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2023 AGU Presentations Featuring ARM Data

The 2023 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will be held from December 11 to 15 in San Francisco, California, as well as online. With more than 25,000 attendees expected, the meeting might feel overwhelming. We make it easy for you to find ARM-relevant science, meet up with colleagues, and discover new connections during the event.

Below is a list of ARM-related AGU meeting highlights (all times Pacific). Information is subject to change; please check the AGU Fall Meeting website for the most up-to-date information. Follow us on X (formerly Twitter) and Facebook for a real-time guide to relevant activities using the hashtags #ARMAGU and #AGU23.

Discover more ARM-related presentations and posters, as well as sessions, talks, and posters related to Atmospheric System Research (ASR).

Add your presentation to be featured on the ARM or ASR presentation web pages.

Attending AGU in person? Make sure to visit the ARM booth (#614) and ASR at the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program booth (#414) in the AGU exhibition hall.  There you can view facility materials and meet with ARM representatives.

NEW: AGU continues virtually in January: AGU will hold poster sessions and select invited panels, town halls, and workshops the week of January 20–25. All events will be online. Separate registration is required for the workshops. Check the AGU schedule for more information.

Ignite@AGU

DOE ASR Program Manager Jeff Stehr will present “Building a Career in Science with Improv Comedy” as part of Ignite@AGU on Wednesday, December 13, at 6 p.m. at the Great American Music Hall, 859 O’ Farrell Street, San Francisco.

Ignite@AGU enables scientists to showcase their professional and personal interests through fast, creative presentations. The aim is to inspire, share, and make connections—to ignite conversation. It is not your average research talk.

Agency Lecture

DOE Undersecretary for Science and Innovation Geraldine (Geri) Richmond will lead the AGU featured plenary lecture on Thursday, December 14, from 2:10 to 3:10 p.m. at Moscone Center, Room 201–202 (South, Level 2).

Check out ARM-Related Presentations:

Town Halls

ARM-Related Town Halls

Other DOE Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division Town Halls

Related Interagency Town Halls

  • TH35F: AmeriFlux Town Hall:  Enhancing the Impact of Flux Science for the World
    Wednesday, December 13, 6:30–7:30 p.m., Moscone Center, Room 2003 (West, Level 2)
    Primary Contact: Margaret S. Torn, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    Presenters: Margaret S. Torn, Sébastien Biraud, You-Wei Cheah, Trevor F. Keenan, and Koong Yi, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory; James Michael Kuperberg, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Dario Papale, University of Tuscia; Daniel B. Stover, DOE; Enrique R. Vivoni, Arizona State University

Invited Presentations

Please note: On average, each presentation is scheduled to run no longer than five minutes, so the full session times are listed below for planning purposes. 

Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE)

Waves wash ashore near the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier, which is hosting the ARM Mobile Facility for EPCAPE. The pier sits under a cloudy purple-orange sky.
An ARM Mobile Facility is operating on the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier in La Jolla, California, as part of the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE). Photo is by Karen Steinbock.

The Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE), which kicked off in La Jolla, California, in February 2023 and is set to close operations in February 2024, will explore aerosol indirect effects on stratocumulus clouds to help improve their representation in earth system models. EPCAPE includes the deployment of the first ARM Mobile Facility on the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier and a scanning cloud radar on Mount Soledad less than a mile inland.

As part of EPCAPE, researchers will also investigate how pollution from the nearby Los Angeles metropolitan area affects marine aerosols and, by extension, the clouds near San Diego.

Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL)

ARM instruments near a snow-covered Gothic Mountain
In Colorado, ARM instruments near a snow-covered Gothic Mountain collected atmospheric data during the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) field campaign to help scientists better understand mountainous water cycles. Photo is by Travis Guy, Hamelmann Communications.

The Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) field campaign, which operated from September 2021 to June 2023, took place in the 300-square-kilometer (116-square-mile) East River Watershed near Crested Butte, Colorado. As part of SAIL, a portable ARM observatory provided valuable atmospheric data that researchers can use to develop detailed measurements of mountainous water-cycle processes pertaining to the Colorado River, which supplies water for 40 million people in the Western United States.

Through SAIL, researchers from national laboratories, universities, research centers, and agencies will enable an atmosphere-through-bedrock understanding of mountainous water cycles.

SAIL’s lead scientist, Daniel Feldman, will be the primary convener of the following SAIL-related AGU sessions:

TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER)

A tethered balloon system rises above the TRACER site in Guy, Texas. A trailer sits next to the van set up for the balloon flight.
In Guy, Texas, ARM conducted 150 tethered balloon flights over 49 days of operation during the TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER). Photo is by Brent Peterson, Sandia National Laboratories.

The TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER), which ran from October 2021 through September 2022, provided convective cloud observations with high space and time resolution over a broad range of environmental and aerosol conditions around the Houston, Texas, region.

As part of TRACER, ARM deployed a portable observatory southeast of downtown Houston, a scanning precipitation radar south of downtown, and an ancillary site southwest of the city, where tethered balloon systems were launched. Together, these ARM measurements are helping researchers better understand the variability of aerosols and meteorology between the urban Houston area and surrounding rural environments.

TRACER’s lead scientist, Michael Jensen, will be the primary convener of the following TRACER-related AGU sessions:

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DOE Job Open for Physical Scientist (Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division)

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science, Biological and Environmental Research (BER) in Germantown, Maryland, is recruiting a Physical Scientist, GS-1301-13/14/15.

This position is within BER’s Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division. The individual selected for this role will:

  • serve as a program manager for a portfolio of experimental and modeling research that includes, for example, climate resilience centers, urban integrated field laboratories, and other projects involving ecological, hydrological, atmospheric, and socioeconomic sciences with a particular interest in addressing the needs of disadvantaged communities.
  • serve as a recognized authority to both DOE and the scientific community and provide technical advice to the Director of the Earth and Environmental System Sciences.

All interested candidates must apply through this posting on USA Jobs by Friday, December 22, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern to be considered.

When applying to this position, please ensure that your résumé demonstrates the knowledge, skills, experiences, and responsibilities identified in the position description. 

Individuals appointed using a special hire authority will receive a new competitive service appointment. Current DOE employees with career status selected for this position may be required to serve a new one-year probationary period, pursuant to 5 CFR 315.802.

For more information about the position, please contact Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division Director Gerald Geernaert.

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Register for ARM Tethered Balloon Systems Webinar

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s tethered balloon systems (TBS), which consist of a helium-filled balloon, tether, winch, and sensors, provide a safe way to gather data related to wind, turbulence, thermodynamic state, and aerosols through the atmospheric boundary layer.

An upcoming webinar will provide information for people interested in using TBS data in their research. This two-hour Zoom webinar, starting at noon Eastern time (9 a.m. Pacific) on Tuesday, January 16, will feature:

  • an overview of TBS baseline instrumentation and datastreams
  • a discussion on upcoming ARM TBS proposal calls and operating locations
  • a demonstration of how to access TBS datastreams through ARM’s Data Discovery browser
  • user science examples using TBS data from ARM and the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL), which, like ARM, is a U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science user facility.

Register for the TBS webinar today.

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Share Your AMS 2024 Presentation Information

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility and Atmospheric System Research (ASR) want to know about your presentations at the upcoming American Meteorological Society (AMS) annual meeting.

One of the best ways to draw attendees to your AMS presentations is to be highlighted on the ARM and ASR websites. If you or one of your team members will present a talk or poster during the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting—and if that presentation is based on your ASR-funded project or uses ARM data as a key data source—please submit your information by January 5.

Use this form on the ASR website to share your abstract information. It’s a simple three-step process to complete the form.

We will publish your abstracts on the ARM and ASR websites, which serve as an important guide for attendees. We will also send a special email to the ARM/ASR community to encourage their engagement with your presentation.

