Susannah Burrows Pays it Forward

ASR early career scientist Susannah Burrows brings focus to ice-nucleating particles, biogeochemistry modeling, and giving back.

From COMBLE, A Boom of Big Plans

A data-rich study of cloud evolution in the Norwegian Sea marine boundary layer is the Focus of multiple modeling efforts.

CACTI: Storm Chasers, Knowledge Makers

Recent work spanning two related field campaigns in Argentina gets play in the same journal.

Yunyan Zhang: Modeler of Boundary-Layer Clouds

A California researcher leverages ASR funding and ARM data to boost understanding of land-atmosphere-cloud interactions.

Atmospheric Aerosols and Their Chemical Complexities

With ARM and ASR support, a cross-country pair of collaborators use imaging strategies to peel open some enduring aerosol mysteries.

The U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric System Research program advances process-level understanding of the key interactions among aerosols, clouds, precipitation, radiation, dynamics, and thermodynamics, with the ultimate goal of reducing the uncertainty in global and regional climate simulations and projections.

Research Highlights

Habit-dependent vapor growth modulates the macrophysical occurrence of arctic supercooled clouds

Analysis of long-term data collected at Utqiaġvik, Alaska to explore the impacts of cloud [...] Read more

Aerosol direct radiative effects at the ARM SGP and TWP sites: Clear skies

The objective of this project is to examine and quantify aerosol direct radiative effects (DREs) [...] Read more

Investigation of turbulent entrainment mixing with high-resolution digital holography

Turbulent entrainment-mixing processes have been proposed to explain outstanding cloud physics [...] Read more

Recent Publications

Observation of sub-3nm particles and new particle formation at an urban location in India

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Consideration of Initial Cloud Droplet Size Distribution Shapes in Quantifying Different Entrainment‐Mixing Mechanisms

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Factors Governing Cloud Growth and Entrainment Rates in Shallow Cumulus and Cumulus Congestus during GoAmazon2014/5

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Upcoming Meetings

ARM/ASR 2021 Virtual Joint Meeting

21 Jun 2021 - 24 Jun 2021

The Joint Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility/Atmospheric System Research (ASR) [...] Read more

Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Science (TAI4ES) Summer School

21 Jun 2021 - 24 Jun 2021

Held virtually July 26 to 30, the TAI4ES Summer School will focus on developing trustworthy AI for [...] Read more

Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration (JEDI) Academy

21 Jun 2021 - 25 Jun 2021

The Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) will hold its sixth biannual JEDI Academy [...] Read more