"MFRSR" VAP Process
Instrument Categories: Aerosols, Radiometric
Description: Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer
Value-Added Products (VAPs) Produced
- mfrsr - Multi-Filter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSR): irradiances
- mfrsraod1mich - MFRSR: derived total & aerosol optical depth from 1st Michalsky algorithm
- mfrsrcldod1min - Derived: Cloud Optical Properties from MFRSR, MWR, Langley Analysis
- mfrsrod1barnmich - MFRSR: derived total & aerosol optical depth
- qcrad1long - Surface Radiation Measurement Quality Control testing, including climatologically configurable limits
Primary Measurements
The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant. Refer to the datastream (netcdf) file headers for the list of all available measurements, including those recorded for diagnostic or quality assurance purposes.
- Shortwave narrowband diffuse downwelling irradiance
- Shortwave narrowband direct normal irradiance
- Shortwave narrowband total downwelling irradiance
- Optical depth
Sites / Facilities
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- North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Central Facility, Atqasuk AK (C2)
- Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1)
- Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Ashton, KS (E9)
- Byron, OK (E11)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
- Coldwater, KS (E8)
- Cordell, OK (E22)
- Cyril, OK (E24)
- Earlsboro, OK (E27)
- El Reno, OK (E19)
- Elk Falls, KS (E7)
- Halstead, KS (E5)
- Hillsboro, KS (Extended) (E2)
- Lamont, OK (Extended) (E13)
- Larned, KS (E1)
- LeRoy, KS (E3)
- Meeker, OK (Extended) (E20)
- Morris, OK (Extended) (E18)
- Okmulgee, OK (E21)
- Pawhuska, OK (E12)
- Plevna, KS (E4)
- Ringwood, OK (E15)
- Seminole, OK (E25)
- Towanda, KS (E6)
- Tyro, KS (E10)
- Vici, OK (Extended) (E16)
- SHEBA (Surface HEat Budget of the Arctic) (SHB)
- Ice Station SHEBA (C1)
- Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
- Central Facility, Darwin, North Australia (C3)
- Central Facility, Manus I., PNG (C1)
- Central Facility, Nauru Island (C2)
- 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)
- ARM Mobile Facility (PYE)
- Point Reyes, CA (M1)