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Arctic Research Soars to New Heights
This story was originally published on the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website. Radiance Calmer holds the wide wings of an unmanned aerial system (UAS) in place on its launcher, scanning the blue Boulder, Colorado, sky for potential obstacles. Behind her, Jonathan Hamilton stands with a controller in hand. Calmer counts down,…
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ARM’s New Laboratory in the Sky
ARM Aerial Facility Purchases Bombardier Challenger 850 Regional Jet Higher, faster, farther, and stronger. These four words summarize the future of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility’s (AAF) airborne measurement capability. The AAF recently closed on the purchase of a Bombardier Challenger 850 regional jet, a replacement for ARM’s vintage Grumman Gulfstream-159 (G-1) turboprop…
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5 Tips For a Successful ARM Campaign Proposal
Here’s Some Advice from ARM Experts It’s that time again: Researchers can propose field campaigns that use the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. Preproposals are due April 5, 2019. ARM’s fixed and mobile atmospheric observatories help researchers answer their big science questions anywhere on the planet. If funded, these proposals…
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Share Your Ideas on Growing LASSO Part 3: An Arctic Option
William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow, sent in this update. As I begin writing this next entry in the series on deciding where to apply LASSO next, I am in the Chicago airport waiting to fly home from ARM’s 2018 Developers’ Meeting, which was held…
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A Flash of Light and Thunder Spark a Career in Atmospheric Science
Argonne’s Doug Sisterson Retires After 43 Years After 43 years of atmospheric research at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Doug Sisterson, instrument operations manager of the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, retired on September 30, 2018. An Early Bolt of Passion for His Science Four-plus decades ago, a summertime revelation…
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Understanding Clouds and Precipitation
Scheduled from February 25 to March 1, 2019, in Berlin, Germany, Understanding Clouds and Precipitation (UCP2019) will bring together leading scientists from the observational and earth system modeling communities to present the latest findings and advance understanding of the role of clouds and precipitation. “This conference and its focus topics are very relevant to ARM,”…