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DOE’s Flagship Global Climate Change Program

DOE’s Flagship Global Climate Change Program. ARM Climate Research Facilities in Alaska. The North Slope of Alaska Team at Sandia Labs/NM: Bernie Zak, Jeff Zirzow, Kathy Anguiano, Jean Lewis, Mark Ivey. ARM Overview: Goals. Improve Climate Predictions Improve Global Climate Models

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DOE’s Flagship Global Climate Change Program

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  1. DOE’s Flagship Global Climate Change Program ARM Climate Research Facilities in Alaska The North Slope of Alaska Team at Sandia Labs/NM: Bernie Zak, Jeff Zirzow, Kathy Anguiano, Jean Lewis, Mark Ivey

  2. ARM Overview: Goals Improve Climate Predictions Improve Global Climate Models - Radiative Transfer w/Clouds - Treatment of Clouds File. 50

  3. ARM Climate Research Facility Locations ARM Mobile Facility Now in the Black Forest, Germany

  4. ARM Sites Taken Together Form a • National User Facility: • ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) • -Open to All on a Proposal Basis • Uses Not Limited to Climate Research • Number of Users is the Figure of Merit • No Sunset Date for ACRF • Use Fees Limited to Additional Costs

  5. North Slope ARM Climate Research Facility: Where Climate Change is Most Rapid

  6. Categories of Instrumentation* • Surface Meteorological Sensors • Wind, Temperature and Humidity Profilers • Cloud Observation Instrumentation • Downwelling Radiation Sensors • Upwelling Radiation Sensors • Aerosol Instrumentation • Gas Instrumentation • *About 70 sensors in all (on the North Slope), • including radars, lidars, spectrometers, imagers, • etc. etc.

  7. Selected NSA ACRF Field Experiments* • Upcoming: Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Campaign (2008) • International Polar Year 2007-09 • IR Loss (On-going, 2006) and RHUBC, 2007 • Boundary Layer Cloud (2005) • Mixed-Phase Arctic Cloud (M-PACE 2004) • NASA AIRS Validation (2002-ongoing) • Arctic Winter Water Vapor (2001, 2004) • Aerosonde Robotic Aircraft (1999-2005) • SHEBA (1997-98) *About two dozen have taken place at the NSA

  8. Barrow ACRF Facility: “Great White”

  9. Atqasuk

  10. Barrow ‘Duplex’ and Visiting ARM Scientists

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