Field Notes

The R/V Polarstern is on its way back to Germany, signaling the impending end of the yearlong Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition.

Pavlos Kollias, Stony Brook University, writes about a new set of findings from ARM’s Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign.

Michael Jensen, principal investigator for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), shares the contributions of two university students to the TRACER campaign.

Colleagues share their parting words for Paul Ortega, who has managed site operations around the world for ARM during his nearly 30-year career at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

From ARM technician Tercio Silva, learn what it was like to work on the Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) and the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition.

Rob Wood, University of Washington, shares a new set of findings from the 2017–2018 Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign.

Jian Wang, principal investigator for the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign, kicks off a blog series looking at data from the campaign.

In this blog from Scott Collis, a co-investigator for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), see what emerged in a pre-campaign forecast exercise and how you can participate in future TRACER forecasting efforts.

Paquita Zuidema, principal investigator for the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) field campaign, provides highlights on a May 2020 workshop covering southeast Atlantic campaigns.

Michael Jensen, principal investigator for the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), discusses presentations from the final day of the TRACER science and logistics meeting—and what comes next.