twp - Central Facility, Nauru Island

Established
1998-01-01
Removed
2013-09-15
Latitude
0.521° S
Longitude
166.916° E
Altitude
7 meters
Surface Type
Limestone, exposed coral reef, coconut palms, pandanus trees, hardwoods
Instruments
15 (0 active)
Primary Measurement Types
31 (0 active)

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ARM Instrument Shelter

ARM Facility on Nauru Island

Karst Remains from Historic Phosphate Mining

Nauru Island’s Western Shoreline

The C2 site for ARM’s Tropical Western Pacific (TWP) began operations in 1998 on Nauru Island, officially known as the Republic of Nauru. Nauru shows the highest climatic variability in outgoing longwave radiation in the world and is located on the eastern edge of the Pacific warm pool, which plays a large role in the interannual variability observed in the global climate system.

Instruments deployed at TWP - Central Facility, Nauru Island

Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
1998-11-04 - 2009-02-12
Ceilometer
1998-10-28 - 2013-09-09
Sunphotometer
1999-06-14 - 2013-09-15
Ground Radiometers on Stand for Upwelling Radiation
1998-10-24 - 2013-09-09
Infrared Thermometer
2012-05-29 - 2013-09-09
Surface Meteorological Instrumentation
1998-10-21 - 2013-09-09
Multifilter Rotating Shadowband Radiometer
1998-10-30 - 2013-09-09
Millimeter Wavelength Cloud Radar
1998-10-22 - 2009-02-14
Micropulse Lidar
1998-11-06 - 2009-02-13
Microwave Radiometer
1998-10-28 - 2013-09-09
Microwave Radiometer, 3 Channel
2012-09-13 - 2013-09-09
Sky Radiometers on Stand for Downwelling Radiation
1998-10-27 - 2013-09-09
Balloon-Borne Sounding System
1998-11-05 - 2013-08-26
Total Sky Imager
2002-11-11 - 2013-09-09
Whole Sky Imager
1999-06-23 - 2002-04-27

Primary Measurements collected at twp - Central Facility, Nauru Island

Aerosol optical depth
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Aerosol optical properties
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Atmospheric moisture
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Atmospheric pressure
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Atmospheric temperature
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Backscattered radiation
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Cloud base height
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Cloud fraction
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Horizontal wind
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Liquid water path
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Longwave broadband downwelling irradiance
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Longwave broadband upwelling irradiance
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Longwave narrowband brightness temperature
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Longwave spectral brightness temperature
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Longwave spectral radiance
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Microwave narrowband brightness temperature
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Particle number concentration
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Particle size distribution
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Precipitable water
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Radar Doppler
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Radar reflectivity
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Shortwave broadband diffuse downwelling irradiance
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Shortwave broadband direct normal irradiance
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Shortwave broadband total downwelling irradiance
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Shortwave narrowband diffuse downwelling irradiance
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Shortwave narrowband direct normal irradiance
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Shortwave narrowband radiance
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Shortwave narrowband total downwelling irradiance
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Shortwave spectral radiance
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Vertical velocity
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Visibility
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