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Final Steps: MOSAiC Journey About to Begin
In mere hours, the German icebreaker R/V Polarstern will head out of Tromsø, Norway, to begin the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. MOSAiC, which will involve 600 scientists, technicians, and logicians from 19 countries, is being billed as the largest research expedition in the central Arctic. The region is experiencing…
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North Slope of Alaska Staff Members to Swap Roles
Joe Hardesty will become site manager while Mark Ivey slides over to science liaison Some personnel changes are coming at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory. At the end of fiscal year 2019, Joe Hardesty and Mark Ivey, colleagues at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, will…
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Establishing a New Site Science Team for the Third ARM Mobile Facility
With the recent announcement to move the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) from Oliktok Point, Alaska, to the Southeastern United States, ARM and the Atmospheric System Research program are joining together to fund a new site science team. To maximize the scientific return of the AMF3 deployment, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is a quarterly message from the UEC Chair. As the chair of the UEC, I feel privileged to be one of the voices of the ARM and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) community. As an instrument mentor, I feel lucky to be writing this newsletter on my…
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Getting Ready for Science on Ice
Hopeful and hardy, researchers prepare for a yearlong field campaign in the central Arctic On a recent midsummer afternoon in Boulder, Colorado, Matthew Shupe jogged between a laboratory on the third floor of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) building and a staging area in the basement. Shupe, a University of Colorado research scientist,…
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Instruments on the Move
ARM prepares to transfer its third mobile facility from Alaska to the Southeastern United States The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility provides researchers with strategically located observatories―three fixed and three mobile―to improve earth system models. ARM also has an aerial observation component and the infrastructure to collect, process, and…
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Using ARM Data, Scientist Helps Bridge Gap Between Observations and Global Modeling
Maike Ahlgrimm leaves the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts as a key contributor to its longtime relationship with ARM In a partnership of more than two decades, data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility helped to evaluate and improve global modeling at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Several scientists…
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ARM-EMSL User Facility Collaboration Drives Successful Aerosol Summer School
Future facility users and principal investigators learn about atmospheric particles and their effects on earth systems Susanne Glienke, a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Germany, is well acquainted with clouds. During the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign, she oversaw an instrument called the…
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LASSO Data Bundles Released for 2018 Shallow Convection Season
The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) data set has grown by 30 new case dates with the release of the 2018 spring-summer shallow convection season for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. Each of the 30 dates includes an ensemble of eight simulations, for a…
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Improved Quality Controlled Eddy Correlation Flux Measurement Data Extended for SGP
Another year of data have been processed for the Quality Controlled Eddy Correlation (QCECOR) value-added product (VAP). This VAP provides improved surface turbulence flux measurements to the ARM user community. Data now extend from 2003 to December 2018 for all systems at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. ARM deploys eddy correlation flux measurement (ECOR)…