The Growing World of Citizen Science
Full title: The Growing World of Citizen Science: A look at how NOAA is harnessing the power of the crowd
Speakers: Chris Bowser, Education Coordinator, Hudson River Estuary Program and Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve; NYS Water Resource Institute at Cornell University
Amy Fritz, NOAA National Weather Service, Office of Observations, National Cooperative ObserverProgram Manager
Jennifer Jencks, Director of the IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry, NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information
John McLaughlin (NOAA Citizen Science Co-Coordinator), NOAA Office of Education
Laura Oremland (NOAA Citizen Science Co-Coordinator), NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology
Gil Compo, University of Colorado CIRES and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division
Abstract: Volunteers have long played a role in advancing scientific research and monitoring, but new tools and methods are rapidly expanding the ways they can participate. The Crowdsourcing and Citizen Science Act of 2016 states citizen science projects“have a number of additional unique benefits, including accelerating scientific research, increasing cost effectiveness to maximize the return on taxpayer dollars, addressing societal needs, providing hands-on learning in STEM, and connecting members of the public directly to Federal science agency missions and to each other”. We will discuss NOAA’s approach to citizen science (also known as community science) and look at 4 projects including: 1) Cooperative Observer Program; 2) Crowdsourced Bathymetry; 3) Hudson River Eel Project; and 4) Old Weather. Learn how you can get involved in NOAA’s citizen science community whether you are a project manager, a prospective volunteer, or are simply curious.
About the Speakers: Chris Bowser is the Education Coordinator for the Hudson River National Estuarine Research Reserve.He has served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa and teaches environmental science at Marist College.
Amy Fritz is the new National Cooperative Observer Program managers as of April, 2019. She manages the Cooperative Observer (COOP) program comprised of over 10,000 volunteers at 8100 sites that provided daily meteorological readings, mainly precipitation and temperature, to the U.S. Climate Record.
Jennifer Jencks is the Director of the IHO Data Centre for Digital Bathymetry, which is hosted by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) in Boulder, Colorado. She leads the NCEI Ocean and Coastal Mapping Team and is actively involved with many national and international seafloor mapping projects.
John McLaughlin is a Program Officer with NOAA's Environmental Literacy Program. He has worked in citizen science since 2002 and serves as a Citizen Science Coordinator for the agency.
Laura Oremland is an Education Program Manager in the NOAA Fisheries Office of Science and Technology. She has worked in citizen science since 2015 with a special focus on incorporated citizen science into fisheries research.
Gil Compo is a Senior Research Scientist at the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory Physical Sciences Division. He leads the NOAA-CIRES-DOE 20th Century Reanalysis Project, the global weather reconstruction now spanning 1806 to 2015, and is a co-lead of the Old Weather citizen science project recovering marine weather observations to better understand global weather and its changes since observational records began. Old Weather has involved more than 20,000 people since its inception in 2010.
Understanding High Wintertime Ozone Events over an Oil and Natural Gas Production Region from...
2014 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences
Session: Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development II
Title: Understanding High Wintertime Ozone Events over an Oil and Natural Gas Production Region from Air Quality Model Perspective
Authors:
Petron, G, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Yuan, B, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Zamora, R J, NOAA/OAR R/PSD2, Boulder, CO, United States
Williams, E J, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Ahmadov, R, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
McKeen, S A, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Schnell, R C, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Wild, R J, Colorado University/NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Warneke, C, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Edwards, P M, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Oltmans, S J, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
De Gouw, J A, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Gilman, J, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Karion, A, CIRES, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Helmig, D, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Peischl, J, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Banta, R M, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Johnson, B, ESRL/GMD, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Frost, G J, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Roberts, J M, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Brown, S S, Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Lerner, B M, NOAA, Earth System Research La, Boulder, CO, United States
Trainer, M, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Veres, P R, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Koss, A, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstract:
Get to Know NOAA Looking Back, Looking Forward
Speaker: Cheryl Oliver, Director, NOAA Heritage Program, NOAA Office of Communications
Abstract: The history of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the United States are intertwined. NOAA’s roots date back to 1807, when Thomas Jefferson established the nation’s first scientific agency, the Survey of the Coast. Since then, NOAA has evolved to meet the needs of a changing country. NOAA maintains a presence in every state and has emerged as an international leader on scientific and environmental matters. Learn more about the agency's beginnings and how the NOAA Heritage Program and you can be a part of advancing this story through events, projects and exhibits. Learn about the upcoming NOAA 50th Anniversary Campaign that will be launched in early 2020!
