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View article: Reducing dependence of modeled resuspended volcanic ash on meteorological grid resolution
Reducing dependence of modeled resuspended volcanic ash on meteorological grid resolution Open
Remobilized volcanic ash from ground deposits can present significant hazards to human health, infrastructure, and aviation. Modeling of ash remobilization events is an important tool that can provide information on the timing and magnitud…
View article: NOAA Carbon Monitoring, Research, and Innovation: Long-Standing Foundation to Support Climate Mitigation
NOAA Carbon Monitoring, Research, and Innovation: Long-Standing Foundation to Support Climate Mitigation Open
NOAA has over 50 years of experience monitoring global atmospheric levels of greenhouse gasses (GHG) emitted to the atmosphere by human activities and natural sources. This includes most notably measurements of atmospheric abundances of CO…
View article: The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center: Extending Accessible and Integrated GHG Information from U.S. Government and Non-Public Sources to meet user needs
The U.S. Greenhouse Gas Center: Extending Accessible and Integrated GHG Information from U.S. Government and Non-Public Sources to meet user needs Open
The newly established United States Greenhouse Gas Center (U.S. GHG Center) is a multi-agency partnership between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Oceanic and…
View article: NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory—75 Years of Research Linking Earth and Sky: A Historical Perspective
NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory—75 Years of Research Linking Earth and Sky: A Historical Perspective Open
For over 75 years, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Air Resources Laboratory (NOAA ARL) has been at the forefront of federal meteorological and climate research. As the Special Projects Section (SPS) of the U.S. Weathe…
View article: Evaluation of the NAQFC driven by the NOAA Global Forecast System (version 16): comparison with the WRF-CMAQ during the summer 2019 FIREX-AQ campaign
Evaluation of the NAQFC driven by the NOAA Global Forecast System (version 16): comparison with the WRF-CMAQ during the summer 2019 FIREX-AQ campaign Open
The latest operational National Air Quality Forecast Capability (NAQFC) has been advanced to use the Community Multiscale Air Quality (CMAQ) model (version 5.3.1) with the CB6r3 (Carbon Bond 6 revision 3) AERO7 (version 7 of the aerosol mo…
View article: Third international challenge to model the medium- to long-range transport of radioxenon to four Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty monitoring stations
Third international challenge to model the medium- to long-range transport of radioxenon to four Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty monitoring stations Open
In 2015 and 2016, atmospheric transport modeling challenges were conducted in the context of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) verification, however, with a more limited scope with respect to emission inventories, simulation…
View article: Comment on egusphere-2022-356
Comment on egusphere-2022-356 Open
The latest operational National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (NAQFC) has been advanced to use the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 5.3.1 with CB6 (carbon bond version 6)-Aero7 (version 7 of the aerosol module) c…
View article: Supplementary material to "Evaluation of the NAQFC Driven by the NOAA Global Forecast System Version 16: Comparison with the WRF-CMAQ Downscaling Method During the Summer 2019 FIREX-AQ Campaign"
Supplementary material to "Evaluation of the NAQFC Driven by the NOAA Global Forecast System Version 16: Comparison with the WRF-CMAQ Downscaling Method During the Summer 2019 FIREX-AQ Campaign" Open
View article: Evaluation of the NAQFC Driven by the NOAA Global Forecast System Version 16: Comparison with the WRF-CMAQ Downscaling Method During the Summer 2019 FIREX-AQ Campaign
Evaluation of the NAQFC Driven by the NOAA Global Forecast System Version 16: Comparison with the WRF-CMAQ Downscaling Method During the Summer 2019 FIREX-AQ Campaign Open
The latest operational National Air Quality Forecasting Capability (NAQFC) has been advanced to use the Community Multi-scale Air Quality (CMAQ) model version 5.3.1 with CB6 (carbon bond version 6)-Aero7 (version 7 of the aerosol module) c…
View article: Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment
Microplastics and nanoplastics in the marine-atmosphere environment Open
The discovery of atmospheric micro(nano)plastic transport and ocean–atmosphere exchange points to a highly complex marine plastic cycle, with negative implications for human and ecosystem health. Yet, observations are currently limited. In…
View article: Development and evaluation of an advanced National Air Quality Forecasting Capability using the NOAA Global Forecast System version 16
Development and evaluation of an advanced National Air Quality Forecasting Capability using the NOAA Global Forecast System version 16 Open
A new dynamical core, known as the Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere (FV3) and developed at both NASA and NOAA, is used in NOAA's Global Forecast System (GFS) and in limited-area models for regional weather and air quality applications. NOAA has …
View article: Comment on gmd-2021-316
Comment on gmd-2021-316 Open
Abstract. A new dynamical core, known as the Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere (FV3) and developed at both NASA and NOAA, is used in NOAA's Global Forecast System (GFS) and in limited-area models for regional weather and air qual…
View article: Review of “Development and evaluation of an advanced National Air Quality Forecast Capability using the NOAA Global Forecast System version 16” by Campbell et al.
