ARL Weekly News – August 18, 2023 Recent Publications Published: Impacts of the COVID-19 economic slowdown on soybean crop yields in the United States Differences in yield losses between BAU and C19 (i.e., C19-BAU) scenarios by county. Yield improvements (blue counties) are depicted in widespread areas in the Midwest and Southeast. Increased yield loss (red…
DetailsARL Weekly News – August 11, 2023 Recent Events NOAA Administrator, SRC visit Air Resources Lab as part of College Park Meeting As part of the Senior Research Council meeting the week of Aug 10, the NOAA Administrator and SRC members toured ARL and the Air Resources Car. Following briefings on ARL research topics such…
DetailsARL Weekly News – August 4, 2023 Recent Events Short term forecasting assistance to Morristown WFO On 7 August, Temple Lee, Tom Wood, Kurt Daniels, Dominick Christensen, and Randy White performed a weather balloon launch from ATDD to support short-term weather forecasting needs for the National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office in Morristown, Tennessee prior…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 28, 2023 Recent Events ARL Field Deployment in NY/CT during AEROMMA In collaboration with University of Maryland, University Research Foundation, Yale University, and Princeton University, ARL scientists are participating in the field deployment in New York and Connecticut during the Atmospheric Emissions and Reactions Observed from Megacities to Marine Area…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 21, 2023 Recent Events Media Mentions Howard Diamond was quoted in a USAToday Fact Check article: Human greenhouse gas emissions, not El Niño, drive climate change Publications Accepted A comprehensive approach combining positive matrix factorization modeling, meteorology, and machine learning for source apportionment of surface ozone precursors: Underlying factors contributing…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 14, 2023 Recent Events HYSPLIT Adds Robust Probabilistic Forecast Capability Forecasting now includes option for ten member ensemble Meteorology. Air Resources Laboratory deployed a probabilistic forecast feature to NWS HYSPLIT on July 7, 2023. This new feature utilizes the ten-member ensemble meteorology provided by the NOAA’s High Resolution Ensemble Forecast…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 7, 2023 Recent Events International Conference on Aeolian Research Barry Baker is attending the International Conference on Aeolian Research in Las Cruces, USA, held July 10 – 14, 2023. Barry has a presentation on the NOAA FENGSHA Dust Emission Model in RRFS-SD, and a poster on the Aerosol Component in…
DetailsARL Weekly News – June 30, 2023 Recent Events Wildfire Smoke Continues Across US. NOAA’s National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) continues to track and forecast air quality impacts of Canadian wildfires across the US. The 2023 wildfire season for Canada has brought smoke and other fire emissions to the US, covering a large portion…
DetailsARL Weekly News – June 23, 2023 Recent Events Greater D.C. Area Atmospheric Composition and Modeling Workshop Drs. Patrick Campbell, Daniel Tong, and Youhua Tang of ARL hosted the inaugural Greater D.C. Area Atmospheric Composition and Modeling Workshop on Thursday, June 22, 2023 at George Mason University. This exploratory workshop brought together people from academia…
DetailsARL Weekly News – June 16, 2023 Recent Events Visit the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University ARL team members at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University, from left to right: Paul Kelley, Phillip Stratton and Nebila Lichiheb. On Friday June 16, 2023, Nebila Lichiheb, Phillip Stratton and Paul…
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