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  • Smoke is in the Air

    Editor’s note: Paquita Zuidema, a professor at the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and principal investigator for the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds campaign, sent this update. We have the first evidence of smoke being present in the Ascension Island boundary layer from the LASIC [Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions…

  • TCAP Updates: A New Instrument and Cold Weather

    Editor’s note: Dr. Larry Berg is the lead scientist for the Two-Column Aerosol Project. The ARM Mobile Facility site, deployed at Truro, Massachusetts, is shown here in an earlier and warmer time of the year.We are back on Cape Cod for the second TCAP intensive operations period, which we abbreviate as IOP. The weather conditions…

  • Launch with Larry

    The Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP) is now underway, and the instrumentation at the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) is up and running at the Cape Cod National Seashore’s Highlands Center. The site is an excellent place for observing both clouds and aerosol (small particles ranging in size from nanometers to micrometers that are suspended in the…

  • Azores Welcomes News of U.S. Science Commitment

    Kim Nitschke, Azores and ARM Mobile Facility Site ManagerIn early March, ARM Mobile Facility Manager Kim Nitschke, from Los Alamos National Laboratory, reconnected with officials and collaborators in the Azores. His visit was prompted by the ARM announcement to secure a permanent atmospheric research facility on Graciosa Island, due largely to the successful AMF deployment…

  • Introducing: the Observers

    Posing for a photo at the ARIES Observatory in Nainital are the AMF on-site observers (left to right): Deepak Chausali, Rajan Pradhan, Shiwani Thakur, Roshan Ara; Krishan Singh (not pictured).Here’s a long overdue introduction to a great group of young people who will help the AMF India deployment become another successful campaign! Led by AMF…

  • AMF1 Azores Pack-up: Rust, Corrosion, and Wet Instruments

    PSP shows the harsh beating it took from the Atlantic mists. We all knew that the 20-month operation in a marine environment would be rough on the instruments, but a few of us expected to see the kind of rust and corrosion on some of the equipment. Much of the damage is on galvanized nuts…

  • Pack-up Begins in the Azores

    AMF1 Azores on-site staff Francisco Bettencourt releases the last balloon of the 20-month operation on Graciosa Island. With another balloon ascending on a windy afternoon, the AMF1 last Thursday completed its fifth deployment and 20 months of data collection on Graciosa Island in the Azores, Portugal. It was the last of more than 2,400 successful…