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Storm Study in Oklahoma Records Extreme Weather Events
Late spring weather in the Midwest generated some of the most severe weather ever recorded in the state of Oklahoma and produced a variety of convective cloud conditions to be captured by the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, or MC3E, at the ARM Southern Great Plains site.
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U.S. Department of Energy Kicks Off Scientific Collaboration with India
Representing the first collaboration on a long-term environmental field study in India, this week the ARM Mobile Facility began operating at the ARIES Observatory in Nainital, India, for the nine-month Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment, or GVAX.
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Mobile Facility Anchors U.S.-India Collaboration for Cloud-Aerosol Studies
In early June, installation of the ARM Mobile Facility instrument suite is underway at the ARIES Observatory in Nainital, India. The past few decades have seen rapid increases in economic activity in many Asian countries. This is particularly true in countries like India, where new cement factories, steel mills, and power plants fuel the growing…
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Scientists Begin 5-month Study of Cloud Life Cycles
Ski season is snow season, and snow season means clouds—exactly what a team of atmospheric scientists in “Ski Town USA” are anticipating.
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User Facility Highlights at 2010 AGU Fall Meeting
At this year’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, ARM’s scientific users are presenting dozens of oral and poster sessions describing their research using data from the user facility.
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Future Field Campaigns Span Atlantic Ocean to Indian Ocean
The Department of Energy recently announced the selection of major ARM field campaigns that will take place from 2011 through 2014 in the tropics, the North Atlantic, and Amazon Basin.
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CARES Campaign Comes to a Close in California
June 28 marked the last official day for the Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study (CARES) in Sacramento, where the ARM Aerial Facility coordinated 21 science flights by the Gulfstream-1 aircraft and obtained aerosol data from 67.4 research hours.
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Mobile Facility Completes First Test at Sea
Facing its first test on the open seas off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, instrumentation from the second ARM Mobile Facility, or AMF2, was installed on the RV Connecticut during the week of June 14.
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Happy Anniversary! ARM Data Quality Office Turns Ten
This June, the ARM Data Quality (DQ) Office celebrates its 10-year anniversary as the official gatekeeper of ARM data. Our DQ Office ensures quality data—the hallmark of ARM—are collected by field instrumentation located at sites around the world.
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Field Campaign Begins in Sacramento to Study Aging Aerosols
During June, dozens of researchers are in Sacramento for the Carbonaceous Aerosol and Radiative Effects Study, or CARES. The team is using more than 50 instruments at two ground sites and on two aircraft, including the G-1, to measure the evolution of black carbon and secondary aerosols in Sacramento’s urban air plume.