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Studying the Amazon Basin’s Climate by Air and by Land
Scientists have now completed the first half of the interagency Green Ocean Amazon (GOAMAZON) campaign, a two-year study to determine how Mother Nature interacts with pollution from a city of 2 million people and the impact that interaction has on the pristine and delicate climate of Brazil’s Amazon Basin.
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Seeing the Forest Through the Trees—And to the Aerosols
Nine months in the icy, cold forests of Finland was not what the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) was primarily created for, but because of its adaptability and reputation for stability in various climates and weather conditions, the AMF2 was essential for the Biogenic Aerosols – Effects on Clouds and Climate Campaign.
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Eastern North Atlantic Site Expands Data Capabilities
The now one-year-old climate research site has filled with instruments that will lead to cutting-edge research data.
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New 3D Tour Brings Users to the Southern Great Plains Site…Virtually
A virtual tour of the Southern Great Plains Central Facility site is now available. The SGP tour is the first in a series of virtual tours for the ARM Facility and will be followed by tours featuring the North Slope of Alaska and Eastern North Atlantic.
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ARM Facility Insights at the 2014 AGU Fall Meeting
On Monday, December 15, ARM Facility leadership held the ARM Next Generation Town Hall at the 47th annual AGU Fall Meeting. Their presentation is being made available for those who are interested as well as a comprehensive list of the DOE research using ARM data at AGU. On Thursday, December 18, a press workshop will…
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Around the World in 52 Months
The Department of Energy has selected six field campaigns to take place from 2015 through most of 2019. These new efforts kick off in the summer of 2015 at the Southern Great Plains site and take the first ARM Mobile Facility from Brazil to Ascension Island, located in the southeast Atlantic Ocean between South America…
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Megasites Accept Mega Challenge: New Directions Take Formation in First Workshop
With the growing interest in high-resolution model simulations, the Department of Energy Climate Environmental Sciences Division is hosting a series of workshops to focus on key scientific needs, gaps, and priorities in process model understanding and climate model prediction through the strategic deployment and operation of routine high-resolution modeling at the future “megasites” at the…
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Allison Aiken Receives ‘Most Influential Scientific Minds’ Award
This summer, ARM Mobile Aerosol Observing System (MAOS) operations lead Allison Aiken was named to Thomson Reuters 2014 list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds.” Aiken is currently supporting the MAOS for the mobile facility deployment in Brazil.
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Heartfelt Goodbye to Manus Island
After 18 years, the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM observation site at Manus Island is closed, but the data results will live on and remain available for use in the ARM Data Archive.
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Sally McFarlane Named DOE ARM Program Manager
On July 1, Dr. Sally McFarlane took a new role in the U.S. Department of Energy as the program manager for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility.