ARL Weekly News – September 11, 2020. Recent Events Invited HYSPLIT Lecture. Mark Cohen gave an invited lecture to an undergraduate course at the University of Maryland introducing the HYSPLIT model. The course, FIRE-298, Sustainability Analytics, taught by Professor Thanicha Ruangmas, is part of the FIRE (First-Year Innovation & Research Experience) program. Slides from the lecture, An…
ARL Weekly News – August 28, 2020 Recent Events Methane Inventory in Maryland. On August 25, Xinrong Ren attended a virtual meeting on Methane Inventory Enhancement Partnership with Maryland Department of Environment (MDE) and University of Maryland (UMD). In the meeting, Xinrong and his colleagues at UMD provided MDE policy-relevant scientific information based on published aircraft…
ARL Weekly News – August 21, 2020 Recent Accomplishments ATDD Resumes Vertical Profile Flights. ATDD resumed flights with its small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS) at Oliver Springs. Eight flights were performed, each on 20 and 21 August between 0700 EDT and 1030 EDT, sampling temperature, moisture, and wind fields between the surface and about 700 m…
ARL Weekly News – August 14, 2020. Recent Events. NOAA Leadership Seminar Dr. LaToya Myles will deliver an invited presentation during the 2020 Virtual NOAA Leadership Seminar (NLS). Her presentation entitled Adjusting the Sails: Creativity and Flexibility in Times of Change is scheduled for Wednesday, August 19 at 4:00 pm ET. She was a member of the 2019…
ARL Weekly News – August 7, 2020 Recent Events NOAA Lapenta Interns Complete Summer Experience. Leah Hopson gave a presentation at the William M. Lapenta Internship Presentation Workshop on 6 August 2020. The title of her talk was “Using a Tracer of Opportunity Dataset to Evaluate the HYSPLIT Model”. Leah is a rising senior at University of…
ARL Weekly News – July 31, 2020 Recent Events ARL’s Patrick Campbell featured in the Indianapolis Star. Patrick Campbell was featured in the Indianapolis Star regarding ARL’s work on analyzing the recent ozone changes in Indiana due to traffic changes across the nation. The article reads, “Patrick C. Campbell, a research assistant professor at George…
ARL Weekly News – July 24, 2020 Recent Events. ARL Collaborates on Air Quality Flights ARL is supporting the summer 2020 air quality flights over the Northeast U.S. between Washington, DC-Baltimore and New York City-Long Island Sound. In collaboration with Earth System Research Laboratories (ESRL), University of Maryland, Maryland Department of Environment (MDE), and Northeast…
ARL Weekly News – July 17, 2020 Recent Events Analysis of HYSPLIT based Smoke Plume Transport Model Hyun Cheol Kim authored a paper “Inverse modeling of fire emission constrained by smoke plume transport using HYSPLIT dispersion model and geostationary observations”, which was accepted by Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. In this research, a new emissions inverse modeling system…
ARL Weekly News – (add date) Recent Events Publication: Impacts of tiled land cover characterization in the Model for Prediction Across Scales‐Atmosphere (MPAS‐A) Illustration of a hypothetical “real‐world” land cover in a hexagonal mesh cell in MPAS‐A, and the corresponding dominant versus L13‐tiled approach to LCC used in the MPAS/Noah LSM. Dr. Patrick Campbell is…
ARL Weekly News – June 5, 2020 Upcoming Events Ariel Stein will serve as an instructor for the National Science Foundation’s Planetary Boundary Layer Workshop, taking place June 15-26, 2020. Dr. Stein will teach attendees how to use ARL’s HYSPLIT model to calculate trajectories and concentrations. Recent Events In response to a formal request from…