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ARM Development Corner: New Scoop on Modeling Data Products
Editor’s note: This is an update from ARM Engineering and Process Manager Jennifer Comstock, who also oversees ARM science products. ARM provides comprehensive atmospheric measurements and data products that support model evaluation and improvement. Linking ARM data, which are distributed at locations around the world, to earth system models (ESMs) is challenging primarily because of…
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The COMBLE Campaign: A Review
A new paper reports on transformational data from an investigation of marine boundary-layer clouds in arctic cold-air outbreaks For years, satellites have captured beautiful images of cold-air outbreaks (CAOs). These cloud regimes represent one of the world’s most intense transformations of atmospheric air masses. Ubiquitous over oceans in the Earth’s chilly high latitudes, CAOs signify…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: June 2022
Editor’s note: In 2021, the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) created four subgroups to continue previous work and start new efforts to broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM, and ways in which the ARM community can engage…
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ARM/ASR Open Science Workshop Draws an Engaged Audience
Virtual sessions over 4 days provide opportunities for discussion and learning The virtual world has opened the scientific community to new ways of research, connection, collaboration, and innovation. Science no longer is limited to work on a closed computer terminal or within laboratory walls. With support from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the Atmospheric…
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TRACER Intensive Period Kicks Off With a Bang, Then a Fizzle, and Lots of Heat
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is the principal investigator for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) in Texas. He sent in this campaign update. Taken on June 2, the second day of the TRACER intensive operational period, this video caught lightning and thunder outside the ARM…
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DOE Funds Two Graduate Students to Pursue ARM-Relevant Research
Program gives graduate students the opportunity to work with national labs Since its inception in 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program has helped prepare graduate students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. “For decades, DOE has cultivated the expertise to meet the nation’s greatest scientific challenges,”…
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ARM Best Estimate Data Sets Updated for 2 ARM Observatories
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility provides tailored datastreams known as ARM Best Estimate (ARMBE) data products for use in the evaluation of global earth system models. The ARM Best Estimate Atmospheric Measurements (ARMBEATM) product contains basic atmospheric quantities, and ARM Best Estimate Cloud Radiation (ARMBECLDRAD) provides cloud and radiation quantities. ARMBEATM data for…
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MOSAiC Scientists Reunite In Person to Discuss Central Arctic Science
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is an ARM mentor for the collection and analysis of ice-nucleating particles. With instrument funding from ARM and science funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR), Creamean participated in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)…
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New Data Set Available From COMBLE Campaign
Now available in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center are calculated back trajectories for identified cold-air outbreak cases from the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE). Back trajectories are commonly used to determine the origin of air masses observed at a given location. The ARM user facility conducted the COMBLE field…
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Large-Scale Forcing Data Released for COMBLE Campaign
Continuous large-scale forcing data are now available for the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE). The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility conducted the COMBLE field campaign from December 2019 through May 2020 in northern Norway. Forcing data for COMBLE were developed from a constrained variational analysis approach (Zhang and Lin 1997;…