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Global Warming and Greenhouse Gases
Last Updated Date: 09/20/2012 The Gas Metrology Group has undertaken a major climate change program that involves collaborations with key stakeholders in the United … more
HML Organic Chemical Metrology Program Areas
Last Updated Date: 09/10/2012 The Organic Chemical Metrology Program exists within the Analytical Chemistry Division, MML, which is located at the Hollings Marine Laboratory in … more
Carbon Mitigation Measurements
Last Updated Date: 08/29/2012 The global environmental problems caused by emission of CO 2 (global warming, rising sea levels and increased acidity of oceans) must be abated. … more
Fundamental Chemical Metrology
Last Updated Date: 07/03/2012 The Analytical Chemistry Division serves as the Nation’s reference laboratory for chemical compositional measurements and standards to … more
Pipeline-Scale Flow Measurement Standards for Natural Gas
Last Updated Date: 12/15/2011 NIST is developing gas flow calibration tools known as critical flow venturis (CFV), or sonic nozzles, to calibrate natural gas flow meters used … more
Traceable Calibration Gases: SRMs, NTRMS, and Protocol Gases
Last Updated Date: 11/23/2011 The Gas Metrology Group in the Analytical Chemistry Division is tasked with providing traceability in gas analysis for the U.S. This group works … more
Aperture area measurements
Last Updated Date: 11/03/2011 Radiometric and photometric measurements require defining apertures. The accuracy to which these measurements can be accomplished requires … more
NIST Intercomparison Exercise Program for Organic Contaminants in the Marine Environment
Last Updated Date: 11/03/2011 Since the beginning of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Status and Trends (NS&T) Program in 1987, NIST … more
Synchrotron Radiation-Based Calibrations for Space Weather Prediction
Last Updated Date: 10/04/2011 Orbital ultraviolet and extreme-ultraviolet spectrometers are calibrated on beamline 2, taking advantage of the calculability of synchrotron … more
Fiber Sources and Applications
Last Updated Date: 10/03/2011 Optical frequency combs convert a laser source containing a single frequency of light into pulses that include thousands of frequencies. This … more
Measurements and Standards for Contaminants in Environmental Samples
Last Updated Date: 09/01/2011 For the past 40 years NIST has developed SRMs for the determination of inorganic and organic contaminants in environmental matrices such as … more
Renewable Polymers
Last Updated Date: 06/24/2011 Economic growth, such as that experienced in developed countries over the last century, cannot continue into the next century nor spread to less … more
Measurements and Standards to Support Global Climate Change Studies
Last Updated Date: 05/16/2011 Much of the world's assessment and critical evaluation of currently available data on contributions to climate change comes from the … more
Spectroscopic Measurements of Atmospheric Gases for Monitoring Greenhouse Gases
Last Updated Date: 04/19/2011 Climate scientists are developing a new generation of spectrometers for the NASA-sponsored inventory of atmospheric greenhouse gases, most notably … more
Monitoring Contaminants in the Arctic and Subarctic Using Banked Seabird Eggs
Last Updated Date: 03/24/2011 More than 95% of the seabirds breeding in the continental United States nest at colonies in the Bering and Chukchi seas and Gulf of Alaska. In … more |
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