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The Department of Energy selected four major field campaigns to take place using ARM facilities from 2013 through 2015. The second ARM Mobile Facility will be placed in boreal forests in Finland before traveling to the California coast. This summer, the ARM Aerial Facility will fly near forest fires and agricultural burns in Washington state and Arkansas, while continuing to support aerosol and carbon flights at the ARM SGP site.
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For Immediate Release: Wednesday, January 9, 2013
AUSTIN, Texas—Today at the 2013 American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, the U.S. Department of Energy’s Wanda Ferrell is receiving the prestigious “Cleveland Abbe Award for Distinguished Service to Atmospheric Sciences.” The award recognizes Ferrell "for skillful, dedicated leadership in managing the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility, which [...]
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Kids and adults flock to Cape Cod National Seashore for close-up look at science facility
Science education is alive and well! At nearly the halfway point of the ARM Facility’s Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP) at Cape Cod National Seashore, more than 852 students and adults from throughout Cape Cod visited the ARM Mobile Facility site [...]
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Enjoying fair skies and ocean breezes, a large and enthusiastic crowd gathered at the Highlands Center at Cape Cod National Seashore in late July to officially kick off the year-long Two-Column Aerosol Project, or TCAP. About 50 area stakeholders, four staff from the Massachusetts federal and state Congressional delegations, and several DOE officials joined [...]
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Between December 2011 and April 2012, a research team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory put ARM’s new Mobile Aerosol Observing System (MAOS) to the test, and it passed with flying colors. Building upon previous system integration and operational testing during summer 2011, the primary goal of the Pajarito Aerosol Couplings to Ecosystems, or PACE, [...]
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On March 31, the ARM Mobile Facility stationed at Nainital, India, completed its 9-month deployment for the Ganges Valley Aerosol Experiment. Highlights from the data set include measurements of the subtropical jetstream over the Ganges Valley region; cloud cover and cloud heights for the monsoon period; and water vapor profiles through the various seasons. In addition, measurements from Doppler and Micropulse lidars indicate that aerosol distribution could be much more localized than previously assumed, and also confined to thin layers of a few hundred meters in the lower atmosphere.
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On April 30, at about 10:30 p.m, a tornado touched down in Medford, Oklahoma, northwest of the Central Facility at ARM’s Southern Great Plains site. As the storm track moved southeast, ARM's new network of scanning precipitation radars captured the storm signatures in extreme detail. Unfortunately, SGP site staff experienced even more detail, as the path of destruction included their personal property.
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On March 31, the ARM Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Investigation Experiment, or AMIE, came to an end, signaling the return of the second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) to the United States and a return to routine operations at the ARM site on Manus Island in Papua New Guinea. Researchers have already begun analyzing the AMIE data set.
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Large-scale observation network in Korea opens door to new collaborations
Dr. Kyungjeen Park, Korea Meteorological Administration, faces a tremendous responsibility: develop a microscale observing capability to support a major urban atmospheric measurement and modeling project. The project is to take place in the metropolitan area of Seoul City—a megacity of close to 20 million [...]
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