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Spying on Thin Ice Clouds
Observations of thin ice clouds are scarce, contributing to a large range of uncertainties in present-day and future simulations of the polar climates. Data from the Thin Ice Clouds in Far Infrared Experiment, or TICFIRE, and ARM’s Barrow facility will help to develop a new spaced-based instrument in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency to…
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ARM’s New Radar Operating Paradigm Aims to Maximize Performance
Maintaining the pulse of the radar network is vital to research Radars have been getting a lot of attention at ARM in the last few months. These instruments represent a critical part of ARM’s observation strategy. The ARM Facility operates the largest research radar network in the world, including a wide range of instruments from…
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Alpha 1 of ARM’s New Modeling Effort Now Released
In May 2015, the Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility began a pilot project to design a routine, high-resolution modeling capability to complement ARM’s extensive suite of measurements at the Southern Great Plains megasite. This large-eddy simulation (LES) modeling capability has been named LASSO—the LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation…
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Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) VAP Now Operational
The Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) value-added product (VAP) is now running operationally for the ARM Mobile Facility deployment at Oliktok Point, Alaska, and Eastern North Atlantic site in the Azores. QCRAD has long been the recommended ARM datastream for broadband surface irradiance measurements. This VAP applies multiple data quality checks, applies…
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Reprocessed, Quality-Controlled Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement VAP for GoAmazon
Quality-Controlled Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement (QCECOR) value-added product data were reprocessed for the first ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1) deployment at Manacapuru, Brazil, from April 2014 to December 2015, as a critical component of a two-year scientific collaborative field campaign, the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon) 2014/15. The QCECOR data provide surface sensible and latent heat flux…
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Reconfiguring ARM: Arctic Eyes in the Sky
The Inaugural Campaigns for ARM Research using Unmanned Systems—or ICARUS—is underway at Oliktok Point, Alaska. In response to researcher input, ICARUS was developed as the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility’s first initiative to begin routine operations using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and tethered balloon systems (TBS) to collect spatial information about the rapidly…
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In India, a Science Journal Celebrates Insights from a Ganges Valley Climate Study
ARM instrumentation played a big role in the first joint U.S.-Indian experiment of its kind The Ganges River begins in a narrow valley in the Himalayas and flows eastward through a vast valley of farms, cities, power plants, and factories before exiting mightily into the Bay of Bengal. The 2,500-kilometer waterway, fed by Himalayan runoff…
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Next Round of Deadlines for Small Campaigns Coming Up
The next deadline to propose for smaller field campaigns will be August 22. Small campaigns do not require a full deployment of ARM Facility equipment, like an ARM mobile or aerial facility. They require just an instrument or two, or are in conjunction with a larger facility operation. Costing less than $25,000, these campaigns give…
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Decadal Vision Progress Report Now Available
Jim Mather, ARM’s Technical Director, prepared a report detailing progress made toward the ARM Decadal Vision, published in 2014. This strategic progress report, now available on the ARM website, makes engaging reading for anyone interested in ARM’s evolution as the premier data-gathering organization for scientific climate research. Next-generation ARM is focused on more tightly linking…
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Call for Abstracts for AGU Fall Meeting and AMS Annual Meeting
Sessions for this year’s Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union and Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society are being announced. If you will be leading a session, please let us know. Sessions shared with us will be added to this web page and shared in two emails to be sent July 20 and…