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MOSAiC Data Reveal Arctic Seasonal Atmospheric Processes
Direct observations reported in new Nature Communications paper The following is based on a story by Anne Manning, Colorado State University. Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University, collected samples of air, seawater, sea ice, and snow in the central Arctic during the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate…
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Reviewing How to Best Measure and Model Ice-Nucleating Particles
DOE Early Career Research Program Award recipient leads new paper The following is based on a story by Beth Mundy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). A new review article led by a team at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) analyzes the literature surrounding how researchers model and measure ice-nucleating particles. Illustration is by Cortland Johnson,…
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DOE Awards $14 Million to Improve Climate Change Predictions
New ASR projects using ARM data will give a better understanding of Earth’s atmosphere, support work to combat climate change The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $14 million in funding for 21 projects aimed at improving climate change predictions. The research projects will be funded for three years each through the Atmospheric System Research…
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2022 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting
Sessions for the 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting are being announced. If you are leading a session relevant to the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility or Atmospheric System Research (ASR), please let us know. We are collecting this information to be shared on the ARM and ASR websites as it is provided. The sessions below…
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The COMBLE Campaign: A Review
A new paper reports on transformational data from an investigation of marine boundary-layer clouds in arctic cold-air outbreaks An ARM Mobile Facility collected data on the Norwegian island of Andøya during the 2019–2020 Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE). The COMBLE data are already being used to improve representations of cold-air outbreaks…
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ARM/ASR Open Science Workshop Draws an Engaged Audience
Virtual sessions over 4 days provide opportunities for discussion and learning The virtual world has opened the scientific community to new ways of research, connection, collaboration, and innovation. Science no longer is limited to work on a closed computer terminal or within laboratory walls. During the ARM/ASR Open Science Virtual Workshop 2022, ARM Technical Director…
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DOE Funds Two Graduate Students to Pursue ARM-Relevant Research
Program gives graduate students the opportunity to work with national labs Since its inception in 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program has helped prepare graduate students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. “For decades, DOE has cultivated the expertise to meet the nation’s greatest scientific challenges,”…
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Applications Now Being Accepted for Japan-U.S. Science Communication & Policy Fellowship Network Program
The Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology (OIST) Foundation is looking for early-career scientists for their new program, the Japan-U.S. Science Communication & Policy Fellowship Network. Supported by the Japan Foundation, the 1-year fellowship will bring together early-career scientists from Japan and the U.S. to engage in bilateral training and exchange for effective communication towards…
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Location Update: 2022 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting
We now have DOE approvals to hold the 2022 Joint ARM User Facility/ASR Principal Investigators Meeting as an in-person/hybrid meeting. The meeting will be held from October 24 to 27 in Rockville, Maryland. More information about the meeting will be provided in the ARM/ASR newsletters and on the ARM/ASR websites as soon as it is…
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Aerosol Measurement Science Group Names New Co-Chairs
Gannet Hallar and Timothy Onasch were recently named the new co-chairs of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG). Chartered in 2015 and made up of experts from ARM and the aerosol science community, the AMSG provides guidance on measurements and processes to enhance the science impacts of ARM aerosol…