Update on LLNL ARM Value-Added Products and Tools for Cloud and Climate Modeling Studies

Description

The goal of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) ARM Infrastructure Project is to provide necessary ARM Value Added Products (VAPs) and tools for cloud and climate modeling studies. This poster provides an update on recent ARM infrastructure and research activities conducted by the LLNL ARM team. This includes the ARM Best Estimate products - ARMBE2DGRID and ARMBESTNS, which contains 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 to support the ARM LES and other cloud modeling studies; and the development of ARM radar simulator and ARM diagnostics package for global climate models to facilitate the use of ARM observations in climate model 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.)