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Growing the ARM Community Through Python Training
Editor’s note: Max Grover, a software developer at Argonne National Laboratory, led a Python workshop as part of the 2022 Midwest Student Conference on Atmospheric Research (MSCAR). Grover provided the following blog post about the workshop. MSCAR 2022 was held October 1 and 2 at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. This is a conference planned…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair
The UEC is eager to engage with you. This is a message from the UEC Chair. Catching Up Virtually—and Also In Person! Allison C. Aiken, Los Alamos National Laboratory Hello, everyone! It is hard to believe that I last wrote to you a year ago. Since then, much of our focus has been on the…
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Summertime, and the Living Is Soggy at SAIL
Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, the principal investigator for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign in Colorado, provided the following blog post. This aerial image of the East River captures its soggy riparian area and looks toward SAIL facilities on Crested Butte Mountain. Photo is courtesy of Ken Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. While winter snow…
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ACT for Science: Use New Features in Open-Source Toolkit
Figure 1: A new ACT plotting routine produced this plot of the mean CO₂ flux from the Southern Great Plains E14 ECOR system based on wind direction and speed for 2021. Crop type pulled from the U.S. Department of Agriculture CropScape web service using ACT is overlaid. The Atmospheric data Community Toolkit (ACT) regularly adds…
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TRACER Talk: Student Interns Contribute to Early Research Efforts
Editor’s note: Michael Jensen, a meteorologist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) in New York, is the principal investigator for ARM’s TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). Jensen sent in this update. Brookhaven National Laboratory interns and mentors met daily on Zoom to discuss their TRACER analysis. Pictured are: (top row, left to right) Natalia Pszeniczny, Michael…
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My Experience Doing Arctic Fieldwork at the Top of the World
Editor’s note: Serina Wesen, the education and outreach designer for the Snow, Ice, and Permafrost Group at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, recently participated in an ARM field campaign in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. Wesen wrote the following blog post about her experience. I am sitting on a snow machine while wearing bunny…
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Dust in the Wind at SAIL
Editor’s note: Daniel Feldman, the principal investigator for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign in Colorado, provided the following blog post with contributions from SAIL co-investigators Ken Williams, Allison Aiken, S. McKenzie Skiles, and Jeff Deems. This storm board measures snow accumulation deployed to the SAIL auxiliary measurement site at Kettle Ponds to…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: July 2022
Editor’s note: In 2021, the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) created four subgroups to continue previous work and start new efforts to broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM, and ways in which the ARM community can engage…
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ARM Development Corner: New Scoop on Modeling Data Products
Editor’s note: This is an update from ARM Engineering and Process Manager Jennifer Comstock, who also oversees ARM science products. Jennifer Comstock ARM provides comprehensive atmospheric measurements and data products that support model evaluation and improvement. Linking ARM data, which are distributed at locations around the world, to earth system models (ESMs) is challenging primarily…
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From the User Executive Committee (UEC) Subgroup Chairs: June 2022
Editor’s note: In 2021, the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) created four subgroups to continue previous work and start new efforts to broaden community outreach. In a four-part series of blogs, each subgroup chair will introduce their subgroup, share their subgroup’s ideas and recommendations to ARM, and ways in which the ARM community can engage…