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Improved Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Produced for 2 ARM Sites
New level 2 (c2) files are now available from the Microwave Radiometer Retrievals value-added product (MWRRET VAP). This release covers 2020 and 2021 at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains Central Facility near Lamont, Oklahoma, and 2018 through 2021 at ARM’s North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory. MWRRET retrieves column precipitable…
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DOE Announces $4.7 Million for Research and Development Partnership Pilots
Projects aim to position underrepresented academic institutions to make major scientific contributions in support of DOE’s science mission The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.7 million in funding for 35 new grants to colleges and universities that are underrepresented in DOE’s foundational climate, Earth, and environmental science research investments. These Research and Development Partnership…
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Participate in 2022 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting Breakout Sessions
Breakout sessions for the 2022 Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting are now posted on the meeting website. There are 19 breakout sessions in addition to four ASR working group sessions, all of which have been added to the online agenda. Breakout sessions give participants an opportunity to discuss…
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Expedition Above the Arctic Circle
Two Sandians brave subzero temperatures, frozen tundra to deliver vehicle to ARM observatory The following is based on a story by Sarah Jewel Johnson, Sandia National Laboratories. Sandia’s arctic and atmospheric research is vital to understanding the effects of climate change in the Arctic and around the world. Every year, scientists battle the Alaskan wilderness…
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Chasing a Spectral Rainbow: ARM’s Ever-Evolving Shortwave Radiation Measurements
Article on ARM’s solar spectral observation capabilities gets BAMS cover The cover article of the June 2022 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) highlights advances in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s solar shortwave spectral observation capabilities. This article is a shortened adaptation of a paper led by Laura Riihimaki with 21 co-authors. Riihimaki,…
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Improved Broadband Radiation Data Quality Files Available From Southern Great Plains
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility processes yearly data from the Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) product to produce level 2 (c2) files. These files undergo additional processing to improve the data. New c2-level data are available from the 2020–2021 processing at ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. QCRAD has…
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Satellite-Aligned Version of Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Product Now Available
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has released a satellite-aligned version of its widely used Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (KAZRARSCL) product. The new value-added product (VAP) aligns radar reflectivities from KAZRARSCL with those from the well-characterized Cloud Profiling Radar operating on NASA’s CloudSat satellite. Because reliable external calibration sources…
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Review and Update Your ARM Account Today
Personal profile form features new changes related to demographics, ORCID record integration The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility collects information from its account holders to help better serve the ARM community and to fulfill requests or requirements from various stakeholders. Every year, ARM reports information about its active science users to its funding sponsor,…
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Dust in the Wind at SAIL
Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, the principal investigator for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign in Colorado, provided the following blog post with contributions from SAIL co-investigators Ken Williams, Allison Aiken, S. McKenzie Skiles, and Jeff Deems. The seasonal changes in the Colorado Rocky Mountains are so dramatic that it is scarcely possible to…
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Tropical Western Pacific’s Rich Legacy of Data Lives On
ARM’s first overseas atmospheric observatory, which operated from 1996 to 2014, also spurred international collaborations This is the third article in the yearlong “ARM30” series of stories on the evolution of ARM―its data, sites, science missions, field campaigns, and people. ARM Technical Director Jim Mather started with ARM in 1994, fresh out of graduate school,…