Environment/Climate Portal - OverviewThrough its partnerships with industry, government, and academia, NIST is helping to advance measurements and tools for environmental science, for example by calibrating the sensors of climate-mapping satellites and detecting ever more minute quantities of toxins and pollutants in our air, soil, water, and blood. Institute for Bioscience & Biotechnology Research>> NIST Greenhouse Gas and Climate Science Measurements Program>> At Earth from a Distance: NIST’s Role in Observing Our Planet from Space >> Programs and Projects
Water Measurement Science
The Material Measurement Lab provides measurements, standards, and data to ensure availability and sustainability of our water resources. MML … more
Field Parameter Metrology
Consider the consequences if nearby electronics could interfere with a jet's instruments or cause an automobile to stall. The Field Parameter … more
Fundamental Guided Wave Metrology
Radio-frequency (RF) waves and microwaves are involved with almost every facet of everyday life. Radio stations, television, wireless devices, … more
Fiber Sources and Applications
Optical frequency combs convert a laser source containing a single frequency of light into pulses that include thousands of frequencies. This … more
Femtosecond Laser Frequency Combs for Optical Clocks
We develop self-referenced mode-locked femtosecond lasers that function as the "gears" of optical clocks. The femtosecond laser clockwork is … more
Aperture area measurements
Radiometric and photometric measurements require defining apertures. The accuracy to which these measurements can be accomplished requires … more Instruments
Standard Reference Photometer
The Standard Reference Photometer (SRP) Program began in the early 1980s as collaboration between NIST and the U.S. Environmental Protection … more |
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