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A New UAS Will Prowl the Skies for ARM Data
Weather-hardened ArcticShark readies for Alaska On the first day of March, the four-bladed prop of the wide-winged ArcticShark bit into the skies over Pendleton, Oregon, on the first day of its flight testing. By May of next year this new unmanned aerial system (UAS), powered by a rotary engine, is expected to collect polar atmospheric…
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Spanning, Scanning the Skies with Data-Scooping ARM-ACME
A look at the late, great campaign for measuring mid-continent greenhouse gases One day in March 2000, a Cessna 172 took off from a little airstrip in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The intent: Measure air samples of dried aerosol particles at nine different altitudes to determine their light-scattering and absorption properties. The data were collected on…
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New Members Join Aerosol Group
Science and Operations Both Change Representatives New members have been added to a constituent group that is working to help ensure the ARM Climate Research Facility’s aerosol measurements align with what scientists need to improve the understanding and modeling of how aerosol and trace gases impact climate processes. Mike Ritsche and Gannet Hallar are replacing,…
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2017 AMS Ninth Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate Interactions Abstracts
Observations of Aerosol/Trace Gases, Clouds, Precipitation, and Radiation from DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility Session Co-Chairs: Jiwen Fan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Gijs de Boer (University of Colorado), Jim Mather (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Andrew Vogelmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Robert Wood (University of Washington), Jian Wang (Brookhaven National Laboratory) Session Description: The…
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2017 AMS 19th Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry
Observations of Aerosol/Trace Gases, Clouds, Precipitation, and Radiation from DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility (Joint with and hosted by the 9th Symposium on Aerosol-Cloud-Climate interactions) Session Co-Chairs: Jiwen Fan (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Gijs de Boer (University of Colorado), Jim Mather (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory), Andrew Vogelmann (Brookhaven National Laboratory), Robert Wood…
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How Heavily Treed Boreal Forests Help Make Clouds
An ARM deployment in Finland helps puzzle out biogenic aerosols In January 2014, radar mentor Iosif “Andrei” Lindenmaier was part of an Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility team installing four radars in a remote tract of boreal forest in Finland. (The science goal, aided by ARM instruments: Help unravel the effect that biogenic…