Breakout Summary Report
ARM/ASR User and PI Meeting
AMF3 Southeast United States Deployment
25 June 2020
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
211
Chongai Kuang, Shawn Serbin, Scott Giangrande
25 June 2020
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
211
Chongai Kuang, Shawn Serbin, Scott Giangrande
Breakout Description
The third ARM Mobile Facility (AMF3) will be relocated from Oliktok Point to the Southeast United States (SEUS) for a five-year deployment starting in the fall of 2022. The SEUS is a region characterized by abundant surface-forced shallow to deep convection, high rates of vegetative-driven biogenic emissions, and strong local coupling of the land surface with atmospheric processes. The AMF3 SEUS site science team is working with ARM and the larger scientific community to guide the siting of the new deployment in order to address critical science focal areas spanning five cross-cutting topics: convective cloud initiation, deep convective cloud processes, aerosol controls on cloud condensation nuclei, aerosol direct impacts on radiation, and land-atmosphere two-way interactions (LAI). This long-term campaign will serve as the basis for a wide range of observational, analysis, and modeling studies to characterize the region and will be of interest to a large sector of the Earth science community. This breakout session will enable outreach to the broader ARM/ASR scientific community by providing a venue for discussing SEUS science drivers and associated siting considerations and for gathering feedback from the community. The goals of the session are to present and solicit feedback on: [1] high-level goals of the upcoming deployment; [2] siting maps with general regions identified that meet criteria of the proposed science drivers and operational requirements; [3] a preliminary timeline for deployment decisions and rollout; [4] the transition plan from Oliktok Point; and [5] SEUS science drivers targeting aerosol, convective clouds, and LAI topics.Participants:
To facilitate our breakout session discussion, our site science team solicits input prior to the breakout session from the ARM/ASR scientific community regarding: [1] critical measurement needs; and [2] spatial and temporal observational scales that would support a successful deployment of the AMF3 to the SEUS. Please send input to Chongai Kuang (ckuang@bnl.gov).
Main Discussion
A summary of our breakout session discussion results is presented here, organized by topical category (Aerosol, Convection, Land-Atmosphere-Interactions, General), with each category further sub-organized into the sections of (when applicable): science drivers and considerations, measurements and instruments for consideration, sampling considerations, siting and deployment considerations, and outreach to local partners/agencies/measurement networks.(Full Full Breakout Session Report https://asr.science.energy.gov/meetings/stm/presentations/2020/1120.pdf)