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ARM Data Center Moves Forward on Priorities in Fiscal Year 2019
Efforts include push toward new Data Discovery, enhanced high-performance computing access The ARM Data Center remained busy in fiscal year 2019 (FY2019), archiving and delivering about 20 terabytes of data per month while working on several projects to improve the ARM data user experience. Along with some key achievements tied to its high-performance computing resources…
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Representing ARM Data Services Around the World
ARM’s Giri Prakash contributes to key global conferences and collaborations During fiscal year 2019, Giri Prakash, ARM data services manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, represented ARM at several international data and computing architecture working group meetings and conferences. In November 2018, Prakash went to SciDataCon as part of International Data Week in…
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Scanning ARM Cloud Radar-Velocity Azimuth Display Product Released to Production
The Scanning ARM Cloud Radar-Advanced-Velocity Azimuth Display (SACR-ADV-VAD) value-added product, which provides profiles of horizontal wind estimates at cloud level, has moved to production. SACR-ADV-VAD uses radial mean Doppler velocity observations from the Hemispherical Sky Range Height Indicator (HS-RHI) scan strategy of the Ka-Band Scanning ARM Cloud Radar (KASACR). The VAD technique provides retrieved wind…
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New Radiation Data Quality VAP Release Available for Southern Great Plains Extended Facilities
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 eight extended facilities at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. This release covers the following extended facilities and date ranges: E31 (Anthony, Kansas) from June 28,…
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HI-SCALE Research Finds That Soil Moisture Spurs Cloud Formation
Soil moisture plays a crucial role in cumulus cloud formation, according to new research from the Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and Land-Ecosystems (HI-SCALE) field campaign. HI-SCALE took place in the spring and summer of 2016 around the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, which stretches across north-central Oklahoma…
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MOSAiC Blog: Goodbye and Good Luck, Polarstern
Editor’s note: Janek Uin, an ARM instrument mentor from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, has been traveling for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. Uin sent this blog post and picture from the field with contributions from Lauriane Quéléver of the University of Helsinki. It’s our last…
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REVISED: GoAmazon Large-Scale Forcing Data Now Available for Years 2014 and 2015
Editor’s note (October 16, 2019): Updated large-scale forcing data are now available for the first and second intensive operational periods (IOPs) of the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/15) field campaign. Date ranges of the data are February 15 to March 26, 2014, for the first IOP and September 1 to October 10, 2014, for the second…
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REVISED: New Shallow Cumulus VAP Available
Editor’s note (October 15, 2019): Additional data for the Shallow Cumulus value-added product (VAP) have been released. Data are now available for the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory from July 2, 2000, through May 31, 2019. The Shallow Cumulus VAP will be run operationally on additional data from the Active Remote Sensing of Clouds using…
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MOSAiC Blog: The Drift Has Begun!
Editor’s note: Matt Boyer and Janek Uin, ARM instrument mentors from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, are traveling for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. Boyer sent this blog post from the field. This was an incredible day for several reasons. After a few days of cargo…
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MOSAiC Blog: We Found Our Floe!
Editor’s note: Janek Uin, an ARM instrument mentor from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is traveling for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. He sent this update from the field. We finally found the piece of ice that will be the home for Polarstern for the next…