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Two New Funding Opportunities for 2021
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced funding for Atmospheric System Research (ASR) science and for the DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program. ASR Funding—Pre-Application Deadline: December 2, 2020 DOE will provide $14.6 million for new studies of atmospheric processes. Announcement: DE-FOA-0002391 Submission deadline for required pre-applications: December 2, 2020, 5:00 p.m.…
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Opening and Closing Chapters: ARM Staff Updates
From August 2019 to August 2020, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility welcomed several new team members and said goodbye to others moving on to different personal and professional life chapters. Other members of the ARM team took new roles within the facility. Site Operations Clockwise from top left are Paul Ortega, Hannah Ransom,…
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Vote Now for New ARM User Executive Committee Members
It is time for you to elect your new representatives on the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s User Executive Committee (UEC). The UEC is the official voice of the user community in its interactions with ARM management. Twenty-one users, representing a range of ARM science domains, are on the ballot this year for six…
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End of MOSAiC: Follow the Polarstern’s Homecoming Online
Taken in June 2020, this photo overlooks the R/V Polarstern and the MOSAiC ice camp. Photos are by Lianna Nixon, Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the University of Colorado, Boulder. Not much farther to go now—the icebreaker R/V Polarstern is days away from reaching its home port in Bremerhaven, Germany. Upon the…
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DOE Program Provides Opportunities for Graduate Students
Applications for graduate student research program are due November 12 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…
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LASSO Gives New Capability to Researchers
For those wanting to run their own simulations, LASSO input observational data are now available The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) team recently released a new set of data bundles focused on shallow convection at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. The shallow convection scenario will go on hiatus while the…
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Submit TRACER Small Campaign Requests Now!
Starting next year, the Houston, Texas, area will host the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). Preparations are well underway for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), including the intensive operational period scheduled for next summer in the Houston, Texas, area. ARM will still consider small field campaign requests for TRACER, but due to…
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Crafting ARM’s Decadal Vision Is a Group Effort
Science community helps ARM leadership shape the user facility’s long view During the 2019 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco, California, ARM Technical Director Jim Mather presents during a town hall on the ARM Decadal Vision. You can now access the latest version of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s long-term vision…
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Improving the Discoverability of ARM Aerial Facility Data
Diverse group teams to make data more accessible for ARM users Finding ARM Aerial Facility (AAF) data is now easier with products such as ARM’s new Data Discovery browser. Now a cross-cutting ARM team has made years of data more discoverable to ARM users. Photo by Mika Baumeister on Unsplash. In late April 2017, Atmospheric…
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Storm Animations, CACTI-Style
New visualizations turn data into dramatic 3-dimensional images of evolving thunderstorms ARM’s main observatory for the 2018–2019 Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign was between two mountain ridgetops in Argentina. It included the second-generation C-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar (CSAPR2), the bulb-like structure in the center. Its case-study data have been translated…