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…
ARL Weekly News – May 29, 2020 Recent Events HYSPLIT Locust Web App: Mark Cohen and Sonny Zinn gave an invited presentation about ARL’s new Locust Forecasting Web Application to the United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security. This was initiated by Heather Coll of NOAA Research’s Office of International…
ARL Weekly News – May 29, 2020 Recent Events HYSPLIT Locust Web App: Mark Cohen and Sonny Zinn gave an invited presentation about ARL’s new Locust Forecasting Web Application to the United States Agency for International Development’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security. This was initiated by Heather Coll of NOAA Research’s Office of International…
ARL Weekly News – May 22, 2020 Recent News Precipitation is one of the primary measurements for the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN). Many of our stations across the U.S. receive annual rainfall in excess of the Geonor rain gauge’s capacity. An over capacity gauge results in lost precipitation data. Presently we rely on local…
ARL Weekly News – May 22, 2020 Recent Events Precipitation is one of the primary measurements for the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN). Many of our stations across the U.S. receive annual rainfall in excess of the Geonor rain gauge’s capacity. An over capacity gauge results in lost precipitation data. Presently we rely on local contacts…
ARL Weekly News – May 15, 2020 Recent Events Atmospheric Deposition Meeting: Winston Luke attended the spring 2020 meeting of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) from May 11-14. Originally to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, the meeting was instead attended virtually by over 80 participants. Dr. Luke serves as the Vice Chair of the…
ARL Weekly News – May 15, 2020 Recent Events Atmospheric Deposition Meeting: Winston Luke attended the spring 2020 meeting of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) from May 11-14. Originally to be held in Madison, Wisconsin, the meeting was instead attended virtually by over 80 participants. Dr. Luke serves as the Vice Chair of the…
Recent Events HYSPLIT-based web app developed for United Nations’ locust tracking: NOAA issued a press release and web story regarding ARL’s development of a web-based, user friendly application enabling the UN Food and Agriculture Organization to more easily forecast and warn of historic numbers of desert locust swarms. Enhanced Operational Model: ARL’s atmospheric chemistry team…
ARL Weekly News – May 1, 2020 Recent Events Research flights: In collaboration with University of Maryland (UMD), NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL), Purdue University, and Stony Brook University, ARL is supporting and involved in the East Coast Outflow – COVID (ECO-COVID) field study. Three instrumented airplanes were involved in this study, including UMD/ARL’s…
ARL Weekly News – April 24, 2020 Recent Events Conference Presentations: ARL scientists Daniel Tong, Youhua Tang, Barry Baker, Patrick Campbell, Fantine Ngan, Hyuncheol Kim, Tianfeng Chai and Pius Lee contributed to four talks delivered at the 3rd International Smoke Symposium hosted by the International Association of Wildland Fire. These included Pius’ “Campaign-support forecast and…