ARL Weekly News – November 17, 2023 Recent Events Urbannet Instrumentation Under Evaluation at NCWCP. Paul Kelley and Winston Luke installed a Vaisala CL51 ceilometer on the rooftop platform at NCWCP. The CL51 uses a pulsed diode LiDAR for full backscatter profiling to detect three cloud layer heights up to 15km (49,200ft). Aerosol backscatter in…
ARL Weekly News – November 10, 2023 Recent Events Utqiagvik Annual Maintenance Visit. Winston Luke traveled to Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska to perform an annual maintenance visit for the atmospheric mercury speciation instrumentation installed at the NOAA Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory (BRW). Concentrations of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), gaseous oxidized mercury (GOM) and particulate-bound mercury…
ARL Weekly News – October 27, 2023 Recent Events Climate news story featuring Howard Diamond Dr. Howard Diamond, Climate Science Program Manager for NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, was interviewed by WGXA in Macon, Ga, about carbon emissions. As he stated: “I equate it to a bathtub. If the bathtub has the drain open but you…
ARL Weekly News – October 20, 2023 Recent Events ARL scientists interviewed for Baltimore News Baltimore CBS affiliate WJZ aired an interview with ARL’s Phil Stratton and Xinrong Ren about the Air Resources Car and its research on the greenhouse gas emissions detection in industrial neighborhoods in south Baltimore. Link: https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/video/noaas-arc-collects-greenhouse-gas-emissions-data-across-city-state/ ARL Scientists visited CSL…
ARL Weekly News – October 13, 2023 Recent Events NOAA Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Workshop The report from the NOAA Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Workshop has been released. The report titled: NOAA’s Greenhouse Gas Capabilities and Products outlines the event’s summary that was co-organized by GML, ARL and CPO. The workshop brought together representatives from across line…
ARL Weekly News – October 6, 2023 Recent and Upcoming Events Colorado Air Quality campaign. On Sept 27, Phillip Stratton and Jiyang Sun began the 1,700-mile drive to Broomfield, CO from the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction Center in College Park, MD. They are bringing NOAA’s Air Resources Car (ARC) to Colorado to participate…
ARL Weekly News – September 29, 2023 Upcoming Events. Presentations and Conferences: Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee. On October 4th, Nebila Lichiheb is an invited speaker for the Atmospheric Dispersion Modelling Liaison Committee. The ADMLC seminar is sponsored by the UK Health Security Agency, Harwell (near Oxford). The topic of the presentation is: Processes of…
ARL Weekly News – September 15, 2023 Recent Events Fantine Ngan attended the 2023 International MACCS User Group (IMUG) Meeting (https://maccs.sandia.gov/events.aspx) and gave an oral presentation on “The Use of Meteorological Fields Nudged with Local Observations for Dispersion Modeling And Recent HYSPLIT Updates.” The workshop was held virtually by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and Sandia…
ARL Weekly News – September 8, 2023 Upcoming Events ARL prepares for a field campaign to study emissions from oil and gas operations in Colorado. In collaboration with CSL, University of Maryland, and University of Colorado Boulder, ARL scientists will participate in a field campaign in Colorado in October/November 2023 to study emissions of methane…
ARL Weekly News – September 1, 2023 Recent Events Notes From the Field – USCRN Installations in Alaska Two new stations are now online in the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) USCRN Team members – Josh Blackwell, Blake Randolph, Zack Henderson, Brandon McCloy, Chuck Lindsey, John Kochendorfer, and Mark Hall – recently returned from Alaska.…