ARL Weekly News – Oct 14, 2022

ARL Weekly News – October 14, 2022 Recent Events Morristown WFO Supports Alabama v Tennessee game WFO Morristown provided onsite and HYSPLIT meteorological support to emergency managers supporting University of Tennessee activities at Neyland Stadium on Saturday, October 15.   This key NCAA football match – Alabama Crimson Tide v Tennessee Volunteers – offers an opportunity…

ARL Weekly News – Oct 7, 2022

ARL Weekly News – Oct 7, 2022 Recent Events SORD-ID Participates in Local Safety Fairs Recently ARL SORD-ID Meteorologists Jason Rich and Matt Brewer and Administrative Assistant Karly Curtis participated in three safety fairs hosted by organizations associated with the Department of Energy-Idaho Operations Office. These events proved to be an excellent opportunity to get…

ARL Weekly News – September 23, 2022

ARL Weekly News – September 23, 2022. Recent Events Emissions measurements in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay presented to Maryland Department of the Environment On Friday September 16, Phil Stratton presented a preliminary analysis of mobile measurements he and Xinrong Ren made between March and May of this year. The presentation was given to the Maryland Department…

ARL Weekly News – Sept 16, 2022

ARL Weekly News – September 16, 2022 Recent Events WMO Releases Air Quality and Climate Update The 2022 WMO Air Quality and Climate Bulletin No. 2, released on September 7, provides an update on the global distribution of particulate matter for 2021, highlighting the contribution of extreme wildfire events. The Bulletin also underscores the relationship…

ARL Weekly News – Sept 9, 2022

ARL Weekly News – September 9, 2022 Recent Events Hazen NV HAZMAT situation uses HYSPLIT modeling Multiple agencies responded to a fire of railroad ties in Hazen, NV on September 7, 2022. The large black smoke plume caused concern for the air quality in the area, as railroad ties are treated with creosote. Evacuations were…

ARL Weekly News – Sept 2, 2022

ARL Weekly News – September 2, 2022 Recent Events 2021 Edition of the State of the Climate Report Now Available The 2021 edition of the annual State of the Climate Report was published and released on August 31st. The report, compiled by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information, is based on contributions from scientists from…

ARL Weekly News – August 26, 2022

ARL Weekly News – August 26, 2022 Recent Events National Ambient Air Monitoring Conference Phil Stratton, Winston Luke and Xinrong Ren attended the National Ambient Air Monitoring Conference (NAAMC) in Pittsburgh, PA from Monday-Thursday, August 22-25. The conference was primarily for federal, state, local and tribal air pollution organizations involved with operating, planning, or managing…

ARL Weekly News – August 19, 2022

ARL Weekly News – August 19, 2022 Recent Events The Flux Observations of Carbon from an Airborne Laboratory (FOCAL) Project Team Returns from Alaska’s North Slope An ATDD team including Praveena Krishnan, Mark Heuer, Dominick Christensen, and Tom Wood traveled to Prudhoe Bay in Alaska during August 8 to 14, 2022 to start ground-based observations…

ARL Weekly News – August 12, 2022

ARL Weekly News – August 12, 2022 Recent Events Riverside County Alert for a railcar carrying styrene on August 11, 2022. HYSPLIT Supports Response to Railcar HAZMAT situation near Riverside, California An overheated rail car carrying styrene was monitored by NOAA Weather Forecast Office (WFO) San Diego beginning on August 11, 2022. A local evacuation…