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Mobile SURFRAD deployment at Red Lake, Arizona in support of a GOES-16 validation study.

Sunset at Barrow Observatory, Alaska

Time lapse photo of ozonesonde launch at South Pole. Credit: Robert Schwarz, University of Minnesota

American Samoa Observatory

Global Monitoring Laboratory
Taking the Pulse of the Planet

The Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducts research that addresses three major challenges: greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

Can we see a change in the CO2 record because of COVID-19?

2021 Global Monitoring Annual Conference

The Global Monitoring Laboratory will again be holding a virtual conference for the 2021 Global Monitoring Annual Conference. The 2021 virtual GMAC (eGMAC) will be held on five consecutive days: Monday, May 24th through Friday, May 28th, 2021.

Highlights

GML Employee of the Quarter

GML Scientist elected AGU Fellow

GML Scientists win DOC Gold Medal

Despite pandemic shutdowns, carbon dioxide and methane surged in 2020

News

Women’s History Month: A conversation with NOAA Corps Officer LTJG Marisa about her 13 months “on the ice”

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Measuring greenhouse gases in Africa - while working from home in Boulder

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COVID-19 Lockdowns Reduced Ozone Pollution Over the Northern Hemisphere

News

Research

Themes

Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Changes in Surface Radiation, Clouds, and Aerosols

Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone

Programs

Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

Measurments and modeling of the spatial and temporal distributions of greenhouse gases, providing constraints to our understanding of the global carbon cycle.

Halocarbons and other Trace Species

Quantifying the distributions and magnitudes of the sources and sinks for important ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases.

Global Radiation and Aerosols

Empirical and theoretical research of the Earth's surface radiation budget and characterizing variability and trends of climate-forcing properties of aerosol particles.

Ozone and Water Vapor

Research on the nature and causes of the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer and the role of ozone and water vapor in forcing climate change.

Atmospheric Baseline Observatories

The Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducts research that addresses three major challenges: greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

Can we see a change in the CO2 record because of COVID-19?

2021 Global Monitoring Annual Conference

Highlights

Research

Themes

Programs

Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

Halocarbons and other Trace Species

Global Radiation and Aerosols

Ozone and Water Vapor

Atmospheric Baseline Observatories

Barrow, Alaska

Mauna Loa, Hawaii

American Samoa

South Pole, Antarctica

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