Facility Statistics

The U.S. Department of Energy requires quarterly reports based on reporting requirements that address facility operations hours (which relate directly to data availability) and the number of users. The number of users include site visitors as well as computer accounts of those requesting data. Safety and publication statistics are also being reported. Beginning in Fiscal Year 2004, this information is provided for the entire facility as well as by individual site by fiscal year in a quarterly report. Below is a quick overview of the current numbers.

FY 2012 Statistics at a Glance

  = Goal Met

FY2012 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Goals (hrs) 1987.20 1965.60 1965.60 1987.20
Actual (hrs) 2046.08 2074.8 2089.36  

FY 2011 Statistics at a Glance

  = Goal Met

FY2011 Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
Goals (hrs) 1987.20 1944.00 1965.60 1987.20
Actual (hrs) 2112.32 1944.00 1987.44 2046.08

Table 1. Operational Statistics for the ARM Sites for the Period of April 1 - June 30, 2012

Hours of Operation Data Availability (%)
SITE OPSMAX ACTUAL VARIANCE GOAL ACTUAL
NSA 1965.6 2052.96 -0.0444 0.90 0.94
SGP 2074.8 2118.48 -0.0211 0.95 0.97
TWP 1856.4 2096.64 -0.1294 0.85 0.96
Site Average* 1965.6 2089.36 -0.0630 0.90 0.95
AMF1 Cape Cod, Massachusetts N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A
AMF2 California to Hawaii N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

*The site average is based only on the fixed site averages for data availability, which met the goal this quarter.

Table 2. ARM Climate Research Facility Users for the Period of April 1, 2011 - March 31, 2012

Unique Scientific Users    Unique Non-Scientific Users    Type of Scientific Users   


Facility Component Unique Scientific Users Unique Non-Scientific Users Total Users
AMF1 27 9 36
AMF2 57 12 69
NSA 49 48 97
SGP 107 90 197
TWP 39 18 57
Off-Site Campaigns 0 0 0
DMF 50 72 122
Computing Cluster 17 22 39
Archive 848 85 933
Total 1194 356 1550

To find user statistics for the past 5 years, see Table 1 on the historical visitor statistics page.