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An Extreme Case of Cooling
Editor’s note: Brett Borchardt, a data quality analyst in the ARM Data Quality Office at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, sent this update. I’ve been investigating an impressive temperature drop at the ARM deployment on the southern tip of Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf. On July 4, ARM’s Surface Meteorological Instrumentation (MET) instrumentation captured an extreme case…
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A Day in the Life of a DQ Analyst
Editor’s note: Brett Borchardt, a Data Quality Analyst in the ARM Data Quality Office at the University of Oklahoma at Norman, sent this update. Brett Borchardt, a data quality analyst in the ARM Data Quality Office at the University of Oklahoma. Every week, data quality analysts working in the ARM Data Quality Office sift through thousands of…
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Smoke is in the Air
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 campaign, sent this update. We have the first evidence of smoke being present in the Ascension Island boundary layer from the LASIC [Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions…
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Prepping an Aerosol Observing System for Delivery
Editor’s note: Stephen R. Springston, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory and lead instrument mentor for ARM’s aerosol observing system, sent this update. This afternoon, June 21, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) took delivery of the enclosure for the new Southern Great Plains (SGP) aerosol observing system (AOS). This photo shows the SeaTainer sitting in its…
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HI-SCALE: A View From the Ground and Sky
Editor’s note: Siegfried Schobesberger, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Washington, sent this update. Two more weeks of measurement flights have gone by since my last update. As of May 16, we have accomplished 14 research flights. Only one had to be cut short due to thunderstorms moving in on our area of operation. We…
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HI-SCALE: Introduction to the Team and Instruments
Tamara Pinterich makes adjustments to the Fast Integrated Mobility Spectrometer (FIMS) instrument. Editor’s note: Jerome Fast, the principal investigator of the Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and Ecosystems (HI-SCALE) campaign, sent this update. We are into the second week of HI-SCALE, and have completed six research flights with the G-1 aircraft. Several people temporarily…
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HI-SCALE Week 1: It’s a Wrap
Editor’s note: Siegfried Schobesberger, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Washington, sent this update. After 7 days of hard work, the first week of the HI-SCALE campaign has already passed! We managed a total of four research flights—experiencing a few hiccups, but collected interesting data! Top left: First thing in the morning usually, the G-1…
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HI-SCALE Day 1: Calm Before the Storm
Editor’s note: Siegfried Schobesberger, a postdoctoral researcher at University of Washington, sent this update. A large hangar at Bartlesville Municipal Airport is the home of the G-1 aircraft for the next 4 weeks. The gray containers right next to it provide extra office space. Sunday, April 24, 2016, the HI-SCALE campaign (part 1) officially started.…
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Radar Calibration, Grooming, and Alignment at the ARM Oliktok Point Site
Editor’s note: Joseph Hardin, a radar engineer at the ARM Climate Research Facility, sent this update. Hans Verlinde, Pennsylvania State University, overlooks the instrumentation at Oliktok Point, Alaska. Before a radar site is “turned on” to the public, there are many steps required to make sure the data are of the highest quality, and satisfies…
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Top of the World
Me, standing in between whale skulls and in front of the sign that labels the northernmost point of the United States. Stepping off the plane in Barrow, Alaska, feels like stepping into someone’s family reunion. The single-terminal airport was packed with people, but not with passengers flying south; family and friends flooded the small room,…