ARM Attends Third Annual Atmospheric System Research Science Team Meeting

Published: 29 March 2012

ARM Display — The ARM Climate Research Facility provided information about the user facility, including a live data kiosk, public information materials, and banners showcasing the three fixed ARM sites.

The third annual Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Science Team Meeting, held March 12-16 in Arlington, Virginia, brought together members of ASR and the ARM Climate Research Facility. 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 scientists and infrastructure staff 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 new sites, field campaign planning, and ARM data.

ASR participants stop by a poster describing the development of a stable platform for shipborne measurements.

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. During the Tuesday and Wednesday poster sessions, many ARM posters focused on data availability, accessibility, and quality; value-added products; changes and upgrades at ARM sites; and current and upcoming field campaigns. Other posters presented some of the first data from Recovery Act instruments that were deployed at ARM sites during the past two years.

Two breakout sessions during the meeting focused on ARM’s upcoming new sites: a fixed site in the Azores and an extended-deployment mobile facility in Oliktok, Alaska. At both sessions, ARM infrastructure staff discussed plans for the new sites and answered meeting attendees’ questions.

ChuckWanda — Chuck Long recognized Wanda Ferrell for the Department of Energy's support of the AMIE field campaign.

During Thursday morning’s plenary session, Chuck Long, principal investigator for the AMIE field campaign, presented ARM Program Manager Wanda Ferrell with a crystal paperweight featuring the AMIE logo in appreciation for DOE’s support of the campaign.

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

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The ARM Climate Research Facility is a DOE Office of Science user facility. The ARM Facility is operated by nine DOE national laboratories, including .