National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)
The Boulder Atmospheric Observatory (BAO)
facilityobservatory / field siteIndustry: Aerospace
- Category
- Physical Infrastructure
- Affiliations
- NOAA Boulder; CIRES
Description
The Boulder Atmospheric Observatory, a former NOAA PSL research facility in Erie, Colorado for studying the planetary boundary layer and testing and calibrating atmospheric sensors, centred on a 300-m instrumented tower; it officially came to an end on July 31, 2016.
Official page
https://psl.noaa.gov/technology/bao/
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Contact
- Contact
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Details
- Keywords
- planetary boundary layer, sensor testing, 300-m tower, atmospheric sensor calibration, solar radiation, project phoenix
- Location
- Erie, Colorado
- Location
- place named in page text: Boulder, Erie
- Associated entity
- NOAA