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BAMS Publishes Summary of DOE-Sponsored Aerosol Summer School
Tom Watson, ARM’s lead instrument mentor for the aerosol chemical speciation monitor, teaches a lecture during the 2019 Aerosol Summer School at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Washington state. Photo is by Andrea Starr, PNNL. In July 2019, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), and Atmospheric…
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2020 ARM/ASR Virtual Joint Meeting Updates
Editor’s note (June 9, 2020): Registration is now open for the 2020 Joint ARM User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting, which will be held June 23 to 26 on Zoom. Note: Attendees must register separately for plenaries and for each breakout session. To register, go to the meeting registration links page. Dear ARM/ASR Community, As…
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Polarstern Returns to the MOSAiC Floe
New team continues fieldwork in the Arctic Members of the first team on the MOSAiC floe during Leg 4 are, from left to right, Lianna Nixon, Julia Regnery, Amy Macfarlane, and Delphin Ruche. Photos are by Lisa Grosfeld, Alfred Wegener Institute. From the Alfred Wegener Institute: After a month’s absence, on 17 June the German…
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New ARM Data Discovery Browser Officially Launches
User and stakeholder feedback instrumental in developing and refining new Data Discovery Watch the video above to learn what ARM’s new Data Discovery can do for you. Finding data you need from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility just got much easier. In late May 2020, the ARM Data Center officially switched to the…
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ARM’s Prakash to Represent United States on Global Data Committee
Giri Prakash manages ARM’s data services. Photo is courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Giri Prakash, who manages data services for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, accepted an invitation to serve a four-year term on the U.S. National Committee for the International Science Council’s Committee on Data (USNC/CODATA). Prakash, who works at Oak…
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ARM Data Center Receives International Certification
The CoreTrustSeal organization certified the ARM Data Center as a Core Trustworthy Data Repository. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility maintains a global data archive spanning almost 30 years, and the data are flowing in faster than ever. ARM crossed the 2-petabyte mark in March 2020, a little more than three years after completing…
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ARM’s Radar Network Evolves to Serve Research
New paper explores history of ARM’s radar effort—and what might be next ARM radars, such as Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radars (KAZRs), scanning ARM cloud and precipitation radars (SACRs and SAPRs), and the Marine W-Band ARM Cloud Radar (MWACR), operate all over the world. In addition to the Southern Great Plains (a, d) and Eastern North…
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ARM Nimbly Handles Change in MOSAiC Plans
Instruments gathered data on icebreaker while it was away from the ice The R/V Polarstern (left) helps carry out the crew exchange and supply delivery for MOSAiC Leg 4 in early June 2020 near Svalbard, Norway. Photo is by Leonard Magerl, Alfred Wegener Institute. Even out of the ice, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility…
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ARM Special Announcement: COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) Facility Updates
ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory moved into the second phase of its COVID-19 reopening plan May 26. In Phase 2, the SGP is continuing to limit workers onsite; however, teamwork is being allowed, and some visitors will be allowed after a two-week moratorium. Visit requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis and are expected to begin…
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Clouds and Precipitation: Advice to ARM From Experts
Diversely skilled scientists meet to prepare a report on what ARM needs to observe and model processes vital to Earth’s water and energy cycles Clouds and precipitation present measurement challenges. Here is a seaward view of both, taken from the Norwegian island of Andøya during ARM’s 2019‒2020 Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment…