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Penn State Professor to Lead DOE Climate Study in Baltimore Area
ARM field campaign will contribute to urban laboratory in Maryland’s most populous city An upcoming field campaign supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will study surface-atmosphere interactions around Baltimore, Maryland, to see how they influence the city’s climate. Ken Davis, professor of atmospheric and climate science at Penn State, is the principal investigator…
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UEC Profile: Erika Roesler Models With Measurements
A New Mexico scientist lets her curiosity range wide over the Arctic and into the stratosphere Editor’s note: This is the fourth article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). In the summer of 2018, a profile of atmospheric scientist Erika Roesler appeared on the website of…
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LASSO-CACTI Production Data Set Available for Users
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, provided the following post. The production version of the LASSO data set that provides simulations of deep convection in support of the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign is now available to users. As…
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With Data Gathered, SCILLA Flies to Analysis
Research aircraft collects aerosol and trace gas data upwind of EPCAPE campaign Dolphins and whales and sunfish, oh, my! Researchers involved in the Southern California Interactions of Low cloud and Land Aerosol (SCILLA) experiment logged almost 90 hours in the air, observing cloud formation, pollution dynamics, and environmental interactions over land and water. As the scientists…
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ARM Announces 2023 Service Award Winners
User facility presents honors to ARM staff at ARM/ASR joint meeting For the fifth year in a row, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility honored staff for their outstanding service and valuable contributions to ARM and its users. ARM Director Jim Mather announced the 2023 ARM Service Award winners during an August 7 ceremony…
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ARM Welcomes New Hires to Support Data Analysis and Quality
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility recently added new staff to help support the analysis of ARM measurements and develop new data quality tools. Data Analysis ARM has three new data analysts—Israel Silber, Jingjing Tian, and Peng Wu—who are all earth scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state. Silber joined PNNL…
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Merged Aerosol Size Distribution Product Available for Evaluation
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility currently operates at least four instruments that measure a portion of the ambient aerosol size distribution. Most users are interested in the entire size distribution or a portion of the size distribution that extends across the measurement range of multiple instruments. However, merging these distributions is not trivial…
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Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer Product Expands to 4 ARM Campaigns
The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer Optimal Estimation value-added product (AERIoe VAP) is now available in evaluation mode for the following four field campaigns conducted by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility: the 2017–2018 Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) campaign in the Azores (please see the note about ACE-ENA data below) the…
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ARM Data Flowing Again From Alaska After Cable Cut
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has restored data transmission from its North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory to the ARM Data Center. After an undersea fiber optic cable was severed in June, disrupting telecommunications service along the North Slope, ARM and many other customers in the region turned to Starlink satellite internet.…
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Recording Available: ARM Uncrewed Aerial System Data Webinar
Editor’s note (September 7, 2023): The ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system data webinar recording is now available for viewing. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system is completing a series of 2023 flights at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, collecting data for the user community. An upcoming webinar will provide information…