Features

Research that appears in the June 15 issue of Nature Communications used ARM data from the AWARE campaign to help document the event.

ARM’s Barrow Observatory Reaches Milestone This year, ARM’s Barrow, Alaska, atmospheric observatory celebrates its twentieth year of continuous operation, marking another important milestone in ARM’s 25-year history of collecting data. The Barrow site began continuous operations [...]

In August, when the month-long Land-Atmosphere Feedback Experiment (LAFE) kicks off at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) megasite, researchers will get a unique look at how the atmospheric boundary layer responds to what is directly below [...]

At ARM’s flagship atmospheric observatory the future (megasites and more modeling) is already at hand This is the second article in a series about the first 25 years of data at the ARM Climate Research Facility. In the late 1980s there was widespread concern among atmospheric scientists that [...]

In a recent Nature Communications paper, GoAmazon data were used to report some startling conclusions about isoprene.

In a coming campaign, weeks of interlocking observations on marine clouds and aerosols Low clouds populate the first two kilometers of the atmosphere. Cumuliform clouds heap high and are made from columns of fast-rising air. Stratiform are sheet-like and show little vertical air movement. Since [...]

Linking radiosondes, planes, and mountainside instruments to study winter clouds It is rarely a good idea to tell a scientist she has her head in the clouds. But Anna Gannet Hallar, an atmospheric scientist who specializes in aerosol and cloud microphysics, thinks that is a lovely idea. She [...]

In her native Estonia, budding atmospheric scientist Maris Palo is a doctoral student at the University of Tartu. When she is not cracking books or watching over instruments in the field, she works at the university’s Laboratory of Environmental Physics. Her academic specialty is atmospheric [...]

First sophisticated Antarctic cloud, aerosol data collected to improve earth system models for the region In a science campaign of unprecedented challenge, researchers recently completed the first substantial climate measurements on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet in 50 years. Sophisticated [...]

A look at the late, great campaign for measuring mid-continent greenhouse gases One day in March 2000, a Cessna 172 took off from a little airstrip in Ponca City, Oklahoma. The intent: Measure air samples of dried aerosol particles at nine different altitudes to determine their light-scattering [...]