About the Speaker: Cheryl Oliver is with the NOAA Office of Communications and the Director of the NOAA Heritage Program. The program includes an annual NOAA Heritage Week celebration, NOAA Open House on the NOAA Silver Spring Campus, an internal “mini grant” program and a traveling Treasures of NOAA’s Ark exhibit – currently on exhibition at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory located at the David Skaggs Research Center in Boulder, CO, its 14th venue in as many years. Cheryl is a 4th generation Washingtonian (DC), 2nd generation NOAA employee and married a (now retired) NOAA colleague as well!
Sunspots and Cooling Earth Temperatures | Mini Ice Age 2015-2035 (1)
When we enter this era again, upward prices on farm commodities will be the norm, affecting the economy as much as rising oil prices did from 2002-2010.
The Sun’s energy output and Solar Irradiance do affect our planet's weather in repeating cycles, and through 400 years of sunspot observation, it seems we are starting to repeat a cold period of either the 1830’s (Dalton Minimum) or 1650’s (Maunder Minimum) era.
During the height of the Little Ice Age 1650, it was in general about 1-2 degrees Celsius colder than at present. Winters were bitterly cold and prolonged, reducing the growing season by several weeks.
The prices of grain increased and wine became difficult to produce in many areas and commercial vineyards vanished in England. Storminess and flooding increased and in mountainous regions the tree line and snowline moved southward.
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Primary emissions and secondary formation of volatile organic compounds from natural gas...
2014 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences
Session: Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development I
Title: Primary emissions and secondary formation of volatile organic compounds from natural gas production in five major U.S. shale plays
Authors:
Ryerson, T B, NOAA Chemical Sciences Divisio, Boulder, CO, United States
Koss, A, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Murphy, S M, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Roberts, J M, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Yuan, B, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Alvarez, S L, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
De Gouw, J A, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Lui, R, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Hatch, C D, Hendrix College, Conway, AR, United States
Lefer, B L, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Brown, S S, Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Min, K E, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Gilman, J, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Graus, M, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Lerner, B M, NOAA, Earth System Research La, Boulder, CO, United States
Osthoff, H D, Chemistry, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Peischl, J, NOAA ESRL Chemical Sciences Division, Boulder, CO, United States, Boulder, CO, United States
Warneke, C, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstract:
Russell Schnell: The Air We Breathe Ain't What It Used To Be
The Air We Breathe Ain't What It Used To Be
by Russell Schnell
Russell Schnell, NOAA atmospheric scientist and co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and winner of NOAA's 2011 Albritton Outstanding Science Communicator Award, is deputy director of the GlobalMonitoring Division of NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory. In this hour-long presentation, Dr. Schnell simplifies complex environmental issues like global warming and climate change and translates them into stories that are colorful, understandable and focused.
Sponsored by the CU Friends of the Libraries. For additional information about the Friends, go to:
Winter Photochemistry Underlying High Ozone in an Oil and Gas Producing Region
2014 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences
Session: Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development II
Title: Winter Photochemistry Underlying High Ozone in an Oil and Gas Producing Region
Authors:
De Gouw, J A, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Brown, S S, Chemical Sciences Division, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Edwards, P M, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Thompson, C R, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Graus, M, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
Murphy, S M, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Langford, A O, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Stutz, J, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States
McKeen, S A, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Wild, R J, Colorado University/NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Washenfelder, R A, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Young, C, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St John's, NL, Canada
Field, R A, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, United States
Banta, R M, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Roberts, J M, NOAA/ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Koss, A, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Lefer, B L, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Houston, Houston, TX, United States
Yuan, B, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Senff, C J, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Dube, W P, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Lerner, B M, NOAA, Earth System Research La, Boulder, CO, United States
Zamora, R J, NOAA/OAR R/PSD2, Boulder, CO, United States
Warneke, C, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Veres, P R, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Li, S M, Environment Canada Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Ahmadov, R, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Gilman, J, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Parrish, D D, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Trainer, M, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Helmig, D, Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstract:
Ozone formation during wintertime in oil and gas producing basins of the Rocky Mountain West now accounts for some of the highest ozone pollutant concentrations observed in the U.S. These events are scientifically challenging, occurring only during cold, snow covered periods when meteorological inversions concentrate pollutants near the surface, but when incident solar actinic flux that initiates photochemical reactions is at or near its minimum. A near-explicit chemical model that incorporates detailed measurements obtained during three successive winter field studies in the Uintah Basin, Utah, accurately reproduces the observed buildup of ozone and other photochemically generated species. It also identifies the sources of free radicals that drive this unusual photochemistry, and quantifies their relative contributions. Although sharing the same basic atmospheric chemistry, winter ozone formation differs from its summertime, urban counterpart in its dependence upon the relative concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) precursors. Observed NOx mixing ratios in the Uintah basin are lower than is typical of urban areas, while VOC levels are significantly larger. These extreme VOC concentrations allow for nearly optimal efficiency of ozone production from the available NOx. This analysis will inform the design of mitigation strategies and provide insight into the response of winter ozone to primary air pollutants in other regions, particularly those where oil and gas development is contemplated.
