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ARM Facility Insights at the 2014 AMS Annual Meeting
At the 94th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, about 3,000 scientists, technologists, academics, and vendors from around the world are gathering in Atlanta, Georgia, from February 2-6, to the theme “Extreme Weather – Climate and the Built Environment: New Perspectives, Opportunities, and Tools.” During the meeting, dozens of researchers are sharing results and…
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AMF2 Arrives in Finland
Editor’s note: Mike Ritsche, technical operations manager for the ARM Mobile Facility 2, sent this update in mid-December. After nine months at sea aboard the Horizon Spirit, the AMF2 reached land for an extended stay at the Station for Measuring Forest Ecosystem-Atmosphere Relations (SMEAR II) in Hyytiala, Finland. This nine-month, land-based deployment is in support…
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ARM Facility Insights at the 2013 AGU Fall Meeting
At the 2013 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, nearly 20,000 scientists from around the world are gathering to share their latest research results in all areas of Earth science. Find out how researchers are using data from U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility—the world’s most comprehensive outdoor…
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Research Flights Completed for Biomass Burning Field Campaign
In late October, the ARM Aerial Facility wrapped up a busy season of research flights for the Biomass Burning Observation Project, using a comprehensive payload of 35 instruments to measure aerosols from both wildfire and agricultural burns. In coordination with about 30 scientists from 12 laboratories, universities, and industry, the AAF team logged 120 flight…
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MAGIC Takes a Bow
As the Horizon Spirit sailed into port in Los Angeles at the end of September, the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM Climate Research Facility notched another milestone for climate science. In obtaining nearly a year’s worth of atmospheric measurements while crisscrossing the Pacific Ocean, ARM’s second mobile facility, or AMF2, completed the first-ever full-scale deployment…
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New Climate Research Site in the Azores Fills Critical Data Gap
On October 1, the ARM Climate Research Facility began providing the research community with continuous data about clouds, aerosols, energy, and precipitation from Graciosa Island in the Azores, Portugal. Installed by a team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, this newest outpost is broadly referred to as the Eastern North Atlantic, or ENA, site, and mirrors…
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Small Footprint, Big Shoes: Stepping Out at Nauru
After 15 years, the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM observation site at Nauru Island is in the history books, with just a small but significant plaque left behind to mark its chapter in obtaining climate data at the smallest republic in the world. The plaque states: “On this site from 1998 until 2013, the Nauru…
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Climate Data Now Flowing from Oliktok, Alaska
Scientists seeking answers to questions about Arctic climate change will soon have a bevy of new data to mine from the North Slope of Alaska. In mid-September, a field team led by Sandia National Laboratories finished installing an initial collection of instruments at Oliktok Point, Alaska, for a new Department of Energy climate observation station.…
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New ARM Best Estimate Land Product Contains Critical Soil Quantities for Describing Land Properties
The ARM Best Estimate: Land (ARMBELAND) value-added prduct (VAP) is a subset of the ARM Best Estimate (ARMBE) products designed to support community land-atmospheric research and land model developments. It contains several critical soil quantities that ARM has been measuring for many years for describing land properties. The quantities in ARMBELAND are averaged over a…
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Popular Science’s Brilliant 10 Includes ARM Radar Meteorologist
To the casual observer, radars for weather and climate research silently go about their business, sending pulses of energy into the sky to bounce off of clouds and other particles overhead. The return signals feed into a computer where they are converted to data. Simple. But Scott Collis is anything but a casual observer. And…