News
August 18, 2021
One step further towards day-ahead solar variability prediction
New research by GML characterized the relationship of solar irradiance variability with cloud properties and quantified that relationship using machine learning models.
August 11, 2021
Long Range Transport from Western U.S. Fires
Like 2020, 2021 is turning out to be an intense year for wildfires in the western US.
July 20, 2021
NOAA-NASA collaboration to study the impact of convective storms and the North American Summer Monsoon on stratospheric chemistry
Global Monitoring Laboratory and NASA team up in the DCOTSS (Dynamics and Chemistry of the Summer Stratosphere) project to study the convective impact of the North American Monsoon Anticyclone on stratospheric composition and ozone depletion.
July 6, 2021
NOAA Federated Aerosol Network to add two new stations by the end of 2021
The NOAA Federated Aerosol Network (NFAN) is in the process of adding two new stations - one operated by the University of Miami at Ragged Point, Barbados, and one operated by the Air Force Institute of Technology at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
June 16, 2021
2021 snow-free season started on June 14 at GML Barrow Observatory
On June 14, 2021, the daily mean surface albedo at Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory dropped below 0.3, indicating the start of the snow-free season. The snowmelt day ranked 6th latest of the latest 24 years and 44th latest since 1926.
August 17, 2020
August wildfire smoke impacts Boulder aerosol measurements
December 15, 2017
Move of Bondville, IL Aerosol System to New Facility
Aerosol measurements have been made by the NOAA/ESRL Global Monitoring Division (GMD) at the Bondville Environmental and Atmospheric Research Site (BEARS) since June of 1994. In late October of 2017, the GMD aerosol monitoring system was moved from the aging, uninsulated sea container to a new temperature-controlled building about 80 meters away.
July 29, 2015
Congratulations to recent ESRL award winners
John A. Ogren, Patrick J. Sheridan and James W. Wendell of the Aerosol group in the ESRL Global Monitoring Division won the 2015 NOAA Technology Transfer Award, which recognizes achievements that are developed further as commercial applications, or that advance the transfer of NOAA science and technology to U.S. businesses, academia, other government and non-government entities.
October 19, 2012
Ellsworth G. Dutton 1949-2012
ESRL scientist Ellsworth Dutton passed away on 11 October, 2012. Ells was widely respected for his careful study of the surface radiation budget of the Earth.