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A Richly Deserved Retirement; a Job Well Done
June 30, 2014, marks another key milestone in the progress and evolution of the ARM Climate Research Facility. After 20 years of leadership, Wanda Ferrell, DOE Program Director for the ARM Facility, is retiring.
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First Phase of Research Flights Completed for GOAMAZON
Crisscrossing the sky above the Amazon Basin, a Gulfstream-1 aircraft operated by the ARM Aerial Facility completed 16 flights and logged 42 research hours between February and March 2014 for Phase 1 of airborne measurements for the Green Ocean Amazon, or GOAMAZON, field campaign.
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Standards for ARM Data Assure Consistency, Sustainability
To sustain and enable consistent use and analysis of multiyear data sets by the scientific community, the newly published ARM Data Standards Version 1.0 details the required and recommended standards for ARM data.
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International Collaborations Highlighted at EGU Assembly
This week in Vienna, researchers at the 2014 European Geophysical Union’s General Assembly will hear how data from the ARM Climate Research Facility is contributing to advances in climate models during sessions and posters presented by ARM staff and users.
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ARM Megasites Previewed at Annual Science Team Meeting
Research colleagues at the annual meeting of DOE’s Atmospheric System Research program were among the first to hear details about the ARM Facility’s plans for enhanced measurements to speed climate model advancements.
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A New Species in the Amazon Rain Forest: Scientists
Scientists will soon have a wealth of new climate data from the Amazon Basin. For the next two years, the Green Ocean Amazon, or GOAMAZON, field campaign is gathering climate data using a comprehensive network of instrumented observation sites located around Manaus, Brazil. Researchers will use data obtained during GOAMAZON to investigate how changes in…
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Biogenic Aerosols Examined in Finland Forest
This month, the ARM Climate Research Facility is deploying one of its mobile facilities among 50-year-old pine trees in southern Finland as part of the Biogenic Aerosols – Effects on Clouds and Climate field campaign. Equipped with dozens of different instruments to measure properties in the atmosphere, the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) will obtain…
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ARM Facility Embarks on Expansion in the United States
Building on 20 years of measurements at its observations sites around the world, the ARM Facility is now embarking on a reconfiguration strategy for even better observations of atmospheric processes to constrain high-resolution process models.
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Pole Position: New Field Campaigns Explore Arctic and Antarctic Atmosphere
For the first time, ARM ventures to Antarctica for one of several newly selected field campaigns taking place between 2014 and 2016.
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MAGIC Takes a Bow
As the Horizon Spirit sailed into port in Los Angeles at the end of September, the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM Climate Research Facility notched another milestone for climate science. In obtaining nearly a year’s worth of atmospheric measurements while crisscrossing the Pacific Ocean, ARM’s second mobile facility, or AMF2, completed the first-ever full-scale deployment…