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UEC Profile: For Larry Berg, Investigations Happen at the Dynamic Boundary of Earth and Sky
This is the first article in a series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Coming in mid-March to an atmospheric scientist near you is the 2018 Joint ARM User Facility and ASR Principal Investigator (PI) Meeting in Tysons, Virginia. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research…
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Big Data in Brazil: ARM Shares Best Practices at São Paulo Workshop
ARM Colleagues Go South for Science ARM Climate Research Facility data from the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/15) field campaign were a focus of an open science data management workshop in late October in São Paulo, Brazil. Giri Prakash, ARM Data Services and Operations manager from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), gave the keynote address for…
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New ARM Field Campaign to Study Cold-Air Outbreaks Around Norwegian Sea
Each year, the ARM Climate Research Facility receives proposals to use key components of the facility for field campaigns that address the ARM mission of improving the understanding and representation of clouds and aerosols in earth system models, as well as their interactions and coupling with Earth’s surface. From the 2017 call for proposals, the…
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Final Check as Instruments Set Sail to Track Aerosols Over Southern Ocean
Shipboard Instruments Will Collect Crucial Data During a Series of Routine Voyages Between Australia and Antarctica Imagine spending several weeks aboard a ship traversing the stormiest ocean on Earth, climbing each day to the highest deck to check on scientific instruments mounted inside a windowless, 20-foot shipping container. As you steady yourself against the rolling…
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Request for Preproposals for Use of the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM Climate Research Facility
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is now accepting preliminary proposals from scientists worldwide to use components of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility for field campaigns. Preproposals are due February 1, 2018, for the use of: AMF1 – The first ARM Mobile Facility will be available for deployment beginning in September 2021.…
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Eclipse, Rain Contribute to Memorable Field Campaign at Southern Great Plains
Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment Already Providing Insights Researchers involved with the Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) are in the early stages of data processing, but they have already gained some distinctive insights into interactions between the land surface and the atmospheric boundary layer. During the month-long LAFE field campaign, which ended August 31 at the ARM Climate…
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Time Again to Submit Proposals to Use ARM Computing Clusters
The call is open again for ARM Climate Research Facility science users to request access to ARM computing clusters. Go to the Computing Resources web page, and use the Request Access form. Deadline to submit proposals to use the resources is December 18. If you are planning to submit a proposal to use an ARM cluster, a few…
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ArcticShark Flies Its First Instruments
Landmark Flights This Fall Test the Utility of ARM’s Newest Unmanned Measurement Platform On September 21 and 22, from an airstrip at the Eastern Oregon Regional Airport, the ArcticShark flew its first instruments, hefting aloft on its 22-foot wings a modest payload of 18 pounds. Still, it was a landmark moment, a proof-of-concept, for the…
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New Paper Explores Southern Great Plains Warm and Dry Model Bias
A recent Nature Communications paper looks at the causes of warm and dry bias, or offsets from observations, over the ARM Climate Research Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory and how they affect earth system projections. Because of limited computing power, earth system models must use simplified representations of clouds and convective systems to…
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All Systems Go for MARCUS
Editor’s note: Greg McFarquhar, director of the University of Oklahoma’s Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and principal investigator for the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) campaign, sent this update. Here I am on the Aurora Australis supply vessel in Hobart, Australia, before its voyage to the Antarctic. All instruments…