ARL Weekly News – August 13, 2021

ARL Weekly News – August 13, 2021 Recent Events Summer Intern Season Winds Down Justin Bettenhauser finished up his internship by giving a presentation at the Lapenta Intern Presentation Workshop on Thursday August 12th. The presentation was titled “Evaluation of Probabilistic Volcanic Ash Forecasts produced using the HYSPLIT model and the Global Ensemble Forecast System…

ARL Weekly News – July 30, 2021

ARL Weekly News – July 30, 2021 Recent Events Reliford Defends Thesis. Anaiya Reliford, a graduate student in the NOAA Cooperative Science Center in Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology (NCAS-M) at Howard University, successfully defended her master’s thesis this week. Her project focused on design and testing of UAS-mounted particulate matter (PM) sensors. She plans to continue her UAS…

ARL Weekly News – July 23, 2021

ARL Weekly News – July 23, 2021 Recent Events NOAA Lapenta Interns Briefed on ARL Capabilities On July 23rd Dr. Howard Diamond made a presentation the history, scientific work, and projects undertaken by the Air Resources Laboratory to about 20 interns in the 2021 William M. Lapenta NOAA Student Internship Program.  The session was a…

ARL Weekly News – July 16, 2021

ARL Weekly News – July 16, 2021 Recent Events R2O Conference presentation Youhua Tang attended the first UFS R2O (NOAA Unified Forecast System Research to Operation) Annual Meeting, July 12-15, as the PI of JTTI FY20 aerosol data assimilation (DA) project. His presentation titled “Recent Progress of JTTI FY20 Aerosol Data Assimilation in Support of…

ARL Weekly News – July 9, 2021

ARL Weekly News – July 9, 2021 Recent Events Conference presentation Todd McKinney, an ARL intern, presented at the “Great Planes Super Launch” conference on 7/9/2021. The talk is on “ASH – Aloft Super Pressure Balloons for High-Altitude Analysis.” His presentation discussed results from the balloon project and working with HYSPLIT for ballooning projects. Resumption of Aircraft…

ARL Weekly News July 2, 2021

ARL Weekly News – July 2, 2021 Recent Publications Accepted: Temple Lee, Michael Buban and Tilden P. Myers:  Application of Bulk Richardson Parameterizations of Surface Fluxes to Heterogeneous Land Surfaces was accepted at Monthly Weather Review. In the paper, the authors demonstrated that using a bulk Richardson approach yielded predictions of friction velocity, sensible heat…

ARL Weekly News – June 25, 2021

ARL Weekly News – June 25, 2021 Recent Events 2021 HYSPLIT Workshop Trains New Users The 2021 Annual HYSPLIT Workshop was conducted entirely online, as was piloted last year due to COVID-19. The Workshop was presented over four days, from June 15-18, 2021, reaching over 250 people in real time, with about 100 other participants tuning…

ARL Weekly News – June 18, 2021

ARL Weekly News – June 18, 2021 Recent Events HYSPLIT Workshop Recordings Available Last week’s workshop is now online, for those who missed portions.  Visit: 2021 Online HYSPLIT Workshop Chemtool Plant Fire Response Informed by HYSPLIT A massive chemical fire started on Monday, June 12, 2021 at the Chemtool plant in Rockton, Illinois. The nature…

ARL Weekly News – June 11, 2021

ARL Weekly News – June 11, 2021 Recent Events Boundary Layer Workshop Temple Lee, Michael Buban, LaToya Myles, Bruce Baker, and Rick Saylor participated in the Second Boundary Layer Workshop, hosted by Tilden Meyers and David Turner on 1-2 June. The workshop sought to prioritize scientific questions associated with the atmospheric boundary layer and to…

ARL Weekly News – June 4, 2021

ARL Weekly News – June 4, 2021 Recent Events Summer Interns: Alanna Goodell. Alanna Goodell, a rising senior majoring in Environmental Engineering from Northern Arizona University, started to work at ARL as an intern through the NOAA Lapenta Internship Program. She is working with Winston Luke and Xinrong Ren on a research project to characterize…