An Integrated Column
Description of the Atmosphere
Pacific Northwest National
Laboratory
Credits to
Outline
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Desirable characteristics of
ground-based data
The Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement (ARM) Program
The Cloud Parameterization
Problem
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Ground-based Remote Sensing
Instrumentation
ARM Program Components
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How well can we
describe
- the state of the box?
- the
radiatively active components?
Data
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Southern Great Plains
Central Facility
Energy fluxes into the
column
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Domain averaged surface
fluxes
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Large-scale Forcing
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Atmospheric state (local and
domain-avg)
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Aerosol
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Cloud Macrophysics
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Cloud fraction from sky
imagery
Cloud fraction from
radiometry
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Southern Great Plains
Clear-air Radars and Clouds
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Spatial Cloud Product
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Cloud Microphysics
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How well do we do?
How well do we do?
Where to?
North Slope of Alaska Site
North Slope of Alaska Site
Tropical Western Pacific
Site
Tropical Western Pacific
Site
Where to?
ARM data: freely available
at www.arm.gov
Post-doc positions available in
data analysis and cloud modeling
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