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.
Research
ARM’s continuous measurements and field campaigns are helping advance climate science.
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
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
Supported by:
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. [...]