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Learning New Tools and Giving Back—ARM at SciPy2017
Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory Editor’s Note: Scott Collis, science lead on the Python ARM Radar Toolkit, ARM’s precipitation radar translator, and radar meteorologist at Argonne National Laboratory, sent in this update. ARM developers, translators, and engineers from three laboratories attended the Scientific Computing with Python 2017 (SciPy2017) conference in Austin, Texas, this July. SciPy…
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The Team of the Arctic Eyes in the Sky
Editor’s note: Joseph Hardin and John Hubbe, ARM infrastructure staff from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, sent in this update. The May 2017 ICARUS Team were (from left to right) Joseph Hardin, John Hubbe, Pete Carroll, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Al Bendure, Todd Houchens, Darielle Dexheimer, Casey Longbottom, Monty Apple, Sandia National Laboratories. The ARM Facility…
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Making Plans for MARCUS
Three principal investigators from the upcoming MARCUS campaign met up with scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research during a site survey for the companion project SOCRATES. The group members are, from left to right, Cory Wolff, Scott McClain, Chrissy Fladung, Simon Alexander, Greg McFarquhar, and Roj Marchand. Editor’s note: Greg McFarquhar, a professor…
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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…
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HI-SCALE: Phase II
Editor’s note: Jerome Fast, the principal investigator of the Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and Ecosystems (HI-SCALE) campaign, sent this update. The second phase of HI-SCALE is underway! And, somehow we are surviving the heat and humidity! The G-1 aircraft arrived in Bartlesville on Saturday, August 24, and we spent the next day ensuring the…
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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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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…
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An Extreme Case of Cooling
Editor’s note: Brett Borchardt, a data quality analyst in the ARM Data Quality Office at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, sent this update. I’ve been investigating an impressive temperature drop at the ARM deployment on the southern tip of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf. On July 4, ARM’s Surface Meteorological Instrumentation (MET) instrumentation captured an extreme case…
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A Day in the Life of a DQ Analyst
Editor’s note: Brett Borchardt, a Data Quality Analyst in the ARM Data Quality Office at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, sent this update. Brett Borchardt, a data quality analyst in the ARM Data Quality Office at the University of Oklahoma. Every week, data quality analysts working in the ARM Data Quality Office sift through thousands of…
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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…