Testing the AMF2 deployment for COS-RAY in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Photo taken and provided as a courtesy by Ryan Scott (SIO) - July 2015
Testing the WAIS Divide AMF2 equipment for COS-RAY deployment at Hamelmann Communications in Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Photo taken and provided as a courtesy of Ryan Scott (SIO) - July 2015
Testing the Scanning ARM Cloud Radar (SACR) at Hamelmann Communications, Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Photo taken and provided as a courtesy by Ryan Scott (SIO) - July 2015
Installation of the AMF-2 at CosRay - 03 November 2015
Location of AWARE Mission on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Installation of the AMF-2 at CosRay - 08 November 2015
Installation of the AMF-2 at CosRay - 09 November 2015
Installation of the AMF-2 at CosRay - 10 November 2015
Installation of the AMF-2 at CosRay - 10 November 2015
Installation of the AMF-2 at CosRay - 10 November 2015
Roof of the AMF2 installation at CosRay seen from the top of the MET tower - 10 November 2015
Jody Ellis (Mamelman Communications) anchoring an ISO container for the AMF2 installation at CosRay - 11 November 2015
Leveling the foundation for the AMF2 containers at CosRay. Clockwise from right: Heath Powers (LANL), Paul Ortega (LANL), and Chad Naughton (ASC) - 11 November 2015
John Hamelmann and Jody Ellis (Hamelmann Communications) at the CosRay site overlooking McMurdo Sound - 11 November 2015
Exaggerated hero shot after the morning safety brief - 11 November 2015.
Installation of the AMF-2 at CosRay - 12 November 2015
Installation of the AMF-2 at CosRay - 12 November 2015
Andrei Lindenmaier (PNNL) installing the Scanning ARM Cloud Radar (SACR) system at CosRay - 13 November 2015
Right to left: Kim Nitschke (LANL), Andrei Lindenmaier (PNNL) and Heath Powers (LANL) beginning the Scanning ARM Cloud Radar (SACR) installation at CosRay - 15 November 2015
Colin Jenkinson (BOM) on a McMurdo Sound pressure ridge tour - 17 November 2015
Principal Investigator Dan Lubin (right) and ARM Facility Manager Kim Nitschke (center) give NSF Representative Jessie Crain a tour of the AMF-2 rooftop installation. Instruments in the foreground are the SKYRAD radiometers. Instruments in the background are the Beam-Steerable Radar Wind Profiler (BSRWP) and the Ka-band ARM Zenith Radar (KAZR). Photo taken and given as a courtesy by Heath Powers (LANL) - 20 November 2015
Group photo at the CosRay site as the AMF-2 installation is nearing completion. Front row seated (left to right): Paul Ortega (LANL), Krzysztof Krzton (BOM), Jeff Aquilina (BOM), Dan Lubin (SIO), Kim Nitschke (LANL), John Hamelmann (Hamelmann Communications). Back row standing (left to right): Heath Powers (LANL), Andrei Lindenmaier (PNNL), Colin Jenkinson (BOM), Mike Ryczek (BOM), Jody Ellis (Hamelmann Communications), Greg Stone (BOM) - 21 November 2015.
Andrei Lindenmaier (PNNL) on a McMurdo Sound pressure ridge tour - 22 November 2015
Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound near the CosRay site - 23 November 2015
Ilya Razenkov (UWM - CIMSS - Graduate Student ) on a pressure ridge tour in McMurdo Sound - 27 November 2015
The Second ARM Mobile Facility (AMF2) installation at CosRay on Ross Island - 27 November 2016
Heath Powers (LANL) on a pressure ridge tour in McMurdo Sound - 27 November 2015
Heath Powers (LANL) in an ice cave tour near McMurdo Sound - 28 November 2015
Thanksgiving dinner in the McMurdo Galley. Foreground left is our ASC Implementer Steve Zellerhoff - 28 November 2015
Airborne in the LC-130 on the way to the WAIS Divide. Left to right: Kat Ryan (ASC Weather Observer), Colin Jenkinson (BOM), Mike Ryczek (BOM), Dan Lubin (SIO-CASPO) - 02 December 2016
The AWARE field party arrives at WAIS Divide Ice Camp. Left to right: Mike Ryczek (BOM), Dan Lubin (SIO-CASPO), Colin Jenkinson (BOM), and Heath Powers (LANL) - 02 December 2015
The AMF container being unloaded from the LC-130 at WAIS Divide - 02 December 2015
Mike Ryczek (BOM) and Dan Lubin (SIO-CASPO) in the Science Tent at WAIS Divide after the first full day of instrument setup - 03 December 2015
The AMF container being moved into position at WAIS Divide - 03 December 2015
Colin Jenkinson (BOM) and Dan Lubin (SIO-CASPO) installing dead-man anchors for the ceilometer and Total Sky Imager at WAIS Divide - 05 December 2015
WAIS Divide Ice Camp near the end of the first storm we probed with AMF instruments - 06 December 2015
Colin Jenkinson (BOM) installing the ECOR eddy covariance surface flux system at WAIS Divide - 05 December 2015
Mike Ryczek (BOM) installing the Total Sky Imager (TSI) at WAIS Divide - 05 December 2015
WAIS Divide Ice Camp from the roof of the AMF container - 07 December 2015
Mike Ryczek (BOM) in the AMF container at WAIS Divide after getting the SKYRAD sun tracker working - 06 December 2015
View of the AMF installation at WAIS Divide from the edge of Tent City, with a one-person Arctic Oven tent in foreground - 06 December 2015
AMF equipment at WAIS Divide. Left to right: Total Sky Imager (TSI) and Ceilometer, Microwave radiometer (MWR) farther back by itself, the container with most of the instruments and data system, liquid nitrogen supply (yellow crates) for the GVRP microwave profiling radiometer, and the GNDRAD system - 06 December 2015
Aurora at the CosRay site overlooking McMurdo Sound.
The laser beam that appears is from the High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL), which gives us information about cloud and aerosol layer microphysics - 03 August 2016
The laser beam that appears is from the High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL), which gives us information about cloud and aerosol layer microphysics - 03 August 2016
Aurora at the CosRay site overlooking McMurdo Sound - 03 August 2016
Aurora at the CosRay site near McMurdo Sound.
The laser beam that appears is from the High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL), which gives us information about cloud and aerosol layer microphysics - 03 August 2016
The laser beam that appears is from the High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL), which gives us information about cloud and aerosol layer microphysics - 03 August 2016