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Ya-Chien Feng first encountered the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility in 2018 during an ARM Summer Training in Oklahoma. By May 2024, she returned as an instructor at the ARM Open Science Summer School in Ohio, teaching radar data to students from undergraduates to postdoctoral researchers.

In fiscal year 2025, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility plans to conduct tethered balloon system (TBS) flights in Alabama, Maryland, and Oklahoma. Five newly approved field campaigns are designed to rely on data from those flights.

Skillful predictions of tropical cyclone

tropical cyclone

A warm-core non-frontal synoptic-scale cyclone, originating over tropical or subtropical waters, with organized deep convection and a closed surface wind circulation about a well-defined center.

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activity on subseasonal time scales may help mitigate their destructive impacts. This study investigates the combined impacts of atmospheric phenomena to better understand cyclone activity.

Registration is now open for the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Solar Decathlon® 2025 Design Challenge! In this challenge, interdisciplinary collegiate teams will create efficient, resilient, and sustainable buildings that meet community needs as part of DOE’s longest-running student competition.

While atmospheric particles directly affect climate (e.g., cloud formation), sampling atmospheric particles aloft is practically challenging. Therefore, a full understanding of how particle composition is linked to environmental function remains limited.

Coastal wetland

wetland

An area of land that is periodically saturated with water, which influences the types of plants and animals that can live there. Wetlands include swamps, marshes, bogs, and other similar areas.

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carbon cycling and greenhouse gas production depend heavily on salinity

salinity

Salinity is the dissolved salt content of a body of water. It is a strong contributor to conductivity and helps determine many aspects of the chemistry of natural waters and the biological processes within them.

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and tides. This study introduced a new model to simulate biogeochemical reactions, including sulfur, carbon, and iron cycles, alongside tidal hydrology

hydrology

The science that deals with water, its properties, circulation, or distribution on Earth's surface, and in the atmosphere through evapotranspiration.

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and salt marsh vegetation.

The Delaware River Basin, a Mid-Atlantic coastal watershed,

watershed

An area of land that channels rainfall and snowmelt to creeks, streams, and rivers, and eventually flows to the lowest point in a basin.

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has a history of severe flooding with significant socioeconomic

socioeconomic

A way of describing groups based on their education, income, or job type. Socioeconomic status is usually described as low, medium, and high.

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impacts. This research uses process-based modeling to analyze hydrometeorological conditions over the past 40 years, highlighting the spatial variability of flood mechanisms.

In recent decades, hurricanes along the Southeast Coast of the United States have caused increased sea surface cooling by mixing cooler deep waters with warmer surface waters, creating a "cold wake" that alters upper-ocean temperatures and nutrient distribution.

Internships Provide JUMP Into STEM Winners With Experiential Buildings Research Opportunities. This U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program supports the goals and objectives listed in the recently released Decarbonizing the U.S. Economy by 2050: A National Blueprint for the Buildings Sector.

If all the high-voltage transmission currently under construction and in advanced stages of permitting is built by 2030 in the Western United States—enabling the construction of new renewable energy

renewable energy

Renewable energy comes from unlimited, naturally replenished resources, such as the sun, tides, and wind. Renewable energy can be used for electricity generation, space and water heating and cooling, and transportation.

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projects—carbon dioxide emissions in the Western United States would drop by 73 percent compared to 2005.

From April 2026 to September 2027, The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility plans to operate one of its three mobile atmospheric observatories in the Phoenix, Arizona, area. It will be part of a new field campaign called Desert-Urban SysTem IntegratEd AtmospherIc Monsoon

monsoon

The seasonal reversal in atmospheric low-level circulations, particularly the surface winds and associated precipitation, resulting in a pattern of wet summers and dry winters.

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(DUSTIEAIM) in the Southwestern United States.

Twenty-one students got hands-on experience working with the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) quantum computing experts and the opportunity to program on actual quantum computers, a unique opportunity for them to work on cutting-edge research and for the lab to build a pipeline to advance the mission.