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ARM Staff Engage in Community Science Events in Alaska and Tasmania
Exploring science with communities around ARM sites is a fun way for ARM staff to connect with people living nearby and introduce them to their work supporting atmospheric research. Recently, ARM staff participated in two community science events. A member of the site operations team from ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory took…
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ARM and Sandia’s Arctic Partnership Commemorated in Time Capsule
Since 1997, Sandia National Laboratories has managed the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory, overseeing its central facility at Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow) and smaller sites nearby. The long-term partnership between ARM and Sandia is now immortalized in a time capsule that was lowered into the ground as part…
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Soak Up the Sun: ARM Staff Participate in Pyrheliometer Comparisons
Event in Colorado helps participants calibrate reference instruments to world standard From September 21 to 27, 2024, groups of scientists and engineers from around the globe, including personnel from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, gathered at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) Solar Radiation Research Laboratory on South Table Mountain in Golden, Colorado,…
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DOE Announces Funding for Climate Resilience Centers
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science has issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity for Climate Resilience Centers (CRCs). These new centers will be dedicated to rapidly developing new science and talent to address the nation’s most pressing climate resilience challenges. Funding opportunity DE-FOA-0003464 can be found on the DOE Biological and Enviromental Research (BER) Funding…
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Hydrometeor Field Spatial Statistics Derived From Radar Scans
A new evaluation data set, Plan Position Indicator (PPI) Hydrometeor Field Statistics (PPIHYD), provides spatial statistics based on distinct (clustered) hydrometeor fields from radar scans. By leveraging information harvested from Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility scanning radar measurements, statistics such as spatial moments and percentiles are calculated for radar reflectivity and Doppler spectral width…
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Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask Machine Learning VAP Released for SAIL, CAPE-k
The Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask Machine Learning value-added product (MPLCMASKML VAP) is now available for the 2021–2023 Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign. Scientists can also access MPLCMASKML data from the ongoing Cloud And Precipitation Experiment at kennaook (CAPE-k), which the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is conducting until September 2025. MPLCMASKML uses…
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New 2- and 3-Channel Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Produced
Both versions of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s value-added product (VAP) for microwave radiometer retrievals are now available for the 2023–2024 Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE) in La Jolla, California. These products retrieve column precipitable water vapor and liquid water path—both important variables to understand radiative transfer in the atmosphere and…
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From the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) is eager to engage with you. This is a message from UEC Chair Jennifer “Jen” Delamere. The Power Is Yours: Help Shape the Future UEC For American children of the 1970s and 1980s, we often spent our Saturday mornings in front of a VHF-UHF television, eyes glued to Saturday morning cartoons…
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An Epic Arctic Expedition Turns 5
MOSAiC papers pour in, revealing new findings about the data-sparse and vulnerable region Five years ago, on September 20, 2019, the German icebreaker R/V Polarstern eased away from a dock in Tromsø, Norway, headed for its rendezvous with an ice floe. This marked the beginning of the epic international Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study…
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Student Seizes SALVO Opportunity
Editor’s note: Zac Espinosa, a PhD student at the University of Washington, recently participated in an ARM field campaign in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. Espinosa wrote the following blog post about his experience. Looking out across the horizon, it was difficult to tell where the sea ice ended and the sky began. I looked down…