Cite as: Author(s) (2014), Title, Abstract A12C-02 presented at 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 15-19 Dec.
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NOAA/CU/UCAR - WINNER 2017 CO-LABS Governor's Awards for High-Impact Research
WINNER: GPS Reflections: Innovative Technique and New Data Advance Earth Observations, Inform Natural Resource Management and Enhance Risk Resiliency - University of Colorado, Boulder; University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR); National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Boulder
Principal Investigators:
Kristine Larson, Professor, Dept. of Aerospace Engineering Sciences, University of Colorado
John Braun, Project Scientist, UCAR COSMIC Program
Eric Small, Professor, Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado
Valery Zavorotny, Physicist, Physical Sciences Division, Earth System Research Laboratory, NOAA
Reflected GPS Signals or “GPS Reflectometry” describes an innovative technique for gathering new data about soil moisture, snow depth, vegetation health, ice sheet properties, and water levels. This new technique uses signals from GPS satellites observed by hundreds of ground-based receivers around the world. Although these GPS receivers were primarily deployed to measure ground motions related to plate tectonics and for other reasons, the reflection method is able to extract key parameters about the state of the surface below the antenna, such as soil moisture, snow depth, vegetation water content, and water level. These new measurements are utilized for research in diverse fields of Earth science, such as hydrology, phenology, ecology, soil science, atmospheric sciences, ocean sciences, and cryospheric sciences.
GPS reflection measurements also provide a new source of data to validate and calibrate satellite-based earth observations. The data inform risk resiliency, such as flood or drought forecasting, support natural resource management, especially regarding land-use and farming efficiency, as well as helping diverse consumers, such as those in agriculture, the winter recreational industry and the aerospace industry. For example, soil moisture measurements provide information about how much precipitation stays in the soil, how it affects plant growth, how it affects the water cycle, and how it affects water resources. Snow depth measurements provide information about water availability, potential flooding, potential drought, atmospheric processes, hydrological processes, and climate. In Colorado and elsewhere, it is useful for the winter recreational industry, land and water managers, and those interested in weather patterns. Measurements of sea level and lake level from ground-based GPS/GNSS site provide information about ocean and lakes processes, changes in water levels due to many different processes (e.g. weather and climate), coastal processes, and other aspects of oceanic sciences and hydrology.
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Webinar: More Accurate Solar and Wind Guidance from the NOAA HRRR Model in 2019-2020
Featured Speaker: Stan Benjamin, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
Dr. Stan Benjamin is a research meteorologist and weather model developer at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL) in Boulder, CO. Stan received a Ph.D. in meteorology from Penn State and a B.A. in mathematics from Albion College in Michigan. He and his group at NOAA/ESRL like being useful by improving NOAA forecasts for applications including energy, aviation, and severe weather.
Moderator: Charlie Smith, ESIG
Webinar Abstract: Improvements in weather models are increasingly designed specifically for renewable energy application and decision making. NOAA and the National Weather Service are refining their its hourly updated HRRR (High-Resolution Rapid Refresh) 3km weather model to better serve the energy industry by better using observations such as radar, lightning, satellite, and aircraft to initialize the HRRR model. NOAA has also been improving how it models winds and clouds in various conditions, in part through a special observation study in the Pacific Northwest (WFIP2). The HRRR model was improved in July 2018, resulting in more widespread use by the energy industry for Day 1 and out to 36h. A next upgrade in 2020 will further improve HRRR forecasts for clouds and storms of all seasons and a likely extension out to 48h allowing full coverage for Day 2 guidance.
This webinar will briefly cover how weather models work, how they are initialized with various observations, and how the HRRR model will be improved next year. Biggest upcoming changes: better forecasts overall of clouds, icing, smoke, thunderstorms, and improved probabilistic forecasts.
SOCCR2 Seminar 1 Dr. Jim Butler & Dr. Gyami Shrestha Science to Solutions: State of the Carbon Cycle
'From Science to Solutions: The State of the Carbon Cycle' Seminar Series
Seminar 1 in the Series
Seminar 1 of 16 in the Series:
'From Science to Solutions: The State of the Carbon Cycle'
A special public engagement series from the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2) team of carbon experts
This is the first seminar in a series we plan to run on Tuesdays, 12-1pm ET, Feb. 26 - May 28, 2019.
Speakers:
- Dr. James Butler, Director, NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division. Presenting from Boulder, Colorado
- Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Director, U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office, presenting at NOAA Silver Spring.
