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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.
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Preparations for Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment Move from Illinois to India
Scientific review meetings for the AMF and AAF science and operations team leading next year’s Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment, or GVAX were held this winter in Chicago, followed by a two-week scouting trip to the location of the field study in India.
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DOE Seeks Two Modeling Program Managers
The U.S. Department of Energy is seeking applicants through USAJOBS for two physical scientists to act as program managers for its climate modeling programs—Regional and Global Climate Modeling Program and the Earth System Modeling Program.
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Atmospheric System Research Funding Opportunity Announced
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science is now accepting applications for Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) research grants for the development of innovative laboratory and observational data analyses through the Atmospheric System Research program.
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Cirrus Clouds Hold Clues to Climate
On January 4, scientists sponsored by ARM began a five-month aircraft campaign to gather data from cirrus clouds in the skies above Oklahoma. Using an instrumented Learjet 25 research aircraft, their goal is to obtain a new and comprehensive set of in-cloud, or “in situ,” measurements about the size and number of ice crystals that…
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Highlights from DOE Scientific User Facility at AGU Fall Meeting 2009
Scientists from around the world use data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility to study the interactions between clouds, aerosol, and radiation. At this year’s American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting, scientists will present oral and poster sessions of their research using these data for long-term analyses, model…
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Thumbs-Up for Radar Design Reviews—Key Recovery Act Milestone
In November, ARM completed a series of successful preliminary design reviews for new scanning cloud and precipitation radars. This progress marks a key milestone for deploying 18 new radars—unheard of in the climate research arena—throughout the user facility through funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.