AMF-3 ARM Climate Research Facility

 

Authors

Fred Helsel — Sandia National Laboratories
Daniel A Lucero — Sandia National Laboratories
Darin Desilets — Sandia National Laboratories
Robert N Cook — Sandia National Laboratories
Jeffrey Zirzow — Sandia National Laboratories
Larry NMN Yellowhorse — Sandia National Laboratories
Valerie Sparks — Sandia National Laboratories

Category

ARM Infrastructure

Description

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides scientific infrastructure and data archives to the international Arctic research community through a national user facility. (www.arm.gov). A New ARM Climate Research Facility AMF-3 (ARM Mobile Facility 3) will be located on the North Slope of Alaska, at Oliktok Point. The infrastructure at Oliktok will be designed to be mobile and it may be relocated in the future to support other ARM science missions. AMF-3 instruments include: scanning precipitation radar, scanning cloud radar, Raman lidar, eddy correlation flux systems, upgraded ceilometer, Balloon sounding system, AERI, micropulse lidar, millimeter cloud radar along with all the standard metrological measurements. Unmanned Aerial Systems operations and tethered balloons in the Oliktok area will also be supported. Data from these instruments will be placed in the ARM data archives and available to the international research community.

Lead PI

Fred Helsel — Sandia National Laboratories