ARL Weekly News – October 25, 2019 ASMD Dr. Howard Diamond participated in a conference call with NOAA’s Pacific Regional Climate Services Director, the National Weather Service Pacific Region Headquarters, and the staff from the Weather Service Office (WSO) in Pago Pago, American Samoa to help with developing this season’s Tropical Cyclone (TC) Outlook for…
ARL Weekly News – October 18, 2019 ASMD A paper titled ”The evaluation of mixing methods in HYSPLIT using measurements from controlled tracer experiments” authored by Fong Ngan, Christopher P. Loughner, and Ariel Stein, has been accepted for publication in Atmospheric Environment. In this paper, we evaluated the turbulent mixing methods available in HYSPLIT and…
ARL Weekly News – October 11, 2019 ASMD Dr. Howard Diamond, the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) Program Manager reports that on October 9th, the 23rd operational USCRN station was installed and made active at Aleknagik in the southwestern portion of Alaska. The program is now nearly 80% complete with the USCRN configuration of stations…
ARL Weekly News – October 4, 2019 ASMD ARL Acting Deputy Director Dr. Ariel Stein will teach a HYSPLIT workshop at the University of Huelva in Huelva, Spain, from October 7-9, 2019, along with retired NOAA scientist and HYSPLIT developer Roland Draxler. This workshop is tailored to bolster interactions with the scientific community and promote the exchange…
ASMD Tianfeng Chai will give a presentation at 2019 Joint Satellite Conference on October 3 in Boston, MA, titled, “Smoke forecasts using HYSPLIT-based emission inverse modeling system and NOAA GOES smoke products.” Dr. Hyun Cheol Kim will attend multiple meetings in the Republic of Korea from October 1-11, beginning with a project progress meeting on…
ARL Weekly News – September 20, 2019 ASMD Dr. Pius Lee will attend the 37th International Technical Meeting on Air Pollution Modelling and its Application (ITM 2019) in Hamburg, Germany, from September 23-27. While there, he will present “Satellite-aided regional dust forecast to mitigate impact of valley fever and visibility-impairment adverse effects in Southwestern United…
ARL Weekly News – September 13, 2019 ATDD LaToya Myles will give an invited talk to the East Tennessee Economic Council on Friday, September 20 at the University of Tennessee Outreach Center in Oak Ridge, TN. Titled, “NOAA ATDD: Science, Service, and Stewardship in Oak Ridge,” the purpose this talk is to provide an overview…
ARL Weekly News – September 6, 2019 ASMD The Impact of Hurricane Dorian on the U.S. Climate Reference Network (USCRN) The following is reported by Dr. Howard Diamond, the USCRN Program Manager. During the North Atlantic hurricane season, USCRN stations from southern Texas all the way around the Gulf of Mexico, and up the Atlantic…
ARL Weekly News – August 30, 2019 ASMD Fire Influence on Regional to Global Environments and Air Quality (FIREX-AQ): ASMD staff (Drs. Patrick Campbell, Youhua Tang, Daniel Tong and Pius Lee) are continuing to provide forecasting support to the joint NOAA-NASA FIREX-AQ campaign in the Western U.S. using comprehensive air quality simulations and near real-time…
ARL Weekly News – August 23, 2019 ASMD OAR Data Management Group – At the request of Gary Matlock, OAR’s Deputy Associate Administrator for Science, a new OAR Data Management Group has been formed to help coordinate and serve as an OAR-wide advisory group related to NOAA’s Environmental Data Management Committee (EDMC). The OAR representative…