Dobson Observations from Utqiaġvik, Alaska have been operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Global Monitoring Laboratory since 1973.
News and Events
It is our pleasure to send you the first announcement of the 30th International Laser Radar Conference (ILRC-30), to be held from June 26 to July 1st, 2022 in Big Sky, Montana, USA. ILRC-30 will be co-located and held in parallel with the Coherent Laser Radar Conference (CLRC).
In a comprehensive review, the SPARC S-RIP activity has conducted a coordinated intercomparison of reanalysis data sets with respect to key diagnostics. The results can be used to provide guidance on the appropriate use of reanalysis products in scientific studies of relevance to SPARC and beyond.
Progress continues on the migration of the NDACC DHF from its original home at NOAA's Climate Prediction Center (CPC) to its new home at NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC). New this month is the availability of the NCEP temperature and height extraction tool on the public LaRC NDACC DHF.
The latest SHADOZ Newsletter has been posted and SHADOZ was featured in NASA's bimonthly "Earth Observer." Both publications describe three recent SHADOZ regional meetups to build up communications while locked down and the change in PI from Anne Thompson to Ryan Stauffer.
The simulation has been rerun and new GMI CTM 2020 files are available for FTIR, Lidar, Sonde, and Dobson sites. Due to a peculiar error, all model inputs after May 4, 2020 had been flipped by 180º longitude.
Plans for the 2021 NDACC Steering Committee annual meeting are underway. Originally scheduled to take place at the NOAA Center for Weather and Climate Prediction (NCWCP) in College Park, MD, the meeting has been changed to a virtual format because of ongoing COVID-19 restrictions.
As presented at recent Steering Committee Meetings the NDACC DHF has been transitioning from service at NOAA/CPC to NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC). In the Fall 2020 meeting we noted that the DHF at LaRC was running in mirror mode, with all files running through the format/ingest codes.
A Cooperating Network Agreement between NDACC and the European Brewer Network (EUBREWNET) was finalized on 19 April 2021.
The new NDACC Lidar Working Group (LWG) website features a review of the NDACC lidar stations and instruments, with new links and functionality to check data availability and access them. Fine-tuning of the website content will continue over the upcoming weeks.