Barry Baker

WHO technical brief: Understanding the health impacts of sand and dust storms. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2025 (Air Quality, Energy and Health Science and Policy Summaries). doi.org/10.2471/B09453

After many long months, I’m excited to announce: we’re hiring!

GSL through CIRES is looking to hire a land-surface model developer. Come join us in developing the next generation of storm-scale NWP for NOAA & community! Closes 12/12, pls contact me w/ questions.

jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

On my way to San Francisco, excited to share about one of the world’s largest - but quietest AND solvable - public health crises, air pollution, at the Masters of Scale Summit! And I’ve got these nifty ‘dots’ to help illustrate the issue. If you are there, check them out!!

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ARL is also planned to get chopped. They develop the module used for nuclear dispersion, volcanoes, chemical spills and the like.

Is this the IMPROVE network? I really hope not

It’s critical imo that we reach people as quickly and effectively as possible, especially in hazardous conditions.

BTW by improve I mean drive better interfaces and service mainly driven FROM the private sector. Still I believe it’s NOAAs mission to provide its services where the public can get it to protect life and property. In this day and age the average citizen looks at their phone.

I’ve asked this same question to the WPO and basically was fed something like “We don’t do this so that private companies can do it.” Counter intuitive imho. Would be good to provide it officially and it doesn’t by any means prevent the private sector from doing so. In fact it would probably improve

UFS Weather Model - Earth Prediction Innovation Center UFS Weather Model On This Page: Getting Started Documentation & User Support Developer Support Releases Other Links Welcome The Unified Forecast System (UFS) is a community-based, coupled, comprehensi...

The others are all eulerian based and part of NOAAs Unified Forecast System www.epic.noaa.gov/get-code/ufs....

A few colleagues wrote that one. Way overlooked on the amount of damage these events can bring.

Will Its $154 Billion Price Tag Keep Dust from Being Swept Under the Rug? - Eos Data from 2017 show that costs associated with dust were second only to hurricanes when comparing billion-dollar disasters.

The story by Virginia Gewin @virginiagewin.bsky.social for EOS @eos.org about our study showing the eye-popping cost of over $150 billion per year for the effects of wind erosion and windborne dust is now online.
eos.org/articles/wil...

Currently there are three different models, UFS AQM (regional full air quality model), GEFS-Aerosol (global aerosol model), and HYSPLIT are all operational. UFS AQM and GEFS both use the FENGSHA dust model developed by yours truly. RRFS-SD, soon to be implemented, will also include FENGSHA at 3km!!

Our inter-journal special issue on Biomass burning uncertainties: emissions, chemistry, and physics is now open for paper submissions at agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...! Please consider this special-issue when submitting any biomass burning research to @agu.org journals (see thread).

More NOAA Employees May Be Let Go, Making 20% of Staff Cut (Gift Article) Together with recent firings and resignations, the new cuts could hamper the National Weather Service’s ability to produce lifesaving forecasts, scientists say.

Americans might want to move from anywhere that experience extreme weather and ocean conditions. Not having accurate forecasts will kill lots of people.

The U.S. Is Dustier — It’s Costing $154 Billion A Year A new study says dust storms and wind erosion are costing the U.S. economy $154 billion per year. Here's why.

Here's a piece in Forbes by @drshepherd2013.bsky.social about our recent study on the economic impact to the USA of dust storms and wind erosion.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

This is a terrible casualty of these policies (one of many)

"[The removal of public data has] real world consequences, leaving individuals, families, communities, and policymakers alike without access to secure, reliable federal data that they have paid for and expect to use."

Me too!

I have a poster on Tuesday and Wednesday and a talk at the NOAA booth on Wednesday afternoon.

Still further than me