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Facility Update Highlights Progress
As the ARM Climate Research Facility has grown, so has its bimonthly report. With key accomplishments and activities encompassing the entire ARM infrastructure, the “Operations Update” report has been renamed “Facility Update.” Along with this change, the report’s web page has a new, more streamlined look that provides more information at a glance. Stay tuned…
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Workshop on Advances in Airborne Instrumentation for Measuring Aerosols, Clouds, Radiation and Atmospheric State Parameters
Reminder: Deadlines for the workshop are fast approaching. Abstracts are due 15 August. Don’t forget to reserve your room before 11 September to receive the best rate. Now available: Please fill out a registration form and fax it to Jennifer Drennan at 217-244-6323. The Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Vehicles Program (AVP)…
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Joint ARM Cloud Properties and Aerosol Working Group Meeting to be Held in November
The Joint ARM Cloud Properties and Aerosol Working Group Meeting will be held November 11-13, 2008, at the National Conference Center in Lansdowne, VA. The cost will be $200/day and includes hotel, parking, meals and meeting rooms. If you do not plan to stay overnight at the National Conference Center, there is a day guest…
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Aerosol-Cloud Modeler Post-Doc Position Available at PNNL
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory is engaged in a research program to add cloud-aerosol interactions to a multiscale modeling framework in which a cloud resolving model is embedded within each grid cell of a global climate model. The resulting multiscale aerosol climate model will be evaluated and then used to estimate the aerosol indirect effect on…
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Southern Great Plains Gets an “Assist” for Instrument Intercomparison
One instrument scientists use to obtain measurements important for climate studies is an atmospherically emitted radiance interferometer, or AERI. This sophisticated instrument measures the absolute infrared spectral radiance of the sky directly above the instrument. In July, the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site hosted a new instrument for measuring these spectra, called the Atmospheric…
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Second Version of Long-Term Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data Released
With major improvements in the cloud fraction, cloud liquid water path (LWP), precipitable water vapor (PWV), and surface radiative fluxes, a new version of the “Climate Modeling Best Estimate” (CMBE) is now available from the ARM Climate Research Facility Archive. This data set, specifically tailored for use in evaluating global climate models, includes long-term best…
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Call for Papers for the 12th Annual Conference on Clean Air, Mercury, Global Warming & Renewable Energy
The largest Energy and Environment Conference (EUEC) and exposition in the United States is now accepting abstracts for technical sessions covering clean air, mercury, global warming, and renewable energy. The conference will be held 1-4 February 2009 at the Phoenix Convention Center, Phoenix, Arizona. Preconference workshops will be on Sunday, February 1, 2009. With over…
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Abstracts Due for 4th Symposium on Lidar Atmospheric Applications
A symposium on lidar atmospheric applications, sponsored by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) and organized by the AMS Committee on Laser Atmospheric Studies, will be held 11-15 January 2009 as part of the 89th AMS Annual Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona. The deadline for abstracts is 1 August 2008. Please submit your abstract electronically at http://www.ametsoc.org/meet/online_submit.html.…
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Two Research Positions Available at Rutgers University
The Department of Environmental Sciences at Rutgers University is seeking two candidates: a Post-doctoral Research Fellow and a Research Associate. Applicants interested in either of the positions below should send their curriculum vitae, a brief statement about their research interest, and the names of three references to m.miller@envsci.rutgers.edu. The deadline for applications is 1 September…
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Extract This! Enhanced Visualization Tool Available at the Data Archive
Like many scientific organizations, the ARM Data Archive stores and distributes atmospheric data from the ARM sites in Network common data form, or NetCDF. This file format applies names or attributes to the various layers of data for efficient identification and processing. Then, using an interactive web-based tool called NCVweb, users can plot the data…