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Clock Ticks Down to CAPE-k’s Launch
Editor’s note: Heath Powers, site manager for the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2), sent in the following update about ARM’s site installation in Tasmania for the Cloud And Precipitation Experiment at kennaook (CAPE-k). Powers is based at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. On March 15, 2024, data verification started for CAPE-k. Now we have…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) is eager to engage with you. This is a message from UEC Chair Jennifer “Jen” Delamere. Check out summary report of October 2023 UEC meeting Every time I write a blog for you, the ARM community, I try to craft a witty start to a 500-word discourse. I knew my topic…
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MOSAiC Science Charges Forward
Editor’s note: Matthew Shupe, co-coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, provided the following blog post and photos. Four years ago, the pandemic had the world in a nervous tailspin, with disrupted travel, isolation, and an uncertain future. At that time, a group of scientists was stuck (literally)…
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From the Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG) Co-Chairs
This is the second blog from AMSG Co-Chairs Gannet Hallar and Tim Onasch. AMSG promotes ARM’s Fiscal Year 2024 Aerosol Operations Plan Hello, and welcome to the AMSG blog! We are here to provide an update on ARM-related work based, in part, on recommendations from the AMSG. As we wrote in our first blog, the…
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First Calibration Activities at the Center for Aerosol Measurement Science at Brookhaven Lab
Editor’s note: Olga Mayol-Bracero, lead mentor of ARM’s Aerosol Observing System (AOS), provided the following post. A group of four site operators from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Hamelmann Communications recently visited the Center for Aerosol Measurement Science (CAMS) at Brookhaven National Laboratory to be trained on aerosol instruments that will be deployed as part…
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New AERI Noise Filtered Data Produced for 3 ARM Campaigns
The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer Noise Filtered value-added product (AERINF VAP) is now in production for the following field campaigns conducted by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility: the 2021–2023 Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign near Crested Butte, Colorado the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) near Houston, Texas the 2023–2024…
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New Cloud Microphysics VAP Evaluation Data Released for TRACER Campaign
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEKAPLUS) is now available for the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) near Houston, Texas. MICROBASEKAPLUS is a value-added product (VAP) that provides continuous, high-time-resolution profiles of cloud microphysical properties such as liquid/ice water content and liquid/ice effective radius. The VAP was…
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Characterized and Corrected Radar Data Available for MOSAiC Expedition
All scientists interested in researching the Arctic’s climate can now use characterized and corrected radar data from the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. These data are considered b1-level, meaning they underwent calibration, correction, and quality control processes beyond the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s standard quality checks…
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Tropical Storm Hilary Is Focus of ARM EPCAPE Data Epoch
A new data epoch from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility captures a piece of history observed during a recent field campaign in La Jolla, California. In August 2023, as ARM conducted the yearlong Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE), Southern California experienced its first tropical storm in 84 years. ARM instruments on…
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A Field of Urban Dreams
The 2024 annual meeting of the American Meteorological Society includes previews of ARM’s upcoming atmospheric campaign in Greater Baltimore The word “courage” can mean the will to take direct action. Spelled another way, CoURAGE is the Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment. Direct action is also the point. A team of 27 investigators, led by Kenneth Davis…