Lynne Roeder
Email: lynne-dot-roeder-at-pnnl-dot-gov
Twitter: @armnewsteam
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If you observe the typical AMIE/DYNAMO scientist during a day in the Maldives, you'll find that they are rarely seen without a few key pieces of equipment—a laptop, a USB drive for sharing data, a notebook and pen for jotting notes, and a camera. The camera might seem more like a tourist accessory than [...]
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Every Wednesday evening, all of the AMIE/DYNAMO/CINDY scientists on site gather in the TV room at the Equator Village hotel. It’s not movie night, but the weekly project briefing. Along with the local scientists, participants call in from various universities and labs in the United States, from the research ships, and from the [...]
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On Wednesday, October 19, I journeyed up the Atoll to see where our DYNAMO colleagues spend their days—at the SPolKa radar site.
The SPolKa is a dual-wavelength (10-cm S band and 0.8-cm Ka bands) polarimetric radar. The S-band radar will detect all of the precipitating and many of the non-precipitating clouds, and [...]
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The big question on everyone’s mind right now is whether the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) that looked like it was going to occur in the Indian Ocean this week is actually going to happen!
This plot shows a method of monitoring the MJO, known as a Wheeler-Hendon diagram, named after the two scientists, Matthew Wheeler and Harry [...]
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We were delighted to host a recent visit with the Maldivian Vice President, Dr. Mohamed Waheed. The visit went very well! He was extremely interested in the purpose of the AMIE/DYNAMO campaigns and the MJO.
Dr. Waheed, along with Ali Shareef, Maldivian Meteorological Service, is leading the charge for Maldivian environmental efforts, including a Tsunami [...]
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After five different planes and roughly 35 hours of travel, I arrived on Gan on Sunday afternoon, just in time for the first all day rainstorm of the AMIE campaign. I was glad we got some rain to test out the performance of the various instruments, but sorry it made my flight into Gan [...]
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One of the key components of the AMIE campaign is the launch of frequent radiosondes (weather balloons) to explore the evolution of the temperature and moisture fields as the MJO develops over the Indian Ocean and propagates across the Pacific. A key hypothesis of the campaign is that the deep convection can only organize into [...]
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AMF2 operations officially begin tonight with the start of radiosonde launches at 23:30 UTC, 30 September 2011 (04:30 a.m. local time, 1 October). A staff of local launchers has been hired for the arduous task of launching eight sondes per day, every day, for the next six months. Below is a picture of the sonde [...]
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I recently traveled to Manus to set up the instrumentation for the ancillary variability site for AMIE. As both a member of the DYNAMO Science Steering Committee and PI for the AMIE campaigns, I've been quite busy interacting with the DYNAMO folks. In addition, I've been working with Lynne Roeder and the ARM Education and [...]
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AMF2 operations officially begin tonight with the start of radiosonde launches at 23:30 UTC, 30 September 2011 (04:30 a.m. local time, 1 October). A staff of local launchers has been hired for the arduous task of launching eight sondes per day, every day, for the next six months. Below is a picture of the sonde [...]
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I recently traveled to Manus to set up the instrumentation for the ancillary variability site for AMIE. As both a member of the DYNAMO Science Steering Committee and PI for the AMIE campaigns, I've been quite busy interacting with the DYNAMO folks. In addition, I've been working with Lynne Roeder and the ARM Education and [...]
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