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Category: Field Notes

  • AGU Scoop: Arctic Clouds in the Spotlight

    In the fall of 2019, Matthew Shupe poses on the ice in the central Arctic during the MOSAiC expedition. Behind him, moored to an ice floe, is the German research icebreaker R/V Polarstern. Its bow is stacked with ARM instruments for measuring cloud and atmospheric properties. Photo is courtesy of Shupe, Cooperative Institute for Research…

  • AGU Scoop: MOSAiC Data Tell Tales of the Arctic

    December 11 at the 2020 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting featured two sessions—16 talks total—on coupled atmosphere-sea ice-ocean processes in the central Arctic. (See the lists of presentations from Session 1 and Session 2; a third oral session is scheduled for 7–8 a.m. Pacific time Monday, December 14. NOTE: For meeting-specific links, use your AGU…

  • AGU Scoop: SAIL Town Hall Emphasizes Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Science

    The East River Watershed, located in central Colorado, is the focus of ARM’s upcoming SAIL field campaign. Slide is from a presentation by Ken Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. About 50 attendees of a December 8 virtual American Geophysical Union (AGU) town hall got the “who, what, when, where, why”—and the “how”—of ARM’s upcoming Surface…

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

    For five years starting in March 2023, ARM will operate a mobile observatory in the Southeastern United States (SEUS), which experiences high humidity, frequent convective storms, and high levels of natural emissions. By March 2021, the SEUS science team will proffer a list of candidate sites. By March 2023, the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3)―currently…

  • 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…

  • 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. This slide lists the core members of the AMF3 site science team.…

  • More New Capabilities Coming to ARM’s Data Discovery

    Editor’s note: Giri Prakash, who manages ARM’s data services, shares updates on the new version of ARM’s Data Discovery. If you have yet to use ARM’s new Data Discovery, click on the video above. It shows the easy step-by-step process of searching for and ordering ARM data to support your research. Thank you for using…

  • Workshop Explores Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence

    Editor’s note: Joseph Hardin, a computational scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state, provided the following summary of the 2020 ASR/ARM Topical Workshop on Machine Learning and Statistical Methods for Observations, Modeling, and Observational Constraints on Modeling. This virtual workshop took place October 19 and 20. A group of scientists from DOE national…

  • Setting a Course for SAIL

    Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, the principal investigator for the upcoming Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) field campaign in Colorado, sent in this update. This August 23, 2020, picture from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) in Gothic, Colorado, looks west toward Gothic Mountain, which rises up over more than 1 kilometer over the East…

  • MOSAiC Blog: Starting Toward Home

    September 20, 2020, marked a big day in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. One year after leaving Tromsø, Norway, to start the MOSAiC expedition, the icebreaker R/V Polarstern ended its drift with the arctic ice floe and started toward its home port of Bremerhaven, Germany. The Polarstern is expected…