News & Events for 10/2021

The NDACC Steering Committee held its annual meeting 13–16 September 2021. Originally scheduled to take place at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) in College Park, MD, the meeting was changed to a virtual format because of ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.

On October 18–20,2021, the NASA/GSFC Greenbelt ozone group of Ryan Stauffer (NDACC Sonde WG Co-Chair), Debra Kollonige, and Anne Thompson (former NDACC SC Co-Chair) traveled to the NASA/WFF NDACC station to meet with Rhonie Wolff and Tom Northam and perform two dual ozonesonde test launches.

In January 2021, the solar FTIR instrument at NCAR in Boulder was accepted as a formal NDACC station.   The Infrared Working Group (IRWG) is composed of 20 stations making daily observations and producing vertical profiles of 12 standard species.