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New 2- and 3-Channel Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Produced
Both versions of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s value-added product (VAP) for microwave radiometer retrievals are now available for the 2023–2024 Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE) in La Jolla, California. These products retrieve column precipitable water vapor and liquid water path—both important variables to understand radiative transfer in the atmosphere and…
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New Cloud Microphysics VAP Evaluation Data Released for TRACER Campaign
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEKAPLUS) is now available for the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) near Houston, Texas. MICROBASEKAPLUS is a value-added product (VAP) that provides continuous, high-time-resolution profiles of cloud microphysical properties such as liquid/ice water content and liquid/ice effective radius. The VAP was…
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Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Now Available for SAIL
The Microwave Radiometer Retrievals value-added product (MWRRET VAP) is now available for the 2021–2023 Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL) campaign near Crested Butte, Colorado. MWRRET retrieves column precipitable water vapor and liquid water path—both important variables to understanding radiative transfer in the atmosphere and clouds—from ARM’s 2-channel microwave radiometers (23.8 and 31.4 GHz). The VAP uses a physical…
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New Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Now Available
New level 2 (c2) files are now available from the Microwave Radiometer Retrievals value-added product (MWRRET VAP). This release covers the 2021–2022 TRacking Aerosol Convection interactions ExpeRiment (TRACER) near Houston, Texas, and all of 2022 at ARM’s North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory. MWRRET retrieves column precipitable water vapor and liquid water path—both important variables to understanding…
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Cloud Microphysics VAP Extended at Southern Great Plains
New evaluation data are available from a value-added product (VAP) that builds upon the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s historical Continuous Baseline Microphysical Retrieval (MICROBASE) VAP. The latest release from the Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEKAPLUS) covers all of 2021 at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, extending the data set an additional…
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New Cloud Microphysics and Sonde Products Available for 2 ARM Campaigns
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility released two new cloud microphysics and sonde value-added products (VAPs) from the 2012–2013 Two-Column Aerosol Project (TCAP) on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the Green Ocean Amazon (GoAmazon2014/15) field campaign near Manaus, Brazil. The Interpolated Sonde (INTERPSONDE) VAP and W-Band Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEW) are now available…
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Improved Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Produced for 2 ARM Sites
New level 2 (c2) files are now available from the Microwave Radiometer Retrievals value-added product (MWRRET VAP). This release covers 2020 and 2021 at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains Central Facility near Lamont, Oklahoma, and 2018 through 2021 at ARM’s North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory. MWRRET retrieves column precipitable…
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New Cloud Microphysics VAP Evaluation Data Available for 3 ARM Sites
Cloud microphysical properties affect cloud radiative heating, precipitation formation, and aerosol-cloud interactions, among other important atmospheric processes. New evaluation data are now available from a value-added product (VAP) that builds upon the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s historical Continuous Baseline Microphysical Retrieval (MICROBASE) VAP. The Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEKAPLUS) provides continuous, high-time-resolution…
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Updated Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Product Available for MOSAiC
New files from the Microwave Radiometer Retrievals value-added product (MWRRET VAP) are now available for the Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition. This release is more complete than the data set announced by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility in March 2021 because additional microwave radiometer data became available…
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Cloud Droplet Number Concentration Product Updated
New data are available from the Droplet Number Concentration value-added product (NDROP VAP), which has been updated to use additional inputs. This will allow NDROP to be available quicker with better retrievals and to be applied to more sites and more cloudy days. Cloud droplet number concentration is an important factor in understanding aerosol-cloud interactions.…