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ARM Instruments Reel in Decades of Data
Looking back on climate gear both rugged and precise This is the second article about a recently published monograph on the first 25 years of the ARM Climate Research Facility. During its more than two data-rich decades, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility has provided science with many enduring gifts, including an organizational template for climate…
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25 Years of ARM Shows Benefits of Having Heads in the Clouds
How ARM transformed the culture of atmospheric science This is the first article in a series about the first 25 years of the ARM Climate Research Facility. A monograph published online this spring by the American Meteorological Society tells the history—25 years of it so far—of what is now called the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)…
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“Change Is in the Air” as Scientists Evaluate Data Collection with Unmanned Aircraft
For decades, studying Earth’s atmosphere meant gathering data with instruments based on land, lofted by balloons, or flown overhead in various types of aircraft, but change is “in the air” as increasingly popular unmanned aerial systems (UASs), such as lightweight miniature airplanes, prove useful for automating data collection. In April, the Evaluating Routine Atmospheric Sounding…