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
What controls variations in atmospheric humidity, CAPE, and precipitation?
21 January 2021
Romps, David
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Research area: Atmospheric Thermodynamics and Vertical Structures
Analytic solutions are derived for the relative humidity, lapse rate, and precipitation rate of an atmospheric column with mean ascent. By comparison with ARM data, it is shown that these solutions cannot be used to explain variations of humidity, CAPE, and precipitation as has been argued in the literature, but [...]
Considering irrigation improves simulated mesoscale convective systems and low-level jets
20 January 2021
Fast, Jerome D
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Research area: General Circulation and Single Column Models/Parameterizations
The fact that climate models tend to predict an overly warm and dry climate in the central United States has been a persistent issue in the field. Previous studies have proposed possible explanations for this bias, such as underestimation of the evaporative fraction and overestimation of shortwave radiation. This highlight [...]
Comparison is key to validating aircraft measurement data sets
15 January 2021
Schmid, Beat
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Research area: Aerosol Processes
As more studies focus on how atmospheric properties in the Amazon basin change in space and over time, obtaining quality-controlled measurements is essential. However, the challenges of airborne operations, especially with multiple aircraft collecting data in the same area, makes direct comparison studies fundamental, but rare. A field campaign led by [...]