Collection Citation
| Collection Title | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Plots and Figures | ||
| 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; Airborne measurements; Satellite Observations; Surface Meteorology; Surface/Subsurface Properties; Value-Added Products (VAP); Field Campaign Data; Intensive Operational Period (IOP) | ||
| Description | ARM Program data is available in daily diagnostic plots that can be easily grouped into daily, weekly, monthly, and even yearly increments. By visualizing ARM data in thumbnail-sized data plots, users experience highly-browsable subsets of data available at the Data Archive including complimentary data products derived from data processed by ARM. These thumbnails allow users to quickly scan for a particular type of condition, like a clear day or a day with persistent cirrus. From a diagnostics perspective, the data plots assist in looking for missing data, for data exceeding a particular range, or for loading multiple variables (e.g., shortwave fluxes and precipitation), and to determine whether a certain science or data quality condition is associated with some other parameter (e.g., high wind or rain).[taken from http://www.arm.gov/data/data_plots.stm] Several interfaces and tools have been developed to make data plots easy to generate and manipulate. For example, the NCVWeb is an interactive NetCDF data plotting tool that ARM users can use to plot data as they order it or to plot regular standing data orders. It allows production of detailed tables, extraction of data, statistics output, comparison plotting, etc. without the need for separate visualization software. Users will be requested to create a password, but the data plots are free for viewing and downloading. The URL to go directly to the ARM Archive, bypassing the information pages, is http://www.archive.arm.gov/. 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 | DDE00211 |
