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CMDL Scientists Author or Co-Author 47 Papers at AGU Fall Meeting
Published on Thu, 11 Dec 2003 01:41:11 -0700
In addition to chairing or co-chairing 8 sessions at the AGU Fall Meeting, Climate Monitoring and Diagnostic Laboratory (CMDL) scientists authored or co-authored 47 papers or posters presented at the AG...

Greg Withee, AA for SIS/NESDIS Visits Mauna Loa Observatory
Published on Fri, 21 Nov 2003 10:00:00 -0700
Greg Withee, NOAA/NESDIS, Silver Spring, MD and Roberta Miller, Director, CIESIN, Columbia University, New York, visited the NOAA/CMDL Mauna Loa Baseline Observatory (MLO), at 11,128 feet above sea leve...

Methane, the 2nd Most Powerful Greenhouse Gas, Levels Off in the Atmosphere
Published on Wed, 19 Nov 2003 08:58:34 -0700
Methane, the atmosphere?s second most potent anthropogenic greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, has leveled off and remained steady for the past 4 years. Lead author Ed Dlugokencky and five other scie...

New CMDL Aircraft and Tall Tower Sampling Sites in Asia
Published on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:18:17 -0600
Asia has the largest human populations, fastest growing economies, and densest agriculture on Earth. The region is becoming a large consumer of fossil fuels and this consumption is expected to accelera...

Watch the Sun Rise at the South Pole
Published on Mon, 15 Sep 2003 07:43:14 -0600
NOAA/CMDL personnel and other scientists and support personnel who have wintered over at the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station will soon see the sun again after 6 months of darkness. While the tim...

CMDL scientists measure important trace gases up to 32 km in altitude
Published on Fri, 12 Sep 2003 02:39:27 -0600
NOAA scientists from the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) will launch balloon-borne instruments to measure important climate forcing and ozone depleting gases in the upper atmosphere...

South Pole Ozone Hole Ready to Roll
Published on Fri, 22 Aug 2003 08:29:04 -0600
Early measurements by CMDL balloons at the South Pole Station indicate that stratospheric temperatures are very low (-95 C = -140 F), priming the stratosphere for enhanced ozone depletion this austral s...

CMDL Scientists find that ozone-depleting bromine is now on the decline
Published on Fri, 15 Aug 2003 01:36:21 -0600
In a study appearing in the 14 August 2003 issue of Geophysical Research Letters, NOAA-CMDL scientists report that ozone-depleting bromine has been decreasing in the lower atmosphere since 1998. By mid...

GLOBALVIEW-CO2, 2003 UPDATE
Published on Fri, 15 Aug 2003 08:56:09 -0600
The eighth annual update of the GLOBALVIEW-CO2 data product is now available from the GLOBALVIEW Web site at:
/ccgg/globalview/index.html.

GLOBALVIEW-CO2 is...

Trinidad Head, California, Atmospheric Baseline Station after One Year
Published on Mon, 14 Jul 2003 10:13:30 -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...

Polish Scientists and Ship Officers Receive NOAA Environmental Hero Awards
Published on Mon, 23 Jun 2003 03:16:54 -0600
NOAA has honored 13 Polish mariners and one scientist for a decade of carbon cycle air flask sampling in a cooperative program with the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), Boulder. Un...

New Aerosol Lidar Technique Developed at Mauna Loa Observatory
Published on Wed, 18 Jun 2003 09:44:17 -0600
An innovative lidar (laser radar) method for measuring aerosols in the boundary layer has been developed at the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostic Laboratory's Mauna Loa Observatory. The intent of the r...

Measuring Greenhouse Gases Across the U.S., featured story on NOAA site
Published on Thu, 29 May 2003 03:02:30 -0600
May 28, 2003 ? Government and university scientists will be hanging out at the track this summer?only there aren?t any horses and the track is located 30,000 feet above sea level.

The ?ra...

Spring Greenhouse Gas Snapshots: Around North America, One Week At A Time
Published on Mon, 12 May 2003 02:51:28 -0600
1. Background:
One of the most important problems in forecasting future climate change is current models that simulate emissions of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide (CO2) do not represent ...

CMDL Annual Meeting
Published on Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:13:06 -0600
The Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory and its forerunner the Geophysical Monitoring for Climatic Change program has been holding an annual meeting for the past 30 years. At these meetings, ...

What is Causing the Steady Increase in Stratospheric Water Vapor?
Published on Wed, 16 Apr 2003 02:19:02 -0600
For the past 23 years, balloonborne hygrometers have been used to measure stratospheric water vapor above Boulder, Colorado, in the only long-term program of its kind in the world. The Boulder profile...

Validating a Satellite in Antarctica Using a Mobile Platform
Published on Thu, 13 Mar 2003 04:10:55 -0700
Robert Stone, CMDL/CIRES returned this week from the Italian-French Antarctic Research Station, Dome Concordia (75 S), following 1 month of ground-truth measurements of surface temperatures to be used t...

Sunset at the South Pole
Published on Wed, 12 Mar 2003 04:57:03 -0700
It's getting near that time of year again, when the South Pole and NOAA's Clean Air Facility are plunged into darkness; well actually, plunge is not the proper word as it takes up to 53 days for the pro...

CMDL Scientists Measure Ozone Depleting Gases In the Arctic Stratosphere
Published on Mon, 10 Feb 2003 02:54:51 -0700
In January of 2003, NOAA/CMDL scientists began flying high balloon-borne instruments from three locations in the European Arctic to measure water vapor to heights of 28 km while others operated 2 airbor...

Wrong Turn at the Antarctic Coast Brings A Rare Visitor to the South Pole
Published on Mon, 6 Jan 2003 02:49:07 -0700
On the morning of December 30, 2002, the South Pole, Antarctica station rippled with excitement when a Skua, a large seabird of the gull family, landed at the Pole. For some South Pole station staff thi...