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DOE Program Provides Opportunities for Graduate Students
Applications for graduate student research program are due November 12 Since 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program has helped graduate students prepare for careers in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Managed by the DOE Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, the SCGSR program…
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ARM Produces Its First 3-Dimensional Large-Scale Forcing Data
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has made available its first three-dimensional (3D) large-scale forcing data using a 3D constrained variational analysis approach, known as VARANAL3D. Initially, VARANAL3D evaluation data are available from two field campaigns at ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory: the Spring Cloud Intensive Operational Period from March 1 to…
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Reprocessed Radiative Flux Analysis VAP Data Now Available
Reprocessed data from the Radiative Flux Analysis (RADFLUXANAL) value-added product (VAP) have been released for multiple Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility sites. RADFLUXANAL calculates clear-sky irradiance in the shortwave and longwave surface fluxes from the measured broadband irradiance. This VAP also calculates fractional sky cover and cloud parameters, including effective visible cloud optical depth,…
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New Radiative Flux Analysis VAP Data Released
An assortment of new data is now available from the Radiative Flux Analysis (RADFLUXANAL) value-added product (VAP). RADFLUXANAL calculates clear-sky irradiance in the shortwave and longwave surface fluxes from broadband irradiance measured at Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility sites. This VAP also calculates fractional sky cover and cloud parameters, including effective visible cloud optical…
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Storm Animations, CACTI-Style
New visualizations turn data into dramatic 3-dimensional images of evolving thunderstorms For scientists, papers and presentations require visualizing data. Typically, that means bar graphs, dual-axis charts, and other two-dimensional (2D) representations. In a digital age, such visualizations are getting more dynamic. In the summer of 2020, computational scientists at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in…
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ACE-ENA Spotlight: Capturing the 4-Dimensional Variability of Shallow Precipitation
Editor’s note: This is the third entry in a blog series about ARM’s Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign, which took place during 2017 and 2018. Pavlos Kollias, an ACE-ENA co-investigator from Stony Brook University, shares a new set of precipitation findings from the air- and ground-based campaign. The frequent…
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AERI Noise Filtered Data Available for MARCUS, LASIC Campaigns
The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer Noise Filtered (AERINF) value-added product (VAP) is now in production for two recent Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility field campaigns: Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) between Australia and Antarctica from October 29, 2017, to March 23, 2018 Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds…
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TRACER Talk: Summer Interns Help With Campaign Preparations
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is the principal investigator for ARM’s TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The TRACER campaign is scheduled to start in April 2021 in the Houston, Texas, area. Dié Wang, an assistant environmental scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, is a convective processes researcher…