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ESRL Scientists Head to Costa Rica to Validate Aura Satellite Measurements
Published on Wed, 28 Dec 2005 07:57:56 -0700
Scientists from the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) and the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) are headed to Costa Rica on January 1...

ESRL Extends Partnership with Sinte Gleska Native American University
Published on Tue, 13 Dec 2005 03:36:21 -0700
Scientists and engineers with the ESRL Global Monitoring Division are assisting Sinte Gleska University, (Rosebud Reservation, Mission, South Dakota), in establishing a meteorology/climate monitoring in...

ESRL/GMD and CIRES Initiating Upper Air Water Vapor and Ozone Observations
Published on Mon, 21 Nov 2005 08:10:27 -0700
Sixty high altitude balloons carrying water vapor and ozone measurement instruments will be launched over the next 4 months to study dehydration and transport processes occurring in the tropical upper t...

"Return to Flight" of NOAA Unmanned Aircraft Systems Demonstration Aircraft
Published on Mon, 7 Nov 2005 10:13:10 -0700
NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) and National Ocean Service scientists are again operating instruments on the NOAA Altair Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Demonstration Project off the west co...

NOAA/OAR Scientist Receives Presidential Rank Award
Published on Tue, 1 Nov 2005 12:21:33 -0700
Dr. Petrus (Pieter) Tans, Senior Scientist in the Global Monitoring Division of NOAA?s Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA/ESRL), will receive a Presidential Rank, Meritorious level award, in a ceremo...

2005 Antarctic Ozone Hole Rivals Deepest
Published on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 11:22:35 -0600
According to NOAA?s balloon soundings at the South Pole Station, this year?s springtime Antarctic ozone hole was as severe as any on record in the past 10 years. The total column of ozone went from 26...

Gases Trapped in Ice Cores Show Probable Influence of Ancient Humans
Published on Thu, 20 Oct 2005 08:39:56 -0600
A NOAA Joint Institute scientist working in the Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) Global Monitoring Division (GMD) was a co-author of a recent report published in Science (Vol. 309, 5741, 1714-171...

NOAA Collaboration on Aerosol Monitoring in China and South Africa
Published on Fri, 7 Oct 2005 12:27:23 -0600
With funding from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), two aerosol systems designed and built by researchers at the NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Division (GMD) have been deployed to remote sites i...

NOAA Halocarbon Intercomparison Tanks Reach Australia and South Africa
Published on Wed, 21 Sep 2005 12:00:08 -0600
Two sets of halocarbon gases in pressurized cylinders prepared by the NOAA/Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL), that form the core of the International HALocarbons in Air Comparison Exp...

Tracking the 2005 Ozone Hole for 20 Consecutive Years at the South Pole
Published on Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:40:53 -0600
The 2005 springtime Antarctic stratospheric ozone depletion, known as the "Ozone Hole," began development over South Pole in late August and is being monitored with both balloonborne ozonesondes and surf...

NOAA and International Partners Attain Decade Milestone for GLOBALVIEW-CO2
Published on Wed, 7 Sep 2005 07:54:26 -0600
On September 1, 2005 the tenth annual update of GLOBALVIEW-CO2 was made freely available from the GLOBALVIEW Web site at www.cmdl.noaa.gov/ccgg/globalview/.
GLOBALVIEW-CO2 is designed to enhance t...

Senators Clinton, McCain, Collins and Graham Visit Barrow, Alaska
Published on Wed, 24 Aug 2005 02:15:29 -0600
On August 16, the four senators, along with an entourage of guards and assistants made a day visit to Barrow, Alaska, home of the NOAA/CMDL Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, While in Barrow, the party ...

CMDL Scientists Receive Distinguished NASA Award for Ozone Loss Experiment
Published on Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:11:55 -0600
Nine scientists from NOAA/CMDL received a NASA Group Achievement Award (certificates delivered July 11, 2005) in recognition of outstanding accomplishments with the successful SAGE III Ozone Loss and Va...

NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index Released
Published on Mon, 18 Jul 2005 02:34:57 -0600
NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (NOAA/CMDL; www.cmdl.noaa.gov) has developed and released for the first time this year, its Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI). The AGGI is a readil...

