VAP : ARM Best Estimate Data Products (ARMBE)

Instrument Categories
Radiometric, Cloud Properties, Atmospheric Profiling, Satellite Observations, Surface/Subsurface Properties

The ARM Best Estimate data products are ARM datastreams specifically tailored to climate modelers for use in the evaluation of global climate models. They contain a best estimate of several cloud, radiation, and atmospheric quantities. The ARMBE data set was created to showcase all the flagship products of ARM. Data formerly known as CMBE are now available under ARMBE.

For more information about ARMBE products, click the product names under "Output Products" or download a netCDF header example for ARMBEATM and ARMBECLDRAD.

Reference

Xie, S., R.B. McCoy, S.A. Klein, R.T. Cederwall, W.J. Wiscombe, E.E. Clothiaux, K.L. Gaustad, J.C. Golaz, S.D. Hall, M.P. Jensen, K.L. Johnson, Y. Lin, C.N. Long, J.H. Mather, R.A. McCord, S.A. McFarlane, G. Palanisamy, Y. Shi, and D.D. Turner, 2010: CLOUDS AND MORE: ARM Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 91, 13–20. DOI: 10.1175/2009BAMS2891.1.

Data Availability and DOI Numbers for Citations

For ARMBEATM:

NSA.C1: North Slope Alaska, Barrow, AK, 01/01/2001 - 12/31/2011
SGP.C1: Southern Great Plains, Lamont, OK, 01/01/1994 - 12/31/2012
TWP.C1: Tropical Western Pacific, Manus Island, PNG, 01/01/1996 - 12/31/2011
TWP.C2: Tropical Western Pacific, Nauru Island, 01/01/1998 - 12/31/2011
TWP.C3: Tropical Western Pacific, Darwin, Australia, 01/01/2002 - 12/31/2011

For ARMBECLDRAD:

NSA.C1: North Slope Alaska, Barrow, AK, 01/01/1998 - 12/31/2010
SGP.C1: Southern Great Plains, Lamont, OK, 01/01/1996 - 12/31/2011
TWP.C1: Tropical Western Pacific, Manus Island, PNG, 01/01/1996 - 12/31/2010
TWP.C2: Tropical Western Pacific, Nauru Island, 01/01/1998 - 12/31/2010
TWP.C3: Tropical Western Pacific, Darwin, Australia, 01/01/2002 - 12/31/2010

To download the data, please click on the 'Build an Order' shopping cart in the 'Order Data' box on the right.

DOI Numbers
The ARMBE datastreams have DOI numbers associated with them for easy reference and to identify a specific instance of a data set. The current ARMBE release has the following DOI numbers:

sgparmbecldrd.C1 DOI: 10.5439/1039926
nsaarmbecldrd.C1 DOI: 10.5439/1039927
twparmbecldrd.C1 DOI: 10.5439/1039928
twparmbecldrd.C2 DOI: 10.5439/1039929
twparmbecldrd.C3 DOI: 10.5439/1039930

sgparmbeatm.C1 DOI: 10.5439/1039931
nsaarmbeatm.C1 DOI: 10.5439/1039932
twparmbeatm.C1 DOI: 10.5439/1039933
twparmbeatm.C2 DOI: 10.5439/1039934
twparmbeatm.C3 DOI: 10.5439/1039935

Suggested Citation Structure
Example for SGP.C1 site armbecldrad data:

McCoy, Renata, and Shaocheng Xie. 2012, updated yearly. ARM Best Estimate - ARMBECLDRAD. Jan 1996–Jan 2011, 36° 6' 18.0" N, 97° 9' 6.0" W: Southern Great Plains Central Facility (C1). Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA: Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility Data Archive. Data set accessed 2012-10-01 at http:/dx.doi.org/10.5439/1039926.

Output Products

armbeatm : ARMBE: Atmospheric measurements
armbecldrad : ARMBE: Cloud Radiation measurements

Primary Measurements

The following measurements are those considered scientifically relevant.

Locations

North Slope Alaska (NSA)
- Central Facility, Barrow AK (C1)
Southern Great Plains (SGP)
- Central Facility, Lamont, OK (C1)
Tropical Western Pacific (TWP)
- Central Facility, Darwin, Australia (C3)
- Central Facility, Manus I., PNG (C1)
- Central Facility, Nauru Island (C2)