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2020 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Sessions for the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall 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. The following sessions…
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2020 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting a Virtual Success
The annual meeting of Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility staff and data users and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) scientists usually draws a sizable crowd to the Washington, D.C., area. In 2020, because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Joint ARM User Facility/ASR Principal Investigators (PI) Meeting followed many other conferences in switching to a virtual…
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ACE-ENA Spotlight: Illuminating Seasonal Aerosol Differences
Editor’s note: This is the first 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. ACE-ENA Principal Investigator Jian Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, provides a campaign overview and writes about aerosol findings from the air- and…
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ARM Names Two New Aerosol Mentors
A senior research duo at Colorado State University will collect and analyze ice-nucleating particles In early January 2020, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility put out a call for an expert. ARM was looking for a lead mentor―a designated expert―to manage an expanded effort to collect and analyze samples of ice-nucleating particles (INPs). INPs…
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Jessie Creamean: Sampling Central Arctic Aerosols
An atmospheric chemist investigates the role of biological particles in aerosol-cloud interactions during the MOSAiC expedition By now, in the summer of 2020, most people reading the news are familiar with the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), an international expedition that is the best-equipped all-season investigation of the central Arctic…
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AAF’s Challenger 850 Aircraft Moves to Modification Stage
One short year after the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility (AAF) finalized the purchase of its new Bombardier Challenger 850 regional jet, the aircraft lifted off a Texas tarmac and landed in Ontario, Canada. There, it will spend the next 18 months transforming from a business jet into ARM’s new laboratory in the sky.…
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Submit Your ENA Papers Now for Joint Special Journal Issue
Scientists have a new outlet for publishing papers that use data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatory. The journals Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics and Atmospheric Measurement Techniques are accepting submissions for a joint special issue on marine aerosols, trace gases, and clouds over the North Atlantic. Jian…
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TRACER Forecast Exercise Comes With a Surprise Twist
Editor’s note: Scott Collis, an atmospheric scientist and ARM radar data translator from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), sent in this blog post. Collis is a co-investigator on the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). In just under a year’s time, the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM user facility will deploy one of its mobile…
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New ARM Communications Lead and Public Information Officer Named
Rolanda Jundt moves into the top communications role In June 2020, Rolanda Jundt took a new role in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility as its communications lead and public information officer (PIO). Jundt leads the ARM communications team based at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state. She had been filling the…
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Large-Scale Forcing Data Released for ACE-ENA Campaign
Continuous large-scale forcing data using a constrained variational analysis approach, known as VARANAL, are now available for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatory in the Azores. The time period of available data—June 2017 through February 2018—covers the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field…