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Sandia switches to hydrogen weather balloons
May 9, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Hundreds of miles north of the Arctic Circle, Sandia National Laboratories researchers ensure the collection of important weather and climate data. By switching the gas used in their weather balloons, they have reduced their metaphorical footprint on the fragile Arctic ecosystem. More than three years ago, the...
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A metal building on stilts, with a white balloon taking off, above a snowy plain.

Sandia-operated Arctic measurement facility moves, research to continue
November 9, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — After eight great years of observations and research, a Sandia National Laboratories-operated atmospheric measurement facility moved from Oliktok Point, on the North Slope of Alaska, this summer. The mobile facility will be relocating to the southeastern United States; the exact location is still being decided. The Department...
Categories: Climate Change, Energy / Environment / Water
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Two men look at blue shipping container-like shelters. One points.

The destructive effects of supercooled liquid water on airplane safety and climate models
November 3, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Supercooled  water sounds smooth enough to be served at espresso bars, but instead it hangs out in Earth’s atmosphere, unpredictably freezing on airplane wings and hampering the simulations of climate theorists. To learn more about this unusual state of matter, Sandia National Laboratories atmospheric scientist Darielle Dexheimer and colleagues have organized an expedition to...
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Ice pops from a balloon's tether line as Sandia National Laboratories researcher Darielle Dexheimer gathers in an instrumented balloon at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement research station at Oliktok Point, Alaska. The balloon is about 25 feet above Dexheimer's head and the lines are completely iced over.