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Brave New CoURAGE Campaign Set to Begin
Editor’s note (December 2, 2024): The story below originally published November 26, 2024. The Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE) began official data collection December 1. See what data are now available in the ARM Data Center. In and around Baltimore, Maryland, scientists, technicians, and students are poised for a year of measuring an urban atmosphere…
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5 Years Later, Updates From 4 DOE Early Career Awardees
From the states of Washington, Texas, and Michigan, scientists tell tales of ARM data Early Career Research Program awards from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), announced every summer, support outstanding national laboratory and university scientists beginning their careers. The money, time, and recognition they receive accelerates formative investigations that may guide the rest of…
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An Epic Arctic Expedition Turns 5
MOSAiC papers pour in, revealing new findings about the data-sparse and vulnerable region In February 2020, the German research icebreaker R/V Polarstern idles in the ice during the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Photo is by Tercio Silva, now with Fundação Gaspar Frutuoso. Five years ago, on September 20,…
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ARM’s Long-Awaited Alabama Observatory Set to Start
Editor’s note (October 18, 2024): The story below originally published September 24, 2024. The Bankhead National Forest atmospheric observatory is now operational and collecting data at the main and supplemental sites. See what data are now available from the observatory in the ARM Data Center. Beginning on October 1, 2024, the new observatory will provide…
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Former ARM Summer Scholar Teaches New Class of Students
ARM radar data mentor Ya-Chien Feng serves as 2024 ARM Open Science Summer School instructor During the 2024 ARM Open Science Summer School at Cleveland State University, Ya-Chien Feng introduces the ARM radar team during her lecture on ARM radar data. Feng, who participated in a 2018 ARM summer training event while at Colorado State…
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ARM Gears Up for Desert Deployment in Arizona
Phoenix area will welcome ARM field campaign beginning in 2026 A plane flies over the downtown skyline of Phoenix, Arizona, with hot air balloons floating over distant mountains. In 2026 and 2027, ARM will be in the Phoenix area conducting a field campaign called Desert-Urban SysTem IntegratEd AtmospherIc Monsoon (DUSTIEAIM) in the Southwestern United States.…
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The Long-Lived, Long-Useful ‘ARM Case’
A venerable single-column model intercomparison based on field data from 1997 persists as a big player in atmospheric science’s modeling literature Established in 1992 in Oklahoma, the Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory was ARM’s first field measurement site. Its wide-open spaces and frequent cloudiness and convection made it ideal for collecting data to run…
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The Big Work of Small Campaigns
Three representative ARM small field campaigns investigate aerosol formation, ship exhaust, and evolving albedo In June 2024, a tethered balloon carries instruments aloft for a small campaign above ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory in Oklahoma. Photo is by Brent Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories. Compared to their larger counterparts in atmospheric research, small field…
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Instrumental: Brookhaven’s Alabama-Bound Spectrometer
Atmospheric scientist and interns calibrate aerosol-sampling instrument ahead of its deployment to Bankhead National Forest Editor’s note: The original version of this article by Nora Lowe appeared on the Brookhaven National Laboratory website. Environmental scientist Maria Zawadowicz’s team stands in front of mass spectrometry equipment in a Center for Aerosol Measurement Science (CAMS) laboratory at…
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A Visionary Approach: Accessible Maps Developed for Colorblind Scientists
Nearly 8% of genetic males and 0.5% of genetic females have some form of color vision deficiency Editor’s note: The original version of this release by Marguerite Huber appeared on the Argonne National Laboratory website. Viewing a storm system using the National Weather Service (NWS) Reflectivity colormap and the Chase Spectral color vision deficiency (CVD)-friendly…