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LASSO-CACTI Development Continues; Many Runs Available Today
Editor’s note: William Gustafson leads the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity. The latest LASSO scenario focuses on the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign. Gustafson sent in the following update on the LASSO-CACTI scenario. Convection is a complicated thing, and so is producing 2 petabytes of LES…
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RELAMPAGO-CACTI Workshop All About the Data
Editor’s note: Adam Varble, principal investigator for the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign, writes about a data workshop held with researchers from the Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO) campaign. The RELAMPAGO-CACTI Data Analysis Workshop was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from November 19–22,…
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CACTI Blog: Clouds and Crowds Are Gathering
Editor’s note: Adam Varble, an atmospheric scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and principal investigator for the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign, sent in this post. Here we are, firmly rooted in Argentina for several weeks to come. White shipping containers of instruments and monitoring stations have been on the…
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Gearing Up for a Stormy CACTI Deployment
Editor’s note: Anjeli Doty of the Los Alamos National Laboratory ARM team sent in this update. Towering stacks of ominous dark clouds, splitting strikes of bright lightning, and torrential rain typify weather in the rugged Sierras de Córdoba mountain range in north-central Argentina. It is a place to find the perfect storm—perfect, that is, to…