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Submit Papers for Journal Collection on Land-Atmosphere Interactions
Organizers of a new American Geophysical Union (AGU) cross-journal special collection are looking to publish papers from the research community about advances in scaling and modeling land-atmosphere interactions. In an Eos article announcing the new collection, the organizers requested papers featuring recent investigations from land-atmosphere campaigns, “including observational analyses, tests of theoretical approaches to scaling…
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Propose Now to Use DOE Supercomputing Facilities
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science provides a portfolio of high-performance computing facilities that enable world-class research for significant scientific advances. DOE’s Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program is now seeking proposals for high-impact, computationally intensive research campaigns across a broad array of science, engineering, and computer…
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Register Now for AmeriFlux Land-Atmosphere Interactions Workshop
In support of the AmeriFlux network’s “Year of Water Fluxes,” the AmeriFlux community will hold a land-atmosphere interactions workshop on June 10 and 11, 2021. This workshop is in collaboration with representatives from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR). The workshop, “Improving understanding of land-atmosphere…
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Deadlines Coming for AGU and AMS Annual Meetings
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) recently announced submission deadlines for the 2021 AGU Fall Meeting and 2022 AMS Annual Meeting. AGU deadline for proposals: The deadline is April 14 to submit proposals for general scientific sessions, town halls, union and special sessions, and scientific workshops. AGU is scheduled from December 13 to 17,…
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DOE Announces Funding for Data Science and Computation Tools to Advance Climate Solutions
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (DOE ASCR) announced a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) of $13.5 million over three years to support research using data science and computation-based methods, including artificial intelligence and machine learning. Awards under this FOA will develop new software workflows and tools to accelerate the scientific discovery…
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ARM Going Back to California for Mobile Facility Campaign
Yearlong EPCAPE field campaign will study properties of stratocumulus clouds near San Diego The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) regularly requests proposals from scientists worldwide to use key components of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility for field campaigns. DOE seeks research that addresses ARM’s mission of improving the understanding and modeling of clouds…
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Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Available for 3 ARM Campaigns
The Microwave Radiometer Retrievals (MWRRET) value-added product (VAP) has been released for three recent Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility field campaigns. Data from the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) are available for the full campaign duration—December 1, 2019, to June 1, 2020—near Andenes, Norway. MWRRET has also been processed for…
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Explosive Origins of ‘Secondary’ Ice—and Snow
Definitive, real-world evidence for “freezing fragmentation” of drizzle as a major source of ice in slightly supercooled clouds has important implications for forecasting weather and climate Where does snow come from? This may seem like a simple question to ponder as half the planet emerges from a season of watching whimsical flakes fall from…
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UEC Profile: The Aerosol World’s Busy Bee
A New Mexico researcher pauses to reflect on her latest absorbing year of research, report writing, and science leadership Editor’s note: This is the first article in a new series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). The word “busy” has only four letters, but Allison C. Aiken, an aerosol scientist at…
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During Pandemic, Science Still Going and ARM Data Still Flowing
Patience rewards one delayed Alaskan field campaign studying ice fog Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series looking at how ARM has continued to support atmospheric science during the pandemic. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 brought about rapid changes for people and organizations around the globe, including the Atmospheric…