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Paper Power: ARM Users Make Highly Cited Researchers List
A new list of highly cited researchers includes eight recent users of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, acknowledging the scientists’ global research influence. The Web of Science Group released its latest annual list of highly cited scientists and social scientists in November 2019. The list recognizes more than 6,200 international researchers whose work…
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ARM Seeks White Papers for Aerial Instrumentation Workshop
The Bombardier Challenger 850 will expand ARM’s scientific data collection capabilities. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is a multi-laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) scientific user facility advancing atmospheric and climate research. ARM’s aerial observatory capabilities enhance the surface-based ARM measurements. ARM is requesting white papers from the atmospheric research community to guide…
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2019 AGU Presentations Featuring ARM Data
With more than 25,000 attendees expected, the 2019 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting might feel overwhelming. We make it easy for you to find ARM-relevant science, meet up with colleagues, and discover new connections during the event in San Francisco, California. Below is a list of ARM-related AGU meeting highlights. Follow us on Twitter…
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ARM Remembers Longtime Tropical Western Pacific Site Scientist Chuck Long
Editor’s note: The following is from Jim Mather, technical director of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, and Thomas Ackerman, who was ARM’s chief scientist from 1999 to 2005. Chuck Long, who passed away in November 2019, led efforts within ARM to improve broadband radiometry measurements. It is with great sadness that we report…
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New ASR Funding Opportunity Announcement for 2020
Funding Opportunity Open for DE-FOA-0002198 – Atmospheric System Research (ASR) The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science program in Biological and Environmental Research (BER) is now accepting research grant applications for Atmospheric System Research (ASR). This funding opportunity announcement (FOA) solicits research grant applications for observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use…
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MOSAiC Data Now Available in ARM Data Center
The first data are in from ARM instruments on the R/V Polarstern for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility made available its first data from the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign. ARM instruments are…
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LASSO Expansion Workshop Report Released
Editor’s note: William Gustafson, principal investigator for the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow, sent in this update. The decision process for expanding LASSO is progressing! In May 2019 we held a workshop at the National Center for Atmospheric Research to discuss the collection of white papers submitted to ARM’s call…
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Argonne Lends a Hand Toward Climate and Weather Understanding
DOE user facility provides detailed weather and climate pattern data for more accurate prediction models This is a feature story published by Argonne National Laboratory and shared with permission. The 60-meter tower rises from a canola field at ARM’s Southern Great Plains Central Facility. From April to May 2011, the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E)…
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ARM Data Center Moves Forward on Priorities in Fiscal Year 2019
Efforts include push toward new Data Discovery, enhanced high-performance computing access Search results are shown in the new version of Data Discovery (top) and the current version. The ARM Data Center remained busy in fiscal year 2019 (FY2019), archiving and delivering about 20 terabytes of data per month while working on several projects to improve…
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Representing ARM Data Services Around the World
ARM’s Giri Prakash contributes to key global conferences and collaborations In November 2018, Giri Prakash (center, in brown shirt) represented ARM at the Polar Data and Systems Architecture Workshop in Geneva, Switzerland. During fiscal year 2019, Giri Prakash, ARM data services manager at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee, represented ARM at several international data…