NOAA ESRL Global Monitoring Laboratory

Panoramic view of the Barrow, Alaska site showing the old and new observatory buildings from the 30m tower, August 2021

The GRAD team installing Radiation System instruments at Kettle Ponds near the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory in Crested Butte, Colorado.

A traditional Hawaiian rainbow over the Mauna Loa site

Radiometers at the NOAA Table Mountain Test Facility

Global Monitoring Laboratory
Taking the Pulse of the Planet

We Welcome Dr. Ariel Stein as the new Director of GML.

Former GML Director, James Butler, retired after decades of contributions to the global scientific community.
Read about his many contributions here.

The Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducts research that addresses three major challenges: greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.

Highlights

GML highlights at AGU 2021 Fall Meeting

GML CIRES employees received special recognition during the 2021 Rendezvous

Long Range Transport from Western U.S. Fires

New Student Opportunities Page

A lucky guess? Learn the science of ozone depletion with NOAA and NASA!

News

Southern Ocean confirmed as strong carbon dioxide sink

News

GML’s StratoCore will open a new era to study the stratosphere

News

The Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory revitalization project is coming to an end

News

Research

Themes

Greenhouse Gases and Carbon Cycle Feedbacks

Changes in Surface Radiation, Clouds, and Aerosols

Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone

Programs

Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases

Measurments and modeling of the spatial and temporal distributions of greenhouse gases, providing constraints to our understanding of the global carbon cycle.

Halocarbons and other Trace Species

Quantifying the distributions and magnitudes of the sources and sinks for important ozone-depleting and greenhouse gases.

Global Radiation and Aerosols

Empirical and theoretical research of the Earth's surface radiation budget and characterizing variability and trends of climate-forcing properties of aerosol particles.

Ozone and Water Vapor

Research on the nature and causes of the depletion of the stratospheric ozone layer and the role of ozone and water vapor in forcing climate change.

Atmospheric Baseline Observatories

We Welcome Dr. Ariel Stein as the new Director of GML.

Former GML Director, James Butler, retired after decades of contributions to the global scientific community.
Read about his many contributions here.

The Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration conducts research that addresses three major challenges: greenhouse gas and carbon cycle feedbacks, changes in clouds, aerosols, and surface radiation, and recovery of stratospheric ozone.