DOE ARM Climate Research Facilities on the North Slope of Alaska: Barrow, Oliktok, Atqasuk, unmanned aerial vehicles, tethered balloons, field campaigns, and selected significant results

Description

Since 1998, ARM facilities on the North Slope of Alaska (NSA) have provided data about cloud and radiative processes at high latitudes. The ARM NSA facilities are part of the ARM Climate Research Facility, a national user facility that provides scientific infrastructure and data archives to the international research community. The ARM NSA facilities are available for collaborative international research for both long- and short-term projects: weeks, months, or longer. Past campaigns studied boundary-layer clouds, mixed-phase Arctic clouds, and radiative heating in dry winter atmospheres. In 2011, we completed the installation of new instruments and upgrades to existing instruments in Barrow. A new ARM Mobile Facility, AMF3, is under development. Its first deployment is planned for Oliktok Point, Alaska, the site of previous ARM field campaigns. This poster will provide an update on new instruments at Barrow, current plans for Oliktok Point, and an update on development of AMF3.