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UEC Profile: The Aerosol World’s Busy Bee
A New Mexico researcher pauses to reflect on her latest absorbing year of research, report writing, and science leadership Editor’s note: This is the first article in a new series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Allison C. Aiken is hard at work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Photo is courtesy…
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During Pandemic, Science Still Going and ARM Data Still Flowing
Patience rewards one delayed Alaskan field campaign studying ice fog Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series looking at how ARM has continued to support atmospheric science during the pandemic. During a tethered balloon flight for the Ice Fog Field Experiment at Oliktok Point (IFFExO) in November 2020, a laser shines from…
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MOSAiC: A Sustained Echo of Data
With an epic Arctic Ocean expedition at an end, researchers wrangle with rich ARM measurements During the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, the research icebreaker R/V Polarstern is ablaze with lights during polar night, which lasted four months. Photo by Matthew Shupe, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental…
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Annual Scientific Meetings Give Wide View of CACTI Research
ARM campaign looking at convective cloud life cycle took place in the mountains of Argentina This ARM Mobile Facility collected data during the 2018–2019 Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in Argentina. CACTI involved the first field deployment of the second-generation C-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (sphere in the center). Photo is…
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ACE-ENA Data Sets Take Center Stage During AGU and AMS Meetings
Scientists put ARM field campaign’s data sets to work ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatory provided ground-based measurements for the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) campaign in summer 2017 and winter 2018. ARM also deployed its Gulfstream-159 (G-1) aircraft for the campaign. Abundant above the Earth, low clouds affect…
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Shaocheng Xie: Translating ARM Data for Science
A cloud and earth system modeler coordinates the science translators who help make ARM measurements more accessible Shaocheng Xie has been ARM’s value-added products and translators lead since 2019. In the summer of 1992, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility collected its first data from a battery-powered device in an Oklahoma cow pasture. Almost…
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BAMS Paper Highlights Initial ARM Southern Ocean Campaign Results
MARCUS, MICRE included in overview publication of recent campaigns in the region During the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) field campaign, ARM instruments aboard the Aurora Australis supply vessel collected atmospheric data while traveling between Australia and Antarctica between October 2017 and April 2018. To improve the understanding and…
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The Emerging Magic of Machine Learning
Atmospheric research turns to the power of computer programs that learn from data Click to watch the opening keynote talk from Rick Stevens of Argonne National Laboratory during the October 2020 ASR/ARM Topical Workshop on Machine Learning and Statistical Methods for Observations, Modeling, and Observational Constraints on Modeling. Stevens outlined AI for Science, a U.S.…
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Changes on the ARM Personnel Radar
Iosif “Andrei” Lindenmaier now leads the ARM radar systems engineering group, and Timothy Wendler and Vagner Castro join the team Iosif “Andrei” Lindenmaier poses by radars being calibrated at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). Lindenmaier became ARM’s radar systems engineering lead in 2020. Photo is by Andrea Starr, PNNL. In the spring and summer of 2020,…
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A Partnership That Makes ARM Go
Infrastructure Management Board works with DOE to keep the user facility running smoothly Here are the nine members of the ARM Infrastructure Management Board (IMB). Operating the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility requires careful coordination between facility management and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Development of ARM’s vision and work on strategic planning…