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AMIE, What You Wanna Do?
Starting October 1, the ARM Mobile Facility began obtaining measurements from the sky above Gan Island, part of the Addu Atoll in the Maldives. Combined with continuous measurements from ARM’s permanent site on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea, data collected during AMIE will help scientists analyze the atmospheric phenomena that drive the Madden Julian…
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GOAmazon2014 Workshop Identifies Challenges, Opportunities
In July, DOE’s Office of Biological and Environmental Research (BER) held a 2-day workshop to identify key scientific challenges and opportunities associated with a major field campaign that will occur in 2014—Green Ocean Amazon 2014, or GOAmazon2014—taking place in Manaus, Brazil. The outcomes of this workshop are summarized in the newly released GOAmazon2014 Workshop Report…
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A Giant Lift for Arctic Climate Data
Ushering in the first operational precipitation radar on the U.S. Arctic Coast, engineers completed acceptance testing for the new X-band scanning ARM precipitation radar (X-SAPR) on June 21 at its location atop the Barrow Arctic Research Center in Alaska. Signal returns on June 24 provided an indication of the radar’s coverage, reaching distances of 200-250…
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Storm Study in Oklahoma Records Extreme Weather Events
Late spring weather in the Midwest generated some of the most severe weather ever recorded in the state of Oklahoma and produced a variety of convective cloud conditions to be captured by the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, or MC3E, at the ARM Southern Great Plains site.
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U.S. Department of Energy Kicks Off Scientific Collaboration with India
Representing the first collaboration on a long-term environmental field study in India, this week the ARM Mobile Facility began operating at the ARIES Observatory in Nainital, India, for the nine-month Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment, or GVAX.
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From Snow to Sand; Mobile Facility Headed to the Maldives
After spending six very snowy months at Steamboat Springs, Colorado, for the Storm Peak Lab Cloud Property Validation Experiment (STORMVEX), the second ARM Mobile Facility is heading to the tropical climes of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean for the ARM Madden-Julian Oscillation Experiment, or AMIE, which begins in October.
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Interagency Field Campaigns Converge at the Southern Great Plains Site
Several field campaigns are converging at the ARM Southern Great Plains site in Oklahoma this spring. Headlined by the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, or MC3E (read the Brookhaven National Laboratory press release), these campaigns involve intensive efforts to obtain measurements about cloud properties that will help scientists improve computer models that forecast weather and…
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Not Your Typical 3D Movie
Now that ARM’s new X-band scanning precipitation radars are up and running at the Southern Great Plains site, it’s time to share some videos of that great data.
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Team Continues Campaign Planning on Gan Island
In February, team members from the second ARM Mobile Facility met with scientific colleagues in the Maldives to confirm site selections for various ground-based instruments for their first international field campaign supporting the ARM Madden Julian Oscillation Investigation Experiment on Gan (AMIE-Gan).
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ARM Explores New Frontier with American Association for the Advancment of Science
The ARM Facility participated for the first time in the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held February 17-21 in Washington D.C.