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DOE Funding Opportunity Open for Graduate Students
Apply by May 5 to Graduate Student Research program Since 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program has helped graduate students prepare for careers in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Managed by the DOE Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, the SCGSR program provides supplemental…
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From the New User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is a quarterly message from the UEC Chair. UEC welcomes new members and the virtual era Hello and welcome to the UEC Chair’s blog. I am happy to serve as the third elected chair of the UEC. I want to thank the outgoing chair, Sébastien Biraud…
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Updated: Southern Great Plains Radiation Data Quality VAP Data Reprocessed
Updated February 5, 2021: Reprocessed QCRAD shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance data are now available for the Southern Great Plains sites E33 (Newkirk, Oklahoma) from August 18, 2011, to July 29, 2016, and E38 (Omega, Oklahoma) from August 23, 2011, to July 19, 2016. Best-estimate c2/s2 data and infrared-corrected c2 data are reprocessed for both…
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Submit Nominations for American Association for Aerosol Research Awards
Nominate your colleagues now for the 2021 American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) awards. Nominations for most awards are being accepted until Monday, April 5. The list of awards—all presented annually—is as follows: AS&T Outstanding Publication Award, given to one paper published in the journal Aerosol Science and Technology (AS&T) without regard to publication date…
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Tiny Particles That Seed Clouds Can Form From Trace Gases Over Open Sea
Understanding previously undocumented source of new particle formation will improve models of aerosols, clouds, and their impact on Earth’s climate New results from an atmospheric study over the Eastern North Atlantic reveal that tiny aerosol particles that seed the formation of clouds can form out of next to nothingness over the open ocean. This “new…
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Value-Added Product Delivers 3D Cloud Positions Based on Stereo Photographs
A new value-added product (VAP) provides three-dimensional (3D) positions of clouds captured by stereo cameras. The Point Cloud of Cloud Points (PCCP) VAP enables 3D representations related to macrophysical cloud features such as the cloud-base and cloud-top heights, structure of cloud boundaries, and cloud-level horizontal velocities. Currently, PCCP is available for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement…
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New Cloud Radar Products Available for CACTI Campaign
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility released new cloud radar value-added products (VAPs) from the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign. With these VAPs, scientists can more easily use corrected observations from ARM scanning and vertically pointing cloud radars, and they can access hydrometeor masks and cloud boundaries from the entire…
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2020 ARM Annual Report Now Available
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s latest annual report is now available for you to view online. In addition to story briefs summarizing fiscal year 2020 (FY2020), the report contains striking images from contributors within and outside ARM. The report includes an overview of ARM, featured field campaigns conducted during FY2020, user research results,…
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2020 AGU Fall Meeting: All Virtual, Still Heavy on ARM Data
Premier earth and space science meeting includes an abundance of ARM presentations For two and a half weeks, the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting had people glued to their computer screens. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the meeting—typically a weeklong event in person—moved online and stretched from December 1 to 17 to accommodate…
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The Emerging Magic of Machine Learning
Atmospheric research turns to the power of computer programs that learn from data Click to watch the opening keynote talk from Rick Stevens of Argonne National Laboratory during the October 2020 ASR/ARM Topical Workshop on Machine Learning and Statistical Methods for Observations, Modeling, and Observational Constraints on Modeling. Stevens outlined AI for Science, a U.S.…