Story by Kevin McAndrews | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | 02.24.2021
When seconds matter, speed saves lives. That’s why Adam Moses, a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory computer scientist, deployed a 3D computer-simulated modeling program called Contaminant Transport Analyst, or CT-Analyst, as part of the massive security effort behind the inauguration of President Joe Biden....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Naval Research Laboratory | 02.25.2020
The amount of dust flying out of the Sahara Desert each year is seemingly unfathomable. Every year, 14 million metric tons of transcontinental dust travels across the Atlantic Ocean, said Arunas Kuciauskas, a U.S. Naval Research Laboratory meteorologist who tracks and quantifies the Saharan Air Layer (SAL). This meteorological phenomenon involves an extremely hot, dry air mass, carrying large......