CMDL - Climate Monitoring and Diagnostics Laboratory was combined with other NOAA laboratories, a branch, and a center in Boulder to become the new NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory. The personnel and programs of CMDL became the major part of the ESRL Global Monitoring Division
STAR and SRRB - The Solar and Terrestrial(or thermal) Atmospheric Radiation (STAR) group of CMDL was merged with the Surface Radiation Research Branch (SRRB) of ARL and has become the GMD-Radiation (G-Rad) group.
Some members from SRRB whose work was more closely related to Ozone research became associated with the GMD OZWV group