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ARM Data Show Potential of Forests to Affect a Continent’s Climate
In a Scots pine forest, ARM’s Aerosol Observing System collected data during the 2014 Biogenic Aerosols – Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC) field campaign in Hyytiälä, Finland. In Scandinavia and other northern lands, boreal forests produce gases that contribute to particle formation. In the atmosphere, these particles can influence cloud properties and, by extension,…
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ARM and ASR Community Members Receive 2022 AMS Accolades
The American Meteorological Society (AMS) recognized four members of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) community among its 2022 Awards and Honors Recipients. The Awards and Honors program acknowledges outstanding achievement from individuals and organizations within the weather, water, and climate community. AMS held an awards ceremony during its…
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Giangrande Succeeds Xie as ARM’s Lead Translator
Brookhaven National Laboratory meteorologist guides development of ARM science data products Scott Giangrande To make its data more accessible to the scientific community, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility relies on science translators. These individuals lead the development of value-added products (VAPs) from ARM instrument data. Science translators also serve as liaisons between ARM…
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Deadline This Week: Joint ARM/EMSL User Facility Call
Researchers can analyze aerosol samples collected on tethered balloon flights ARM conducted tethered balloon system test flights in September 2021 in central Colorado during the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign. More tethered balloon flights are planned during the 2021–2023 SAIL campaign. Photo is by Brent Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement…
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2022 AMS Presentations Featuring ARM Data
Editor’s note (February 1, 2022): Recordings from the 2022 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting are available by logging in to the online meeting platform. With the 2022 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting now proceeding virtually, we want to make it easy for you to find ARM-relevant science during the meeting. Below is a list…
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2021 AGU Fall Meeting Features Bounty of ARM Data
Major earth and space science meeting provides opportunities to highlight ARM activities A year after going fully virtual for its annual meeting, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) welcomed attendees in person and remotely for its 2021 fall meeting. The in-person part of AGU 2021 took place from December 13 to 17 in New Orleans, Louisiana.…
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UAS Success in Skies Above Oklahoma
ARM Aerial Facility prepares for flights of ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system The Mississippi State University TigerShark prepares to take off from the Blackwell-Tonkawa Municipal Airport in north-central Oklahoma in November 2021. Photo is by Jason Tomlinson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. For eight days in November 2021, something unexpected was in the skies above the wheat…
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AGU 2021 Scoop: ARM Eyes Northern Alabama for New Deployment
Third ARM Mobile Facility will soon embark on extended stay in the Southeastern United States ARM plans to start operations of the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) in the Southeastern United States in 2023. From 2013 to 2021, AMF3 operated at Oliktok Point, Alaska, above. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility plans to begin…
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AGU 2021 Scoop: How to Use ARM to Power Your Research
ARM and DOE experts provide insights into working with user facilities Christine Chiu works on a 2-channel radiometer during ARM’s 2005 Marine Stratus Radiation Aerosol and Drizzle (MASRAD) field campaign in Northern California. Since then, Chiu has participated in ARM campaigns in Germany, Finland, the eastern Pacific, and the South and North Atlantic. The 2021…
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2021 ARM Annual Report Now Available
Now available online, the Fiscal Year 2021 ARM Annual Report includes dynamic images from the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) field campaign. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has published its latest annual report. In addition to story briefs summarizing fiscal year 2021 (FY2021), the report contains eye-catching images from contributors within and…