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AMF3 Site Science Team Blog: Site Picture Comes Into Focus
Editor’s note: Chongai Kuang leads the site science team that will develop a science plan and initial research project for the upcoming Southeastern U.S. deployment of the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3). Kuang, from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, provided the following post. Chongai Kuang As we approach the end of 2021, I am happy…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is a quarterly message from the UEC Chair. Engaging With the ARM/ASR Community and Establishing Subgroups Allison C. Aiken, Los Alamos National Laboratory Hello again! To those of you who just completed the fiscal year-end whirlwind, congratulations! I hope everyone is feeling energized and ready for…
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TBS Put to the Test for SAIL Science Flights
Editor’s note: Dari Dexheimer, who manages tethered balloon system flights for ARM, provided information for this post. The yellow triangle on the tether is a mounting plate for a device holding a thermal camera and a normal RGB camera. The setup is being used to image various terrain temperatures from above over time. Photo is…
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TRACER Talk: ‘Making Lemonade From Lemons’
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, is the principal investigator for ARM’s TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The TRACER campaign is scheduled to start October 1, 2021, in the Houston, Texas, area. Dié Wang, an assistant environmental scientist at BNL, is a convective processes researcher and a…
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ACE-ENA Spotlight: High-Resolution Snapshots Help Solve Cloud Mysteries
Editor’s note: Susanne Glienke, a postdoctoral research associate at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state, worked on the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign in the Azores. This campaign took place during summer 2017 (June to July) and winter 2018 (January to February). Glienke sent in this…
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TRACER Site Setup Proceeds at Full Speed
Editor’s note: Heath Powers, site manager for the first ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1), sent in the following update about ARM’s site installation in the Houston, Texas, area for the TRacking Aerosol Convections interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). Powers is based at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. August 6, 2021 In Pearland, Texas, the C-Band Scanning…
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SAIL ARM Mobile Facility Site Takes Shape
Click on the video above for an introduction to the SAIL field campaign site by co-investigator Ken Williams. The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign is less than two months from starting official operations near Crested Butte, Colorado. The campaign will begin September 1, 2021, and run for 21 months, into June 2023. In…
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Los Alamos Team Prepares to Launch 2 New ARM Mobile Campaigns
After beta testing, SAIL site setup is underway in Colorado; TRACER installation coming up in Texas Editor’s note: Kirsten Fox, communications and external affairs at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, prepared this post. Instrument beta testing for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) and TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) campaigns took…
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SAIL Group Makes Snow Trek to Survey Sites in Colorado
Editor’s note: Dan Feldman, the principal investigator for the upcoming Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) field campaign in Colorado, sent in this update. The sun shines above the snow-covered Gothic Road at Gothic Townsite, where the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) will collect measurements during the SAIL campaign. This view looks south-southeast at Crested Butte…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is a quarterly message from the UEC Chair. New subgroups and connecting with the UEC during the joint meeting Allison C. Aiken, Los Alamos National Laboratory Hello! Things really are starting to pick up the pace again as we are already into June. Can you believe…