Victor R. Morris — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Ronald David Blatherwick — University of Denver
Dimitri Klebe — Solmirus Corporation
Brendan Wray Lamarre — Solmirus
Category
ARM Infrastructure
Description
IRSI instrument at SGP
The Solmirus Corporation received funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (Grant DE-SC-0008650) to develop a diurnal fractional sky cover (FSC) data product utilizing the infrared radiometrically-calibrated data from their All Sky Infrared Visible Analyzer (ASIVA) instrument. Nighttime FSC has long been a critical programmatic gap in ARM’s observational data set and is an important factor in understanding the life cycle of clouds, one of the central themes of the ASR program. An ASIVA instrument has been purchased to fill this gap and has been in operation at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site since May of 2014. In this poster we discuss the FSC data products (both infrared and visible) that are currently available from this instrument entitled the Infrared Sky Imager (IRSI). We also discuss additional data products developed under the grant and their possible inclusion to the IRSI datastream.
