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Triennial Review Highlights ARM’s Aptitude for Enabling Impactful Science
Findings indicate that ARM ‘well positioned’ to keep serving as world-class DOE user facility The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility received a highly favorable assessment from its Triennial Review, held virtually from November 4 to 6, 2020. Every three years, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) selects an external review panel of domain and…
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Register Early for EGU 2021
For those interested in attending the upcoming European Geosciences Union (EGU) annual meeting, early registration closes March 31. The meeting, called vEGU21: Gather Online, will be held virtually from April 19 to 30 in place of the EGU General Assembly in Vienna, Austria. Almost 800 sessions are planned during vEGU21. Get information about how the meeting…
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ARM Instrument Mentor Updates: Here’s to New Adventures
Two longtime colleagues plot their retirement journeys, a new mentor joins the fold, and another’s lead mentorship becomes official Say it ain’t so. Stephen R. Springston, an atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, will retire March 31, 2021. A chemist by training, he refers to the move as a “phase change,”…
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A Focus on Successful and Safe Flight Operations
Tim McLain joins ARM Aerial Facility to oversee flight operations Gearing up for resumed operations of the ArcticShark unmanned aerial system and the expected 2022 arrival of its new research aircraft, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility (AAF) needed a leader with extensive experience in long-term planning for successful and safe operations. Late in summer…
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Register for DOE-Sponsored Autonomous Discovery Workshop
The application of artificial intelligence/machine learning methods to experimental and computational sciences is rapidly evolving and enabling autonomous and accelerated discovery. A three-day virtual workshop aims to bring together researchers in the field to discuss recent developments and share best practices. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications…
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MOSAiC: A Sustained Echo of Data
With an epic Arctic Ocean expedition at an end, researchers wrangle with rich ARM measurements More than once during the central Arctic winter of 2019–2020, radar technician Vagner Castro scrambled onto the frigid monkey deck of the ice-locked R/V Polarstern to replace tiny screws on the inlet door of an aerosol sampler. Castro’s moments of…
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Annual Scientific Meetings Give Wide View of CACTI Research
ARM campaign looking at convective cloud life cycle took place in the mountains of Argentina Data collected by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility are providing clues about how clouds in central Argentina grow into notoriously large and long-lived thunderstorms. ARM’s Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign took place from October…
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ACE-ENA Data Sets Take Center Stage During AGU and AMS Meetings
Scientists put ARM field campaign’s data sets to work Abundant above the Earth, low clouds affect earth systems globally. Despite their importance, these clouds are not well-represented in global climate models. Therefore, low clouds’ response to changes in atmospheric aerosols has been a significant source of uncertainty in climate simulations. During two intensive operational periods…
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ARM Development Update: Value-Added Products
Editor’s note: This is the first quarterly update from ARM Engineering and Process Manager Jennifer Comstock, who also oversees ARM science products. After several years focused on improving the delivery of value-added products (VAPs) for ARM Mobile Facility deployments, ARM data translators are turning their attention to upgrading existing VAPs and developing new VAPs. Translator…
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Job Opportunity: ARM Aerosol Observing System Lead Mentor
The Environmental and Climate Sciences Department at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York is looking for an aerosol measurement and research scientist. This person will serve as the lead mentor of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Aerosol Observing System (AOS). The individual will also be expected to pursue scientific research utilizing AOS measurements.…