Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility Operations Quarterly Report July 1-September 30, 2015

• Main Author: Voyles, Jimmy
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Arctic; North Atlantic; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1498730; https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1498730

For this reporting period the TARGET uptimes for the fixed ARM research sites were: North Slope of Alaska (NSA) locale is 1988 hours (0.90 x ACTUAL) Southern Great Plains (SGP) locale is 2098 hours (0.95 x ACTUAL) Eastern North Atlantic (ENA) locale is 1877 hours (0.85 x ACTUAL). Beginning in FY2014, and continuing through the next two fiscal years, the ARM Facility is being reconfigured to focus on the improvement of high-resolution atmospheric process models. This strategy includes the formation of two megasites: the first will be located at the SGP for continental U.S. process measurements; the second is at NSA for arctic process measurements. Supporting this reconfiguration, the tropical facilities have been shut down and their systems and components are being redeployed to the continental U.S. megasite. Most of the equipment from the tropical sites is now in the SGP site inventory to support the reconfiguration