Panoramic view of the Barrow, Alaska site showing the old and new observatory buildings from the 30m tower, August 2021

The GRAD team installing Radiation System instruments at Kettle Ponds near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte, Colorado.

A traditional Hawaiian rainbow over the Mauna Loa site

Radiometers at the NOAA Table Mountain Test Facility

Global Monitoring Laboratory

Taking the Pulse of the Planet

The Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducts research on:

Research

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

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

Research on the Earth's surface radiation budget and the climate-forcing properties of aerosol particles.

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

Atmospheric Baseline Observatories