Co-authors: Nancy Cavallaro, USDA NIFA National Program Leader and Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Chief, Biologic Carbon Sequestration Program
12:05pm-12:30pm ET, Part 1: ‘Carbon Cycle Science across NOAA: Discussing the 'Carbon Cycle Interagency Working Group(CCIWG) and SOCCR2 science and societal relevance to NOAA’s mission, by James Butler
12:30-12:55pm ET, Part 2: ‘From Science to Solutions: The State of the Carbon Cycle Assessment by Gyami Shrestha
Sponsors: U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office and NOAA's National Ocean Service Science Seminar; coordinators are Gyami Shrestha (gshrestha@usgcrp.gov), Tracy.Gill@noaa.gov
Abstract: What was the fate and impact of carbon in atmospheric, aquatic and terrestrial systems across North America over the last decade? How is it projected to grow and impact future climate change, given current scenarios and how can we harness current scientific and socio-economic advances in our knowledge of the carbon cycle at the intersection of human dimensions to better manage it in order to reduce future climate change risks? The just released Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (#SOCCR2, USGCRP 2018) tells you all about it. SOCCR2 is a Sustained Assessment series special product of the U.S. Global Change Research Program, spanning 4 sections, 19 chapters and 7 appendices across 878 pages, developed by a 200+ member international team who produced over 6 formal drafts reviewed over 6 times, including by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the general public before final review and released by the 13 agencies of the USGCRP the same day as the 4th National Climate Assessment. To kick-off this special One NOAA SOCCR2 Seminar Series ‘From Science to Solutions: The State of the Carbon Cycle Assessment’, this talk will provide an overview of the multiyear, multi-step, interagency assessment formulation and development process. A snapshot of the many scientifically significant and societally relevant key findings, as a preview of the upcoming SOCCR2 OneNOAA Seminar talks the following Tuesdays (12-1 pm ET, Feb 26-May 28) will also be provided. This talk will also focus on potential carbon management strategies along with trade-offs and co-benefits of certain actions, to showcase the carbon cycle science-derived climate change actions and solutions that decades of the interdisciplinary research has rendered possible.
SOCCR2 can be downloaded via
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Reference:
USGCRP, 2018: Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2): A Sustained Assessment Report. [Cavallaro, N., G. Shrestha, R. Birdsey, M. A. Mayes, R. G. Najjar, S. C. Reed, P. Romero-Lankao, and Z. Zhu (eds.)]. U.S. Global Change Research Program, Washington, DC, USA, 878 pp., doi: 10.7930/SOCCR2.2018
What is the Year of Polar Prediction?
The Year of Polar Prediction – From Research to Improved Environmental Safety in Polar Regions and Beyond
Experts within the Polar Prediction Project explain what the Year of Polar Prediction means to them, personally and scientifically, and why it is important for everyone.
Thank you to the interviewees!
in order of appearance
Mikhail Tolstykh
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
Hydrometcentre & Institute of Numerical Mathematics, Moscow, Russia
Don Perovich
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
Daniela Liggett
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
University of Canterbury & Gateway Antarctica, Christchurch, New Zealand
Jonathan Day
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
University of Reading, UK
David Bromwich
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
Byrd Polar and Climate Research Center, Columbus, USA
Jørn Kristiansen
Norwegian Meteorological Institute (MET No)
Helge Goessling
Director of the International Coordination Office
Alfred Wegener Institute, Germany
Peter Bauer
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, UK
Qinghua Yang
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center, Beijing, China
Michael Ek
National Centres for Environmental Prediction, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Maryland, USA
Matthieu Chevallier
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
Meteo-France, Toulouse, France
Matthew Shupe
University of Colorado and NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Boulder, CO, USA
Gunilla Svensson
Member of the Polar Prediction Project Steering Group
Stockholm University and Bolin Centre for Climate Research, Stockholm, Sweden
Contact the International Coordination Office via office@polarprediction.net
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First track: Hollow Gold by Podington Bear
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Climate Data Analysis Cyberinfrastructure
University of Colorado Boulder - Tuesday July 23, 2013 @ 6:00pm MDT
Location: ATLAS - 1125 18th St Bldg 223, Boulder, CO - Room 100
Agenda:
6:00 - 6:15 Schmooze - Food will be served in Lobby.
6:15 - 7:30 Rethinking Cyberinfrastructure for Climate Data Analysis Workflows by Dr. Richard Loft
7:30 - 8:30 Data Scientists vs. Data Engineers by Michael Walker
8:30 - 9:30 Network at The Sink at 1165 13th Street.
