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ARM’s Activities at the 40th AMS Conference on Radar Meteorology
Editor’s note: In January 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched the Year of Open Science to advance national open science policies across the federal government. During the year, ARM is publishing a series of stories on work to advance open and equitable research. The following blog post is from Max Grover, a…
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ARM Broadens Outreach to the Modeling Community
Editor’s note: ARM Associate Director for Research Jennifer Comstock provided the following blog post. Jennifer Comstock Among the feedback received from its 2020 Triennial Review, the ARM user facility was encouraged to develop a plan for engaging with the climate modeling community to understand how ARM data are used for model development and evaluation, as…
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From the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is a message from the UEC Chair. Engage With the UEC at the ARM/ASR PI Meeting Jen Delamere Greetings from my home in Fairbanks, Alaska! Another summer solstice has come and gone. It is now that we Alaskans tend to go out onto our landscapes, taking…
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After a Long Stop, ARM Instruments Await Their Next Destination
Editor’s note: Hamelmann Communications technician Travis Guy, who recently supported operations of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) in Colorado, provided the following blog post. SAIL Pack-Up: The End of a Challenging Yet Wonderful Campaign To SAIL on a dream on a powder-filled meadow, to ride on the crest of a wild winter storm. To…
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Your Introductory Guide to TRACER Data
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, principal investigator for the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), provided the following blog post. Most of the data from the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) came from this site in La Porte, Texas. After TRACER’s field operations period ended about eight months ago in the Houston, Texas, area,…
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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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ARM Addresses User Survey Feedback
Editor’s note: ARM Director Jim Mather provided the following post. Jim Mather Over the years, ARM has conducted surveys on a variety of topics, but last year we decided to begin conducting a survey to understand how well we are serving our users. We plan to make this an annual survey. The user survey went…
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From the Cloud and Precipitation Measurements and Science Group (CPMSG) Chair
Christine Chiu Do you know what geophysical observable contributes to the most datastreams in the ARM Data Center? The answer is cloud properties! Even so, ARM regularly assesses whether these measurements are adequate for researchers to pursue their science in cloud and precipitation properties and processes. To improve the performance and scientific impact of ARM’s…
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A Look Back: Infrastructure Review Committee Helps Adjust Course of ARM
Editor’s note: Ric Cederwall and Dave Turner prepared the following post as part of the yearlong “ARM30” series, which has recognized 30 years of ARM data. Cederwall supports metadata efforts within the ARM Data Center, and Turner is a senior scientist at NOAA’s Global Systems Laboratory. Turner co-edited the ARM monograph, a 2016 publication that…
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Educating the ARM Community: An Introduction to JupyterHub and the Data Workbench
Editor’s note: In January 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched the Year of Open Science to advance national open science policies across the federal government. During the year, ARM is publishing a series of stories on work to advance open and equitable research. Max Grover of Argonne National Laboratory and Monica…