News & Events

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility produces news and features, data announcements, event announcements, and highlights about its activities to keep users informed.

An uncrewed aerial system flies over a forest with buildings and roads visible in the middle of clearings. Patches of brown and green are seen throughout the forest.

Bankhead National Forest Observations Are Reaching Full Speed

17 July 2025

Continuous data and measurements from recent intensive operations, including ArcticShark uncrewed aerial system flights, are available from ARM’s atmospheric observatory in Alabama.

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News

The new ARM Data Workbench dashboard provides links to different ARM tools that users can access for specific functions: Find, Stage, Visualize, Manage, Learn, and Publish.

ARM Releases New Phase of Data Workbench

The ARM Data Workbench gives users the tools they need to access ARM data and perform tasks such as data visualization and analysis.

18 July 2025

TBS Operations Mark Milestones in Maryland and Alabama

Data from these flights are now available to ARM users.

17 July 2025

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Features

Screenshot of the top of the SONDE instrument page, featuring a launch photo, a mentor video, and buttons to access the instrument handbook and browse and cite data

Welcome to the New-Look ARM.gov!

ARM.gov has gotten a refresh after more than eight years with its previous look. Peruse the site's new features!

27 February 2025

Busy at Bankhead

More instruments are going up at ARM’s newest long-term atmospheric observatory, and science activity is increasing.

27 February 2025

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Data Announcements

Lines show back trajectory ensemble means for ARM Mobile Facility deployments in Alabama (green), Tasmania (blue), and Maryland (purple). Image was generated by Israel Silber, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, using a Web Map Tile Service (https://gitc.earthdata.nasa.gov/wmts/epsg4326/best/) and Cartopy.

New ARM Trajectory Data Now Available for Evaluation

The multipurpose ARM trajectory (ARMTRAJ) value-added product now consists of six trajectory data sets to support atmospheric research using ARM data.

18 July 2025

New Cloud Optical Properties Data Released

This value-added product generates cloud optical depth for overcast liquid clouds using ARM multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer measurements.

16 July 2025

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Events & Meetings

This ARM Mobile Facility—a series of containers outfitted with sophisticated atmospheric and meteorological sampling equipment—will operate from December 2024 to November 2025 in Baltimore, Maryland as part of the Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE). The CoURAGE main site will be located here, on this former high school athletic field at Morgan State University’s Clifton Park location.

Register for Second CoURAGE Science Team Meeting

Registration is now open for the second Coast-Urban-Rural Atmospheric Gradient Experiment (CoURAGE) science team meeting. The meeting will be held June 18, 2025, in Baltimore, Maryland.

4 April 2025

2025 Joint ARM User Facility and ASR PI Meeting

Upload your Joint Meeting poster and presentation files by April 7.

17 March 2025

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Publications

ARM Fiscal Year 2025 Radar Plan Outlines Operational, Data Priorities

ARM’s newest radar plan outlines how engineering and data staff are prioritizing their time and effort in fiscal year 2025 to help ensure continued operational excellence of ARM’s radars.

13 February 2025