Field Notes

The second quarterly message from the chair of the ARM User Executive Committee is available now.

While the total solar eclipse of August 21, 2017, wowed spectators throughout the United States, ARM Facility instruments recorded data connected to the rare event.

ARM developers, translators, and engineers from three laboratories attended the Scientific Computing with Python (Scipy, [1]) conference in Austin Texas in July of 2017.

User Executive Committee Chair Larry Berg shares his first quarterly update with users.

Joseph Hardin and John Hubbe, ARM infrastructure staff from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, sent in this update. The ARM Facility launched the second year of its Inaugural Campaigns for ARM Research using Unmanned Systems, or ICARUS, an internal initiative at the third [...]

Greg McFarquhar, principal investigator for the Measurements of Aerosols, Radiation, and Clouds over the Southern Ocean (MARCUS) campaign, shares his team's preparations for hitting the high seas.

Paquita Zuidema, principal investigator for the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) campaign, shared early LASIC measurements.

Jerome Fast, principal investigator of the Holistic Interactions of Shallow Clouds, Aerosols, and Ecosystems (HI-SCALE) campaign, shares an update for the second phase.

Jonathan Gero, a research scientist at University of Wisconsin-Madison, sent this update on installing two AERI systems. I just completed the second of two Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI) installations in what is shaping up to be ARM’s year of the [...]

Allison Aiken, ARM Mobile Facility aerosol specialist for the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds campaign, sent this update. As I sat waiting to board the flight contracted by the Royal Air Force out of Brize Norton in the United Kingdom to Ascension Island, I was [...]