Research

ARM’s continuous measurements and field campaigns are helping advance climate science.
 

Scientists from around the world conduct research using data from ARM’s continuous measurements and field campaigns. ARM’s contributions to atmospheric science can be seen in science publications and research highlights.

Field Campaigns

Field campaigns provide a means for scientists to augment or modify the configuration of the ARM facility to address specific science issues. Campaigns range in complexity from deploying a single instrument to deploying an ARM Mobile Facility to remote locations around the world. As a scientific user facility, any scientist can submit a proposal to do field campaigns at ARM’s atmospheric observatories.

Publications

Data from ARM’s continuous measurements and field campaigns at sites around the world are a vital asset to atmospheric researchers. Research results are published in scientific journal articles, conference publications, and presentations.

Research Highlights

Publications in scientific journals represent tangible evidence of ARM’s contribution to advances in almost all areas of atmospheric radiation and cloud research. ARM’s Research Highlights summarize recently published research results.

Recent Highlights

Chemical properties and single-particle mixing state of soot aerosol in Houston during TRACER

1 May 2024

Zhang, Qi

Supported by: ARM ASR

Research area: Aerosol Properties

Our comprehensive measurements of black carbon (BC)-containing aerosols, conducted during the TRACER campaign, provided detailed insights into the composition, behavior, and variability of soot aerosols in Houston.  We find that the coating thickness of individual BC particles and their mixing with other species vary significantly, influenced by diverse emission sources [...]

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Above-cloud concentrations of cloud condensation nuclei help to sustain some arctic low-level clouds

24 April 2024

Igel, Adele

Supported by: ASR

Research area: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions

We investigated the importance of aerosol particles above cloud top for maintaining low-level clouds in the Arctic.

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