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Atmospheric System Research Announces Funding Opportunity
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) research grants for the development of innovative laboratory and observational data analyses. The resulting knowledge from such analyses will be used to improve cloud and aerosol formulations in global climate models. Successful applications will be…
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U.S. Department of Energy Kicks Off Scientific Collaboration with India
Representing the first collaboration on a long-term environmental field study in India, this week the ARM Mobile Facility began operating at the ARIES Observatory in Nainital, India, for the nine-month Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment, or GVAX.
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Mobile Facility Anchors U.S.-India Collaboration for Cloud-Aerosol Studies
The past few decades have seen rapid increases in economic activity in many Asian countries. This is particularly true in countries like India, where new cement factories, steel mills, and power plants fuel the growing economy. As their economies grow, these countries face similar environmental problems encountered by the developed countries of the west and…
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Snazzy New Spectroradiometers Sport Same Body, Different Mind
For accurate climate studies, scientists need to know the amount of energy coming from the sun. One way they get this information is through data collected by sensors called radiometers. Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ARM is now providing data from a new type of radiometer, called the shortwave array spectroradiometer…
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From Snow to Sand; Mobile Facility Headed to the Maldives
After spending six very snowy months at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, for the Storm Peak Lab Cloud Property Validation Experiment (STORMVEX), the second ARM Mobile Facility is heading to the tropical climes of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean for the ARM Madden-Julian Oscillation Experiment, or AMIE, which begins in October.
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Educational Videos from Arctic Now Available on ARM Website
Nearly 10 years ago, ARM Education and Outreach staff asked community leaders in Barrow, Alaska, what the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM Program could do to support local education. Iñupiat elders asked ARM to develop a museum display on climate change and the environmental impacts in the Arctic as seen through their perspective. The community…
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New Aircraft Probes in Action Again
In April, researchers began the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) at the ARM Southern Great Plains site, as described in this Brookhaven National Laboratory news release. As part of the airborne research portion of the campaign, NASA is sponsoring the University of North Dakota’s Citation aircraft that is providing in situ observations of precipitation-sized…
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Interagency Field Campaigns Converge at the Southern Great Plains Site
Several field campaigns are converging at the ARM Southern Great Plains site in Oklahoma this spring. Headlined by the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, or MC3E (read the Brookhaven National Laboratory press release), these campaigns involve intensive efforts to obtain measurements about cloud properties that will help scientists improve computer models that forecast weather and…
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ARM Participates in Second Annual Atmospheric System Research Science Team Meeting
ARM Facility staff participated in the second annual Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Science Team Meeting, held March 27-April 1 in San Antonio, Texas. ASR and ARM collaborate through the use of ARM facilities for targeted field campaigns and data gathered at ARM sites for climate model improvement. The annual meeting provides an opportunity for science…
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Forecasting Exercise Begins Oklahoma Storm Study Count Down
Beginning April 2011, the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site in north-central Oklahoma will host the first major field campaign to take advantage of numerous new radars and other remote sensing instrumentation installed throughout the site with funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) will use two…