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Annual Developers Meeting Focuses on ARM Facility’s Future
About 50 people gathered at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, for the annual ARM Developers Meeting to discuss the past year’s efforts and chart a path for the upcoming year and beyond. ARM developers build and refine tools related to data flow, data discovery, and delivery, such as software, databases, and computer…
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ARM Aerosol Expert Aiken to Lead Aerosol Association Working Group
Allison C. Aiken of Los Alamos National Laboratory has been elected to chair the Instrumentation Working Group of the American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR). Aiken is the Aerosol Observing System (AOS) Operations Manager for the Field Instrument Deployments and Operations Team at Los Alamos National Laboratory. She is also part of the ARM Research…
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Eclipse’s Shadow Felt on Southern Great Plains Instruments
While the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, wowed spectators throughout the United States, instruments at the ARM Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory recorded data connected to the rare event. The first total solar eclipse to sweep across the United States in 99 years appeared as a partial eclipse over the SGP,…
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ARM Measurements Part of Eos-Featured FLUXNET2015 Data Set
The August 2017 issue of Eos (Earth & Space Science News) featured FLUXNET2015, a data set that includes measurements from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Facility. The FLUXNET data series contains records of carbon, energy, and water fluxes—or their exchanges between land and atmosphere—across continents. “FLUXNET2015 is a major step forward since the original data…
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ARM Staff, ACE-ENA Scientists Teach Students about Earth System Processes
ARM Facility staff and researchers from the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign helped lead a workshop/summer course on earth system processes in the Azores. The program took place July 2 to 7 at Academia de Juventude e das Artes da Ilha Terceira (Academy of Youth and Arts of…
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ARM Facility Plays Early Role in Longtime Instrument Collaboration
With a little help from the ARM Facility, an instrument development collaboration between scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and NASA got off the ground about a decade ago. The project continues to bear fruit today. ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) Manager Beat Schmid and fellow PNNL atmospheric scientist Connor Flynn, an ARM aerosol translator,…
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Field Campaign’s Unique Surface Views Could Provide New Clues about Land-Atmosphere Interactions
In August, when the month-long Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) kicks off at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) megasite, researchers will get a unique look at how the atmospheric boundary layer responds to what is directly below it. “We can scan down low with our instruments to the surface, which will…
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Winter Wheat at Southern Great Plains Provides Bounty of Research Opportunities
The ARM Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory is playing a key role in the quest to accurately represent winter wheat in land-surface models. Winter wheat accounts for more than 70 percent of total U.S. wheat production and is a prominent crop in the Great Plains region. Winter wheat is planted in the fall…
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ARM Field Campaign in Alaska Appears in Environmental Publication Ensia
An ARM Climate Research Facility field campaign was featured in an article by the environmental online magazine Ensia on the relationship between black carbon and climate. The Summertime Aerosol Across the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) field campaign, which took place in 2015 and 2016, is providing greater insight into the sources, composition, and amounts…
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ACE-ENA Team Members Will Help Lead Earth System Processes Workshop/Summer Course
Postgraduate students from earth and environmental sciences will have an opportunity this summer to explore earth system processes in the Azores archipelago west of Portugal. Members of the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign, which starts in June, will contribute to the lesson plan. ACE-ENA principal investigator Jian Wang…