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ARM Site Technician Embraces His Role in Supporting Research
Editor’s note: Anjeli Doty of the Los Alamos National Laboratory ARM team sent in this update. At ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatory, site technician Bruno Cunha calibrates the two-dimensional video disdrometer. The instrument measures the drop-size distribution and velocity of falling water and ice particles. Like many native residents of Graciosa Island in…
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Saudades for the Azores
Francesca Gallo, Los Alamos National Laboratory Francesca Gallo, an atmospheric scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, sent in this post. I first arrived in the Azores on a foggy, wintery January day. I remember only clouds and cows everywhere. “It’s just for six months, not a day more than that,” I thought. Almost seven years…
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Two AERI Installs on Two Islands in Two Months
Editor’s note: Jonathan Gero, a research scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, sent this update on installing two AERI systems. Jonathan Gero takes in the surrounding beauty of Graciosa Island. I just completed the second of two Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) installations in what is shaping up to be ARM’s year of the islands. The…
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Aerosol Observing System Gussied Up to Go Out
Editor’s note: Stephen Springston, a scientist from Brookhaven National Laboratory, shared this update in August 2013 about a new Aerosol Observing System (AOS). Originally deployed in Australia, the next-generation aerosol observing system (AOS) system returned to Brookhaven National Laboratory this summer for an invigorating makeover. With instrument, computer, and infrastructure systems rearranged and updated, and a fresh…