See the ARM and ASR presentations that have been shared so far for the AMS Annual Meeting, taking place January 28 to February 1  in Baltimore, Maryland, and online.

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ASR FY2024 Funding Opportunity Announcement

DOE announces $12 million to fund ASR science

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that $12 million is available for new research grants for Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program science.

  • DOE funding opportunity announcement: DE-FOA-0003194 (PDF)
  • ASR pre-application due date: November 30, 2023, 5 p.m. Eastern
  • Pre-application response from DOE: December 21, 2023, 5 p.m. Eastern
  • ASR application due date: February 13, 2024, 11:59 p.m. Eastern

Successful applicants will focus their research on observational, data analysis, and/or modeling studies that use observations supported by DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, including the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, to address one of the following research topics:

  1. Aerosol processes at ARM sites
  2. Convective cloud processes
  3. Aerosol and cloud processes from ARM’s Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE)
  4. Mixed-phase cloud and ice cloud processes.

“Researchers in the ASR community work on some of the most important and exciting questions facing atmospheric and climate science today,” says ASR Program Manager Shaima Nasiri. “This announcement will help fund critical research on cloud, aerosol, precipitation, and the radiative transfer processes that affect our planet’s radiative balance and hydrological cycle—especially those processes that limit the predictive ability of regional and global models.”

Funding will be awarded competitively based on peer review and is expected to have total award amounts ranging from $200,000 to $945,000, beginning in fiscal year 2024.

More details about the research topics, award amounts, length of research projects, eligibility, and the new Promoting Inclusive and Equitable Research (PIER) Plan requirement are delineated in the funding opportunity announcement document linked above.

On November 9, BER hosted an informational webinar about this FOA. If you missed the webinar, the slides and recording are now available.

Pre-applications are required and should contain a concise description of the objectives and the technical approach that makes clear how the proposed research addresses the research topics of the FOA and how ARM-supported observations are integral to the proposed research.

Full details and application instructions are available in the funding opportunity announcement DE-FOA-0003194 (PDF). Pre-applications must be submitted by 5 p.m. Eastern on November 30, 2023. DOE will respond to pre-application submitters, informing them whether a full application is encouraged or discouraged by December 21, 2023. Formal applications will be due February 13, 2024.

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Special Guests Tour North Slope of Alaska

Editor’s note: Mark Ivey, former manager of ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory and senior engineer at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico, provided the following post.

Mark Ivey talks with DOE Office of Science Director Asmeret Asefaw Berhe on an instrument platform overlooking tundra along Alaska's North Slope.
Mark Ivey (left) talks with DOE Office of Science Director Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe (middle) at ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory. Photos are by Genevieve Martin, Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Rob Leland, director of the Sandia Climate Change Security Center, and I hosted DOE Office of Science Director Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe and several of her staff members at the NSA in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), Alaska. They were joined by DOE Arctic Energy Office Director Dr. Erin Whitney and staff from her office, Dr. Brian Benscoter from DOE’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, and representatives from Los Alamos and Oak Ridge national labs. The group was in Utqiaġvik from September 19 to 21, 2023.

Jimmy and Josh Ivanoff, full-time observers at the NSA and residents of Utqiaġvik, provided tours of the NSA facilities. On September 20, Jimmy, Rob, and I provided a morning briefing about ARM at the ARM Duplex, where the NSA site office is located. We had planned a manual balloon launch but had to cancel it because of high winds. We toured ARM radar and lab facilities at the Barrow Arctic Research Center (BARC), talked with a group from the Iḷisaġvik tribal college, and visited the NSA E12 and former Next-Generation Ecosystem Experiments (NGEE) Arctic sites just off Cake Eater Road, just south of the NSA main site and NOAA’s Barrow Atmospheric Baseline Observatory.

Dr. Berhe and her team flew back to Anchorage on September 21 after visiting Utqiaġvik. She commented at the airport and in a follow-up email that she greatly enjoyed her visit to Utqiaġvik and her tours of the ARM and former NGEE locations.

