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Future of LASSO Workshop Report Available for Download
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator (PI) for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, provided the following blog post. The DOE ARM Future of LASSO Workshop Report is now available for download. The LASSO library of simulations provides a range of information for use across the full range of model…
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Help Inform the Future of LASSO
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, provided the following information. LASSO’s shallow convection scenario covers 93 case dates from the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility requests white paper submissions in support of a Future of LASSO…
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Successful LASSO Tutorial Held at University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, and Henrique Barbosa, an associate professor in the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Physics, provided the following blog post. William Gustafson presents a LASSO tutorial in early May 2023 at the University of Maryland,…
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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. Simulated cloud reflectivity is shown every half-hour from 17–19 UTC from the Weather…
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LASSO-CACTI Beta Release Available
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, sent in this update. This is a rendering of the simulated radar reflectivity over the ARM Mobile Facility site during CACTI as viewed from the southwest at 19 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) on January 29, 2019. The…
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AMS Scoop: LASSO Going Deep
The LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation activity steps up to create data bundles for cases with deep convection ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory was the source of data on shallow clouds for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity. A U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) project to bundle data…
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CACTI Deep Convection Chosen for Next LASSO Scenario
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, sent in this update. Deep convection during the CACTI field campaign was complex, and it exhibited some of the tallest clouds ever measured by ARM. Photo is by Jason Tomlinson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. I am excited…
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Proposed LASSO Expansion Scenarios Get a Deeper Look at Workshop
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow, sent in this update. The LASSO team is considering possible scenarios to expand the workflow beyond shallow convection at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. A workshop earlier this year helped us move closer to making a…
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Share Your Ideas on Growing LASSO Part 5: Clear-Air Turbulence
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow, sent in this update. The LAFE field campaign, which took place at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, used scanning lidars from the University of Hohenheim (Germany) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)/Earth System Research…
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Share Your Ideas on Growing LASSO Part 4: Continental Deep Convection
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow, sent in this update. A simulation shows clouds from the May 20, 2011, mesoscale convective system as it passes over ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory in Oklahoma. The simulation used the Weather Research and Forecasting model…