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Survey Says! User Executive Committee Selected
Your votes have been processed and the new ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) selected. Members were selected to represent a set of science thematic areas. This committee will be an independent body charged with providing objective, timely feedback to the leadership of the ARM Facility with respect to the user experience. Reporting directly to the…
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Studying the Amazon Basin’s Climate by Air and by Land
Scientists have now completed the first half of the interagency Green Ocean Amazon (GOAMAZON) campaign, a two-year study to determine how Mother Nature interacts with pollution from a city of 2 million people and the impact that interaction has on the pristine and delicate climate of Brazil’s Amazon Basin.
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Seeing the Silver Lining: Challenges and Champions of Arctic Cloud Studies on Alaska’s North Slope
Unmanned Aircraft at Oliktok Point Welcome to the North Slope of Alaska, home to polar bears, caribou, arctic foxes, petroleum-rich wilderness, and four nautical miles of restricted air space. At Oliktok Point, along the Beaufort Sea, the U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility deployed its third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3)…
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Seeing the Forest Through the Trees—And to the Aerosols
Nine months in the icy, cold forests of Finland was not what the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) was primarily created for, but because of its adaptability and reputation for stability in various climates and weather conditions, the AMF2 was essential for the Biogenic Aerosols – Effects on Clouds and Climate Campaign.
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ARM Facility Insights at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting
On Monday, December 15, ARM Facility leadership held the ARM Next Generation Town Hall at the 47th annual AGU Fall Meeting. Their presentation is being made available for those who are interested as well as a comprehensive list of the DOE research using ARM data at AGU. On Thursday, December 18, a press workshop will…
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ARM Educational Outreach Puts Fun Twist on Science Night
Community STEM Event Draws Big Crowds In November, ARM communications staff and scientists participated in the 6th annual Chief Joseph Middle School Science Night in Richland, Washington. Hundreds of students, parents, and educators turned out for the popular community event, which is free and open to the public. This year’s theme was: “How we use…
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Around the World in 52 Months
The Department of Energy has selected six field campaigns to take place from 2015 through most of 2019. These new efforts kick off in the summer of 2015 at the Southern Great Plains site and take the first ARM Mobile Facility from Brazil to Ascension Island, located in the southeast Atlantic Ocean between South America…
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ARM Scientists Lead Radar Courses at ERAD2014
In September, radar engineers and science colleagues gathered in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, for the 8th European Conference on Radar in Meteorology and Hydrology. Leading ARM radar experts and data users shared their advances during two short-course workshops. A third short course was coordinated by Atmospheric System Research (ASR) colleagues on “Applications of Dual-Polarization Weather Radars.” Open-Source…
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Droplet Number Concentration Value-Added Product Now Operational
Cloud droplet number concentration is an important factor in understanding aerosol-cloud interactions. As aerosol concentration increases, it is expected that droplet number concentration will increase and droplet size will decrease for a given liquid water path. This will greatly affect cloud albedo as smaller droplets reflect more shortwave radiation; however, the magnitude and variability of…
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2D Best Estimate Data Sets From MC3E Now Available
Data sets for the ARM Best Estimate 2-Dimensional Grid (ARMBE2DGRID) and Station-based Surface (ARMBESTNS) are now available for the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) period, which occurred during April to June 2011. The primary goal of these two data sets is to provide 2-dimensional (2D) spatial data of important surface variables to facilitate studies…