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MOSAiC PI Blog, Part 3: Science in Polar Night
Editor’s note: In the central Arctic, the sun will soon rise above the horizon, ending the monthslong “polar night” over the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Matthew Shupe, MOSAiC co-coordinator from the University of Colorado, Boulder, shares some of his MOSAiC photos taken during polar night. Coming up next:…
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Fresh Food and Faces in the Distant Arctic Ocean
After weeks of churning slowly through sea ice in the remote Arctic Ocean, a Russian icebreaker carrying scientists, crew, and new equipment for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition reached the German R/V Polarstern, an icebreaker frozen into drifting sea ice about 100 miles from the geographic North Pole. Over a…
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DOE Program Creates Opportunities for Graduate Students
Applications now being accepted for 2020 Solicitation 1 Since its inception in 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program has helped prepare graduate students for science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) careers. The SCGSR program provides supplemental awards to outstanding U.S. graduate students to pursue part of their graduate…
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MOSAiC PI Blog, Part 2: Teamwork Makes the MOSAiC Dream Work
Editor’s note: Matthew Shupe, co-coordinator for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, sent back an update after the first leg. In this post, Shupe, a principal investigator funded by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program, discusses the ARM team’s role in MOSAiC. This is a…
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VAP for 3-Channel Microwave Radiometer Retrievals Released to Production
The Microwave Radiometer Retrievals version 2 (MWRRETv2) value-added product (VAP) is now in production for 3-channel microwave radiometers (MWR3Cs) at the following Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility sites: Oliktok Point, Alaska, from November 11, 2014, through September 30, 2019 Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility from October 1, 2011, through October 31, 2019 SGP…
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ARM Users, ASR Scientists Step Into Spotlight at Annual Meetings
The annual meetings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) are more than opportunities for researchers to share their science with their peers. Twelve researchers with recent ties to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program received honors at the latest AGU and AMS annual…
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Brookhaven Lab to Lead AMF3 Move to Southeastern United States
Site science team seeks community feedback on potential locations The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will soon begin the process of moving the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) from Alaska to the Southeastern United States. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research program selected the site science team that will help…
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New Radiation Data Quality VAP Release Available for Southern Great Plains
A new level 2 (c2/s2) release for the Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) value-added product (VAP) is now available. This release covers the following 13 extended facilities at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory: E9 (Ashton, Kansas) from June 3, 2016, to August 25, 2019 E11…
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Sprinting for Discovery: A Multi-Lab Intensive Activity to Improve the Accessibility of ARM Data
Editor’s note: Scott Collis, an atmospheric scientist and ARM radar data translator from Argonne National Laboratory, sent in this blog post. ARM collects a lot of data. It has been collecting these data for almost three decades. But, from a user perspective, not all of these data are equally useful. For example, a search for…
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Small Is Beautiful, Part 2: Testing, Testing
The Southern Great Plains is a prime location to evaluate new ground instruments and networks This is the second article in a series about small campaigns held in 2019 at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. Small campaigns employing tethered balloon systems took to the skies in 2019 at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric…