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Land-Atmosphere Workshop Connects Scientific Communities
Organizers and presenters include representatives from ARM, ASR, AmeriFlux surface flux groups Questions about land-atmosphere interactions are being addressed by atmospheric researchers using measurements from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and scientists supported by Atmospheric System Research (ASR). Ecosystem scientists are also interested in these questions, but from a different direction, looking down…
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ARM Special Announcement: Updated COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Guidance
With progress being made in the effort to end the COVID-19 pandemic, travel is opening back up, and some in-person field activities are happening again at ARM sites. However, ARM continues to exercise caution when considering and approving visitor requests. Before you make a site access request, consult with your institution to see if it…
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SAIL ARM Mobile Facility Site Takes Shape
Click on the video above for an introduction to the SAIL field campaign site by co-investigator Ken Williams. The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign is less than two months from starting official operations near Crested Butte, Colorado. The campaign will begin September 1, 2021, and run for 21 months, into June 2023. In…
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UEC Profile: The Scientist Who Came In From the Cold
In the lab and in the field, an atmospheric chemist puzzles over clouds, aerosols, and hard-to-find ice-nucleating particles Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a new series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). As a girl growing up in the rural Midwest, Colorado State University research scientist Jessie…
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Three ARM Users Receive 2021 DOE Early Career Awards
In late May 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science announced the selection of 83 scientists to receive research funding through its Early Career Research Program. The program, now in its 12th year, is designed to bolster the nation’s scientific workforce by providing support to exceptional researchers during their early career years,…
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Access Ice-Nucleating Particle Data From MOSAiC Expedition
In the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center, two principal investigator data sets on ice-nucleating particles (INPs) are now available from the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. MOSAiC provided the first data capturing the annual cycle of INPs in the central Arctic. Colorado State University researchers Jessie Creamean…
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Zhanqing Li: Cloud and Aerosols Expert
A Maryland scientist studies the impacts of aerosols on clouds, precipitation, and climate Born in China’s landlocked Henan Province, Zhanqing Li, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Maryland, College Park, today has an investigator’s eye on the whole of the world, its complex atmosphere, the aerosols that make clouds, and models that…
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Radiation Data Quality VAP Data Reprocessed for SGP Broadband Radiometer Station
An end-to-end reprocessing of data from the Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data value-added product (QCRAD VAP) is complete for the broadband radiometer station (BRS) at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. All historical data (from September 1, 1993, to August 6, 2019) are reprocessed and now available. QCRAD has long been the…
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Third Annual ARM Service Award Recipients Announced
For the third consecutive year, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility recognized individuals and teams for their outstanding service to ARM and the user community. Five individuals and two teams received 2021 ARM Service Awards during the virtual Joint ARM User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting on June 21. ARM Technical Director…
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Los Alamos Team Prepares to Launch 2 New ARM Mobile Campaigns
After beta testing, SAIL site setup is underway in Colorado; TRACER installation coming up in Texas Editor’s note: Kirsten Fox, communications and external affairs at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, prepared this post. The ARM team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, which supports deployments of the first and second ARM Mobile Facilities (AMF1…