Clouds and Radiation Testbed Data Environment: Site data system and experiment center

Conference · Wed Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1992

OSTI ID:10118676

Melton, R B; Bobrowski, S F ^[1]; Campbell, A P ^[2]; Corbet, J M ^[3]; Edwards, D M ^[4]; Kanciruk, P ^[5]; Tichler, J L ^[6]

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1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
2. Argonne National Lab., IL (United States)
3. National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO (United States)
4. Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (United States)
5. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (United States)
6. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (United States)

The Department of Energy (DOE) has initiated the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program as a research effort to reduce the uncertainties found in general circulation and other models due to the effects of clouds and solar radiation (DOE 1990, Patrinos, et al. 1990). This program will provide an experimental testbed for the study of important atmospheric effects, particularly cloud and radiative processes, and testing of parameterizations of the processes for use in atmospheric models. The design of the testbed, known as the Clouds and Radiation Testbed (CART), calls for five long-term field data collection sites as well as a mobile set of instrumentation to be used in short-term field campaigns. The first of the sites is expected to begin operation in April of 1992. Within the ARM Program, an experiment has been defined as the prospective test of a model, i.e., the test of a model`s predictive capability. An experiment is specified by identifying the model or models to be tested, the model input requirements, the measurements needed for comparison to model outputs, and the measurements needed to diagnose model performance. The identification of required measurements includes the specification of data fusion or other techniques to be used in converting the basic instrument observations into the required set of measurements. The CART Data Environment (CDE) is the element of the testbed which acquires the basic observations from the instruments and processes them to meet the measurement requirements of ARM experiments.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 10118676
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA--19880; CONF-920163--1; ON: DE92006732
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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