Summary: There are two components to Utah's inversions. We can see one of them: the pollution that causes the nasty-looking air. The other is the meteorological conditions that trap the pollution. We asked <a href="https://faculty.utah.edu/u0198116-ERIK_TAVIS_CROSMAN/research/index.hml">Eric Crosman</a>, an atmospheric sciences researcher, to help us better understand the weather factor to inversions (also known as cold air pools.) Crosman answers common questions about what causes the wintertime haze, how it forms, if it’s worse in some places than others and what researchers like him hope to learn about it and why it matters.
