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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 [...]

A new paper in Nature Communications demonstrates atmospheric reasons for ice loss One day in December of 2015, bound for a remote ice camp in the interior of Antarctica, Scripps Institution of Oceanography doctoral student Ryan Scott boarded a ski-equipped LC-130 turboprop transport plane at [...]

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 [...]

An ARM deployment in Finland helps puzzle out biogenic aerosols In January 2014, radar mentor Iosif “Andrei” Lindenmaier was part of an Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility team installing four radars in a remote tract of boreal forest in Finland. (The [...]

Getting top data from hundreds of instruments requires tip-top technical oversight For a few days this July, University of Wisconsin-Madison research scientist Jonathan Gero was on Graciosa Island in the Azores to install an Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI), a device that detects [...]