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  • Large-Scale Forcing Data Released for Macquarie Island Campaign

    Continuous large-scale forcing data are now available for the Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE). The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility conducted the MICRE field campaign from March 2016 through March 2018 on Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean. Forcing data for MICRE were developed from a constrained variational analysis approach (Zhang and…

  • Aerosol Optical Depth Data Updated for Azores, Macquarie Island

    Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is the measure of the total aerosol burden in a vertical column of the atmosphere. The AOD value-added product (VAP) has been running autonomously in production to derive AOD from direct normal irradiance measured by multifilter rotating shadowband radiometers (MFRSRs) at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s ground-based sites. This…

  • Radiative Flux Analysis Data Released for Macquarie Island Campaign

    The Radiative Flux Analysis value-added product (RADFLUXANAL VAP) is now available for the 2016–2018 Macquarie Island Cloud and Radiation Experiment (MICRE) in the Southern Ocean. RADFLUXANAL calculates clear-sky irradiance in the shortwave and longwave surface fluxes from the measured broadband irradiance. This VAP also calculates fractional sky cover and cloud parameters, including effective visible cloud…

  • Radiation Data Quality VAP Expands to COMBLE and MICRE Campaigns

    The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s longtime recommended datastream for broadband surface irradiance measurements is Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD). The QCRAD value-added product (VAP) is now available for two recent ARM field campaigns. QCRAD data are processed for the 2019–2020 Cold-Air Outbreaks in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) in…

  • BAMS Paper Highlights Initial ARM Southern Ocean Campaign Results

    MARCUS, MICRE included in overview publication of recent campaigns in the region To improve the understanding and modeling of clouds, aerosols, precipitation, and their interactions over the remote Southern Ocean during various seasonal cycles, research organizations launched four separate yet collaborative field campaigns between 2016 and 2018. Initial findings from these campaigns are documented within…