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
Climate sensitivity and the direct effect of carbon dioxide in a limited-area cloud-resolving model
20 February 2020
Romps, David
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Research area: Cloud Processes
In this study, cloud-resolving simulations are shown to exhibit a dramatic increase in equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) at higher temperatures, due to both an increase in forcing and a decrease in the feedback parameter. In addition, it is found that the direct effect of carbon dioxide offsets a quarter of [...]
Sensitivity of simulated deep convection to a stochastic ice microphysics framework
6 February 2020
Stanford, McKenna; Morrison, Hugh Clifton
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Research area: Cloud Processes
Observations show that atmospheric ice particle properties vary at different times and locations even for similar cloud conditions and thermodynamic environments. Yet, the way ice particles are represented in weather and climate models typically does not account for this variability. Herein, we develop a stochastic ice microphysics parameterization that includes [...]
Estimation of pressure perturbations needed to explain contact nucleation
21 January 2020
Yang, Fan; Vogelmann, Andrew M.
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Research area: Cloud Processes
The pressure perturbation hypothesis, which arose from recent lab experiments, has been proposed to explain the long-standing mystery of contact nucleation. However, validating the hypothesis is extremely difficult as it would require measuring pressure perturbations caused by the impact of ice nucleating particles on supercooled droplets. Instead, we improve understanding [...]