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Vertical, In-situ Trace Gas Profiles to 32 km on a 20-story Tall Balloon
Published on Wed, 27 Nov 2002 07:23:44 -0700
On October 13, several CMDL instruments made measurements from the surface to 32 km aboard a 4 million cubic foot, 20-story tall helium-filled balloon, launched in Fort Sumner, New Mexico by the U.S. Na...

Buntings & Bears: Indicators Of Climate Change at the Barrow Observatory?
Published on Wed, 9 Oct 2002 02:12:31 -0600
The spring snowmelt date monitored at the CMDL Barrow Observatory occurred 18 days earlier this year (May 24) than the long-term average from over the past 60 years and was the earliest snowmelt observed...

CMDL scientists will participate in two separate Arctic studies
Published on Fri, 6 Sep 2002 12:46:45 -0600
Scientists from the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) will participate in two separate Arctic studies this coming winter. One study will involve the SAGE-III Ozone Loss Validation Ex...

GLOBALVIEW-CO2, 2002 UPDATE
Published on Thu, 15 Aug 2002 03:30:10 -0600
The seventh annual update of CMDL's GLOBALVIEW-CO2 data product is now available from the GLOBALVIEW Web site at
/ccgg/globalview/index.html.

CMDL scientists study transport and water vapor in tropical clouds
Published on Fri, 2 Aug 2002 02:31:30 -0600
Five scientists from the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) participated in a multi-agency field study called the Cirrus Regional Study of Tropical Anvils and Cirrus Layers - Florida Ar...

Characterization of Methods for Measuring Aerosol Light Absorption
Published on Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:19:01 -0600
Absorbing aerosols, such as soot, heat the atmosphere and cool the surface, and can be present in quantities large enough to significantly perturb regional solar energy budgets and atmospheric circulati...

Colorado Forest Fires Cause High Turbidity in Boulder Area
Published on Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:02:38 -0600
On Monday June 10, nine forest fires were burning out of control in Colorado. The causes vary, however at the root of the problem is the extreme dryness related to drought conditions across the state. ...

Record Early Snow Melt-out in Northern Alaska, Predicted and Verified
Published on Tue, 28 May 2002 09:10:01 -0600
This year, the snow disappeared from the tundra of the Alaskan arctic at the earliest date ever, May 24th, beating the old record by more than one week, according to a 60-year record of the event in the...

CMDL Reviewed Under New Lab Review Format
Published on Thu, 23 May 2002 01:33:09 -0600
During the period May 22-24, 2002, the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) hosted a Panel of scientists and managers to conduct a Laboratory review under the new NOAA Science Advisory B...

Snow Greets Vice Admiral Lautenbacher While Visiting Mauna Loa Observatory
Published on Wed, 22 May 2002 07:03:38 -0600
Vice Admiral Lautenbacher, along with Scott Rayder (USEC, NOAA HQ), Brian Pawlak, (NWFS, NOAA HQ), and John Pereira, (NESDIS, Suitland, MD) spent Wednesday, May 15, visiting Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) ...

Asian Dust Measured at CMDL Baseline Observatory, Barrow, Alaska
Published on Tue, 30 Apr 2002 08:18:47 -0600
On four occasions during the first half of April, dust and air pollution from Mongolia and China reached the surface at the NOAA/CMDL Barrow, Alaska, Atmospheric Baseline Observatory (71 N, 157 W). T...

Trinidad Head West Coast Atmospheric Baseline Station Obtains First Data
Published on Fri, 12 Apr 2002 08:13:41 -0600
Each spring, windstorms in China and Mongolia move east across the Asian continent stirring up dust. As they pass over the heavily populated regions of eastern China, the storms ingest air pollution fr...

CMDL Scientists To Appear In Korean Documentary on Yellow Dust
Published on Mon, 25 Mar 2002 01:45:13 -0700
Each spring, dust storms in China loft dust into the atmosphere that then flows east over Korea and Japan and into the Pacific Ocean. This dust has a particular yellow hue and in Korea it is known as "...

The South Pole Sun is Setting!
Published on Fri, 22 Mar 2002 07:07:35 -0700
After six months of daylight, the sun is setting at South Pole Station. You can witness this once-a-year phenomenon (during the austral fall equinox - first day of spring in the northern hemisphere) t...

National Geographic Antarctic Map Displays CMDL Chlorofluorocarbon Trend
Published on Wed, 20 Feb 2002 09:48:46 -0700
The map supplement of Antarctica in the February 2002 edition of the National Geographic magazine includes the atmospheric trends of the two most abundant chlorofluorocarbons CFC-11 (chemical formula: C...

New Results on Atmospheric Carbonyl Sulfide Presented at Australian Meeting
Published on Mon, 11 Feb 2002 12:53:55 -0700
Dr. Brad Hall is presenting new results on the global atmospheric distribution and trends of an important sulfur gas, carbonyl sulfide (chemical formula: COS). The results are based on the recent iden...

Arctic Children To Collect Snow In NOAA/EPA Arctic Mercury Deposition Study
Published on Thu, 17 Jan 2002 08:13:44 -0700
CMDL Barrow, Alaska Observatory station chief, Dan Endres, will travel to Nome the second week in January to train five Russian native school children and two teachers from Chukotka, Siberia in the scie...

CMDL Barrow Observatory Site for New NESDIS Polar Satellite Station
Published on Thu, 3 Jan 2002 01:23:15 -0700
The NOAA/NESDIS Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) series spacecraft require state-of-health monitoring for each of their 14 daily orbits of the earth. The current polar operations concep...