The ARM program in the Tropical Western Pacific

• 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

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.