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ARM’s Long-Awaited Alabama Observatory Set to Start
Editor’s note (October 18, 2024): The story below originally published September 24, 2024. The Bankhead National Forest atmospheric observatory is now operational and collecting data at the main and supplemental sites. See what data are now available from the observatory in the ARM Data Center. Beginning on October 1, 2024, the new observatory will provide…
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New ARM Trajectory Value-Added Product Now Available for Evaluation
A new evaluation value-added product (VAP) from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility provides back and forward trajectories for airmasses over ARM Mobile Facility deployments. Data from the multipurpose ARM trajectory (ARMTRAJ) VAP can provide information on the likely history of airmasses before they were observed over an ARM site, such as origin and…
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Historical Video Disdrometer Quantities Processed for Southern Great Plains
Time series of (a) rain rate, (b) radar reflectivity factor at S band, and (C) total droplet concentration from the VDISQUANTS value-added product are shown for August 24, 2012, at the Southern Great Plains Central Facility. Data plots are by Aifang Zhou, Brookhaven National Laboratory. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility recently released more…
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Bankhead National Forest Observatory Opening Approaches
Main and supplemental sites scheduled to be operational by October 1, 2024 ARM containers fill in the main site of the Bankhead National Forest (BNF) atmospheric observatory in Alabama. Instrument installation at the site will begin in August 2024. Photo is by Patty Campbell, Argonne National Laboratory. The final push is underway to open the…
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ARM Provides World’s First Multi-Site Long-Term Data Record of Ice-Nucleating Particles
Editor’s note: Jessie Creamean, a research scientist at Colorado State University and an ARM mentor for ice-nucleating particle collection and analysis, sent in the following update. Here I am setting up a salad bowl ice-nucleating particle (INP) sampler in Tasmania for the CAPE-k campaign. (Literally, we use a salad bowl to protect our filters from rain…