The ARM website was upgraded with a new capability in September. ARM data users now have the ability to order data using the data cart from www.arm.gov. ARM file photo. On September 27, a new way to browse and order ARM data became available on the ARM website after nine months of development. ARM infrastructure…

The Egrett will fly in stacked formations with the Proteus during the upcoming Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment. This flight pattern will allow simultaneous sampling of the upper and lower parts of the cirrus anvils as well as remote measurements. ARM file photo. Between September 7-9, ARM researchers and international collaborators involved in flight…

Replacing the smaller Cessna 172, the new turbo-charged Cessna 206 prepares for departure to Ponca City, Oklahoma, where it will be managed by Greenwood Aviation. ARM file photo. To meet new requirements in the airborne aerosol and carbon-cycle measurements taken over ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) site, a new Cessna Turbo 206 is replacing the…

Outside the hangar in Ponca City, Oklahoma, the optical head of the AATS-14 (inset) can be seen as the white dome on the roof of the Jetstream-31 aircraft. ARM file photo. Researchers from ARM Program and National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) took to the skies in September for an 11-day Aerosol Lidar Validation Experiment…

ARM operations staff prepare the ARM Mobile Facility in Point Reyes, California, for delivery to Africa, upon the successful conclusion of the first field campaign. Photo by Kim Nitschke. After a successful six-month stint taking cloud and aerosol measurements at Point Reyes National Seashore on the California coast, ARM operations staff began packing up the…

To support the ever-increasing file storage needs of the ARM Data Management Facility (DMF) and ARM Engineering computers, a Network Appliance (NetApp®) file server with 2.68 terabytes, or 2.95 trillion bytes, of highly-reliable and extremely-fast, usable disk storage joined the DMF servers. The NetApp system performs nearly four times faster than the previous file server…

As the northernmost inhabited city in the United States, Barrow is a unique and critical location for conducting climate research at high-latitudes. ARM file photo. On August 16, U.S. Senators Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Susan Collins, and Lindsey Graham visited the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) on a bi-partisan trip to examine the effects of…

Field calibration of the rotating shadowband radiometer (RSS) is performed by the RSS instrument mentor (left) and a colleague from SGP operations. ARM file photo. With research facilities around the globe, one of the biggest challenges faced by ARM is communication and consistent application of new information and instrument advances. In early August, about 45…

BBC reporters climbed onto the “skydeck” with ARM operations staff in Barrow to see the instruments and the surrounding area. ARM file photo. A visit to the North Slope of Alaska in late May by journalists from the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) resulted in a news segment on BBC Four, the network’s “most intellectually and…

Established as the first ARM research facility in 1992, the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site in Oklahoma is the “old man on the block” when it comes to infrastructure. Though significant improvements have been made to facilities and equipment throughout the years, the computer network at the SGP Central Facility—the most heavily used of all…