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NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory Testing High-Altitude Operational Returning Unmanned System at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center and Edwards Air Force Base

Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) scientists are launching a new AirCore field campaign to test a new method for high-altitude air sampling and instrument recovery.

5 ways NOAA scientists are answering big questions about climate change

Scientists at NOAA have long worked to track, understand and predict how climate change is progressing and impacting ecosystems, communities and economies. This Earth Day, take a look at five ways scientists are studying this far-reaching global trend.

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

Despite pandemic shutdowns, carbon dioxide and methane surged in 2020

Levels of the two most important anthropogenic greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide and methane, continued their unrelenting rise in 2020 despite the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic response.

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

In honor of Women’s History Month, Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) is highlighting some of the great work done by our scientists. Today’s story expands on a previous one introducing a day in the life at the South Pole for NOAA Corps Officer Lieutenant Junior Grade Marisa Gedney, who served as a Station Officer at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica.

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

A profile of Kathryn McKain, a research scientist with CIRES and GML.

GML Employee of the Quarter - Gataivai "Vai" Talamoa

COVID-19 Lockdowns Reduced Ozone Pollution Over the Northern Hemisphere

During COVID-19 shutdowns last year, ozone levels in the lower atmosphere fell by seven percent across much of the Northern Hemisphere, according to a new study.

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

Five years after an unexpected spike in emissions of the banned ozone-depleting chemical chlorofluorocarbon CFC-11, emissions dropped sharply between 2018 and 2019, new analyses of global air measurements show.

GML Scientists win DOC Gold Medal

GML Scientists were part of a group that won a Department of Commerce Gold Medal Group Award for Scientific / Engineering Achievement

GML Scientist elected AGU Fellow

Dr. Edward J. Dlugokencky, Global Monitoring Laboratory, was awarded as an AGU Fellow for the class of 2020.

Large, deep Antarctic ozone hole to persist into November

Persistent cold temperatures and strong circumpolar winds supported the formation of a large and deep Antarctic ozone hole that will persist into November, NOAA and NASA scientists reported today.

Lawns provide surprising contribution to L.A. Basin’s carbon emissions

The Los Angeles Basin is often thought of as a dry, smoggy, overdeveloped landscape. But a new study led by NOAA and the University of Colorado, Boulder shows that the manicured lawns, emerald golf courses and trees of America’s second-largest city have a surprisingly large influence on the city’s carbon emissions.

August wildfire smoke impacts Boulder aerosol measurements

Rise of carbon dioxide unabated

Seasonal peak reaches 417 parts per million at Mauna Loa observatory