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The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility produces news and features, data announcements, event announcements, and highlights about its activities to keep users informed.
ARM Names New Director
13 July 2026Atmospheric scientist Larry Berg will guide ARM into the next era of scientific observations and succeed Jim Mather, who has led ARM since 2007.
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Prepare for the 2026 ARM/ASR Joint Meeting!
The next Joint ARM User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) Principal Investigators Meeting will be held virtually on July 21, July 23, and August 12, 2026.
DUSTIEAIM Deployment Moves Closer to Kickoff
ARM staff are in Phoenix, Arizona, getting ready to start operations June 1, 2026, for the Desert-Urban SysTem IntegratEd AtmospherIc Monsoon (DUSTIEAIM) field campaign.
Features
Streamlining ARM Data Access With AI-Ready Infrastructure
New storage, software, and computing frameworks set the stage for next-generation data tools and research support.
Capturing Coastal Cloud Complexity
More than two years after ending operations in La Jolla, California, the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE) is producing journal articles and cases for model evaluation.
Data Announcements
New Southern Great Plains Continuous Large-Scale Forcing Data Released
This constrained variational analysis (VARANAL) value-added product includes both the large-scale forcing terms and the evaluation fields, which can be used for driving a variety of models and validating simulations.
ARM Releases New Cloud Optical Depth Product
ARM has developed the Three-Channel Sunphotometer Cloud Mode (SPHOTCOD) value-added product to provide information on cloud properties for process studies.
Events & Meetings
Sessions Announced for 2026 AGU Annual Meeting
The 2026 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Annual Meeting will be held from December 7 to 11 in San Francisco, California, and online. Tell ARM about your sessions!
Sessions Announced for 2027 AMS Annual Meeting
The 2027 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting will be held from January 10 to 14 in Denver, Colorado, and online. Tell ARM about your sessions!
Publications
ARM Workshop Report Explores Weather Impacts on Energy and National Security
The report summarizes a November 2025 workshop in which participants discussed how ARM observations can improve understanding of risks to the nation’s energy and security infrastructure.
New ARM Plans Detail FY2026 Priorities for Radars and Aerosol Instruments
A pair of fiscal year 2026 (FY2026) planning documents also describe progress related to two of ARM’s most critical instrument suites.
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