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The National Association of Counties’ (NACo) annual convention and expo in Nashville, TN, July 24-28, proved a good venue to showcase NOAA’s local and regional services to county officials from at least 30 states. County officials from California to Florida gathered at the Gaylord Opryland Convention Center where 3,300 were registered for the 2009 NACo annual conference, taking part in educational sessions on health, homeland security, public lands, and transportation, as well as workshops covering energy and climate issues.

Four NOAA scholars and one Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow interned at the Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division of ARL during the summer of 2009. David J. Gagne II, a NOAA Hollings scholar from the University of Oklahoma, was mentored by Ron Dobosy and utilized RAMAN network data to evaluate model output statistics (MOS) in the East Tennessee WRF Model Domain.

A recent article in Nature Geoscience describes how satellite data can be used to identify global ammonia hotspots. Ammonia emissions are difficult to measure and model, leading to large uncertainties in global and regional inventories. ARL scientist LaToya Myles penned a News & Views article explaining the contributions that satellite measurements of ammonia can make to air quality research and international policy development.

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Underestimating ammonia

The Air Resources Laboratory hosted an important workshop: Measurement of Soil Moisture and Soil Temperature from March 3-5, 2009 at ARL's Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division (ATDD)in Oak Ridge, TN. This workshop is being supported by ATDD and NESDIS's National Climatic Data Center. The workshop will focus on advances in surface climate monitoring and research facilities located throughout the United States. Participants include experts from NOAA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S.