ARL Weekly News – July 22, 2024 Recent Events HYSPLIT tracks plume from industrial fire The NWS Weather Forecasting Office provided support via HYSPLIT plumes for an industrial fire in northwest Portland, OR. The fire was classified as a four-alarm fire at a metal recycling facility scrap yard containing cars, appliances, and other large metal…
ARL Weekly News – July 15, 2024 Recent Events Airborne Methane Mass Balance Emissions in Colorado Field Study The Airborne Methane Mass Balance Emissions in Colorado (AMMBEC) field study was successfully completed by the ASMD measurement team. This three-week study focused on the Denver-Julesburg basin and the Denver metropolitan area. A total of 22 research…
ARL Weekly News – July 8, 2024 Recent Events NOAA Day on the Hill Paul Kelley (L) and Winston Luke (R) at the ARL table during the NOAA Day on the Hill. Photo Credit: Ariel Stein On Wednesday, 10 July, Ariel Stein, Paul Kelley and Winston Luke attended the NOAA Day on the Hill, an…
ARL Weekly News – July 1, 2024 Recent Events HYSPLIT Helps with July 4th Forecasting The WFO New York, NY used the HYSPLIT model to support daily briefings to several New York agencies and public safety operations starting 1 July in the lead up to fireworks on Independence Day. NOAA Research’s Assistant Administrator Steve Thur…
ARL Weekly News – June 17, 2024 Recent Events ARL and the National Atmospheric Deposition Program provide data for important research A paper was recently published in Environmental Research Letters about National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP) data used to document the effects of the East Palestine, OH train derailment on February 3, 2023. The paper…
ARL Weekly News – June 10, 2024 Upcoming Events ARL 75th Anniversary Open House ARL continues its 75th Anniversary celebrations with an Open House event hosted at the Special Operations and Research Division in Idaho Falls, ID on June 26. Attendees will have the chance to talk to the scientists, engineers, and technicians building weather…
ARL Weekly News – June 3, 2024 Upcoming Events Interns and Field Campaigns Three summer intern students will participate in the air quality and greenhouse measurement team’s two field projects in Colorado and Utah, namely Airborne Methane Mass Balance Emissions in Colorado (AMMBEC) and Utah Summer Ozone Study (USOS), as part of 2024 Airborne and…
ARL Weekly News – May 27, 2024 Publications and Presentations First Author Publication: Ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and PM2.5 estimation from observation-model machine learning fusion over South Korea: Influence of observation density, chemical transport model resolution, and geostationary remotely sensed AOD Beiming Tang of ARL’s Atmospheric Sciences and Modeling Division was the first author on…
ARL Weekly News – May 20, 2024 Publications and Presentations UrbanNet: the NOAA Air Resources Laboratory’s Urban Observing Program On May 22, Nebila Lichiheb presented an overview of the UrbanNet observing program; including the history of its predecessor, DCNet, a description of the currently established UrbanNet sites and the future of the project. This…
ARL Weekly News – (May 6, 2024) Recent Events NOAA Air Resources Car at Maryland Day (L to R) Phillip Stratton, Jiayang Sun and Xinrong Ren with the Air Resources Car at UMD. ARL brought the Air Resources Car (ARC) out to the annual Maryland Day event at the University of Maryland campus in College…