Value-Added Product (VAP) Reports
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- The ARM Millimeter Wave Cloud Radars (MMCRs) and the Active Remote Sensing of Clouds (ARSCL) Value Added Product (VAP) (PDF, 3,734K)
Clothiaux, E.E., M.A. Miller, R.C. Perez, D.D. Turner, K.P. Moran, B.E. Martner, T.P. Ackerman, G.G. Mace, R.T. Marchand, K.B. Widener, D.J. Rodriguez, T. Uttal, J.H. Mather, C.J. Flynn, K.L. Gaustad, and B. Ermold - March 2001, ARM-VAP-002.1 - The ARM Southern Great Plains Central Facility Best Estimate Radiative Flux CD (PDF, 763K)
Long, C.N. - April 2002, ARM/TR-007 - An ARM Value-Added Product to Retrieve Optically Thin Cloud Visible Optical Depth using Micropulse Lidar (PDF, 348K)
Lo, C. J.M. Comstock, and C. Flynn - October 2006, DOE/SC-ARM/TR-077 - Best Estimate Radiation Flux Value Added Product: Algorithm Operational Details and Explanations (PDF, 1,079K)
Shi, Y. and C.N. Long - October 2002, ARM/TR-008 - Cloud Optical Properties from the Multi-Filter Shadowband Radiometer (MFRSRCLDOD): An ARM Value-Added Product (PDF, 307K)
Turner, D.D., C. Lo, and Q. Min - December 2004, DOE/SC-ARM/TR-047 - Description of the ARM Operational Objective Analysis System (PDF, 253K)
Zhang, M., S. Xie, R.T. Cederwall, and J.J. Yio - June 2001, ARM/TR-005 - Improved Correction of IR Loss in Diffuse Shortwave Measurements: An ARM Value-Added Product (PDF, 1,010K)
Younkin, K. and C.N. Long - November 2003, ARM/TR-009 - MWRRET Value-Added Product: The Retrieval of Liquid Water Path and Precipitable Water Vapor from Microwave Radiometer (MWR) Datasets, (PDF, 215K)
K.L. Gaustad and D.D. Turner - September 2007, DOE/SC-ARM/TR-081 - Retrieving Temperature and Moisture Profiles from AERI Radiance Observations: AERIPROF Value-Added Product Technical Description,
W.F. Feltz, H.B. Howell, R.O. Knuteson, J. Comstock, R. Mahon, D.D. Turner, W.L. Smith, H.M. Woolf, C. Sivaraman, and T.D. Halter, Revision 1 April 2007, DOE/SC-ARM/TR-066.1 - The QCRad Value Added Product: Surface Radiation Measurement Quality Control Testing, Including Climatology Configurable Limits (PDF, 1,340K)
Long, C.N. and Y. Shi - September 2006, DOE/SC-ARM/TR-074 - The Shortwave (SW) Clear-Sky Detection and Fitting Algorithm: Algorithm Operational Details and Explanations (PDF, 221K)
Long, C.N. and K.L. Gaustad, Revision 1 - January 2004, ARM/TR-004.1 - Surface Cloud
Grid (SfcCldGrid) Value-Added Product: Algorithm Operational Details and Explanations (PDF, 540K)
Christy, J.E. and C.N. Long - August 2003, ARM/TR-010
Further details on the status of VAPs being processed or developed, can be found at on the ARM Value-Added Product (VAP) Status web page.
