AMF3 ARM’s Research Facility at Oliktok Point Alaska

Abstract:

Scientific Infrastructure To Support Atmospheric Science And Aerosol Science For The Department Of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Programs Mobile Facility 3 Located At Oliktok Point, Alaska.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program’s Mobile Facility 3 (AMF3) located at Oliktok Point, Alaska is a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) site. The site provides a scientific infrastructure and data archives for the international Arctic research community. The infrastructure at Oliktok is designed to be mobile and it may be relocated in the future to support other ARM science missions. AMF-3 instruments include: scanning precipitation Radar-cloud radar, Raman Lidar, Eddy correlation flux systems, Ceilometer, Balloon sounding system, Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI), Micro-pulse Lidar (MPL), Millimeter cloud radar along with all the standard metrological measurements. Data from these instruments is placed in the ARM data archives and are available to the international research community.

This poster will discuss what instruments are at AMF3 and the challenges of powering an Arctic site without the use of grid power.