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When a speck influences a storm: Studying the role of aerosol particles in the hydrological cycle
February 4, 2020 — U.S. Naval Research Laboratory meteorologist Jeffrey Reid is at the forefront of research studying the role of aerosol particles, and the relationships between the particles with monsoon meteorology, clouds and the sun’s radiation... MORE

NRL Researchers’ Golden Touch Enhances Quantum Technology
January 29, 2020 — Scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory discovered a new platform for quantum technologies by suspending two-dimensional (2-D) crystals over pores in a slab of gold. This new approach may help develop new materials for secure communication and sensing technologies based on the unique laws of physics at the atomic levels... MORE

The drive to create the next generation of weather models
January 21, 2020 — It wasn’t Joan Gardner’s first time seeing a polar bear. Over the years, while conducting research on floating ice in the Artic, she had often spotted them wandering the outer periphery of her work site. Now it was 2016, and her team was outside the city of Barrow (Utqiaġvik), in the Alaska North Slope. Her field of vision was restricted by goggles. She was looking down while sampling the ice and taking measurements... MORE

Predicting Hurricane Dorian using NRL’s tropical cyclone model COAMPS-TC
January 17, 2020 — At the time, senior scientist Jim Doyle was a little worried. Projections by his team’s tropical cyclone model were deviating from those of the other major weather models, which were predicting Hurricane Dorian would make landfall in Florida. His own team’s model showed the storm would curve northward along the coast... MORE

NRL researching rivers in the sky
January 16, 2020 — Meteorologists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory plan to take a harder look in 2020 at a prime, yet difficult to model, component of the global water cycle known as atmospheric rivers... MORE

Weather forecasting team tracks, predicts ‘fire-cloud’ phenomenon
January 14, 2020 — Researchers at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory advanced their ongoing work to understand and predict formation of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds in 2019, collected the most detailed sampling of the clouds in history... MORE

The drive to create the next generation of environmental prediction systems: The Earth System Prediction Capability
January 13, 2020 — Long-range mission planning is vital to Naval operations and often performed months in advance. Knowing the environment where ships, aircraft, Sailors and Marines will be operating is crucial information. Historically, planners have had to rely only on climatological conditions, but climatology only provides the average conditions of the environment and can be far different from reality. NRL is creating long-range environmental prediction systems, which are currently accurate only in the short term... MORE

Howard Named 2019 AGU Fellow, Discusses His 50-Year Space Science Career
December 12, 2019 — Russell Howard, head of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s Solar and Heliospheric Physics, Flight Projects Section, received recognition as an American Geophysical Union Fellow in 2019 in commemoration of his more than 50-years of service and many contributions to the scientific community... MORE

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