March 21, 2025
On March 12th, ARL’s Dr. Winston Luke was recognized for his lifetime career achievements in advancing the scientific understanding of the behavior, transport and dispersion of mercury in the environment, which is critical to the health and lives of U.S. citizens.
March 20, 2025
Air Resources Laboratory’s (ARL) HYSPLIT model is one of the most extensively used atmospheric transport and dispersion models in the atmospheric sciences community. It has been used in a variety of simulations including applications tracking and forecasting the release of radioactive material, wildfire smoke, dust, allergens and volcanic ash.
December 18, 2024
On Monday, December 16, NOAA Administrator Dr. Richard Spinrad accompanied the FAA Administrator, Michael Whitaker on a visit to NOAA’s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction building in College Park, MD.
ARL Weekly News – March 3, 2025 Recent Events HYSPLIT update approved for operations HYSPLIT v9 has been approved for implementation into the National Center for Environmental Protections operations. HYSPLIT v9 provides significant enhancements, including updates to the model code, the addition of a transfer coefficient matrix (TCM) capability for volcanic ash and radiological releases,…
Recent Events HYSPLIT v9 approved for implemented into operations by the National Center for Environmental Protections (NCEP) This version provides significant enhancements, including updates to the model code, the addition of a transfer coefficient matrix (TCM) capability for volcanic ash and radiological releases, and stronger integration with global weather prediction models. Developed after the Fukushima-Daiichi…
ARL Weekly News – February 10, 2025 Presentations and Publications 6th Annual Summit Presentation Praveena Krishnan, LaToya Myles, and John Kochendorfer attended Keep Knoxville Beautiful (KKB)’s 6th Annual Summit at the East Tennessee History Center on February 7, 2025. Centered around the theme ‘How to Build a Heat-Resilient City,’ the summit explored innovative strategies for…
Hung, W.-T., Campbell, P. C., Moon, Z., Saylor, R., Kochendorfer, J., Lee, T. R., & Massman, W. (2024). Evaluation of an in-canopy wind and wind adjustment factor model for wildfire spread applications across scales. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 16, e2024MS004300. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024MS004300 https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2024.2393178
Tang, B., Stanier, C. O., Carmichael, G. R. & Gao, M. (2024). Ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and PM2.5 estimation from observation-model machine learning fusion over D. Korea: Influence of observation density, chemical transport model resolution, and geostationary remotely sensed AOD. Atmospheric Environment, 331, 120603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.120603 Dickerson, R. R., Stratton, P., Ren, X., Kelley, P., Heaney, C. D., Deanes, L., Aubourg, M., Spicer, K., Dreessen, J., Auvil, R., Sawtell, G., Thomas, M., Campbell, S., & Sanchez, C. (2024). Mobile laboratory measurements of air pollutants in Baltimore, MD elucidate issues of environmental justice. Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association, 1–18. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10962247.2024.2393178 Sahu, S., Ahn, D., Loughner, C. P., & Dickerson, R. R. (2024). Influence of synoptic weather patterns on methane mixing ratios in the Baltimore/Washington region. Atmospheric Environment, 334, 120675. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atmosenv.2024.120675