ARRA additions to the north slope of Alaska.

Conference · Mon Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 2010

OSTI ID:988523

Richardson, Scott ^[1]; Cherry, Jessica ^[2]; Stuefer, Martin ^[2]; Zirzow, Jeffrey A; Zak, Bernard Daniel; Ivey, Mark D; Verlinde, Johannes ^[1]

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1. Pennsylvania State University
2. University of Alaska Fairbanks

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) provides scientific infrastructure and data archives to the international Arctic research community through a national user facility, the ARM Climate Research Facility, located on the North Slope of Alaska. The ARM sites at Barrow and Atqasuk, Alaska have been collecting and archiving atmospheric data for more than 10 years. These data have been used for scientific investigation as well as remote sensing validations. Funding from the Recovery Act (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) will be used to install new instruments and upgrade existing instruments at the North Slope sites. These instruments include: scanning precipitation radar; scanning cloud radar; automatic balloon launcher; high spectral resolution lidar; eddy correlation flux systems; and upgraded ceilometer, AERI, micropulse lidar, and millimeter cloud radar. Information on these planned additions and upgrades will be provided in our poster. An update on activities planned at Oliktok Point will also be provided.

• Research Organization: Sandia National Laboratories
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC04-94AL85000
• OSTI ID: 988523
• Report Number(s): SAND2010-1407C
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ALASKA
CLIMATES
CLOUDS
OPTICAL RADAR
PRECIPITATION
RADAR
RADIATIONS
REMOTE SENSING
RESOLUTION