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In the first long term aircraft campaign of its kind, the RACORO field campaign wrapped up flight operations on June 30. Guided by a seven-member science steering committee, the team logged 259 research hours from the skies above Oklahoma. The five-month campaign obtained a statistical data set of cloud, aerosol, radiative, and atmospheric state measurements.
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At an elevation of more than 5000 meters on the Atacama Desert in Chile, the site for the second phase of the upcoming Radiative Heating in Underexplored Bands Campaign is not only very high, but also remote. To reduce the potential for surprises, the science and operations team completed a comprehensive beta test at the Pagosa Springs Staging Facility in Colorado between April 24 and 28.
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In a signing ceremony at the Laboratorio Regional Engenharia Civil in Ponta Delgada, the Azores, government officials from the United States and Portugal formally recognized agreements for scientific collaboration related to the ARM Mobile Facility deployment on Graciosa Island. The Mobile Facility will begin collecting data on the island starting in May. For more [...]
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Beginning in late January and lasting through the end of June, a Twin Otter aircraft is obtaining measurements several times a week from the sky above the ARM Climate Research Facility's Southern Great Plains site for the Routine AVP CLOWD Optical Radiative Observations (RACORO) field campaign. This is the first long-term aircraft campaign undertaken for systematic in situ sampling of cloud properties.
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At the 2009 AMS Meeting in Phoenix, Arizona, scientists involved in the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program will share their latest research findings related to the interaction of clouds and radiation. Scientists from around the world use the ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) ground-based climate measurement capabilities for studies ranging from [...]
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Contact: Lynne Roeder, ARM Public Information Officer, 509.372.4331
Onsite: Press Room or Exhibit Space 2654/2753
Scientists involved in the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program lead the world in research related to the interaction of clouds and radiation, while the ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) has become the standard for ground-based climate research observations. [...]
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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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