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Field Campaigns Selected for Fiscal Year 2011
The Department of Energy announced the ARM Mobile Facility and ARM Aerial Facility will travel to India to study the impact of increasing aerosols on the Indian Summer Monsoon. Major campaigns will also be conducted at Manus Island and the ARM Southern Great Plains sites.
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Nature Magazine Features Mobile Facility Deployment In China
A news feature published in Vol. 461 of Nature magazine covers the ARM Mobile Facility deployment in China. In 2008, with all eyes on Beijing during the Olympics, the ARM Mobile Facility quietly obtained eight months of climate data from the city of Shouxian, west of Shanghai. Combined with atmospheric measurements from several other locations…
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The Air is Rare Up There!
This week, on a mountain rising from Chile’s Atacama Desert, researchers launched phase two of the Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands Campaign. The team is using a suite of sophisticated spectrometers to obtain, for the first time, simultaneous measurements from the infrared portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. These measurements will ultimately improve the mathematical formulas…
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RACORO Campaign Comes to a Close
In the first long term aircraft campaign of its kind, the RACORO field campaign wrapped up flight operations on June 30. Guided by a seven-member science steering committee, the team logged 259 research hours from the skies above Oklahoma. The five-month campaign obtained a statistical data set of cloud, aerosol, radiative, and atmospheric state measurements.
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Preparations Heat Up for Field Campaign in Chile
At an elevation of more than 5000 meters on the Atacama Desert in Chile, the site for the second phase of the upcoming Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands Campaign is not only very high, but also remote. To reduce the potential for surprises, the science and operations team completed a comprehensive beta test at the…
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Ceremony in the Azores Recognizes Scientific Collaborations
In a signing ceremony at the Laboratorio Regional Engenharia Civil in Ponta Delgada, the Azores, government officials from the United States and Portugal formally recognized agreements for scientific collaboration related to the ARM Mobile Facility deployment on Graciosa Island. The Mobile Facility will begin collecting data on the island starting in May. For more information,…
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What’s the Skinny on Thin Clouds?
Beginning in late January and lasting through the end of June, a Twin Otter aircraft is obtaining measurements several times a week from the sky above the ARM Climate Research Facility’s Southern Great Plains site for the Routine AVP CLOWD Optical Radiative Observations (RACORO) field campaign. This is the first long-term aircraft campaign undertaken for…
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Field Campaigns for 2010 Range from the Arctic to the Azores
The Department of Energy recently announced the selection of major ACRF field campaigns that will take place in 2010. Studies led by prinicipal investigators Rob Wood, Hans Verlinde, and Jay Mace will examine marine, mixed-phase, and cirrus clouds in the Azores, Alaska, the Great Plains, and Colorado. For more information, read the DOE press release.
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Marked Improvements Shown in Global Weather Forecast Model
Contact: Lynne Roeder, ARM Public Information Officer, 509.372.4331 One of the world’s foremost weather forecast models is showing dramatic improvements thanks to the pairing of two recent advancements in the representation of radiative transfer in global weather and climate models. Developed with funding from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program, the new components simulate the…
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Researchers Combine Atmospheric Science with Heartland Farming
Field studies use aircraft, satellite and ground-based sensors to examine effects of land use on regional climate This week, two major scientific field studies begin in Oklahoma to investigate major uncertainties in climate models—aerosols and clouds. Both campaigns are focused on fair weather clouds, but one is studying the influence of land surface changes, such…