Salt Lake Valley Methane

Continuous methane measurements from the University of Utah tower and the Utah Division of Air Quality network across the Salt Lake Valley. All times are local standard time (UTC-7, no daylight saving). Values are calibrated and quality controlled.

The network

The record

Daily and monthly means are built from hourly means, so sites with different instrument sampling rates are weighted equally.

The last few weeks

Ten-minute means, the most recent data in the archive.

Diurnal cycle

Hour-of-day median with the interquartile range shaded. The median rather than the mean, because the distribution is strongly right-skewed and a mean hides how often an hour is quiet. Pick a site to compare its groups.

Data coverage

Percent of each month with a valid hourly mean. Gaps are instrument downtime.