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Cloud Microphysics VAP Evaluation Data Available for MC3E Field Campaign
Cloud microphysical properties affect cloud radiative heating, precipitation formation, and aerosol-cloud interactions, among other important atmospheric processes. A value-added product (VAP) that calculates cloud microphysical properties now provides evaluation data for the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) in Oklahoma. The Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEKAPLUS) provides continuous, high time resolution profiles of…
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New Value-Added Products Released for Scanning ARM Precipitation Radars
Indicating a storm moving through ARM’s Southern Great Plains intermediate facility I5 at Garber, Oklahoma, on October 5, 2017, sample plots from the Quasi-Vertical Profiles product show azimuthally averaged X-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar data as a function of time and height. Sample Velocity Azimuth Display product plots from the same October 2017 storm at…
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VAP for 3-Channel Microwave Radiometer Retrievals Released to Production
This Microwave Radiometer Retrievals version 2 (MWRRETv2) quicklook image is from Oliktok Point, Alaska, on February 8, 2018. From top to bottom, panels show observed brightness temperatures at 23.8 (blue), 30 (red), and 89 GHz (green); physically (red and blue) and statistically (green) retrieved precipitable water vapor; physically (red and blue) and statistically (green) retrieved…
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New Radiation Data Quality VAP Release Available for Southern Great Plains
Radiometers collect data at the ARM Southern Great Plains extended facility E31 (Anthony, Kansas). A new level 2 (c2/s2) release for the Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) value-added product (VAP) is now available. This release covers the following 13 extended facilities at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains…
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New VAP Released for ARM Precipitation Radars
The top image shows an application chain for CMAC2. As better algorithms become available, they can be used in the modular CMAC2 architecture. The bottom image provides an example of a CMAC2 gate ID, which is used to determine the conditional application of radar data processing. Raw data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user…
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Raman Lidar Profiles Value-Added Product Moves to Production
The figure shows the aerosol extinction coefficient and its uncertainties at ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory on July 21, 2019. Gaps in our understanding of aerosols and their interactions and influence on clouds are among the main sources of energy balance uncertainties. To reduce these uncertainties in earth system models, continuous height-resolved measurements of…
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Oklahoma Mesonet Soil Moisture VAP Released to Production
The figure shows volumetric water content for the Oklahoma Mesonet Butler station during 1998 at four subsurface levels. Soil moisture is a key parameter for understanding fluxes of moisture and energy between the land and atmosphere. Around the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory, variations in soil moisture are…
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U.S. Mesoscale Convective System Database Now Available to Help Improve Atmospheric Models
A snapshot of the pixel-level mesoscale convective system (MCS) database from May 12, 2011, shows (a) infrared brightness temperature and (b) radar reflectivity at 2-kilometer mean sea-level height. In panel (b), the color shadings behind large clusters of radar echo denote MCS masks, while the gray shadings indicate regions with no radar coverage at 2-kilometer…
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New VAP Available for Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
The figure shows a time series of temperature, relative humidity, and water vapor mixing ratios retrieved from AERIOE. Retrievals are from ARM’s Southern Great Plains Central Facility on June 11, 2017. The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer Optimal Estimation (AERIOE) value-added product (VAP) is a new data product that provides boundary layer profiles of temperature and…
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New Precipitation Value-Added Product Released for Laser Disdrometers
Histograms of quantities associated with convective (red) and stratiform (blue) drop size distributions (DSDs) in terms of normalized DSD intercept parameter Nw (a), liquid water content LWC versus rainfall rate R (b), and median drop size D0 versus S-band Reflectivity Factor Z (c). Density is shown on the color scale. Information is adapted from Wang…