Environmental assessment for the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program: Southern Great Plains Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) site
The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program is aimed at supplying improved predictive capability of climate change, particularly the prediction of cloud-climate feedback. The objective will be achieved by measuring the atmospheric radiation and physical and meteorological quantities that control solar radiation in the earth`s atmosphere and using this information to test global climate and related models. The proposed action is to construct and operate a Cloud and Radiation Testbed (CART) research site in the southern Great Plains as part of the Department of Energy`s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program whose objective is to develop an improved predictive capability of global climate change. The purpose of this CART research site in southern Kansas and northern Oklahoma would be to collect meteorological and other scientific information to better characterize the processes controlling radiation transfer on a global scale. Impacts which could result from this facility are described.
- Research Organization:
- Argonne National Lab., IL (United States). Environmental Assessment and Information Sciences Div.
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-31109-ENG-38
- OSTI ID:
- 10135349
- Report Number(s):
- ANL/EAIS/TM-86; DOE/EA-0680; ON: DE93009439; TRN: 93:015167
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Mar 1992
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.
CLIMATIC CHANGE
TEST FACILITIES
SOLAR RADIATION
CLOUDS
KANSAS
OKLAHOMA
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
AIR
NOISE
LAND USE
SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS
CULTURAL RESOURCES
PLANTS
WILD ANIMALS
GROUND WATER
SOUND WAVES
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CHEMICALS MONITORING AND TRANSPORT
SITE RESOURCE AND USE STUDIES
OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS