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MOSAiC Blog: Breaking Bad (Ice)
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is traveling on the first leg of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign, which started September 20, 2019. Creamean is blogging for ARM about her MOSAiC journey. All photos and captions are by Creamean except where indicated. …
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UEC Profile: Aerosol Hunter
A veteran scientist investigates how to better explain, detect, and measure the carbonaceous aerosols that influence atmospheric processes This is the seventh article in a series of 2019 profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). A chemist by training, Arthur J. “Art” Sedlacek III is an atmospheric scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)…
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ARM Helps High-Flying Science Happen in 2019
Tethered balloon systems take to the skies above Alaska and the Southern Great Plains It’s not unusual to see tethered balloons rising into the clouds above Oliktok Point, Alaska. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility flies instrumented tethered balloon systems (TBS) in restricted airspace controlled by the U.S. Department of Energy. In 2019, Oliktok…
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Newest ARM Constituent Group Hits the Clouds Flying
The Cloud and Precipitation Measurements and Science Group aims to address science needs of ARM data users The newest of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s constituent groups is the Cloud and Precipitation Measurements and Science Group (CPMSG). Formed in April 2019, this group aims to serve in a roughly parallel role to the…
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Graduate Student Funding Opportunity
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is accepting new applicants for supplemental funds to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist. These research opportunities are expected to advance graduate students’ doctoral theses/dissertations while providing access…
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RACORO’s Durable Data
Measurements from a 2009 ARM field campaign continue to enlarge what we know about boundary layer cloud microphysics Ten years after it began, an investigation of continental boundary layer clouds overseen by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is still inspiring influential papers and improving weather and earth system models. The Routine ARM Aerial…
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New Radiation Data Quality (QCRAD) VAP Release Available for AWARE Field Campaign
The Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) value-added product (VAP) is now available for the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE) field campaign. QCRAD has long been ARM’s recommended datastream for broadband surface irradiance measurements. The QCRAD methodology uses climatological analyses of the surface radiation measurements to define reasonable limits for testing the…
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Extended ARM Best Estimate Data Sets Available for North Slope of Alaska
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. Two ARMBE data sets have been extended for ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory: ARM Best Estimate Atmospheric Measurements (ARMBEATM) for the years 2013 to 2018. ARM…
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Continuous Large-Scale Forcing Data for Cloud Modeling From Southern Great Plains Extended to October 2018
Three years of additional data (2016, 2017, and 2018) have been added to version 2 of the continuous large-scale forcing value-added product (VAP), known as VARANAL, from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. This extends the data product to October 2018 and includes both the large-scale forcing terms and the…
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Winter Hats, Yoga Mats, and a Parka: The Arctic Gear Junkie Sets Sail for the North Pole
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is participating in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. Creamean wrote this blog post before starting her journey toward the central Arctic on September 20, 2019. Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is participating…