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
Melting layer attenuation at Ka- and W-bands as derived from multi-frequency radar Doppler spectra observations
12 August 2019
Moisseev, Dmitri N
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Research area: Cloud Processes
While the melting layer is a relatively narrow layer in precipitation systems, it has a significant impact on telecommunication and remote-sensing applications. For spaceborne and ground-based radar measurements, unaccounted attenuation in the melting layer may cause significant errors in retrievals of rainfall rate and ice-cloud properties, respectively. There are two [...]
The Aleutian Low-Beaufort Sea Anticyclone: A climate index correlation with the timing of springtime
31 July 2019
Cox, Christopher James; de Boer, Gijs
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Research area: Surface Properties
A new metric is proposed, a climate index termed Aleutian Low-Beaufort Sea Anticyclone (ALBSA), which is suitable for monitoring and studying the predictability of the timing of springtime melt in the Alaskan Arctic.
Correcting CMIP5 evapotranspiration trends and sensitivity to changing climate
31 July 2019
Sullivan, Ryan
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Research area: Surface Properties
Evapotranspiration (ET) from the fifth phase of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP5) simulations exhibits substantial biases, fostering little confidence in future ET projections. We develop a methodology to calculate ET offline using the models’ archived meteorological outputs: temperature (T), water vapor pressure (e), atmospheric pressure (P), and surface net [...]