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UPDATE: ARM Best Estimate Data Sets From MC3E Now in Production
EDITOR’S NOTE: The ARM Best Estimate Data Sets have been moved from evaluation to production at the ARM Data Archive. To view the new data, visit the ARMBE2DGRID and ARMBESTNS VAP pages. Data sets for the ARM Best Estimate 2-Dimensional Grid (ARMBE2DGRID) and Station-based Surface (ARMBESTNS) are now available for the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds…
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Students Explore the Skies at ARM Summer Training
Their heads were in the clouds, but the students at the first ARM Summer Training and Science Applications event weren’t daydreaming. As the next generation of atmospheric researchers, they cut their teeth on ARM data at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, from July 15 to 24. Their experience included visiting ARM’s Southern Great…
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ARM Data Developers Prepare for Next Generation of ARM
About 40 ARM staff members gathered at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, from July 14 to 16 for the ARM Climate Research Facility’s Annual Developers Meeting to discuss current activities and help facilitate a reconfiguration to better streamline ARM operations and enhance its scientific impact. Participants included representatives from ARM’s External Data Center,…
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Measuring Clouds with MAGIC
The MAGIC field campaign, which was a unique effort to provide long-term data looking at clouds over the high seas, was featured in the July 1 edition of EOS Earth & Space Science News. The article highlighted the data on ocean clouds collected through MAGIC, which was a deployment of the ARM Climate Research Facility. MAGIC…
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Students to Attend ARM Summer Training Event
Twenty-six students from around the world were chosen to attend the upcoming ARM Summer Training and Science Applications event. From July 15-24 at the National Weather Center in Norman, Oklahoma, the graduate and postdoctoral students gained practical and theoretical knowledge about observing and modeling aerosols, clouds, and precipitation processes. The training was sponsored by the…
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North Slope of Alaska Priorities Workshop Report Available
With its rapidly changing environment, the Arctic is an exciting place for climate research, and scientists have an important resource in the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) facilities of the ARM Climate Research Facility. The ARM Facility is being reconfigured to provide more in-depth observations at fewer sites; the NSA Priorities Workshop was held in…
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Clearer Skies for Cloud Modeling
This May, Cyril Morcrette was awarded the L F Richardson Prize by the Royal Meteorological Society for his work in evaluating cloud forecasts. Although weather and climate models often rely on different metrics to make accurate forecasts, Morcrette created a unified methodology that can be used to evaluate cloud predictions at both scales. Data provided…
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New Science Board Members Tackle ARM’s Expanding Landscape
With facilities around the world hosting field campaigns on a regular basis, the ARM Climate Research Facility continues to be an important resource to the scientific community. Thanks to the vigilance of the ARM Science Board, the ARM Facility is able to support quality science with over 70 campaigns a year. Comprised of highly-respected scientists…
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BAMS Features Results of 21-Month ARM Deployment
Featured in the March 2015 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), the 21-month ARM mobile facility deployment in the Azores was the longest of its type in a non-tropical marine environment. This data set collected during the Clouds, Aerosols, and Precipitation in the Marine Boundary Layer (CAP-MBL) field campaign provided valuable insights into the…
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Pierre Gentine and Yunyan Zhang Selected Early Career Research Program
Two ARM Facility users and Atmospheric System Research program researchers were selected for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Early Career Research Program (ECRP). Pierre Gentine, from Columbia University in New York, and Yunyan Zhang from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory were among the 44 nationwide recipients awarded this funding opportunity that supports the development of individual…