Integrating Research and Technology Themes
Paramount in the planning of the Earth System Research Laboratory has been the integration of scientific and technical activities to be able to better address broad-scoped, "whole-Earth" information needs. Equally important has been the necessity of developing future collaborative partnerships with other NOAA Laboratories and Programs, and with other organizations. The Integrating-Theme pages describe the science goals, activities and interactions with partners.
More information about the integrating themes.
Recent Presentations
Theme: Tropospheric Ozone and Air Quality
- Introduction
- Emissions, Chemistry and Transport
- Profiles, Long Range Transport and Trends
- Meteorological Processes and Model Evaluation
- Model Development
- Future Outlook
Theme: The Weather-Climate Connection
- Introduction
- Observing System Needs
- Satellite Observations
- Ozone Trends in Eastern Pacific Troposphere: Effect of Interannual Meteorological Variability?
- Synoptic Impacts on Arctic Pack Ice Surface Energy Budgets
- Operational NWP Perspective on West Coast Heavy Precipitation Events
- Climate Variability and Air Quality
- Weather Climate Panel Discussion Part 1
- Weather Climate Panel Discussion Part 2
Theme: Regional Scale Assimilation and Modeling
- Introduction (pdf)
- Model Development (pdf)
- Data Assimilation (pdf)
- Ensembles and Probabilistic Post Processing (pdf)
- Air Quality (pdf)
- Air-Sea Interaction (pdf)
- Regional Climate (pdf)
Theme: Radiative Forcing of Climate by Non-CO2 Atmospheric Gases
- Introduction (pdf)
- Methane (CH4) (pdf)
- Long-lived Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases (pdf)
- Tropospheric Ozone (pdf)
- Future Forcing Agents (pdf)
Theme: Building a Service-Based Grid Computing Infrastructure
- Enabling Science @ ESRL through Distributed Computation (pdf)
- Distributed Computing (pdf)
- The PSD 1 "Mac Cluster" (pdf)
- WRF and FIM Portal (pdf)
- Computing Needs for Coming Decades (pdf)
- 2012 HPC Modeling Applications (pdf)
- Computing Future (pdf)
- HPCC Futures (pdf)
Theme: Observing System Design, Simulation and Demonstration
- Overview (pdf)
- Observation System Simulation Experiments (OSSE) (pdf)
- NOAA and Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) (5M pdf)
- Hydrometeorological Testbed (HMT) - The Empirical Approach to Observing System Design and Demonstration (4M pdf)
Theme: Surface and Planetary Boundary Layer Processes
- Air-Sea Surface Interactions: Emphasis on Near-Surface Fluxes (pdf)
- Land Surface Processes (pdf)
- Atmospheric Boundary Layer Activities in ESRL (pdf)