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ACE-ENA Spotlight: Capturing the 4-Dimensional Variability of Shallow Precipitation
Editor’s note: This is the third entry in a blog series about ARM’s Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign, which took place during 2017 and 2018. Pavlos Kollias, an ACE-ENA co-investigator from Stony Brook University, shares a new set of precipitation findings from the air- and ground-based campaign. Figure 1:…
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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…
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Play Us a Sad Song: Longtime ARM Manager Paul Ortega Retires
Colleagues share their parting words Editor’s note: Kirsten Shaw Fox, communications and external affairs at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, sent in this post. Paul Ortega removes C-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar panels from the Tropical Western Pacific site on Manus Island, Papua New Guinea. Photos are courtesy of Los Alamos National Laboratory…
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ARM Technician Goes on Work Trip of a Lifetime
Editor’s note: ARM technician Tercio Silva of Hamelmann Communications worked on the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) and the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Here he shares his experience working on both campaigns. Photos are by Silva except where indicated. I am ready for the…
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ACE-ENA Spotlight: Measuring How Clouds Respond to Seasonal Aerosol Changes
Editor’s note: This is the second entry in a blog series about ARM’s Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign, which took place during 2017 and 2018. Rob Wood, an ACE-ENA co-investigator from the University of Washington, shares a new set of findings from the air- and ground-based campaign. Every spring,…
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ACE-ENA Spotlight: Illuminating Seasonal Aerosol Differences
Editor’s note: This is the first entry in a blog series about ARM’s Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign, which took place during 2017 and 2018. ACE-ENA Principal Investigator Jian Wang, Washington University in St. Louis, provides a campaign overview and writes about aerosol findings from the air- and…
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TRACER Forecast Exercise Comes With a Surprise Twist
Editor’s note: Scott Collis, an atmospheric scientist and ARM radar data translator from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), sent in this blog post. Collis is a co-investigator on the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). In just under a year’s time, the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM user facility will deploy one of its mobile…
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LASIC Findings Integral to Southeast Atlantic Workshop
Editor’s note: From June 2016 through October 2017, ARM conducted the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) field campaign on Ascension Island in the South Atlantic Ocean. LASIC focused on smoke aerosols from African biomass fires and their interaction with clouds while moving over the Atlantic. From mid-August to mid-September 2017, the U.K. CLoud-Aerosol-Radiation Interaction…
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TRACER Talk: Operations, Collaborations Absorb Day Two of Workshop
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, is the principal investigator for the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). He sent in this campaign update. Michael Jensen The TRACER science and logistics meeting was a virtual workshop, taking place April 20 and 21, 2020. While the first…
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TRACER Talk: Workshop Kicks Campaign Planning Into High Gear
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, is the principal investigator for the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). He sent in this campaign update. Michael Jensen The TRACER science and logistics meeting was originally planned to be held as an in-person workshop at the University of…