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BAMS Paper Highlights Initial ARM Southern Ocean Campaign Results
MARCUS, MICRE included in overview publication of recent campaigns in the region During the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) field campaign, ARM instruments aboard the Aurora Australis supply vessel collected atmospheric data while traveling between Australia and Antarctica between October 2017 and April 2018. To improve the understanding and…
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BAMS: Two More Hits for ARM Data
Improving earth system models is at the heart of a pair of new studies Data from ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, above, informed some of a metrics and diagnostics package of earth system models outlined in a July 2020 paper. Hot streaks? Not only athletes have them. Institutions do too. A pair of recent…
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New Paper Gathers Early Results From ARM West Antarctic Campaign
The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) installation team included, from left to right: Maciej Ryczek, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); Dan Lubin, Scripps Institution of Oceanography; Colin Jenkinson, Australian Bureau of Meteorology; and Heath Powers, LANL. Photo is courtesy of Lubin. A new article in the early online releases for the Bulletin of the American…
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SHEBA: Still Serving Science
An arctic field campaign in the late 1990s set the stage for present-day research investigating shrinking ice cover, warming temperatures, and other changes In the summer of 1998, during the yearlong Surface Heat Budget of the Arctic Ocean (SHEBA) field campaign, then-graduate student Bonnie Light paused in a melt pond. She was recording upwelling and…
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RACORO’s Durable Data
Measurements from a 2009 ARM field campaign continue to enlarge what we know about boundary layer cloud microphysics The U.S. Navy Twin Otter research aircraft, on loan from the Center for Interdisciplinary Remotely-Piloted Aircraft Studies (CIRPAS), took to the skies during the RACORO field campaign in 2009. Ten years after it began, an investigation of…
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A New Anatomy of Thunderstorms
A data-rich field campaign in Argentina will answer some mysteries of how deep convective systems begin, grow, and organize The Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign in north-central Argentina wrapped up data collection in April 2019, but the work to understand deep convective storms in the region through ARM data is just…
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ARM Data Provide Insights for Developing New High-Resolution Earth System Model
E3SM will provide insights on earth system interactions in the Arctic and their influence on mid-latitude weather. In this E3SM simulation, winter storms, represented here by clouds using outgoing longwave radiation, affect sea ice coverage through their strong winds. Subsequent changes in summer sea ice cover have important effects on local and remote weather. After…
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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…