Each year, the ARM Climate Research Facility publishes a variety of technical reports and documents to inform users. The year is still young, but already eight technical documents have been published.

Two handbooks for Recovery Act instruments, the Doppler Lidar (DL) Handbook and the Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar Handbook, document the functionality and operation of these new instruments.

In additional, two new technical reports document results from experiments designed to improve instruments: Parameterization of the Extinction Coefficient in Ice and Mixed-Phase Arctic Clouds during the ISDAC Field Campaign and Calibration and Laboratory Test of the Department of Energy Cloud Particle Imager.

Two value-added product (VAP) reports were also published in early 2012. The Sonde Adjust Value-Added Product Technical Report and Raman Lidar Profiles Best Estimate Value-Added Product Technical Report describe these VAPs.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility Operations Quarterly Report and ARM Climate Research Facility Quarterly Value-Added Product Report are published each quarter to provide updates on data availability, user statistics, and the progress of value-added products. Both reports are available for the first quarter of FY2012.

Be sure to check publications news for new additions and journal article references throughout the year!