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Proposed LASSO Expansion Scenarios Get a Deeper Look at Workshop
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow, sent in this update. The LASSO team is considering possible scenarios to expand the workflow beyond shallow convection at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. A workshop earlier this year helped us move closer to making a…
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Closing Out the Ice Formation Closure Study
Editor’s note: Daniel Knopf is the principal investigator (PI) of the Aerosol-Ice Formation Closure Pilot Study (AEROICESTUDY). It is the first attempted study of its kind at ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. Knopf, a professor in the School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences at Stony Brook University in New York, sent in this…
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MOSAiC Blog: Sights of the Arctic
Editor’s note: Vagner Castro, ARM Mobile Facility lead technician, is traveling with the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. Castro will be out on the ice for about five months during two separate research legs aboard the German icebreaker R/V Polarstern. Below are photos Castro sent back from the Arctic. …
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MOSAiC Blog: Goodbye and Good Luck, Polarstern
Editor’s note: Janek Uin, an ARM instrument mentor from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, has been traveling for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. Uin sent this blog post and picture from the field with contributions from Lauriane Quéléver of the University of Helsinki. Two polar bears…
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MOSAiC Blog: The Drift Has Begun!
Editor’s note: Matt Boyer and Janek Uin, ARM instrument mentors from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, are traveling for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. Boyer sent this blog post from the field. This was an incredible day for several reasons. After a few days of cargo…
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MOSAiC Blog: We Found Our Floe!
Editor’s note: Janek Uin, an ARM instrument mentor from Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, is traveling for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. He sent this update from the field. Polar bears navigate the arctic ice. Photo is courtesy of Janek Uin, Brookhaven National Laboratory. We finally…
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MOSAiC Blog: Breaking Bad (Ice)
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is traveling on the first leg of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign, which started September 20, 2019. Creamean is blogging for ARM about her MOSAiC journey. All photos and captions are by Creamean except where indicated. …
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Winter Hats, Yoga Mats, and a Parka: The Arctic Gear Junkie Sets Sail for the North Pole
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is participating in the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. Creamean wrote this blog post before starting her journey toward the central Arctic on September 20, 2019. Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, is participating…
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Final Steps: MOSAiC Journey About to Begin
On a cloudy September day in Tromsø, Norway, instrument loading takes place on the icebreaker R/V Polarstern ahead of the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. In mere hours, the German icebreaker R/V Polarstern will head out of Tromsø, Norway, to begin the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic…
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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. On August 5, 2019, Sébastien Biraud stands next to the AmeriFlux Measurement Component system deployed at Oliktok Point, Alaska. The system provides observations of soil temperature, soil moisture, and photosynthetically active radiation. As the chair of the UEC,…