Aura Satellite Water Vapor and Ozone Profile Validations In Central America
Published on Wed, 6 Jul 2005 07:30:57 -0600
CMDL/CIRES scientists are in Costa Rica (July 1-21) conducting water vapor and ozone profile validation of the NASA Aura (Latin for breeze) Earth Observing System (EOS) satellite launched July 15, 2004. ...

New Reactive Atmospheric Compound Measured on an Airborne Platform
Published on Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:00:32 -0600
Peroyxl Acetyl Nitrate (PAN), has been added to the list of trace gases that the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) measures on its airborne campaigns using the gas chromatographic tec...

Coastal Clouds to Saharan Desert: CMDL Deploys New Aerosol Observing System
Published on Thu, 2 Jun 2005 11:29:22 -0600
The CMDL Aerosol group has deployed a new, automated aerosol observing system at Point Reyes, CA as a key component of the DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Mobile Facility (AMF) in a 6-month s...

NOAA UAV Measurement Flights Begin from California
Published on Mon, 9 May 2005 01:12:28 -0600
The first NOAA/NASA co-sponsored Altair Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) mission flight was successfully conducted on Saturday, May 7th over the Channel Islands off the coast of Santa Barbara, California. ...

CMDL 35th Annual Science Meeting, Boulder, Colorado, April 20 and 21, 2005
Published on Mon, 11 Apr 2005 02:46:10 -0600
NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) will hold its 35th annual meeting (first held in 1973) on Wednesday, April 20 and Thursday, April 21, 2005, at the David Skaggs Research Cent...

After Two Large Annual Gains, Rate of CO2 Increase Returns to Average
Published on Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:53:43 -0700
A spike in the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere between 2001 and 2003 appears to be a temporary phenomenon and apparently does not indicate a quickening build-up of the gas in the a...

Sun Sets At South Pole Station: NOAA/CMDL Staff Isolated for Nine Months
Published on Thu, 24 Mar 2005 09:42:03 -0700
March 21st will bring sunset to Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station after six months of continuous sunlight. Following a week-long period of a slow descending spiral around the horizon, the sun will disa...

Dr. James R. Mahoney, Keynote Speaker at the Annual Meeting of NOAA/CMDL
Published on Wed, 16 Mar 2005 01:29:58 -0700
Dr. James Mahoney, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Deputy Administrator, will present the keynote address for the NOAA/CMDL Annual Meeting, Wednesday, April 20, 2005, ...

350 Year History of Carbonyl Sulfide Shows Substantial Increase Since 1850
Published on Fri, 25 Feb 2005 08:40:50 -0700
A 350-year history of carbonyl sulfide (COS) has been derived from measurements of gases trapped in ice cores and consolidated snow collected at sites in Antarctica in a collaborative effort by scienti...

NOAA/CMDL to Conduct Balloon Borne Measurements in the Arctic Ozone Layer
Published on Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:31:28 -0700
Unlike in the Antarctic stratosphere where air temperatures regularly fall below -80 Celsius, the Arctic stratosphere rarely gets that cold - except for this year that is exhibiting the coldest stratosph...

NOAA Unattended Air Vehicle (UAV) Instrumentation Passes First Test
Published on Wed, 9 Feb 2005 10:08:27 -0700
NOAA and NASA are funding demonstration flights of the General Atomics Altair Unattended Air Vehicle (UAV) for the purposes of determining its feasibility for monitoring the atmosphere in remote areas ov...

Mauna Loa Observatory Receives $2 Million For Access Road Rebuild
Published on Wed, 9 Feb 2005 08:30:42 -0700
Senator Inouye's office (D-Hawaii) announced Friday that an initial $1.3M of Federal Highways funds have been allocated to begin preservation of the 35 km long NOAA Mauna Loa Atmospheric Baseline Observ...

FSL and CMDL Collaborating to Evaluate GPS for Climate Studies
Published on Mon, 3 Jan 2005 09:20:41 -0700
Two NOAA Research Laboratories, the Forecast Systems Laboratory and the Climate Monitoring Diagnostic Laboratory, are collaborating to evaluate some uses of GPS in climate studies. FSL installed a GPS r...