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Up on Updrafts and ARM Data
Neil Lareau, a creator in many ways, investigates how pulses of surface air help make clouds Neil Lareau―who at different times has been an oil painter, an art gallery attendant, and a mountaintop weather observer―studies how clouds are made. Now an assistant professor at the University of Nevada, Reno, he is especially interested in the…
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ARM Technicians Get Face Time on AWI MOSAiC Blog
Since the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition began in September 2019, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has had technicians on the icebreaker R/V Polarstern to oversee its 50-plus instruments. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), which leads MOSAiC, is producing daily blog updates on the expedition. On May 3,…
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ARM Special Announcement: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Facility Updates
ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory went into reduced operation mode on April 2 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. A month later, with the easing of restrictions in Oklahoma, site operations staff have started a phased opening of the SGP. Daily servicing of instruments began May 4 at 8:30 a.m. Central time. Additionally, several…
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Updated MOSAiC Blog: Despite Challenges, Expedition Still Pulling In Valuable Data
Editor’s note: Heath Powers, site manager for the second ARM Mobile Facility, sent in this update about the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Update (May 1, 2020): ARM staff for the next leg of MOSAiC have reached Bremerhaven, Germany, to begin preparations. Read this news release from the Alfred…
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Help Inform TRACER Operations Through Forecasting Exercise
Editor’s note: Scott Collis, an atmospheric scientist and ARM radar data translator from Argonne National Laboratory, sent in this blog post about the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). This week the TRACER Science and Operations workshop was held as a virtual meeting. Many subjects were covered, including the need to forecast weather elements of…
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2020 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting Will Move Online
Editor’s note (May 11, 2020): Read the latest joint meeting update on the ARM website. A draft agenda is available now on the meeting website. Dear ARM/ASR Community, We look forward to the Joint ARM User Facility/ASR Principal Investigators Meeting each year. It is a chance for us to hear about your latest science results, for you…
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Boss of the Boundary Layer
David Mechem’s early interests in computers and weather brought on a cloud-modeling career This is the latest article in a series of profiles on scientists who use ARM data. The American Midwest is where David Mechem―atmospheric scientist, modeler, and University of Kansas professor―makes his home. His research interests, however, often bend oceanward to the vast…
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ARM Adds to Its Data Toolbox for the Scientific Community
Users working with atmospheric time-series data can get help from a new open-source toolkit The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility maintains a data archive that spans almost three decades, 400-plus instrument systems, and diverse climate regimes around the world. [perfectpullquote align=”right” bordertop=”false” cite=”Adam Theisen, ARM instrument operations manager” link=”” color=”” class=”” size=””]“We wanted to…
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New Paper Gathers Early Results From ARM West Antarctic Campaign
A new article in the early online releases for the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) highlights early outcomes from the historic ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE). The lead author of the article is Dan Lubin, AWARE’s principal investigator from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. A joint field campaign between the U.S. Department of…
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ARM Returns to Brazil for Second Data Science Workshop
ARM Data Center staff transfer knowledge of big data In October 2017, Giri Prakash, data services manager for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, and Bhargavi Krishna, an ARM software engineer, went to Brazil to help conduct a two-day workshop about big-data analytics. During the workshop for researchers and data professionals, they focused on…