ARL’s mission is to improve the ability of the Nation to protect human and ecosystem health and to support a vibrant economy through advanced atmospheric sciences and technologies. ARL’s research focus is on the surface of the earth from a few feet below the soil up to 2-3 miles in the atmosphere (aka the boundary layer), which has a direct impact on people’s health and safety, business, and the environment. ARL studies the physical and chemical processes that occur in the boundary layer, on time scales spanning a few hours to several years.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory, located in College Park, Maryland with field stations in Tennessee, Idaho and Nevada. Here are six facts about the lab.
Six fun facts about NOAA’s Air Resources Laboratory on its 75th anniversary Read More >
With every breath we take, we inhale many particles with a diameter much smaller than the width of a human hair. These small particles can contribute to particulate matter air pollution that has been shown to lead to a number of respiratory health problems. A new instrument for measuring aerosols, recently installed in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, could lead to more accurate weather and air quality forecasts.
NOAA scientists and several partners are taking a fresh look at persistent air pollution problems bedeviling the nation’s two largest Intermountain metro regions, Denver and Salt Lake City, from the ground, in the air, and from space, during new research projects launched this month.
Summer airborne research targets Rocky Mountain ozone pollution Read More >
When the container vessel Dali crashed into the Francis Scott Key Bridge causing it to collapse in Baltimore Harbor on March 26, 2024, deliveries to
Measuring pollution levels in the Port of Baltimore after the bridge collapse Read More >