Dr. Berhe looks up at an item inside the main shelter as Jimmy Ivanoff discusses the instruments.
Jimmy Ivanoff shows Dr. Berhe instruments in the main ARM NSA-1 shelter.

Sun streams into an instrument shelter as Dr. Berhe talks with Mark Ivey.
A chat about ARM measurements in the shelter.

A person leans over to point something out on a laptop screen to Dr. Berhe, who is sitting down and smiling while holding the bottom of the computer.
Discussing ARM and NGEE science in the ARM Duplex.

Thirteen people stand in front of a giant bone with a plaque in the middle titled The Bowhead Whale.
A group photo at the Bowhead Whalebone at Iḷisaġvik College.
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From the ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) Chair

The ARM User Executive Committee (UEC) is eager to engage with you. This is a message from UEC Chair Jennifer “Jen” Delamere. 

UEC Workshop Offers Chance to Explore ARM’s Roots and Build New Connections

With clouds, cows, and atmospheric instruments as a backdrop, one person holds open a door to look inside a severe storm shelter while two others talk.
At the Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility, visitors looked inside the severe storm shelter located near the radars. Photo is by Adam Theisen, Argonne National Laboratory.

As my plane landed in Oklahoma City, I was finishing the last chapter of a newly published book, Larry McMurtry: A Life. While McMurtry was from Texas, not Oklahoma, I wanted to know more about an author who wrote hundreds of pages on the American Southwest. Why? I was about to visit the ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory for the first time, and I wanted more context for all the McMurtry books I read over the years—books in which the Great Plains played a prominent role.

The SGP itself is at the confluence of oil pump jacks, wind turbines, cow pasture, and rural American communities. For someone who has lived most of her life in northern latitudes, this trip to Oklahoma was something wholly new!

For the next two days (October 24–25), I would be lucky enough to share this SGP experience with the UEC as we gathered to review our mission and plan the remainder of our 2023–2024 activities. Moreover, we would meet the incredible SGP team that keeps the observatory running 24/7. For this meeting, a shoutout to SGP Operations Manager John Schatz and SGP Site Administrative Assistant Doris McAbee for providing such a welcoming environment with lots of Oklahoma hospitality! What a service this team does for climate researchers around the world. Thank you!

Six people sit around a conference table during a workshop, with a large screen showing those attending virtually.
The User Executive Committee (UEC) and ARM staff met in the conference room at the SGP Central Facility. Some members attended virtually. In total, 25 people joined the workshop. Photo is by Jen Delamere, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

The UEC meeting at the SGP was only the second in-person meeting dedicated to UEC activities since the UEC was established in 2014. Our meeting objectives were to have a deep dive into ARM for UEC members who don’t have a long history with ARM and the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) program, and, for those of us who have been around a long while, to look anew at all that has changed within the user facility. ARM Director Jim Mather and DOE ARM Program Manager Sally McFarlane each presented historical overviews of the observatories, ARM, and ASR. This history is worthy of being shared with you, the community.

Our UEC subgroups, which you will read about in upcoming blogs, were also a focus of the meeting. From these discussions, we affirmed the importance of having a voice for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities at the annual Joint ARM User Facility/ASR Principal Investigators Meeting, as we had in 2022 and 2023. In joint discussions with ARM communications staff, we planned in-person outreach at the annual meetings of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) to promote DOE’s Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internships (SULI) program and other undergraduate opportunities. Recognizing the power of meeting in the same room, we discussed bringing together members of the ARM, ASR, and Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM) communities in a small workshop. In addition, we recognized that ARM could empower data users with the tools to integrate satellite data into their workflows.

Clouds roll above an ARM instrument field.
An impressive rain event occurred while the UEC was at the SGP, generating these clouds. A microwave radiometer is in the foreground while wind turbines line the far horizon. Photo is by Theisen.

