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Category: LASIC

  • AGU Scoop: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Working With ARM

    Paquita Zuidema spoke about her experience leading the LASIC field campaign during a 2020 AGU town hall. The opening day of the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting featured a virtual town hall on collaborating with ARM and other U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientific user facilities. Paquita Zuidema shared her wisdom gleaned while…

  • LASIC Findings Integral to Southeast Atlantic Workshop

    Editor’s note: From June 2016 through October 2017, ARM conducted the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) field campaign on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. LASIC focused on smoke aerosols from African biomass fires and their interaction with clouds while moving over the Atlantic. From mid-August to mid-September 2017, the U.K. CLoud-Aerosol-Radiation Interaction…

  • Where There is Smoke, There is a Data Set!

    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 (LASIC) campaign, sent this update. Paquita Zuidema, LASIC principal investigator I’m excited to share that early LASIC measurements make it clear that black carbon, the component…

  • 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…

  • Reflections on LASIC Installation Trip to Ascension Island

    Editor’s note: Allison Aiken, ARM Mobile Facility aerosol specialist for the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds campaign, sent this update. As I sat waiting to board the flight contracted by the Royal Air Force out of Brize Norton in the United Kingdom to Ascension Island, I was excited but already jet-lagged. I had met…

  • 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…