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Flying ARM’s Friendly Skies
Outside campaigns and agencies routinely sample the atmosphere above ARM observatories On March 10, researchers from the United Kingdom and Canada launched a 15-day airborne campaign intended to improve the ways the radiative effects of snow are represented in weather prediction models. At least once during the operation, the campaign’s four-engine modified Bae 146-301 overflew…
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In the Netherlands, a Touch of the Arctic
A European radar conference includes a briefing on millimeter wave cloud radars emplaced in far-northern Alaska On most days, radar engineer and computational scientist Joseph Hardin is at his desk at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state. In early July 2018, however, Hardin found himself in front of an audience of 800 radar…
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UEC Profile: Science in High Places
Hooked on science early, researcher and professor Gannet Hallar now investigates clouds and aerosols in the Intermountain West This is the eighth article in a series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). In the summer of 1998, Gannet Hallar was about to enter her senior year as a physics major…
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Cultivating the Next Generation of Atmospheric Scientists
ARM summer training event focuses on observations and modeling of clouds and precipitation It was hot and humid in Norman, Oklahoma, when 24 graduate students and early career scientists from around the world arrived at the National Weather Center. They were joined by 12 instructors—atmospheric scientists from the United States and Europe—for the Atmospheric Radiation…