Highlights will be written for high-level accomplishments and published journal articles of ASR research. Each ASR principal investigator (PI) is expected to submit at least one highlight per fiscal year.
Research Highlights
Recent Highlights
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. [...]
Storm width dictates which atmospheric properties control storm depth
16 January 2025
Fast, Jerome D
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Research area: Cloud Distributions/Characterizations
Storms are a primary mechanism for transporting atmospheric properties, such as trace gases, aerosols, moisture, heat, and momentum, that significantly impact weather and climate. Where these constituents are transported is modulated by storm depth; therefore, accurate prediction of this parameter affects the subsequent ability to accurately predict weather and climate. [...]
Aerosol size distribution properties associated with cold-air outbreaks in the Norwegian Arctic
8 January 2025
Russell, Lynn M
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Research area: Aerosol Properties
We determine the characteristics of the aerosol size distribution associated with cold-air outbreaks over the Norwegian Sea, using observational measurements taken at Andenes, Norway and approximately 1000 km upwind at Zeppelin Observatory in Svalbard during ARM's Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE).
ARM observations help diagnosis and validation of newly released high-resolution versions of E3SM
31 December 2024
Zhang, Yunyan
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Research area: General Circulation and Single Column Models/Parameterizations
With the rapidly increasing resolution of global and regional model simulations, how can we best use high-resolution ground-based observations to quickly diagnose model physics and efficiently feed back on model improvement? These two papers offer good examples of using ARM data to improve understanding of model behaviors on clouds and [...]