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NOAA / ESRL Releases Ozone Depleting Gas Index (ODGI)
Published on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:33:02 -0700
Scientists, the public, and governments throughout the world have been concerned with the depletion of stratospheric ozone for many years. Every four years the World Meteorological Organization (WMO)...

Historic Flight of NOAA Instruments Operating on an Unmanned Aircraft
Published on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:52:39 -0700
The first flight into National Air Space approved by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for a civilian scientific payload on an Altair Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) occurred during October 24-25...

Antarctic Ozone Hole Continues to Intensify Late Into 2006 Season
Published on Fri, 6 Oct 2006 01:20:33 -0600
The 2006 Antarctic Ozone Hole is exhibiting some of the strongest stratospheric ozone depletion seen in recent years based on ozone profile measurements carried out by NOAA/ESRL personnel at the South Po...

The Sun Rises But Once a Year; South Pole, September 23, 2006
Published on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 08:11:19 -0600
NOAA/ESRL South Pole Atmospheric Baseline Observatory personnel, Stephanie Koes and Johan Booth, who are wintering over at the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station, will soon see the sun again after 6...

North American Emissions of Ozone-Depleting Halocarbons
Published on Tue, 5 Sep 2006 07:38:27 -0600
Scientists in the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) Global Monitoring Division and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) recently published* estimates of the...

NOAA/ESRL and Carbon Cycle Community release GLOBALVIEW-CO2, 2006
Published on Tue, 5 Sep 2006 07:36:11 -0600
On August 31, 2006 the 11th annual update of GLOBALVIEW-CO2 was made freely available from the GLOBALVIEW Web site at /ccgg/globalview/. GLOBALVIEW-CO2 data product is designed to...

ESRL Instruments Conducting Gas Measurements on NASA Fire Mission
Published on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 01:30:39 -0600
Three ESRL/GMD scientists (Jim Elkins, Brad Hall, Sam Oltmans) and five ESRL Cooperative Institute in Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) affiliates (Geoff Dutton, Dale Hurst, Fred Moore, David N...

ESRL/GMD and CIRES Initiate Large Scale Upper Air Water Vapor Observations
Published on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:05:09 -0600
Thirty high altitude balloons carrying water vapor and ozone measurement instruments are currently being launched to study dehydration and transport processes occurring in the tropical and mid latitude ...

ESRL Scientists Participate in Telluride Workshop on Climate Change
Published on Wed, 2 Aug 2006 01:36:56 -0600
Four ESRL scientists (Jim Elkins, Pieter Tans, John Ogren (all GMD), Ru-shan Gao (CSD)) and two affiliated CIRES/GMD scientists (Wouter Peters and Dale Hurst) are presenting invited talks at the Tellurid...

Aircore: Elegant Method to Collect Vertical Air Samples
Published on Wed, 31 May 2006 12:19:43 -0600
Pieter Tans of the NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division is leading an effort to use long (>150 m) coils of thin walled stainless-steel tubing weighing 6 kg to collect high resolution vertical profiles ...

Mauna Loa Volcano Is Not a Source of Methane: Implications For Mars
Published on Wed, 10 May 2006 08:00:32 -0600
In a paper just accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), four scientists* from ESRL/GMD have presented data showing that Mauna Loa volcano is not a measurable source of methane, p...

ESRL Data Show Little Change in Global Tropospheric Ozone Over The Past Decade
Published on Wed, 29 Mar 2006 12:29:23 -0700
Tropospheric ozone amounts show a varied regional and temporal pattern of change over the past 30 years, but no general overall global increase or decrease according to a recently published paper from t...

North American Carbon Program (NACP) Mid-Continent 2007 Intensive Underway
Published on Mon, 6 Mar 2006 08:14:04 -0700
Forty scientists from a broad spectrum of universities and NOAA, NASA, DOE, USDA, and USFS met in Boulder 21-22 February 2006 to consolidate plans for the multi-disciplinary Mid-Continent Carbon Intensiv...

Air Toxics in Air Reaching North America Lower Than Previously Thought
Published on Wed, 8 Feb 2006 10:30:04 -0700
A new study on the concentration of hazardous air pollutants (or "air toxics") reaching North America, published in the Journal of the Air and Waste Managements Association, Jan. 2006, shows that the bac...

NOAA/ESRL Trinidad Head Baseline Observatory Battered By Winter Storm
Published on Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:40:09 -0700
The NOAA Trinidad Head Baseline Atmospheric Observatory located on the Northern California coastline (41.05 N, 124.15 W), and one of the five NOAA Global Baseline Atmospheric Observatories, was shut dow...