See:
Rethinking Cyberinfrastructure for Climate Data Analysis Workflows - Abstract
Advancements in the computational capability of massively parallel supercomputers have offered the Earth system science community an unprecedented opportunity to dramatically improve its understanding of the Earth system. This has spurred a focused effort, over many years, to improve Earth system model scalability and performance. However it has recently become painfully evident that the ancillary data analysis software and hardware systems have become the rate-limiting step in advancing scientific understanding. There are three reasons for this development: first, the rate of improvement in computing system has outpaced improvements in storage system performance; second, many workflows and tool remain serial, while applications have become increasingly parallelized; and third, many analysis tools and applications make inefficient use of the underlying hardware.
This talk will cover the history and current state of Earth system modeling and data analysis, show how capabilities of the NCAR Wyoming Supercomputing Center are advancing that state, and suggest how infrastructure and the analysis software can and must coevolve to address the massive amounts of data. The discussion will be framed through experiences at NCAR in pushing the boundaries of what is possible in data centric computing, and the trends influencing the next co-evolutionary steps.
Bio
Dr. Loft has been involved with massively parallel computing since joining Thinking Machine Corporation as an Application Engineer in 1989. Throughout his career he has contributed to the understanding and effective use of parallelism as applied to grand challenge simulations. His algorithmic innovations dramatically improved the scalability of the atmospheric component of the Community Earth System Model, and were recognized with an honorable mention prize in the IEEE/ACM Gordon Bell competition at Supercomputing 2001. Rich is currently the Director of Technology Development Division in the Computational and Information Systems Laboratory at NCAR. TDD is charged with improving application scalability and performance, exploring the use of new computer technologies, and developing software to serve and analyze large or complex datasets. He also serves as NCAR's representative to the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Service Provider Forum (SPF) and oversees NCAR's participation in the XSEDE project. Dr. Loft also leads the Outreach Services Group for the CISL computing laboratory at NCAR. The education of future computational scientists is an area he is passionate about, which is why he founded the Summer Internships in Parallel Computational Science, or SIParCS program in 2007.
Bio
Michael Walker is a managing partner at Rose Business Technologies, a professional technology services and systems integration firm. He leads the Data Science Professional Practice at Rose. Mr. Walker received his undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado and earned a doctorate from Syracuse University. He speaks and writes frequently about data science and is writing a book on Data Science Strategy for Business. Learn more about the Rose Data Science Professional Practice at Follow Mike on Twitter @Ironwalker76.
An Examination of Carbon Monoxide and Organic Aerosol Mass Sources in the Southeastern United...
2014 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences
Session: Atmospheric Gas-Phase and Aerosol Chemistry over the Southeastern United States III
Title: An Examination of Carbon Monoxide and Organic Aerosol Mass Sources in the Southeastern United States during the SENEX Project
Authors:
Graus, M, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
De Gouw, J A, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Horowitz, L W, Princeton Univ, Princeton, NJ, United States
Welti, A, ETH Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Holloway, J S, CIRES/NOAA Earth Systems Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Middlebrook, A M, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Trainer, M, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Lerner, B M, NOAA, Earth System Research La, Boulder, CO, United States
Brioude, J F, CIRES/CU NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Hanisco, T F, NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Kaiser, J, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Brock, C A, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Keutsch, F N, UW Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Angevine, W M, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Liao, J, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Gilman, J, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Mao, J, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States
Warneke, C, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Wolfe, G M Jr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Abstract:
The CESM Decadal Prediction Large Ensemble
The CESM Decadal Prediction Large Ensemble: Forecasting decadal trends in the North Atlantic and Arctic
Decadal climate predictions exhibit skill in retrospective predictions of observed multi-year trends in sea surface temperature (SST) and sea ice fraction in the high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, particularly in the Atlantic sector. The skill is largely attributable to realistic ocean initialization, but external radiative forcing also contributes some skill. Here, we compare the spatiotemporal evolution of 10-year SST and sea ice fraction trends from the CESM Decadal Prediction Large Ensemble (CESM-DPLE; Yeager et al. 2018), which includes both initialization and external forcing, to historical trends diagnosed from the CESM Large Ensemble of 20th Century simulations (CESM-LE; Kay et al. 2015), which only includes external forcing effects. The observed SST data is from the HADISST1 product merged with the NOAA-OI product (Hurrell et al. 2008); the observed sea ice fraction data is from the National Snow & Ice Data Center (NSIDC) passive microwave product NSIDC-0051 (Cavalieri et al. 1996).
References:
Cavalieri, D. J., C. L. Parkinson, P. Gloersen, and H. J. Zwally. 1996, updated yearly. Sea Ice Concentrations from Nimbus-7 SMMR and DMSP SSM/I-SSMIS Passive Microwave Data, Version 1. Boulder, Colorado USA. NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center. doi:
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Acknowledgements:
This work was supported by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
(NOAA) Climate Program Office under Climate Variability and Predictability Program
grants NA09OAR4310163 and NA13OAR4310138, by the National Science Foundation
(NSF) Collaborative Research EaSM2 grant OCE-1243015, and by the NSF through its
sponsorship of the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The CESM-DPLE was generated using computational resources provided by the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231, as well as by an Accelerated Scientific Discovery grant for
Cheyenne (doi:10.5065/D6RX99HX) that was awarded by NCAR's Computational and
Information Systems Laboratory.
