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: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion and Recovery
- Ozone Introduction
- Laboratory Measurements
- Ozone-Depleting Substances
- Ozone Measurements
- Ozone/Climate Interactions - part 1, part 2
Theme: Climate and Water Systems
- Regional Attribution and Climate Projections
- Is a Perfect Storm Looming for Colorado River Storage?
- National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS)
- Western Water Assessment one of 9 Similar NOAA Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) Programs
- Climate and Water Systems Panel Discussion
Theme: Aerosols - Climate and Air Quality
- Aerosol Introduction
- Aerosol Sources, Sinks, Distrobutions, and Processes
- ESRL Resesarch on Aerosol Direct Radiative Forcing of Climate
- Aerosol - Cloud Interactions
- Coupled Modeling Systems that allow for Aerosol, Air Quality, Weather, and Climate Interactions
- Aerosol Summary and Outlook
Theme: Carbon Cycle Science
- Carbon Cycle Introduction
- Why study the Carbon Cycle?
- Carbon Cycle Research in ESRL and beyond - part 1 and part 2
- A Brief History of the ESRL Global Carbon Cycle Observing System
- The CarbonTracker Modeling Effort
- Carbon Cycle Linkages to Air Quality
- The Need for Accurate Atmospheric Transport in Carbon Cycle Research
- Looking Ahead: Toward Development of an Integrated Earth System Analysis
Theme: Global Weather Assimilation and Modeling
- Intro to Earth System Modeling, FIM
- Icosahedral Grid in FIM, NIM
- FIM Real-Data Tests
- Global Observations for Assimilation, NCEP Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation
- Global Assimilation with Ensemble Kalman Filter
- Panel Discussion
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)