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Cloud Cocktail Melts Greenland Ice Sheet
Research published today in the journal Nature shows that low-level clouds in Greenland that contain just the right amount of water are thick enough to block heat from escaping to space, but thin enough to allow sunlight to reach the surface. This cloud cocktail leads to enhanced warming near the surface. Measurements from ARM instruments…
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A Homecoming Party at the Los Angeles Shipping Dock
Early this January, ARM’s second mobile facility completed its first extended marine operation. Curious workers at the Los Angeles shipping dock watched as engineers using cranes unloaded the scientific instruments from a cargo ship after finishing eight round trips between Los Angeles, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii.
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New Field Campaigns Move Mobile Facility to Finland Forest and California Coast; Aircraft to Explore Aerosol and Gases
The Department of Energy selected four major field campaigns to take place using ARM facilities from 2013 through 2015. The second ARM Mobile Facility will be placed in boreal forests in Finland before traveling to the California coast. This summer, the ARM Aerial Facility will fly near forest fires and agricultural burns in Washington state…
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DOE’s Wanda Ferrell Receives Society Award for Leadership in Atmospheric Science
For Immediate Release: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 Wanda Ferrell, U.S. Department of Energy AUSTIN, Texas—Today at the 2013 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wanda Ferrell is receiving the prestigious “Cleveland Abbe Award for Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Sciences.” The award recognizes Ferrell “for skillful, dedicated leadership in managing the Atmospheric…
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Education Collaboration Provides Motivation for Science Exploration
Kids and adults flock to Cape Cod National Seashore for close-up look at science facility Cathy Skowron (far left), ARM Ranger, describes a weather balloon launch to visitors from the Carroll Center for the Blind during a tour of the ARM Mobile Facility site at Cape Cod National Seashore. Barbara Dougan, education specialist at the…
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Ahoy! It’s MAGIC in the Pacific
Through funding from the Department of Energy, more than two dozen instruments are obtaining measurements from the sky above a cargo ship as it routinely transits between California and Hawaii.
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Up Close and Personal at Cape Cod National Seashore
Visitors make their way to the ARM Mobile Facility, located on a coastal bluff near the Highlands Center at Cape Cod National Seashore.Enjoying fair skies and ocean breezes, a large and enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Highlands Center at Cape Cod National Seashore in late July to officially kick off the year-long Two-Column Aerosol Project,…
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Capturing Aerosol Evolution at Cape Cod
From July 2012 to June 2013, nearly sixty instruments are obtaining atmospheric data from the ARM Mobile Facility site at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts.
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Aerosol Research Keeps “PACE” with Ecosystem Science
The science and operations team at Los Alamos National Laboratory poses in front of the MAOS Aerosol and Chemistry units. From left to right: Kyle Gorkowski, Alison Aitken, Paul Ortega, Anna Trugman, Kim Nitschke, Manvendra Dubey, Caleb Arata and Curt Dvonch. Between December 2011 and April 2012, a research team led by Los Alamos National…
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ARM Mobile Facility Completes Aerosol Campaign in India
On March 31, the ARM Mobile Facility stationed at Nainital, India, completed its 9-month deployment for the Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment. Highlights from the data set include measurements of the subtropical jetstream over the Ganges Valley region; cloud cover and cloud heights for the monsoon period; and water vapor profiles through the various seasons. In…