Capabilities

Scientists from around the world have access to a wide range of resources from the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility to conduct research on Earth’s climate.

Science Data Products

ARM provides 30-plus years of atmospheric measurements, including periodic data sets from all seven continents and five oceans.

SOURCES

Modeling

The LES ARM Symbiotic Simulation and Observation (LASSO) activity combines observational data and large-eddy simulation (LES) modeling to support the study of atmospheric processes, improve observational retrievals, and accelerate the application of ARM observations to improve parameterizations of clouds, aerosols, and radiation in climate models.

EXPLORE

Computing Resources

The ARM Data Center offers a public software development space that provides a mechanism to work with large volumes of data without having to download them. The Data Processing and Visualization Cluster provides programming ability in Python^TM, MATLAB^®, and IDL^®, as well as specialized software such as the Python ARM Radar Toolkit (Py-ART).

QUALITY

Instruments

A comprehensive suite of cutting-edge instrumentation deployed at ARM atmospheric observatories is designed specifically to measure clouds, aerosols, radiation, and the interactions among them.

In addition to ARM’s extensive collection of instruments, some information is provided about guest and external instruments owned and operated by other programs. All instruments are categorized by: