in-6S
Temperature/Relative HumidtyRotronic HC2-S3ContinuousS
Wind Direction/SpeedRM Young 05305VContinuousS
Barometric PressureMet One 091ContinuousS

*Monitoring Types: S=SLAMS