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Features

Bankhead National Forest Observations Are Reaching Full Speed

17 July 2025

Continuous data and measurements from recent intensive operations, including ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system flights, are available from ARM’s atmospheric observatory in Alabama.

Welcome to the New-Look ARM.gov!

27 February 2025

ARM.gov has gotten a refresh after more than eight years with its previous look. Peruse the site's new features!

Busy at Bankhead

27 February 2025

More instruments are going up at ARM’s newest long-term atmospheric observatory, and science activity is increasing.

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Data Announcements

New Radiative Flux Analysis Data Released

8 August 2025

This value-added product calculates clear-sky irradiance in shortwave and longwave surface fluxes from measured broadband irradiance at ARM sites.

Aerosol Optical Properties Data Produced for 2 Ongoing ARM Deployments

31 July 2025

The Aerosol Optical Properties (AOP) value-added product is now available for ARM’s Bankhead National Forest atmospheric observatory in Alabama and the Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE) in the Baltimore, Maryland, area.

New ARM Trajectory Data Now Available for Evaluation

18 July 2025

The multipurpose ARM trajectory (ARMTRAJ) value-added product now consists of six trajectory data sets to support atmospheric research using ARM data.

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Research Highlights

Propagating Information Content: An Example with Advection

12 August 2025

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

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

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.

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Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) | Reviewed March 2025