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Preproposals Due Soon for ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge
The application deadline is approaching for the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) program. Preproposals for the 2022–2023 allocation year are due Friday, December 17, 2021. ALCC is one of several allocation programs for ASCR supercomputing facilities and supports the ASCR program’s efforts to further U.S. Department of Energy mission science, respond to…
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AMF3 Site Science Team Blog: Site Picture Comes Into Focus
Editor’s note: Chongai Kuang leads the site science team that will develop a science plan and initial research project for the upcoming Southeastern U.S. deployment of the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3). Kuang, from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, provided the following post. As we approach the end of 2021, I am happy to share…
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ARM’s SAIL Campaign and NOAA’s SPLASH Study Launch in Colorado
Both campaigns will be featured during 2021 AGU town hall The Colorado River Basin is a primary water source for six states and 40 million people from Denver, Colorado, to Los Angeles, California. Researchers seek to better predict how, in complex terrain, the atmosphere, surface, and subsurface fit together to influence the dwindling water resources…
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Share Your Requests for New ARM Capabilities
Click the video above to watch the November 16, 2021, community input webinar hosted by ARM Technical Director Jim Mather. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has a new mechanism for science community members to request measurements, data products, or data services that would help advance their science areas. ARM Technical Director Jim Mather…
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Christine Chiu Named New Chair of Cloud and Precipitation Measurements and Science Group
Christine Chiu, an associate professor at Colorado State University, was recently named the new chair of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Cloud and Precipitation Measurements and Science Group (CPMSG). The CPMSG brings together members of the ARM instrument operations, engineering, and translator teams with the ARM science community to improve the performance and…
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MOSAiC Expedition Featured in National Geographic
The October 2021 issue of National Geographic included a first-person account of the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Documentary photographer Esther Horvath, who accompanied researchers and support personnel on the first leg of the expedition, shared her MOSAiC experience with National Geographic. Horvath is a photographer for the…
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Southern Great Plains Updates: New Guest Instrument Facility Operational
Researchers visiting the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility have a new building for their instruments. The new Guest Instrument Facility, which became operational in September 2021, has already hosted its first field campaign. On October 1, the Characterizing New Particle Formation and Growth campaign began at the SGP.…
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Feature Your 2021 AGU Presentations With ARM and ASR!
For those of you presenting during the hybrid (in-person/virtual) 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, one of the best ways to draw attendees to your sessions is to be highlighted on the ARM and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) websites. If you or one of your team members will present a talk or poster during…
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Sandia-Operated Arctic Measurement Facility Moves; Research to Continue
Atmospheric studies and more to continue at fixed arctic observatory After eight great years of observations and research, a Sandia National Laboratories-operated atmospheric measurement facility moved from Oliktok Point, on the North Slope of Alaska, in summer 2021. The mobile facility will be relocating to the Southeastern United States; the exact location is still being…
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UEC Profile: Jennifer Delamere, Scientist of the Arctic, Albedo, and Snow
In a whirlwind, complex career, one researcher studies arctic weather and climate at scales tiny and vast Editor’s note: This is the eighth and final article in the 2021 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). “I want to go there.” That’s what eighth-grader Jennifer “Jen” Delamere said one day…