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Vote Now for New ARM User Executive Committee Members
It is time for you to elect your new representatives on the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s User Executive Committee (UEC). The UEC is the official voice of the user community in its interactions with ARM management. Twenty-one users, representing a range of ARM science domains, are on the ballot this year for six…
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End of MOSAiC: Follow the Polarstern’s Homecoming Online
Not much farther to go now—the icebreaker R/V Polarstern is days away from reaching its home port in Bremerhaven, Germany. Upon the ship’s arrival, the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition will officially conclude. For all of MOSAiC’s scientists and crew, the Polarstern’s homecoming will cap a fruitful yearlong journey…
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Updated: Register for Machine Learning Breakout Session
This fall, a virtual gathering on machine learning and statistical methods will sketch out related projects within ARM and ASR Machine learning (ML) is an application of artificial intelligence (AI). Developers create and test a wide range of algorithms that help computers sift through data in search of inferences. Once set in motion, ML requires…
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New Cases and High-Frequency Observations Released for LASSO
The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) data set has grown yet again. Seventeen new cases are now available from the 2019 shallow convection season at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. The current LASSO data set focuses on shallow convection with LES output provided…
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LASSO Gives New Capability to Researchers
For those wanting to run their own simulations, LASSO input observational data are now available The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s high-resolution modeling activity is placing more power in the hands of its users. The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity allows users to compare models with observations at ARM’s…
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MOSAiC Blog: Starting Toward Home
September 20, 2020, marked a big day in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. One year after leaving Tromsø, Norway, to start the MOSAiC expedition, the icebreaker R/V Polarstern ended its drift with the arctic ice floe and started toward its home port of Bremerhaven, Germany. The Polarstern is expected…
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Mike Jensen: Cloud Scientist, Modeler, and Storm Maven
A veteran ARM principal investigator is poised to lead a year of collecting novel convection data To understand the atmosphere, scientists play in a mix of disciplines, including physics, chemistry, computation, and engineering. But how many play the euphonium? Just one, likely. That would be Mike Jensen, a cloud-systems researcher at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)…
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Submit TRACER Small Campaign Requests Now!
Preparations are well underway for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), including the intensive operational period scheduled for next summer in the Houston, Texas, area. ARM will still consider small field campaign requests for TRACER, but due to the large number of activities planned, priority for ARM logistical support for activities during the intensive…
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Crafting ARM’s Decadal Vision Is a Group Effort
Science community helps ARM leadership shape the user facility’s long view You can now access the latest version of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s long-term vision document. The ARM Decadal Vision has been prepared in time for the user facility’s Triennial Review, an external review scheduled for November 2020. Though the document will…
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Improving the Discoverability of ARM Aerial Facility Data
Diverse group teams to make data more accessible for ARM users In late April 2017, Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility Manager Beat Schmid traveled to Seattle to speak at the University of Washington’s Department of Atmospheric Sciences. There, he met a graduate student leading an aerosol mass spectrometry tour. Three and a half years…