Tag: Chemistry
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NSF NCAR C-130 flying low over the New York City area starting today
From July 16 through August 31, a C-130 research aircraft will periodically fly over the tri-state area to collect data about air quality.
- Air Quality
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Pieternel Levelt selected as member of Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
Pieternel Levelt, director of NSF NCAR's chemistry lab, has been honored as a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- Air Quality
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Smoke from wildland-urban interface fires more deadly than remote wildfires
Research quantifies the health risks of wildland-urban interface fires, showing fire emissions in populated areas are three times more likely to lead to annual premature deaths than emissions from wildfires in general.
- Air Quality
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Monitoring African copper and cobalt mining emissions from space
Emissions associated with mining operations in Africa’s Copperbelt can be quantified from space, according to new research. Mining for copper and cobalt in Africa has rapidly increased, the latter in response to growing global demand for electric vehicles, laptops, smartphones, and other devices that rely on lithium-ion batteries, the vast majority of which contain cobalt.
- Air Quality
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Pacific Northwest wildfires alter air pollution patterns across North America
Increasingly large and intense wildfires in the Pacific Northwest are altering the seasonal pattern of air pollution and causing a spike in unhealthy pollutants in August, new research has found.
- Air Quality