Collection Citation
| Collection Title | Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data from the North Slope Alaska (NSA) Site | ||
| 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, Satellite Observations, Surface Meteorology, North Slope Alaska (NSA) | ||
| Description | The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program is the largest global change research program supported by the U.S. Department of Energy. The primary goal of the ARM Program is to improve the treatment of cloud and radiation physics in global climate models in order to improve the climate simulation capabilities of these models. To achieve this goal, ARM scientists and researchers around the world use continuous data obtained through the ARM Climate Research Facility. ARM maintains three major, permanent sites for data collection and deploys the ARM Mobile Facility to other sites as determined. The North Slope of Alaska (NSA) site is a permanent site providing data about cloud and radiative processes at high latitudes. These data are being used to refine models and parameterizations as they relate to the Arctic. Centered at Barrow and extending to the south (to the vicinity of Atqasuk), west (to the vicinity of Wainwright), and east (towards Oliktok), the NSA site has become a focal point for atmospheric and ecological research activity on the North Slope [taken from http://www.arm.gov/sites/nsa.stm]. More than 295,000 NSA data sets from 1993 to the present reside in the ARM Archive at http://www.archive.arm.gov/. Users will need to register for a password, but all files are then free for viewing or downloading. See how to generate customized data plots for NSA data at http://www.arm.gov/data/data_plots.stm 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 | DDE00032 |
