ARL News Augustine Volcano (Alaska) Near to Eruption – HYSPLIT at the Hub of Activity January 11, 2006 Augustine volcano, about 300 km southwest of Anchorage, has just been classified Code Red by the USGS, meaning that “the current activity may be emitting ash, steam, and volcanic gases.” This is based on seismic information.…
ARL’s Roland Draxler Selected by Commerce Secretary Locke for a Gold Medal Congratulations to Roland Draxler for receiving the U.S. Department of Commerce 2009 Individual Gold Medal Award for Scientific/Engineering Achievement. Mr. Draxler is recognized “for being the driving force behind the initial development and continued improvement of the HYbrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT)…
ARL and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Sign Memorandum of Understanding August, 2015 A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been signed by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) and the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory with the purpose of allowing both parties to collaborate on research related to atmospheric transport and dispersion (ATD) of radiological contaminants. In…
ARL-authored paper on the NOAA HYSPLIT modeling system December, 2015 ARL scientists Ariel Stein, Roland Draxler, Glenn Rolph, Barbara Stunder, Mark Cohen, and Fantine Ngan are co-authors on a Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) article titled: “NOAA’s HYSPLIT atmospheric transport and dispersion modeling system,” published in the December 2015 issue. The cover, pictured on the…
Roland Draxler Receives OAR Distinguished Career Award May, 2016 Congratulations to ARL’s Roland Draxler for receiving an OAR Distinguished Career Award. Awardees are honored for cumulative career achievement of sustained excellence, rather than a single defined accomplishment, in specific categories. Winners are recognized for significant accomplishments across all NOAA program areas and functions resulting in…
NOAA Research Assistant Administrator visits the Air Research Lab May 11, 2026 ARL planned hands-on activities demonstrating some of the lab’s work during a visit by Steven Thur, the Assistant Administrator for NOAA Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (NOAA Research), on Wednesday. Dr. Thur visits with early career scientists and interns at ARL during a brown…
ARL scientists busy at the 2026 American Meteorological Society annual meeting February 11, 2026 In addition to their very successful presentations, ARL scientists chaired sessions and took advantage of opportunities to meet with collaborators they typically don’t have the chance to meet in person during the American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting at the end…
HYSPLIT References We would like to add your research papers referencing HYSPLIT. Please send your reference to the ARL Webmaster. Amiridis, V., D.S. Balis, S. Kazadzis, A. Bais, E. Giannakaki, A. Papayannis and C. Zerefos, Four-year aerosol observations with a Raman lidar at Thessaloniki, Greece, in the framework of EARLINET, J. of Geophys. Res, 110,…