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US-CU1: UIC Plant Research Laboratory Chicago

Tower_team:
PI: Bhupendra Raut braut@anl.gov - Argonne National Laboratory
PI: Sujan Pal spal@anl.gov - Argonne National Laboratory
AncContact: Scott Collis scollis@anl.gov - Argonne National Laboratory
FluxContact: Payatsar Muradyan pmuradyan@anl.gov - Argonne National Laboratory
BADMContact: Max Berkelhammer berkelha@uic.edu - University of Illinois at Chicago
Technician: Joe O'brien obrienj@anl.gov - Argonne National Laboratory
Technician: Matt Tuftedal mtuftedal@anl.gov -
Lat, Long: 41.8694, -87.6459
Elevation(m): 183.4
Network Affiliations: AmeriFlux
Vegetation IGBP: URB (Urban and Built-Up Lands: Land covered by buildings and other man-made structures.)
Climate Koeppen: Dfa (Humid Continental: humid with severe winter, no dry season, hot summer)
Mean Annual Temp (°C): 10.6
Mean Annual Precip. (mm): 937
Flux Species Measured: CO2, H, H2O
Years Data Collected: 2024 - Present
Years Data Available:

AmeriFlux BASE 2024   Data Citation
Data Use Policy:AmeriFlux CC-BY-4.0 Policy1
Description:
The UIC Plant Research Laboratory, located in Chicago, Illinois, is a facility with a greenhouse, outdoor garden space, and open lawn areas. It is situated ...
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Research Topics:
Focused on urban climate research, the site gathers data on local atmospheric conditions and air quality, including fluxes, to study the Chicago’s urban ...
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Acknowledgment: The flux tower at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, through the Community Research on Climate and Urban Science (CROCUS) Urban Integrated Field Laboratory (UIFL) project led by Argonne National Laboratory.
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Image Credit: Bhupendra Raut, 06/2024
Copyright preference: As long as credit is given
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