Atmospheric Research—What's happening up there?

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PNNL is one of the nation's foremost atmospheric science research centers. The laboratory has a lead role in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM), the largest global change research program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The program is home to the department's only research aircraft; and with the University of Maryland, founded the Joint Institute for Global Change Research. Our staff can share with you how national and human-caused sources affect air quality and climate change on local, regional and global scales—as well as some of the tools and strategies they are developing to understand and mitigate the negative effects of human activity on the air we breathe.