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DOE AVP Hosts Workshop on Aircraft Instrumentation
The Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Vehicle Program (AVP) is sponsoring a workshop on aircraft instrumentation to be hosted at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, from the 14 to 16 of October 2008. The goals of the workshop are as follows: 1) to identify the state-of-art measurement techniques for aerosols,…
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A Quest for Answers About Aerosols
Beginning May 19, 2008, the Department of Energy is deploying a portable atmospheric laboratory in southeastern China to examine the regional climate effects and global transport of aerosols. Data will be collected by the mobile facility in Shouxian from May through December 2008.
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Cloud Radars on the Screen at Southern Great Plains Site
With the flip of a switch, a mysterious cirrus dilemma turned from serious to solved recently, as the millimeter wavelength cloud radar (MMCR) passed inspection at the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site in February. In addition, concerns about data from the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF)’s W-band ARM Cloud Radar (WACR) were alleviated through an…
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North Slope of Alaska Site Hosts Guest Instruments for Arctic Aerosol Study
In addition to airborne measurements obtained at the North Slope of Alaska for the Indirect and Semi-direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) in April, the ARM site in Barrow also hosted several guest instruments throughout the campaign. Measurements from these additional instruments will provide important supplementary data to the continuous data collected at Barrow for investigating the…
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National User Facility Organization Meets to Discuss Progress and Ideas
In late April, the ARM Technical Director attended an annual meeting of the National User Facility Organization. Comprised of representatives from Department of Energy (DOE) national user facilities, the purpose of this group is to promote and encourage discussions among user facility administrators, their management, and their user organization representatives by communicating current and future…
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Announcing the Release of the Radiative Flux Analysis PI Product
Developed by Dr. Chuck Long, Radiative Flux Analysis PI Product data are now available from the ARM Climate Research Facility Archive. The current release includes data for all of the ARM fixed sites (except Darwin, which requires manual processing because of the monsoon season) plus data for the AMF deployments at Pt. Reyes and the…
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Cover Combines Images from Arctic Field Campaign
An image collage representing the Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment graces the cover of the latest report from the U.S. Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee. The report, Arctic Observing Network (AON): Toward a U.S. Contribution to Pan-Arctic Observing, pinpoints where and how different Federal agencies are collecting environmental data as part of the implementation of the…
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Arctic Aerosol Study Flies By
Ending its mission with a final flight on April 30, 2008, the Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) flew a total of 103 research hours, completing 27 science flights primarily in the region around the ARM North Slope of Alaska site in Barrow. These flights included several golden cases where both cloud and aerosol measurements…
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Team Scouts Graciosa Island for 2009 Mobile Facility Deployment Site
Indications from a scouting trip by the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) science and operations management team are that an excellent site for the 2009 deployment may have been found. From April 8 through April 16, the team traveled to Graciosa Island in the Azores to scout sites for the Clouds, Aerosol, and Precipitation in the…
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ARM Outreach Materials Chosen for Earth Day Display in Washington DC
Earth Day is officially honored each year on April 22, however, many groups sponsor activities throughout the entire month of April. At DOE Headquarters in Washington DC, two ARM posters were selected to join a poster display representing programs from numerous DOE offices. The display was featured in the Forrestal Building’s ground-level and first floor…