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A Homecoming Party at the Los Angeles Shipping Dock
Early this January, ARM’s second mobile facility completed its first extended marine operation. Curious workers at the Los Angeles shipping dock watched as engineers using cranes unloaded the scientific instruments from a cargo ship after finishing eight round trips between Los Angeles, California, and Honolulu, Hawaii.
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New Field Campaigns Move Mobile Facility to Finland Forest and California Coast; Aircraft to Explore Aerosol and Gases
The Department of Energy selected four major field campaigns to take place using ARM facilities from 2013 through 2015. The second ARM Mobile Facility will be placed in boreal forests in Finland before traveling to the California coast. This summer, the ARM Aerial Facility will fly near forest fires and agricultural burns in Washington state…
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News Tips from the 93rd AMS Annual Meeting
At the 93rd American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, scientists that use ARM data will share their research results ranging from new classes of clouds and black carbon aerosols to highly complex data sets from scanning radars. The meeting takes place in Austin, Texas, from January 6-10, 2013.
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New Data from Greenland for Arctic Climate Research
Initial data from the Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric State, and Precipitation over Summit, or ICECAPS, are now available through the ARM Data Archive.
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News Tips from 2012 AGU Fall Meeting
Next week, ARM’s scientific users are presenting dozens of oral and poster sessions describing their research using data from the user facility at the 2012 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. Nearly 20,000 researchers from around the world will gather in San Francisco to attend the largest worldwide conference in the geophysical sciences.
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New Flagship Data Product Launched
The new flagship product ARM Best Estimate (ARMBE) has launched with the release of ARM Best Estimate Cloud Radiation (ARMBECLDRAD) and ARM Best Estimate Atmospheric Measurements (ARMBEATM) data sets, formerly under the Climate Modeling Best Estimate VAP. ARMBE will represent all of the ARM best estimate value-added products (VAP).
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Ahoy! It’s MAGIC in the Pacific
Through funding from the Department of Energy, more than two dozen instruments are obtaining measurements from the sky above a cargo ship as it routinely transits between California and Hawaii.
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Capturing Aerosol Evolution at Cape Cod
From July 2012 to June 2013, nearly sixty instruments are obtaining atmospheric data from the ARM Mobile Facility site at Cape Cod National Seashore in Massachusetts.
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Collaborations in Atmospheric Science and Observations Discussed in Germany
In early June, ARM personnel visited the University of Cologne in Germany at the invitation of Susanne Crewell, Professor of Meteorology at the university to explore potential collaborations between German research programs and the ARM Facility.
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Leadership Position for Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Now Available
The Department of Energy’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research is hiring a second manager for the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program. Applications are due July 13.