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Share Your Ideas on Growing LASSO Part 3: An Arctic Option
William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow, sent in this update. View shown here from the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Healy in the Beaufort Sea, northeast of Utqiaġvik, Alaska. Photo is courtesy of Kathryn Hansen, NASA (2011). As I begin writing this next entry in the…
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Saudades for the Azores
Francesca Gallo, Los Alamos National Laboratory Francesca Gallo, an atmospheric scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, sent in this post. I first arrived in the Azores on a foggy, wintery January day. I remember only clouds and cows everywhere. “It’s just for six months, not a day more than that,” I thought. Almost seven years…
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Share Your Ideas on Growing LASSO Part 2: An Eastern North Atlantic Option
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow, sent in this update. In June 2018, I shared our plan for a series of blog entries on expansion options we are considering for the LASSO workflow. While we will continue to conduct simulations of shallow convection…
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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. Welcoming New Users to ARM Larry Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory At the time I am writing this, I just returned from the American Meteorological Society’s 23rd Symposium on Boundary Layers and Turbulence in Oklahoma City. It is…
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Share Your Ideas on Growing LASSO: Part 1
New blog series will look at possible expansion options William Gustafson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory 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 Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is implementing routine operations of the LASSO workflow based on the…
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Gearing Up for a Stormy CACTI Deployment
Editor’s note: Anjeli Doty of the Los Alamos National Laboratory ARM team sent in this update. Anjeli Doty, Los Alamos National Laboratory Towering stacks of ominous dark clouds, splitting strikes of bright lightning, and torrential rain typify weather in the rugged Sierras de Córdoba mountain range in north-central Argentina. It is a place to find…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is the fourth quarterly message from the UEC Chair. Networking and Grand Challenges Larry Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory I’ve just recently gotten back from the joint meeting of the ARM Climate Research Facility users and staff and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) principal investigators that took…
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Announcing Py-ART 1.9.0 – Picasso
Plots of differential reflectivity (top) and reflectivity factor are shown from the X-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar on Graciosa Island in the Azores. Py-ART has a new experimental reader allowing the new format to be read. Editor’s Note: Scott Collis, science lead on the Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART), ARM’s precipitation radar translator, and an atmospheric…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is the third quarterly message from the UEC Chair. Plans for the New Year Larry Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Happy 2018! Members of the UEC began planning for what we wanted to accomplish in the new year last September, when we had two half-day virtual…
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All Systems Go for MARCUS
Editor’s note: Greg McFarquhar, director of the University of Oklahoma’s Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies and principal investigator for the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) campaign, sent this update. Here I am on the Aurora Australis supply vessel in Hobart, Australia, before its voyage to the Antarctic. MARCUS principal…