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DOE/Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program
The TAO Project Office
and the DOE/ARM Program have embarked
on a joint in situ short wave radiation measurement program in the tropical
Pacific. The in situ measurements are made from  ATLAS
moorings of the TAO Array along 165°E. The data consist of a real-time
data stream of daily statistics, and an internally recorded data set of
2-minute daily averages. The array was implemented in 1997 and will be
maintained for several years. The data will be used to address ARM objectives
of characterizing the time and space scales of incoming shortwave radiation
at the ocean surface in the tropical Pacific, for improved understanding
of cloud radiative feedbacks in the climate system, for development and
validation of radiation schemes used in climate models, and for understanding
the impact of solar radiation on the heat balance of the ocean. DOE/ARM
shortwave radiation data can be viewed via the TAO
Enhanced Data Display page and accessed via the TAO/TRITON Data Delivery
page. Moored shortwave radiation measurements supported by other programs
at different times and locations (such as COARE and EPIC) can also be
accessed from the display and delivery pages.
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