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NOAA's Research portal page

OAR Organizational Components

National Sea Grant College Program

• National Sea Grant Colleges
• Funding and Fellowships
• Research, Outreach, Education
• National Sea Grant Library

NOAA Climate Program Office

• Climate Observations Division
• Arctic Research Program
• Atmospheric Climate Observation (ACO)
• Ocean Climate Observation (OCO) Program - see "Oceanic" side of page
• Office of Climate Observation (OCO)

• Research Program Division
• Climate Change Data & Detection (C2D2)
• Paleoclimatology
• Atmospheric Composition and Climate Program
• Global Carbon Cycle (GCC)
• Climate Prediction Program for the Americas (CPPA)
• Climate Variability and Predictability (CVP)
• Climate Test Bed
• Climate Assessment and Services Division
• Regional Integrated Sciences & Assessments (RISA)
• Sectoral Applications Research Program (SARP)
• Transition of Research Applications to Climate Services (TRACS)
• International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI)

• Office of the Director
• Communications and Education Group
• National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) - U.S. Drought Portal

NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration & Research

• Ocean Explorer
• NOAA's Undersea Research Program (NURP)
• NURP Centers & Institutes
• Caribbean Institute for Marine Science
• Hawaii Undersea Research Laboratory
• National Undersea Research Center for the Mid-Atlantic Bight (MAB)
• National Undersea Research Center for the North Atlantic & Great Lakes
• National Undersea Research Center for the Southeastern U.S. & Gulf of Mexico
• National Undersea Research Center for the West Coast & Polar Regions

NOAA Research Laboratories

Air Resources Laboratory (ARL)

• ARL Headquarters
• Air-Surface Exchange and Atmospheric Chemistry
• Climate Variability and Change Analysis
• Transport Modeling & Assessment
• Atmospheric Mercury
• HYSPLIT - (Hybrid Single Particle Lagrangian Integrated Trajectory Model)
• NOAA Smoke Forecasting System
• READY - (Real-Time Environmental Applications and Display System)
• READY Transport and Dispersion Modeling
• READY Current & Forecast Meteorology (World)
• READY Archived Meteorology (World)
• READY Air Quality
• READY Emergency Assistance Activities
• Volcanic Ash Modeling
• Atmospheric Turbulence and Diffusion Division
• Atmospheric Modeling and Analysis Division (NOAA-EPA partnership; EPA web site)
• Field Research Division
• Special Operations and Research Division

Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)

• Hurricane Research Division
• Hurricane Field Program
• Science Projects
• Surface Wind Analysis
• Automated Surface Observation Stations (ASOS)
• Interagency and International Programs
• Physical Oceanography Division
• Research Projects
• GOOS (Glocal Ocean Observions
• State of the Ocean
• Ocean Chemistry Division

Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)

• Chemical Sciences Division
• Climate Change
  • Climate Forcing: Greenhouse Gases & Aerosols
  • Global Tropospheric Ozone Production
  • Oceanographic (Fish) Lidar
• International Ozone-Layer Assessments
• Lamar Low-Level Jet Program (LLLJP)
• Regional Air Chemistry
• Stratospheric Ozone Layer (Antarctic, Arctic, and Global)
• Global Monitoring Division (GMD)
• Aerosols Group
• GMD-Radation Group (G-Rad)
• GMD Carbon Cycle Greenhouse Gases Group (CCGG)
• Halocarbons & other Atmospheric Trace Species Group (HATS)
• GMD Observatory Operations (OBOP)
• Barrow Observatory, Alaska
• Trinidad Head Observatory, California
• Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii
• Samoa Observatory, Tutuila Island, American Samoa
• South Pole Observatory, Antarctica
• Ozone & Water Vapor Group (OZWV)
• Global Systems Division
• Assimilation and Modeling Branch
• Aviation Branch
• Forecast Appications Branch
• Information and Technology Services
• Information Systems Branch
• Technology Outreach Division
• Physical Sciences Division
• Climate Analysis Branch
• Water Cycle Branch
• Weather & Climate Physics Branch

Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)

• GFDL Research
• Atmospheric Physics, Chemistry & Climate Group
• Climate and Ecosystems Group
• Climate Change, Variability and Prediction Group
• Climate Diagnostics Group
• Oceans and Climate Group
• Weather and Atmosphere Dynamics Group

Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL)

• Research Programs
• Aquatic Invasive Species
• Ecological Prediction
• Environmental Observing Systems
• Physical Environment Prediction
• Episodic Events Great Lakes Experiment (EEGLE)
• Great Lakes Coastal Forecasting System (GLCFS)
• Great Lakes Hydrology Outlooks
• NOAA Coastwatch Great Lakes NODE Program

National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL)

• Forecast Research and Development Division
• Mesoscale Applications
• Models and Assimilation
• RADAR Research and Development Division
• Doppler Radar and Remote Sensing
• Real-time Applications & Display Development (RADD)
• Radar Engineering & Development
• Software Engineering and Technology Improvement (SETI)
• Warning Research and Development Division
• Convective Weather Research
• Hydrometeorology Research
• Warning Applications Research - Severe Weather Warning Applications and Technology Transfer (SWAT) Group

Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL)

• Engineering Development Division (EDD)
• Engineering Design
• Field Observations
• Instrumentation
• Observing Systems
• PMEL Data
• PMEL Research Activities
• PMEL Software
• PMEL Theme Pages

NOAA Research Council

Cooperative Research Institutes - Locations

National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)

• Cooperative Institute for Climate Studies (CICS), at the University of Maryland, College Park
• Cooperative Institute for Meteorological Satellite Studies (CIMSS), at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Cooperative Institute for Oceanographic Satellite Studies (CIOSS), Oregon State University

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)

• Cooperative Institute for Marine Resource Studies (CIMRS), at Oregon State University
• Cooperative Marine Education and Research (CMER), at Rutgers University, University of Massachusetts, University of Rhode Island, and Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)

• Cooperative Institute for Alaska Research (CIFAR), at University of Alaska Fairbanks
• Cooperative Institute for Climate and Ocean Research (CICOR), at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Cooperative Institute for Climate Applications and Research (CICAR), at Columbia University
• Cooperative Institute for Climate Science (CICS), at Princeton University
• Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research (CILER), at University of Michigan
• Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS), at University of Miami
• Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), at University of Oklahoma
• Cooperative Institute for Ocean Exploration, Research and Technology (CIORT), at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Florida Atlantic University
• Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA), at Colorado State University
• Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences (CIRES), at University of Colorado at Boulder
• Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region (CINAR), at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
• Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research (JIMAR), at University of Hawaii at Manoa
• Joint Institute for Marine Observations (JIMO), at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
• Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean (JISAO), at University of Washington
• Northern Gulf Institute (NGI), at Mississippi State University, Stennis Space Center

Office of Research and Technology Applications (ORTA)

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