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2025 ARM/ASR PI Meeting Agenda
3 - 6 March 2025
3 March 2025
Time
Title
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Plenary Session - Programmatic and user facility updates
Welcome and Introduction — Dorothy Koch, DOE/SC/BER, Associate Director of Science for BER; Gary Geernart, DOE/SC/BER, Division Director, Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences
Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program manager updates — Shaima Nasiri, Jeff Stehr, DOE/SC/BER, ASR Program Managers
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program manager updates — Sally McFarlane, DOE/SC/BER, ARM Program Manager
ARM User Facility Management updates
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Plenary Session – ASR science presentations
ASR Working Group science highlight presentations
Presentations:
- Impacts of sea ice leads on sea salt aerosols and beyond in the Arctic: What we can learn from observations — Hannah Horowitz, University of Illinois
- Insights from Tracking Convective Clouds near ARM sites For GoAmazon and TRACER — Sid Gupta, Argonne National Laboratory
- Ice, Ice, Maybe? High latitude aerosol-cloud interactions — Christina McCluskey, NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Bridging ARM Observations and Global Storm-Resolving Models: Boundary Layer Cloud Diagnostics and AI Application — Tianning Su, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
DOE Early Career Awardee presentation
Presentations:
- Combining ARM observations and chemically explicit models to understand the impacts of deposition — Gabriel Isaacman-VanWertz, Virginia Tech
ASR Science Focus Area presentation
Presentations:
- PASCCALS: A Joint BNL-ANL Science Focus Area — Michael Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Working Lunch & Poster Viewing [Atrium]
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
ASR Working Group Sessions
Aerosol Processes [Eisenhower]
Warm Boundary Layer Processes [Plaza Ballroom]
Convective Processes [Roosevelt]
High-Latitude Processes [Regency]
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Break
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Poster Session 1
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Poster Session 2
4 March 2025
Time
Title
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Plenary Session
ARM capability updates
Presentations:
- ARM Data Workbench — Kyle Dumas, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
- LASSO Modeling for ENA and Other Enticing Tidbits — William Gustafson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
- Snow- Monitoring instruments at the ARM North Slope of Alaska Atmospheric Observatory: A Performance Assessment — Jennifer Delamere, University of Alaska, Fairbanks
- Development of the Best Estimate Planetary Boundary Layer Height with ARM Ground-based Remote Sensing Measurements — Damao Zhang, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
EarthCARE update
Presentations:
- Pavlos Kollias, Brookhaven National Laboratory/Stony Brook University
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Breakout Session 1
Approaches, progress, and challenges in gas-phase, aerosol, and drizzle flux measurements
Advancing atmospheric research: Updates from the DOE ARM Aerial Facility and Tethered Balloon System
Data-driven parameterization development using ARM observations and models
Panel Discussion: Recommendations for future ARM data products
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Working Lunch & Poster Viewing [Atrium]
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Breakout Session 2
Advancing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Applications with ARM Data and ASR Research
Observations and modeling from the TRACER field campaign
Couplings between VOC, organic aerosol, and clouds at the Bankhead National Forest (BNF) site
Workforce development in ARM: A preview of the ARM Summer School
Presentations:
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Break
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Poster Session 3
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Poster Session 4
5 March 2025
Time
Title
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Plenary Session - Observatory and field campaign updates
Presentations:
- Factors Affecting Aerosol Activation to Cloud Droplets and Aerosol Growth by Cloud Processing at EPCAPE — Lynn Russell, UC San Diego/Scripps Institution of Oceanography
- A Tour of SAIL Science Accomplishments and a Preview of Ongoing and Upcoming SAIL Research — Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) observatory – 10 years of science — Robert Wood, University of Washington
- Chasing Smoke: A Retrospective on the BBOP Field Campaign — Art Sedlacek, Brookhaven National Laboratory
- Boundary layer Exploration of Aerosols and Clouds ON Ships (BEACONS) Pilot Project — Raghavendra Krishnamurthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Breakout Session 3
CAPE-k and Southern Ocean science
Uncertainty quantification and Observing System Simulation Experiments (OSSEs) for ARM data
Desert-Urban SysTem IntegratEd Atmospheric Monsoon (DUSTIEAIM) - Plans for Phoenix
Connecting DOE SBIR Awardees with ARM and ASR to Enhance Atmospheric Research
12:45 PM - 2:00 PM
Working Lunch & Poster Viewing [Atrium]
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Breakout Session 4
Enhancing the impact and science applications of ARM’s radars and lidars
LASSO-ENA update and scenario development for LASSO-BNF
Presentations:
- 1_Introduction and LASSO Usage — William Gustafson and Scott Giangrande
- 2_THREAD and LASSO — Hsi-Yen Ma
- 3_LASSO ENA Update — William Gustafson and Scott Giangrande
- 4_LASSO-BNF: Future Scenario Considerations — Scott Giangrande and William Gustafson
- 5_Continuous, Real-Time LES Over the Bankhead National Forest — Girish Raghunathan
- 6_INCUS Synergy with LASSO — Stephen Saleeby
Decoding the aerosol mixing state: Current knowledge and future directions
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM
Break
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Poster Session 5
5:15 PM - 6:15 PM
Poster Session 6
6 March 2025
Time
Title
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Breakout Session 5
The Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE)
New results from the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE)
Refining ARM/ASR strategies for adaptive radar scanning and convective cell tracking
Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Break
10:45 AM - 12:45 PM
Breakout Session 6
Advancing ice process research: Improving understanding and modelling of ice formation in clouds
Advancement in ARM’s instrumentation and measurement strategies
ARM BNF: Community organization, planning, and coordination of Intensive Operational Periods
12:45 PM - 1:30 PM
-- Joint Meeting Ends --
1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
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