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Southern Great Plains Observatory Collects New Set of Solar Eclipse Data
ARM now has measurements from 2017 and 2024 eclipses In a span of less than seven years, the contiguous United States has gotten to witness two total solar eclipses. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has collected data from both. The first of those eclipses took place August 21, 2017, with 89% coverage over…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: April 2024
Editor’s note: Members of ARM’s User Executive Committee (UEC) participate in subgroups that aim to help broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair during the 2023–2024 UEC term will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM, and ways in which the ARM community can engage with subgroup…
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CAPE-k Technicians Will Help Keep ARM Data Flowing From Tasmania
Tom Day (left) and Frank Zurek are the technicians for the Cloud And Precipitation Experiment at kennaook (CAPE-k). Portraits are by Nathan Bilow. Site technicians watch over instruments deployed by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and make sure they run smoothly in the field. For the next 17 months, technicians Tom Day and…
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Clock Ticks Down to CAPE-k’s Launch
Editor’s note: Heath Powers, site manager for the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2), sent in the following update about ARM’s site installation in Tasmania for the Cloud And Precipitation Experiment at kennaook (CAPE-k). Powers is based at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. These instruments are set up to collect data for CAPE-k. Photo is…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) is eager to engage with you. This is a message from UEC Chair Jennifer “Jen” Delamere. Check out summary report of October 2023 UEC meeting During the User Executive Committee’s October 2023 meeting, those of us who attended in person got to tour ARM’s Southern Great Plains Central Facility. I am…
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MOSAiC Science Charges Forward
Editor’s note: Matthew Shupe, co-coordinator of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, provided the following blog post and photos. From September 2019 to October 2020, ARM instruments on the research vessel Polarstern collected continuous atmospheric data during the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. …
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From the Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG) Co-Chairs
This is the second blog from AMSG Co-Chairs Gannet Hallar and Tim Onasch. AMSG promotes ARM’s Fiscal Year 2024 Aerosol Operations Plan Gannet Hallar, left, and Timothy Onasch Hello, and welcome to the AMSG blog! We are here to provide an update on ARM-related work based, in part, on recommendations from the AMSG. As we…
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First Calibration Activities at the Center for Aerosol Measurement Science at Brookhaven Lab
Editor’s note: Olga Mayol-Bracero, lead mentor of ARM’s Aerosol Observing System (AOS), provided the following post. In addition to being trained on a set of aerosol instruments that will be deployed in Tasmania, ARM site operators received a lesson from instrument mentor Ashish Singh (left) on how to use the scanning mobility particle sizer calibration…
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ARM Marks New Set of Engineering and Development Achievements
Editor’s note: This is an update from ARM Associate Director for Research Jennifer Comstock, who also oversees ARM science products development and the user facility’s Engineering Review Board. Jennifer Comstock ARM prioritizes its engineering and development activities each fiscal year (FY) to meet user needs and achieve mission-critical facility goals. In FY2023, priorities focused on improving…
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Workshop Builds, Strengthens Collaborations Across SPLASH/SAIL/SOS Community
Editor’s note: Gijs de Boer, an atmospheric scientist from the University of Colorado’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, wrote the following synopsis of a November 1–3, 2023, hybrid workshop on the state of research and data sets from the…