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…
DetailsARL 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…
DetailsARL Weekly News – August 5, 2022 Recent Events HYSPLIT Supports Response to Propane Leak in Shell Knob, MO. NOAA WFO Springfield responded to a propane leak at Shell Knob MO with several HYSPLIT runs on Wednesday, August 3. The WFO ran several simulations as firetrucks cooled the propane tank by ferrying over 175,000 gallons…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 29, 2022 Conferences and Events AGU Honors and Recognition Committee. LaToya Myles chaired an AGU Honors and Recognition Committee Meeting on July 20-21. The committee of 15 scientists from five countries convened in-person at AGU Headquarters in Washington, DC and via Zoom. As chair, she is leading a comprehensive review…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 22, 2022 Conferences and Events 26th Annual George Mason University Conference on Atmospheric Transport and Dispersion Modeling ARL is cosponsoring the 26th Annual George Mason University Transport & Dispersion Modeling Conference July 26-28, at George Mason University. Topics cover a wide range under the general category of atmospheric transport and dispersion modeling. The model…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 15, 2022 Recent Events HYSPLIT V8 Approved for Implementation Implementation of HYSPLIT v8 at the NCEP was presented to the Office Director and approved on July 14, 2022. Scientific upgrades to HYSPLITv8 include upgrading code, coupling of HYSPLIT to GEFS and HREF for probabilistic forecasts of hazards such as volcanic…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 8, 2022 Recent Events HYSPLIT in Support of World Athletics Championships In preparation for the upcoming World Athletics Championships, (a biennial international track and field event) to be held in Eugene, OR from July 15-24, 2022 ARL’s HYSPLIT development team set up hourly atmospheric dispersion simulations over Hayward Field in Eugene…
DetailsARL Weekly News – July 1, 2022 Recent Events Implementation of HYPSLIT v8 planned for fall of 2022. ARL’s HYSPLIT team and EMC are preparing to implement HYPSLIT v8 into operations in the fall of 2022. A briefing to the NCEP directors is scheduled for July 14th. Please let Alice Crawford or Jeff McQueen know if…
DetailsARL Weekly News – June 24, 2022 Recent Events Congressional Hearing on Federal Programs for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Sources and Sinks The House of Representatives Science, Space and Technology’s Subcommittee On Environment met Thursday June 23 to hear testimony on Assessing Federal Programs For Measuring Greenhouse Gas Sources And Sinks. Among the federal agencies represented,…
DetailsARL Weekly News – June 17, 2022 Upcoming Events House Science Committee Hearing On Thursday June 23, at 10 AM ET, Dr. Ariel Stein, director of NOAA’s Air Resources Lab and acting director of NOAA’s Global Monitoring lab, will join other federal agency officials to testify for the House Science Committee’s Subcommittees on Research and Technology…
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