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ARM Climate Research Facility Exhibit Showcases Arctic Research
Coinciding with the 32nd Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting, ARM represented the U.S. Department of Energy at an international exhibition showcasing polar research efforts around the world. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the treaty, as well as the conclusion of the 2007-2009 International Polar Year, the U.S. State Department invited several U.S. agencies and the treaty…
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Climate Change Prediction Program Funding Opportunity Announced
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) research grants for the development of advanced approaches in modeling of climate at ultra-high spatial resolutions. Applications should clearly describe how these approaches will further climate modeling technology with regard to high fidelity simulations of regional…
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New Sensors Installed for Cloud Radar Calibration at North Slope
Located on the roof of the Guest Instrument Facility at the ARM Barrow site are the PARSIVEL (left) and POSS (right) instruments. Cloud radars at the ARM sites provide important information about cloud properties and continue to evolve in providing climate researchers more complex data. This creates a greater need to know the absolute calibration…
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Ceremony in the Azores Recognizes Scientific Collaborations
In a signing ceremony at the Laboratorio Regional Engenharia Civil in Ponta Delgada, the Azores, government officials from the United States and Portugal formally recognized agreements for scientific collaboration related to the ARM Mobile Facility deployment on Graciosa Island. The Mobile Facility will begin collecting data on the island starting in May. For more information,…
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Data Available from ARM Mobile Facility Deployment in China
The Study of Aerosol Indirect Effects in China was anchored by the ARM Mobile Facility in Shouxian and included an additional instrumented site to the east at Lake Taihu and two instrumented sites to the north. All data collected by the ARM Mobile Facility in Shouxian are now publicly available at the Data Archive. In…
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Science and Operations Team for RACORO Supports Outreach Activities
John Hubbe answers questions from 3rd graders at St. Mary. With a presence in the Guthrie, Oklahoma area for the next several months for the RACORO field campaign, science and infrastructure staff took some time to reach out to the local community. On February 24, Pete Lamb attended a board of director’s meeting for the…
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Climate Models Need Closure Too
These radiometers at the Southern Great Plains site match those on the aircraft for the RACORO field campaign. They will operate there for the duration of the campaign. The radiometers will take measurements continuously throughout the campaign, allowing scientists to compare measurements from the aircraft against those collected routinely by radiometers at the site. ARM…
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U.S. Ambassador Tours Nauru Site
U.S. Ambassador Steven McGann stops for a photo during his visit to Nauru Island in February. On February 7, 2009, the U.S.Ambassador to Fiji (as well as Nauru and other island nations) Steven McGann visited the ARM Climate Research Facility’s Tropical Western Pacific site on Nauru island. He and Ms. Megan Kennett of the embassy arrived…
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Internet Upgrade Speeds Data Transfer from Tropics
In October 2008, a new higher-speed internet connection was hooked up for the ARM site in Darwin, Australia, at no extra cost. This upgrade enables spectral data—the base for determining reflectivity, vertical velocity, and spectral width—obtained by the millimeter wave cloud radar (MMCR) to be transmitted via Internet, thereby eliminating the need to ship hard…
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Farewell to Dan Nelson, SGP Facilities Manager
Dan Nelson Dan Nelson, long-time facilities manager at the ARM Southern Great Plains site, is heading west to take a new position in the Atmospheric Chemistry and Meteorology group at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Washington. For the past 17 years, Dan has been an integral part of the ARM operations team at SGP,…