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NSF NCAR & UCAR Science Education
The 2026 wildfire season has reached historic proportions, with fires increasingly igniting near urban populations at the Wildland-Urban Interface and drifting across vast distances to impact regions like the US East Coast. This smoke infiltrates the built environment, where it can persist for month …
NSF NCAR & UCAR Science Education
The lecture "Solving air chemistry puzzles from the sky," presented by researchers from the Atmospheric Chemistry Observations and Modeling laboratory, explores the intricate study of interacting molecules and aerosols to predict pollution events and trace their origins. This field distinguishes bet …
NSF NCAR & UCAR Science Education
The TEMPO mission marks a significant new era in air quality monitoring over North America by addressing critical gaps left by traditional ground-based and satellite systems. While ground monitors provide regulatory data, they are too sparse to capture rapid changes in short-lived pollutants like ni …