Reconfiguration Plans for the Next-Generation ARM Facility
Poster PDF
Authors
James H. Mather — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Jimmy Voyles — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Category
ARM Infrastructure
Description
The ARM Facility has been operating for over 20 years providing observations of clouds, aerosols, radiation, and related parameters to obtain a detailed description of the atmospheric state, support the study of atmospheric processes, and support the improvement of the parameterization of these processes in climate models. To further advance the work of understanding processes and to facilitate the use of ARM data as a constraint on high-resolution, process-models, ARM has developed a reconfiguration strategy in which instruments from the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) will be used to augment measurements in the continental United States. A summary of the various facets of the reconfiguration strategy will be presented. The majority of the TWP instruments will be integrated with the current ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) facility, which will be developed into a re-locatable facility. A second focus of development will be the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) where the existing facilities at Barrow and Oliktok will be augmented by aerial measurements from manned and unmanned platforms.
