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541 assets from 19 organizations
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
SWPC 3-Day Forecast: a plain-language, single-page text product issued every 12 hours (0030 and 1230 UTC) with observed and forecast conditions for the three NOAA Scale categories and a brief forecaster-written rationale; also available as…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) version of the AirCore technique invented by NOAA: a small pump pulls air through a roughly 50 m stainless-steel tube during flight so air can be sampled along the flight path, and the samples are analyzed…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CSL Aerosol Properties & Processes program measuring physical, chemical and optical properties of aerosol particles in the field and laboratory to understand their effects on climate, air quality and precipitation.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
SWPC Alerts, Watches and Warnings bulletins for the public on expected space weather severity, similar to NWS local forecast office bulletins, with current and previous data available as JSON files.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index (AGGI), measuring the climate-warming influence of long-lived trace gases and its change over time; the 2024 AGGI of 1.54 means added heating from long-lived greenhouse gases rose 54% since 1990.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PSL Atmosphere–Ocean Processes and Predictability division studying how ocean–atmosphere interactions such as ENSO and the MJO shape weather and climate and improving forecasts.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CSL Atmospheric Remote Sensing program studying boundary-layer dynamics, urban air quality, wildfire behaviour and emissions with lidar and spectroscopic remote sensing instruments.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Autonomous Atmospheric Surface Flux Stations developed at PSL by CIRES and NOAA engineers to measure surface energy budget terms over sea ice and other remote surfaces, with radio communication up to 10 km and a fuel cartridge that can…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Short-term aurora forecast from the OVATION model giving a 30 to 90 minute forecast of auroral location and intensity, with gridded auroral data and the Hemispheric Power Index in JSON.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Binary DataBase of Profiles (BDBP): trace gas and aerosol profiles with almost global coverage from high vertical resolution measurements, provided on latitude, longitude, altitude, pressure and equivalent-latitude grids (1 km steps, 70…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Boulder climate and weather records from NOAA PSL: daily weather data from 1897, daily observations of temperature, rainfall and snow from 1947, and monthly mean, maximum and minimum temperatures from 1893, plus climatologies and records.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Near real-time plot of geomagnetic field fluctuations at the Boulder magnetometer station for SWPC forecasters.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases group operating the Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network to measure the distribution and trends of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
WMO CO2 X2019 calibration scale for CO2 in air, applied retroactively to all NOAA calibrations, with a strict calibration hierarchy for traceability and published scale-transfer uncertainties.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Central UV Calibration Facility, operational since 1997 as a joint NOAA–NIST project, providing accurate, long-term repeatable calibrations and characterizations of UV monitoring instruments, including secondary irradiance standards,…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CSL Chemical Processes & Instrument Development program using precision laboratory work to study trace gases, aerosols and chemical processes affecting air quality, ozone depletion and climate, and to develop instruments.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Commercial HALO Photonics StreamLine XR scanning Doppler lidar used by CSL to map atmospheric velocity and backscatter for boundary-layer studies, with 1.5 µm eye-safe wavelength, 10 kHz pulse rate, 48 m range resolution and ~5 cm/s…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Daniel Murphy, program lead for Aerosol Properties & Processes at NOAA CSL, working on single particle mass spectrometry, the global energy budget, cold-cloud microphysics and the stratospheric aerosol layer.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
David W. Fahey, Director of the NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, a physicist leading research on atmospheric chemistry, climate and the ozone layer.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
SWPC Geospace Geomagnetic Activity Plot showing real-time solar wind propagated from L1 to the University of Michigan Geospace model boundary and the model forecasts of Kp and Dst compared with observed values.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML Global Radiation, Aerosols and Clouds division researching Earth surface and atmospheric radiation budgets and aerosol climate forcing, with long-term radiation, meteorological and aerosol measurements.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
GloTEC global total electron content model output, indicating possible GNSS outages and reductions in HF communications, with real-time data available in NetCDF and JSON.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
