The 2022 American Geophysical Union (AGU) Fall Meeting will be held from December 12 to 16 in Chicago, Illinois, as well as online. With more than 25,000 attendees expected, the meeting might feel overwhelming. We make it easy for you to find ARM-relevant science, meet up with colleagues, and discover new connections during the event.
Below is a list of ARM-related AGU meeting highlights (all times Central). Information is subject to change; please check the AGU Fall Meeting website for the most up-to-date information. Follow us on Twitter (@armnewsteam) and Facebook (@arm.gov) for a real-time guide to relevant activities using the hashtags #ARMAGU and #AGU22.
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Attending AGU in person? Make sure to visit the ARM booth in the exhibition hall—Booth 1912 . There you can view facility materials, attend flash talks, and meet with ARM representatives.
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Town Halls
ARM-Related Town Halls
Other DOE Earth and Environmental Systems Sciences Division Town Halls
- TH53E: DOE’s Expanded Engagement in Urban Climate Science
Friday, December 16, 12:45–1:45 p.m., McCormick Place - S105a (South, Level 1)
Primary Contact: Jennifer Saleem Arrigo, Department of Energy
Presenters: Gerald L. Geernaert, Department of Energy; Michael P. Jensen, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Jennie Rice, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Related Interagency Town Halls
- TH23B: Answering a Call to Action in the Arctic: A Two-Year Plan for Federal Research Investment
Tuesday, December 13, 12:45–1:45 p.m., McCormick Place - S105bc (South, Level 1)
Primary Contact: Liz Weinberg, Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee
Presenters: Greg J. Anderson, National Science Foundation; Sorina Stalla, Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee; Suzanne Van Drunick, Environmental Protection Agency; Elizabeth Powers, U.S. Geological Survey; Thomas Douglas, Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory Alaska
- TH35J: US CLIVAR Town Hall on the Air-Sea Transition Zone
Wednesday, December 14, 6:30–7:30 p.m., McCormick Place - S106a (South, Level 1)
Primary Contact: Michael Patterson, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Presenters: Carol Anne Clayson, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution; Simon P. de Szoeke, Oregon State University
Invited Presentations
Please note: On average, each presentation is scheduled to run no longer than five minutes, so the full session times are listed below for planning purposes.
Featured Field Campaign Presentations
Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL)
Over three and a half days, this site in Gothic, Colorado, went from an empty construction pad to eight ARM cargo containers hosting much of the SAIL instrumentation. The diversity of landforms, topography, and vegetation associated with the deployment location in the Elk Mountain range of central Colorado is seen here, including a field of lupine in full bloom and Gothic Mountain in the background. Photo is by Ken Williams, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
The SAIL field campaign, which kicked off in September 2021 and is set to close operations in June 2023, takes place in the 300-square-kilometer (116-square-mile) East River Watershed near Crested Butte, Colorado. As part of SAIL, a portable ARM observatory is providing valuable atmospheric data that researchers are using to develop detailed measurements of mountainous water-cycle processes as they pertain to the Colorado River, which supplies water for 40 million people in the American West.
Through SAIL, researchers from DOE national laboratories, universities, and research centers and agencies will enable an atmosphere-through-bedrock understanding of mountainous water cycles. NOAA and the National Science Foundation are sponsoring concurrent field studies in the region that will contribute to SAIL research.
SAIL’s lead scientist, Daniel Feldman, will be the primary convener of the following SAIL-related AGU sessions:
- POSTER SESSION—H25M: Atmosphere-Through-Bedrock Observations, Modeling, and Science in the Upper Colorado River Basin III
Tuesday, December 13, 2:45–6:15 p.m., McCormick Place - Poster Hall A (South, Level 3)
Reported ARM/DOE SAIL presentations: - H25M-1258: Surveying the First Year of SAIL Data and Formulating Hypotheses for its Second Year. Daniel Feldman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
- H25M-1259: The Study of Precipitation, the Lower Atmosphere and Surface for Hydrometeorology (SPLASH) -- Outcomes from the first year of observations. Gijs de Boer, University of Colorado Boulder.
- H25M-1262: Dual Doppler Analysis Results from the SPLASH – SAIL Radar Network. V.V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University.
- H25M-1263: Measurements of Non-refractory Submicron Aerosol Composition and Other Aerosol Properties at a High-Altitude Site in Colorado River Basin. Maria A. Zawadowicz, Brookhaven National Laboratory.
- H25M-1265: Observations of blowing snow at SAIL/SPLASH. Aaron D. Kennedy, University of North Dakota.
- H25M-1266: Radar Observations of Precipitation During SPLASH. Robert Cifelli, NOAA, Physical Sciences Laboratory.
- H25M-1267: SAIL-NET: Investigating spatial variability of aerosol and cloud nuclei in mountainous terrain. Anna L. Hodshire, Handix Scientific.
- H25M-1268 - X-Band Radar Precipitation Estimates for the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) Field Experiment. Joseph Robert O’Brien, Argonne National Laboratory.
TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER)
Dark clouds streak above an ARM Mobile Facility operating in La Porte, Texas, in June 2022 as part of TRACER.
TRACER, which ran from October 2021 through September 2022, provided convective cloud observations with high space and time resolution over a broad range of environmental and aerosol conditions around the Houston, Texas, region. As part of TRACER, ARM deployed a portable observatory southeast of downtown Houston, a scanning precipitation radar south of downtown, and an ancillary site southwest of the city, where tethered balloon systems were launched. Together, these ARM measurements are helping researchers better understand the variability of aerosols and meteorology between the urban Houston area and surrounding rural environments.
Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC)
MOSAiC expedition team members are pictured returning to the icebreaker R/V Polarstern. The
Polarstern, which transported more than 50 ARM instruments to the central Arctic, was frozen into
the ice for almost a full year. Photo is by David Chu, Los Alamos National Laboratory.
The massive MOSAiC expedition set out to document the atmosphere, sea ice, ocean, biogeochemistry, and ecosystem in the central Arctic. More than 400 field participants and 60 institutions from 20 countries were active in the German-led expedition from September 2019 to October 2020. MOSAiC’s central observatory was the icebreaker R/V Polarstern, which froze into and then drifted with the arctic sea ice for most of the year. ARM provided the most atmospheric instruments—more than 50—to the expedition.
Matthew Shupe, a DOE-funded principal investigator and a co-coordinator of the MOSAiC expedition, will be the primary convener of the following MOSAiC- and Arctic-themed AGU sessions: