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Arctic Winter Water Vapor IOP Starts; Microwave Radiometer Profiler Deployed
Some of the instruments collecting data during the Arctic Winter Water Vapor IOP include ARM’s microwave radiometer profiler (left) and microwave radiometer (right), and NOAA’s ground-based scanning radiometer (middle). ARM file photo. The Arctic Winter Water Vapor Intensive Operational Period (IOP), a collaborative effort with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Environmental Technology Laboratory,…
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External Data Center Gets a Big Boost
In addition to providing database support to the ARM Program, the External Data Center (XDC) identifies and acquires “external” sources of data to augment the data being generated within the program. These external data are transformed from their original received form to data sets of greater value to ARM researchers. These transformations may involve subsetting,…
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High Speed Internet Service Established at Oliktok, Alaska
Thanks to a collaboration with Barrow Arctic Science Consortium (BASC), Starband satellite internet service to Oliktok – located on the eastern side of ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) site – is being established to support the ARM Program’s Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud Experiment (M-PACE). With various modes of 50kb up/500kb down data transfer available, this…
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Metrics Monitor Activity on ARM Education Website
The overall goal of the ARM Education and Outreach team is to develop basic science awareness and increase critical thinking skills in environmental science and climate change for K-12 students located near ARM sites at the North Slope of Alaska, Southern Great Plains (Oklahoma), and Tropical Western Pacific. One of the tools the ARM education…
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New Web Interface for Solar Tracking is Right on Target
New solar tracking interface helps eliminate judgment calls and create an objective assessment of tracker performance each day. ARM file photo. At ARM’s Tropical Western Pacific site, radiometer sensors mounted on solar trackers provide critical radiation balance measurements. If a tracker is off even a small amount, the data from the diffuse radiometers and the…
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Disaster Plan Deflects Problems During Downpour
A late-winter storm in the Midwest could have wreaked havoc at the ARM Program’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) site in northern Oklahoma. Fortunately, the site’s Disaster Plan was successfully implemented. SGP’s 160-acre Central Facility, the heart of the site, is heavily instrumented to collect and monitor atmospheric data collected from in situ and remote-sensing instrument…