Storm Peak Laboratory Available Online Data

Storm Peak Laboratory has many atmospheric science instruments, and a number of data products are now available on-line. The following Storm Peak Laboratory Facility Instrument data products are available online via the Western Regional Climate Center:

  • Temperature
  • Pressure
  • Relative Humidity
  • Wind Speed
  • Wind Direction
  • Wind Gust

Hosted Instrumentation

Storm Peak Laboratory hosts instrumentation for other organizations.

NOAA Global Monitoring Division:

Aerosols -

The goals of this regional-scale monitoring program are to characterize means, variability, and trends of climate-forcing properties of different types of aerosols, and to understand the factors that control these properties. The Aerosol group within the Global Monitoring Divison's measurements also provide ground-truth for satellite measurements and global models, as well as key aerosol parameters for global-scale models.

Data from Storm Peak Laboratory is available here: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/aero/net/spl_gmd/index.html

Water Vapor -

The purpose of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Ground-Based GPS-integrated precipitable water project is to:

  • Evaluate the engineering and scientific bases of surface-based GPS meteorology,
  • Demonstrate the feasibility and utility of using surface-based GPS observations for improved weather forecasting, climate monitoring, and satellite sensor calibration/validation,
  • Transfer this observing system technology to operational use
Data from SPL's instrument is available here:  http://gpsmet.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/gnuplots/rti_plots.cgi?SITES=SPL1:

U.S. Department of Agriculture

The U.S. Department of Agriculture continuously monitors incoming solar radiation. This data is available at: http://uvb.nrel.colostate.edu/UVB/index.jsf 

This link takes you to the data products page. After choosing a data product, pull down location tab and choose “Colorado, Steamboat Springs”.

National Center for Atmospheric Research

The National Center for Atmospheric Research maintains the Regional Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Network in the Rocky Mountains. A station has been located at Storm Peak Laboratory since September 2005. This continuous CO2 data is available at: www.eol.ucar.edu/~stephens/RACCOON To view the Storm Peak Laboratory data, please choose SPL full record in the left column.