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International Polar Year Draws on ARM Education and Outreach Efforts
International Polar Year (IPY) kicks off on March 1, and education and outreach efforts are an integral part of the international activities. In collaboration with several other agencies, ARM Education and Outreach staff are working to promote awareness of the IPY and climate research on the North Slope of Alaska. Many of the resources developed…
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Unattended Performance of Lidar Makes Life “Easy”
Scientists routinely use light detection and ranging (lidar) systems to obtain data about cloud and aerosol layering and optical properties. In October 2006, ARM scientists spent a week at the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) site using the established Micropulse Lidar (MPL) and a new EZ Lidar to gather measurements of aerosols and cloud structure…
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Radiative Heating in Unexplored Bands Campaign Begins Today
In conjunction with other scientific activities taking place during International Polar Year 2007-2008, today (February 26) an international research team begins a three-week field campaign in Barrow, Alaska. The Radiative Heating in Unexplored Bands Campaign (RHUBC), which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility, uses a new…
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Arctic Winter Provides Window of Opportunity to Improve Climate Models
Dry winter conditions allows scientists to explore elusive portions of the electromagnetic spectrum Contact: Lynne Roeder, 509.372.4331 In conjunction with other scientific activities taking place during International Polar Year 2007-2008, today an international research team begins a three-week field campaign in Barrow, Alaska. The experiment, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric…
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Adieu to Niger, Guten Tag to Germany
At midnight January 7, 2007, the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) deployment in Niamey, Niger, successfully concluded. For the next two weeks, the AMF decommissioning team packaged the AMF for subsequent uplift to Germany. Not only were AMF operations in Niamey a resounding success, but the data gathered from the deployment is already bearing fruit, with…
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Radar Looking Good with New Reflector
As reported in July 2005, the W-band ARM Cloud Radar (WACR) is a 95-GHz system designed for a unique purpose – monitoring the radar returns of insects in the lowest 5 km of the atmosphere. This data is used to remove “noise” from the millimeter wavelength cloud radar (MMCR) return signals at the ARM Southern…
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2nd International AMMA Conference Announces Call for Abstracts
The African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (AMMA) will hold its second international conference on the West African Monsoon in Karlsruhe-Leopoldshafen, Germany, November 26-30, 2007. Aiming to bring researchers together from around the world, conference themes will focus on the following: West African monsoon and global climate Water cycle Land surface-atmosphere feedbacks Prediction of climate impacts High…
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Call for Papers Issued for Polar Clouds and Aerosols Session
Papers are now being accepted for the “Polar Clouds and Aerosols: Properties, processes, and climatic significance” session at the joint meeting of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographical Society, Canadian Geophysical Union, and American Meteorological Society (CMOS-CGU-AMS) being held on May 28 – June 1, 2007, in St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada. Abstracts must be submitted by…
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ARM Archive Sets Record for User Accounts
The ARM Archive stores and distributes the large quantities of data resulting from routine operations and scientific field campaigns conducted at the ARM sites. Scientists use these data to study atmospheric radiation balance and cloud feedback processes, which are critical to the understanding of global climate change. In the first quarter of FY07 (October through…
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Datastream Database Speeds Flow of Information
Scientific instrumentation at the ARM sites generates massive amounts of data for atmospheric research. These data are processed at the Data Management Facility (DMF) housed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. In late 2006, the DMF completed the replacement of its database processing capabilities with a new Data System Database (DSDB), after a 2-year process of…