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ARM Data Services Completes Successful Fiscal Year 2024
Editor’s note: This is an update from ARM Chief Data and Computing Officer Giri Prakash. Photo of Giri Prakash is from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I am pleased to share an overview of ARM Data Services’ significant accomplishments during fiscal year 2024 (FY2024). First and foremost, I extend my gratitude to the ARM staff and…
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Light Fantastic: Measuring Sunlight During the Snow ALbedo eVOlution (SALVO) Field Campaign
Editor’s note: David Clemens-Sewall, a research physical scientist at NOAA’s Physical Sciences Laboratory, provided the following blog post. Figure 1: Aerial photos of tundra (top) and sea ice (bottom) illustrate the patchy nature of the snow cover during the spring melt transition. Ponds and tundra patches are both on the order of 10 to 50…
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ARM Staff Engage in Community Science Events in Alaska and Tasmania
Helena Buurman (blue shirt) from the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, Alaska Satellite Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, teaches children in Utqiaġvik, Alaska, how to assemble small uncrewed aircraft at the Barrow Arctic Research Center (BARC) Science and Culture Fair in August 2024. This photo is courtesy of Valerie Sparks, an…
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From the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) is eager to engage with you. This is a message from UEC Chair Jennifer “Jen” Delamere. The Power Is Yours: Help Shape the Future UEC Jen Delamere For American children of the 1970s and 1980s, we often spent our Saturday mornings in front of a VHF-UHF television, eyes glued to Saturday…
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Student Seizes SALVO Opportunity
Editor’s note: Zac Espinosa, a PhD student at the University of Washington, recently participated in an ARM field campaign in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. Espinosa wrote the following blog post about his experience. I am standing in a pond of melt water on sea ice in Elson Lagoon in mid-June 2024. Atmospheric and radiative heating…
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TRACER-Model Intercomparison Project Wants Your Model Results!
Editor’s note: Jiwen Fan and Stephen Saleeby, who lead the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment-Model Intercomparison Project (TRACER-MIP), provided the following blog post. A few months ago, we shared in an ARM blog post that we were planning to release a call for community participation in our MIP, which is based on observed cases from…
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Interns Chart New Directions With SAIL Data
Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, principal investigator for ARM’s Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign, and SAIL co-investigator Allison C. Aiken sent in this update. Feldman is at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California, and Aiken is at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory hosted two students in the summer…
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Students Cook Up Recipes for Combining ARM Observations and Models
Team CACTI is hard at work during the 2024 ARM Open Science Summer School at Cleveland State University. All photos and video footage are from Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory. The goal for this year’s ARM Open Science Summer School at Cleveland State University was all focused around training attendees on how to combine the…
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Future of LASSO Workshop Report Available for Download
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator (PI) for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, provided the following blog post. The DOE ARM Future of LASSO Workshop Report is now available for download. The LASSO library of simulations provides a range of information for use across the full range of model…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: July 2024
Enhancing Communication Between ARM and Modelers: A Year in Review Editor’s note: Members of ARM’s User Executive Committee (UEC) participate in subgroups that aim to help broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair during the 2023–2024 UEC term will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM,…