Data - Colorado State University
The CSU Data Collection contains the research data produced by scholars at CSU that has been made available in Mountain Scholar. Our current collection has a particular focus on the natural sciences, featuring the Shortgrass Steppe - Long Term Ecological Research (SGS-LTER) collection, and a number of other datasets from the Natural Resource Ecology Lab (NREL) and from the Department of Atmospheric Science.
Recent Submissions
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Data associated with "Resilience and regime shifts: Do novel communities impede ecological recovery in a historically metal-contaminated stream?"
Novel communities that result from exposure to contaminants and other anthropogenic stressors often persist in ecosystems that have experienced regime shifts. Because these systems may not return to pre-disturbance conditions ... -
Dataset associated with "A Tale of Two Dust Storms: Analysis of a Complex Dust Event in the Middle East"
Lofted mineral dust over data-sparse regions presents considerable challenges to satellite-based remote sensing methods and numerical weather prediction alike. The Southwest Asia domain is replete with such examples, with ... -
Model code and tools associated with "The Influence of Simulated Surface Dust Lofting and Atmospheric Loading on Radiative Forcing"
This high-resolution numerical modeling study investigates the potential range of impact of surface-lofted dust aerosols on the mean radiative fluxes and temperature changes associated with a dust lofting episode over the ... -
Data associated with the manuscript : Influence of single-nanoparticle electrochromic dynamics on the durability and speed of smart windows
Nanomaterials have tremendous potential to increase electrochromic smart window efficiency, speed, and durability. However, nanoparticles vary in size, shape, and surface defects, and it is unknown how nanoparticle ... -
Data associated with "Health and environmental justice implications of retiring two coal‐fired power plants in the southern Front Range region of Colorado"
Despite improvements in air quality over the past 50 years, ambient air pollution remains an important public health issue in the United States. In particular, emissions from coal-fired power plants still have a substantial ... -
Data Associated with, "Methane Emissions from Gathering and Boosting Compressor Stations in the U.S. Supporting Volume 2: Compressor Engine Exhaust Measurements
The in-stack tracer method was used during the field campaign to measure unburned methane entrained in the exhaust of natural gas compressor engines (“combustion slip”). Combustion slip was estimated by injecting a tracer ... -
Data Associated with "Methane Emissions from Gathering and Boosting Compressor Stations in the U.S. Supporting Volume 1: Multi-Day Measurements of Pneumatic Controller Emissions"
This study was part of a larger study (the Gathering Emission Factor, or “GEF”) study [1] to develop activity and methane emission factors for EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Inventory (EPA GHGI) using direct emission measurements ... -
Expert survey data on key challenges, drivers, and ecosystem services across mountains worldwide
Mountain social-ecological systems (MtSES) are vital to humanity, providing ecosystem services to over half the planet’s human population. Despite their importance, there has been no global assessment of threats to MtSES, ... -
Data associated with "Simulating secondary organic aerosol in a regional air quality model using the statistical oxidation model – Part 3: Assessing the influence of semi-volatile and intermediate-volatility organic compounds and NOx"
Semi-volatile and intermediate-volatility organic compounds (SVOCs and IVOCs) from anthropogenic sources are likely to be important precursors of secondary organic aerosol (SOA) in urban airsheds, yet their treatment in ... -
Dataset associated with "Effects of fuel moisture content on emissions from a rocket-elbow cookstove"
Exposure to air pollution from solid-fuel cookstoves is a leading risk factor for premature death; however, the effect of fuel moisture content on air pollutant emissions from solid-fuel cookstoves remains poorly constrained. ... -
Dataset associated with "Evaluation of ambient ammonia measurements from a research aircraft using a closed-path QC-TILDAS spectrometer operated with active continuous passivation"
A closed-path quantum cascade tunable infrared laser direct absorption spectrometer (QC-TILDAS) was outfitted with an inertial inlet for filter-less separation of particles, a custom-designed aircraft inlet, a custom-built ... -
Model output associated with "Sensitivity of Convective Self-Aggregation to Domain Size"
A 3D cloud-resolving model has been used to investigate the domain-size-dependence of simulations of convective self-aggregation (CSA) in radiative--convective equilibrium. We investigate how large a domain is needed to ... -
Simulated cattle shipment networks from the U.S. Animal Movement Model
Networks are rarely completely observed and prediction of unobserved edges is an important problem, especially in disease spread modeling where networks are used to represent the pattern of contacts. We focus on a partially ... -
TOMAS-VBS model for "More than emissions and chemistry: Fire size, dilution, and background aerosol also greatly influence near-field biomass burning aerosol aging"
Biomass burning emits particles (black carbon and primary organic aerosol; POA) and precursor vapors to the atmosphere that chemically and physically age in the atmosphere. This theoretical study explores the relationships ... -
Spatially interpolated PM2.5 concentrations for the US from 2006-2015
This dataset contains spatially interpolated daily PM2.5 concentrations observed by monitors in the Environmental Protection Agency's Air Quality System and non-smoke seasonal background PM2.5 estimates for 2006-2015. See ... -
Dataset associated with "Spatial and temporal patterns of sediment storage and erosion following a wildfire and extreme flood"
Post-wildfire landscapes are highly susceptible to rapid geomorphic changes at both the hillslope and watershed scales due to the increases in infiltration-excess overland flow, hillslope and channel erosion, and downstream ... -
Dataset associated with "A Laboratory Assessment of 120 Air Pollutant Emissions from Biomass and Fossil Fuel Cookstoves
Cookstoves emit many pollutants that are harmful to human health and the environment. However, most of the existing scientific literature focuses on fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and carbon monoxide (CO). We present an ... -
Dataset associated with "Role Modeling is a Viable Retention Strategy for Undergraduate Women in the Geosciences"
Gender diversity leads to better science; however, a number of STEM disciplines, including many geoscience sub-disciplines show a persistent gender gap. PROmoting Geoscience Research, Education, and SuccesS (PROGRESS) is ... -
Supporting data for the manuscript "Modeling the formation and composition of secondary organic aerosol from diesel exhaust using parameterized and semi-explicit chemistry and thermodynamic models"
Laboratory-based studies have shown that combustion sources emit volatile organic compounds that can be photo-oxidized in the atmosphere to form secondary organic aerosol (SOA). In some cases, this SOA can exceed direct ...
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