ARM field campaign will contribute to urban laboratory in Maryland’s most populous city Baltimore, Maryland, will be the focus of a new urban climate science campaign conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility. “Baltimore Skyline” by Larry Syverson is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. An upcoming field campaign supported…

A New Mexico scientist lets her curiosity range wide over the Arctic and into the stratosphere Editor’s note: This is the fourth article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). After a four-year absence, Erika Roesler returns to ARM’s User Executive Committee. In the summer of 2018,…

An ARM field campaign in Colorado ends an epic phase of observations and begins its focus on data analysis and modeling In June 2023, the last month of data collection for ARM’s Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign, principal investigator Daniel Feldman (left) and co-investigator Allison Aiken hiked through the East River Watershed study…

Insiders foresee more open science, artificial intelligence, urban studies, satellite collaborations, and sharpened instrumentation Atmospheric models require observations―the hallmark of more than 30 years of ARM measurements. Here, ARM instruments track how large thunderstorms begin, grow, and dissipate during the 2018–2019 Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in Argentina. Photo is by…

Longtime ARM instrument mentor and science translator joins ARM’s User Executive Committee Editor’s note: This is the third article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Connor Flynn, a senior research associate in the University of Oklahoma (OU) School of Meteorology, is one of eight new members…

A multi-institutional campaign looks at wind farm wakes to increase clean energy Wind was the No. 1 source of renewable energy produced at U.S. utility-scale electricity generation facilities in 2022. Graph is by Grace Finnell-Gudwien. Data are from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The United States and other countries must enhance clean energy methods to…

Texas A&M professor enjoys making good measurements and advising up-and-coming scientists Editor’s note: This is the second article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Sarah Brooks is a new member of ARM’s User Executive Committee. Photo is courtesy of Texas A&M University (TAMU). Even before she…

Now in its fourth decade of collecting atmospheric data, ARM embraces adaptability to meet evolving user needs This is the 10th and final article in the yearlong “ARM30” series of stories on the evolution of ARM―its data, sites, science missions, field campaigns, and people. Over the past 30-plus years, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user…

An early career scientist takes on a new role and a project to improve models of marine clouds Editor’s note: This is the first article in the 2023–2024 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). In the spring of 2023, Osinachi Ajoku, right, poses with graduate student Lauryn Smith, an…