ARL Weekly News – October 27, 2017 HQ Dr. Ariel Stein visited the Department of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences at Penn State University. He held meetings with several faculty and graduated students discussing common research interests for future collaborations. In addition, Dr. Stein gave a presentation entitled “NOAA’s HYSPLIT atmospheric transport and dispersion modeling system:…
ARL Weekly News – October 20, 2017 HQ Two scientists from Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) and one scientist from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) visited ARL Headquarters this week to provide an update on the progress made and discuss any remaining issues integrating the MELCOR Accident Consequence Code System (MACCS), developed at Sandia National Laboratories…
ARL Weekly News – October 13, 2017 HQ ARL is contributing to the development of the National Weather Service (NWS) Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) in the disciplines of modeling the suspended particulate matter (aerosol) chemical composition influential for convection and cloud micro-physics. The project is called NGGPS-aerosol. ARL, being the leader in providing…
ARL Weekly News – October 6, 2017 HQ Mark Cohen will be presenting a NOAA/NOS Science Seminar on Oct 24, 2017 entitled: Mercury in the Great Lakes: Can We Explain Trends? Many top predator fish in the Great Lakes (GL) have mercury (Hg) concentrations high enough to pose risks to public health and to fish-eating wildlife. Atmospheric mercury emissions…
ARL Weekly News – September 29, 2017 HQ Dr. Ariel Stein gave an invited presentation at the NOAA Satellite Aerosol Products Workshop on September 25, 2017. He presented the talk entitled “Satellite Aerosol Products in Air Resources Laboratory’s models”. In his presentation, Dr Stein highlighted the latest developments in source term assimilation for volcano and…
ARL Weekly News – September 22, 2017 HQ Glenn Rolph and Fantine Ngan attended the International MACCS User Group meeting during September 14-15, 2017 in Bethesda, Maryland. They gave a presentation “North America Reanalysis Data for Dispersion Applications and Recent HYSPLIT Updates” and had discussions with the development group of MACCS (an accident consequence analysis model) on…
HQ Dr. Ariel Stein gave an invited presentation on HYSPLIT activities related to transport and dispersion predictions related to air quality at the 2017 Meteorology And Climate – Modeling for Air Quality Conference organized by the University of California Davis and the California Air Resources Board. The conference took place from September 13 to 15, 2017 in…
ARL Weekly News – September 8, 2017 FRD The NOAA Technical Memorandum “Project Sagebrush Phase 2” by Dennis Finn et al. has completed the review and editing process and will shortly be assigned a report number and Digital Object Identifier (DOI) for final publication. This report is a detailed description of the meteorological and tracer…