A Unified Approach for Reporting ARM Measurement Uncertainties Technical Report

Program Document · Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 EDT 2015

OSTI ID:1233532

Campos, E ^[1]; Sisterson, DL ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Laboratory

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility is observationally based, and quantifying the uncertainty of its measurements is critically important. With over 300 widely differing instruments providing over 2,500 datastreams, concise expression of measurement uncertainty is quite challenging. The ARM Facility currently provides data and supporting metadata (information about the data or data quality) to its users through a number of sources. Because the continued success of the ARM Facility depends on the known quality of its measurements, the Facility relies on instrument mentors and the ARM Data Quality Office (DQO) to ensure, assess, and report measurement quality. Therefore, an easily-accessible, well-articulated estimate of ARM measurement uncertainty is needed.

• Research Organization: DOE ARM Climate Research Facility, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; Richland, Washington.
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• DOE Contract Number: DE-AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1233532
• Report Number(s): DOE/SC-ARM-TR-170
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English