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  • Newly Funded ASR Projects Come with a Big TRACER Focus

    In July 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced funding of $19 million for 31 projects through DOE’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR). These university-based projects are designed to expand the fundamental understanding of earth systems and improve earth system models. They include a range of atmospheric science topics, including interactions between clouds and aerosols,…

  • ARM Plans Tethered Balloon Flights for TRACER Campaign in 2021

    Submit your guest instrument proposals now Tethered balloon flights will take place in the summer of 2021 during the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) in the Houston, Texas, area. Additional flights in 2021 at ARM’s Southern Great Plains observatory, as seen here, are also anticipated. Photo is courtesy of Dari Dexheimer, Sandia National Laboratories.…

  • TRACER Forecast Exercise Comes With a Surprise Twist

    Editor’s note: Scott Collis, an atmospheric scientist and ARM radar data translator from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), sent in this blog post. Collis is a co-investigator on the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). In just under a year’s time, the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM user facility will deploy one of its mobile…

  • TRACER Talk: Operations, Collaborations Absorb Day Two of Workshop

    Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, is the principal investigator for the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). He sent in this campaign update. Michael Jensen The TRACER science and logistics meeting was a virtual workshop, taking place April 20 and 21, 2020. While the first…

  • TRACER Talk: Workshop Kicks Campaign Planning Into High Gear

    Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, is the principal investigator for the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). He sent in this campaign update. Michael Jensen The TRACER science and logistics meeting was originally planned to be held as an in-person workshop at the University of…