We saved the most significant conversation for last. The last few hours of our workshop were spent reflecting on how ARM can provide a more personal introduction of the user facility to new data users and principal investigators beyond just using ARM.gov. We questioned ourselves about the UEC’s role in obtaining feedback about ARM. What is the difference between the Ask Us and Ask a UEC Member links on the ARM website? We on the UEC know the answer—we can talk with you beyond providing info on a data format or the data archive. We can provide one-on-one dialogue on the user facility and the relationship between ARM and ASR, and, importantly, we can convey feedback to ARM management, which can effect change. With that notion, the UEC will work with ARM to implement more targeted ways to introduce the facility to new data users and principal investigators.

The UEC in-person workshop was a fantastic opportunity to see a research facility in action! As I drove away from the SGP, with a severe storm shelter and cows in my rearview mirror, I realized how lucky I was to have had those few days in Oklahoma. As McMurtry once reminded us, “The hardest thing on Earth is choosing what matters.” For me, it is personal connections that matter. As the UEC, we are the personal connectors among the many groups that make up the ARM community, and that was nowhere more evident than when we connected at the SGP just a few short weeks ago.

UEC workshop attendees flank the sign greeting visitors at the entrance of the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. Five people are on the left, and three are on the right.
UEC workshop attendees gathered around the new SGP sign just before departing for the airport on October 25. From left to right are Connor Flynn, Mike Ritsche, Adam Theisen, Jen Delamere, Jim Mather, Maria Zawadowicz, Yunyan Zhang, and Michael Jensen. Photo is by SGP Operations Manager John Schatz.

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Attend Upcoming ARM Field Campaign Processes Webinar

Learn about proposing for an ARM Mobile Facility deployment

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility is currently accepting preliminary proposals for field campaigns that require the deployment of the first or second ARM Mobile Facility. ARM’s mobile facilities are designed to operate in any environment to collect atmospheric and climate data in under-sampled regions around the world.

Researchers interested in proposing for the current call or a future opportunity can learn about ARM’s field campaign processes during an informational webinar at 2 p.m. Eastern time Tuesday, January 9, 2024. Registration is now open for the Zoom webinar, which will be led by ARM Director Jim Mather and Associate Director for Operations Nicki Hickmon.

The webinar will provide an overview of the capabilities of the ARM Mobile Facility, the mobile facility proposal process, and roles and responsibilities associated with mobile facility deployments. Ample time will be provided for questions and discussion.

ARM’s current call for mobile facility proposals will be open until Friday, February 9, 2024. This solicitation is for deployments beginning in spring/summer 2026.

Register for the field campaign processes webinar.

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ASR Workshop Report Explores Future of Atmospheric Large-Eddy Simulation

Report discusses ARM LASSO activity, which combines observations and high-resolution modeling

The front cover of the Atmospheric System Research (ASR) large-eddy simulation workshop report shows a model cloud grid.
According to a new Atmospheric System Research (ASR) workshop report, large-eddy simulation (LES) modeling will “drive fundamental progress in open scientific questions” over the next decade as LES is increasingly used to gain an understanding of complex interacting physical processes involving atmospheric turbulence.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research (DOE ASR) program has published a new scientific report on the future of atmospheric large-eddy simulation (LES).

In April 2022, ASR held a two-day workshop on the future of atmospheric LES—a tool used to understand physical processes such as turbulence, aerosols, clouds, precipitation, radiation, the interactions among all these, and their interactions with the underlying surface.

“The workshop offered a rare, crosscutting setting in which LES users, observationalists, and model developers met to chart pathways forward to accelerate scientific progress,” explains the report’s lead author, Kyle Pressel, an earth scientist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Washington state. “It was also timely, as advances in scientific computing and data science—if leveraged well—will yield new opportunities for transformative research.”

