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New Funding for PEARL

Eureka's Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory in Nunavut has been awarded a grant through CANDAC to sustain core operations. Click here to learn about sustained operations moving forward.

Summit Station News

Researchers from Summit Station's ICECAPS project were in the news at NSF this week for their recent Nature publication explaining the role of thin, low-lying clouds in Greenland's widespread surface melt last summer. Click here for the NSF news summary.

Join IASOA at AOS

The first Arctic Observing Summit (AOS) is to be held in Vancouver, Canada 30-Apr to 02-May. We welcome your comments on our community white paper. Click here for a copy.

IASOA will also host an IASC-sponsored half day workshop on 03-May to craft its contributions to the 2013 Arctic Report Card. Please contact Sandy Starkweather for more details on participating in the workshop.

News from Ny-Aalesund

The 31st edition of the Ny-Ålesund Newsletter is now available. Click here to learn about plans for new radiation instruments at Zeppelin and new greenhouse gas flux measurements on the Amundsen Nobile Climate Change Tower (CCT).

Expansions at St.Nord

Aarhus University has begun the construction of a modern research station in northern Greenland that will monitor how climate change is affecting the region.

Click here for the full story.

DOE ARM Facility RFP

Request for Preproposals
Scientific Research at the ARM Climate Research Facility
U.S. Department of Energy

Preproposal deadline: Friday, 1 February 2013

To submit a proposal, please go click here.

Polar Met Call

The 12th Conference on Polar Meteorology and Oceanography is being held 29Apr - 02May, 2013 in Seattle, Washington. Abstracts are due January 14, 2013. Click here for more information.

2012 Arctic Report Card

The latest Arctic Report Card was released at AGU on December 5. Atmospheric results from the annual roll-up include updates on 2012 temperature anomalies as well as greenhouse gas and UV baseline measurements from Arctic observatories. Observations show that increases from human sources in greenhouse gases continue, while warm air temperature anomaolies were relatively small compared to the last decade. Click here for more information.

IASOA at WMO-GCW

Represenatives from the IASOA consoritum will travel to Vienna, Austra Nov 20-22, 2012 for the First WMO-GCW-CryoNet Implementation meeting to share IASOA experiences with network coordination in a pan-Arctic context and contribute to areas of common value for the co-development of IASOA and CryoNet. Click here for more information and look for updates after the meeting.

First Tiksi Science Mtg

The first Tiksi Science Meeting was held in at the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute in St. Petersburg, 18-20 Sept 2012. A summary of the presentations and work plan can be found here.

Input Requested

On The observational needs for climate modelers in the polar regions. Click here to access the document and provide your feedback. Author contact information is provided in the document.

Arctic News in SOTC 2011

Read about changes to the Arctic atmosphere in this briefing on highlights from the 2011 BAMS State of the Climate Report. For access to the full report, click here.

IASOA's New Newsletter

IASOA distributed its first quarterly newsletter to 200 contacts last week. Click here to see the newsletter and subscribe today!

Ozone News, BROMEX Blog

Click here to read about Paul Shepson's work in the news. And click here for a link to the Barrow-based March BROMEX campaign blog.

Update - CREATE 2012

NSERC's CREATE Training Program in Arctic Atmospheric Science has announced new opportunities for 2012 graduate and undergraduate programs. Click HERE for more information.

PEARL in the News

Researchers Jim Drummond and Kim Strong discuss the role of Canada's Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) near Eureka, Canada in the detection and understanding of 2011's record-sized Arctic ozone hole. Click here for the full article in the Montreal Gazette.

Cherski in the News

To learn about the role that Cherski plays in permafrost studies, click here to see NBC's Jim Maceda report on a trip to visit Sergei and Nikita Zimov at the station.

2011 Arctic Report Card

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

The 2011 update of the web-based Arctic Report Card is now available:

http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/

Responding to Change

International Study of Arctic Change (ISAC), in partnership with the School of Policy Studies at Queen’s University, announces:

Responding to Arctic Environmental Change Workshop: Translating Our Growing Understanding into a Research Agenda for Action

Jan 30, 2012 - Feb 1, 2012

Click here for more info.

Workshop Announcement

Workshop on Polar Simulations with the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model.

November 2 and 3, 2011

Byrd Polar Research Center, The Ohio State University

Columbus, Ohio USA

There is no registration fee. You are invited to attend! For more details or to register online: http://polarmet.osu.edu/workshops/pwrf_2011/

New UNIS Course

The Arctic Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Local Climate Processes

Objective: After the course, the student will have an understanding of physical processes typical for the Arctic atmospheric boundary layer, how the Arctic boundary layer differs from that at lower latitudes; the challenges of taking meteorological measurements and a basic understanding of how numerical models in the Arctic work.

Registration Deadline: 15.Oct.2011

For more information about the course and how to apply, see http://www.unis.no

Black Carbon

Is black carbon contributing to the warming of the Arctic? Click here to read about an international study currently taking place in the Arctic to investigate the role of black carbon in Arctic warming.

CREATE Summer School

CREATE Summer School addressing the broad theme of Arctic Atmospheric Science, will be offered from July 11 to 15, 2011 in Alliston, Ontario. Details are HERE.

