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DOE User Facilities Join Forces to Study Molecular Processes with Global Effects
EMSL will analyze aerosol samples gathered at an ARM site to better understand how microscopic particles and processes affect climate on a global scale EMSL, the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) user facility located at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Two U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) user facilities are sponsoring…
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Capture, Send, Check, Store: ARM’s Continuous Flow of Climate Data
From instruments to archives, terabytes on Sun, Clouds, Wind, and Gases Southern Great Plains, shown here nearly a decade ago, was ARM’s inaugural site for streaming data. In the sky over the Azores, in the remote Atlantic Ocean, a bank of clouds dips toward a radar on Graciosa Island. Data point. In Oliktok, Alaska, arctic…
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ARM Data Flow: A Look Back
ARM data often first flows to an on-site computer From its inception in 1990, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility has focused on four topics: science, instruments, sites, and data. Over time, the science focus evolved, expanding from radiative transfer to atmospheric processes and then to improved parameterizations for models. Instruments got more…
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ARM Principal Investigator Quoted in Science
LASIC principal investigator was quoted in a Science news story about African smoke and ocean clouds. Paquita Zuidema, University of MiamiScience magazine quoted Paquita Zuidema, University of Miami, in her role as lead scientist for ARM’s Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) campaign. Published August 25, “NASA Aircraft Probe Namibian Clouds to Solve Global…
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Spying on Thin Ice Clouds
Observations of thin ice clouds are scarce, contributing to a large range of uncertainties in present-day and future simulations of the polar climates. Data from the Thin Ice Clouds in Far Infrared Experiment, or TICFIRE, and ARM’s Barrow facility will help to develop a new spaced-based instrument in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency to…
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ARM Instruments Reel in Decades of Data
Looking back on climate gear both rugged and precise This is the second article about a recently published monograph on the first 25 years of the ARM Climate Research Facility. Three scanning microwave radiometers (left) undergo testing in the instrument field at the Southern Great Plains site’s Central Facility before becoming part of the ARM suite of instrumentation.…
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Reconfiguring ARM: Arctic Eyes in the Sky
The Inaugural Campaigns for ARM Research using Unmanned Systems—or ICARUS—is underway at Oliktok Point, Alaska. In response to researcher input, ICARUS was developed as the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility’s first initiative to begin routine operations using unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and tethered balloon systems (TBS) to collect spatial information about the rapidly…
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In India, a Science Journal Celebrates Insights from a Ganges Valley Climate Study
ARM instrumentation played a big role in the first joint U.S.-Indian experiment of its kind Nine months of data from the Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment (GVAX) and its growing scientific impacts are outlined in a special issue of Current Science, a prominent Indian journal. The Ganges River begins in a narrow valley in the Himalayas and…
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Caring for CARES: A California Air Study Keeps Spinning a Web of Research
During June of 2010, a lot of people cared about the Carbonaceous Aerosols and Radiative Effects Study (CARES), a 26-day investigation of the composition, evolution, and fate of aerosols in an air transport region where both natural and urban emissions mix.
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BAMS Article Reports on a Data-Rich ARM/NASA Storm Clouds Campaign
Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment to be published in upcoming edition Convective clouds distribute water, heat, and momentum throughout the lowest layer of the Earth’s atmosphere, where weather happens. They get their name from the convective motion prompted when the surface of the Earth heats up, causing air to become buoyant and rise into the…