ARL Weekly News – May 21, 2021 Recent Events National Atmospheric Deposition Program Spring Meeting From May 10-14, and May 19 Winston Luke convened and hosted significant portions of the Spring meeting of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP). Originally to be held in Madison, WI, the meeting was instead attended virtually by over 80…
ARL Weekly News – May 14, 2021 Recent Events Papers Published Patrick Campbell coauthors a recent GRL paper: US COVID-19 shutdown shows importance of background NO2 in inferring nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from satellite NO2 observations. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021GL092783 Abstract: Satellite nitrogen dioxide (NO2) measurements are used extensively to infer nitrogen oxide emissions and their trends, but…
ARL Weekly News – May 7, 2021 Recent Events Papers Accepted: Bruce Baker is a Co-author on a paper that has been accepted by the Vadose Zone Journal entitled: Developing a Strategy for the National Coordinated Soil Moisture Monitoring Network. Soil moisture is a critical land surface variable, impacting a wide variety of climatological, agricultural, and hydrological…
ARL Weekly News – April 30, 2021 Recent Events Lightning and Subvisible Discharges Produce Molecules that Cleanse the Atmosphere The paper entitled: Extreme oxidant amounts produced by lightning in storm clouds, was published in Science on April 29, 2021. From the abstract: Lightning increases the atmosphere’s ability to cleanse itself by producing nitric oxide (NO),…
ARL Weekly News – April 23, 2021 Recent Events WMO Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) As a member of the WMO Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Surface Reference Network (GSRN) Task Team, Dr. Howard Diamond will be attending the virtual 2nd GSRN Task Team Meeting from April 28-29 and will make a presentation on the…
ARL Weekly News – April 16, 2021 Recent Events NOAA, NIST complete installation of Lidar instrument on Commerce building to track weather and greenhouse gas emissions NOAA and NIST installed a Doppler lidar instrument on top of the Department of Commerce’s Herbert Clark Hoover Building in Washington, D.C. on April 16, 2021, for a research…
ARL Weekly News – April 9, 2021 Upcoming Events National Air Quality Forecast Capability Delivery Begins. ARL is finalizing delivery of the upgrade to the National Air Quality Forecast Capability (AQM v6.0 Upgrade; GFSv16-NACC-CMAQv5.3.1) to NWS. The upgrade is expected to go into operation this summer and will extend current air quality forecasting ability to…
ARL Weekly News – April 2, 2021 Upcoming Events LIDAR Installation with NIST Planned for Mid-April. A joint NOAA and NIST research project will install a LIDAR instrument in the Department of Commerce’s Hoover Building in Washington, DC alongside NOAA’s existing meteorological network. The LIDAR measures wind speed and direction at different heights and will…
ARL Weekly News – March 19, 2021 Recent Events Praveena Krishnan Praveena Krishnan of ARL Praveena was interviewed by OAR Research for Women’s History Month. She is an atmospheric scientist at the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory’s ATDD in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and describes learning from setbacks and following your passion. OAR Research Profile of Praveena Krishnan
ARL Weekly News – March 12, 2021 Recent Events Senate Testimony describes 25 Year partnership with ARL’s Surface Energy Budget Network (SEBN) John Reifsteck, Chairman of the Board and President, GROWMARK, Inc., offered testimony to the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry committee during a March 11 hearing titled: Farmers and Foresters: Opportunities to Lead in…