ARL Weekly News – July 20, 2018 HQ WMO RSMC Dispersion Modeling Development: Glenn Rolph has been nominated to lead the effort to complete work on implementing the Transfer Coefficient Matrix (TCM) application developed at ARL for use within the World Meteorological Organization’s (WMO) Emergency Response Activities Program. The TCM application will allow more flexibility…
ARL Weekly News – July 13, 2018 FRD The manuscript “Distinct Turbulence Structures in Stably Stratified Boundary Layers with Weak and Strong Surface Shear” with Heping Liu from Washington State University as lead author and Dennis Finn as a coauthor received highly favorable reviews in the Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres. It examines turbulent…
ARL Weekly News – July 6, 2018 HQ Long Island Sound Tropospheric Ozone Study (LISTOS): ARL’s air pollutant-measuring equipment, aboard the University of Maryland’s research aircraft, flew over the New York City and Long Island Sound area on July 2 during an episode of the worst air quality in over 10 years, with severe haze…
ARL Weekly News – June 29, 2018 FRD Roger Carter has been investigating some of the newer halocarbons that are becoming available for their suitability as possible atmospheric tracers. These halocarbons are starting to be used as refrigerants and foam blowing agents, and they have relatively low global warming potentials.Cost, reactivity, and compatibility with existing…
ARL Weekly News – June 22, 2018 HQ A paper titled ”Top-down Estimates of NOx and CO Emissions from Washington, D.C.-Baltimore During the WINTER Campaign,” co-authored by Olivia Salmon, Paul Shepson, Xinrong Ren et al., has been accepted for publication in Journal of Geophysical Research – Atmospheres. The paper presents emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx)…
ARL Weekly News – June 8, 2018 SORD James Wood and Rick Lantrip participated in an emergency response exercise as the Consequence Assessment Team (CAT) for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Nevada Field Office (NFO). The exercise was conducted on the Nevada National Security Site (NNSS). In this event, the activities to be conducted…
ARL Weekly News – June 1, 2018 HQ The Fiscal Year 2018 Information Technology Security Assessment & Authorization activities for ARL took place between March 26, 2018 and May 31, 2018. On May 31, Rick Jiang (System Owner) presented the package to Gary Matlock (Authorizing Official), Jeremy Warren (Co-Authorizing Official), and Ariel Stein (Acting Director).…
ARL Weekly News – May 25, 2018 HQ Alice Crawford and Barbara Stunder are supporting the Washington Volcanic Ash Advisory Center (VAAC) in the VAAC’s response to the ongoing Kilauea eruption. They have been participating in daily conference calls with U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), VAAC, and Honolulu Weather Forecast Office staff. Alice is posting, on…
HQ Flash Leaflet Maps: This week the HYSPLIT Weather Forecast Office website interface was updated to allow the HYSPLIT results to be displayed on a JavaScript Leaflet open source mapping application. The updates are necessary to meet a June deadline when support will end for the mapping software used in current versions of the interface.…
ARL Weekly News – May 11, 2018 HQ A global aerosol forecasting operational model, dubbed as the NOAA Environmental Modeling System (NEMS) and Global Forecast System (GFS) Aerosol Component (NGAC), has been implemented at the National Weather Service (NWS). Pius Lee and Youhua Tang contributed to this fruition of launching the first global aerosol forecast service at NWS by confirming its skill in capturing…