Category: ARM Mobile Facility 3

  • AMF3 Site Science Team Blog: New Science Plan Details Deployment Opportunities

    Editor’s note: The third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) will soon begin operations in northern Alabama. Brookhaven National Laboratory atmospheric scientist Chongai Kuang, who leads the site science team for AMF3’s forthcoming Bankhead National Forest (BNF) deployment, provided the following blog update. Over the past six months, our site science team has participated in a number…

  • AGU Scoop: ARM Takes Aim at the Stormy U.S. Southeast

    By March 2023, the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3)―currently snowbound in northern Alaska―is scheduled to begin operating in the seasonally storm-wracked Southeastern United States (SEUS). The vision for the five-year deployment is to establish a distributed network of instruments in parts of the region away from coastal sea breezes and urban-air influences. The 2020 American…

  • AMF3 Site Science Team Blog: Community Outreach Efforts in Full Swing

    Editor’s note: Chongai Kuang leads the site science team that will develop a science plan and initial research project for the upcoming Southeastern U.S. deployment of the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3). Kuang, from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, provided the following post. The AMF3 site science team has been very busy over the past…

  • On the Amazon: A Very Cold Detour

    Editor’s note: Stephen R. Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an instrument mentor for ARM’s Aerosol Observing System, sent this update. I knew I had to return to the Amazon, I packed my Hawaiian shirt for a tropical locale. I was thinking about exotic diets, but turns out I was highly unprepared! As…