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MOSAiC Expedition Featured in National Geographic
Photographer Esther Horvath shared her account of the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAIC) expedition with National Geographic. Horvath was on the first leg of the expedition. Photo is by Jakob Stark, Alfred Wegener Institute (CC-BY 4.0). The October 2021 issue of National Geographic included a first-person account of the…
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Southern Great Plains Updates: New Guest Instrument Facility Operational
This view of the new Guest Instrument Facility at ARM’s Southern Great Plains Central Facility shows the garage door and instrument deck. The facility is located where the old guest facility previously stood. Researchers visiting the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility have a new building for their instruments.…
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Feature Your 2021 AGU Presentations With ARM and ASR!
For those of you presenting during the hybrid (in-person/virtual) 2021 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, one of the best ways to draw attendees to your sessions is to be highlighted on the ARM and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) websites. If you or one of your team members will present a talk or poster during…
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Best Practices for Aerial Research
ARM Aerial Facility helps build collaboration among U.S. agencies During the November 2021 Interagency Coordinating Committee for Airborne Geosciences Research and Applications (ICCAGRA) meeting, ARM airborne instrument mentor Lexie Goldberger was nominated to be the organization’s vice-chair. Photo is by Matt Newburn, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Numerous federal agencies and programs operate research aircraft, but…
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E3SM Updated for Earth Simulations
Improved DOE Energy Exascale Earth System Model two times faster than previous version This model of the North American Regionally Refined Model grid shows the grid refinement that includes a 100-kilometer grid globally and 25 kilometers over North America. Image is courtesy of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A new version of the U.S. Department of…
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Updated: DOE Fiscal Year 2022 Funding Opportunity Announcement
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to provide $14 million in new research grants for Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program science. Successful applicants will focus their research on observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use observations supported by DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user…
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Call for EGU 2022 Abstracts
From May 23 to 27, 2022, the European Geosciences Union (EGU) will hold its annual General Assembly both virtually and in person in Vienna, Austria, in order to ensure the widest possible participation by geoscientists from all over the world. The EGU General Assembly 2022 will bring geoscientists together for one meeting that covers all disciplines of…
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Predicting the Future of the Earth With Artificial Intelligence
AI offers additional possibilities, greater accuracy for climate models The original release appeared on the Argonne National Laboratory website. This is an Atlantic Ocean climate simulation. Scientists are working to improve models like these through the use of artificial intelligence. Image is by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Computer simulations that scientists use to understand the evolution…
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Register Now: ARM Community Input Webinar
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility will soon implement a new mechanism to collect and manage requests from the science community for measurement and data needs. Learn about this new mechanism during a 90-minute webinar starting at 3 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, November 16. Registration is now open for the Zoom webinar, which will…
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Collecting New Data on Atmospheric Particles Like Pollution for Storm Forecasting and Climate Models
This is a feature story published by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science and shared with permission. An ARM Mobile Facility is operating at La Porte Municipal Airport, outside Houston, Texas, for the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). For decades, scientists have debated the impact of human-made and environmental particles…