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New Delays Affect Start of Bankhead National Forest Observatory
Working through weather and staffing issues, ARM intends to have some sites operational in June 2024 The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is experiencing further unexpected delays in the construction of its newest long-term atmospheric observatory in northern Alabama. Site development for the Bankhead National Forest (BNF) observatory resumed in November 2023, but extreme…
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Zhien Wang Contributes a Life’s Passion to ARM’s User Executive Committee
In his work, the Stony Brook University professor focuses on remote sensing, instrument development, and mentoring Editor’s note: This is the seventh and final article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). In January 2023, eight scientists joined the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s User Executive…
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Revisiting Antarctica’s AWARE
Concerns today spark reflections on an ARM campaign whose data from West Antarctica remain uniquely useful eight years later A 2023 article in Nature Climate Change sparked a flurry of news reports on scientific concern over the fate of ice in Antarctica. The authors note that oceans are warming at three times the historical rate.…
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At AMS 2024, ARM’s Scientific Impact Felt in Baltimore and Beyond
Presentations featuring ARM data and capabilities make a lasting impression on in-person and virtual attendees Members of the weather, water, and climate community came together for the 104th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, held from January 28 to February 1, 2024, in Baltimore, Maryland, and online. Over 7,200 attendees took part in AMS 2024, which…
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ARM and ASR Community Members Recognized at AMS 2024
Seven researchers associated with the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program were celebrated in January 2024 at the 104th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting in Baltimore, Maryland. 2024 AMS Fellows AMS Fellows are selected annually in recognition of “outstanding contributions to the atmospheric or related oceanic or hydrologic…
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Surface Spectral Albedo Product Updated
In fiscal year 2021, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility added a seventh channel to its multifilter rotating shadowband radiometers, multifilter radiometers, and normal incidence multifilter radiometers. To support the addition of the 1625 nm channel, ARM recently updated the Surface Spectral Albedo value-added product (SURFSPECALB VAP) for its North Slope of Alaska (NSA) and Southern Great Plains…
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Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask Machine Learning VAP Released for 2 ARM Campaigns
The Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask Machine Learning value-added product (MPLCMASKML VAP) is now available for two recent field campaigns conducted by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. Users can now access MPLCMASKML production data from the ARM Mobile Facility site that operated in La Porte, Texas, during the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER).…
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Giangrande Replaces Vogelmann as Co-Lead of ARM Modeling Activity
Change on LASSO team also means change within ARM’s science translator group There has been a leadership change within the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s signature modeling activity. Scott Giangrande, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is the new co-principal investigator of the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation…
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Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Now Available for SAIL
The Microwave Radiometer Retrievals value-added product (MWRRET VAP) is now available for the 2021–2023 Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign near Crested Butte, Colorado. MWRRET retrieves column precipitable water vapor and liquid water path—both important variables to understanding radiative transfer in the atmosphere and clouds—from ARM’s 2-channel microwave radiometers (23.8 and 31.4 GHz). The VAP uses a physical…
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Black Carbon Data Product Available for Use
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility developed a data product for scientists to measure the black carbon (BC) mass loadings in the atmosphere over multiple sites. BC mass concentration and derived size distribution data are now available as a b1-level product for ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory from January to October…