NACS serves as a directory for information about NOAA's Atmospheric Composition from Space capabilities.
Development and provision of existing Atmospheric Composition (AC) products and strategic planning for NOAA's space capabilities, including future satellite missions such as GeoXO.
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NOAA Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) Supervisory Research Chemist and Regional Chemical Modeling Program Lead; Earth's Radiation Budget (ERB) Initiative Manager; Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Atmospheric Composition Instrument User Scientist
NOAA NESDIS Aerosols and Atmospheric Composition Science Team Lead; Geostationary Extended Observations (GeoXO) Atmospheric Composition Instrument Product Lead
NOAA Climate Program Office, Atmospheric Chemistry Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) Program Manager
Earth's Radiation Budget (ERB) Program Manager
Weather Portfolio Advisor; NOAA NESDIS Point of Contact for OAR
NOAA Climate Program Office, Atmospheric Chemistry Carbon Cycle and Climate (AC4) Program Specialist
NACS informally bridges atmospheric composition across NOAA, with input from the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR), and the National Weather Service (NWS).
NACS started as the planning committee for the NOAA technical report: "A Value Assessment of an Atmospheric Composition Capability on the NOAA Next-Generation Geostationary and Extended Orbits (GEO-XO) Missions." As current events (wildfires, changes in air quality due to pandemic lockdowns) and administration priorities underscored the importance of atmospheric composition, NACS grew to encompass the breadth of NOAA's atmospheric composition efforts from space.