ARL Weekly News – February 21, 2024 ARL 75th Anniversary at AMS ARL celebrated 75 years of Weather and Climate Research at AMS. Three sessions highlighted the lab’s history, research, and partnerships, and the day closed out with a talk from OAR AA Steve Thur. The planning committee, consisting of Ariel Stein, LaToya Myles, Michelle…
ARL Weekly News – February 9, 2024 Publications Published: Comparative analysis of aerosol vertical characteristics over the North China Plain based on multi-Source observation data Wang, F., Z. Li, Q. J., X. Ren, H. He, Y. Tang, X. Dong, Y. Sun, and R. R. Dickerson, Comparative analysis of aerosol vertical characteristics over the North China…
Publications Published: Case study of a bore wind-ramp event from lidar measurements and HRRR simulations over ARM Southern Great Plains Pichugina, Y., R. M. Banta, E. J. Strobach, B. J. Carroll, W. A. Brewer, D. D. Turner, V. O. Wulfmeyer, E. James, T. R. Lee, S. Baidar, J. B. Olson, R. K. Newsom, H.-S. Bauer,…
ARL Weekly News – December 15, 2023 Recent Events HYSPLIT Support to the Oxnard WFO for the Rose Bowl Tournament. Per request from WFO Los Angeles/Oxnard in CA, an automated hourly HYSPLIT run was set up on December 15th. This is in support of the Tournament of Roses Parade and Rose Bowl game from December…
ARL Weekly News – December 8, 2023 Recent Events ARL Attends AGU23 Meeting Presentations on arctic amplification of climate change, air quality, and western hydrology during a season of intense atmospheric rivers are just a few of the topics covered by ARL research at the 2023 AGU annual meeting held December 111-15, 20223. The AGU23…
ARL Weekly News – December 1, 2023 Recent Events ARL Plays Key Role in U.S. Greenhouse Gas Measurement, Monitoring, and Information System As announced by the White House today, NOAA is a key participant in the development of a national system aiming to monitor greenhouse gas emissions. This system will combine capabilities from NOAA and…
ARL Weekly News – November 24, 2023 Publications Published: SURFATM: A model for the exchanges of energy, ammonia, ozone, and pesticides between soil, vegetation, and the atmosphere at the field scale. Citation: E. Personne, C. Bedos, N. Lichiheb, B. Loubet, P. Stella. SURFATM: A model for the exchanges of energy, ammonia, ozone, and pesticides between…
ARL Weekly News – November 17, 2023 Recent Events Urbannet Instrumentation Under Evaluation at NCWCP. Paul Kelley and Winston Luke installed a Vaisala CL51 ceilometer on the rooftop platform at NCWCP. The CL51 uses a pulsed diode LiDAR for full backscatter profiling to detect three cloud layer heights up to 15km (49,200ft). Aerosol backscatter in…
ARL Weekly News – November 10, 2023 Recent Events Utqiagvik Annual Maintenance Visit. Winston Luke traveled to Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska to perform an annual maintenance visit for the atmospheric mercury speciation instrumentation installed at the NOAA Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory (BRW). Concentrations of gaseous elemental mercury (GEM), gaseous oxidized mercury (GOM) and particulate-bound mercury…
ARL Weekly News – October 27, 2023 Recent Events Climate news story featuring Howard Diamond Dr. Howard Diamond, Climate Science Program Manager for NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, was interviewed by WGXA in Macon, Ga, about carbon emissions. As he stated: “I equate it to a bathtub. If the bathtub has the drain open but you…