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UEC Profile: Christina McCluskey Keeps an Eye on Earth’s Thin Blue Line
Early career researcher is inspired to make a difference in the world Editor’s note: This is the sixth article in the 2021 series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Christina McCluskey is the early career representative on ARM’s User Executive Committee. Jump back in time and space to about 2005.…
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NASA Study Examines Houston-Area Air Quality Issues
Monthlong intensive mission in Texas complements DOE-led TRACER field campaign This article was originally published on the NASA Langley Research Center website. TRACER-AQ research flights are being conducted aboard a Gulfstream V research aircraft flying out of NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Photo is by Laura Judd, NASA. NASA scientists have been in…
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Does Pollution Make Thunderstorms More Severe?
To find out, researchers will study the effects of aerosols on storms in Houston, Texas The original version of this release is available on the Brookhaven National Laboratory website. The 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) aims to collect data on the evolution of convective clouds and the environment at locations around Houston, Texas.…
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Second ARM Mobile Facility Enters Second Decade of Deployments
Now in central Colorado, the mobile facility is beginning its longest deployment to date On September 1, 2021, the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) will begin official data collection at Gothic, Colorado, for the 21-month Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign. An ARM team started AMF2 site construction and instrument installation at Gothic in…
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Mountains of Data: An Unprecedented Climate Observatory to Understand the Future of Water
First-ever ‘bedrock-to-atmosphere’ observation system could allow scientists to predict the future of water availability in the Western United States For 21 months, this ARM Mobile Facility will collect measurements in Gothic, Colorado, during the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign. Site construction and instrument installation began at Gothic in June 2021. In this picture,…
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ARM’s Decadal Vision, Part 1: Field Measurements
ARM plans for years of comprehensive and impactful data from field instruments Editor’s note: This is the first article in a series about the four themes in ARM’s Decadal Vision document. All life on Earth lives within a shell of atmosphere that has an average thickness of just 7 miles (11 kilometers). All clouds exist…
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Understanding Low Clouds in a Remote Marine Environment
After just a few years, an ARM campaign in the cloud-decked Azores spins off prolific research on aerosol effects ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) atmospheric observatory sits in a prime location for studying low marine clouds. The Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign in 2017 and 2018 combined aircraft…
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Smoke Studies: The BBOP Beat Quickens
Peer-reviewed papers are piling up from a 2013 ARM airborne campaign on wildfires and controlled burns Editor’s note: This article is part of a series exploring ARM field campaigns and data on biomass burning events. In this view from ARM’s now-retired Gulfstream-159 (G-1) research aircraft, a smoke plume blooms into the sky from the August…
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Smoke Studies: Crucial Cloud-Deck Science
An ARM field campaign called LASIC has a pivotal role in multi-campaign data on clouds and aerosols over the South Atlantic Ocean Editor’s note: This article is part of a series exploring ARM field campaigns and data on biomass burning events. The first ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1) site on Ascension Island during ARM’s 2016–2017 Layered…
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UEC Profile: The Scientist Who Came In From the Cold
In the lab and in the field, an atmospheric chemist puzzles over clouds, aerosols, and hard-to-find ice-nucleating particles Editor’s note: This is the fifth article in a new series of profiles on members of the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC). Colorado State University atmospheric chemist Jessie Creamean pauses along the trail with her dogs Whiskey…