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Using ARM Data, Scientist Helps Bridge Gap Between Observations and Global Modeling
Maike Ahlgrimm leaves the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts as a key contributor to its longtime relationship with ARM Maike Ahlgrimm used ARM data to improve global modeling at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). Ahlgrimm recently left ECMWF after 11 years. In a partnership of more than two decades, data from…
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A New Anatomy of Thunderstorms
A data-rich field campaign in Argentina will answer some mysteries of how deep convective systems begin, grow, and organize The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in north-central Argentina wrapped up data collection in April 2019, but the work to understand deep convective storms in the region through ARM data is just…
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ARM’s New Laboratory in the Sky
ARM Aerial Facility Purchases Bombardier Challenger 850 Regional Jet The ARM Aerial Facility’s new Bombardier Challenger 850 will expand scientific data collection capabilities. Higher, faster, farther, and stronger. These four words summarize the future of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Aerial Facility’s (AAF) airborne measurement capability. The AAF recently closed on the purchase of a…
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UEC Profile: The Draw and Drama of Severe Storms
One modeler/observationalist long ago fell in love with storms and is making something of it now This is the sixth article in a series of 2019 profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Adam Varble brings recent experience leading a field campaign in Argentina to his role on ARM’s User Executive Committee.…
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Help From On High
A federal partnership captures the layered synergy of space, aircraft, and ground observations A satellite image shows the main site (red box) of the recent Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in Argentina. Images are courtesy of NASA’s Langley Research Center. Let’s say you are an atmospheric scientist and use a lot…
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ARM-ASR-E3SM Collaborations Bear Fruit With E3SM’s Single-Column Model
Scientists use data from ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory to learn about cloud, aerosol, and atmospheric processes, which in turn leads to improvements in earth system models. Scattered across the prairies of north-central Oklahoma and southern Kansas, a collection of 50-plus scientific instruments points to the heavens. This is the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM)…
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UEC Profile: Modeling Radiative Effects
A young scientist combines observations and calculations to study how Earth budgets its solar and terrestrial energy This is the fifth article in a series of 2019 profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Daniel Feldman poses in front of the engineering model of the Infrared Interferometer Spectrometer, which in 1970 measured…
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UEC Profile: Maven of Remote Sensing and Radar Retrievals
A young scientist presses for improvements in radar retrievals of snowfall properties, cloud microphysics, and more This is the fourth article in a series of 2019 profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Remote sensing expert Maximilian Maahn wants to use his new role on ARM’s User Executive Committee to focus on…
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UEC Profile: A Student of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
A highly cited scientist is unraveling the puzzle of mixed-phase clouds and improving how aerosols are represented in earth system models This is the third article in a series of 2019 profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Cloud and aerosol scientist Xiaohong Liu poses in front of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer Center…
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UEC Profile: Cloud Modeler and Observer
Starting with physics and an urge to make a difference, a veteran atmospheric scientist turned her analyzing eye to the sky This is the second article in a series of 2019 profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Paquita Zuidema, a professor in the University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine and…