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Field of Meteorologists’ Dreams
ARM Southern Great Plains Atmospheric Observatory Celebrates 25 Years of Operations Right now over 200 instruments are ticking around the clock across vast stretches of wheat fields and pastureland inside Oklahoma and Kansas. Their function—to take detailed measurements of our atmosphere—keeps them busy 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. And without them, scientists…
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How to Write a Proposal They Can’t Refuse
ARM Experts Share Five Tips for Success It’s that time again: Come December 1, researchers can propose field campaigns that use the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. ARM’s fixed and mobile atmospheric observatories help researchers answer their big science questions anywhere on the planet. If funded, these proposals can…
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ARM Appoints New Associate Director of Operations
Nicki Hickmon Steps Up to Replace Jimmy Voyles As of October 1, Nicki Hickmon of Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), facility manager of ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory, succeeded Jimmy Voyles as head of ARM operations. With Voyles’ retirement after many years of exemplary service through ARM’s foundational and growth phases, ARM’s Infrastructure Management…
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LASSO Powers Ahead with Alpha 2 Release
Latest Release Good News for Users One of ARM’s flagship projects, the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) project, has just announced the last release of its pilot phase, which means regular operations are soon to follow. LASSO, led by principal investigator (PI) Bill Gustafson of Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and co-PI Andy Vogelmann of…
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Cloud Radar Simulator Bridges Gap between Climate Models and Field Data
Researchers looking to compare climate model-simulated clouds and cloud observations from the ARM Climate Research Facility can access a helpful new tool. In a paper published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS), researchers described the development of an ARM radar simulator that converts model data to what a cloud radar can directly…
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ARM in the Classroom: University of Washington Students Explore Atmospheric Instrumentation
ARM staff and users teach the inner workings of sophisticated hardware Studying atmospheric sciences at the University of Washington (UW), Sam Pennypacker analyzes ARM Climate Research Facility data from the Azores and Ascension Island for his research in aerosol-cloud interactions. But learning about the instruments providing that data can be difficult from a distance. That’s…
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POLAR2018 Joint Meeting Set for June in Switzerland
The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research and the International Arctic Science Committee will hold their POLAR2018 joint meeting from June 15 to 26, 2018, in Davos, Switzerland. The Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) and the WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research (SLF) are co-hosting POLAR2018, which brings together research…
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Prepare Your Abstracts for ISARS2018
The 19th International Symposium for the Advancement of Boundary-Layer Remote Sensing (ISARS2018) will be held May 22 to 25, 2018, at the University of Cologne in Germany. The symposium will focus on topics in four areas: Development in Ground-based Remote Sensing of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer; Atmospheric Modeling and Ground-based Remote Sensing; Applications for Atmospheric…
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BAMS is Latest Publication to Spotlight Southern Great Plains-Based Cloud Photo Research
The July 2017 issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) highlighted a study that examined cloud structure through high-resolution photography from the ground. The research, which appeared in BAMS’ “Nowcast: News and Notes” section, took place at the ARM Research Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. It’s not the first time…
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New DOE Early Career Award Recipient Will Use ARM Data to Study Thunderstorms
Jiwen Fan is one of the winners of a 2017 Early Career Research Program award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to study severe thunderstorms in the central United States. Her work will take into account data from the ARM Facility’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory and other sources such as the National Oceanic…