ARL Weekly News – December 8, 2023 Recent Events ARL Attends AGU23 Meeting Presentations on arctic amplification of climate change, air quality, and western hydrology during a season of intense atmospheric rivers are just a few of the topics covered by ARL research at the 2023 AGU annual meeting held December 111-15, 20223. The AGU23…
ARL Weekly News – December 1, 2023 Recent Events ARL Plays Key Role in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring, and Information System As announced by the White House today, NOAA is a key participant in the development of a national system aiming to monitor greenhouse gas emissions. This system will combine capabilities from NOAA and…
ARL Weekly News – November 24, 2023 Publications Published: SURFATM: A model for the exchanges of energy, ammonia, ozone, and pesticides between soil, vegetation, and the atmosphere at the field scale. Citation: E. Personne, C. Bedos, N. Lichiheb, B. Loubet, P. Stella. SURFATM: A model for the exchanges of energy, ammonia, ozone, and pesticides between…
ARL Weekly News – November 17, 2023 Recent Events Urbannet Instrumentation Under Evaluation at NCWCP. Paul Kelley and Winston Luke installed a Vaisala CL51 ceilometer on the rooftop platform at NCWCP. The CL51 uses a pulsed diode LiDAR for full backscatter profiling to detect three cloud layer heights up to 15km (49,200ft). Aerosol backscatter in…
ARL Weekly News – November 10, 2023 Recent Events Utqiagvik Annual Maintenance Visit. Winston Luke traveled to Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska to perform an annual maintenance visit for the atmospheric mercury speciation instrumentation installed at the NOAA Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory (BRW). Concentrations of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), gaseous oxidized mercury (GOM) and particulate-bound mercury…
ARL Weekly News – October 27, 2023 Recent Events Climate news story featuring Howard Diamond Dr. Howard Diamond, Climate Science Program Manager for NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, was interviewed by WGXA in Macon, Ga, about carbon emissions. As he stated: “I equate it to a bathtub. If the bathtub has the drain open but you…
ARL Weekly News – October 20, 2023 Recent Events ARL scientists interviewed for Baltimore News Baltimore CBS affiliate WJZ aired an interview with ARL’s Phil Stratton and Xinrong Ren about the Air Resources Car and its research on the greenhouse gas emissions detection in industrial neighborhoods in south Baltimore. Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/video/noaas-arc-collects-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data-across-city-state/ ARL Scientists visited CSL…
ARL Weekly News – October 13, 2023 Recent Events NOAA Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Workshop The report from the NOAA Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Workshop has been released. The report titled: NOAA’s Greenhouse Gas Capabilities and Products outlines the event’s summary that was co-organized by GML, ARL and CPO. The workshop brought together representatives from across line…
ARL Weekly News – October 6, 2023 Recent and Upcoming Events Colorado Air Quality campaign. On Sept 27, Phillip Stratton and Jiyang Sun began the 1,700-mile drive to Broomfield, CO from the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction Center in College Park, MD. They are bringing NOAA’s Air Resources Car (ARC) to Colorado to participate…
ARL Weekly News – September 29, 2023 Upcoming Events. Presentations and Conferences: Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee. On October 4th, Nebila Lichiheb is an invited speaker for the Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee. The ADMLC seminar is sponsored by the UK Health Security Agency, Harwell (near Oxford). The topic of the presentation is: Processes of…