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It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a…Helicopter?
Contact: Lynne Roeder, ARM Public Information Officer, 509.372.4331 Duke University’s “Jet Ranger” is one of eight aircraft that will fly over the SGP site in June. Last week, scientists from across the country met in Ponca City, Oklahoma, to simulate flight and mission planning scenarios in preparation for two simultaneous field campaigns that will occur…
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ARM Mobile Facility Begins Precipitation Investigation in the Black Forest
Raindrops to reveal clues about climate in complex terrain Contact: Lynne Roeder, ARM Public Information Officer, 509.372.4331 Beginning today, the ARM Mobile Facility will collect data for 9 months in support of a long-term precipitation study in the Black Forest region of Germany. Requested by researchers at the University of Hohenheim, the facility is one…
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Arctic Winter Provides Window of Opportunity to Improve Climate Models
Dry winter conditions allows scientists to explore elusive portions of the electromagnetic spectrum Contact: Lynne Roeder, 509.372.4331 In conjunction with other scientific activities taking place during International Polar Year 2007-2008, today an international research team begins a three-week field campaign in Barrow, Alaska. The experiment, which is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric…
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Tropical Cloud Study Concludes; Science Students Play Key Role
Press Release Media Contact: Lynne Roeder, 509.372.4331 Three and a half weeks after it started, the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment has resulted in one of the most comprehensive data sets of tropical cloud properties ever collected. Co-led by scientist from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program and the Australian…
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Mobile Climate Monitoring Facility to Sample Skies in Africa
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program is placing a new, portable atmospheric laboratory with sophisticated instruments and data systems in Niger, Africa, to gain a better understanding of the potential impacts of Saharan dust on global climate. To learn more, read DOE press release.
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U.S. Climate Scientists Join Collaborators in Australia to Begin Tropical Cloud Experiment
Media Advisory Media Contact: Lynne Roeder, 509.372.4331 More than 100 researchers from around the world are gathering in Darwin, Australia, as they prepare to launch simultaneous ground, sea and sky operations during the Tropical Warm Pool International Cloud Experiment. The experiment, organized jointly by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program…
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Connection Between Clouds and Climate Highlighted in a Special Section of Scientific Journal
Press Release Media Contact: Lynne Roeder, 509.372.4331 A key uncertainty in computer simulations of climate change is the broad range of cloud-climate feedback processes. Natural phenomena that occur in cloud lifecycles present a difficult challenge to scientists studying how dynamic cloud conditions affect the sun’s incoming and Earth’s outgoing energy and, in the longer term,…
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New Mobile Atmospheric Laboratory Gathering Weather and Climate Change Data on the California Coast
Are Aerosols Reducing Coastal Drizzle and Increasing Cloud Cover? Scientists sponsored by the Department of Energy (DOE) are conducting a six-month atmospheric research campaign at the Point Reyes National Seashore, in Marin County, California. The experiment’s goal is to help researchers understand how aerosols—small particles such as soot, dust and smoke—influence the structure of marine…