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New Cloud Microphysics VAP Evaluation Data Released for TRACER Campaign
Sample plots show the primary fields from MICROBASEKAPLUS (liquid water content, liquid effective radius, ice water content, and ice effective radius) for October 14, 2021, at the TRACER ARM Mobile Facility site in La Porte, Texas. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEKAPLUS) is now available for the 2021–2022…
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Updated: New Cloud Radar Products Available From COMBLE Campaign
Editor’s note (July 20, 2023): A new KASACRGRIDRHI evaluation release for COMBLE, which uses b1-level calibrated HSRHI data as input, is now available. The output is a single c1-level netCDF file containing calibrated radar moments remapped onto a 2D Cartesian grid. Access the data from the ARM Data Center. To cite the c1-level data, please…
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Cloud Microphysics VAP Extended at Southern Great Plains
Sample plots show the primary fields from MICROBASEKAPLUS (liquid water content, liquid effective radius, ice water content, and ice effective radius) on November 21, 2021, at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. New evaluation data are available from a value-added product (VAP) that builds upon the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s historical Continuous Baseline…
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Updated: New Cloud Radar and Sonde Products Available for TRACER, SAIL Campaigns
Editor’s note (September 29, 2022): The end dates of the KAZRARSCL data for TRACER and SAIL have been updated below to reflect the availability of new data. The original announcement was published July 22, 2022. INTERPSONDE potential temperature output profiles are shown for October 7, 2021, during the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). The…
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Satellite-Aligned Version of Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Product Now Available
The top image shows best-estimate reflectivity from the Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (KAZRARSCL) product for a sample day at the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. The middle image provides the KAZRARSCL best-estimate reflectivity after statistical alignment with CloudSat. The bottom image shows the CloudSat reflectivity offset that was applied at…
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New Cloud Microphysics VAP Evaluation Data Available for 3 ARM Sites
Sample plots are from the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) near Andenes, Norway, and show the primary fields from MICROBASEKAPLUS (liquid water content, liquid effective radius, ice water content, ice effective radius) on May 25, 2020. Cloud microphysical properties affect cloud radiative heating, precipitation formation, and aerosol-cloud interactions, among other important…
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New Cloud Radar and Sonde Products Available for BAECC Campaign
INTERPSONDE potential temperature output profiles are shown for May 23, 2014, during the Biogenic Aerosols – Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC) field campaign. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility released two new cloud radar and sonde value-added products (VAPs) from the Biogenic Aerosols – Effects on Clouds and Climate (BAECC) field campaign. BAECC…
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Three New Value-Added Products Available for MOSAiC Expedition
ARM instruments, including radars and aerosol instruments, operated on an icebreaker in the central Arctic during the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. Photo is by Tercio Silva, then with Hamelmann Communications. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility released three new value-added products (VAPs) from the 2019–2020 Multidisciplinary…
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Cloud Droplet Number Concentration Product Updated
This sample plot from the Southern Great Plains Central Facility shows the droplet number concentration for October 30, 2019. New data are available from the Droplet Number Concentration value-added product (NDROP VAP), which has been updated to use additional inputs. This will allow NDROP to be available quicker with better retrievals and to be applied…
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REVISED: Additional Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Product Releases Now Available
Editor’s note (September 1, 2021): Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Active Remote Sensing of CLouds (KAZRARSCL) data from January through June 2021 are now available for the Southern Great Plains and North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatories. The data announcement below was originally published June 28, 2021. These plots illustrate the KAZRARSCL product for a sample…