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GoAmazon2014/15 Call for Papers for Special Issue
The GoAmazon2014/15 campaign will be the focus of a combined special issue, scheduled in four journals. Campaign scientists can submit their contributions using the online registration form on the journal of their choice’s website until May 31, 2018. While deployed for GoAmazon2014/15 outside of Manaus, Brazil, the first ARM Mobile Facility is lit up by…
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Mission Ready
Editor’s Note: Ben Toms, intern from University of Oklahoma for the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign, sent this update. The past few weeks have been adventurous for the PECAN-CLAMPS team, with a burst of meteorological conditions favorable for nocturnal convection. As of June 27, there had been 14 intensive observational periods which…
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But First, Public Relations
Editor’s Note: Ben Toms, intern from University of Oklahoma for the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign, sent this update. The instruments are housed in this custom-designed trailer. From left to right are: Petra Klein, Matt Carney, Elizabeth Smith, Dave Turner, Joshua Gebauer, Ben Toms, and Tim Bonin. This past week, members of…
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Life in the PECAN Operations Center
Editor’s Note: Dave Turner, remote sensing expert and lead principal investigator of the ARM funded support for the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign, sent this update. The team will collect atmospheric data between sunset and 6:00 a.m. during the 25 targeted nights of the PECAN field campaign, weather permitting. I have spent…
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Cow Pastures and Oil Rigs
Me standing on top of the Radiometric Calibration Facility. It is four-thirty on a Sunday morning when my cellphone chirps, rousing me from my deep sleep. As I transition from a horizontal to vertical state, and amidst the muddled fog of dream fragments, I am struck with a thought. One that will float through my…
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First MAGIC Science Workshop a Wrap
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update. It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year since I was on the Spirit launching weather balloons, but it has. It has also been some time since the last MAGIC update, so I’ll try…
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Testing the Next Generation of Radiosondes
Editor’s note: Mike Jensen, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, sent this update. He led the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, or MC3E, and is part of the translator team that creates data products from ARM measurements. Each year, the ARM Climate Research Facility launches thousands of weather balloons—radiosondes attached to helium balloons—to obtain critical…
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On the Amazon: A Very Cold Detour
Editor’s note: Stephen R. Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an instrument mentor for ARM’s Aerosol Observing System, sent this update. I knew I had to return to the Amazon, I packed my Hawaiian shirt for a tropical locale. I was thinking about exotic diets, but turns out I was highly unprepared! As…
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MAGIC: An Interns Take
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update. Two weeks ago, I was at the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Science Team Meeting and chaired a well-attended session on MAGIC. I gave a summary of MAGIC status and news and presented a few results…
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On the Amazon: G-1 Take One
Editor’s note: Stephen R. Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and an instrument mentor for ARM’s Aerosol Observing System, sent this update. G-1 flight #1 has successfully been completed! Here’s the big white bird waiting for ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) crew and SOBs, or Scientists on Board, (to the right): Left to right: John…