Contribution to the development of DOE ARM Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data (CMBE) products: Satellite data over the ARM permanent and AMF sites (Final Report)

Technical Report · Tue May 15 00:00:00 EDT 2012

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1043662· OSTI ID:1043662

Xi, Baike ^[1]; Dong, Xiquan ^[1]; Xie, Shaocheng ^[2]

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1. Univ. of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND (United States)
2. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

To support the LLNL ARM infrastructure team Climate Modeling Best Estimate (CMBE) data development, the University of North Dakota (UND)'s group will provide the LLNL team the NASA CERES and ISCCP satellite retrieved cloud and radiative properties for the periods when they are available over the ARM permanent research sites. The current available datasets, to date, are as follows: the CERES/TERRA during 200003-200812; the CERES/AQUA during 200207-200712; and the ISCCP during 199601-200806. The detailed parameters list below: (1) CERES Shortwave radiative fluxes (net and downwelling); (2) CERES Longwave radiative fluxes (upwelling) - (items 1 & 2 include both all-sky and clear-sky fluxes); (3) CERES Layered clouds (total, high, middle, and low); (4) CERES Cloud thickness; (5) CERES Effective cloud height; (6) CERES cloud microphysical/optical properties; (7) ISCCP optical depth cloud top pressure matrix; (8) ISCCP derived cloud types (r.g., cirrus, stratus, etc.); and (9) ISCCP infrared derived cloud top pressures. (10) The UND group shall apply necessary quality checks to the original CERES and ISCCP data to remove suspicious data points. The temporal resolution for CERES data should be all available satellite overpasses over the ARM sites; for ISCCP data, it should be 3-hourly. The spatial resolution is the closest satellite field of view observations to the ARM surface sites. All the provided satellite data should be in a format that is consistent with the current ARM CMBE dataset so that the satellite data can be easily merged into the CMBE dataset.

• Research Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: W-7405-ENG-48; AC52-07NA27344
• OSTI ID: 1043662
• Report Number(s): LLNL--SR-557794
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
CLIMATES
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DOWNWELLING
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RESOLUTION
SATELLITES
SIMULATION
SPATIAL RESOLUTION
THICKNESS
UPWELLING