Aerosol Measurements at Cape San Juan, Puerto Rico
Published on Tue, 21 Dec 2004 08:17:46 -0700
The Aerosols Group of the NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) and the University of Puerto Rico (UPR) are cooperating to measure aerosol optical properties in the Caribbean at Cape...
CMDL Student Trainee Success Story Featured In Department of Labor Brochure
Published on Mon, 6 Dec 2004 07:49:38 -0700
John Colangeli, a student employee at CMDL, is featured in a 12 page Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment, recruiting brochure printed in November 2004 and distributed to high schools in ...
Baseline Observatory Halocarbon Trace Gas Measurements Available Online
Published on Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:40:50 -0700
The CMDL Halocarbons and other Atmospheric Trace Species (HATS) group have been monitoring the global concentrations and growth rates of CFC-11 (CCl3F), CFC-113 (CCl2FCClF2), CFC-12, CH3CCl3, carbon tet...
CMDL Scientists Receive NASA Award for Balloon Research Campaigns
Published on Tue, 9 Nov 2004 02:24:58 -0700
Bryan J. Johnson and Samuel J. Oltmans recently received a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Group Achievement Award for the Southern Hemisphere Additional Ozonesondes Experiment (SHAD...
Winter Arrives Early at Mauna Loa Observatory
Published on Tue, 26 Oct 2004 02:22:56 -0600
This year winter came early to Hawaii snowing on Mauna Loa's summit on October 26, 2004. With summits of 13,792 ft (4,205 m) and 13,674 ft (4,169 m), it's not unusual for the Mauna Kea (north) and Maun...
Seventh International Carbon Dioxide Conference Announced
Published on Mon, 25 Oct 2004 09:18:00 -0600
Since 1981, the international community of carbon dioxide research scientists has held a carbon dioxide conference every four years. The first meeting took place in Bern, Switzerland, called the "Bern ...
WMO Scientific Advisory Group for Ozone meets at CMDL
Published on Fri, 22 Oct 2004 01:46:41 -0600
Ten scientists from different organizations and disciplines met in the CMDL Boulder facilities with the object of providing the World Meteorological Organization with a coordinated set of guidelines rel...
Stratospheric Water Vapor Soundings Start in New Zealand
Published on Thu, 14 Oct 2004 10:06:56 -0600
The NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory in partnership with the New Zealand National Institute of Water and Atmosphere (NIWA) began vertical profile measurements of water vapor in the upp...
Pesticide methyl bromide in the news... and NOAA data add to the discussion
Published on Fri, 8 Oct 2004 03:30:05 -0600
Exemptions to limits on industrial production of the pesticide methyl bromide are now being considered by governments across the globe. The so called "critical use exemptions" were the topic of a recent...
CMDL Scientists Publish Estimates of Russian Halocarbon Emissions
Published on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 12:37:46 -0600
Scientists from the NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory, the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry (Mainz, Germany), and the Obukhov Institute of Atmospheric Physics (Moscow, Russia) recentl...
Watch the South Pole Sun Rise
Published on Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:01:15 -0600
NOAA/CMDL personnel who wintered over at the U.S. Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station this last year recently saw the sun again after 6 months of darkness. While the time for the autumnal equinox, when ni...
CMDL Validates Aura Satellite with a 110,000 Cubic Meter Scientific Balloon
Published on Fri, 17 Sep 2004 08:23:15 -0600
Scientists from the Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) have monitoring instruments in a 450 kg (1000 lb.) gondola being lifted to 32 km by an 110,000 m3 (4,000,000 ft3) balloon launch...
NOAA goes North.... way North
Published on Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:24:04 -0600
During the month of August CMDL and ETL, with support from the NOAA Arctic Research Office, coordinated to send engineers and scientists to the Canadian Forces military base in Alert, Nunavut (82.5 N, 62...
