ARL Weekly News – May 10, 2019 HQ ARL hosted the second annual Ozone Water Land Environmental Transition Study (OWLETS) and sixth annual Tropospheric Ozone Lidar Network (TOLNet) Science Team Meetings in College Park, Maryland, from May 6-8, 2019. Over 50 scientists participated in the joint event, representing NOAA, NASA, and EPA, as well as…
ARL Weekly News – May 3, 2019 ATDD LaToya Myles participated in the spring meeting of the AGU Honors and Recognition Committee on May 1-2 in Washington, DC. The 12-member H&R Committee maintains oversight of AGU’s honors and recognition programs at all levels – Union-wide (medals, fellows, awards, and prizes) and across the 25 Sections.…
ARL Weekly News – April 26, 2019 HQ ARL hosted members of the Department of Commerce budget staff on April 22 and Congressional staffers on April 23. Acting Deputy Director Dr. Ariel Stein presented “ARL 101” to both groups, along with a tour of the air chemistry laboratory. Inline Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF)/HYSPLIT…
ARL Weekly News – April 19, 2019 ATDD Bruce Baker is a co-author on a manuscript entitled, “Developing a coordinated National Soil Moisture Network to integrate soil moisture data for the United States,” which has been accepted by EOS. From 12-14 April, Temple Lee and Michael Buban participated in the eighth intensive observation period (IOP)…
ARL Weekly News – April 12, 2019 HQ Xinrong Ren attended the Energy-Related Air Quality and Health Effects Research Workshop and Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS) Meeting in Albany, New York from April 9-11, 2019. He gave a talk titled “Ozone Production and Its Sensitivity to NOx and VOCs during LISTOS 2018” and…
ARL Weekly News – April 5, 2019 ATDD “Permafrost nitrous oxide emissions observed on a landscape scale using the airborne eddy-covariance method,” a paper whose authors include Ronald Dobosy, Edward Dumas, and Bruce Baker, was published as a highlight article in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics.
ARL Weekly News – March 28, 2019 ATDD A paper entitled “Evaluation of the High-Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR) model using near-surface meteorological and flux observations from Northern Alabama” by Temple R. Lee, Michael Buban, David D.Turner (NOAA Earth Systems Research Laboratory, Global Systems Division), Tilden Meyers, and Bruce Baker was accepted for publication in Weather…
ARL Weekly News – March 22, 2019 HQ ARL’s HYSPLIT model played a key role in ensuring public safety following a fire and subsequent leak at a petrochemicals storage facility in Deer Park, Texas. For details, please visit https://www.arl.noaa.gov/news-pubs/news-archive/hysplit-aides-ongoing-emergency-response-efforts-in-deer-park-texas/. Three members of the OAR Communications staff visited ARL on 20 March to tour the lab…
ARL Weekly News – March 15, 2019 FRD FRD’s meteorological network (the NOAA/Idaho National Laboratory Mesonet) has been experiencing communication issues related to problems with two radio repeaters (a primary and backup) on separate mountain peaks. Snowmobiles are the only viable option to access the repeaters at this time. FRD has been looking at options…
ARL Weekly News – March 8, 2019 ATDD On 4-6 March, Temple Lee, Michael Buban, Ed Dumas, and Bruce Baker went to Avon Park, a US Air Force (USAF) test range north of Sebring, Florida, to conduct first-of-a-kind tests with two of ATDD’s small unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS): a Meteomatics Meteodrone Severe Storms Edition (SSE)…