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REVISED: Large-Scale Forcing Data for AMIE-GAN Updated
Editor’s note (October 17, 2019): Large-scale forcing data developed from a constrained variational analysis approach have been reprocessed and made available for the ARM Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Investigation Experiment on Gan Island (AMIE-Gan) in the Maldives. The data use updated radar precipitation estimates, and the S-POL radar data now extend back to October 2, 2011.…
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Version 2 of the Continuous Large-Scale Forcing Data Now Available
Updated November 2017: Data are now available for the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory for the year 2015. The data sets are in netCDF format. Updated February 2017: Data are now available for the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory for the years 2013 and 2014. Version 2 of the continuous large-scale forcing data value-added product known as…
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New Release of Radar CFAD Data Product for ARM Radar Simulator
Updated: Newly released data are now included from the Southern Great Plains, North Slope of Alaska, and Tropical Western Pacific atmospheric observatories from 2011 to 2013. Previous radar CFAD data (nsaradarcfadC1.c1) for the period between 2006 and 2010 from the North Slope observatory have been removed due to a radar calibration issue. An ARM cloud radar…
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2D ARM Best Estimate Data Sets Updated to Include QCECOR
Updated: Data are now available for the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory for the years 2013 and 2014. The ARM Best Estimate 2-dimensional Gridded Surface (ARMBE2DGRID) and ARM Best Estimate Station-based Surface (ARMBESTNS) data sets have been updated to include data for years 2011 to 2014. The ARMBE2DGRID data set merges key surface measurements at the…
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Deadline Approaching for Preproposals for Scientific Research
Proposals are now being accepted to deploy the first ARM Mobile Facility or for campaigns augmenting operations at one of the fixed or mobile atmospheric observatories.
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For Every ARM Instrument, a Mindful Mentor
Getting top data from hundreds of instruments requires tip-top technical oversight For a few days this July, University of Wisconsin-Madison research scientist Jonathan Gero was on Graciosa Island in the Azores to install an Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI), a device that detects infrared radiance propagating downward from the atmosphere. He was there on behalf…
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20 Years of ARM History Chronicled in Monograph
The ARM monograph, an online document written by ARM veterans and published by the American Meteorological Society, is now fully available—all 30 chapters and its three appendices. Chronicling the history of the first two decades of ARM, this monograph, entitled The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program: The First 20 Years, covers: How ARM evolved operationally and…
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Barrow Flux Data Play Role in New Study
Findings by Berkeley Lab researchers mean the Arctic may be even less of a carbon sink than previously thought Scientists confirmed carbon dioxide pulses in spring thaw using Eddy Correlation (ECOR) Flux Measurement System data from the ARM Climate Research Facility Barrow observatory. Pulses of greenhouse gases, namely, carbon dioxide and methane, are released by…
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Insights to ARM Facility Activities at 2016 AGU Fall Meeting
Join us next week at the 2016 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. With 24,000 scientists from around the world gathering to share their latest research results in all areas of Earth science, be sure to find out how researchers are using ARM data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM…
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From a Convective Clouds Campaign, a BAMS Cover and Scads of Rich Data
Sometimes the math in climate science is pretty easy: MC3E, plus 24 authors, equals one gorgeous cover story for the September issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). MC3E is the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, a field campaign designed to gather data on the life cycles of severe-storm cloud systems. The…