Translator Plan: A Coordinated Vision for Fiscal Years 2018-2020

Program Document · Tue Jan 30 00:00:00 EST 2018

OSTI ID:1418461

Riihimaki, Laura ^[1]; Comstock, Jennifer ^[1]; Collis, Scott ^[2]; Flynn, Connor ^[1]; Giangrande, Scott ^[3]; Monroe, Justin ^[4]; Sivaraman, Chitra ^[1]; Xie, Shaocheng ^[5]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
3. Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
4. University of Oklahoma
5. Lawrence Livermore National Lab. (LLNL), Livermore, CA (United States)

In June of 2017, the Translator Group met to develop this coordinated three-year vision plan, incorporating key feedback and aligning to ARM’s mission priorities. This plan responds to a shift in how we determine our priorities, given the new needs of the ARM Facility. In the past, individual Translators have determined priorities in conversation with individual DOE Atmospheric System Research (ASR) working groups. To better support ARM’s Decadal Vision (https://www.arm.gov/publications/programdocs/doe-sc-arm-14-029.pdf), however, the Translator Group is instead developing a coordinated response to needs from our user community to better balance resources and skills among participants. This approach agrees with direction from ARM leadership and the ARM-ASR Coordination Team (AACT). To develop this plan the Translator Group reviewed feedback received from the User Executive Committee (UEC) and the Triennial Review, as well as priorities from ASR working groups and Principal Investigators (PIs), the LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) project, and new instrumentation and activities as described by the ARM Technical Director. In particular, we are responding to the advice that we were trying to do too much, and should focus on providing additional support to data quality, uncertainty assessment, a timeline for producing core VAPs from ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) campaigns, and supporting key aspects of the Decadal Vision.

• Research Organization: DOE Office of Science Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER)
• Contributing Organization: University of Oklahoma, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory
• DOE Contract Number: DE-ACO5-7601830
• OSTI ID: 1418461
• Report Number(s): DOE/SC-ARM-17-039
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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