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New ARM Observatory Heads Toward Early 2024 Start of Operations
This holiday season, staff from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will be busy building and preparing a long-awaited gift for scientists worldwide: the Bankhead National Forest (BNF) atmospheric observatory in northwestern Alabama. Construction of the long-term mobile observatory resumed November 13, 2023. ARM began to prepare the land in February, but a series…
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EPCAPE Gets Intensive
A pair of intensive operational periods pick up the pace of data collection for an ongoing ARM campaign in Southern California Globally, stratocumulus clouds have a net cooling effect, which makes them important to study. These dense, low, and puffy clouds cover about one-fifth of the Earth’s surface at any given time, mostly over oceans.…
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ARM Best Estimate Data Released for SAIL Campaign
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility provides tailored datastreams known as ARM Best Estimate (ARMBE) data products for use in the evaluation of global climate models. Two ARMBE data sets are now available from the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign, which ran from September 1, 2021, to June 15, 2023, near Crested Butte,…
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TRACER 3-Channel Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Now Available
Data from the Microwave Radiometer Retrievals version 2 value-added product (MWRRETv2 VAP) are now available for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), which ran from October 2021 through September 2022 near Houston, Texas. MWRRETv2 applies the Turner et al. (2007) optimal estimation retrieval of liquid water path and precipitable water vapor to measurements from 3-channel…
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ARM Seeks Lead Mentor for Distributed Aerosol Size Distribution Measurements
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is seeking an instrument lead mentor (technical lead) for distributed aerosol size distribution measurements during the upcoming ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) deployment in Baltimore, Maryland, from December 1, 2024, through November 30, 2025. ARM operates a suite of research-grade aerosol and trace gas instrumentation…
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Propose for ARM ArcticShark Flights
Submit preliminary proposals by November 1 The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is now accepting preliminary proposals from scientists to deploy ARM’s ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system in fiscal year 2024 to support the Biological and Environmental Research program’s scientific interests in the region of ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric…
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Ramping Up the ARM Odyssey: A Tale of Ice-Nucleating Particles Over the Globe
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University and an ARM mentor for ice-nucleating particle collection and analysis, sent in the following update. Scientists and aspiring mad weather and climate geniuses, gather ’round! Today, we’re diving headfirst into a realm where filters, freezing temperatures, and ice-cold antics collide: the mesmerizing world of…
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ARM Begins Making Moves to Balance Scope and Resources in FY2024
Aim is to meet user needs and ensure continued delivery of impactful data Changes have started coming to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility in fiscal year 2024. ARM is making site enhancements while retiring some instruments and relocating others. The user facility is also reducing the footprint of its Southern Great Plains (SGP)…
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A Measurement Treasure Turns 10
Now a decade old, ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory has gathered a rich data set on remote marine conditions There are nine volcanic islands in the Azores archipelago west of mainland Portugal. One is Graciosa, a temperate dot on the map whose name in Portuguese means “enchanting.” Graciosa, egg-shaped and only 6 miles long,…
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UEC Profile: Yunpeng Shan Counts His Lucky Stars
Postdoctoral researcher finds pleasure in being an atmospheric model craftsman Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). For Yunpeng Shan, work is joy. “I am lucky,” he says, “because my hobby is my job.” That is the goal for so…