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Thanks for the Great Work – and BBOP Data!
Editor’s note: Drs. Larry Kleinman and Arthur Sedlacek are atmospheric chemists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory, spearheading BBOP. Today marks the conclusion of the field measurement phase of our Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP) campaign. In just under 4 months, we sampled 17 wildfires, more than 2 dozen agricultural burns and a handful of urban…
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Final Port of Call: MAGIC Measurement Phase Complete
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 that the measurement phase of MAGIC is now complete. It seems like just the other day when it all started. It has been an incredible ride, and it has succeeded beyond…
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A Personal Note to Nauru
Message from the ARM Tropical Western Pacific Site Scientist, Chuck Long: Circa 1998, Chuck Long shares his mood after helping ARM colleagues install the observation site on Nauru Island.I first arrived on Nauru in late 1998 to help install the ARM site. Yes, I had a shovel in hand, digging the trenches to bury the…
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Aerosol Observing System Gussied Up to Go Out
Editor’s note: Stephen Springston, a scientist from Brookhaven National Laboratory, shared this update in August 2013 about a new Aerosol Observing System (AOS). Originally deployed in Australia, the next-generation aerosol observing system (AOS) system returned to Brookhaven National Laboratory this summer for an invigorating makeover. With instrument, computer, and infrastructure systems rearranged and updated, and a fresh…
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Bon Voyage, My Friends…
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update in August 2013. The Spirit arrived at the Port of Los Angeles this morning [August 15], completing MAGIC Leg16B. Also concluding last week, the two undergraduate students who worked with me this summer, Danielle Mallon…
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BBOP Media Stop
Editor’s note: Eric Francavilla is an intern in the media relations department at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. On August 15, I joined Mary Beckman of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) media relations team for a media event held at the Biomass Burning Observation Project (BBOP) base of operations: a small hangar at Bergstrom Aircraft…
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Picture Gallery: Big Balloon Samples Tiny Particles
Earlier this summer, a multi-institutional science team led by principal investigator James Smith from the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) visited the ARM Southern Great Plains site to conduct the New Particle Formation (NPF) Study. The NPF study focuses on the question of what variables determine the growth rate of newly formed particles, and…
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A “Magical” Opportunity
Editor’s note: Trevor Ferguson, graduate student, team member on the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update on July 26, 2013. During Leg14, I had the grand opportunity to sail along as part of the MAGIC team. Having never been out to sea, I was anxious to embark and see…
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An “Uneventful” Leg During MAGIC
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update on July 11, 2013. Thursday, July 11, evening We are just pulling into port in Honolulu (about 8pm local time on Thursday), a day later than normal, but we had left Los Angeles a day…
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Fourth of July Fireworks After a Day at the Los Angeles Dock
Editor’s note: Ernie Lewis, principal investigator for the Marine ARM GPCI Investigations of Clouds (MAGIC) field campaign, sent this update on July 6, 2013. It’s Saturday, July 6, a bit before noon. I’m on the Spirit in the Port of Los Angeles and scheduled to leave on Leg14A later this evening, a bit later than…