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Call for Abstracts for Aquatic Sciences Meeting in 2011
The next biennial American Society for Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) Aquatic Sciences Meeting will be held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, February 13-18, 2011. The goal of this conference is to bring together aquatic scientists from around the world to meet the challenge of global climate change and explore the wide range of aquatic systems…
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New Raman Lidar En Route to Australia
Thanks to funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a new Raman lidar is on its way to the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site in Darwin, Australia.
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Measurements of Total Surface Energy Now Available from Australia
Measurements of sensible, latent, and carbon dioxide fluxes are valuable for refining both regional and global climate models. Since 1997, only ARM’s Southern Great Plains site provided these continuous measurements using eddy correlation flux (ECOR) and energy balance Bowen ratio (EBBR) stations. Now, ARM’s tropical site in Darwin, Australia, is also providing these measurements, thanks…
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Enhanced Data Systems Ready at Tropical Western Pacific Sites
Through funding from the Recovery Act, all the ARM sites are receiving new and upgraded instruments. The amount of data generated by these instruments—particularly the new scanning cloud and precipitation radars—is expected to increase by several factors. To support this increase in data volume, ARM data system engineers are installing enhanced computing and network infrastructure…
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ARM Mobile Facility Blogs from Steamboat Springs
This month, team members for the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) are in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, preparing for the Storm Peak Lab Validation Experiment, or STORMVEX. Follow their progress on the AMF2 blog, as they install instrumentation at three sites on Mount Werner.
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YouTube© Channel and Flickr® Added to Outreach Tools
Starting this summer, the ARM Communications Team began moving archived ARM photo and video content into both Flickr and YouTube, respectively. These popular and cost-effective social media outlets join ARM’s existing Facebook and Twitter accounts, providing additional options for sharing information with users and the public. All four sites can be accessed from the new…
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Aide for Oklahoma Senator Inhofe Visits SGP Site
On August 19, 2010, a legislative aide for Senator James Inhofe (R-Ok) visited the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site to learn about the facility, its role in global climate research, and its contribution to the state of Oklahoma. Throughout the course of the visit, ARM representatives emphasized how the high-quality data provided by the…
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User Facilities in Spotlight at Inaugural Office of Science Graduate Fellows Conference
This year, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science awarded its first class of fellowships to about 150 graduate researchers in the fields of physics, engineering, biology, and physical sciences. These up-and-coming scientists were introduced to the DOE scientific user facilities during a Graduate Fellows Conference held at Argonne National Laboratory in early August.…
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Water Vapor Network at SGP Site Goes Offline
After nearly eleven years, the Single Frequency GPS Water Vapor Network field campaign at the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site came to a close on July 1, 2010. Installed between 1999 and 2000, this network consisted of 24 GPS stations operating within an 8-kilometer radius around the SGP Central Facility near Lamont, Oklahoma. Developed…
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New Datastream Identifies Nauru Data Influenced by Clouds
A new data set that identifies periods when Nauru data may be affected by island-influenced clouds has been produced by Chuck Long, site scientist for the ARM Tropical Western Pacific site. The Nauru island effect (NIE) data set currently covers the period from September 2005 to May 2010 and will be updated periodically as new…