Members of the ARM Climate Research Facility’s science team are major contributors to radiation and cloud research. Scientists and investigators using ARM facilities publish about 150 refereed journal articles per year, and ARM Facility data are used in many studies published by other scientific organizations. These documented research efforts represent tangible evidence of the ARM Facility’s contribution to advances in almost all areas of atmospheric radiation and cloud research.
Research Highlights
Recent Highlights
The Role of Radiative Heating in the MJO
7 August 2017
Johnson, Richard H; Xie, Shaocheng
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Research area: Cloud Processes
Despite its broad impacts on global weather and climate, the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), which dominates tropical intra-seasonal variability, remains poorly represented in many weather forecasts and global climate model simulations. To improve our understanding of key processes of MJO initiation and propagation, this study, resulting from an ASR grant, uses [...]
Ice formation in stratiform mixed-phase clouds at warm temperatures
19 July 2017
Zhang, Damao
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Research area: Cloud Processes
Low-level stratiform clouds have a high occurrence in polar regions. Accurate cloud thermodynamic phase determination is required to perform cloud property retrievals and to study aerosol-cloud interactions with remote-sensing measurements. However, ice particle formation in slightly supercooled stratiform clouds is still not well documented or understood.
Impact of Dispersion on CAM5 Cloud Radiative and Aerosol Indirect Effects
18 July 2017
Liu, Yangang
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Research area: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions
Accurate representation of cloud microphysics and aerosol-cloud interactions is essential to improving the ability of large-scale models to simulate clouds, precipitation, and aerosol indirect effects, and much remains to be done. Particularly understudied is the spectral dispersion of cloud droplet size distribution--how water is distributed among cloud droplets of different [...]