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
New methods for extracting more detail from existing data sets
21 January 2025
Isaacman-VanWertz, Gabriel
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Research area: Aerosol Properties
Detailed data of what is in the atmosphere is often very complex, containing thousands of chemicals without known identities or properties. By developing new automated tools for analyzing certain types of data, this research will substantially improve the ability to make sense of these data and extract new details about the composition of [...]
Bridging the data gap in Southern Hemisphere aerosol research
17 January 2025
Fast, Jerome D
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Research area: Aerosol Processes
Aerosols are known to affect cloud properties, including their formation, growth, and precipitation, which in turn influences climate over long time scales. Aerosol-cloud-interactions (ACI) depend on how their properties change together, yet few measurements capture this variability, especially in the presence of convective cloud populations that can be observed routinely [...]
Revealing atmospheric secrets with advanced airborne data
16 January 2025
Mei, Fan
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Research area: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions
This research addressed the challenge of using extensive, complex airborne field campaign data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility's Data Center to study the Earth's atmosphere more effectively. By standardizing these data into a single, easily accessible format, it simplifies data management and enables more detailed atmospheric studies. [...]