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Smart Filter Clears the Way for Speedy Data Transfer
As reported in mid-February, data transfer from the ARM Tropical Western Pacific sites was greatly improved through an upgraded internet connection, which eliminated the need to ship hard disks of data from the millimeter wavelength cloud radar (MMCR) around the world. But this was only half of the story. The other, and more complicated half,…
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And They’re Off! Louisville Hosts Annual ARM Science Team Meeting
Beginning March 30 and ending April 3, the 19th Annual ARM Science Team Meeting drew 242 attendees with 156 posters to Louisville, Kentucky, for a week-long meeting. This annual meeting provides the opportunity for both researchers and infrastructure staff to discuss progress and plans in all areas of the program with colleagues from around the…
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Climate Change Prediction Program Funding Opportunity Announced
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 advanced approaches in modeling of climate at ultra-high spatial resolutions. Applications should clearly describe how these approaches will further climate modeling technology with regard to high fidelity simulations of regional…
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New Sensors Installed for Cloud Radar Calibration at North Slope
Cloud radars at the ARM sites provide important information about cloud properties and continue to evolve in providing climate researchers more complex data. This creates a greater need to know the absolute calibration of the radar reflectivity measurement. However, the large and immobile antenna for the millimeter wavelength cloud radar (MMCR) is impossible to point…
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Ceremony in the Azores Recognizes Scientific Collaborations
In a signing ceremony at the Laboratorio Regional Engenharia Civil in Ponta Delgada, the Azores, government officials from the United States and Portugal formally recognized agreements for scientific collaboration related to the ARM Mobile Facility deployment on Graciosa Island. The Mobile Facility will begin collecting data on the island starting in May. For more information,…
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Data Available from ARM Mobile Facility Deployment in China
The Study of Aerosol Indirect Effects in China was anchored by the ARM Mobile Facility in Shouxian and included an additional instrumented site to the east at Lake Taihu and two instrumented sites to the north. All data collected by the ARM Mobile Facility in Shouxian are now publicly available at the Data Archive. In…
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Climate Models Need Closure Too
In late January, scientists initiated a five-month field campaign involving routine flights above the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site. The airborne observations from RACORO will, among other things, be used to test and refine capabilities for sensing the atmosphere from the surface. To help validate and tie in the aircraft measurements to the SGP…
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U.S. Ambassador Tours Nauru Site
On February 7, 2009, the U.S.Ambassador to Fiji (as well as Nauru and other island nations) Steven McGann visited the ARM Climate Research Facility’s Tropical Western Pacific site on Nauru island. He and Ms. Megan Kennett of the embassy arrived with Nauruan Foreign Department Officers. They were greeted by the local Nauruan ARM observers and were…
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Internet Upgrade Speeds Data Transfer from Tropics
In October 2008, a new higher-speed internet connection was hooked up for the ARM site in Darwin, Australia, at no extra cost. This upgrade enables spectral data—the base for determining reflectivity, vertical velocity, and spectral width—obtained by the millimeter wave cloud radar (MMCR) to be transmitted via Internet, thereby eliminating the need to ship hard…
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Position Available at Institute of Physics and Meteorology, Hohenheim University
A three-year appointment for a postdoc or Ph.D. level position is available at the Institute of Physics and Meteorology (IPM), Hohenheim University, in Stuttgart, Germany, in the field measurements and modeling working group. This position will focus on the calculation of high-quality climate projections for southwest Germany during the time period until 2030, with a…