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All About the Pyrheliometers: 12th Annual IPC Conference
Editor’s Note: Craig Webb, calibration technician at the Southern Great Plains site, sent this update. Data quality of the measurements from radiometers requires accurate and regular recalibration traceable to the World Radiometric Reference, the international standard of solar radiation measurement. Every 5 years the World Radiation Center/Physikalisch-Meteorologisches Observatorium Davos in Davos, Switzerland, hosts the International…
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ARM Radar Technician Training Course at the ARM SGP Site
Editor’s note: Joseph Hardin, a radar engineer at the ARM Climate Research Facility, sent this update Training attendees Chris Martin and Matt Gibson working to measure a signal on the top of an X-SAPR radar. The ARM Climate Research Facility currently operates 33 radars spread over 6 sites that stretch around the world, from Antarctica…
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Calibration Season Begins
Editor’s Note: Craig Webb, calibration technician at the Southern Great Plains site, sent this update. A view of a collection of radiometers taken from the now closed Tropical Western Pacific facility. The ARM Climate Research Facility requires accurate measurements of solar radiation from radiometers used in ground-based networks and airborne instrument platforms. These measurements are…
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GoAmazon2014/15 Call for Papers for Special Issue
The GoAmazon2014/15 campaign will be the focus of a combined special issue, scheduled in four journals. Campaign scientists can submit their contributions using the online registration form on the journal of their choice’s website until May 31, 2018. While deployed for GoAmazon2014/15 outside of Manaus, Brazil, the first ARM Mobile Facility is lit up by…
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Mission Ready
Editor’s Note: Ben Toms, intern from University of Oklahoma for the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign, sent this update. The past few weeks have been adventurous for the PECAN-CLAMPS team, with a burst of meteorological conditions favorable for nocturnal convection. As of June 27, there had been 14 intensive observational periods which…
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But First, Public Relations
Editor’s Note: Ben Toms, intern from University of Oklahoma for the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign, sent this update. The instruments are housed in this custom-designed trailer. From left to right are: Petra Klein, Matt Carney, Elizabeth Smith, Dave Turner, Joshua Gebauer, Ben Toms, and Tim Bonin. This past week, members of…
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Life in the PECAN Operations Center
Editor’s Note: Dave Turner, remote sensing expert and lead principal investigator of the ARM funded support for the Plains Elevated Convection at Night (PECAN) field campaign, sent this update. The team will collect atmospheric data between sunset and 6:00 a.m. during the 25 targeted nights of the PECAN field campaign, weather permitting. I have spent…
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Cow Pastures and Oil Rigs
Me standing on top of the Radiometric Calibration Facility. It is four-thirty on a Sunday morning when my cellphone chirps, rousing me from my deep sleep. As I transition from a horizontal to vertical state, and amidst the muddled fog of dream fragments, I am struck with a thought. One that will float through my…
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First MAGIC Science Workshop a Wrap
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update. It’s hard to believe it’s been over a year since I was on the Spirit launching weather balloons, but it has. It has also been some time since the last MAGIC update, so I’ll try…
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Testing the Next Generation of Radiosondes
Editor’s note: Mike Jensen, a scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory, sent this update. He led the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, or MC3E, and is part of the translator team that creates data products from ARM measurements. Each year, the ARM Climate Research Facility launches thousands of weather balloons—radiosondes attached to helium balloons—to obtain critical…