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New DOE Portal Connects Researchers and Students With Climate Science and Training Opportunities
The National Virtual Climate Laboratory will catalyze engagement with DOE climate science resources The National Virtual Climate Laboratory (NVCL), a comprehensive web portal for climate science projects funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, is now available. The NVCL is a portal for those who have a…
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North Slope of Alaska Switches to Hydrogen Weather Balloons
Onsite hydrogen production reduces shipping costs, carbon dioxide emissions Editor’s note: The original version of this story appeared on the Sandia National Laboratories website. A hydrogen-filled weather balloon launches automatically from a U.S. Department of Energy atmospheric measurement facility in Utqiaġvik, formerly known as Barrow. About three years ago, Sandia National Laboratories switched from launching…
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Delving Into Earth’s Systems Today to Support the Solutions of Tomorrow
Editor’s note: The original version of this column by Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science, was published on the Office of Science website on April 21, 2023. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe, Director of the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science Droughts, thunderstorms, heat waves, and warming oceans. Climate change…
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Recording Now Available: Learn About ARM’s Newest Computing Resource
Editor’s note: The JupyterHub webinar recording is available for viewing now. JupyterHub is a popular tool for supporting scientific analysis through notebook-based computational environments and is the latest addition to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s available computing resources. Users can work with ARM data in individual or shared workspaces managed by ARM system…
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ARM Uncrewed Aerial System Takes Flight Over Oregon, Oklahoma
ArcticShark collects data during first Southern Great Plains deployment of 2023 ARM technician Jonathan Stratman prepares the ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system (UAS) for flight at the Pendleton UAS Range in Oregon. Photo is by Jason Tomlinson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. On a bright, sunny February morning outside of Pendleton, Oregon, a hum could be heard. Then…
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User Executive Committee Vice-Chair Announced
Michael Jensen will step up to chair in 2025; subgroup memberships set for the next 2 years Michael Jensen is the new vice-chair of ARM’s User Executive Committee (UEC). The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s User Executive Committee (UEC) has a new vice-chair. Michael Jensen will be the vice-chair for the next two years.…
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Capturing Snowflakes
New open hardware instrument images a winter’s worth of snow at SAIL Editor’s note: In January 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy launched the Year of Open Science to advance national open science policies across the federal government. During the year, ARM is publishing a series of stories on work to…
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Register for Tutorial on ARM’s Large-Eddy Simulations
This image captures a test simulation of deep convection on January 25, 2019, during the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in Argentina. The aim of the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity is to enhance the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s observations by using LES modeling…
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Scientists Map Changes in Soot Particles Emitted From Wildfires
Data collected on flights through wildfire smoke plumes show that most black carbon-containing aerosol particles are quite different from those used to estimate how fires affect climate Editor’s note: The original version of this story by Karen McNulty Walsh appeared on the Brookhaven National Laboratory website. Not many people would voluntarily fly through plumes of…
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ARM Prepares to Move Into Bankhead National Forest
Construction of new atmospheric observatory underway in Alabama; main site expected to start operating in current fiscal year The main site of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s newest atmospheric observatory is beginning to take shape. ARM met a crucial February 2023 deadline to clear trees for the instruments and containers that will form…