Update on LLNL ARM Value-Added Products for Cloud Modeling Studies
Authors
Shaocheng Xie — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Yuying Zhang — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Yunyan Zhang — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Xiao Chen — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Qi Tang — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Jessica Osuna — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Category
ARM Infrastructure
Description
The goal of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ARM Infrastructure Project is to provide necessary ARM Value Added Products (VAPs) for cloud modeling studies. This poster provides an update on recent ARM infrastructure and research activities conducted by the LLNL ARM project. This includes new ARM Best Estimate products, ARMBE2DGRID and ARMBESTNS, containing spatial distribution of important surface variables to facilitate studies on precipitation, clouds, radiation, and land-atmosphere interactions; the large-scale forcing datasets that were developed for the entire year of 2011 at SGP and AMIE-DYNAMO Revelle for studying midlatitude and tropical clouds; ensemble MICROBASE cloud retrievals for March 2000 IOP that provides uncertainty information of the retrieved cloud properties; and an update on the development of ARM radar simulator for global climate models to facilitate the use of ARM radar observations in climate model cloud evaluation. Our future plans are also discussed in the poster.
This work was performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under Contract DE-AC52-07NA27344.
