Using data from ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, researchers are exploring how soil moisture conditions influence cloud properties. Soil moisture plays a crucial role in cumulus cloud formation, according to new research from the Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and Land-Ecosystems (HI-SCALE) field campaign. HI-SCALE took place in the spring and summer of…

Tethered balloon systems take to the skies above Alaska and the Southern Great Plains A tethered balloon crew member puts instruments on the tether for a flight in July 2019 at ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. It’s not unusual to see tethered balloons rising into the clouds above Oliktok Point, Alaska. The Atmospheric…

The Cloud and Precipitation Measurements and Science Group aims to address science needs of ARM data users ARM Mobile Facility radars sit in the shadows of clouds during the 2017‒2018 Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in Argentina. ARM’s Cloud and Precipitation Measurements and Science Group provides recommendations to increase the scientific…

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science Graduate Student Research (SCGSR) program is accepting new applicants for supplemental funds to conduct part of their graduate thesis research at a DOE national laboratory/facility in collaboration with a DOE laboratory scientist. These research opportunities are expected to advance graduate students’ doctoral theses/dissertations while providing access…

Joe Hardesty will become site manager while Mark Ivey slides over to science liaison Mark Ivey stands in front of a drill rig project at ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) site at Barrow (now known officially as Utqiaġvik) around 2010. After 13 years as NSA site manager, Ivey will trade roles with Joe Hardesty…

The third ARM Mobile Facility will end operations in Oliktok Point, Alaska, by the end of fiscal year 2021 and move to the Southeastern United States. A new site science team will be selected to help guide the move. With the recent announcement to move the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) from Oliktok Point, Alaska,…

ARM prepares to transfer its third mobile facility from Alaska to the Southeastern United States Cloud radars with the third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) scan the sky before incoming snow at Oliktok Point, Alaska. AMF3 will soon move from Oliktok to the Southeastern United States. The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)…

Future facility users and principal investigators learn about atmospheric particles and their effects on earth systems Jason Tomlinson, ARM Aerial Facility engineering manager, points out part of a passive cavity aerosol spectrometer aircraft probe to students Susanne Glienke, Alexandra Klodt, Catherine Banach, and Jamy Lee during a 2019 Aerosol Summer School demonstration at Pacific Northwest…

Submit your guest instrument proposals now Tethered balloon systems flew in April 2019 at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory and will fly there again in 2020. Missions there are tentatively scheduled for winter, spring, and summer. Photo is courtesy of John Schatz, ARM. In 2020, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility plans to…

ARM is busy with key efforts to study the Arctic and other polar regions ARM instruments are arrayed aboard the Aurora Australis supply vessel during the 2017–2018 Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) field campaign. Data from MARCUS contributed to the multinational Year of Polar Prediction (YOPP). Starting in September 2019,…