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  • TRACER-Model Intercomparison Project Team Makes Headway

    Editor’s note: Jiwen Fan and Stephen Saleeby, who lead the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment-Model Intercomparison Project (TRACER-MIP), provided the following blog post. The TRACER-MIP team is simulating storm clouds observed by ARM instruments in the Houston, Texas, region. Photo is by Mark Spychala, Hamelmann Communications. MIPs are community research projects in which multiple modeling…

  • Unlocking Opportunities: The Power of Community Collaboration

    Editor’s note: Pete Carroll, the uncrewed aerial system (UAS) operations lead for the ARM Aerial Facility (AAF), contributed the following blog post. Pete Carroll, the uncrewed aerial system operations lead for the ARM Aerial Facility, shows the payload bay of the ArcticShark to a Blue Mountain Community College (BMCC) staff instructor and student during a…

  • Going to ARM Summer School: Students Get Open Science Training in Cleveland

    Editor’s note: Max Grover and Scott Collis of Argonne National Laboratory provided the following post. From May 19 to 24, 2024, ARM hosted its fifth summer school, the first to explicitly focus on open science. That week, 23 students and 12 instructors from around the world gathered in Cleveland, Ohio, to discuss open science in ARM…

  • From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: June 2024

    Editor’s note: Members of ARM’s User Executive Committee (UEC) participate in subgroups that aim to help broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair during the 2023–2024 UEC term will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM, and ways in which the ARM community can engage with…

  • ARM Provides World’s First Multi-Site Long-Term Data Record of Ice-Nucleating Particles

    Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University and an ARM mentor for ice-nucleating particle collection and analysis, sent in the following update. Here I am setting up a salad bowl ice-nucleating particle (INP) sampler in Tasmania for the CAPE-k campaign. (Literally, we use a salad bowl to protect our filters from rain…

  • SAIL Science at the High-Water Mark

    Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, the principal investigator for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign in Colorado, sent in this update. Daniel Feldman led the SAIL campaign near Crested Butte, Colorado, from September 2021 to June 2023. Photos are by Nathan Bilow. As we approach the summer solstice, the changing of seasons from spring…

  • Progress Update: FY2024 ARM Development Milestones and Priorities

    Editor’s note: This is an update from ARM Associate Director for Research Jennifer Comstock, who also oversees ARM science product development and the Engineering Review Board. Jennifer Comstock Each year, ARM sets priorities that guide the facility’s development activities throughout the year. Many of these priorities become milestones that staff track in ARM’s internal ServiceNow system. Progress…

  • From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: May 2024

    Editor’s note: Members of ARM’s User Executive Committee (UEC) participate in subgroups that aim to help broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair during the 2023–2024 UEC term will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM, and ways in which the ARM community can engage with…

  • Launch Event Celebrates Start of CAPE-k in Tasmania

    A brilliant blue sky over Hobart, Tasmania, serves as a vibrant backdrop for a tour of the CSIRO-operated research vessel Investigator, which will collect data off the coast of the CAPE-k site in May 2025. Photo is by Sally Taylor, CSIRO. In April 2024, U.S. and Australian researchers, science officials, and dignitaries gathered in Tasmania…

  • Southern Great Plains Observatory Collects New Set of Solar Eclipse Data

    ARM now has measurements from 2017 and 2024 eclipses In a span of less than seven years, the contiguous United States has gotten to witness two total solar eclipses. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has collected data from both. The first of those eclipses took place August 21, 2017, with 89% coverage over…