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Continuous Large-Scale Forcing Data for Cloud Modeling From Southern Great Plains Extended to October 2018
Three years of additional data (2016, 2017, and 2018) have been added to version 2 of the continuous large-scale forcing value-added product (VAP), known as VARANAL, from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. This extends the data product to October 2018 and includes both the large-scale forcing terms and the…
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Continuous Large-Scale Forcing Data Now Available for Cloud Modeling From Southern Great Plains
Data for the years 2004 to 2015 are now available for version 2 of the continuous large-scale forcing value-added product (VAP), known as VARANAL, from the Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. This product includes both the large-scale forcing terms and the evaluation fields, which can be used for driving single-column models, cloud-resolving models, or…
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Version 2 of the Continuous Large-Scale Forcing Data Now Available
Updated November 2017: Data are now available for the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory for the year 2015. The data sets are in netCDF format. Updated February 2017: Data are now available for the Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory for the years 2013 and 2014. Version 2 of the continuous large-scale forcing data value-added product known as…
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2016 Southern Great Plains Data Added to ARM Best Estimate VAP
Created specifically for climate modelers for use in the evaluation of global climate models, the ARM Best Estimate (ARMBE) value-added product (VAP) has been updated and extended to include Southern Great Plains data for all of 2016. It comprises the ARMBE Atmospheric Measurements (ARMBE-ATM), ARMBE Cloud and Radiation (ARMBE-CLDRAD), and ARMBE-LAND data sets. These data…