ARL Weekly News – February 21, 2024

ARL 75th Anniversary at AMS

ARL celebrated 75 years of Weather and Climate Research at AMS. Three sessions highlighted the lab’s history, research, and partnerships, and the day closed out with a talk from OAR AA Steve Thur. The planning committee, consisting of Ariel Stein, LaToya Myles, Michelle Chawlk, Gabrielle Land, Tracey Bien-Aime, Ella Hunter, and Margaret Simon, worked to host these sessions along with a lunch and mixer with current and former employees. Here’s to 75 more years!

OAR AA Steve Thur closes out the final ARL 75th Anniversary session.

 

Bruce Hicks gives an overview of ARL and forest meteorology.

 

Temple Lee and Ariel Stein 

 

ARL Luncheon

 

ARL 75th Anniversary Planning Committee: (Left to Right) Gabrielle Land, Margaret Simon, Michelle Chawlk, Ella Hunter, and LaToya Myles. Not pictured: Ariel Stein and Tracey Bien-Aime

 

AMS Presentations

 

Temple Lee delivered three oral presentations at the 104th AMS Annual Meeting. On 29 January, he discussed the dependence of surface layer parameterizations on the Bowen Ratio in one presentation and, in a second presentation later that day, he used turbulence measurements from Chestnut Ridge to investigate the validity of the hockey-stick transition hypothesis (HOST). On 31 January, Temple delivered a presentation highlighting key results from UAS work at ARL over the past decade at the one-day symposium showcasing 75 years of weather and climate research at ARL. In this same symposium, Temple helped deliver a presentation, led by Randy Peppler from the University of Oklahoma, summarizing key research results that have emerged from the collaboration between ARL and the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS; now the Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations CIWRO). Additionally, Temple helped chair two sessions in the 24th Symposium on Meteorological Observation and Instrumentation during the meeting.

 

Lee, T. R., T. P. Meyers, S. Pal, P. Krishnan, B. Hirth, M. Heuer, R. D. Saylor, and J. Schroeder, 2024, On the dependence of surface layer parameterizations on the Bowen Ratio, 104th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 28 Jan – 2 Feb 2024, Baltimore, MD.

Lee, T. R., R. D. Saylor, J. Kochendorfer, T. P. Meyers, P. Krishnan, T. Wilson, W. Pendergrass, R. White, and M. Heuer, 2024, Does the HOST hypothesis apply within and above a forested mountaintop canopy?, 104th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 28 Jan – 2 Feb 2024, Baltimore, MD.

Lee, T. R., E. Dumas, and T. P. Meyers, 2024, Highlights from eight years of advancing knowledge of surface and boundary layer processes using small uncrewed aircraft systems at the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory, 104th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 28 Jan – 2 Feb 2024, Baltimore, MD.

Peppler, R. A., T. R. Lee, S. Paleri, and G. M. McFarquhar, 2024, Key research findings from the collaboration between the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory and Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations (CIWRO) at the University of Oklahoma, 104th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 28 Jan – 2 Feb 2024, Baltimore, MD.

Saylor, R., J. Kochendorfer, P. Krishnan, M. Heuer, T. Lee, T. Wilson, and T. Meyers, 2024, A multi-decade analysis of carbon and energy fluxes over a broadleaf forest in the Southeast U.S.: Preliminary results, 104th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, 28 Jan – 2 Feb 2024, Baltimore, MD.