Category: Air Quality

Air Pollution Modeling in the Cloud

Posted on October 20, 2021 by in Air Quality, Cloud Computing, Modeling
LADCO staff have been engaged in pioneering development activities to enable meteorology and air quality modeling using cloud services. LADCO has turned to the cloud to both access flexible, on-demand high performance computing resources and to enable the transfer of modeling capabilities to our member states. The LADCO Executive Director describes the motivation and approach…

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LADCO Discusses Atmospheric Mercury with Tribes in the Great Lakes Region

Posted on July 29, 2019 by in Air Quality
On July 25, 2019 the LADCO Data Scientist, Dr. Donna Kenski, hosted a webinar on atmospheric mercury with Great Lakes tribal air program representatives and EPA Region 5. Donna gave the webinar at the request of EPA Region 5 and some tribes in the region. There is a renewed interest in some of the tribal…

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LADCO Region and the 4th National Climate Assessment

Posted on January 24, 2019 by in Air Quality, Climate
On November 23, 2018 the U.S. Global Change Research Program released Volume II of the 4th National Climate Assessment. Mandated by Congress, the 4th National Climate Assessment (NCA4) is a periodic review of the science, impacts, and forecasts of climate change in the U.S. The science underlying this report was reviewed in NCA4 Volume I,…

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