ARL Weekly News – November 9, 2018 ATDD ATDD’s Howard Diamond and Tilden Meyers participated in NOAA’s Climate Program Office (CPO) Earth System Science and Modeling meeting November 6-7 in Silver Spring, Maryland, along with ARL’s Acting Director, Dr. Ariel Stein. Diamond presented “Air Resources Laboratory’s Role in a Bedrock to Boundary Layer (B2B) Initiative”…
ARL Weekly News – November 2, 2018 HQ Winston Luke will travel to Albany, New York from November 4-10 to attend the technical and science committee meetings of the National Atmospheric Deposition Program (NADP). NADP is a cooperative program of federal, state, tribal and local agencies, educational institutions, private companies and non-governmental organizations, and provides…
ARL Weekly News – October 26, 2018 HQ The 17th Annual Community Modeling and Analysis System (CMAS) Conference, sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, was held between October 22 and 24, 2018 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ARL led and contributed to 10 presentations. Youhua Tang, Tianfeng Chai and Daniel Tong focused on emission…
ARL Weekly News – October 19, 2018 HQ Pius Lee attended an annual Interagency Monitoring of Protected Visual Environment (IMPROVE) Network Steering Committee Meeting in Fort Collins, Colorado, October 16-17. IMPROVE is one of the longest running surface speciated particulate matter monitoring network that had its first every third day continuous speciated aerosol mass sample…
HQ WMO Commission of Basic Systems’ Expert Team on Emergency Response Activities Meeting: Glenn Rolph participated as an invited guest at the WMO Commission of Basic Systems’ (CBS) Expert Team on Emergency Response Activities (ET-ERA) meeting in Vienna, Austria from October 1 to 5. The meeting is held every 2 or 3 years to coordinate…
ARL Weekly News – October 5, 2018 FRD Dennis Finn submitted an abstract entitled “Wind Direction Changes and Plume Behavior in Very Stable Conditions” to the 2019 American Meteorological Society meeting next January in Phoenix. The abstract has been accepted for oral presentation as part of the 21st Conference on Air Chemistry. This work is…
FRD Sudheer Bhimireddy, a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas San Antonio, gave a GoToMeeting presentation this week on his research involving Large Eddy Simulations of tracer releases from Project Sagebrush. His initial work focuses on the daytime releases in Phase 1 of Project Sagebrush. Sudheer ultimately wants to add cloud buoyancy effects into…
ARL Weekly News – September 21, 2018 SORD Walt Schalk and James Wood gave a tour to about 15 to 20 people consisting of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists and Department of Defense (DoD) representatives on Tuesday, 9/18. The tours were a part of the Federal Expertise Training program hosted by the Nevada National Security…
ARL Weekly News – September 14, 2018 HQ ARL’s HYSPLIT group presented “Then and Now: How HYSPLIT Changed the Course of Transport and Dispersion Modeling and Fundamentally Embedded Itself into both Research and Operational Decision-Making” at NOAA’s first General Modeling Meeting and Fair in College Park, Maryland. Coordinated by Dr. Alice Crawford, this exhibit on…
HQ ARL’s HYSPLIT group presented “Then and Now: How HYSPLIT Changed the Course of Transport and Dispersion Modeling and Fundamentally Embedded Itself into both Research and Operational Decision-Making” at NOAA’s first General Modeling Meeting and Fair in College Park, Maryland. Coordinated by Dr. Alice Crawford, this exhibit on September 11 featured work by the entire…