-
New Cloud Radar to Join Mobile Facility on Graciosa Island
In December, the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) completed an 8-month deployment in China and is now on its way to the Azores for a 20-month field campaign on Graciosa Island in the Atlantic Ocean. For a major portion of this deployment, the AMF will host a new scanning cloud radar for a side-by-side operational comparison…
-
Arctic Storms to Provide Data Linking Sea Ice to Precipitation Rates
Arctic sea ice is an indicator of—and has an influence on—the rest of the Earth’s climate system. In particular, the link between sea ice-evaporation and precipitation has been identified as a fundamental component of climate dynamics. However, remarkably few evaporation and precipitation measurements are available to quantify this link. In January, scientists initiated a 2-year…
-
Arctic Field Campaign Data and Instrument Performance Reviewed at Workshop
In April 2008, the month-long Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) obtained cloud and aerosol data from above, within, and below clouds in the vicinity of the ARM site in Barrow, Alaska. In mid-November, about 50 members of the ISDAC science team gathered in Lansdowne, Maryland, for a 1-day workshop to review and assess data…
-
Call for Abstracts for the IAMAS General Assembly 2009
The International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences (IAMAS) General Assembly 2009 will be held in Montreal, Canada, July 19-29, 2009. This will be a joint assembly for the IAMAS, International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans (IAPSO), and International Association of Cryospheric Sciences (IACS). Of interest to the ARM community, the IAMAS…
-
New Session at European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2009
A new session, Remote Sensing of Clouds and Aerosols: Techniques and Applications (AS1.6), will be convened at the upcoming European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly in Vienna, Austria, April 19-24, 2009. While the existing session "Clouds, Aerosols, and Radiation" has been very successful in bringing together theory, observations, and modeling in a climatological context, the…
-
Postdoctoral Research Position Available at Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Applications are being accepted for a postdoctoral research position in the Climate, Atmospheric Science, Physical Oceanography Division of Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The research will be in the areas of convection and cloud parameterization and the interaction of convection, clouds, and climate. Applicants with a Ph.D. in atmospheric science or meteorology are encouraged to apply.…
-
McGill University Seeks Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Satellite Remote Sensing
The Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, is seeking a tenure-track assistant professor in the area of satellite remote sensing. The successful applicant will be expected to develop an active research program, supervise graduate students, and teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. Candidates whose research interests are…
-
Climate Research, User Facility Capabilities Highlighted at American Geophysical Union Meeting
Contact: Lynne Roeder, ARM Public Information Officer, 509.372.4331 Onsite: Press Room or Exhibit Space 2654/2753 Scientists involved in the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program lead the world in research related to the interaction of clouds and radiation, while the ARM Climate Research Facility has become the standard for ground-based climate research observations.…
-
Scout Team Surveys Storm Peak Area
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the initial deployment of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in 2010 for the Storm Peak Lab Cloud Property Validation Experiment (STORMVEX). In addition to measurements obtained by the AMF2, central to STORMVEX is the Desert Research Institute’s Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), located at…
-
Site Operations Centralized Through New Tracking System
With more than 300 instrument systems operating at remote sites around the globe, ARM Instrument Mentors can now use the centralized Operations Support System (OSS) to review or provide updates to instrument tracking information in a central database accessible to operations staff throughout the user facility. By consolidating information previously recorded in separate tracking systems…