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ARM Broadens Outreach to the Modeling Community
Editor’s note: ARM Associate Director for Research Jennifer Comstock provided the following blog post. Among the feedback received from its 2020 Triennial Review, the ARM user facility was encouraged to develop a plan for engaging with the climate modeling community to understand how ARM data are used for model development and evaluation, as well as…
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Billowing with Data, SAIL Sets a New Course
An ARM field campaign in Colorado ends an epic phase of observations and begins its focus on data analysis and modeling In early June 2023, Daniel Feldman and Allison Aiken hiked along a mountain trail in a region of Colorado where distant peaks jutted into the sky and stands of forests seemed to rise out…
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ArcticShark Completes Another Successful Mission in Oklahoma
Data now available to download; more flights planned for this summer along with data webinar As spring 2023 gave way to the heat of summer in Oklahoma, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system (UAS) took to the skies above ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. From June 6 to…
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Evolve and Innovate: ARM Looks Ahead
Insiders foresee more open science, artificial intelligence, urban studies, satellite collaborations, and sharpened instrumentation Most scientists agree: Time travel is not possible. But what about science stories? They can take you into the past. For instance, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility recently published a series of features looking back at its first 30…
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New and Improved ARM Broadband Radiation Data Now Available
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s longtime recommended datastream for broadband surface irradiance measurements is Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD). The QCRAD value-added product (VAP) is now available for the 2021–2023 Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign near Crested Butte, Colorado. In addition, ARM produced new level 2 (c2) QCRAD…
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Connor Flynn Expands His Vision for Helping ARM Users
Longtime ARM instrument mentor and science translator joins ARM’s User Executive Committee Editor’s note: This is the third article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). After getting a tiny taste of the Tinseltown life 40 years ago, Connor Flynn could have chosen to spend his days…
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Observationalists and Modelers Work Toward Common Goals at GEWEX Workshop
ARM/ASR community members attend to help make progress on issues related to the study of land-atmosphere processes An important international climate workshop in spring 2023 brought together observationalists and modelers to look at how ground-based data, satellite observations, and modeling could be better integrated to inform the study of land-atmosphere processes. The Global Energy and…
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From the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is a message from the UEC Chair. Engage With the UEC at the ARM/ASR PI Meeting Greetings from my home in Fairbanks, Alaska! Another summer solstice has come and gone. It is now that we Alaskans tend to go out onto our landscapes, taking advantage of…
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AWAKEN: Improving Wind Farms
A multi-institutional campaign looks at wind farm wakes to increase clean energy The United States and other countries must enhance clean energy methods to achieve net zero carbon emissions by 2050. Net zero means that carbon released into the atmosphere is balanced out by removing the same amount from the atmosphere. Improving current renewable energy…
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Updated: Access New Gridded Cloud Radar Product for COMBLE Campaign
Editor’s note (July 20, 2023): A new KASACRGRIDPPI evaluation release for COMBLE, which uses b1-level calibrated PPI data as input, is now available. Output data from KASACRGRIDPPI are uncalibrated c1-level netCDF files, each comprising gridded observations for a single azimuthal scan. Surveillance scans are gridded for elevations of 0, 0.5, 1, and 2 degrees. Output…