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Research Highlights

Scientists and investigators using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility data publish about 150 peer-reviewed journal articles per year. These documented research efforts represent tangible evidence of ARM’s contributions to improving our understanding of clouds and aerosols and their interactions with the Earth’s surface. ARM research highlights summarize these published research results.

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Each of your DOE-funded journal articles should include a research highlight. This is an important opportunity to summarize your work and describe its scientific impact. ARM has a simple form for you to fill out to share your highlight with ARM management.

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Recent Highlights

Propagating Information Content: An Example with Advection

12 August 2025

Turner, David D. ; Wagner, Timothy

Research area: Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Vertical Structures

Supported by: ARM ASR

This study provides a methodology to propagate the uncertainties of geophysical variables retrieved from multiple remote sensors in order to estimate the information content of derived quantities. A practical example is provided for water vapor and temperature advection fields derived from remotely sensed temperature, water vapor, and wind profiles.

Improving Estimates of Higher-Order Moments from Lidar Observations at the Boundary Layer Top

12 August 2025

Turner, David D. ; Wagner, Timothy

Research area: Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Vertical Structures

Supported by: ARM ASR

This work demonstrates a new technique for estimating higher-order statistics (e.g., variance, skewness, covariance) from high-temporal-resolution ground-based lidar data, where the data is normalized to the height of the convective boundary layer (CBL) before the statistics are computed.

Gray Zone, Clear Gaps: Sea Breezes and Convection Modeling at 1 km

2 August 2025

Wang, Die

Research area: Cloud Processes

Supported by: ARM ASR

Even at 1-km resolution, numerical weather prediction models still fall within the "gray zone" where critical turbulent and cloud-microphysical processes remain under resolved.