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New Radiation Data Quality VAP Release for Eastern North Atlantic
A new level 2 (c2/s2) release of the Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) value-added product (VAP) is now available for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory. This release contains data from September 22, 2017, through October 17, 2019. The time frame includes the winter 2018 (January…
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ARM Best Estimate Data Sets Released for Eastern North Atlantic
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility provides tailored datastreams known as ARM Best Estimate (ARMBE) data products for use in the evaluation of global earth system models (Xie et al. 2010). Two ARMBE data sets are now available for the years 2014 through 2018 at ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatory. The ARM Best…
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ARM Announces 2020 Service Award Recipients
In 2019, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility handed out its first set of awards to recognize individuals and teams for their exceptional service and key contributions to ARM. The ARM Service Awards returned in 2020, though the award presentation had a different look. ARM Technical Director Jim Mather announced the recipients virtually during…
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BAMS Publishes Summary of DOE-Sponsored Aerosol Summer School
In July 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program co-sponsored a weeklong summer school on aerosols and their effects on earth systems. A meeting summary of the 2019 Aerosol Summer School is available as an early online release published by the…
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A Coming Report: Aerosols, Front and Center
An advisory group has recommendations for improving atmospheric aerosol sampling, measuring, and data archiving within ARM Allison McComiskey, an aerosol scientist from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, discusses the importance of studying aerosols. For the past seven months, a small science advisory group has compiled recommendations on how to improve the instruments, measurement strategies,…
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2020 ARM/ASR Virtual Joint Meeting Updates
Editor’s note (June 9, 2020): Registration is now open for the 2020 Joint ARM User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting, which will be held June 23 to 26 on Zoom. Note: Attendees must register separately for plenaries and for each breakout session. To register, go to the meeting registration links page. Dear ARM/ASR Community, As…
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Polarstern Returns to the MOSAiC Floe
New team continues fieldwork in the Arctic From the Alfred Wegener Institute: After a month’s absence, on 17 June the German research icebreaker Polarstern rendezvoused with the MOSAiC floe at 82.2 ° North and 8.4 ° East, after having left it on 19 May 2020 to exchange personnel and bunker supplies near Svalbard. Full of energy, the…
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New ARM Data Discovery Browser Officially Launches
User and stakeholder feedback instrumental in developing and refining new Data Discovery Watch the video above to learn what ARM’s new Data Discovery can do for you. Finding data you need from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility just got much easier. In late May 2020, the ARM Data Center officially switched to the…
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ARM Data Quality Office Celebrates Two Decades of Service
‘It’s all about the data’ For those close to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, an unofficial slogan might be, “It’s all about the data.” But the users who integrate ARM data in their research may say, “It’s all about the quality of the data.” Now celebrating its 20th anniversary, the ARM Data Quality…
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ARM’s Prakash to Represent United States on Global Data Committee
Giri Prakash, who manages data services for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, accepted an invitation to serve a four-year term on the U.S. National Committee for the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (USNC/CODATA). Prakash, who works at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, received the invitation from the National Academies of…