Research

ARM’s continuous measurements and field campaigns are helping advance climate science.
 

Scientists from around the world conduct research using data from ARM’s continuous measurements and field campaigns. ARM’s contributions to atmospheric science can be seen in science publications and research highlights.

Field Campaigns

Field campaigns provide a means for scientists to augment or modify the configuration of the ARM facility to address specific science issues. Campaigns range in complexity from deploying a single instrument to deploying an ARM Mobile Facility to remote locations around the world. As a scientific user facility, any scientist can submit a proposal to do field campaigns at ARM’s atmospheric observatories.

Publications

Data from ARM’s continuous measurements and field campaigns at sites around the world are a vital asset to atmospheric researchers. Research results are published in scientific journal articles, conference publications, and presentations.

Research Highlights

Publications in scientific journals represent tangible evidence of ARM’s contribution to advances in almost all areas of atmospheric radiation and cloud research. ARM’s Research Highlights summarize recently published research results.

Recent Highlights

Tailoring a convection-cloud chamber for optimizing droplet collisions

12 March 2024

Wang, Aaron; Ovchinnikov, Mikhail

Supported by: ASR

Research area: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions

Droplet collision-coalescence plays an important role in the initial formation of drizzle-sized droplets, yet quantitative understanding of this process in turbulent clouds is lacking. A convection-cloud chamber that produces a turbulent cloud between a warm moist bottom and a cold moist top can provide a controlled environment for laboratory studies [...]

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Biomass burning gases react within clouds, forming secondary organic aerosols

11 March 2024

Ovchinnikov, Mikhail; Shrivastava, Manishkumar

Supported by: ARM ASR

Research area: Aerosol Processes

Thousands of tiny particles in the atmosphere unseen by the naked eye scatter and absorb solar radiation and seed clouds. A lot of these particles are not directly emitted but are formed by reactions of gases with atmospheric oxidants in multiple phases, including gas-phase and liquid water contained in clouds [...]

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