Updated View of the Earth's Changing Carbon Cycle Available on the Internet
Published on Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:13:52 -0600
In August 2004, the ninth annual update of GLOBALVIEW-CO2 was made freely available from the GLOBALVIEW Web site (/ccgg/globalview/index.html). GLOBALVIEW-CO2 [2004] is designed ...
The Whale and the Supercomputer
Published on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:30:07 -0600
"Dan Endres [Chief, NOAA/CMDL Barrow Baseline Observatory] opened the door with the diffident smile of someone who doesn't get a lot of visitors. The guest book confirmed this impression: a few pages co...
CMDL Assists India with new Greenhouse Gas and Aerosol Monitoring Program
Published on Fri, 20 Aug 2004 03:29:43 -0600
Three scientists from the NOAA Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (along with 7 other NOAA scientists from GFDL, NESDIS, NODC and NOS,) were part of a 20 member U.S. delegation that spent the...
Smoke from Barrow, Alaska Forest Fires Effect Measurements
Published on Fri, 9 Jul 2004 02:34:11 -0600
Fires started by lightning strikes have been burning in central Alaska since mid-June. The smoke from the fires is intense resulting in very low visibility which hampers fire-fighting efforts as well as...
CMDL Deploying Aerosol/Radiation Instrument at Chebogue Point, Nova Scotia
Published on Tue, 22 Jun 2004 10:22:45 -0600
CMDL Deploying Large Aerosol/Radiation Instrument System at Chebogue Point, Nova Scotia for the New England Air Quality Study.
On June 23, CMDL shipped a one-ton package of integrated ...
NOAA/CMDL Samoa Observatory Nears Recovery from Hurricane Heta Damage
Published on Thu, 3 Jun 2004 12:12:06 -0600
Five months after Hurricane Heta ripped through American Samoa with 190 mph winds and 60 foot waves that scored a direct hit on the NOAA CMDL Atmospheric Baseline Observatory, the facility is almost comp...
NOAA Radiation Network Becomes the GCOS Global Baseline Radiation Network
Published on Wed, 5 May 2004 09:01:16 -0600
The international Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN) managed by CMDL has been designated the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) global baseline surface radiation network. The BSRN with 35 sit...
CMDL Annual Meeting: May 26-27, 2004
Published on Mon, 19 Apr 2004 01:45:16 -0600
NOAA's Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) is pleased to announce a call for participation and attendance at the CMDL annual meeting to be held Wednesday, May 26 and Thursday, May 27, 2...
Aerosol Monitoring Upgrades at Alert, Canada
Published on Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:03:57 -0600
Arctic aerosols have been monitored by the Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for nearly three decades at their stations in Alert ...
Siberian Trace Gas Expedition a Success: Train Returns to Moscow April 1
Published on Wed, 31 Mar 2004 08:42:42 -0700
Three American scientists representing NOAA?s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) in Boulder, Colo., and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) of the U...
CMDL Scientists to Study Trace Gas Emissions in Siberia
Published on Mon, 15 Mar 2004 01:08:47 -0700
Introduction: Four scientists representing NOAA?s Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) in Boulder, Colorado and the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Science (CIRES) a...
No Vehicles! No Walkers! No Aircraft! - Clean Air Sector at the South Pole
Published on Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:14:43 -0700
At first glance, it would appear that if there is any place on Earth with enough space and clean air to conduct background air monitoring it would be at the South Pole, Antarctica. This is generally tru...
CMDL Scientists Part of Initial Validation of the New Aura Satellite
Published on Fri, 23 Jan 2004 10:07:57 -0700
Seven Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (CMDL) scientists are in Houston, Texas from January 11 through January 23, 2004 to participate in one test flight and seven science flights on the NA...
Category 5 Cyclone Damages NOAA Baseline Observatory in American Samoa
Published on Thu, 8 Jan 2004 10:10:25 -0700
Cyclone Heta, a Category 5 cyclone -the most severe- with peak winds of 185 mph and ocean swells of 45 feet, scored a direct hit on the Samoan Islands on Sunday, January 4. The NOAA Climate Monitoring a...