The Arm Climate Research Facility: A Review of Structure and Capabilities

Autor:	James H. Mather, Jimmy W. Voyles
Rok vydání:	2013
Předmět:	Atmospheric radiation Atmospheric Science Cloud microphysics Meteorology business.industry Ranging Cloud computing Aerosol Radiative transfer Environmental science User Facility business Data archive Remote sensing
Zdroj:	Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 94:377-392
ISSN:	1520-0477 0003-0007
DOI:	10.1175/bams-d-11-00218.1
Popis:	The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility (www.arm.gov) provides atmospheric observations from diverse climatic regimes around the world. Because it is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) user facility, ARM data are freely available to anyone through the ARM Data Archive. With 20 years of operations, the facility recently added two mobile facilities and an aerial facility to its network of fixed-location sites. Research using ARM data has led to advances in areas ranging from radiative transfer to cloud microphysics. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allowed ARM to enhance its observational capabilities with a broad array of new instruments at its fixed and mobile sites and the aerial facility. Instruments include scanning radars; water vapor, cloud/aerosol extinction, and Doppler lidars; aerosol instruments for measuring optical, physical, and chemical properties; and aircraft probes for measuring cloud and aerosol properties. Taking full advantage of these inst...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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