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Facility Highlights at American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting
Published: 22 January 2017
Find out how researchers are using data from the ARM Facility to improve regional and global climate models at the 97th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting.
New Website for the Next-Generation ARM User
Published: 17 January 2017
A newly designed ARM website went live December 29. Read the story to learn more about the new and improved features, which were developed in direct response to your feedback.
Third Virtual Tour Goes to the Middle of Atlantic Ocean
Published: 16 January 2017
Want to see how marine stratocumulus cloud data are collected? Let the third ARM virtual tour take you around the Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory.
Blizzard takes Mobile Facility at Oliktok Point Offline
Published: 9 January 2017
A blizzard packing 60 miles per hour wind gusts on January 5 knocked out power to the third ARM mobile facility deployed at Oliktok Point, Alaska, shutting down data collection for several days.
Request for Preproposals for Scientific Research
Published: 27 December 2016
The U.S. Department of Energy welcomes preproposals from all scientists—worldwide—for use of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility. Deadline is February 1
20 Years of ARM History Chronicled in Monograph
Published: 27 December 2016
Read the ARM monograph, an online history of ARM written by Facility veterans and published by the American Meteorological Society.
Barrow Flux Data Play Role in New Study
Published: 16 December 2016
Findings by Berkeley Lab researchers mean the Arctic may be even less of a carbon sink than previously thought
Scientists confirmed carbon dioxide pulses in spring thaw using Eddy Correlation (ECOR) Flux Measurement System data from the ARM Climate Research Facility Barrow observatory. Pulses of greenhouse gases, namely, carbon dioxide and methane, are released by soil when the frozen Arctic [...]
Insights to ARM Facility Activities at 2016 AGU Fall Meeting
Published: 8 December 2016
Join us next week at the 2016 Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. With 24,000 scientists from around the world gathering to share their latest research results in all areas of Earth science, be sure to find out how researchers are using ARM data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARM Facility in these 100 talks and posters.
From a Convective Clouds Campaign, a BAMS Cover and Scads of Rich Data
Published: 21 November 2016
Sometimes the math in climate science is pretty easy: MC3E, plus 24 authors, equals one gorgeous cover story for the September issue of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS).
MC3E is the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment, a field campaign designed to gather data on the life cycles of severe-storm cloud systems. The experiment covered six weeks in [...]
Data Storage Upgrades Future-Proof ARM Field Sites—For Now
Published: 21 November 2016
Planning makes perfect for successful upgrades to the site data systems
Throughout 2016, Cory Stuart, ARM’s Site Data System (SDS) and Cyber Security Manager, and his team at Argonne National Laboratory have been methodically visiting all ARM sites to upgrade the data systems, especially storage capacity. By their last installation—completed at the Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) site [...]