Project Home Page

Welcome to the Tropospheric Ozone Pollution Project, a research project funded in part by the Shell Center for Sustainability of Rice University, in part by NASA, and in part by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Support is also provided by the Institute for Multi-dimensional Air Quality Studies (IMAQS) of the University of Houston.

Note that this site is currently under construction. Please be patient as we upload new versions of our balloon data here over the next several months.

Use the links at left to find information on ozone pollution, our funding sources, a launch schedule, and ozone data. You can even find trajectories predicting the path of our balloons.

If you find a balloon payload, do not be afraid. They contain nothing dangerous. We'd like to know where and when you found it. Just email us. Also, if you mail the payload back to NOAA in Boulder, CO, you can earn a $30 reward.

Undergraduate Scott Hersey prepares to launch a weather balloon from the main academic quadrangle at Rice University during the summer of 2004.

Our Data

SHARP Data

Met Data:
- lower level winds
- upper level winds
- upper level alt.
- NWS surface obs.
- surface O3 obs.
- EPA AirNow

Missions:
- NASA INTEX-B
- NASA IONS-06
- TexAQS 2
- SHARP
- NASA TC-4
- NASA Aura

Other Links:
- Aura overpass
- NASA AVDC
- UH EAS
- IMAQS
- RU TOPP
- VU Physics
- VU Meteorology
- VU TOPP