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Category: TRACER

  • TRACER-Model Intercomparison Project Wants Your Model Results!

    Editor’s note: Jiwen Fan and Stephen Saleeby, who lead the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment-Model Intercomparison Project (TRACER-MIP), provided the following blog post. A few months ago, we shared in an ARM blog post that we were planning to release a call for community participation in our MIP, which is based on observed cases from…

  • TRACER-Model Intercomparison Project Team Makes Headway

    Editor’s note: Jiwen Fan and Stephen Saleeby, who lead the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment-Model Intercomparison Project (TRACER-MIP), provided the following blog post. The TRACER-MIP team is simulating storm clouds observed by ARM instruments in the Houston, Texas, region. Photo is by Mark Spychala, Hamelmann Communications. MIPs are community research projects in which multiple modeling…

  • 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,…

  • TRACER Talk: Student Interns Contribute to Early Research Efforts

    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). Jensen sent in this update. Brookhaven National Laboratory interns and mentors met daily on Zoom to discuss their TRACER analysis. Pictured are: (top row, left to right) Natalia Pszeniczny, Michael…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • TRACER Talk: Summer Interns Help With Campaign Preparations

    Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is the principal investigator for ARM’s TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The TRACER campaign is scheduled to start in April 2021 in the Houston, Texas, area. Dié Wang, an assistant environmental scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, is a convective processes researcher…