NOAA Climate Scientists Cruise Washington and Baltimore for Hotspots—of Greenhouse Gases and Air Pollutants

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Sensors on a vehicle they jokingly call “NOAA’s ARC” detect carbon dioxide, methane, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides and black carbon.

On a clear and crisp morning, with the sun beating down, Xenron Ren and Phillip Stratton looked over plans for the day and fiddled with the gadgets installed in a black SUV parked outside the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Center for Weather and Climate Prediction in College Park, Maryland.  

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