Review of “Development and evaluation of an advanced National Air Quality Forecast Capability using the NOAA Global Forecast System version 16” by Campbell et al. Open
Abstract. A new dynamical core, known as the Finite-Volume Cubed-Sphere (FV3) and developed at both NASA and NOAA, is used in NOAA's Global Forecast System (GFS) and in limited-area models for regional weather and air qual…
View article: Development and evaluation of an advanced National Air Quality Forecast Capability using the NOAA Global Forecast System version 16
Development and evaluation of an advanced National Air Quality Forecast Capability using the NOAA Global Forecast System version 16 Open
A new dynamical core, known as the Finite Volume Cubed-Sphere (FV3) and developed at both NASA and NOAA, is used in NOAA’s Global Forecast System (GFS) and in limited area models (LAMs) for regional weather and air quality applications. NO…
View article: Impacts of the COVID-19 economic slowdown on ozone pollution in the U.S.
Impacts of the COVID-19 economic slowdown on ozone pollution in the U.S. Open
View article: Quantitative assessment of changes in surface particulate matter concentrations and precursor emissions over China during the COVID-19 pandemic and their implications for Chinese economic activity
Quantitative assessment of changes in surface particulate matter concentrations and precursor emissions over China during the COVID-19 pandemic and their implications for Chinese economic activity Open
Sixty days after the lockdown of Hubei Province, where the coronavirus was first reported, China's true recovery from the pandemic remained an outstanding question. This study investigates how human activity changed during this period usin…
View article: Incorporating features from the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model into the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model: a unified dispersion model for time-forward and time-reversed applications
Incorporating features from the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model into the Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model: a unified dispersion model for time-forward and time-reversed applications Open
The Hybrid Single-Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory (HYSPLIT) model is a state-of-the-science atmospheric dispersion model that is developed and maintained at the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Air Resources L…
View article: Reduction in GHG emissions in the U.S. North East Corridor due to COVID-19 lockdowns as measured by the East Coast Outflow Experiment
Reduction in GHG emissions in the U.S. North East Corridor due to COVID-19 lockdowns as measured by the East Coast Outflow Experiment Open
<p><span>On March 11<sup>th</sup> , 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) characterized the COVID-19 respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) as a world wide pandemic which led to a massive slo…
View article: Air quality and aerosol predictions at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their applications
Air quality and aerosol predictions at National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and their applications Open
Operational air quality predictions produced by NOAA/National Weather Service include predictions of ozone, fine particulate matter (PM2.5) and wildfire smoke for the United States and predictions of windblown dust for the contiguous 48 st…
View article: Inverse modeling of fire emissions constrained by smoke plume transport using HYSPLIT dispersion model and geostationary satellite observations
Inverse modeling of fire emissions constrained by smoke plume transport using HYSPLIT dispersion model and geostationary satellite observations Open
Smoke forecasts have been challenged by high uncertainty in fire emission estimates. We develop an inverse modeling system, the HYSPLIT-based Emissions Inverse Modeling System for wildfires (or HEIMS-fire), that estimates wildfire emission…
View article: Space-Borne Monitoring of NOx Emissions from Cement Kilns in South Korea
Space-Borne Monitoring of NOx Emissions from Cement Kilns in South Korea Open
Nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions from the South Korean cement industry are investigated with remote-sensing measurements, surface observations, and in situ aircraft measurements. In the Yeongwol, Danyang, and Jecheon regions of central South…
View article: Quantitative assessment of changes in surface particulate matter concentrations over China during the COVID-19 pandemic and their implications for Chinese economic activity
Quantitative assessment of changes in surface particulate matter concentrations over China during the COVID-19 pandemic and their implications for Chinese economic activity Open
Sixty days after the lockdown of Hubei province, where the coronavirus was first reported, China's true recovery from the pandemic remained an outstanding question. This study investigates how human activity changed during this period usin…
View article: Air quality impacts of the 2018 Mt. Kilauea Volcano eruption in Hawaii: A regional chemical transport model study with satellite-constrained emissions
Air quality impacts of the 2018 Mt. Kilauea Volcano eruption in Hawaii: A regional chemical transport model study with satellite-constrained emissions Open
View article: Author Correction: Global and regional trends of atmospheric sulfur
Author Correction: Global and regional trends of atmospheric sulfur Open
View article: Inverse modeling of fire emissions constrained by smoke plume transport using HYSPLIT dispersion model and geostationary satellite observations
Inverse modeling of fire emissions constrained by smoke plume transport using HYSPLIT dispersion model and geostationary satellite observations Open
Smoke forecasts have been challenged by high uncertainty in fire emission estimates. We develop an inverse modeling system, the HYSPLIT-based Emissions Inverse Modeling System for wildfires (or HEIMS-fire), that estimates wildfire emission…
View article: Supplementary material to "Inverse modeling of fire emissions constrained by smoke plume transport using HYSPLIT dispersion model and geostationary satellite observations"
Supplementary material to "Inverse modeling of fire emissions constrained by smoke plume transport using HYSPLIT dispersion model and geostationary satellite observations" Open
View article: A case study of the 2018 Camp Fire event using HYSPLIT-based emission inverse modeling system with GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) observations and other measurements for wildfire smoke forecasts
A case study of the 2018 Camp Fire event using HYSPLIT-based emission inverse modeling system with GOES Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) observations and other measurements for wildfire smoke forecasts Open
<p>An emission inverse modeling system to estimate wildfire smoke source strength, vertical distribution, and temporal variations by assimilating satellite observations with the HYSPLIT dispersion model for smoke forecasting has been…
View article: Wintertime CO<sub>2</sub>, CH<sub>4</sub>, and CO Emissions Estimation for the Washington, DC–Baltimore Metropolitan Area Using an Inverse Modeling Technique
Wintertime CO<sub>2</sub>, CH<sub>4</sub>, and CO Emissions Estimation for the Washington, DC–Baltimore Metropolitan Area Using an Inverse Modeling Technique Open
Since greenhouse gas mitigation efforts are mostly being implemented in cities, the ability to quantify emission trends for urban environments is of paramount importance. However, previous aircraft work has indicated large daily variabilit…
View article: The evaluation of mixing methods in HYSPLIT using measurements from controlled tracer experiments
The evaluation of mixing methods in HYSPLIT using measurements from controlled tracer experiments Open
View article: Intercomparison of atmospheric trace gas dispersion models: Barnett Shale case study
Intercomparison of atmospheric trace gas dispersion models: Barnett Shale case study Open
Greenhouse gas emissions mitigation requires understanding the dominant processes controlling fluxes of these trace gases at increasingly finer spatial and temporal scales. Trace gas fluxes can be estimated using a variety of approaches th…