ARM Participates in Second Annual Atmospheric System Research Science Team Meeting

 
Published: 12 April 2011
In front of her poster, Alice Cialella from Brookhaven National Laboratory speaks to ARM Aerial Facility Program Manager Rickey Petty.

ARM Facility staff participated in the second annual Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Science Team Meeting, held March 27-April 1 in San Antonio, Texas. ASR and ARM collaborate through the use of ARM facilities for targeted field campaigns and data gathered at ARM sites for climate model improvement. The annual meeting provides an opportunity for science and infrastructure to gather and review progress and plans related to their combined efforts. In addition to coordinating the meeting, ARM staff provided an orientation about the user facility to new and existing principal investigators, presented several posters, and participated in numerous breakout sessions related to field campaign planning and and new instrumentation and data.

The ARM orientation on Monday morning included an overview of the ARM Climate Research Facility sites, types of measurements available, and information available on the website. Personnel from the ARM Data Archive demonstrated several different ways to access and order data through instrument web pages, measurement web pages, and various Data Archive browsers. Archive managers also discussed new capabilities for data analysis and visualization of large data sets.

During the Tuesday and Wednesday poster sessions, many ARM posters focused on aspects of data availability, accessibility, processing, and visualization. Other posters addressed Recovery Act upgrades at the various ARM sites. Some of their posters won People’s Choice awards: Mark Ivey for a poster summarizing Recovery Act activities at the North Slope of Alaska site; Giri Palanisamy for a poster on interactive visualization tools at the ARM Data Archive; and Michael Ritsche for a poster detailing the design and concept of the second ARM Mobile Facility.

The ARM Climate Research Facility provided information about the user facility, including a live data kiosk, public information materials, and a banner showcasing the ARM Aerial Facility.

In thanks for their long service, plaques were presented to retirees Bob Hannigan and Bernie Zak. Bob Hannigan piloted the G-1 aircraft for the ARM Aerial Facility, and Bernie Zak joined ARM in 1991, serving as both Site Manager and then Science Liaison for the North Slope of Alaska.

See the ASR Science Team Meeting website for more information and posters/abstracts as they become available.