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  • Aerosol Optical Depth Best Estimate Data in Production for NSA

    Time series show the combined aerosol optical depths (AODs) generated for the North Slope of Alaska central facility at Utqiaġvik (top panel) and the Atqasuk site (bottom panel). Gaps in the time series are likely associated with seasonal data availability and quality, as well as required upgrades and replacements of ground-based instruments measuring AOD. Images…

  • New ARM Best Estimate Data Available for 4 ARM Sites

    ARMBEATM relative humidity (top) and surface precipitation (bottom) are shown for April through June 2023 during the EPCAPE campaign in La Jolla, California. Images were generated by Yuying Zhang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility provides tailored datastreams known as ARM Best Estimate (ARMBE) data products for use in the…

  • Enhanced Eddy Correlation Flux Product Available

    Time series of surface sensible heat fluxes (top), latent heat fluxes (middle), and carbon dioxide fluxes (bottom) are shown from the ECOR and QCECOR value-added product at the Eastern North Atlantic atmospheric observatory on April 18, 2024. The gray line is original ECOR data. The black line represents corrected QCECOR data, and red x’s indicate…

  • New Aerosol Optical Depth Data Available for 4 ARM Sites

    The colors represent aerosol optical depths measured at wavelengths of 415, 500, 615, 673, 870, and 1625 nanometers (nm) with the multifilter rotating shadowband radiometer on December 13, 2023, in La Jolla, California, during the EPCAPE campaign. Data plot is by Krista Gaustad, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. The Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) value-added product derived…

  • Users Ask for New Arctic Aerosol Measurements, and ARM Listens

    ARM installs set of aerosol instruments at neighboring NOAA facility in Utqiaġvik, Alaska ARM aerosol instruments are now installed at a NOAA facility at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, near ARM’s North Slope of Alaska atmospheric observatory. The instruments are an aerosol chemical speciation monitor (taking up most of this rack), an aerodynamic particle sizer (on a shelf…

  • New 2- and 3-Channel Microwave Radiometer Retrieval Data Produced

    This MWRRET quicklook image provides information from the 2-channel microwave radiometer that operated on the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier in La Jolla, California, during the EPCAPE campaign on December 14, 2023. The image shows, from top to bottom, observed brightness temperatures at 23.8 GHz (blue) and 31.4 GHz (red); retrieved precipitable water vapor from…

  • Improved Broadband Radiation Data Available From ARM Fixed Sites

    ARM radiometers operate near Lamont, Oklahoma, on April 18, 2023. ARM file photo. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility processes yearly data from the Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) product—the recommended ARM datastream for broadband surface irradiance measurements—to produce level 2 (c2) files. These files undergo additional processing to improve the…

  • ARM Releases Products for Evaluating Climate Model and Radar and Lidar Simulator Outputs

    The left and right panels show differences between the original and CloudSat-aligned Ka-Band ARM Zenith Radar reflectivities (top) and contoured frequency altitude diagrams (CFADs) generated with those reflectivities (bottom) for January 5, 2014, at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. Image is courtesy of Yuying Zhang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. To facilitate the direct comparison…

  • Surface Spectral Albedo Product Updated

    This example quicklook from the SURFSPECALB value-added product shows the estimated spectral albedo for each of the seven multifilter radiometer channels for the 10-meter tower at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory on May 1, 2023. In fiscal year 2021, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility added a seventh channel to its multifilter rotating shadowband…

  • Black Carbon Data Product Available for Use

    Sample plots show black carbon mass concentrations and size distributions from February 16, 2020, at ARM’s North Slope of Alaska (NSA) atmospheric observatory. On this day, smoke from biomass burning approached the NSA. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility developed a data product for scientists to measure the black carbon (BC) mass loadings in…