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Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Available for 3 ARM Campaigns
The Multidisciplinary Drifting Observatory for the Study of Arctic Climate (MOSAiC) expedition used microwave radiometers (2-channel on the left and 3-channel on the right) to measure water vapor and liquid molecules in the atmosphere. The Microwave Radiometer Retrievals (MWRRET) value-added product (VAP) has been released for three recent Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility field…
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Large-Scale Forcing Data Released for West Antarctic Campaign
The map shows the variational analysis domain (enclosed by the red circle in the left bottom corner) for the ARM West Antarctic Radiation Experiment (AWARE). The domain is centered at 77oS, 168.25oE, near McMurdo Station on Ross Island. Four months of continuous large-scale forcing data are now available for the ARM Mobile Facility deployment at…
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ARM Development Update: Value-Added Products
Editor’s note: This is the first quarterly update from ARM Engineering and Process Manager Jennifer Comstock, who also oversees ARM science products. Jennifer Comstock After several years focused on improving the delivery of value-added products (VAPs) for ARM Mobile Facility deployments, ARM data translators are turning their attention to upgrading existing VAPs and developing new…
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Shaocheng Xie: Translating ARM Data for Science
A cloud and earth system modeler coordinates the science translators who help make ARM measurements more accessible Shaocheng Xie has been ARM’s value-added products and translators lead since 2019. In the summer of 1992, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility collected its first data from a battery-powered device in an Oklahoma cow pasture. Almost…
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Updated Southern Great Plains Continuous Large-Scale Forcing Data Released
The plots show the time series of the derived large-scale vertical velocity (Omega) in a previous VARANAL version 2 release for July 2018 (top) and in a new release with a bug fixed (middle), and the difference between the two releases (bottom). The bug only affects the time periods after 18 UTC July 21, when…
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In the World of Radiation, Riihimaki Moves On Up
ARM radiometer mentor is now deputy project manager for the Baseline Surface Radiation Network Laura Riihimaki, a radiometer mentor and former data translator for ARM, is the new deputy project manager for the Baseline Surface Radiation Network (BSRN). Photo is by William Gustafson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Laura Riihimaki’s radiation expertise is in high demand…
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Updated: Southern Great Plains Radiation Data Quality VAP Data Reprocessed
Updated February 5, 2021: Reprocessed QCRAD shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance data are now available for the Southern Great Plains sites E33 (Newkirk, Oklahoma) from August 18, 2011, to July 29, 2016, and E38 (Omega, Oklahoma) from August 23, 2011, to July 19, 2016. Best-estimate c2/s2 data and infrared-corrected c2 data are reprocessed for both…
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Reprocessed Radiative Flux Analysis VAP Data Now Available
This plot shows reprocessed irradiance and albedo from the Radiative Flux Analysis (RADFLUXANAL) value-added product for March 13, 2014, at ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory. Reprocessed data from the Radiative Flux Analysis (RADFLUXANAL) value-added product (VAP) have been released for multiple Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility sites. RADFLUXANAL calculates clear-sky irradiance in the…
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New Radiative Flux Analysis VAP Data Released
This plot shows irradiance and albedo from the Radiative Flux Analysis (RADFLUXANAL) value-added product for December 30, 2018, at ARM’s Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory. An assortment of new data is now available from the Radiative Flux Analysis (RADFLUXANAL) value-added product (VAP). RADFLUXANAL calculates clear-sky irradiance in the shortwave and longwave surface fluxes from broadband…
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AERI Noise Filtered Data Available for MARCUS, LASIC Campaigns
This quicklook image shows the time series of the radiance in window channels for Channel 1 at 900 cm-1 and Channel 2 at 2,600 cm-1 on July 5, 2017, during the Layered Atlantic Smoke Interactions with Clouds (LASIC) field campaign. The Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer Noise Filtered (AERINF) value-added product (VAP) is now in production…