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Future of User Facility Discussed at Fall Workshop
As a national user facility, ARM is accessible to scientists around the globe for interdisciplinary research related to earth systems. In a continuing effort to meet users’ scientific needs, as well as to provide measurable progress related to the U.S. Department of Energy’s climate change research missions, ARM sponsored a “User Workshop” on October 31…
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ARM Mobile Facility Completes Field Campaign in Germany
Operations at the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) site in Heselbach, Germany, officially came to a close on January 1, 2008. As one of several measurement “supersites” situated throughout the Black Forest region for the Convective and Orographically Induced Precipitation Study (COPS), the AMF obtained data continuously beginning in March 2007. Measurements obtained by the AMF…
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Radar Antenna Replacement Effort Begins at Barrow
For estimates of cloud boundaries, there is no better capability than the millimeter wave cloud radar (MMCR). This sophisticated radar is part of the standard instrument suite at all of the permanent ARM sites except for Atqasuk, Alaska. With the 3-meter antenna at the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site more than 11 years old,…
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External Data Center Completes Storage Expansion
The ARM External Data Center, or XDC, routinely acquires, processes, and transmits data sets which are scientifically relevant and complementary to ARM data, but originate from external agencies. External data often include large data sets such as model and satellite data, which consume tremendous amounts of storage space, especially when batch processing is required. For…
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ARM Exhibit Draws Diverse Crowd at American Geophysical Union Meeting
With an updated display and new informational materials, ARM joined more than 160 exhibitors at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. About 15,000 researchers, teachers, students, and consultants from all over the world attended the weeklong event, held December 10-14, to discuss and learn about the latest issues in…
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National User Facility Leads to Multidisciplinary Climate Research
Equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and data systems, the Department of Energy’s ARM Climate Research Facility provides fixed and mobile research sites around the world for conducting interdisciplinary science related to earth systems. AGU visitors to the ARM exhibit can view live data from these sites and talk with scientists who use this data to improve…
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The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego Invites Applications to Fill Positions
The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California in San Diego invites applications to fill one or more positions at the Assistant Professor (tenure-track) level in one or more of the fields listed below. We seek motivated, broad-thinking scientist-educators to establish vigorous research programs and provide intellectual leadership in their fields while complementing…
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4th PAN-GCSS Meeting on Advances in Modeling and Observing Clouds and Convection
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM Program, NASA, NOAA, and the World Climate Research Program and Meteo France, the 4th PAN-GCSS meeting will be held June 2-6, 2008, at Meteo-France, in Toulouse, France. The GEWEX Cloud System Study (GCSS) investigates cloud systems, their role in the climate system and their representation in models…
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Interferometers Compared for ARM Mobile Facility Deployment in China
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. Two AERIs will be deployed with the ARM Mobile Facility in 2008 for a field campaign to study Aerosol Indirect…
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High-Speed Internet Deflects Information Overload
A little more room in the internet link at the ARM Southern Great Plains site is providing needed relief to the crowded lines that keep data flowing from the site. In July 2007, the internet service from the SGP Central Facility was switched to a higher speed (6 megabits) link, increasing the bandwidth by almost…