New Plan Details ARM’s Aerosol Priorities for Fiscal Year 2025

Published: 26 November 2024

In front of trees, the aerosol stack sticks up from the top of the Aerosol Observing System container at ARM's Bankhead National Forest atmospheric observatory. — This ARM Aerosol Observing System (AOS) is now collecting data in Alabama. ARM’s aerosol operations plan for fiscal year 2025 includes information on AOS operations in Alabama and at other ARM sites. Photo is by Mark Spychala, Argonne National Laboratory.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility has released its aerosol operations plan for fiscal year 2025 (FY2025).

This is the second consecutive year in which ARM has published its aerosol operations plan, responding to recommendations from the Aerosol Measurement Science Group (AMSG). The AMSG is a constituent group that provides input to ARM Director Jim Mather to improve the operational performance, characterization, and science impact of ARM’s aerosol and trace gas measurements along with the development, processing, and delivery of aerosol data products.

Written by ARM lead aerosol mentor Olga Mayol-Bracero, additional aerosol instrument mentors, ARM aerosol science translator John Shilling, and others, the new document describes planned FY2025 activities related to operations of ARM’s ground-based Aerosol Observing Systems, calibration, engineering and development, and data products. It also provides outcomes from the ARM FY2024 Aerosol Operations Plan. ARM completed 16 tasks listed in the FY2024 plan, and five are in progress.

The FY2025 plan is now available for you to read on ARM.gov. If you have questions or feedback about the plan, please send them to Mayol-Bracero through the mentor contact page.

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ARM is a DOE Office of Science user facility operated by nine DOE national laboratories.