Visualization and Postproduction:
Matt Rehme (NCAR)
SOCCR2 Webinar 11 Drs. Lori Bruhilweiler & John Miller 'Global Carbon Cycle & Understanding Gaps''
Title: An Overview of Global Carbon Cycle: Where are the Gaps in our Understanding?
Speakers from NOAA/OAR/ESRL, Global Monitoring Division:
1. Overview of Global Carbon Cycle webinar: Dr. Lori Bruhwiler, Physical Scientist
2. Atmospheric Carbon Cycle webinar: Dr. John B. Miller, Physical Scientist & Chief of the Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Group
See: for details. See: for the State of the Carbon Cycle Report decadal assessment of carbon across North America.
Seminar 11 in the Series, From Science to Solutions: The State of the Carbon Cycle Seminar Series. We are hosting this State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2) special seminar series on Tuesdays, 12-1pm ET, Feb. 26 - June 11, 2019 in collaboration with the OneNOAA Science Seminar Series.
Sponsors: U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office/UCAR and NOAA's National Ocean Service Science Seminar; coordinators are Dr. Gyami Shrestha, Director of the U.S. Carbon Cycle Science Program Office & Tracy Gill from NOAA.
When: Tuesday, May 7, 2019, 12-1pm EDT
Abstract:
Atmospheric carbon dioxide has increased from a preindustrial abundance of 280 ppm to over 400 ppm, an increase of 43%. Methane has increased from a preindustrial abundance about 700 ppb to more than 1,850 ppb, an increase of over 2.5 times. The current understanding of the sources and sinks of atmospheric carbon supports a dominant role for human activities, especially fossil fuel combustion, in the rapid rise of atmospheric carbon. As of 2017, the anthropogenic radiative forcing was 3.1 W/m2, with CO2 accounting for 2 W/m2, and CH4 accounting for 0.5 W/m2. Global fossil fuel emissions of CO2 increased at a rate of about 4% per year until 2013, when the rate of increase abruptly declined. Emissions were flat in 2015 and 2016, but increased again in 2017 by an estimated 2.0%. About half of anthropogenic CO2 is taken up by lands and oceans, and this keeps atmospheric concentrations much lower than they wold otherwise be. The magnitude of future land and ocean carbon sinks is uncertain because the responses of the carbon cycle to future changes in climate are uncertain. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC 2013) estimated that to have a 66% chance of limiting the warming to less than 2°C since 1861–1880 will require cumulative emissions from all anthropogenic sources to stay below about 1,000 Pg C, meaning that only 221 Pg C equivalent can be emitted from 2017 forward. Current annual global CO2 emissions are approximately 10 Pg C per year, so this limit could be reached in as little as 20 years.
About the Speakers:
Dr. Lori Bruhwiler is a physical scientist at the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, Global Monitoring Division in Boulder, Colorado. Her research interests include understanding past and future budgets of CO2, CH4 and other greenhouse gases using atmospheric transport models and data assimilation techniques. Lori has spent her entire career so far at NOAA, beginning with her postdoctoral thesis on stratospheric chemistry at the NOAA Aeronomy Laboratory (now ESRL CSD). She went on to the NOAA Geophysical Research Laboratory where she worked with models of stratospheric chemistry and dynamics, before joining the GMD Carbon Cycle Group. Lori earned her undergraduate degrees in Physics and Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin, and her PhD from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Dr. John B. Miller works as a carbon cycle scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory (NOAA ESRL). John is also the Chief of the Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Group at the NOAA ESRL. His research focuses on the emission and absorption of the greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere at regional and global scales. He uses both modeling of measurements of CO2 and CH4 and their stable and radioisotopes to better understand the processes responsible for their source and sink variations. His specific interests are in fossil fuel combustion emissions of carbon dioxide at the national and global scales, the relationship between the Amazon forest and greenhouse gas emission and absorption and how these impact global climate. John received his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Colorado in 1999, was a National Research Council post-doctoral fellow at NOAA from 2000-2002 and has been a research scientist at NOAA since then. He has been an author on 110 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles. He has also been a contributing author for the World Meteorological Organization quadrennial assessment of ozone depletion, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report and other international reports. Recently, John served as a lead author of the Second State of the Carbon Cycle Report (SOCCR2), an interagency U.S. government-led decadal assessment of carbon cycle science across North America.
