In alignment with advice from public health professionals, both locally and globally, NCAR|UCAR is undertaking recommended protocols to reduce “community spread” of COVID-19 as a way to mitigate risks to our staff, their families, and the community. Together with the rest of the organization, EOL has implemented mandatory telework beginning Tuesday, March 17, at noon.
EOL's Adriana Bailey talks with CBS' Unstoppable about measuring the isotopic composition water vapor in clouds to detect where its previous path by using the NSF/NCAR HIAPER GV research aircraft. Watch video.
Small Field Campaign | 1 July 2020
Facility requests for LAOF in support of small field campaigns tentatively scheduled between 1 October 2021 and 31 March 2022 are due 1 July 2020. Facility requests have to be submitted through the new Project Requests Online (PRESTO) platform.
For more information, please see the Request Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities webpage.
Construction starts this month on a major National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) facility, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), that will support aircraft flown on scientific field projects worldwide, leading to new advances in weather, climate, and air quality research.
Officials with NCAR, NSF, and the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) broke ground on the $22 million construction project at the Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield on 14 February 2020. The new building — which replaces a dated, half-century-old structure at NCAR’s Research Aviation Facility — is expected to open its doors by the end of the year. Read more.
EOL is pleased to announce the publication of a new module, Instrumentation and Measurement of Atmospheric Radiation. This lesson outlines the importance of atmospheric radiation measurements and describes the main types of instrumentation used in obtaining these measurements.
The MethaneAIR project, funded by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), will deploy the NSF/NCAR HIAPER GV aircraft to test a new airborne imaging spectrometer as part of the International Methane project. The primary goal of the program is to accurately measure emissions of CH4 from oil and gas production and processing facilities across the world, in order to define and track this major contribution to the rise of this greenhouse gas and pollutant in the global atmosphere.
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As of 1 February 2020, PIs requesting access to the NSF LAOF for Small and Large Campaigns must submit their requests through PRESTO (Project Requests Online). PRESTO is a web-based, integrated documentation handling system that automates and streamlines the main aspects of the LAOF request process, specifically the submission of facility requests and EDOs, the preparation of feasibilities, and the distribution of review documentation.
Please visit Request Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities and PRESTO Guidance for Submitting PIs webpages for more information.
