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Smoke Studies: Crucial Cloud-Deck Science
An ARM field campaign called LASIC has a pivotal role in multi-campaign data on clouds and aerosols over the South Atlantic Ocean Editor’s note: This article is part of a series exploring ARM field campaigns and data on biomass burning events. The first ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1) site on Ascension Island during ARM’s 2016–2017 Layered…
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UEC Profile: The Scientist Who Came In From the Cold
In the lab and in the field, an atmospheric chemist puzzles over clouds, aerosols, and hard-to-find ice-nucleating particles Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a new series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Colorado State University atmospheric chemist Jessie Creamean pauses along the trail with her dogs Whiskey…
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UEC Profile: Scott Collis Relishes His Outsider Role
A radar meteorologist drawn to convective clouds has a knack for open-source programming and the gift of gab Editor’s note: This is the fourth article in a new series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Scott Collis is an atmospheric scientist at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, Illinois. Among his…
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Storm Chasers, Knowledge Makers
Recent work spanning two related field campaigns in Argentina gets play in the same journal The 2018–2019 Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign used an ARM aircraft, pictured, to collect data on properties of clouds and aerosols over Argentina’s Sierras de Córdoba mountain range. Photo is by Jason Tomlinson, Pacific Northwest National…
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Unexpected Riches Come From a Change in Plans
Globe-trotting instrument’s extended stay at ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic observatory results in a bounty of data Editor’s note: This is the third article in a series looking at how ARM has continued to support atmospheric science during the pandemic. The Portable Ice Nucleation Experiment (PINE) chamber has operated at ARM’s Southern Great Plains and Eastern…
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From COMBLE, a Boom of Big Plans
A data-rich study of cloud evolution in the Norwegian Sea marine boundary layer is the focus of multiple modeling efforts In this satellite image from high over the Norwegian Sea on March 28, 2020, a cold-air outbreak spurs the formation of “cloud streets.” As these broken cloud decks stream southward, they evolve into cellular patterns.…
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UEC Profile: Susannah Burrows Pays It Forward
An early career researcher is interested in ice-nucleating particles, biogeochemistry modeling, and giving back Editor’s note: This is the third article in a new series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Susannah Burrows, a newly elected member of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC), keeps a busy professional schedule but…
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Pandemic Slows but Does Not Stop ARM’s Southern Great Plains Operations
Most instruments kept running during brief observatory closure in 2020; activities are building back up in 2021 Editor’s note: This is the second article in the “Science Still Going, ARM Data Still Flowing” series looking at how ARM has continued to support atmospheric science during the pandemic. Click on the video above to take a…
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UEC Profile: Modeling Boundary-Layer Clouds
A California researcher leverages ARM data and ASR funding to boost understanding of land-atmosphere-cloud interactions Editor’s note: This is the second article in a new series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Before the pandemic sent millions of people home to work, Yunyan Zhang analyzed and modeled cloud processes in…
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Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Chemical Complexities
With ARM and ASR support, a cross-country pair of collaborators use imaging strategies to peel open some enduring aerosol mysteries Swarup China, left, and Alexander Laskin, right, analyze atmospheric aerosols in search of their hard-to-describe chemistry. Photo of China is by Andrea Starr, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Photo of Laskin is courtesy of the Environmental…