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AMF3 Site Science Team Blog: New Science Plan Details Deployment Opportunities
Editor’s note: The third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) will soon begin operations in northern Alabama. Brookhaven National Laboratory atmospheric scientist Chongai Kuang, who leads the site science team for AMF3’s forthcoming Bankhead National Forest (BNF) deployment, provided the following blog update. Over the past six months, our site science team has participated in a number…
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Quality-Assured SAIL X-Band Radar Data Now Available
During the 2021–2023 Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign near Crested Butte, Colorado, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility supported the deployment of an X-band scanning radar from Colorado State University, which provided observations for the calculation of precipitation estimates. There could be some challenges in working with data directly from the radar.…
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New ARM Aerosol Operations Plan Available
Document shares activities planned this fiscal year to address aerosol science community needs A new document details the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s plans and priorities for aerosol measurements in fiscal year 2024 (FY2024). ARM Instrument Operations Manager Adam Theisen, ARM aerosol mentors, and ARM aerosol science translator John Shilling co-authored the ARM FY2024…
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DOE Program to Support 2 Graduate Students Using ARM Data
New projects will focus on research of interest to ASR The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program aims to prepare graduate students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). The program provides awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students, allowing them to conduct part of their thesis…
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ARM’s Squad of Instrument Mentors Expands
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility currently has 89 instrument scientists and engineers overseeing the operation of ARM’s 460-plus instrument systems worldwide. These scientists and engineers, whom ARM calls instrument mentors, help ensure that high-quality data are reaching the user community. ARM welcomes 11 new mentors from four U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) national…
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Revamped Online Metadata Editor Tool Available for Use
Editor’s note: Hannah Collier from the ARM Data Center provided the following post. Earlier this year, the ARM Data Center released an improved Online Metadata Editor (OME) tool to help streamline the data submission process for data collected by guest instruments during ARM field campaigns and for principal investigator products. More information about the different…
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Radiosonde Parameter Calculation Data Sets Grow at 2 ARM Sites
New and historical data from the Convective Parameters Derived from Radiosonde Data value-added product (SONDEPARAM VAP) are now available for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) and Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatories. SONDEPARAM applies stable and consistent algorithms from Wang et al. (2020) for calculating useful radiosonde convective cloud…
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New ARM Tethered Balloon System Projects Announced
FICUS program awardees will rely on ARM/EMSL user facility capabilities Two research projects starting this month will integrate capabilities of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) with the goal of improving earth system models. In December 2022, ARM and EMSL—both U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user…
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Stereo Camera Cloudiness Map Product Moves to Production
The Clouds Optically Gridded by Stereo value-added product (COGS VAP) is now in production for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. COGS provides a four-dimensional (4D) map of cloudiness, which is generated from multiview stereo reconstruction using a ring of stereo cameras at the SGP. The VAP also includes a…
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Help Inform the Future of LASSO
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, provided the following information. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility requests white paper submissions in support of a Future of LASSO Workshop to be held November 2–3, 2023, in Boulder, Colorado, and online. LASSO has been…