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ARM Site Technician Embraces His Role in Supporting Research
Editor’s note: Anjeli Doty of the Los Alamos National Laboratory ARM team sent in this update. Like many native residents of Graciosa Island in the remote Azores archipelago west of Portugal, Bruno Cunha spends the evenings tending a small bovine herd that grazes on the grassy rolling hills. However, unlike many island residents, animal husbandry…
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ARM Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory Undergoes Restructuring
Recent changes will help achieve field campaign objectives The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility team from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico installs and manages ARM fixed observatories and mobile facilities deployed to remote and climate-critical locations worldwide. The ARM team at LANL recently reorganized its personnel structure to respond to team…
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Newly Revised Value-Added Products Available for Raman Lidar
A suite of newly revised value-added products (VAPs) is now available for Raman lidars operated by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. The suite consists of three VAPs: Water Vapor Mixing Ratio (MR), Temperature (TEMP), and Feature detection and EXtinction (FEX). The FEX VAP consists of time- and height-resolved estimates of cloud and aerosol…
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New Microwave Radiometer Retrievals VAP Data Available for Several ARM Campaigns and Sites
The Microwave Radiometer Retrievals (MWRRET) value-added product (VAP) has been processed for the following Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility field campaigns and measurement sites: the ARM North Slope of Alaska (NSA) central facility at Barrow, known officially as Utqiaġvik, for the years 2014 through 2017 the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility near…
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More Tethered Balloon Flights on the Horizon for ARM in 2019
Submit your guest instrument flight proposals now In 2019, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility plans to continue the practice of tethered balloon flights at Oliktok Point, Alaska, with missions in the late spring and the late summer. Also in 2019, ARM is extending its tethered balloon capability by implementing a second system at…
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New Paper Zeroes In on HI-SCALE Campaign
A new article published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) draws on a wealth of data from a recent Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility field campaign to demonstrate how land use and soil properties influence temperature and humidity with unexpected strength. ARM conducted the Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and…
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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. New Year, New Members, New Goals Hello! This is my first “From the UEC Chair” message. The UEC is the User Executive Committee, which is the official voice of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user community with the…
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UEC Profile: Cloud Modeler and Observer
Starting with physics and an urge to make a difference, a veteran atmospheric scientist turned her analyzing eye to the sky This is the second article in a series of 2019 profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). During 25 years of work as an atmospheric scientist who specializes in clouds, Paquita…
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ARM’s G-1 Research Aircraft Completes Final Science Mission
A new jet will propel the ARM Aerial Facility into the future The G-1 aircraft receives a warm greeting in Pasco, Washington, upon returning from its final science mission, the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in Argentina. On a chilly December afternoon in a quiet corner of the Tri-Cities Airport in…
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ARM Call for White Papers on LASSO Expansion Options
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is requesting white papers from researchers on options for expansion of the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) modeling framework. LASSO enhances ARM observations by using routinely run LES modeling to provide context and consistent representation of the atmosphere surrounding an ARM facility. ARM applies…