Value-Added Products (VAPs)
VAP Status
Showcase Data Sets
The following data products represent "best estimates" derived from several instruments and/or VAPS.
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Status Report
A report, ARM Value Added Product (VAP) Status Report, is available with further details on the status of VAPs in development.
Many of the scientific needs of the ARM Program are met through the analysis and processing of existing data products into "value-added" products or VAPs. Despite extensive instrumentation deployed at the ARM sites, there will always be quantities of interest that are either impractical or impossible to measure directly or routinely. Physical models using ARM instrument data as inputs are implemented as VAPs and can help fill some of the unmet measurement needs of the Program. Conversely, ARM produces some VAPs not in order to fill unmet measurement needs, but instead to improve the quality of existing measurements. In addition, when more than one measurement is available, ARM also produces "best estimate" VAPs. A special class of VAP called a Quality Measurement Experiment (QME) does not output geophysical parameters of scientific interest. Rather, a QME adds value to the input data streams by providing for continuous assessment of the quality of the input data based on internal consistency checks, comparisons between independent similar measurements, or comparisons between measurement with modeled results, and so forth.
ARM VAP Processes
- AERINF - AERI Noise Filtered
- AERIPROF - AERI Profiles of Water Vapor and Temperature
- AOD - Aerosol Optical Depth, derived from MFRSR/NIMFR
- AOS-IP - Aerosol Intensive Properties
- ARSCL - Active Remotely-Sensed Cloud Locations
- BAEBBR - Best-Estimate Fluxes From EBBR Measurements and Bulk Aerodynamics Calculations
- BEFLUX - Best-Estimate Radiative Flux
- CONSTRVARANA - Constrained Variational Analysis
- DIFFCOR1DUTT - Correction of Diffuse Shortwave Measurements
- LBL - Line-By-Line Radiative Transfer Model
- LSSONDE - Microwave Radiometer-Scaled Sonde Profiles
- MFRSR - Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer
- MFRSR-WV1BARN - MFRSR Water-Vapor Barnard Algorithm
- MFRSRCLDOD1MIN - Cloud Optical Properties from MFRSR Using Min Algorithm
- MPL - Micropulse Lidar
- MPLCBH1SCOTT - Cloud Base Height from MPL Using Scott-Spinhirne Algorithm
- MPLNOR - Normalized Backscatter Profiles from the Micropulse Lidar
- MWRAVG - Microwave Radiometer Averages in 1- and 5-Minute Increments
- MWRRET - MWR Retrievals
- NIMFR - Normal Incidence Multifilter Radiometer
- OD1BARNMICH - Barnard-Michalsky MFRSR-NIMFR optical depth
- QCRAD - Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data
- QMEAERILBL - Comparison of Statistics from AERI vs. LBLRTM Model runs
- QMEAERILBLCLOUDS - Comparison of Clouds Data from the AERI vs. LBLRTM Model runs
- QMELWFLUX - Comparison of Longwave Flux Data from AERI and LBLRTM vs. pyrgeometer
- QMEMWRCOL - Comparison of Water in the Column from MWR vs. Instrument Model
- RLPROF - Raman LIDAR Vertical Profiles
- RLPROFMR - Raman LIDAR Vertical Profiles of Water Vapor Mixing Ratio
- RWPTEMP - RWP-Based Virtual Temperature Profile
- SFCCLDGRID - Surface Cloud Grid
- SONDEWNDCALC - Calculated Winds from the BBSS
- SWFLUXANAL - Shortwave Flux Analysis
- TWRMR - Tower Water-Vapor Mixing Ratio
- WSI - Whole Sky Imager
- WSICLOUD - Whole Sky Imager Cloud Products
External VAP Processes
- ABRFC - Arkansas-Red Basin River Forecast Center
- AOS-CMDL - Aerosol Observation System Products using CMDL Algorithms
- GOESWATER - Water Profiles from GOES Satellite Data
- ISSRWP - 915RWP Derived Data with Sonde at Altitude
- LBTM-MINNIS - Minnis Cloud Products Using LBTM Algorithm
- SSMI - Special Sensor Microwave/Imager
- SUOMIGPS - SuomiNet Global Positioning System
- VISST - Minnis Cloud Products Using Visst Algorithm
- WPDNGPS - Wind Profiler Demonstration Network GPS
