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20 Research Projects Selected for 2024 ASR Funding Awards
DOE awards $15.4 million to improve understanding of atmospheric processes The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced the selection of 20 innovative research projects that will receive funding through its Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program. Eighty-eight proposals were submitted for funding under DOE Funding Opportunity Announcement DE-FOA-0003194. The ASR funding opportunity, announced in October 2023,…
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ARM-Relevant Funding Opportunity Announcement
DOE announces $12 million to fund earth and environmental systems science in the Southeast United States The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to provide $12 million in new research grants for Atmospheric System Research (ASR), Earth and Environmental Systems Modeling (EESM), and Environmental System Science (ESS) program science in the Southeast United…
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Characterized and Calibrated Radar Data Now Available for TRACER Campaign
Scientists interested in researching convection can now use characterized and corrected radar data from the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) in the Houston, Texas, area. These data are considered b1-level, meaning they underwent calibration, correction, and quality control processes beyond the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s standard quality checks and corrections. ARM…
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ARM’s New European Partner
ARM teams up with a 22-nation consortium of observatories and data centers to broaden measurements of Earth’s atmosphere In July 2024, an arrestingly ambitious article appeared in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) that may signal a future era of more widely shared atmospheric data. The 68-author publication outlines the mission, governance, services,…
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Students Cook Up Recipes for Combining ARM Observations and Models
The goal for this year’s ARM Open Science Summer School at Cleveland State University was all focused around training attendees on how to combine the open-source tools supported by ARM and data collected from ARM field campaigns for their own projects. In the spirit of open science, most of the lectures had at least some…
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Future of LASSO Workshop Report Available for Download
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator (PI) for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, provided the following blog post. The DOE ARM Future of LASSO Workshop Report is now available for download. Fifteen experts met in person on November 2 and 3, 2023, in concert with 36 virtual attendees, for…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: July 2024
Enhancing Communication Between ARM and Modelers: A Year in Review Editor’s note: Members of ARM’s User Executive Committee (UEC) participate in subgroups that aim to help broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair during the 2023–2024 UEC term will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM,…
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TRACER-Model Intercomparison Project Team Makes Headway
Editor’s note: Jiwen Fan and Stephen Saleeby, who lead the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment-Model Intercomparison Project (TRACER-MIP), provided the following blog post. MIPs are community research projects in which multiple modeling groups compare the results of their models under standardized conditions. These projects are designed to assess the performance, reliability, and variability of different…
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Unlocking Opportunities: The Power of Community Collaboration
Editor’s note: Pete Carroll, the uncrewed aerial system (UAS) operations lead for the ARM Aerial Facility (AAF), contributed the following blog post. Engaging with the local community can yield unexpected opportunities that benefit the community and your organization. A recent experience at the Pendleton UAS Range in Pendleton, Oregon, illustrates this beautifully. UAS can be…
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ARM Adds Instrument Mentors
New data analyst also joins ARM The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility continues to welcome new staff to its team of more than 80 instrument mentors. This multi-institutional group of scientists and engineers helps oversee the operations of 430-plus instrument systems to ensure that ARM users are receiving the highest-quality data sets possible. Sarah…