NOAA Air Resources Laboratory

Recent papers from NOAA Air Resources Laboratory

1. When evapotranspiration masks drought: transpiration-based water-use efficiency reveals ecosystem-specific thresholds for drought across U.S. coastal zones2026
2. Age of smoke sampled by aircraft during FIREX-AQ: methods and critical evaluationEarth System Science Data Discussions · 2026
3. Emissions of Methane, Ethane, and VOCs from the Denver-Julesburg Basin from airborne studies in 2023: Improved Quantification with Independent Wind Observations2026
4. Introducing a Low-Cost Approach for Environmental Monitoring with the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) Aircraft: An Example Addressing Greenhouse Gas Emissions2026
5. High Sensitivity of Amazon Net Ecosystem Exchange Projections to Photosynthetic Optimal Temperature2026
6. Multisource Observation-Constrained Tuning for Air Quality Forecasting in a Machine Learning-Enhanced NOAA Unified Forecast SystemEnvironmental Science & Technology · 2026
7. Comparison of measured and simulated radiotracer transport through complex terrainJournal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry · 2026
8. Development and Evaluation of an Urban Atmospheric Inverse Modeling Framework for the Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD Metropolitan Area: Initial Results From an Inert Tracer Case StudyJournal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2026
9. Multi-scale evapotranspiration and evaporative stress as indicators of vegetation health and drought response – an application in central Missouri, USAEcological Indicators · 2026
10. Airborne imaging spectrometer measurements of methane releases under turbulent conditionsInternational Journal of Remote Sensing · 2026
11. Spatiotemporal optimization of NO x and VOC emissions using a hybrid inversion framework and implications for ozone sensitivity-regime diagnosisAtmospheric chemistry and physics · 2026
12. Anthropogenic perturbations to atmospheric methane reflected in Greenland firn air clumped isotope measurementsScience Advances · 2026
13. Application and Evaluation of a NOAA GFS‐Driven Air Quality Model Using CMAQv5.4 and High‐Resolution Emissions: FIREX‐AQ 2019Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres · 2026
14. Advances in Modelling Radiative Transfer, Heat Storage and Turbulent Transport to Evaluate CO ₂ , Heat and Water Fluxes Over Broad‐Leaved Forests: The CanVeg2 ModelGlobal Change Biology · 2026
15. Incorporating Gas‐Phase Chemistry Into the Unified Forecast System (UFS) for Global Air Quality ApplicationsJournal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems · 2026
16. How a nocturnal cold front amplified wildfire impacts on near-surface air quality downwind of the second largest US wildfireAtmospheric Research · 2026
17. Impact of growing-season weather on corn and soybean yield in IllinoisAgricultural and Forest Meteorology · 2026
18. High Resolution UAV-Based Monitoring of Ambient Methane: Field Deployment and Intercomparison with Reference StandardsRemote Sensing · 2026
19. Increased contributions of climate-driven wildfires to nitrogen deposition in the United StatesCommunications Earth & Environment · 2026
20. Influence of warm and moist air intrusions on black carbon deposition and snowmelt in the central ArcticElementa Science of the Anthropocene · 2026