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Updated Tower Water-Vapor Mixing Ratio Product Now Available
An updated version of the Tower Water-Vapor Mixing Ratio value-added product (TWRMR VAP) is now available for use. This VAP calculates water vapor mixing ratios at the 25- and 60-meter levels of the meteorological tower at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) Central Facility. TWRMR also provides best-estimate temperature, relative…
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New Cloud Type VAP and Visualization Available
A new data product—the Cloud Type Classification (CLDTYPE) value-added product (VAP)—provides an automated cloud type classification based on macrophysical quantities derived from vertically pointing lidar and radar. Up to 10 layers of clouds are classified into seven cloud types based on predetermined and site-specific thresholds of cloud top height, cloud base height, and thickness. Inputs…
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Surface Meteorological Data Overhaul Completed
As the ARM Facility grew in size and scope, meteorological datastreams also grew in complexity across all the ARM sites. In an effort to provide data product consistency, the task of reprocessing historical surface meteorology data was recently completed. As the ARM Climate Research Facility grew both in size and scope, it became important to…