Field Notes

As the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) field campaign draws closer, the ARM team at Los Alamos National Laboratory works together with researchers to make sure instruments are ready to go.

Sébastien Biraud shares UEC updates, including important events coming up for ARM users.

Mark Ivey, manager of ARM's North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory, recounts a visit from Al Roker, broadcast meteorologist for the NBC morning show "TODAY." Roker traveled to Barrow, officially known as Utqiaġvik, for a series on earth system changes in the Arctic.

Bruno Cunha, a native of Graciosa Island in the Azores, assists with science close to home at ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory while also getting opportunities to see the world on remote field campaigns.

In his first message as the UEC chair, Sébastien Biraud shares the major topics on which the committee wants to focus in the next two years.

Brookhaven National Laboratory atmospheric scientist Mike Jensen details a recent workshop on the state of research and data sets from the Aerosol and Cloud Experiments in the Eastern North Atlantic (ACE-ENA) field campaign.

Completing his term as ARM User Executive Committee chair, Larry Berg shares the progress the committee made in 2018 to improve the ARM user experience.

Wrapping up its blog series about possible expansion scenarios, the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) team considers clear-air turbulence.

Adam Varble, principal investigator for the Cloud, Aerosol, and Complex Terrain Interactions (CACTI) field campaign, sent in this update from Argentina.

The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) workflow team aspires to solve a deep convection modeling conundrum.