ARL Weekly News – October 1, 2021

Upcoming Events

Leadership Visits

NOAA Administrator Spinrad will visit ARL’s Las Vegas SORD on October 19, meeting with Acting Director Ariel Stein and the SORD staff.

Previous Events

AmeriFlux Annual Meeting 2021

Praveena Krishnan and Tilden Meyers attended Ameriflux annual meeting held virtually during September 20-22, 2021. The theme of the meeting was ‘Reflect | Connect: AmeriFlux in 2021’. The sessions focused on water fluxes, natural climate solutions, and other open science questions, while many breakout rooms discussed different raising topics in flux and science communities.

Recent Publications

Papers Published

How Well are We Measuring Snow Post-SPICE?  Accurate snowfall measurements are necessary for meteorology, hydrology, and climate research. Typical uses include creating and calibrating gridded precipitation products, the verification of model simulations, driving hydrologic models, input into aircraft deicing processes, and estimating streamflow runoff in the spring. These applications are significantly impacted by errors in solid precipitation measurements. The recent WMO Solid Precipitation Intercomparison Experiment (SPICE) attempted to characterize and reduce some of the measurement uncertainties through an international effort involving 15 countries utilizing over 20 types and models of precipitation gauges from various manufacturers. Key results from WMO-SPICE are presented herein. Recent work and future research opportunities that build on the results of WMO-SPICE are also highlighted.

Kochendorfer, J., Earle, M., Rasmussen, R., Smith, C., Yang, D., Morin, S., Mekis, E., Buisan, S., Roulet, Y., Landolt, S., Wolff, M., Hoover, J., Thériault, J. M., Lee, G., Baker, B., Nitu, R., Lanza, L., Colli, M., & Meyers, T. (2021). How Well are We Measuring Snow Post-SPICE?, Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (published online ahead of print 2021). Retrieved Oct 5, 2021, from https://journals.ametsoc.org/view/journals/bams/aop/BAMS-D-20-0228.1/BAMS-D-20-0228.1.xml (Sept 16, 2021)

Papers Accepted:

Optimizing Carbon Cycle Parameters Drastically Improves Terrestrial Biosphere Model Underestimates of Dryland Mean Net CO2Flux and its Inter-Annual Variability was accepted in Journal of Geophysical Research Biogeosciences. Authors include  Tilden P. Meyers and Praveena Krishnan.