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Author: Katie Dorsey

  • New Value-Added Products Released for Scanning ARM Precipitation Radars

    Two new value-added products (VAPs) for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s scanning precipitation radars are now available for evaluation. Both VAPs are designed to be easier to use and take up less data volume than raw radar data. The Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar Quasi-Vertical Profiles (SAPRQVP) VAP averages quality-controlled radar measurements along the…

  • Meet the Engineers Whose Programming Helps Enhance Climate Research

    Meng Wang, Tami Fairless, and Karen Lee Johnson use teamwork to bring atmospheric data into focus while also improving their work environment This is a feature story published by Brookhaven National Laboratory and shared with permission. Day in and day out, instruments at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility are collecting…

  • Flooding the Sky: Navigating the Science of Atmospheric Rivers

    This is a feature story published by the DOE Office of Science and shared with permission. Ice crashed down on the windshield of the small plane. Rain pounded the wings. Water sloshed inside important instruments. For most pilots, this would be a nightmare. But still, the plane climbed up through the clouds. It ascended more…

  • MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 3

    Editor’s note: ARM has three technicians—Paul Ortega and John Bilberry, both from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Dean Greenamyer, Hamelmann Communications—on Leg 3 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. In early March 2020, the group came aboard the icebreaker R/V Polarstern. Ortega sent back photos from ARM staff…

  • DOE Funding Opportunities Available in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) program recently released a series of Funding Opportunity Announcements/Laboratory Announcements. The following announcements relate to opportunities in machine learning and artificial intelligence that may be of interest to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) community: Artificial Intelligence…

  • Director of Flight Operations Sought for ARM Aerial Facility

    Lead research flight operations in support of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as director of flight operations for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility. At Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state, the facility operates both manned and unmanned aircraft configured as science platforms for sampling the Earth’s atmosphere around the globe. Directing…

  • ARM Special Announcement: Updated COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Guidance

    Impacts associated with COVID-19 are evolving rapidly, and that is true for ARM as well. With increased local government restrictions and guidelines for social distancing, ARM is making changes to site operations. At most observatories, operations are continuing but with reduced staffing on site. However, with growing impacts of COVID-19 in Oklahoma, we have made…

  • COVID-19 Message From Our DOE Sponsor

    Dear everyone, We are in unprecedented times with this pandemic, and we anticipate that the interruptions that we are facing may continue for some time. Our National Labs have shut down most operations; field campaigns have been postponed; and universities are unable to provide the same level of institutional support that you are accustomed to…

  • Updated: ARM Call for Preliminary Proposals Now Open

    The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is now accepting preliminary proposals from scientists worldwide to use components of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility for field campaigns. The preproposal deadline has been extended to April 10, 2020, for: Use of the first ARM Mobile Facility – AMF1 will be available for deployment beginning in October…

  • Polish Your ARM Preproposals: Principal Investigators Share Their Wisdom

    Discover three tips for submitting a successful ARM proposal from Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Michael Jensen, principal investigator for the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). Every year, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility seeks field campaign proposals from scientists around the world. If you want to propose for ARM’s latest call, time is…