Members of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s science team are major contributors to radiation and cloud research. Scientists and investigators using ARM publish about 150 peer-reviewed journal articles per year, and ARM data are used in many studies published by other scientific organizations. These documented research efforts represent tangible evidence of ARM’s contribution to advances in almost all areas of atmospheric radiation and cloud research.
Research Highlights
Recent Highlights
Comprehensive trajectory data sets supplementing ARM deployments
10 January 2025
Silber, Israel
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Research area: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions
ARMTRAJ is a set of multi-purpose trajectory data sets that augments cloud, aerosol, and boundary-layer studies using U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility data.
Aerosol size distribution properties associated with cold-air outbreaks in the Norwegian Arctic
8 January 2025
Russell, Lynn M
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Research area: Aerosol Properties
We determine the characteristics of the aerosol size distribution associated with cold-air outbreaks over the Norwegian Sea, using observational measurements taken at Andenes, Norway and approximately 1000 km upwind at Zeppelin Observatory in Svalbard during ARM's Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE).
ARM observations help diagnosis and validation of newly released high-resolution versions of E3SM
31 December 2024
Zhang, Yunyan
Supported by:
Research area: General Circulation and Single Column Models/Parameterizations
With the rapidly increasing resolution of global and regional model simulations, how can we best use high-resolution ground-based observations to quickly diagnose model physics and efficiently feed back on model improvement? These two papers offer good examples of using ARM data to improve understanding of model behaviors on clouds and [...]