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ARM Thermodynamic Cloud Phase (THERMOCLDPHASE) Value-Added Product Report

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/3003132· OSTI ID:3003132
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  1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
  2. Univ. of Colorado, Boulder, CO (United States). Cooperative Inst. for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)

The U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility’s Thermodynamic Cloud Phase (THERMOCLDPHASE) Value-Added Product (VAP) provides vertically resolved thermodynamic cloud phase classifications (Zhang and Levin 2024). This VAP applies the multi-sensor methodology introduced by Shupe (2007) to identify cloud phase at the pixel level as liquid, drizzle, liquid + drizzle, rain, ice, snow, or mixed-phase. In addition, the VAP determines the overall cloud layer phase—classified as liquid, mixed-phase, or ice—based on the fraction of ice-containing pixels within the entire layer.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
Contributing Organization:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States); Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), Upton, NY (United States); Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States); Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-76RL01830
OSTI ID:
3003132
Report Number(s):
DOE/SC-ARM-TR--325
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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