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ARM-ASR-E3SM Collaborations Bear Fruit With E3SM’s Single-Column Model
Scattered across the prairies of north-central Oklahoma and southern Kansas, a collection of 50-plus scientific instruments points to the heavens. This is the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, and those instruments are collecting data on radiation, clouds, aerosols (tiny particles in the air), and other atmospheric processes. Here, and…
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New Radiation Data Quality (QCRAD) VAP Release Now Available
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 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility observatories and time periods: Southern Great Plains Central Facility (SGP C1) near Lamont, Oklahoma, from June 29, 2017, to May 18, 2018…
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2019 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Sessions for the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting are being announced. If you will be leading a session relevant to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility or Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program, please let us know. We are collecting this information to be shared on the ARM and ASR websites as they are provided. The following sessions are being convened…
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Save the Date for the 2019 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting!
The next Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting will take place June 10 to 13, 2019, at the Bethesda North Marriott Hotel and Conference Center in Rockville, Maryland. This meeting will bring together ARM users and infrastructure members and ASR researchers to review progress and plan future directions…
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ASR Federal Program Manager Position Now Available
DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research is hiring a second federal manager for the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program. A successful candidate in this position will serve as the physical scientist responsible for air chemistry, aerosol physics, cloud physics, atmospheric transport, atmospheric observing systems, and analysis research within the Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences…
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Counting Down to the Launch of Mega-Campaign MOSAiC
Editor’s note: Anjeli Doty of the Los Alamos National Laboratory ARM team sent in this update. With only a few months before the launch of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC), the largest research expedition ever undertaken in the central Arctic, teams from around the world collaborate to finish the…
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UEC Profile: Modeling Radiative Effects
A young scientist combines observations and calculations to study how Earth budgets its solar and terrestrial energy This is the fifth article in a series of 2019 profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). As an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Daniel R. Feldman—now a rising star in atmospheric…
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The Spatial Structure of Cumulus Clouds
A study leverages a new class of convection schemes, ARM data, and supercomputing to look at marine and continental clouds Research into the spatial structure of clouds—their shapes and distribution—goes back decades, and with good reason. Clouds remain one of the biggest uncertainties in predicting the Earth’s future climate, as well as modeling short-term simulations…
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WACR-ARSCL Evaluation Data Available for MARCUS Field Campaign
A value-added product (VAP) that combines observations from the marine version of the 95 GHz W-Band ARM Cloud Radar (WACR) and other ARM mobile instruments now provides datastreams from the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) field campaign. Evaluation data for the WACR-Active Remote Sensing of Clouds (WACR-ARSCL) VAP are…
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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. Another year, another budget fight looms on the horizon, but the show must go on… I am taking a few minutes here to write this message to inform you about important upcoming events and a new, exciting development.…