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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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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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AGU Scoop: SAIL Town Hall Emphasizes Collaborative, Interdisciplinary Science
The East River Watershed, located in central Colorado, is the focus of ARM’s upcoming SAIL field campaign. Slide is from a presentation by Ken Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. About 50 attendees of a December 8 virtual American Geophysical Union (AGU) town hall got the “who, what, when, where, why”—and the “how”—of ARM’s upcoming Surface…
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Setting a Course for SAIL
Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, the principal investigator for the upcoming Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) field campaign in Colorado, sent in this update. This August 23, 2020, picture from the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) in Gothic, Colorado, looks west toward Gothic Mountain, which rises up over more than 1 kilometer over the East…