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ARM’s Decadal Vision, Part 2: Data Analytics
ARM has long-term plans to improve data descriptions, internal analyses, and analytical techniques Editor’s note: This is the second article in a series about the four themes in ARM’s Decadal Vision document. After nearly 30 years of continuous data collection worldwide, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has archived almost 4 petabytes of data…
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Giangrande Succeeds Xie as ARM’s Lead Translator
Brookhaven National Laboratory meteorologist guides development of ARM science data products To make its data more accessible to the scientific community, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility relies on science translators. These individuals lead the development of value-added products (VAPs) from ARM instrument data. Science translators also serve as liaisons between ARM users and…
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New Aerosol Data Product Released From HI-SCALE Campaign
A new data product providing best-estimate aerosol size distribution by aircraft measurements is available from the 2016 Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and Land-Ecosystems (HI-SCALE) field campaign. During HI-SCALE, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility conducted flights of the Gulfstream-159 (G-1) research aircraft over the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. Scientists can use…
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Updated Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Product Available for MOSAiC
New files from the Microwave Radiometer Retrievals value-added product (MWRRET VAP) are now available for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. This release is more complete than the data set announced by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility in March 2021 because additional microwave radiometer data became available…
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Deep Insights Into the Arctic of Tomorrow
Rapidly changing atmosphere, ice, ocean—results of MOSAiC expedition published This release about the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition was originally published on the Alfred Wegener Institute website. Watch the video above to learn more about the new set of papers from the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of…
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Deadline This Week: Joint ARM/EMSL User Facility Call
Researchers can analyze aerosol samples collected on tethered balloon flights The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) are seeking collaborative research applications through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program. The FICUS program was established in 2014 to encourage and enable ambitious research projects integrating the expertise…
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ARM Instruments Detect Pressure Wave From Tongan Volcano Eruption
The massive Hunga Tonga-Hunga Haʻapai volcanic eruption caused changes in atmospheric pressure that registered at ARM sites around the world. The eruption happened at approximately 5:10 p.m. local time (04:10 Coordinated Universal Time, or UTC) on Saturday, January 15. (UTC is five hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.) ARM’s Surface Meteorology (MET) Systems at its…
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Snow Finally Comes to SAIL Site
Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, the principal investigator for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign in Colorado, provided the following blog post. After an exceptionally low-snow fall of 2021 during the SAIL study at Gothic, there was a concern that the adage that the surest way to have strange weather patterns is to deploy…
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From Bedrock to Atmosphere: Deep Investigations Into Disappearing Snowpack
An ARM campaign in Colorado unites with two other research efforts to better understand critical mountain hydrology Imagine turning on the water tap, only to get a dribble instead of a gush. Globally, mountain regions, which take up about 23% of Earth’s land area, might be coming to something like that. In a warming world,…
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2021 AGU Fall Meeting Features Bounty of ARM Data
Major earth and space science meeting provides opportunities to highlight ARM activities A year after going fully virtual for its annual meeting, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) welcomed attendees in person and remotely for its 2021 fall meeting. The in-person part of AGU 2021 took place from December 13 to 17 in New Orleans, Louisiana.…