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TRACER Intensive Period Kicks Off With a Bang, Then a Fizzle, and Lots of Heat
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is the principal investigator for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) in Texas. He sent in this campaign update. Taken on June 2, the second day of the TRACER intensive operational period, this video caught lightning and thunder outside the ARM…
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MOSAiC Scientists Reunite In Person to Discuss Central Arctic Science
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is an ARM mentor for the collection and analysis of ice-nucleating particles. With instrument funding from ARM and science funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR), Creamean participated in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)…
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TRACER Intensive Operational Period Officially Begins
On June 1, the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) officially entered its four-month intensive operational period. During this period, ARM will host many guest campaigns and interagency collaborations at the TRACER sites around Houston, Texas. (Read more about the work happening this summer in this ARM article.) Click below to watch a time-lapse video…
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LASSO-CACTI Beta Release Available
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, sent in this update. This is a rendering of the simulated radar reflectivity over the ARM Mobile Facility site during CACTI as viewed from the southwest at 19 UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) on January 29, 2019. The…
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ARM Instruments and Data Products Update: Aerosol Advancements
Editor’s note: This is an update from ARM Engineering and Process Manager Jennifer Comstock, who also oversees ARM science products. Jennifer Comstock Aerosol processes play an important role in the Earth’s radiative energy budget, which continues to be a source of uncertainty in climate model simulations. ARM measurements and data products of aerosol chemical, microphysical,…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: February 2022
From Numbers to Data: Advancing Calibration and Uncertainty Communication Editor’s note: In 2021, the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) created four subgroups to continue previous work and start new efforts to broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM,…
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ARM Instruments and Data Products Update: Clouds, Radiation, and Precipitation
Editor’s note: This is an update from ARM Engineering and Process Manager Jennifer Comstock, who also oversees ARM science products. Jennifer Comstock Upgrading instruments and data products is an important activity for ARM to keep measurements current and up to date. ARM has been updating cloud and radiation instruments over the last several years. The…
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ARM Instruments Detect Pressure Wave From Tongan Volcano Eruption
The plot shows the atmospheric pressure perturbation from the Tongan volcano eruption as recorded at five ARM sites (from top to bottom): the Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory; the ARM Mobile Facility site in La Porte, Texas (TRACER field campaign); the Southern Great Plains site near Byron, Oklahoma; the ARM Mobile Facility site in Gothic,…
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Snow Finally Comes to SAIL Site
Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, the principal investigator for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign in Colorado, provided the following blog post. ARM Mobile Facility instruments and containers at Gothic, Colorado, are partially covered in snow in the midst of continued flurries with the late December 2021 snowfall. Photo is courtesy of Heath Powers,…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: January 2022
Editor’s note: In 2021, the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) created four subgroups to continue previous work and start new efforts to broaden community outreach. Over the next four months, each subgroup chair will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM, and ways in which the ARM community can engage with…