Advancing our understanding of aerosolsĪerosols are human made and natural particles that make their way into the atmosphere. The data collected from these field expeditions help improve climate model predictions. For over 30 years, research campaigns have taken these mobile stations to the frontiers of climate and atmospheric science-from the South Pole to the North Pole to the tropics. The Office of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program manages several ARM observatories as a multi-laboratory user facility. The observatory site may look inconspicuous-but it is one of the world’s most advanced facilities for collecting atmospheric data.
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The ARM observatory consists of portable shelters outfitted with instruments and communications equipment. The experiment runs from October 2021 to September 2022 in the Houston area. DOE’s mobile atmospheric observatoryĪ new project called TRACER-Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment-is using a DOE mobile observatory from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility to record micro processes happening in clouds. By tracking aerosols and clouds in this way, the team hopes to better understand the relationship between the particles, clouds, and storms. To provide th ese important data for scientists, policymakers, and the public, the Department of Energy’s Office of Science is supporting a team of researchers who are scanning clouds in the Texas sky at high resolution. New data are especially needed to improve the representation of clouds and storms in climate models. Scientists have voiced the need for more detailed data on aerosols.
Their chemical and physical processes can also be subtle or short lived. There are many types, and the particles are small. However, studying aerosols in the atmosphere is difficult. Climate studies suggest aerosols may help shape and even strengthen elements of storms such as rainfall and lightning. For decades, scientists have debated the impact of human-made and environmental particles in the atmosphere, called aerosols, on severe weather.
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