Collection Citation
| Collection Title | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data from the Southern Great Plains (SGP) Site | ||
| Collection Sponsor | USDOE - Office of Science (SC) | ||
| DOE Data Center | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Centers | ||
| DOE Scientific User Facility | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility (ARCF) | ||
| Other Related Organizations | Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) | ||
| Main Content Type | Figures/Plots; Numeric Files/Datasets | ||
| Subject Categories | 54 - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES | ||
| Keywords | Global Climate Change; Aerosols; Atmospheric Profiling; Cloud Properties; Derived Quantities and Models; Radiometric; Satellite Observations; Surface Meteorology; Surface/Subsurface Properties; Southern Great Plains (SGP) | ||
| Description | The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program is the largest global change research program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The primary goal of the ARM Program is to improve the treatment of cloud and radiation physics in global climate models in order to improve the climate simulation capabilities of these models. To achieve this goal, ARM scientists and researchers around the world use continuous data obtained through the ARM Climate Research Facility. ARM maintains three major, permanent sites for data collection and deploys the ARM Mobile Facility to other sites as determined. Scientists are using the information obtained from the permanent SGP site to improve cloud and radiative models and parameterizations and, thereby, the performance of atmospheric general circulation models used for climate research. More than 30 instrument clusters have been placed around the SGP site. The locations for the instruments were chosen so that the measurements reflect conditions over the typical distribution of land uses within the site. The continuous observations at the SGP site are supplemented by intensive observation periods, when the frequency of measurements is increased and special measurements are added to address specific research questions. During such periods, 2 gigabytes or more of data (two billion bytes) are generated daily [taken from http://www.arm.gov/sites/sgp.stm]. More than 2,937,000 SGP data sets from 1993 to the present reside in the ARM Archive at http://www.archive.arm.gov/ http. Users will need to register for a password, but all files are then free for viewing or downloading. See how to generate customized data plots for SGP data at http://www.arm.gov/data/data_plots.stm. The Office of Biological and Environmental Research in DOE's Office of Science is responsible for the ARM Program. The ARM Archive physically resides at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. (Specialized Interface) (Registration Required) | ||
| DDE | DDE00037 |
