NOAA Air Resources Lab

NOAA's Air Resources Lab (ARL) is the primary NOAA branch dealing with research on air quality and chemistry issues. Offices are located in Maryland, Tennessee, Idaho, North Carolina, and Nevada. Particular emphasis in recent years has been on urban meteorology and applications for homeland security. In recent years, JSU has worked with ARL on atmospheric dispersion studies and data collection, in concert with the UrbaNet project. Another prominent project of ARL has been the East Tennessee Ozone Study (ETOS). The NOAA/ATTD DataViewer is an effort to dynamically mesh meteorological data with a Geographic Information System (GIS).