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DOE Providing $84 Million for New Research Involving Urban Integrated Field Laboratories
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) will provide $84 million for new observational, modeling, and simulation studies to improve the accuracy of community-scale climate research and inform equitable climate solutions to minimize adverse impacts caused by climate change. According to a DOE announcement released March 23, 2022, supported research will focus on three tightly related scientific topics—atmospheric…
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DOE Announces $1.5 Million for Research Development and Partnership Pilots
Catalyzing partnerships between underrepresented colleges and universities and DOE climate, Earth, and environmental sciences research The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced plans to provide $1.5 million for new grants to colleges and universities that are underrepresented in DOE’s climate, Earth, and environmental science investments. The Research Development and Partnership Pilot (RDPP) is designed to…
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Updated: Deadlines for 2022 AGU and 2023 AMS Annual Meetings
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) recently announced submission deadlines for the 2022 AGU Fall Meeting and 2023 AMS Annual Meeting. AGU 2022: Proposals for general scientific sessions, union sessions, innovations, town halls, and scientific workshops are due April 20. AGU is scheduled from December 12 to 16 in Chicago, Illinois,…
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This Week: ARM Preproposal Call Deadline
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is accepting preliminary proposals from scientists worldwide to use components of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility for field campaigns. Preproposals are due April 5, 2022, for: Use of an ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) – An AMF will be available for deployment beginning as early as December 2023…
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ARM Special Announcement: Updated COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus Guidance)
As COVID numbers continue to decline in the United States, mask mandates are going away or changing in many parts of the country. In response to local COVID transmission rates and evolving guidelines from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other health organizations, ARM sites are updating their COVID safety requirements.…
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ARM Staff Updates: New Aerosol Observing System Lead at Brookhaven Lab
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has more than 460 instrument systems providing data for researchers around the world. To keep these systems running smoothly, ARM depends on instrument scientists and engineers known as instrument mentors to calibrate and assess the status of the instruments. The team that oversees ARM’s Aerosol Observing Systems (AOS)…
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Register Now: ARM Radar Listening Sessions
Editor’s note: Watch all four ARM Radar Listening Sessions: State of the Radars (March 2, 2022); Southern Great Plains (March 16, 2022); North Slope of Alaska (March 30, 2022); and Eastern North Atlantic (April 13, 2022). As part of its Triennial Review in November 2020, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility was asked to…
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ARM Restructures Open-Source Code Capabilities
Science users and ARM staff can use and contribute code to work with ARM data The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility supports the development of open-source code that can make it easier for users to work with its data. ARM also provides opportunities for users to contribute their own code for use by the…
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Convective Cell Tracking Database Now Available for CACTI Campaign
A new database describes the properties of individually tracked convective cells during the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility conducted the CACTI campaign in 2018 and 2019 in Argentina’s Sierras de Córdoba mountain range. Using data from the second-generation C-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (CSAPR2)…
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Classifying Weather to Tease Out How Aerosols Influence Storms
Machine-learning study tracks large-scale weather patterns, providing baseline categories for disentangling how aerosol particles affect storm severity The original version of this release is available on the Brookhaven National Laboratory website. A new study used artificial intelligence to analyze 10 years of weather data collected over southeastern Texas to identify three major categories of weather patterns…