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Flyer for Remote Sensing Initiative workshop

UCAR Remote Sensing Initiative Workshop

Mar 9, 2023

UCAR Center Green 1 Auditorium
Sign up now until May 1, 2023.
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Grape pickers, from Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grape_workers.jpg Photo credit: Tomas Castelazo, 6 September 2003.

How dangerous is wildfire season for US farmworkers?

Oct 11, 2022

ACOM scientist Rebecca Hornbrook contributed to an article at USA Today on the impacts of wildfire smoke on agricultural workers.

ACCLIP research flight 03 on August 6, 2022.

ACCLIP field campaign investigates monsoon-climate connections

Aug 16, 2022

During August 2022, two research aircraft will allow a team of international scientists to study how the Asian summer monsoon affects atmospheric chemistry and global climate.

Publication Highlight

Plot of the total potential temperature field.

Rolando Garcia, 2023. On the Structure and Variability of the Migrating Diurnal Temperature Tide Observed by SABER. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences.

Mar 23, 2023

Sara Martínez-Alonso and co-authors, 2022. Evaluation of MOPITT and TROPOMI carbon monoxide retrievals using AirCore in situ vertical profiles. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques.

Feb 22, 2023

Wandi Yu and co-authors, 2022. Variability of Water Vapor in the Tropical Middle Atmosphere Observed From Satellites and Interpreted Using SD-WACCM Simulations. JGR Atmospheres.

Jan 18, 2023

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Hunga-Tonga illustration of underwater volcanic eruption

Hunga-Tonga volcanic eruption and water vapor

Events and Seminars

Events

Please review the ACOM Seminar Series for our schedule of scientific lectures. Recordings are posted on the ACOM YouTube Channel.

Next Research Report

March 29, 2023: Eric Apel, Matt Dawson, Ben Gaubert.

ACCLIP PI Laura Pan presenting the science behind ACCLIP at Media Day, August 5, 2022. (Ren Smith)

All-Staff Reports (formerly Research Reports)

Science, engineering, and administrative discussions held every other Wednesday at 11:00 AM.

Workshops Hosted by ACOM

Researchers gather at UCAR labs in Boulder, Colorado, USA.

3D animation of GV research aircraft sampling air parcels. Credit: Carl Drews and Ren Smith.

Recent Publications

Scientific papers and presentations hosted by the NCAR Library on our OpenSky public access repository.

Upcoming Events

Opportunities for Collaboration

Opportunities and Partnerships

ACOM conducts collaborative research focusing on two major scientific challenges, Air Quality Prediction Research and Interactions between Chemistry and the Climate/Weather System. The work is conducted in partnership with other entities within NCAR, and with other members of the wider atmospheric chemistry community.

Model grids used in the spectral element version of the NCAR Community Atmosphere Model (CAM-SE).

Multi-Scale Infrastructure for Chemistry Modeling (MUSICA)

Field Missions and Data Archive

Data collection in the field.

Chemical Forecasts

Generated daily with WACCM, CAM-Chem, and WRF-Chem.

Research Highlights

Community Hub

ACOM Visitor Program

Partnerships with the wider science community are at the heart of the NCAR mission, and are an important component of all research conducted within ACOM. Strong collaborations with University groups are in particular paramount to the NCAR and ACOM mission.

SOARS

Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science

Visiting ACOM - Travel Information

Current Visitors