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US CLIVAR Program Calls for Panel Members
The US Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Scientific Steering Committee seeks qualified individuals to serve on its three subsidiary panels: Phenomena, Observations, and Synthesis Panel Process Study and Model Improvement Panel Predictability, Prediction, and Applications Interface Panel. Panel members formulate science goals and implementation strategies, catalyze and coordinate activities, and work with agencies and international partners…
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Submit Preproposals for ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge
The Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC) call for the 2021–2022 allocation year is now open. The mission of the ALCC is to provide an allocation program for projects of interest to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) with an emphasis on high-risk, high-payoff simulations in areas directly related to the DOE…
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Epic Arctic Mission Ends
International climate research project marked by scientific surprises, logistical challenges This release was originally published October 12, 2020, on the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website. On the morning of October 12, 2020, the icebreaker R/V Polarstern arrives in Bremerhaven, Germany, to end the yearlong MOSAiC expedition. Photo is courtesy of the Alfred…
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Draw Eyes to Your AGU Presentations!
For those of you presenting at the virtual 2020 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. You still have time to tell ARM and ASR about your presentations! If you or one…
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Scientists Uncover Source of Tiny Amazonian Particles
GoAmazon field campaign straddled natural, urban environments in Brazil A study recently published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) untangled the long-standing mystery of aerosol particle formation at high altitudes in the tropics. The study used data from the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/15) field campaign, managed by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement…
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BAMS Paper Makes Case for Spectral Measurements
ARM has more than 2 decades of spectral data sets available for use Radiometers and multiwavelength spectrometers at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory gather information about solar energy, a large variable in the earth system equation. A new Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) early online release describes the capabilities of the Atmospheric Radiation…
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Researcher Untangles Arctic Cloud Puzzle
Using ARM arctic data, Adele Igel is developing high-resolution models to see how aerosols might be linked to cloud dissipation University of California, Davis, atmospheric scientist Adele Igel pauses in her home office. Photo is courtesy of Igel. Adele Igel, an atmospheric scientist at the University of California, Davis, is midway through a three-year project…
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ARM and ASR Community Members Honored for Aerosol Research
American Association for Aerosol Research celebrates Stephen Schwartz and Manabu Shiraiwa Stephen Schwartz, who helped ARM come into being, received the International Aerosol Research Assembly’s 2020 International Aerosol Fellow Award. Photo is courtesy of Brookhaven National Laboratory. Stephen Schwartz, an early leader of what is now known as the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility,…
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A Partnership That Makes ARM Go
Infrastructure Management Board works with DOE to keep the user facility running smoothly Here are the nine members of the ARM Infrastructure Management Board (IMB). Operating the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility requires careful coordination between facility management and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). Development of ARM’s vision and work on strategic planning…
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Scientists Examine the Black Carbon Impacts of Wildfires and Biomass Burning
Colorado State University teams use ARM data to help answer questions in earth system models The sun sets over a prescribed burn at the Konza Prairie Biological Station in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Photo is by Gregory Schill, Colorado State University. Researchers at Colorado State University (CSU) recently published two papers in the Proceedings…