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ARM’s Decadal Vision, Part 1: Field Measurements
ARM plans for years of comprehensive and impactful data from field instruments Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series about the four themes in ARM’s Decadal Vision document. All life on Earth lives within a shell of atmosphere that has an average thickness of just 7 miles (11 kilometers). All clouds exist…
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Understanding Low Clouds in a Remote Marine Environment
After just a few years, an ARM campaign in the cloud-decked Azores spins off prolific research on aerosol effects West of Portugal, in the Azores, lies tranquil Graciosa Island. The interior, dry and rolling, is a patchwork of grain fields, vineyards, and pastures dotted with volcanic cones of ancient cinder. Aside from being lovely, Graciosa…
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ARM Data Center Improves User Experience and Passes Another Milestone
New journal article details ARM data process, Data Discovery redesign; ARM hits 3 petabytes of archived data A new article in the journal Earth Science Informatics tells the story of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s constantly growing trove of data in the ARM Data Center. The article also details the recent redevelopment of…
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TRACER Talk: ‘Making Lemonade From Lemons’
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, is the principal investigator for ARM’s TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The TRACER campaign is scheduled to start October 1, 2021, in the Houston, Texas, area. Dié Wang, an assistant environmental scientist at BNL, is a convective processes researcher and a…
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Register for High-Latitude Marine Cloud Workshop
A user-driven workshop will focus on observations and modeling of high-latitude cold-sector marine clouds, especially as related to recent field campaigns in the Southern Ocean and Norway, as well as related campaigns or long-term sites (e.g., Eastern North Atlantic, North Slope of Alaska). The Zoom-based workshop will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Eastern time on September…
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DOE Research Opportunity Available to Graduate Students
Apply by November 10 to Graduate Student Research program Since 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program has helped graduate students prepare for careers in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Managed by the DOE Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, the SCGSR program provides supplemental…
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Updated: NASA to Draw Upon ARM’s Aircraft Replacement Experience
Editor’s note (August 18, 2021): The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a consensus study report with input from the committee described below, in an ARM article originally published July 14, 2020. The report, “Airborne Platforms to Advance NASA Earth System Science Priorities: Assessing the Future Need for a Large Aircraft,” is…
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ARM Science Group Workshop Reports Chart Path to Improved Measurements
Constituent groups focus on measurements related to aerosols, clouds, and precipitation The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s strategy of relying on user recommendations for ongoing improvements continues to bear fruit. In 2021, ARM has published two workshop reports that directly link to the goals set forth in ARM’s recently updated Decadal Vision. Both reports are…
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Provide Input on ARM’s Next Large-Eddy Simulation Scenario
LASSO activity is focused on deep convection simulations from the CACTI campaign in Argentina The team leading the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s signature modeling activity provided a sneak peek of its next scenario of focus and gathered feedback from potential users during a virtual community session held July 28. Anyone who missed the…
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ACE-ENA Spotlight: High-Resolution Snapshots Help Solve Cloud Mysteries
Editor’s note: Susanne Glienke, a postdoctoral research associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state, worked on the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign in the Azores. This campaign took place during summer 2017 (June to July) and winter 2018 (January to February). Glienke sent in this…