Abstract
The US Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program has established a number of ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) and deployed an ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) in diverse climatic regimes around the world. The AMF has been deployed in diverse climatic regimes around the world to perform long-term continuous field measurements. The long-term continuous ACRF data provide significant information to improve understanding of the interaction between clouds and radiation, along with an observational basis for model validation, improvement, and climate studies. ARM has developed a data product specifically to be used by climate professionals to make ACRF data better serve the needs of climate studies and model development. The new data product is called, Climate Modeling Best Estimate (CMBE) dataset and assembles those quantities that are observed by ACRF and used in model evaluation into a single dataset.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 13-20 |
Number of pages | 8 |
Journal | Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society |
Volume | 91 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Jan 2010 |