ARL Weekly News – January 24, 2025 Recent Events HYSPLIT helping keep people safe The Weather Forecasting Office (WFO) in Binghamton, NY supported the NY State Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Services during a propane tank crash on Friday, January 24. The crash resulted in a propane leak, for which the WFO completed a…
ARL Weekly News – January 13, 2025 Publications and Presentations Air Resources Laboratory at AMS ARL scientists contributed nine posters and oral presentations and acted as session chairs for eight sessions: Barry Baker Development of a MODIS/VIIRS Base Estimation of Lateral Cover for Low Vegetation: Applications to Dust and Land Surface Modeling within NOAA’s Air…
ARL Weekly News – December 9, 2024 Recent Events Operating system update for running HYSPLIT The servers running the National Weather Service (NWS) HYSPLIT model were successfully refreshed on December 12, 2024. By migrating to the latest version of the operating system, security risks are reduced. After the service cutover, full installation tests were conducted…
ARL Weekly News – November 25, 2024 Recent Events 2024 Team Member of the Year Award Patrick Campbell Patrick Campbell is being recognized by OAR for his ”outstanding work in improving NOAA’s air quality predictions with the implementation of a novel application using satellite data coupled with in-canopy processes.” Congratulations Patrick! …
ARL Weekly News – October 14, 2024 Recent Events ATDD inspires the next generation On 17 October, Temple Lee and David Senn met with a visiting high school student at ATDD to discuss the lab’s work with small uncrewed aircraft systems (UAS) and how these platforms, coupled with the lab’s other observing systems, are used…
ARL Weekly News – October 7, 2024 Recent Events ARL’s Atmospheric Sciences and Modeling Division addresses climate misinformation Recently with the unprecedented events of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, there has been a significant uptick in the number of inquiries coming into NOAA regarding various aspects of the storm, its relationship to climate, and a lot…
ARL Weekly News – September 9, 2024 Upcoming Events Air Resources Laboratory to lend urban climate expertise at Climate Week Air Resources Lab Director Ariel Stein will be an invited panelist in a roundtable discussion during this year’s Climate Week in New York City. The discussion, titled “Greenhouse Gas in Cities: Innovations in GHG Data…
ARL Weekly News – September 2, 2024 Recent Events 2025 AiRMAPS & Northeast US Field Observations Coordination Workshop ARL and CSL co-hosted the AiRMAPS & Northeast U.S. Field Observations Coordination Workshop in College, MD on September 3-4. The workshop brought together scientists and leaders from federal and state agencies, as well as academic institutions, to…
ARL Weekly News – August 5, 2024 Recent Events Community Engagement Nebila Lichiheb participated virtually in the annual AGU Global Engagement Committee meeting on 29-30 July. The meeting was hosted in Merida, Mexico where they discussed the important goals of the AGU strategic plan and how to create engagement with local and international geoscience communities.…
ARL Weekly News – July 22, 2024 Recent Events HYSPLIT tracks plume from industrial fire The NWS Weather Forecasting Office provided support via HYSPLIT plumes for an industrial fire in northwest Portland, OR. The fire was classified as a four-alarm fire at a metal recycling facility scrap yard containing cars, appliances, and other large metal…