The workshop sought to answer five questions:

  1. What are the opportunities for LES-related research for atmospheric aerosol, cloud, and precipitation process studies over the next five to 10 years?
  2. What physical process representations in LES will limit research progress over the next 10 years?
  3. What aspects of current LES implementations will limit research progress over the next 10 years?
  4. What kind of observations would be useful in improving and further validating LES?
  5. What opportunities exist for improved synergy between observations and LES in studies of the atmosphere, and what are the challenges in doing so?

Current LES Support and Future Needs

The workshop report notes the use of long-term, high-resolution data from DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility to help improve and validate LES models.

“The workshop offered a rare, crosscutting setting in which LES users, observationalists, and model developers met to chart pathways forward to accelerate scientific progress.”

Workshop report lead author Kyle Pressel, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

ARM also supports the LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity, which is discussed throughout the report.

LASSO combines observations and LES modeling to provide context and a self-consistent representation of the atmosphere around ARM sites. The LASSO team has produced simulations for shallow convection in Oklahoma and deep convection in Argentina. Next, the team plans to expand to simulations of marine clouds at ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory.

The report’s authors write that current DOE projects such as LASSO “are leading the way in conducting routine LES, building large, public databases that are accessible for data science, sensitivity studies, and training for machine learning.”

According to the report, LES will “drive fundamental progress in open scientific questions” over the next decade as LES is increasingly used to gain an understanding of complex interacting physical processes involving atmospheric turbulence.

This growth, the report states, will be driven both by scientific demand and the expansion of computational resources needed to conduct LES—and the form that growth takes will largely be determined by how these resources are leveraged for scientific gain.

While much has been done to help bridge the gap between models and observations, more can still be achieved.

The report describes specific observations that are needed to improve and further validate LES. They include continuous measurements of high-resolution vertical profiles and spatially distributed and co-located measurements over different land surfaces.

In addition, the authors suggest that modelers should participate in field campaign planning, starting at the proposal stage. Early involvement from modelers could help speed the production of case libraries that enable “rapid model evaluation against observations for a diverse range of conditions” and possibly allow for direct data assimilation into LES models, according to the report.

Download and read the full workshop report.

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ARM Now Soliciting Mobile Facility Campaign Preliminary Proposals

Submit your preproposals by February 9, 2024

Picture of ARM Mobile Facility used during TRACER field campaign near Houston, Texas, with the words "DOE's 2024 ARM User Facility Requests for Proposals are Open."The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Science, is now accepting preliminary proposals from scientists to deploy an ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) for field campaigns to support the Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program’s interests in advancing the fundamental understanding of atmospheric processes to improve regional and global earth system models. This announcement applies to applications to use either the first or second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1 or AMF2) for deployments starting in spring/summer 2026.

Applicants will be expected to make comprehensive use of the ARM facility, focus on strategic goals of the DOE BER program, and clearly indicate the value of the proposed AMF observations for improving earth system models. Proposals that support the scientific goals of the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), the Global Energy and Water Exchanges (GEWEX) project, and/or the Global Precipitation EXperiment (GPEX) are encouraged.

AMF1 is expected to be available for a domestic campaign starting in April 2026. AMF2 is expected to be available for domestic, international, or ship-based campaigns starting in July 2026. Exact campaign start dates will depend on location, details of the proposed campaign, complexity of the proposed deployment, availability of appropriated funds, and ARM logistical constraints. Applicants may only request deployment of a single AMF, and it should be clearly stated in their preproposals if their proposed campaign dates are flexible.

The ARM Infrastructure Management Board (IMB) will review preproposals for relevance to ARM goals, logistical feasibility, and safety/security concerns of the proposed location. Applicants will be informed whether their preproposals are encouraged for a full proposal.

Call Timeline

  • ARM will hold a field campaign processes webinar at 2 p.m. Eastern on January 9, 2024. Learn more and register.
  • Preproposals are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern on February 9, 2024.
  • Encourage/discourage decisions will be sent to applicants by March 8, 2024.
  • Full proposals from encouraged applicants will be due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern on April 19, 2024.

View the proposal guidelines and how to submit.