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Hopping Continents in the Name of Atmospheric Science
ARM Mobile Facilities continue to collect valuable data 15 years after first deployment Since 2005, mobile observatories have helped ARM conduct atmospheric research around the world. Take sophisticated scientific instruments and send them around the world in shipping containers to collect atmospheric data in remote locations for months—even years—at a time. This is a signature…
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Arctic Research Soars to New Heights
This story was originally published on the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) website. CIRES postdoctoral researcher Radiance Calmer (left) and University of Colorado, Boulder, engineering graduate student Jonathan Hamilton place an unmanned aerial system on its launcher in preparation for its first test flight in Boulder. It’s the same kind they are using…
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Boss of the Boundary Layer
David Mechem’s early interests in computers and weather brought on a cloud-modeling career This is the latest article in a series of profiles on scientists who use ARM data. David Mechem stands at the top of Mount Washington, New Hampshire, which he describes as a bucket-list destination for meteorologists because of its reputation for extreme…
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New Paper Gathers Early Results From ARM West Antarctic Campaign
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) installation team included, from left to right: Maciej Ryczek, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); Dan Lubin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Colin Jenkinson, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; and Heath Powers, LANL. Photo is courtesy of Lubin. A new article in the early online releases for the Bulletin of the American…
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Polish Your ARM Preproposals: Principal Investigators Share Their Wisdom
Discover three tips for submitting a successful ARM proposal from Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Michael Jensen, principal investigator for the upcoming TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). Every year, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility seeks field campaign proposals from scientists around the world. If you want to propose for ARM’s latest call, time is…
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Stephen Springston: Master of Puzzles and Problems
For decades, this chemist has grappled with consequential particles in the atmosphere This is the latest article in a series of periodic profiles on scientists who create and apply ARM data. Stephen Springston of Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) is an atmospheric chemist, aerosols expert, and longtime ARM instrument mentor. Here, he poses outside a meeting…
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Small Is Beautiful, Part 3: Cracking the Mysteries of Atmospheric Ice
Researchers in the stormy Great Plains study particles involved in ice crystal formation This is the third and final article in a series about small campaigns in 2019 at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. In spring and summer particularly, the open farmland in and around ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory is a…
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Small Is Beautiful, Part 2: Testing, Testing
The Southern Great Plains is a prime location to evaluate new ground instruments and networks This is the second article in a series about small campaigns held in 2019 at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. During the 2019 convective storm season at ARM’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory, researchers set up five differential…
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Adam Theisen: Managing ARM Instruments
Schooled in weather radars and quality control, one scientist leads ARM into a new era of data gathering This article continues a series of periodic profiles on scientists who create and apply ARM data. Adam Theisen, ARM instrument operations manager, works at Argonne National Laboratory. Photo is courtesy of Theisen. Atmospheric scientist Adam Theisen, a…
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For the Arctic, an Epic Investigation
Embedded in sea ice for a year, a shipborne observatory will take a rare look at conditions in the rapidly evolving central Arctic In the Arctic, sea ice extent today is less than half of what it was in 1984. Photo is courtesy of the Alfred Wegener Institute. More than 10 years after the idea…