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AMIE, What You Wanna Do?
Starting October 1, the ARM Mobile Facility began obtaining measurements from the sky above Gan Island, part of the Addu Atoll in the Maldives. Combined with continuous measurements from ARM’s permanent site on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, data collected during AMIE will help scientists analyze the atmospheric phenomena that drive the Madden Julian…
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Pass the lotion; new study shows drying trend over Great Plains
Analysis of infrared energy levels useful for similar evaluations at local scale Illustration of seasonal infrared energy trends observed at the ARM Southern Great Plains site between 1996 and 2010. Click on image to enlarge. In a study published this month in the Journal of Climate, researchers found less infrared energy reaching Earth’s surface above…
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Storm Study in Oklahoma Records Extreme Weather Events
Late spring weather in the Midwest generated some of the most severe weather ever recorded in the state of Oklahoma and produced a variety of convective cloud conditions to be captured by the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, or MC3E, at the ARM Southern Great Plains site.
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U.S. Department of Energy Kicks Off Scientific Collaboration with India
Representing the first collaboration on a long-term environmental field study in India, this week the ARM Mobile Facility began operating at the ARIES Observatory in Nainital, India, for the nine-month Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment, or GVAX.
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Mobile Facility Anchors U.S.-India Collaboration for Cloud-Aerosol Studies
In early June, installation of the ARM Mobile Facility instrument suite is underway at the ARIES Observatory in Nainital, India. The past few decades have seen rapid increases in economic activity in many Asian countries. This is particularly true in countries like India, where new cement factories, steel mills, and power plants fuel the growing…
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Scientists Begin 5-month Study of Cloud Life Cycles
Ski season is snow season, and snow season means clouds—exactly what a team of atmospheric scientists in “Ski Town USA” are anticipating.
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User Facility Highlights at 2010 AGU Fall Meeting
At this year’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, ARM’s scientific users are presenting dozens of oral and poster sessions describing their research using data from the user facility.
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Future Field Campaigns Span Atlantic Ocean to Indian Ocean
The Department of Energy recently announced the selection of major ARM field campaigns that will take place from 2011 through 2014 in the tropics, the North Atlantic, and Amazon Basin.
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CARES Campaign Comes to a Close in California
June 28 marked the last official day for the Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study (CARES) in Sacramento, where the ARM Aerial Facility coordinated 21 science flights by the Gulfstream-1 aircraft and obtained aerosol data from 67.4 research hours.
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Mobile Facility Completes First Test at Sea
Facing its first test on the open seas off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, instrumentation from the second ARM Mobile Facility, or AMF2, was installed on the RV Connecticut during the week of June 14.