GOES X-ray flux plots of 1-minute averages of solar X-rays in the 0.05–0.4 and 0.1–0.8 nm bands, used to track solar flares that can black out HF radio on the sunlit side of Earth; archive files on the SWPC warehouse FTP.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
PSL Hydrology Applications division applying weather and climate research to water management, precipitation, drought, flooding and wildfire.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Joshua (Shuka) Schwarz, NOAA CSL physicist researching black carbon (soot) aerosol, its mixing state and deposition in snow; participated in KORUS-AQ.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Laser-induced fluorescence instrument for sulfur dioxide developed at NOAA CSL since 2015 using fiber laser technology, measuring SO2 at parts-per-trillion levels (detection limit 5 pptv in 1 s) with 5 Hz airborne time response; built for…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML LOGOS division making long-term measurements of gases that affect climate, stratospheric ozone and human health, mainly from discrete samples collected worldwide.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Atmospheric research observatory on the north flank of Mauna Loa Volcano on Hawaii's Big Island, at 3,397 m, that has continuously monitored atmospheric change since the 1950s. It sits above the marine temperature inversion, so it samples…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 9,804,138 B2 for a compact detector measuring total reactive nitrogen (NOy), NO2, NO and O3 by laser diode cavity ring-down spectroscopy at 405 nm, with conversion of O3 and NO to NO2; inventors Brown, Dubé and Wild.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
WMO X2004A calibration scale for methane, expanded to a nominal 300–5000 ppb range with a multi-point calibration strategy and updated historical calibrations; based on primary standards prepared in 1991–1995.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 11,415,859 B2 for methods and apparatus to detect atmospheric nitric oxide at signal levels that can distinguish NO isotopologues; inventor Andrew Rollins.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Micro-pulse Doppler (MicroDop) lidar for conical or vertical scanning of wind and aerosol backscatter profiles, packaged for aircraft, ship or ground use and installed in a pickup truck on a motion stabilization platform in 2020; 1.553 µm…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
GReenhouse gas And Air Pollutants Emissions System (GRA2PES), modeled emissions maps for NOAA air-quality and greenhouse-gas modeling at 4 km x 4 km resolution with year, month, day-of-week and diurnal detail.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NOAA Space Weather Scales communicating current and future space weather conditions and their effects on people and systems, with five-level scales for geomagnetic storms (G), solar radiation storms (S) and radio blackouts (R), each with…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
MATS (Model Analysis Tool Suite) from NOAA GSL, a quick and versatile way to view model verification metrics, built with the Meteor Framework and deployed with Docker.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Rocoto Workflow Management System from NOAA GSL for running large numbers of scientific workflow tasks on batch systems.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Reference implementation of the COARE bulk air-sea flux algorithm in Python, MATLAB and Fortran from NOAA PSL.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
pip-installable Python package from NOAA SWPC for processing geoelectric netCDF files into ASCII or GeoJSON format.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Coupled NEMS application for WAM-IPE space weather modeling from NOAA SWPC, combining the WAM and IPE components with SWIO and DATAPOLL builds.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Observation Package (ObsPack) data products that bring together direct atmospheric greenhouse gas measurements from national and university laboratories, packaged and freely distributed to support carbon cycle modeling studies.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML Ozone and Water Vapor division producing long-term records of ozone and water vapor from sites worldwide for assessments of the ozone layer.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 12,523,598 B2 for an ozone photometer: an absorption cell with a bounded chamber for an ambient air sample and a light source transmitting through it to detect ozone; inventors Ru-Shan Gao and Steven Ciciora.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Particle Analysis by Laser Mass Spectrometry (PALMS), a CSL airborne single-particle instrument for aerosol composition, with an interactive data display intended to support collaboration on its data set.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
NOAA route for businesses, universities and non-profits to conduct mission-related research and development with NOAA through CRADAs, which require a NOAA lab or program interested in collaborating; also covers public-private partnerships…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Planetary K-index (Kp), the 3-hour-range index from 13 geomagnetic observatories at 44–60° geomagnetic latitude, used by SWPC to characterize geomagnetic storms and decide on alerts and warnings; observed values available as chart JSON.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Portable Optical Particle Spectrometer developed at NOAA CSL: a small, lightweight, low-power research-grade instrument that sizes and counts aerosol particles from 405 nm light scattering, flown on balloons, aircraft, UAS and the ISS.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
