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ARM’s Hickmon Speaks During DOE Climate Roundtable
Nicki Hickmon, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s associate director for operations, was a panelist during a July 22 livestreamed roundtable discussion about climate research within the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm led the discussion, which also included Jane Lubchenco, deputy director for climate and environment at…
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Radiation Data Quality VAP Expands to COMBLE and MICRE Campaigns
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s longtime recommended datastream for broadband surface irradiance measurements is Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD). The QCRAD value-added product (VAP) is now available for two recent ARM field campaigns. QCRAD data are processed for the 2019–2020 Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) in…
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TRACER Site Setup Proceeds at Full Speed
Editor’s note: Heath Powers, site manager for the first ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1), sent in the following update about ARM’s site installation in the Houston, Texas, area for the TRacking Aerosol Convections interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). Powers is based at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. August 6, 2021 I am happy to report that…
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Smoke Studies: The BBOP Beat Quickens
Peer-reviewed papers are piling up from a 2013 ARM airborne campaign on wildfires and controlled burns Editor’s note: This article is part of a series exploring ARM field campaigns and data on biomass burning events. Wildfires and other biomass burning events contribute about 60% of carbon-containing particles in the atmosphere. The aerosols from such blazes…
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Smoke Studies: Crucial Cloud-Deck Science
An ARM field campaign called LASIC has a pivotal role in multi-campaign data on clouds and aerosols over the South Atlantic Ocean Editor’s note: This article is part of a series exploring ARM field campaigns and data on biomass burning events. Decks of low marine clouds blanket the southeast Atlantic Ocean off the coast of…
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Radiative Flux Analysis Data Released for COMBLE Campaign
The Radiative Flux Analysis value-added product (RADFLUXANAL VAP) is now available for the 2019–2020 Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) deployment near Andenes, Norway. RADFLUXANAL calculates clear-sky irradiance in the shortwave and longwave surface fluxes from the measured broadband irradiance. This VAP also calculates fractional sky cover and cloud parameters, including effective…
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2021 ARM/ASR Meeting Documents Research Progress in Pandemic
Hundreds of community members log on for annual meeting With the COVID-19 pandemic stretching into 2021, the Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting took place online for the second consecutive year. The joint meeting consisted of four half-days from Monday, June 21, to Thursday, June 24. Attendance of…
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DOE Selects 26 Research Projects for 2021 ASR Funding Awards
$15.6 million awarded for atmospheric research to improve climate modeling The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a total of $15.6 million in funding awards for 27 scientists who will conduct 26 research projects through DOE’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program. The university-based projects are designed to expand the fundamental understanding of earth systems…
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ARM Aerial Facility Tests Instrument Configuration in Skies Above Mississippi
High above the pastoral landscape of Greenwood, Mississippi, flights of an uncrewed aerial system (UAS) tested the configuration of instrumentation for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility (AAF). This recent series of “payload tests” continued ARM’s partnership with Mississippi State University’s Raspet Flight Research Laboratory—experts in UAS operations. On the ground, meanwhile, Raspet provided training…
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Updated Tower Water-Vapor Mixing Ratio Product Now Available
An updated version of the Tower Water-Vapor Mixing Ratio value-added product (TWRMR VAP) is now available for use. This VAP calculates water vapor mixing ratios at the 25- and 60-meter levels of the meteorological tower at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility. TWRMR also provides best-estimate temperature, relative…