Atmospheric Chemistry Observations & Modeling (ACOM)

ACOM Publication of the Month

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

Ren Smith and co-authors, 2021. Diagnostics of convective transport over the Tropical Western Pacific from trajectory analyses. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.

ACOM News

NASA false-color view of total ozone over the Arctic pole on October 3, 2021.

Protecting the ozone layer is delivering vast health benefits

An international agreement to protect the ozone layer is expected to prevent 443 million cases of skin cancer and 63 million cataract cases for people born in the United States through the end of... Read more

Sunset over the Colorado Front Range on August 5, 2021. Photo by Carl Drews from Niwot, Colorado.

How much is the wildfire smoke affecting Wyoming's air quality?

ACOM scientist Brett Palm contributed to an article in the Casper Star Tribune regarding the summer wildfires and Wyoming air quality, and he described what makes the smoke dangerous. Wildfire smoke... Read more

View of Denver Skyline from South Table Mountain. US Department of Energy - 28 September 2012, 08:06 AM. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:U.S._Department_of_Energy_-_Science_-_298_047_001_(27040059996).jpg

Ozone pollution along the Colorado Front Range

ACOM scientist Frank Flocke contributed to an article at the Colorado Sun discussing ozone pollution along the Front Range.

The nature of ozone problems in many urban areas is pretty much the same.
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Palaces, avenues, buildings, parks, and scenery around China's Capital. The white Pagoda at Beihai from Jinshan Hill (27 September 2013). Photo by Yinan Chen at Wikimedia Commons.

COVID-19 lockdowns linked to pollution spikes in some cities

New study investigates how emissions changes affected secondary pollutants

Lockdowns last year in response to COVID-19 resulted in drastic cuts to emissions, especially from vehicle tailpipes, and yet some urban areas saw a paradoxical spike... Read more

Warming temperatures increasingly alter structure of atmosphere

Smoke from nuclear war would devastate ozone layer, alter climate

Protecting the ozone layer is delivering vast health benefits

New research reveals 2010 Montreal Protocol prevented rapid acceleration of climate change

Bushfires, not pandemic lockdowns, had biggest impact on global climate in 2020