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Announcing Py-ART 1.9.0 – Picasso
Editor’s Note: Scott Collis, science lead on the Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), ARM’s precipitation radar translator, and an atmospheric scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, sent in this update. Open code is better code, and open science is better science! It’s been a year since the last release of the Python ARM Radar Toolkit—Py-ART 1.8.0—and the…
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New GoAmazon2014/15 Paper Shows That Small Particles Have Large Impact on Storms
Research Appears in Issue of Science More impactful science has emerged from the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/15) campaign managed by the ARM Climate Research Facility. A new GoAmazon2014/15 paper in the journal Science focuses on the power of aerosols. While scientists have known that aerosols may play an important role in shaping weather and climate,…
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UEC Profile: Sébastien Biraud’s Path to the Critical Science of Measuring Trace Gases
He Followed Physics, Flight, Diving, and ‘Toys’ Into Investigations of the Carbon Cycle. This is the second article in a series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). One day in 1988, at an airfield just outside Paris, France, 16-year-old Sébastien Biraud climbed into a compact red-and-white Cessna 150, revved the…
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ARM Summer Training and Science Applications Event Returns
Updated March 30, 2018: The deadline to apply for the 2018 ARM Summer Training and Science Applications Event has been extended to Tuesday, April 10. In an effort to promote the training of the next generation of atmospheric scientists, the second ARM Summer Training and Science Applications event on observations and modeling of clouds and precipitation…
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Priorities Set for ARM Translators in New Three-Year Vision
Translators serve a unique role within the ARM Climate Research Facility, directing the creation of value-added products (VAPs) and analysis tools to make ARM measurements more accessible to a broader swath of the scientific community. Translators also serve as liaisons between science users and ARM infrastructure staff members, collecting information about scientific priorities and communicating…
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ARM Users Honored at 2018 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
Several ARM Climate Research Facility users were recognized during the 98th American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting, which took place January 7 to 11 in Austin, Texas. Betsy Weatherhead, a senior scientist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Alexander Ryzhkov, a senior research scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies at…
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Broadband Irradiance VAPs Now Running at New SGP Extended Facilities
Two value-added products (VAPs)—Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) and Radiative Flux Analysis (RADFLUX)—are now running at the new extended facilities at the ARM Climate Research Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. QCRAD is the recommended datastream for broadband surface irradiance measurements. QCRAD applies multiple data quality checks, corrects for errors due…
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Continuous Large-Scale Forcing Data Now Available for Cloud Modeling From Southern Great Plains
Data for the years 2004 to 2015 are now available for version 2 of the continuous large-scale forcing value-added product (VAP), known as VARANAL, from the Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. This product includes both the large-scale forcing terms and the evaluation fields, which can be used for driving single-column models, cloud-resolving models, or…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is the third quarterly message from the UEC Chair. Plans for the New Year Happy 2018! Members of the UEC began planning for what we wanted to accomplish in the new year last September, when we had two half-day virtual meetings. During this time—and in the…
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ARM’s Scientific Impact Seen at 2017 AGU Fall Meeting
If you weren’t able to attend the 2017 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, you can still discover the research results that were presented featuring ARM Climate Research Facility data. The 2017 AGU Fall Meeting was held December 11 to 15 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Nearly 22,000 scientists from 92 countries gathered to present. The scientific impact…