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  • New Product Organizes Data for Use by Modelers

    Knowledge of a wide range of meteorological, chemical, and aerosol quantities and properties is needed to fully understand the key processes that affect aerosol life cycle. Field campaign and operational measurements of aerosol properties and trace gas chemistry are often available in a wide range of formats. As a result, scientists usually spend a large…

  • Swapping Science with Korean Researchers

    In Korea, typhoons and heavy rainfall/snowfall often result in serious socio-economic consequences. To enhance their ability to predict and mitigate the damage from these severe weather phenomena, the Korean Meteorological Administration (KMA) is developing a three-dimensional network of ARM-like supersites for observing clouds, water vapor, and other meteorological components. On August 1, Dr. Kwan-Young Chung,…

  • Collaborations in Atmospheric Science and Observations Discussed in Germany

    In early June, ARM personnel visited the University of Cologne in Germany at the invitation of Susanne Crewell, Professor of Meteorology at the university to explore potential collaborations between German research programs and the ARM Facility.

  • New Evaluation Product Estimates Planetary Boundary Layer Height

    Planetary boundary layer (PBL) height (or mixing-layer depth) can vary significantly with time due to a number of factors, including large-scale dynamics, cloudiness, convective mixing, and the diurnal cycle of solar radiation. The structure and depth of the PBL are important to a wide range of atmospheric processes, such as cloud formation, aerosol mixing and…

  • Storm Chasers Take a Break at the Southern Great Plains Site

    Taking a break from storm chasing due to “good weather,” a group of 16 meteorology students from Rutgers University visited the ARM Southern Great Plains site in early June. The students, ranging from juniors to recent graduates, are participating in an inaugural severe weather class taught by Steve Decker, an assistant professor in the environmental…

  • Unique Manus Island Precipitation Data Available

    Evaluation data are available for the value-added product (VAP) Mapped Moments to a Cartesian Grid (MMCG) for periods between October and December 2011 from the Tropical Western Pacific Manus site. The C-band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (C-SAPR) produces measurements of raw radar moments in antenna coordinates of range from and the azimuth and elevation of…

  • New Evaluation Product Provides Thermodynamic Variables from Multiple Instruments

    The Interpolated Sonde (INTERPSONDE) value-added product (VAP) is an intermediate step of the MERGESONDE VAP that produces a daily file of atmospheric state variables (temperature, humidity, pressure, and winds) from radiosonde soundings, the microwave radiometer, and surface meteorological instruments. INTERPSONDE includes many of the same sophisticated scaling/interpolation/smoothing schemes that are the hallmark of MERGESONDE, but…

  • Azores Welcomes News of U.S. Science Commitment

    In early March, ARM Mobile Facility Manager Kim Nitschke, from Los Alamos National Laboratory, reconnected with officials and collaborators in the Azores. His visit was prompted by the ARM announcement to secure a permanent atmospheric research facility on Graciosa Island, due largely to the successful AMF deployment in 2009/2010 and the resulting data for the…

  • Building Blocks for Discovery: ARM Data Joins DataCite Open Access Registry

    Starting with 380 ARM data sets and several hundred more in the queue, the DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is now making DOE-funded research data sets available through DataCite. During the past year, ARM Data Archive staff at Oak Ridge National Laboratory worked with OSTI staff and DataCite to establish a stable…

  • Aerosol Research Keeps “PACE” with Ecosystem Science

    Between December 2011 and April 2012, a research team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory put ARM’s new Mobile Aerosol Observing System (MAOS) to the test, and it passed with flying colors. Building upon previous system integration and operational testing during summer 2011, the primary goal of the Pajarito Aerosol Couplings to Ecosystems, or PACE,…