Overview of the United States Department of Energy's ARM (Atmospheric Radiation Measurement) Program

Conference · Fri Jun 01 04:00:00 EDT 1990

OSTI ID:6487238

Stokes, G M ^[1]; Tichler, J L ^[2]

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1. Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
2. Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)

The Department of Energy (DOE) is initiating a major atmospheric research effort, the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program (ARM). The program is a key component of DOE's research strategy to address global climate change and is a direct continuation of DOE's decade-long effort to improve the ability of General Circulation Models (GCMs) to provide reliable simulations of regional, and long-term climate change in response to increasing greenhouse gases. The effort is multi-disciplinary and multi-agency, involving universities, private research organizations and more than a dozen government laboratories. The objective of the ARM Research is to provide an experimental testbed for the study of important atmospheric effects, particularly cloud and radiative processes, and to test parameterizations of these processes for use in atmospheric models. This effort will support the continued and rapid improvement of GCM predictive capability. 2 refs.

• Research Organization: Brookhaven National Lab., Upton, NY (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: DOE/ER
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76CH00016
• OSTI ID: 6487238
• Report Number(s): BNL-44375; CONF-900762--1; ON: DE91001126
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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