A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations
Model evolution and improvement is complicated by the lack of high quality observational data. To address a major limitation of these measurements the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program was formed. For the second quarter ARM metric we will make use of new water vapor data that has becom...
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ftunivnotexas:info:ark/67531/metadc899287 2023-05-15T17:40:14+02:00 A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations Hnilo, J J United States. Department of Energy. 2006-03-17 PDF-file: 12 pages; size: 0.4 Mbytes Text https://doi.org/10.2172/928538 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc899287/ English eng Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory rep-no: UCRL-TR-219973 grantno: W-7405-ENG-48 doi:10.2172/928538 osti: 928538 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc899287/ ark: ark:/67531/metadc899287 Water Vapor Radiations 54 Environmental Sciences Metrics Report 2006 ftunivnotexas https://doi.org/10.2172/928538 2016-12-10T23:07:37Z Model evolution and improvement is complicated by the lack of high quality observational data. To address a major limitation of these measurements the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program was formed. For the second quarter ARM metric we will make use of new water vapor data that has become available, and called the 'Merged-sounding' value added product (referred to as OBS, within the text) at three sites: the North Slope of Alaska (NSA), Darwin Australia (DAR) and the Southern Great Plains (SGP) and compare these observations to model forecast data. Two time periods will be analyzed March 2000 for the SGP and October 2004 for both DAR and NSA. The merged-sounding data have been interpolated to 37 pressure levels (e.g., from 1000hPa to 100hPa at 25hPa increments) and time averaged to 3 hourly data for direct comparison to our model output. Report north slope Alaska University of North Texas: UNT Digital Library |
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Model evolution and improvement is complicated by the lack of high quality observational data. To address a major limitation of these measurements the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program was formed. For the second quarter ARM metric we will make use of new water vapor data that has become available, and called the 'Merged-sounding' value added product (referred to as OBS, within the text) at three sites: the North Slope of Alaska (NSA), Darwin Australia (DAR) and the Southern Great Plains (SGP) and compare these observations to model forecast data. Two time periods will be analyzed March 2000 for the SGP and October 2004 for both DAR and NSA. The merged-sounding data have been interpolated to 37 pressure levels (e.g., from 1000hPa to 100hPa at 25hPa increments) and time averaged to 3 hourly data for direct comparison to our model output. |
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A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations |
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A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations |
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A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations |
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A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations |
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A comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and ARM observations |
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comparison of water vapor quantities from model short-range forecasts and arm observations |
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