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AGU Honors ARM/ASR Community Members in 2020
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) community is known globally for its impactful contributions to earth system research. During its virtual 2020 fall meeting, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) held an Honors Showcase on December 9 to recognize its newest award recipients. Five members of the ARM/ASR community shared…
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Changes on the ARM Personnel Radar
Iosif “Andrei” Lindenmaier now leads the ARM radar systems engineering group, and Timothy Wendler and Vagner Castro join the team In the spring and summer of 2020, two changes appeared on the organizational radar of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. ARM’s radar systems engineering group, which oversees hardware and operations,…
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Development Achievements Keep ARM Moving Forward
Users reap benefits of activities associated with instruments, facilities, and data The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility prioritizes development activities with an eye on present and future user needs. Decisions to acquire or decommission instruments, upgrade facilities, and proceed with new science products all happen with the user in mind. The Engineering and Process Management…
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New Home Ready for ARM Aerial Facility’s New Aircraft
Aerial facility moves into 18,000-square-foot hangar in Pasco, Washington Next year, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility (AAF) will welcome its new research aircraft to its home base in Pasco, Washington. The jet is currently being modified from a passenger jet to a research aircraft. Preparations for the Bombardier Challenger 850’s planned arrival reached a…
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2020 Highly Cited Researchers List Recognizes ARM Users
In a nod to their global research influence, seven recent users of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility appear on a new list of highly cited researchers. Clarivate Plc released its latest annual list of highly cited researchers in November 2020. The list recognizes almost 6,200 international researchers, identified based on the number of…
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Reprocessed Cloud Radar Spectra Data Released for CACTI Campaign
Doppler radar spectra, observed by the Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar (KAZR) during the 2018–2019 Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in Argentina, have been reprocessed. The data, originally ingested using the wrong version of the ingest software, have now been converted to the correct data format. The reprocessed data cover the period…
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AMS Scoop: LASSO Going Deep
The LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation activity steps up to create data bundles for cases with deep convection A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project to bundle data on rain-free shallow convective clouds is moving its focus to another meteorological regime: deep convection, such as large thunderstorms. Within a year, organizers of a large-eddy…
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2021 AMS Presentations Featuring ARM Data
Editor’s note: Attendees of the virtual 2021 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting can log in to the meeting platform to view posters, presentations, and recordings until April 15. With the 2021 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting going virtual, we want to make it easy for you to find ARM-relevant science during the meeting. Below…
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ARM/EMSL User Facility Proposal Call Now Open
Call to collect aerosols on tethered balloon flights and analyze samples The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) are seeking collaborative research applications through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program. The FICUS program was established in 2014 to encourage and enable ambitious research projects integrating the…
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Spread the Word About Your AMS Presentations!
There is still time to tell the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) about your presentations at the upcoming American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting. One of the best ways to draw attendees to your AMS sessions is to be highlighted on the ARM and ASR websites. If you or one…