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Title: Site scientific mission plan for the Southern Great Plains CART site: January 1997--June 1997

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/475683· OSTI ID:475683
;  [1];  [2]
  1. Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States). Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies
  2. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)

The Southern Great Plains (SGP) Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) site is designed to help satisfy the data needs of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program Science Team. This document defines the scientific priorities for site activities during the six months beginning on January 1, 1997, and looks forward in lesser detail to subsequent six-month periods. The primary purpose of this Site Scientific Mission Plan is to provide guidance for the development of plans for site operations. It also provides information on current plans to the ARM functional teams (Management Team, Data and Science Integration Team [DSIT], Operations Team, Instrument Team [IT], and Campaign Team) and serves to disseminate the plans more generally within the ARM Program and among the members of the Science Team. This document includes a description of the operational status of the site and the primary site activities envisioned, together with information concerning approved and proposed intensive observation periods (IOPs). The primary users of this document are the site operator, the Site Scientist Team (SST), the Science Team through the ARM Program science director, the ARM Program Experiment Center, and the aforementioned ARM Program functional teams. This plan is a living document that is updated and reissued every six months as the observational facilities are developed, tested, and augmented and as priorities are adjusted in response to developments in scientific planning and understanding.

Research Organization:
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Energy Research, Washington, DC (United States); Oklahoma Univ., Norman, OK (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
W-31109-ENG-38
OSTI ID:
475683
Report Number(s):
ARM-97-001; ON: DE97006090; CNN: Contract PNL 144880-A-Q1; TRN: 97:003256
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Jan 1997
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English