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Tag: FY2024

  • Users Ask for New Arctic Aerosol Measurements, and ARM Listens

    ARM installs set of aerosol instruments at neighboring NOAA facility in Utqiaġvik, Alaska ARM aerosol instruments are now installed at a NOAA facility at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, near ARM’s North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory. The instruments are an aerosol chemical speciation monitor (taking up most of this rack), an aerodynamic particle sizer (on a shelf…

  • New Merged Product Integrates G-1 Flight Data

    Aerosol concentration data from the G-1 ultrafine condensation particle counter are shown for an approximately three-hour flight on December 8, 2018, near Córdoba, Argentina, during the CACTI campaign. Image is from Krista Gaustad, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. From 2010 until its final science mission in 2018, the Gulfstream-159 (G-1) aircraft served as the Atmospheric Radiation…

  • New Plan Details ARM’s Aerosol Priorities for Fiscal Year 2025

    This ARM Aerosol Observing System (AOS) is now collecting data in Alabama. ARM’s aerosol operations plan for fiscal year 2025 includes information on AOS operations in Alabama and at other ARM sites. Photo is by Mark Spychala, Argonne National Laboratory. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has released its aerosol operations plan for fiscal…

  • ARM Data Services Completes Successful Fiscal Year 2024

    Editor’s note: This is an update from ARM Chief Data and Computing Officer Giri Prakash. Photo of Giri Prakash is from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. I am pleased to share an overview of ARM Data Services’ significant accomplishments during fiscal year 2024 (FY2024). First and foremost, I extend my gratitude to the ARM staff and…

  • ARM’s Long-Awaited Alabama Observatory Set to Start

    Editor’s note (October 18, 2024): The story below originally published September 24, 2024. The Bankhead National Forest atmospheric observatory is now operational and collecting data at the main and supplemental sites. See what data are now available from the observatory in the ARM Data Center.  Beginning on October 1, 2024, the new observatory will provide…

  • Bankhead National Forest Observatory Opening Approaches

    Main and supplemental sites scheduled to be operational by October 1, 2024 ARM containers fill in the main site of the Bankhead National Forest (BNF) atmospheric observatory in Alabama. Instrument installation at the site will begin in August 2024. Photo is by Patty Campbell, Argonne National Laboratory. The final push is underway to open the…