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Register for High-Latitude Marine Cloud Workshop
In March 2018, the Aurora Australis supply vessel heads toward Macquarie Island, the location of the Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE). The supply vessel carried ARM instruments as part of the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) field campaign. A user-driven workshop will focus on observations and modeling…
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DOE Research Opportunity Available to Graduate Students
Apply by November 10 to Graduate Student Research program Since 2014, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program has helped graduate students prepare for careers in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics. Managed by the DOE Office of Science’s Office of Workforce Development for Teachers and Scientists, the SCGSR program provides supplemental…
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Updated: NASA to Draw Upon ARM’s Aircraft Replacement Experience
Editor’s note (August 18, 2021): The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has released a consensus study report with input from the committee described below, in an ARM article originally published July 14, 2020. The report, “Airborne Platforms to Advance NASA Earth System Science Priorities: Assessing the Future Need for a Large Aircraft,” is…
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ARM Science Group Workshop Reports Chart Path to Improved Measurements
Constituent groups focus on measurements related to aerosols, clouds, and precipitation The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s strategy of relying on user recommendations for ongoing improvements continues to bear fruit. In 2021, ARM has published two workshop reports that directly link to the goals set forth in ARM’s recently updated Decadal Vision. Both reports are…
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Provide Input on ARM’s Next Large-Eddy Simulation Scenario
LASSO activity is focused on deep convection simulations from the CACTI campaign in Argentina 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 team leading the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s signature modeling activity provided a…
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ARM’s Hickmon Speaks During DOE Climate Roundtable
ARM Associate Director for Operations Nicki Hickmon speaks during a July 22 livestream on climate research within the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science. Nicki Hickmon, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s associate director for operations, was a panelist during a July 22 livestreamed roundtable discussion about climate research within the U.S. Department…
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2021 ARM/ASR Meeting Documents Research Progress in Pandemic
Hundreds of community members log on for annual meeting The 2021 Joint ARM User Facility/ASR Principal Investigators Meeting included numerous references to the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), which will begin in October 2021 in the Houston, Texas, area. This photo captures the Houston skyline and clouds of interest for TRACER. Photo is by…
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DOE Selects 26 Research Projects for 2021 ASR Funding Awards
$15.6 million awarded for atmospheric research to improve climate modeling The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a total of $15.6 million in funding awards for 27 scientists who will conduct 26 research projects through DOE’s Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program. The university-based projects are designed to expand the fundamental understanding of earth systems…
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ARM Aerial Facility Tests Instrument Configuration in Skies Above Mississippi
ARM’s Matt Newburn works to integrate instrumentation into a Mississippi State University Raspet Flight Research Laboratory TigerShark XP uncrewed aerial system (UAS) before a recent flight. All photos except the last one are by Chris Bryant, Mississippi State University. High above the pastoral landscape of Greenwood, Mississippi, flights of an uncrewed aerial system (UAS) tested…
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Apply for Spring 2022 DOE Undergraduate Internships
Applications are being accepted for the spring 2022 (January through May) term for two undergraduate internship programs offered by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science: the Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and the Community College Internships (CCI) program. The application deadline for both programs is October 6, 2021, at 5 p.m.…