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Play Us a Sad Song: Longtime ARM Manager Paul Ortega Retires
Colleagues share their parting words Editor’s note: Kirsten Shaw Fox, communications and external affairs at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, sent in this post. Many in the ARM family know Paul Ortega. An integral part of ARM since he managed the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) sites in Papua New Guinea, Nauru, and Australia,…
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2021 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
Sessions for the 2021 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting are being announced. If you will be leading a session relevant to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility or Atmospheric System Research (ASR), please let us know. We are collecting this information to be shared on the ARM and ASR websites as it is provided. Abstracts can be submitted until the…
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MOSAiC Expedition Reaches the North Pole
During the final leg of the expedition, the research vessel Polarstern reaches the northernmost point on the Earth At 12:45 p.m. on August 19, 2020, the German research icebreaker Polarstern reached the North Pole. The ship followed a route to the north of Greenland—and through a region that, in the past, was densely covered with…
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Newly Funded ASR Projects Come with a Big TRACER Focus
In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding of $19 million for 31 projects through DOE’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR). These university-based projects are designed to expand the fundamental understanding of earth systems and improve earth system models. They include a range of atmospheric science topics, including interactions between clouds and aerosols,…
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A Gathering of Eagles: Experts Impart Wisdom at ARM Aerial Instrumentation Workshop
Report summarizes measurement and instrument recommendations from top scientists Imagine getting many of the nation’s top atmospheric scientists in a room to spitball ideas about the ideal suite of instruments to be installed in an airplane dedicated to measuring atmospheric phenomena such as aerosols and cloud microphysics. The sky would literally be the limit, right?…
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Election Coming Up for ARM User Executive Committee
Make your voice heard: Submit nominations for candidates now Nominations are now open for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s User Executive Committee (UEC). The UEC serves as the official voice of the user community in its interactions with ARM management. Members are charged with providing objective, timely advice and recommendations to ARM leadership and serving…
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ARM Technician Goes on Work Trip of a Lifetime
Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) and the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Here he shares his experience working on both campaigns. Photos are by Silva except where indicated. The MOSAiC and COMBLE campaigns…
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ACE-ENA Spotlight: Measuring How Clouds Respond to Seasonal Aerosol Changes
Editor’s note: This is the second entry in a blog series about ARM’s Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign, which took place during 2017 and 2018. Rob Wood, an ACE-ENA co-investigator from the University of Washington, shares a new set of findings from the air- and ground-based campaign. Every spring,…
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For Careful, Comprehensive COMBLE, It’s a Wrap
After six months of collecting data on cold-air outbreaks in northern Norway, elated scientists are ready to wrestle with the data COMBLE is over, but its rich data will now begin to take life. That ear-pleasing acronym stands for Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment, a field campaign supported by experts and instruments…
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ARM Plans Tethered Balloon Flights for TRACER Campaign in 2021
Submit your guest instrument proposals now The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility seeks proposals for guest instruments to fly on its tethered balloon systems (TBS) during the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The flights will take place during the TRACER intensive operational period (IOP) scheduled from June to September 2021 in the Houston,…