C43C-0812
Scientific Infrastructure to Support Atmospheric Science and Aerosol Science for the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Programs at Barrow, Alaska.

Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Daniel A Lucero1, Mark Ivey2, Fred Helsel1, Joe Hardesty3 and Darielle Dexheimer3, (1)Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (2)Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (3)Sandia National Laboratories, Org 6913, Albuquerque, NM, United States
Abstract:
Scientific infrastructure to support atmospheric science and aerosol science for the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement programs at Barrow, Alaska.

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program’s located at Barrow, 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 Barrow has been in place since 1998, with many improvements since then. Barrow instruments include: scanning precipitation Radar-cloud radar, Doppler Lidar, Eddy correlation flux systems, Ceilometer, Manual and state-of-art automatic Balloon sounding systems, Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI), Micro-pulse Lidar (MPL), Millimeter cloud radar, High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) 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 Barrow and the challenges of maintaining these instruments in an Arctic site.

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