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  • High-Vertical Resolution Soundings Available for SGP and NSA

    The ARM External Data Center (XDC) now provides atmospheric soundings—vertical measurements of the atmospheric column—in 1-second resolutions collected by the National Weather Service (NWS) in netCDF format to the ARM Data Archive. Quality control is added by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. These weather balloon soundings record temperature, pressure, altitude, humidity, and winds for…

  • New Evaluation Product Provides Thermodynamic Variables from Multiple Instruments

    INTERPSONDE output from the SGP Central Facility during the Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment from April 26, 2011. The Interpolated Sonde (INTERPSONDE) value-added product (VAP) is an intermediate step of the MERGESONDE VAP that produces a daily file of atmospheric state variables (temperature, humidity, pressure, and winds) from radiosonde soundings, the microwave radiometer, and surface…

  • Aerosol Optical Depth Measurements Available as Value-Added Product

    These two images show data plots of cloud-screened AOD at the AMF site in China collected on a 20-second interval during daylight hours. These two days show drastically different aerosol optical depths.Aerosol optical depth (AOD) is a measure of the total aerosol burden in the atmosphere. The spectral dependence of AOD, typically described by the…

  • Moving on Up: Merged Sounding Data Now a Value-Added Product

    Examples of relative humidity for SGP, NSA, and TWP-Darwin. The Merged Sounding evaluation product has moved into the ARM Data Archive as a value-added product (VAP). This Merged Sounding VAP, initially designed by Dr. Gerald Mace, was modified by software developer David Troyan under the scientific direction of Michael Jensen to better serve the ARM…

  • Aerosol Optical Depth Measurements Available as Value-Added Product

    Cloud-screened AOD at five wavelengths (top) and Angstrom exponent (bottom) over a three-month time period at the Black Forest, Germany deployment. Aerosol optical depth (AOD) measures total aerosol burden in the atmosphere. The spectral dependence of AOD, typically described by the Angstrom exponent, is also an indicator of particle size. Small Angstrom exponent values (near…

  • ARM Cloud Retrieval Ensemble Data Set Available for Evaluation

    Multiple long-term cloud retrievals are now available for five ARM sites in the ACRED data set. A new ARM evaluation product, the ARM Cloud Retrieval Ensemble Data Set (ACRED), is now available for testing by the science community. ACRED was developed with the motivation to provide a rough estimate of the uncertainties in current retrieved…

  • Lidar Value-Added Product Provides Cloud Measurements

    Sample plot generated by MPLCMASK. Click to enlarge. Lidar cloud boundaries are a useful tool for identifying cloud base height and cloud thickness in optically thin clouds. The Micropulse Lidar Cloud Mask (MPLCMASK) value-added product (VAP) provides cloud base height, cloud top height, and backscatter coefficient for non-polarized micropulse lidar measurements. In addition, depolarization ratio…

  • Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Available for ARM Sites

    An example plot from the MWRRET VAP for 10/8/1999 at SGP. (top) Brightness temperatures measured by the MWR; orange and blue lines indicate potential measurement spikes due to precipitation, (middle) retrieved precipitable water vapor from the new physical method (blue) and the original statistical method (green), (bottom) retrieved liquid water path from the new physical…

  • More Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data Available for More Sites

    Soundings and surface meteorological measurements are now available for five ARM sites in the CMBE data set.The latest release of the Climate Modeling Best Estimate (CMBE) data set has added soundings and surface meteorological measurements in the CMBE-ATM datastream for Barrow, Alaska, and all three Tropical Western Pacific sites. For these four sites, the cloud…

  • Shortwave Flux Analysis Extended to North Slope of Alaska

    This summer, the ARM Radiative Processes Working Group released an extension of the Shortwave Flux Analysis value-added product to include data from the ARM North Slope of Alaska locale. Originally released in 2004, the Shortwave Flux Analysis VAP was developed to infer clear-sky shortwave, shortwave cloud effects, and fractional sky cover from shortwave measurements at…