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Updated: Propose for ARM FY2026 Tethered Balloon System Missions
Editor’s note (February 11, 2025): The calls below are both CLOSED. Scientists can propose for new missions or request to analyze aerosol samples collected on flights In June 2024, an ARM tethered balloon system flies in the early morning during a campaign at the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory in Oklahoma. Photo is by Brent…
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Check Out ARM’s 2024 Annual Report
The Fiscal Year 2024 ARM Annual Report features images from the Cloud And Precipitation Experiment at kennaook (CAPE-k), which began in northwestern Tasmania in April 2024. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility’s latest annual report is now available online. The report contains short articles summarizing facility activities in fiscal year 2024 (FY2024) plus eye-catching…
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Share Your AMS 2025 Presentation Information
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program area want to know about your presentations at the upcoming American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting. One of the best ways to draw attendees to your AMS presentations is to be highlighted on the ARM and ASR websites. If you or one…
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ARM 2025 Summer School: Open Science in the Forest
Editor’s note: The application deadline for the ARM 2025 Summer School has passed. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will host an open science-focused summer school Monday, May 19, to Friday, May 23, 2025, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Apply for ARM’s Open Science Summer School. Applications are due Friday, February 14,…
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Users Ask for New Arctic Aerosol Measurements, and ARM Listens
ARM installs set of aerosol instruments at neighboring NOAA facility in Utqiaġvik, Alaska ARM aerosol instruments are now installed at a NOAA facility at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, near ARM’s North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory. The instruments are an aerosol chemical speciation monitor (taking up most of this rack), an aerodynamic particle sizer (on a shelf…
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Updated: Virtual Registration Still Open for Bankhead Kickoff Meeting
Attendees will learn about opportunities associated with ARM’s newest observatory Editor’s note (November 25, 2024): Registration remains open for people wanting to virtually attend the Bankhead National Forest site kickoff meeting. Registration for in-person attendees is closed. Below is the text of the meeting registration announcement as originally published in October 2024. The Atmospheric Radiation…
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ARM Seeks Lead Mentor for Trace Gas Measurements
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is seeking an instrument lead mentor (technical lead) for ground-based trace gas measurements deployed as part of ARM’s Aerosol Observing Systems (AOS). ARM operates a suite of trace gas instruments across five observatories: Southern Great Plains (SGP), Eastern North Atlantic (ENA), and all three…
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New Plan Details ARM’s Aerosol Priorities for Fiscal Year 2025
This ARM Aerosol Observing System (AOS) is now collecting data in Alabama. ARM’s aerosol operations plan for fiscal year 2025 includes information on AOS operations in Alabama and at other ARM sites. Photo is by Mark Spychala, Argonne National Laboratory. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has released its aerosol operations plan for fiscal…
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ARM and Sandia’s Arctic Partnership Commemorated in Time Capsule
An ARM award certificate, ARM challenge coin, and NOAA air sample are displayed alongside an article detailing what the items represent to the history of Sandia National Laboratories, which celebrated its 75th anniversary on October 31, 2024. The items are now packed into a time capsule that will be opened in 2049, when Sandia turns…
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Soak Up the Sun: ARM Staff Participate in Pyrheliometer Comparisons
Event in Colorado helps participants calibrate reference instruments to world standard This photo shows the side of a solar tracker and cavity pyrheliometers that ARM staff brought to Golden, Colorado, for the 24th National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Pyrheliometer Comparisons (NPC) in September 2024. The instruments are used to calibrate ARM’s pyrheliometers and pyranometers during…