miniFlux, a small, light sensor suite for uncrewed aircraft developed by NOAA PSL and the University of Colorado Boulder that measures 3D wind, air temperature, surface and sky temperature and humidity.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Relativistic Electron Forecast Model (REFM) plot showing about 30 days of observed and forecast daily >2 MeV electron fluence at geosynchronous orbit, to anticipate damaging relativistic electron events.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
PSL snow-level radar operating at 2.835 GHz to measure the altitude where snow changes to rain, a key parameter for runoff in mountainous watersheds; built by CIRES.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
GML Solar Radiation Calibration Facility (SRCF) calibrating and characterizing pyranometers and pyrheliometers for the GML baseline observatories and BSRN sites (Kwajalein, Bermuda, BAO), with reference cavity radiometers and solar…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Real-time in situ solar wind magnetic field, plasma and energetic particle data from spacecraft upwind of Earth at L1 (ACE since 1998, DSCOVR since 2016, IMAP I-ALiRT and SOLAR-1 from 2026), used by SWPC forecasters to watch for…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
GML preparation and calibration of standard reference gases (e.g. CO2 adjusted and calibrated between 250 and 3000 µmol/mol), purchased through a project contract (MOU) with listed prices and Net 30 payment terms.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
Steven Brown, NOAA CSL research chemist studying the chemistry and impacts of nitrogen oxides in the atmosphere, with an emphasis on nighttime chemical cycles.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Capabilities & Access
CSL Stratospheric Modeling & Analysis program (formerly Chemistry & Climate Processes) studying the stratosphere, its chemical composition and links with global systems.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Boulder station of the SURFRAD surface radiation network, with instruments on the deck of the Table Mountain Test Facility about 8 miles north of Boulder that are also used for annual intercomparisons.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
SWOOSH, a merged record of stratospheric ozone and water vapor from limb-sounding and solar-occultation satellites since 1984, with monthly-mean zonal-mean values on a pressure grid and per-instrument uncertainty; freely available.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Intellectual Property
US patent 9,761,431 B2 for expressing the ion path in a time-of-flight mass spectrometer with two successive curved sectors in an S-shaped configuration so the output beam runs parallel to the input; inventor Daniel Murphy.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
The Boulder Atmospheric Observatory, a former NOAA PSL research facility in Erie, Colorado for studying the planetary boundary layer and testing and calibrating atmospheric sensors, centred on a 300-m instrumented tower; it officially came…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
NOAA-CIRES-DOE Twentieth Century Reanalysis (20CR): a four-dimensional global atmospheric dataset of weather from 1806 to 2015 built from surface pressure observations with an ensemble data assimilation system; V3 gives 8-times-daily…
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
GML total ozone program using the Dobson Ozone Spectrophotometer, in use since the 1920s, to measure total column ozone from the surface to the edge of the atmosphere, including observations at Mauna Loa and Boulder.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
Monthly mean atmospheric carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, the longest record of direct CO2 measurements, with growth rates and global trends for CO2, CH4, N2O and SF6.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Highly sensitive 95 GHz W-band radar designed and built by NOAA and CIRES researchers at PSL to detect small cloud water droplets that longer-wavelength weather radars miss; deployable on aircraft and ships.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Data & Digital Tools
WAM-IPE Forecast System (WFS), giving ionosphere and thermosphere specifications and two-day forecasts in response to solar, geomagnetic and lower-atmosphere forcing, with NetCDF output of neutral temperature, winds and density.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
NOAA Wide Swath Radar Altimeter, carried on a NOAA P-3D Orion Hurricane Hunter aircraft to map ocean wave height, speed and direction and rain rate beneath hurricanes, with data sent in real time to National Hurricane Center forecasters.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
Doppler wind profiler radars that transmit vertical pulses scattered by clouds, precipitation and turbulence to measure wind speed and direction at various heights; PSL fields profilers in the 915 MHz and 449 MHz bands.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA Boulder)Physical Infrastructure
NOAA GML serves as the WMO Global Atmosphere Watch Central Calibration Laboratory for CO2, CH4, N2O, SF6 and CO, maintaining the calibration scales and offering calibration services for these gases for a fee.