CANDAC Outreach Update

In March/April 2011, CANDAC launched a new outreach project called Student-Researchers Atmospheric Collaboration at Qarmartalik School in Resolute Bay, Nunavut and Pickering College in Newmarket, Ontario. HERE

Tiksi Update 2011

Successful site visit by FMI HERE

SOA Conf Resolution

The March 16-19, 2010 State of the Arctic Conference has published a final resolution and access to presentations HERE

Arctic Calendar

ARCUS/IASC/AOSB Arctic Calendar

Can we help you?

Did you find what you needed? If not, click here to contact IASOA.

Barrow, United States

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Barrow

Barrow Observatory

Location: 71.323 N, 156.609 W, 11 m asl (36 ft asl)

Governing Institution: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Station Contact: Steve Grove (Steve.P.Grove@noaa.gov)

Main web site: http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/obop/brw/

Facilities: The Barrow Observatory is located about 8km east of the village of Barrow, AK.

Observatory Mission and Purpose: The Barrow Observatory hosts multiple cooperative international research projects.

Site News:

Topography and History: The Observatory was established in 1973 and located on the coast of the Arctic Ocean. The village of Barrow has earned the distinction of being the farthest north population center in the United States. The surrounding terrain is tundra, housing numerous melt lakes in the summer, which freeze over during the winter months. Instrumentation is maintained year round by at least 2 scientists and engineers. Polar bears are a frequent visitor to Barrow and a very real safety concern for any who work outdoors.

Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) site at the North Slope of Alaska (NSA)

Location: 71.323 N, 156.6156 W (Barrow); 70.4722 N, 157.4078 W (Atqasuk)

Governing Institution: United States Department of Energy

Station Director: Mark D. Ivey (mdivey@sandia.gov)

Main web site: www.arm.gov/sites/nsa

Facilities: There are two facilities that make up the ARM NSA site. They are Barrow and Atqasuk, which is located 70 miles south of Barrow.

ARM Mission and Purpose: To provide data about clouds and radiative processes at high latitudes to improve numerical models and model parameterizations.

Site News:

Topography and History: Both Barrow and Atqasuk are located on flat tundra terrain with an elevation seperation of only 12m. Barrow's population is a little over 4,500 while Atqasuk is a much smaller community with a stable population of around 225. Even without roads, there is frequent travel between the two villages via planes or snow machine.

Table of Measurements

Station Identifier: 70026

Station Abbreviations: BRW, PABR, BAR, BROA2, and STN199 (Barrow); PATQ and MDEA2 (Atqasuk)

Barrow Global Atmosphere Watch - Station Information System (GAWSIS)

Measurement/Instruments	Time Period	PIs/Organization
Barrow Observatory		National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Meteorology - surface
Ozone - surface		S. Oltmans (NOAA)
Ozone - upper air
Greenhouse gases		T. Conway, E. Dlugokencky, J. Elkins, P. Novelli, S. Oltmans, and K. Thoning (NOAA); B. Vaughn (INSTAAR)
Radio Nuclides
Aerosol		J. Ogren (NOAA)
Aerosol - organic carbon		L. Russel (Scripps)
Aerosol - inorganic ions and aerosol mass		P. Quinn (NOAA)
Reactive Gases		P. Novelli (NOAA); B. Vaughn (INSTAAR)
Persistent Organic Pollutants
ARM NAS site		Department of Energy
915-MHz radar wind profiler
Atmospherically emitted radiance interferometer
Balloon-borne sounding system
Cimel sunphotometer
G-band (183 GHz) vapor radiometer
Ground radiometers on stand for upwelling radiation
Integrated sounding system
Micropulse lidar
Microwave radiometer
Microwave radiometer profiler
Millimeter wavelength cloud radar
Multifilter radiometer
Multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer
Normal incidence multifilter radiometer
Sky radiometers on stand for downwelling radiation
Surface and tower meteorological instrumentation (at NSA)
Total precipitation sensor
Total sky imager
Tower camera
Vaisala ceilometer
Other
Sea ice radar		University of Alaska
Geomagnetism		USGS
UV Spectral Irradiance Monitoring Network		NSF/Germer Bernhard (CADIS)

Other relevant web sites:

Data archives:

ARM data archive

NOAA Global Monitoring Division data ftp site

National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC)

Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks sea ice data

Georectification of satellite imagery of Barrow

Derived cloud parameters at Barrow using AERI, ceilometer, MMCR, MPL, and TSI data (March 1998 - present)

Derived cloud parameters at Atqasuk using ceilometer data (March 1998 - present)

NSF Ultraviolet Monitoring Network Version 2 - Barrow

Prototype Network for Measuring Arctic Winter Precipitation and Snow Cover -- Snow-Net

Informational links:

Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) - Barrow station page

Detailed information on ARM instrumentation

ARM North Slope of Alaska site information

Univ. of Alaska Fairbanks Barrow Sea Ice Observatory

USGS Barrow Geomagnetic Observatory

Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC)

WERC - North Slope Current Conditions

See the Barrow station on YouTube, along with an explanation of the scientific research happening there

NOAA Barrow Weather Station on YouTube

All information on this page was gathered from the web sites listed above. We welcome your comments - if you have any additions or corrections that apply to this page, please forward them to lisa.darby@noaa.gov.

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