Continuous Water Vapor Profiles for the Fixed Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Sites
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program defined a specific metric for the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2006 to complete a continuous time series of the vertical profile of water vapor for selected 30-day periods from each of the fixed ARM sites. In order to accomplish this metric, a new technique devised to incorporate radiosonde data, microwave radiometer data and analysis information from numerical weather forecast models has been developed. The product of this analysis, referred to as the merged sounding value-added product, includes vertical profiles of atmospheric water vapor concentration and several other important thermodynamic state variables at 1-minute time intervals and 266 vertical levels.
- Research Organization:
- DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program, Washington, DC (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC05-76RL01830
- OSTI ID:
- 948517
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/SC-ARM/P--06-002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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