The DOE polluting the Skys with Chemtrails
Video was taken in Winter Park Florida on 3/27/08, between the afternoon hours of 5:30 and 6:30.
These chemtrails belong to the Department of Energy's, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM).
The Department of Energy's National Laboratories that are taking part in this ongoing crime against humanity are as follows:
1. Argonne National Laboratory (Argonne IL)
2. Brookhaven National Laboratory (Upton, N.Y)
3. Lawrence Berkeley 'NL' (Berkeley, CA)
4. Lawrence Livermore 'NL'(Livermore, CA)
5. Los Alamos 'NL' (Los Alamos, NM)
6. National Renewable Energy Lab (Golden CO)
7. National Renewable Energy Lab Resource Data Center
8. National Renewable Energy Solar Radiation Research Lab
9. Oak Ridge 'NL' (Oakridge, TN)
10. Pacific Northwest 'NL' (Richland, WA)
11. Sandia 'NL' (Albuquerque, NM)
Some other agencies that are working with the Department of Energy's ARM program are:
12. Air Force Phillips Laboratory (Hanscom AFB, MA)
13. Illinois State Water Survey
14. NASA- Ames Research Center (Moffett Field, CA)
15. NASA- Earth Observing System (EOS) Project Science Office (Maryland)
16. NASA- Goddard Institute For Space Studies (NYC)
17. NASA- Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt MD)
18. NASA- Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Pasadena CA)
19. NASA- Langley Research Center (Hampton VA)
20. National Center For Atmospheric Research
21. NSSL- National Severe Storms Laboratory (Norman, OK)
22. Naval Research Laboratory
23. North Slope Borough Government (AK)
24. NOAA- Aeronomy Laboratory (Boulder CO)
25. NOAA- Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Lab (Oakridge TN)
26. NOAA- Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory (Boulder CO)
27. NOAA- Environmental Technology Laboratory (Boulder CO)
28. NOAA- Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Lab (Princeton NJ)
29. NOAA- National Center For Environmental Prediction (Camp Spring MD)
30. NOAA- National Environmental Satellite Data And Information (Washington D.C)
31. National Marine Fisheries Service
32. NOAA- Office Of Global Programs (Silver Springs MD)
33. NOAA- Surface Radiation Research Branch (Boulder CO) (SRRB)
34. Atmospheric And Environmental Research Inc. (Cambridge MA)
35. General Atomics- (San Diego, CA)
36. Greenwood Group (Ponca OK)
37. Mission Research Corp. (Santa Barbara CA)
38. SeaSpace Corp. (San Diego CA)
International Collaborators:
39. Vaisala- (Finland)
40. Airborne Research Australia (Flinders University, Adelaide South Australia
41. CSIRO- Division Of Atmospheric Research (Victoria Australia)
42. Bureau Of Meteorology Melbourne, Victoria Australia)
43. Canada Center For Remote Sensing (Ottawa Ontario)
44. Dalhousie University (Halifax Canada)
45. McGill University (Montreal Canada)
46. Meteorological Service of Canada (Downsview Ontario)
47. University Of British Columbia (Vancouver Canada)
48. Laboratoire de Meteorologie Dynamique (France)
49. Japan Marine Science Technology Center (Japan)
50. National Institute Of Polar Research (Japan)
51. CLARA- Clouds and Radiation Study (Netherlands, Papua New Guinea)
52. Central Aerological Observatory (Russia)
53. Institute For Atmospheric Optics (Tomsk Russia)
54. Institute For Atmospheric Physics (Moscow Russia)
55. European Centre For Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (Reading UK)
56. Hadley Centre For Climate Prediction (UK)
Universities that are involved:
57. Boston University (Boston MA)
58. Clark Atlanta University (Atlanta GA)
59. Colorado State University (Fort Collins CO)
60. Columbia University (Lamont- Doherty Earth Observatory) Palisades NY
61. Desert Research Institute (Reno NV)
62. Florida State University (Tallahassee FL)
63. Georgia Institute Of Technology (Atlanta Ga)
64. Harvard- Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics (Cambridge MA)
65. Pennsylvania State University (University Park PA)
66. Meteorology Department (Rutgers University) NJ
67. State University of New York At Albany (Albany NY)
68. Atmospheric Sciences Research Center- State University of New York At Stony Brook (Stony Brook NY)
69. Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken NJ)
70. University of Alaska (Fairbanks AK)
71. University of California, Los Angeles
72. University of California, San Diego
73. Scripps Institution Of Oceanography (La Jolla CA)
74. Scripps Institution Of Oceanography Climate Research Division
75. University Of California, Santa Barbara
Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Vegetation and Paper Mills in the Southeast...
