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New Cases and High-Frequency Observations Released for LASSO
The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) data set has grown yet again. Seventeen new cases are now available from the 2019 shallow convection season at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains (SGP) atmospheric observatory. The current LASSO data set focuses on shallow convection with LES output provided…
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LASSO Gives New Capability to Researchers
For those wanting to run their own simulations, LASSO input observational data are now available The Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) team recently released a new set of data bundles focused on shallow convection at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. The shallow convection scenario will go on hiatus while the…
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BAMS: Two More Hits for ARM Data
Improving earth system models is at the heart of a pair of new studies Data from ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory, above, informed some of a metrics and diagnostics package of earth system models outlined in a July 2020 paper. Hot streaks? Not only athletes have them. Institutions do too. A pair of recent…
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LASSO Snares BAMS Cover
The June 2020 Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS) cover features the Large-Eddy Simulation (LES) ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity at ARM’s Southern Great Plains atmospheric observatory. Illustration is by Rose Perry, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Those familiar with the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility might recognize what is on the June…
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New Lifting Condensation Level Height VAP Available
The plot shows lifting condensation levels (LCLs) on March 6, 2019, for seven ARM Southern Great Plains (SGP) facilities and six Oklahoma Mesonet stations, all within 60 kilometers of the SGP Central Facility (sgpC1). The map identifies each location according to the color in the legend and time series. Plotted LCL heights of the individual…
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Cloud Microphysics VAP Evaluation Data Available for MC3E Field Campaign
Cloud microphysical properties affect cloud radiative heating, precipitation formation, and aerosol-cloud interactions, among other important atmospheric processes. A value-added product (VAP) that calculates cloud microphysical properties now provides evaluation data for the 2011 Midlatitude Continental Convective Clouds Experiment (MC3E) in Oklahoma. The Improved MICROBASE Product with Uncertainties (MICROBASEKAPLUS) provides continuous, high time resolution profiles of…
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New Value-Added Products Released for Scanning ARM Precipitation Radars
Indicating a storm moving through ARM’s Southern Great Plains intermediate facility I5 at Garber, Oklahoma, on October 5, 2017, sample plots from the Quasi-Vertical Profiles product show azimuthally averaged X-Band Scanning ARM Precipitation Radar data as a function of time and height. Sample Velocity Azimuth Display product plots from the same October 2017 storm at…
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VAP for 3-Channel Microwave Radiometer Retrievals Released to Production
This Microwave Radiometer Retrievals version 2 (MWRRETv2) quicklook image is from Oliktok Point, Alaska, on February 8, 2018. From top to bottom, panels show observed brightness temperatures at 23.8 (blue), 30 (red), and 89 GHz (green); physically (red and blue) and statistically (green) retrieved precipitable water vapor; physically (red and blue) and statistically (green) retrieved…
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New Radiation Data Quality VAP Release Available for Southern Great Plains
Radiometers collect data at the ARM Southern Great Plains extended facility E31 (Anthony, Kansas). A new level 2 (c2/s2) release for the Data Quality Assessment for ARM Radiation Data (QCRAD) value-added product (VAP) is now available. This release covers the following 13 extended facilities at the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s Southern Great Plains…
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New VAP Released for ARM Precipitation Radars
The top image shows an application chain for CMAC2. As better algorithms become available, they can be used in the modular CMAC2 architecture. The bottom image provides an example of a CMAC2 gate ID, which is used to determine the conditional application of radar data processing. Raw data from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user…