SGP Intermediate Facility
The ARM Program deploys specialized remote sensing instruments in a fixed location at the site to gather atmospheric data of unprecedented quality, consistency, and completeness. More than 30 instrument clusters have been placed around the site; the central facility; and the boundary, intermediate, and extended facilities. The locations for the instruments were chosen so that the measurements reflect conditions over the typical distribution of land uses within the site.
Three intermediate facilities, within 62 miles (10 km) of the Central Facility, provide a three-dimensional mapping network of the atmosphere and of the cloud fields in the vicinity of the Central Facility. The intermediate facilities include scanning radar and lidar and total sky imaging instruments, and they specifically support SGP investigations of radiative transfer in partly cloudy conditions.
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Instruments
Current list of Intermediate Facility instruments.
Maps
- Beaumont IF-1
- Medicine Lodge IF-2
- Meeker IF-3
