Feature Stories & Releases

The Department of Energy recently announced the selection of major ACRF field campaigns that will take place in 2010. Studies led by prinicipal investigators Rob Wood, Hans Verlinde, and Jay Mace will examine marine, mixed-phase, and cirrus clouds in the Azores, Alaska, the Great Plains, and Colorado. For more information, read the DOE press release.

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Contract includes capabilities for continuous operation in marine environments to obtain key data about the atmosphere/ocean interface.

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Beginning May 19, 2008, the Department of Energy is deploying a portable atmospheric laboratory in southeastern China to examine the regional climate effects and global transport of aerosols. Data will be collected by the mobile facility in Shouxian from May through December 2008.

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In April 2008, scientists sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science will use a heavily instrumented research aircraft based out of Fairbanks to obtain cloud and aerosol measurements in the sky over Barrow, Alaska. Researchers will use the data to examine cloud composition and resulting effects on climate cycles.

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Equipped with state-of-the-art instrumentation and data systems, the Department of Energy's ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) provides fixed and mobile research sites around the world for conducting interdisciplinary science related to earth systems. AGU visitors to the ACRF exhibit can view live data from these sites and talk with scientists who use this data to improve climate models.

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