NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory

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.

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Highlights

GML Employee of the Quarter

GML Scientist elected AGU Fellow

GML Scientists win DOC Gold Medal

COVID-19 Lockdowns Reduced Ozone Pollution Over the Northern Hemisphere

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Emissions of a banned ozone-depleting gas are back on the decline

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US Methane “Hotspot” is Snapshot of Local Pollution

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Large, deep Antarctic ozone hole to persist into November

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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.