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After a Long Stop, ARM Instruments Await Their Next Destination
Editor’s note: Hamelmann Communications technician Travis Guy, who recently supported operations of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) in Colorado, provided the following blog post. SAIL Pack-Up: The End of a Challenging Yet Wonderful Campaign To SAIL on a dream on a powder-filled meadow, to ride on the crest of a wild winter storm. To…
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Cloud Microphysics VAP Extended at Southern Great Plains
New evaluation data are available from a value-added product (VAP) that builds upon the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s historical Continuous Baseline Microphysical Retrieval (MICROBASE) VAP. The latest release from the Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEKAPLUS) covers all of 2021 at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, extending the data set an additional…
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ARM Data at Heart of Newly Selected ASR Projects
DOE announces 24 projects chosen for funding The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $15.3 million in funding for 24 new projects for Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program science. The new ASR projects will last up to three years and will support research to improve earth system models that predict weather and climate. Selected projects will focus on…
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Wind Profiles Derived From Motion-Corrected MOSAiC Lidar Data
A new value-added product (VAP) developed specifically for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition is now available for evaluation. This VAP derives profiles from Doppler lidar measurements collected on the research icebreaker R/V Polarstern, which drifted through the central Arctic during MOSAiC. The Doppler Lidar Motion Correction Wind Profiles…
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New Cloud Microphysics and Sonde Products Available for 2 ARM Campaigns
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility released two new cloud microphysics and sonde value-added products (VAPs) from the 2012–2013 Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP) on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/15) field campaign near Manaus, Brazil. The Interpolated Sonde (INTERPSONDE) VAP and W-Band Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEW) are now available…
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New ARM Data Epoch Assembled From COMBLE Campaign
A new data epoch focused on the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) is now available from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. ARM data epochs are periods of well-characterized, calibrated measurements focused on a particular atmospheric phenomenon. For COMBLE, ARM deployed one of its mobile observatories on the coastal island…
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Science Workshop Outlines a TRACER Future
Researchers gather in Texas and online to share data, preliminary results, collaborations, and next steps from the Houston-focused ARM campaign To gain the most from an atmospheric science field campaign, it is important to reflect on what happened, its meaning, lessons learned, and what remains to be done. Take TRACER, for example, which you may…
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Your Introductory Guide to TRACER Data
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, principal investigator for the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), provided the following blog post. After TRACER’s field operations period ended about eight months ago in the Houston, Texas, area, those involved turned to further assessing the quality of the data that were collected, analyzing the data, developing more advanced…
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ARM/ASR Community Members Play Prominent Roles in DOE Mountain Hydroclimate Workshop
Workshop report now available On November 15–16, 2021, and January 19, 2022, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Biological and Environmental Research (DOE BER) program hosted a two-part virtual workshop on mountain hydroclimates. The Understanding and Predictability of Integrated Mountain Hydroclimate Workshop Report, published in April 2023, is available now on the DOE BER website. Scientists…
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Sarah Brooks: ‘Doctor of Clouds’ Lends Wisdom to ARM’s User Executive Committee
Texas A&M professor enjoys making good measurements and advising up-and-coming scientists Editor’s note: This is the second article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Even before she arrives at work at Texas A&M University (TAMU), chances are Sarah Brooks has already spent time exchanging ideas about…