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…
DetailsARL 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…
DetailsARL 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…
DetailsARL 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…
DetailsARL 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”,…
DetailsARL 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…
DetailsFebruary 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…
DetailsARL Weekly News – January 27, 2023 Conferences and Events WMO Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Symposium Chris Loughner will attend the WMO International Greenhouse Gas Monitoring Symposium January 30-February 1, where he will present a talk titled “Development of a prototype operational greenhouse gas emissions estimation system.” He will also be attending the IG3IS Stakeholder consultation…
DetailsARL Weekly News – January 20, 2023 Announcements 2022 Silver Medal Award awarded to Rick Saylor for Air Quality Model. On January 24, the Department of Commerce awarded the Silver Medal to two OAR team members who participated as part of a National Weather Service team that provided critical contributions to the NAQFC. Rick Saylor…
DetailsARL Weekly News – January 13, 2023 Announcements and Events ARL participates in aircraft and mobile observations of urban greenhouse gas emissions. In collaboration with their colleagues from NIST, University of Maryland, and Stony Brook University, ARL’s Phil Stratton, Xinrong Ren, Paul Kelley, and Winston Luke are involved in some winter research flights to investigate…
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