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New ozone study raises concerns

Mar 6, 2018

Image by Levi Siuzdak at Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spray_cans.jpg

Household chemicals play key role in air pollution

Mar 6, 2018

Bunk S: World on Fire. PLoS Biol 2/2/2004: e54. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0020054.g001

NASA-led Study Uses MOPITT to Solve a Methane Puzzle

Jan 4, 2018

Surface ozone on the Front Range. Image by UCAR AtmosNews.

Scientists pinpoint sources of Front Range ozone

Dec 19, 2017

Different areas in Lake Tahoe side by side. Photo courtesy of Andrew Tucker.

TUV model examines sun's ability to disinfect bodies of water

Oct 23, 2017

An illustration of an asteroid impacting earth. (Credit: NASA)

ACOM scientists use CESM to model asteroid impact

Aug 30, 2017

Total solar eclipse at Casper Mountain, Wyoming on August 21, 2017. Photo credit: Keon Gibson, NCAR

On a mountain in Wyoming, the eclipse brings wonder — and, hopefully, answers

Aug 22, 2017

Figure 1 of Buchholz et al 2017

MOPITT carbon monoxide validated using NDACC ground stations

Jun 29, 2017

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Quantifying Fire Emissions & Associated Aerosol Species using Assimilation of Satellite Carbon Monoxide Retrievals

May 5, 2017

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NCAR Air Quality Open House

Apr 6, 2017

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The 2-degree goal and the question of geoengineering

Apr 4, 2017

An image taken from space of smoke billowing from fires in Jambi Province on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The false-color image was made with a combination of visible (green) and infrared light so that fires and freshly burned land stand out. (Image courtesy NASA.)

Indonesian fires exposed 69 million to 'killer haze'

Mar 23, 2017

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Reductions in Anthropogenic Carbon Monoxide Emissions Lead to Shorter Methane Lifetimes in the Atmosphere

Nov 18, 2016

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Quantifying Fire Emissions & Associated Aerosol Species using Assimilation of Satellite Carbon Monoxide Retrievals

Oct 18, 2016

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The PROPHET-AMOS Field Campaign

Aug 22, 2016

This animation shows the opening and closing of the Antarctic ozone hole (dark blue) in 2015. (Animation courtesy of NASA.)

Antarctic Ozone Hole is Shrinking

Jul 6, 2016

From left: ACOM scientists Sam Hall, Benjamin Gaubert, Pablo Saide, Deedee Montzka, Louisa Emmons, and Andy Weinheimer. (Photo courtesy Sam Hall, ACOM)

KORUS-AQ Field Campaign: Investigating air quality in Korea

May 13, 2016

Asteroids passing earth - Discovery News, February 10, 2016

WACCM models Asteroid Impact

Feb 17, 2016

University of Maryland chemistry graduate student Julie Nicely provides real-time analysis of data collected off the coast of Guam. Photo credit: Ross Salawitch

Fires burning in Africa and Asia cause high ozone in tropical Pacific

Jan 20, 2016

Image credit: NASA/Steele Hill http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/solar_004_prt.htm

WACCM response to solar cycle featured in EOS spotlight

Dec 8, 2015

Panorama of Boulder, Colorado taken from just south of Fairview High School. Photo by Hustvedt at Wikimedia Commons.

SPARC regional workshop: November 2015

Oct 26, 2015

Geostationary satellite

Tracking air quality from high in the sky

Oct 22, 2015

Christine Wiedinmyer

Carbon, Wind and Fire

Sep 21, 2015

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Photolysis of Organic Aerosols

Jul 28, 2015

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Assessing the Impacts of Assimilating IASI and MOPITT CO Retrievals Using CESM/CAM-Chem and DART

May 21, 2015

Regional pollution around Mexico City - photo by NASA

Multiday production of SOA in urban and forest outflow

Feb 6, 2015

Image of sunlight scattered by cosmic dust, courtesy of ESO/Y. Beletky

AGU research spotlight on cosmic dust

Feb 5, 2015

Research station in Tapajos National Forest

Discovering the source of nanoparticles in Brazil’s Green Ocean

Dec 1, 2014

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Stratospheric chlorine species rising in the Arctic

Oct 10, 2014

Gabi Pfister discusses ozone with CCTV and Hendrik Sybrandy

FRAPPÉ on CCTV

Sep 25, 2014

Frank Flocke of ACD with Marty Coniglio of 9News

FRAPPÉ on 9News

Jul 28, 2014

Water droplets on a leaf, by Siddharth Patil at Wikimedia Commons

Gas-Phase Dry Deposition as a Major Removal Mechanism for Secondary Organic Aerosols (SOA)

Jul 24, 2014

CONTRAST science and flight team with research aircraft in Guam.

Giant Global “Chimney” Could Alter Climate Change

Jul 17, 2014

UTLS, convective transport in the tropics

The CONvective TRansport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) Experiment

Jun 25, 2014

Boulder researchers leading landmark Front Range air quality study

Jun 13, 2014

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Projections of future summertime ozone over the U.S.

May 21, 2014

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Secondary Organic Aerosols (SOA)

May 7, 2014

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Drought-Amplified CO Emissions in Amazonia

Mar 28, 2014

A closeup of the fireball and mushroom cloud from the Upshot-Knothole Grable atomic bomb; National Nuclear Security Administration

WACCM Model Simulates Global Environmental Effects of a Regional Nuclear War

Feb 25, 2014

Factory in China on the Yangtze River; photo by High Contrast at Wikimedia Commons.

Stratospheric sulfates from coal, oil, and biomass burning in Asia

Feb 20, 2014

Convection over Guam during CONTRAST; photo by Shawn Honomichl.

CONTRAST field campaign in Guam

Jan 31, 2014

Christine Wiedinmyer

Christine Wiedinmyer to speak at AMS meeting

Jan 10, 2014

Wikimedia Commons: One of the Halley VI modules with aurora in the background. Photo by Richard Burt.

WACCM Model Simulates the Antarctic Ozone Hole

Oct 3, 2013

Mother Jones screen shot of NASA DC-8

Fly Along With NASA's Cloud Hunters

Sep 4, 2013

Heavy monsoon in Mumbai, India, in August 2005, by Hitesh Ashar

Monsoons as sources of Gravity Waves

Aug 26, 2013

Mary Barth

Thunderstorms Affect Air Pollution

Jul 19, 2013

Nepal, Kathmandu: by Steve Evans from Citizen of the World

Air pollution set to influence Asian monsoon

Jul 8, 2013

Christine Wiedinmyer

With Fires, How's the Air Out There?

Jun 19, 2013

Mace Head, Ireland

Particles: Precursors of Clouds

May 2, 2013

The eruption seen from Þórolfsfell on the 10th of May 2010 by David Karnå, Wikimedia Commons

First Satellite Identification of Volcanic Carbon Monoxide

Feb 20, 2013