2014 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences
Session: Atmospheric Gas-Phase and Aerosol Chemistry over the Southeastern United States II
Title: Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from Vegetation and Paper Mills in the Southeast United States during the SENEX (Southeast Nexus) Campaign in 2013
Authors:
Warneke, C, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Kaser, L, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
Yuan, B, NOAA Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
Ryerson, T B, NOAA Chemical Sciences Divisio, Boulder, CO, United States
Trainer, M, NOAA ESRL, Boulder, CO, United States
Guenther, A B, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, United States
Peischl, J, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Pollack, I B, NOAA, Boulder, CO, United States
Holloway, J S, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Graus, M, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States
De Gouw, J A, NOAA Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstract:
Natural emissions of ozone-and-aerosol-precursor gases such as isoprene and monoterpenes are high in the southeast of the U.S. and rival those found in tropical forests. In addition, anthropogenic emissions are significant in the Southeast and photochemistry is rapid. The NOAA SENEX aircraft campaign took place in June-July 2013 in the southeast U.S. as part of the Southeast Atmosphere Study (SAS) and was focused on studying the interactions between these emissions to form secondary pollutants. The NOAA WP-3 aircraft conducted 20 research flights between May 27 and July 10, 2013 based out of Smyrna, TN.
In this presentation we focus on the emissions of biogenic volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Various methods to determine emissions of isoprene and monoterpenes are investigated, e.g.: (1) emissions are determined by looking at the ambient mixing ratio, their lifetime and mixing volume, (2) eddy covariance or wavelet flux measurement techniques are tested, and (3) using the NCAR C-130 observations of isoprene fluxes, the correlations between fluxes and concentrations and variability to estimate fluxes from the P-3 data. The resulting emission flux estimates are compared with biogenic emission inventories.
The forested Southeast US is heavily managed for large-scale wood and wood products production and therefore has a large density of pulp and paper mills, which are a source of monoterpenes and other VOCs that are typically thought to be biogenic. The significance of VOC emissions from point sources such as the paper mills and others are investigated.
Cite as: Author(s) (2014), Title, Abstract A32A-04 presented at 2014 Fall Meeting, AGU, San Francisco, Calif., 15-19 Dec.
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13th HEPEX webinar: An overview of NOAA's second generation global ensemble reforecast data set
by Tom Hamill, NOAA. Recorded
Abstract: NOAA scientists recently completed the generation of a ~30 year, daily medium-range global ensemble reforecast data set that uses roughly the same NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System that was made operational in 2012. We maintain a hard-disk archive of 99 different output fields at the NOAA Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, which are readily accessible via web interface or ftp. An archive of the full model state is also available from US Department of Energy computers. In this webinar I will provide more information on the data set, will demonstrate several uses of reforecasts, including the statistical post-processing of precipitation forecasts, and will describe how to access the data.
About the speaker: Tom Hamill is a scientist with NOAA's Earth System Research Lab in Boulder, Colorado. Tom has been affiliated with NOAA for the last 14 years. Prior to that, Tom was a post-doctoral fellow at NCAR and got his Ph.D. from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY, with a dissertation topic on short-range ensemble forecasting. Tom has published extensively on topics related to probabilisitic weather prediction, including ensemble-based data assimilation, statistical post-processing, and ensemble forecast verification. Tom is co-chair of the World Meteorological Organization's (WMO) Data Assimilation and Observing Systems committee and has been a member of the WMO Working Group on Numerical Experimentation for the last six years. Tom was one of the founding members of HEPEX and was co-host for HEPEX's second workshop in Boulder, Colorado in 2005.
Exploring Climate Change: Global warming (Episode 2)
What are greenhouse gases and what do they do?
For answers, AMS-certified meteorologist Greg Fishel visits with Dr. Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research who examines air samples from NOAA's Earth Systems Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado.
Robert Henson, meteorologist and author, joins to talk about how discussions of global warming have become climate change.
Dr. Pieter Tans, climate scientist, adds insight on greenhouses gases and the earth's infrared radiation.
University of Alabama at Huntsville's climate scientist Dr. John Christy talks about his data and research on climate change.
Airborne Ethane Observations over the Barnett and Bakken Shale Formations: Quantification of...
2014 Fall Meeting
Section: Atmospheric Sciences
Session: Atmospheric Impacts of Oil and Gas Development I
Title: Airborne Ethane Observations over the Barnett and Bakken Shale Formations: Quantification of Ethane Fluxes and Attribution of Methane Emissions
Authors:
Kort, E A, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Smith, M L, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Karion, A, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Ryerson, T B, NOAA Chemical Sciences Divisio, Boulder, CO, United States
Peischl, J, CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States
Sweeney, C, NOAA/Earth System Research Lab, Boulder, CO, United States
Abstract: