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MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 5
Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on Leg 2 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. He provided some photos for a blog published earlier on the ARM website. Here are more photos Silva sent back from his time on the expedition. Photos are by…
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MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 4
Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on Leg 2 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Here are some photos Silva sent back from his time on the expedition. Photos are by Silva except where indicated. In the wind, I am fixing ARM network cable going…
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AMF3 Site Science Team Blog: Just Getting Started
Editor’s note: The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Biological and Environmental Research program selected a site science team to develop a science plan and initial research project for the upcoming Southeastern U.S. deployment of the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3). The team, led by Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, will provide periodic blog updates…
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ARM Technicians Get Face Time on AWI MOSAiC Blog
Since the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition began in September 2019, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has had technicians on the icebreaker R/V Polarstern to oversee its 50-plus instruments. The Alfred Wegener Institute (AWI), which leads MOSAiC, is producing daily blog updates on the expedition. On May 3,…
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Updated MOSAiC Blog: Despite Challenges, Expedition Still Pulling In Valuable Data
Editor’s note: Heath Powers, site manager for the second ARM Mobile Facility, sent in this update about the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Update (May 1, 2020): ARM staff for the next leg of MOSAiC have reached Bremerhaven, Germany, to begin preparations. Read this news release from the Alfred…
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Help Inform TRACER Operations Through Forecasting Exercise
Editor’s note: Scott Collis, an atmospheric scientist and ARM radar data translator from Argonne National Laboratory, sent in this blog post about the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) will take place around Houston, Texas, from April 2021 through April 2022. Photo is by Alex Kotsakis, University of…
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MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic, Part 3
Editor’s note: ARM has three technicians—Paul Ortega and John Bilberry, both from Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Dean Greenamyer, Hamelmann Communications—on Leg 3 of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. In early March 2020, the group came aboard the icebreaker R/V Polarstern. Ortega sent back photos from ARM staff…
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Countdown to TRACER: Picking the Ideal Sites
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, is principal investigator for the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). He sent in this campaign update. Preliminary siting visits for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) took place January 27 to 28, 2020, in the Houston, Texas, area.…
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COMBLE PI Blog: Getting a Deeper Look at Cold-Air Outbreaks
Editor’s note: Bart Geerts, principal investigator for the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE), provided an update midway through the six-month deployment in northern Norway. COMBLE, which started in December 2019, is studying shallow convective cloud formations that start at the arctic ice edge during cold-air outbreaks and evolve as they progress…
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MOSAiC PI Blog, Part 4: Scenes From the Ice
Editor’s note: The Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition, using more than 50 ARM instruments, continues in the central Arctic through October 2020. Matthew Shupe, MOSAiC co-coordinator from the University of Colorado, Boulder, shares more pictures from the expedition. A thin crack cuts through footprints across the ice adjacent to…