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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out?
“Drinking room-temperature water and playing cards by the candlelight” is what I heard they were doing up at Cape Cod when a massive blizzard knocked out power in the region in February this year. By “they,” I mean a group of technicians and climate scientists who were waiting out the bad weather to start flight…
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TCAP Updates: A New Instrument and Cold Weather
Editor’s note: Dr. Larry Berg is the lead scientist for the Two-Column Aerosol Project. The ARM Mobile Facility site, deployed at Truro, Massachusetts, is shown here in an earlier and warmer time of the year.We are back on Cape Cod for the second TCAP intensive operations period, which we abbreviate as IOP. The weather conditions…
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Launch with Larry
The Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP) is now underway, and the instrumentation at the ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) is up and running at the Cape Cod National Seashore’s Highlands Center. The site is an excellent place for observing both clouds and aerosol (small particles ranging in size from nanometers to micrometers that are suspended in the…