Surface Meteorological Instrumentation (MET)
Instrument Categories: Surface Meteorology
General Overview
The ARM Mobile Facility Surface Meteorology station (AMFMET) uses mainly conventional in situ sensors to obtain 1-minute statistics of surface wind speed, wind direction, air temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, and rain-rate. Additional sensors may be added to or removed from the base set of sensors depending upon the deployment location, climate regime or programmatic needs. Additionally, sensor types may change depending upon the climate regime of the deployment. These changes/additions are noted in the Deployment Locations and History section.
Primary Measurements Taken
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant. Refer to the netCDF File Header Descriptions (Data Object Design Files) for the list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- Atmospheric moisture
- Atmospheric pressure
- Atmospheric temperature
- Horizontal wind
- Ice particle
- Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance
- Precipitation
Available Datastreams
- met - Surface Meteorological Instrumentation
Sites / Facilities
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- North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Central Facility, Atqasuk AK (C2)
- Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (FKB)
- Black Forest, Germany (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (HFE)
- Shouxian, Anhui, China (M1)
- ARM Mobile Facility (NIM)
- Niamey, Niger (M1)
- Niamey, Niger-Ancillary (S1)
Mentor(s)
Michael Ritsche
(630) 252-1554
mtritsche@anl.gov
