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  • Eclipse, Rain Contribute to Memorable Field Campaign at Southern Great Plains

    Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment Already Providing Insights This photo was taken inside the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Space Science and Engineering Center Portable Atmospheric Research Center (SPARC) trailer system. The people are (front to back) Dave Turner, Tim Wagner (behind Turner), Alan Brewer (with hat), and Coda Phillips. Turner and Brewer are from NOAA, and Wagner and…

  • How to Write a Proposal They Can’t Refuse

    ARM Experts Share Five Tips for Success ARM’s atmospheric mobile observatories help researchers answer their big science questions anywhere on the planet. The LASIC field campaign, deployed on the remote Ascension Island shown here, looked at how clouds react to aerosols from burning biomass in Africa. It’s that time again: Come December 1, researchers can…

  • For the Best Aerosol Data, ARM Embraces Harmony

    A project underway will harmonize aerosol observing systems by reconciling processing steps in the data During the aerosol observing system (AOS) transition at the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, the sun poetically sets on the original AOS (left) and on the next-generation AOS (right). After two decades of service, the original AOS will be decommissioned.…

  • MARCUS Means a Rolling, Rich Science Look at the Southern Ocean

    DOE-funded campaign gathers the most complete set of data on aerosol and cloud properties from shipboard instruments over the stormy Southern Ocean The Aurora Australis rests dockside in Hobart, Australia. Image courtesy of Greg McFarquhar, University of Oklahoma. At dockside in Hobart, Australia, the bright red-orange Aurora Australis looks blunt and wide. When not in…

  • ARM’s Southern Great Plains Observatory Hosts Unmanned Aerial Systems

    CLOUD-MAP Campaign Demonstrates the Future of Atmospheric Data Collection Some of the CLOUD-MAP participants stop for a moment at the entrance to the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory with their unmanned aerial systems. In July, a dozen unmanned aerial systems (UASs) took to the air at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory in Oklahoma for…

  • With ARM Instruments Watching, an Extensive Summer Melt in West Antarctica

    A new paper in Nature Communications demonstrates atmospheric reasons for ice loss Melting sea ice appears on McMurdo Sound, West Antarctica, where ARM deployed sophisticated climate instruments to capture rare data. One day in December of 2015, bound for a remote ice camp in the interior of Antarctica, Scripps Institution of Oceanography doctoral student Ryan…

  • Discover 20 Years of ARM Arctic Data

    ARM’s Barrow Observatory Reaches Milestone Five years after data flowed from the Great Plains, critical atmospheric data began being collected at the Barrow, North Slope of Alaska observatory— marking twenty years this summer. This year, ARM’s Barrow, Alaska, atmospheric observatory celebrates its twentieth year of continuous operation, marking another important milestone in ARM’s 25-year history…

  • Field Campaign’s Unique Surface Views Could Provide New Clues about Land-Atmosphere Interactions

    The ARM Facility Raman lidar will be a key instrument for the Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) field campaign, which will take place in August at the Southern Great Plains megasite. In August, when the month-long Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) kicks off at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) megasite, researchers will…

  • At Age 25, Southern Great Plains Has Gathered Critical Data

    At ARM’s flagship atmospheric observatory the future (megasites and more modeling) is already at hand This is the second article in a series about the first 25 years of data at the ARM Climate Research Facility. The Southern Great Plains opened in 1992 and was the first ARM atmospheric observatory. Still the flagship of the…

  • Thanks to an Air Campaign, a New View of Tropical Forest Emissions

    GoAmazon researchers grapple with the complexity of biogenic volatile organic compounds Amazonian tree cover accounts for a large part of the world’s atmospheric isoprene, a biogenic volatile organic compound that contributes to ozone and aerosol formation. Image courtesy of Sarah Batalha, University of California, Irvine. During the 2014-2015 Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon) campaign, scientists studied…