Jackie Marshall assists at the ARM display while Jim Mather chats with a visitor during the American Meteorological Society Meeting in January. ARM file photo. In January 2009, Jackie Marshall took over the duties of providing administrative support to the ARM Technical Director’s office. This office is responsible for chairing the ARM Infrastructure Management Board,…

In December, the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) completed an 8-month deployment in China and is now on its way to the Azores for a 20-month field campaign on Graciosa Island in the Atlantic Ocean. For a major portion of this deployment, the AMF will host a new scanning cloud radar for a side-by-side operational comparison…

Barrow is located on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, while Atqasuk is inland about 70 miles to the south. ARM file image. Arctic sea ice is an indicator of—and has an influence on—the rest of the Earth’s climate system. In particular, the link between sea ice-evaporation and precipitation has been identified as a fundamental…

Both wings of the Canadian National Research Council’s Convair-580 aircraft were equipped with numerous cloud and aerosol probes during ISDAC. In April 2008, the month-long Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (ISDAC) obtained cloud and aerosol data from above, within, and below clouds in the vicinity of the ARM site in Barrow, Alaska. In mid-November, about…

The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced the initial deployment of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) to Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in 2010 for the Storm Peak Lab Cloud Property Validation Experiment (STORMVEX). In addition to measurements obtained by the AMF2, central to STORMVEX is the Desert Research Institute’s Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), located at…

With more than 300 instrument systems operating at remote sites around the globe, ARM Instrument Mentors can now use the centralized Operations Support System (OSS) to review or provide updates to instrument tracking information in a central database accessible to operations staff throughout the user facility. By consolidating information previously recorded in separate tracking systems…

In October, Jason Tomlinson, operations lead for the ARM Aerial Vehicles Program, was appointed the new leader for the Interagency Coordinating Committee for Airborne Geosciences Research and Application (ICCAGRA). Since 1997, this group of agencies has worked to increase the effective use of the federal airborne fleet in national and international field campaigns for geoscience…

Matthew Shupe and Ann Fridlind are the new leaders of the ARM Cloud Properties and Cloud Modeling Working Groups, respectively. Hats off to Matthew Shupe and Ann Fridlind, newly announced leaders of the Cloud Properties and Cloud Modeling Working Groups, respectively. Matthew takes over the reigns from Eugene Clothiaux, and Ann takes over for Steve…

A stake in the ground marks the location for RHUBC-II. The site is at an elevation of 5383 meters on Cerro Toco, one of many mountains that rise from the Chajnantor Plateau in Chile’s Atacama Desert. Image courtesy of Kim Nitschke. In less than a year, phase two of the Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands…

Rick Petty, DOE Director for the AVP, emphasizes the goals of the three-day airborne instrumentation workshop. The ARM Aerial Vehicles Program (AVP) sponsored a workshop on aircraft instrumentation at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, on October 14-16, 2008. About 65 people from the United States, Canada, and Europe attended the workshop, which featured…