ARL Weekly News – April 7, 2023 Recent Events Women of NOAA StoryCorps video The Women of NOAA ERG has posted a video recognizing the important role mentors play in how we view ourselves and our agency as we move forward in our success. Producers included ARL’s Gabrielle Land, and some ARL images appear in…
ARL Weekly News – March 31, 2023 Recent Events and Announcements Release of NACC-Cloud Version 1.0 for Community Air Quality Modeling Under the ongoing NOAA-OAR Cloud Incubator Project, Drs. Patrick Campbell, Rick Jiang, and Zach Moon of NOAA-ARL ASMD are pleased to announce the release of the NOAA-EPA Atmosphere Chemistry Coupler (NACC) in the cloud,…
ARL Weekly News – March 24, 2023 Upcoming and Recent Events NOAA Assistant Administrator for Research Visits ARL Steve Thur, NOAA’s Assistant Administrator for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, visits ARL on Monday, March 27, for meetings and a series of briefings on lab capabilities, research and facilities. An all hands meeting will invite all ARL…
ARL Weekly News – March 17, 2023 Recent Activities HYSPLIT Prescribed Burn Capability Upgraded. The prescribed burn capability employing BlueSky 4 from the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) was upgraded this week to several online HYSPLIT applications. The upgraded prescribed burn is available to NWS Weather Forecast Offices, registered HYSPLIT users, and public users through several…
ARL Weekly News – March 10, 2023 Recent Activities AEROMMA Sensor Evaluation Xinrong Ren, Phil Stratton, and Winston Luke met with Professor Mark Zondlo and his research group at Princeton University on Thursday, March 9. Dr. Zondlo has developed a unique open-path sensor for the sensitive and rapid detection of atmospheric ammonia (NH3), which solves…
ARL Weekly News – March 3, 2023 Recent Events Utah Summer Ozone Study Planning. ARL and ESRL Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) scientists held preliminary discussions to collaborate on the Utah Summer Ozone Study (USOS) in Salt Lake City, Utah. NOAA CSL will conduct a study of summertime ozone in the Wasatch Front region of northern…
ARL Weekly News – February 25, 2023 Recent Activities DCNet Site Upgrades Include Updated Towers and Instrumentation. Randy White, Tom Wood, and Dominick Christensen (ATDD) traveled to Washington DC where they were met by Paul Kelley, Xinrong Ren, Phil Stratton, and Winston Luke (ASMD) to upgrade the DCNet measurement site atop the Herbert C. Hoover…
ARL Weekly News – February 17, 2023 Recent Activities Presentation to Howard Univ. on GHG Monitoring project. Xinrong Ren was invited by Dr. Sen Chiao at Howard University to give a department seminar on the work of the GHG monitoring team. This presentation titled “Measurements of Air Pollution and Greenhouse Gases in the Mid-Atlantic Region”,…
ARL Weekly News – February 10, 2023 Media Mentions NOAA’s Air Resources Car (ARC) profiled on DC area news ARL’s work on monitoring greenhouse gases was featured on a WUSA-TV Channel 9 piece by meteorologist Kaitlyn McGrath. The DC area news outlet covered the research that Xinrong Ren and Phil Stratton are conducting with mobile…
February 24, 2023 Update About NOAA’s HYSPLIT The NOAA HYSPLIT model is used to simulate the direction and dispersion of substances– including hazardous materials– through the atmosphere. It is used for emergency response by NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS). NWS offices run the model during local coordination with agencies responding to emergency events, and the…