ARL Weekly News – February 1, 2019 HQ Alice Crawford updated get_era5.py, which automates the retrieval of the ERA5 grib files for conversion to ARL format. The program now uses the new Climate Data Store Application Program Interface (CDS API). The ECMWF API will be phased out on February 28, 2019. get_era5_cds.py can be found…
ARL Weekly News – December 21, 2018 SORD James Wood, Caleb Steele, Rick Lantrip, Wayne Bailey, and Walt Schalk supported a non-proliferation Source Physics Experiment on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). Support began months ahead of the experiment where detailed point forecasts and weather surveillance for the experiment location were provided. During the week…
ARL Weekly News – December 14, 2018 HQ “Weak-constraint inverse modeling using HYSPLIT-4 Lagrangian dispersion model and Cross-Appalachian Tracer Experiment (CAPTEX) observations – effect of including model uncertainties on source term estimation,” authored by Tianfeng Chai, Ariel Stein, and Fong Ngan, was published in Geoscientific Model Development. This paper is available at https://www.geosci-model-dev.net/11/5135/2018/gmd-11-5135-2018.pdf Nine ARL…
ARL Weekly News – December 7, 2018 HQ On December 7, ARL Acting Deputy Director Dr. Ariel Stein participated in a full day review of current program activities conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Special Programs Office (SPO). For the last eight years, SPO has led interactions related to public access…
ARL Weekly News – November 30, 2018 HQ Tiffany House was selected to receive an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Diversity Individual Award at the upcoming OAR Awards Ceremony scheduled for December 5. This award is being given “For serving as an Ad Hoc member of the EEO Advisory Committee and adding value by offering ideas, opinions…
ARL Weekly News – November 23, 2018 SORD James Wood visited a local elementary school and gave a weather talk to the third grade class. The presentation consisted of a demonstration of wind, temperature, relative humidity, and pressure instruments; an explanation of the basic science behind weather and the relationship between weather and wild land…
ARL Weekly News – November 16, 2018 HQ At the 2018 Fall Meeting of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP), Winston Luke was elected to serve as Secretary of the Network Operations Subcommittee (NOS) of NADP. The NOS oversees field-siting criteria and laboratory and sample collection protocols, and evaluates equipment and record keeping methods. After…
ARL Weekly News – November 9, 2018 ATDD ATDD’s Howard Diamond and Tilden Meyers participated in NOAA’s Climate Program Office (CPO) Earth System Science and Modeling meeting November 6-7 in Silver Spring, Maryland, along with ARL’s Acting Director, Dr. Ariel Stein. Diamond presented “Air Resources Laboratory’s Role in a Bedrock to Boundary Layer (B2B) Initiative”…
ARL Weekly News – November 2, 2018 HQ Winston Luke will travel to Albany, New York from November 4-10 to attend the technical and science committee meetings of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP). NADP is a cooperative program of federal, state, tribal and local agencies, educational institutions, private companies and non-governmental organizations, and provides…
ARL Weekly News – October 26, 2018 HQ The 17th Annual Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) Conference, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was held between October 22 and 24, 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ARL led and contributed to 10 presentations. Youhua Tang, Tianfeng Chai and Daniel Tong focused on emission…