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  • Atmospheric Modeling Advisory Group Assembled

    ARM recently formed the Atmospheric Modeling Advisory Group to represent research community interests and provide feedback to the LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation Workflow (LASSO) modeling project. This group consists of six scientists, spanning the range of specialties that will benefit from LASSO, plus ARM Technical Director, Jim Mather; LASSO principal investigator, William Gustafson;…

  • ARM Aerial Facility’s Lofty Goal: Collect Crucial Arctic Climate Change Data with Unmanned Aerial Systems

    ARM bolsters aerial data collection capabilities with new aircraft, instruments for 2016 Concerned about rapid climate change in the Arctic, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility is procuring a fleet of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) to expand the scope of climate research activities on Alaska’s North Slope and…

  • Next-Generation Aerosol Observing System Prepares to Deploy to Alaska

    Portable laboratory will gather critical Arctic climate data To build accurate climate models, scientists require atmospheric data from all corners of the globe—from tropical oceans to the frigid Arctic. Engineers at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory are one of the leaders in building mobile laboratories designed to gather relevant data from…

  • Tracking Clouds Down Under

    While penguins and seals are the main inhabitants of Macquarie Island, a remote grassy outcrop which lies about half-way between New Zealand and Antarctica, they will soon be joined by a suite of instruments from the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. These instruments will measure surface radiative fluxes…

  • New Scanning ARM Cloud Radar – Advanced – Velocity Azimuth Display (SACR-ADV-VAD) Product Released to Evaluation

    The Scanning ARM Cloud Radar-Advanced-Velocity Azimuth Display (SACR-ADV-VAD) value-added product (VAP) provides profiles of horizontal wind estimates at cloud level, using observations from the Hemispherical Sky Range Height Indicator (HS-RHI) scan strategy of the Ka-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar (KASACR). The VAD technique was historically used to retrieve wind field properties using weather radars. SACR-ADV-VAD…

  • Opportunity for Cloud Properties Retrieval Algorithm Development: Request for Interest Opened

    The ARM Climate Research Facility, through the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), is looking for a science consultant with relevant industry knowledge to develop an operational algorithm for retrieving vertically resolved cloud properties using existing ground-based remote sensing instruments at ARM facilities, including both fixed and mobile sites. This development effort will support ARM’s mission…

  • New Campaign Guidance, New Review Deadlines—Even for Smaller Campaigns

    Did you know? In November, new field campaign guidelines were published that changed the review process for field campaign submissions, particularly for smaller field campaigns. In the past, smaller field campaigns were reviewed and approved on an ongoing basis. Now, smaller campaigns may still be submitted at any time; however, they will only be approved…

  • ENA’s Newest Instruments Support Most Extensive Marine Cloud Data Set

    An elderly farmer sings in Portuguese as his donkey carries him down the steep cobbled roads to a village below. Hydrangeas and cedar perfume the air around bubbling volcanic geysers and lagoons. A thousand miles from anywhere, Graciosa Island hosts some of the world’s most advanced atmospheric instrumentation that scientists rely on to advance climate…

  • MAGIC Continues to Inspire Insights

    Because they cover so much of the Earth and reflect large amounts of sunlight, marine clouds play an especially critical role in climate and climate research. However, most non-satellite investigations of such clouds have been relatively short-term (~one month) in fairly small regions. The Marine ARM GPCI Investigation of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign changed that…

  • ARM Facility Insights at the 2016 AMS Annual Meeting

    Sunday, January 10, marked the beginning of the 96th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society, where over 3,000 researchers will congregate in New Orleans to present on topics and learn more about research relating to the theme “Earth System Science in Service to Society.” Once again, ARM users and scientists will share results and…