Salt Lake Valley Methane

The Salt Lake Valley emits more methane than its inventories account for. This dashboard tracks the measurements behind that question: a continuous record from the University of Utah tower and the Utah Division of Air Quality network, rebuilt from the archive as new data arrive.

Where the measurements are

Explore the full record, its diurnal cycles and its coverage.

When the measurements are

Every record in the valley on one axis. Colour is how much of each month a platform actually returned, so a pale band is a thin month rather than a missing one. Campaigns are short by nature and get their own row.

Recent methane

Ten-minute means from the last few weeks, all reporting sites.

What is here, and how current it is

Every panel on this dashboard is drawn from one of these data products. Each is rebuilt from its source files by a script in the workspace, and carries the time it was built.

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Emission estimates

The inverse modelling that turns these measurements into an emission estimate is in peer review and is not published here. Results will appear once the work is publicly citable.