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Research Highlights

Scientists and investigators using Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility data publish about 150 peer-reviewed journal articles per year. These documented research efforts represent tangible evidence of ARM’s contributions to improving our understanding of clouds and aerosols and their interactions with the Earth’s surface. ARM research highlights summarize these published research results.

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Each of your DOE-funded journal articles should include a research highlight. This is an important opportunity to summarize your work and describe its scientific impact. ARM has a simple form for you to fill out to share your highlight with ARM management and the research community.

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Recent Highlights

Different regimes and active regions of aerosol indirect effects

23 October 2018

Liu, Yangang

Research area: Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions

Supported by: ASR

Different regimes of aerosol indirect effects and the active regions over the global ocean are studied and identified by analyzing long-term satellite measurements of aerosol and cloud properties.

Time scales in study of turbulent entrainment-mixing processes

23 October 2018

Liu, Yangang

Research area: Cloud Processes

Supported by: ASR

Different microphysical time scales, including droplet evaporation time, phase relaxation time, and reaction time, have been used in investigation of turbulent entrainment-mixing processes and their effects on cloud microphysical properties. This study addresses the outstanding question of which is the proper microphysical time scale and reconciles the differences.

Molecular and physical characteristics of aerosol at Pico Mountain Observatory in the Azores

23 October 2018

Mazzoleni, Lynn R ; Mazzoleni, Claudio

Research area: Aerosol Processes

Supported by: ASR

Oxidation plays an important role in governing the interactions of organic aerosol with clouds and atmospheric heterogeneous chemical reactions. To learn more about the chemistry of long-range-transported free tropospheric aerosol, we studied the molecular composition of organic aerosol collected at the Pico Mountain Observatory in the Azores.