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Request for Proposals Now Open
Submissions will be accepted until February 1, 2011.
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Radiatively Important Parameters Best Estimate Data Available for Southern Great Plains
ARM Facility users use detailed state-of-the art radiative transfer models to understand the radiative impact of clouds and aerosols on the Earth’s radiation budget, evaluate remote-sensing retrievals of cloud and aerosol properties, and develop and evaluate simpler radiative transfer models designed for inclusion in cloud and climate models. The ARM suite of instruments measures all…
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Arctic Campaign Cut Short; Spring Restart A Possibility
An unfortunate incident in the early stages of the Arctic Lower Troposphere Observed Structure (ALTOS) field campaign at Oliktok Point on the North Slope of Alaska has resulted in the campaign being terminated. The primary in situ measurement platform for the campaign was a tethered balloon for making ascents through the clouds with instruments that…
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Long-Term, Large-Scale Ensemble Forcing Data Set for Darwin Available
A new data set is now available for the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site in Darwin for long-term, large-scale forcing data. Produced by Dr. Christian Jakob’s group at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, these data were constrained with C-POL radar retrieved rainfall through the variational analysis method (Zhang and Lin 1997) by using the European…
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Professor Polar Bear Goes to Washington
On October 23-24, ARM participated in our sponsor’s, the U.S. Department of Energy, exhibit at the USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Our new Climate Kid cutout was a big hit, with children and adults alike stopping to take pictures with it, as well as Professor Polar Bear. ARM…
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Tethered Balloon Headlines Field Campaign at North Slope of Alaska
Using an instrumented tethered balloon in conjunction with remote-sensing instruments on the ground, the Arctic Lower Troposphere Observed Structure (ALTOS) field campaign began at Oliktok Point on the North Slope of Alaska on October 27.
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Testing Underway for New Doppler Lidars
Three new Doppler lidars were purchased with funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and began a test period at the ARM Southern Great Plains site in October.
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More Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data Available for More Sites
The latest release of the Climate Modeling Best Estimate (CMBE) data set has added soundings and surface meteorological measurements in the CMBE-ATM datastream for Barrow, Alaska, and all three Tropical Western Pacific sites. For these four sites, the cloud and radiation datastream, or CMBE-CLDRAD, now includes the most current available source data, 2010 data in…
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SGP Hosts Two Groups for “Lunch and Launch” Visit
Education and outreach play an important role in informing the public about ARM’s mission related to climate change research. In late September, staff at the ARM Southern Great Plains site hosted the Billings (Oklahoma) Rotary Club, followed by a group of 7th graders from the local Lutheran school. These types of visits are encouraged and…
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TWP Site Scientist Selected for Journal’s Editorial Board
Congratulations to Chuck Long, who has been selected for the editorial board of The Open Atmospheric Science Journal. The Open Atmospheric Science Journal, established in 2007, is an online journal that publishes research articles, reviews, and letters in all areas of climate research and atmospheric science. Dr. Long, from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, is the…