ARM was created to help resolve scientific uncertainties related to global climate change, with a specific focus on the crucial role of clouds and their influence on radiative feedback processes in the atmosphere. 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. ARM's scientists research a broad range of issues that span remote sensing, physical process investigation and multli-scale modeling. Research Questions. The research involves a network of ground-based remote-sensing instruments along with campaign studies that use manned and unmanned aircraft. Measurements include vertical profiles of temperature, water vapor, trace gases, aerosols, and solar and infrared radiation. The ARM data provide the testbed for the process models representing the cloud-climate feedbacks in the currently available GCMs as well as in the future climate-change-prediction models of regional-scale resolution. Additional programmatic information is available via the ARM homepage.

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Currently funded program research projects

Program Manager

Dr. Kiran Alapaty
ARM Science Director
Climate and Environmental Sciences Division, SC-23.1
Department of Energy GTN Bldg
1000 Independence Ave, SW
Washington, DC 20585-1290
(301) 903-3175
Fax: (301) 903-8519
Email:kiran.alapaty@science.doe.gov