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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to hear from you. This is the second quarterly message from the UEC Chair. Connecting with You Larry Berg, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Tomorrow and Wednesday, members of the UEC will be meeting in two half-day virtual meetings. While we normally meet for an hour every month, we wanted time to…
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Eclipse’s Shadow Felt on Southern Great Plains Instruments
While the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, wowed spectators throughout the United States, instruments at the ARM Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory recorded data connected to the rare event. The first total solar eclipse to sweep across the United States in 99 years appeared as a partial eclipse over the SGP,…
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Learning New Tools and Giving Back—ARM at SciPy2017
Scott Collis, Argonne National Laboratory Editor’s Note: Scott Collis, science lead on the Python ARM Radar Toolkit, ARM’s precipitation radar translator, and radar meteorologist at Argonne National Laboratory, sent in this update. ARM developers, translators, and engineers from three laboratories attended the Scientific Computing with Python 2017 (SciPy2017) conference in Austin, Texas, this July. SciPy…
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From the User Executive Committee Chair
The User Executive Committee (UEC) is eager to hear from you. This is the first in what will be a quarterly message from the UEC Chair. Larry Berg, User Executive Committee Chair Just a moment ago, I was trying to find some data from the Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP). This was an ARM Mobile Facility…
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The Team of the Arctic Eyes in the Sky
Editor’s note: Joseph Hardin and John Hubbe, ARM infrastructure staff from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, sent in this update. The May 2017 ICARUS Team were (from left to right) Joseph Hardin, John Hubbe, Pete Carroll, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Al Bendure, Todd Houchens, Darielle Dexheimer, Casey Longbottom, Monty Apple, Sandia National Laboratories. The ARM Facility…
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Making Plans for MARCUS
Three principal investigators from the upcoming MARCUS campaign met up with scientists from the National Center for Atmospheric Research during a site survey for the companion project SOCRATES. The group members are, from left to right, Cory Wolff, Scott McClain, Chrissy Fladung, Simon Alexander, Greg McFarquhar, and Roj Marchand. Editor’s note: Greg McFarquhar, a professor…
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Where There is Smoke, There is a Data Set!
Editor’s note: Paquita Zuidema, a professor at the University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, and principal investigator for the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) campaign, sent this update. Paquita Zuidema, LASIC principal investigator I’m excited to share that early LASIC measurements make it clear that black carbon, the component…
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HI-SCALE: Phase II
Editor’s note: Jerome Fast, the principal investigator of the Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and Ecosystems (HI-SCALE) campaign, sent this update. The second phase of HI-SCALE is underway! And, somehow we are surviving the heat and humidity! The G-1 aircraft arrived in Bartlesville on Saturday, August 24, and we spent the next day ensuring the…
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Two AERI Installs on Two Islands in Two Months
Editor’s note: Jonathan Gero, a research scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, sent this update on installing two AERI systems. Jonathan Gero takes in the surrounding beauty of Graciosa Island. I just completed the second of two Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) installations in what is shaping up to be ARM’s year of the islands. The…
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Reflections on LASIC Installation Trip to Ascension Island
Editor’s note: Allison Aiken, ARM Mobile Facility aerosol specialist for the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds campaign, sent this update. As I sat waiting to board the flight contracted by the Royal Air Force out of Brize Norton in the United Kingdom to Ascension Island, I was excited but already jet-lagged. I had met…