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US CLIVAR Program Calls for Panel Members
The US Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Scientific Steering Committee seeks qualified individuals to serve on its three subsidiary panels: Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis Panel Process Study and Model Improvement Panel Predictability, Prediction, and Applications Interface Panel. Panel members formulate science goals and implementation strategies, catalyze and coordinate activities, and work with agencies and international partners…
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AGU Scoop: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Working With ARM
The opening day of the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting featured a virtual town hall on collaborating with ARM and other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientific user facilities. Paquita Zuidema shared her wisdom gleaned while leading ARM’s Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) field campaign. ARM deployed one of its three…
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AMF3 Site Science Team Blog: Community Outreach Efforts in Full Swing
Editor’s note: Chongai Kuang leads the site science team that will develop a science plan and initial research project for the upcoming Southeastern U.S. deployment of the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3). Kuang, from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, provided the following post. The AMF3 site science team has been very busy over the past…
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Submit Preproposals for ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge
The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) call for the 2021–2022 allocation year is now open. The mission of the ALCC is to provide an allocation program for projects of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with an emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff simulations in areas directly related to the DOE…
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Epic Arctic Mission Ends
International climate research project marked by scientific surprises, logistical challenges This release was originally published October 12, 2020, on the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website. For nearly 12 months, as the German icebreaker Polarstern drifted with Arctic sea ice, scientists onboard collected petabytes of data describing the ocean, the ice, and…
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Draw Eyes to Your AGU Presentations!
For those of you presenting at the virtual 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, one of the best ways to draw attendees to your sessions is to be highlighted on the ARM and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) websites. You still have time to tell ARM and ASR about your presentations! If you or one…
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Scientists Uncover Source of Tiny Amazonian Particles
GoAmazon field campaign straddled natural, urban environments in Brazil A study recently published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) untangled the long-standing mystery of aerosol particle formation at high altitudes in the tropics. The study used data from the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/15) field campaign, managed by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement…
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More New Capabilities Coming to ARM’s Data Discovery
Editor’s note: Giri Prakash, who manages ARM’s data services, shares updates on the new version of ARM’s Data Discovery. If you have yet to use ARM’s new Data Discovery, click on the video above. It shows the easy step-by-step process of searching for and ordering ARM data to support your research. Thank you for using…
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Workshop Explores Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Editor’s note: Joseph Hardin, a computational scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state, provided the following summary of the 2020 ASR/ARM Topical Workshop on Machine Learning and Statistical Methods for Observations, Modeling, and Observational Constraints on Modeling. This virtual workshop took place October 19 and 20. A group of scientists from DOE national…
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BAMS Paper Makes Case for Spectral Measurements
ARM has more than 2 decades of spectral data sets available for use A new Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) early online release describes the capabilities of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s shortwave spectral radiometry and highlights recent uses of spectral measurements. Ground-based shortwave sensors measure the ultraviolet, visible, and near-infrared spectral…