The Southern Great Plains site celebrates 10 years of continuous data!

A milestone for the global climate research community comes from the U.S. Department of Energy research facility at the Southern Great Plains site. This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the world’s largest and most extensive climate research field site for studying the effects of clouds and solar radiation on Earth’s atmosphere.

“Our overarching scientific objective is to improve scientific understanding of the fundamental physics related to interactions between clouds and radiative processes in the atmosphere,” said Wanda Ferrell, program director for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program. “The data set provided by 10 years of continuous measurements represents a major contribution in research related to climate observations as well as for advancing climate modeling efforts going on around the world.”

To read more about this milestone, see the full press release.