The ARM program in the Tropical Western Pacific

The Department of Energy`s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was created in 1989 as part of the US Global Change Research Program to improve the treatment of atmospheric radiative and cloud processes in computer models used to predict climate change. The overall goal of the ARM program...

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Main Authors: Clements, W.E., Barnes, F.J., Ackerman, T.P., Mather, J.H.
Language:unknown
Published: 2009
Subjects:
54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
TROPICAL REGIONS
CLIMATIC CHANGE
SOLAR RADIATION
CLOUDS
CLIMATE MODELS
FORECASTING
Arctic
Arctic Ocean
Pacific
Climate change
north slope
Alaska
Online Access:http://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/676911
https://www.osti.gov/biblio/676911
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Summary:The Department of Energy`s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was created in 1989 as part of the US Global Change Research Program to improve the treatment of atmospheric radiative and cloud processes in computer models used to predict climate change. The overall goal of the ARM program is to develop and test parameterizations of important atmospheric processes, particularly cloud and radiative processes, for use in atmospheric models. This goal is being achieved through a combination of field measurements and modeling studies. Three primary locales were chosen for extensive field measurement facilities. These are the Southern Great Plains of the United States, the Tropical Western Pacific, and the North Slope of Alaska and Adjacent Arctic Ocean. This paper describes the ARM program in the Tropical Western Pacific locale.

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