DOE/SC-ARM/P-08-004.1
ACRF Instrumentation Status:
New, Current, and Future
December 2007 – January 2008
Work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Science, Office of Biological and Environmental Research
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Abstract
The purpose of this report is to provide a concise but comprehensive overview of Atmospheric Radiation
Measurement Climate Research Facility instrumentation status. The report is divided into the following
four sections: (1) new instrumentation in the process of being acquired and deployed, (2) existing
instrumentation and progress on improvements or upgrades, (3) proposed future instrumentation, and (4)
Small Business Innovation Research instrument development. New information is highlighted in blue
text.
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Acknowledgments
This report is developed largely from the information submitted to and managed within our Instrument
Mentor Monthly Summary (IMMS) reporting system (http://www.db.arm.gov/IMMS/
). Special thanks to
our Instrument Team for providing timely and complete updates to the IMMS, to Kathy Doty, our
developer and administrator of IMMS, and Rolanda Jundt, who ensures this information is posted
accurately on the ARM website.
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Contents
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1.
New Instrumentation............................................................................................................................. 1
1.1 Thin-Cloud Rotating Shadowband Radiometer for Liquid Water Path, Visible Optical
Depth, and Effective Radius for Thin Clouds ........................................................................... 1
1.2 Infrared Sky Imager................................................................................................................... 1
1.3 Rotating Shadowband Spectrometer (RSS) Overhaul............................................................... 2
1.4 Aerosol Particle-Sizing Spectrometer to Replace Optical Particle Counter at Southern
Great Plains ............................................................................................................................... 2
1.5 Infrared Thermometers for the Southern Great Plains Extended Facility Sites ........................ 3
1.6 Add Scanning Capability to the W-Band ARM Cloud Radar................................................... 3
1.7 Oxygen A-Band Spectrometer .................................................................................................. 3
1.8 Next-Generation Microwave Radiometers................................................................................ 3
1.9 Photoacoustic Spectrometer (PA).............................................................................................. 4
2. Existing Instrumentation ....................................................................................................................... 4
2.1 Aerosol Observing System (AOS) ............................................................................................ 5
2.2 Atmospherically Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)...................................................... 5
2.3 Balloon-Borne Sound System (BBSS)...................................................................................... 5
2.4 Broadband Radiometer Station (BRS, SIRS, SKYRAD, GNDRAD, BRSN) ......................... 5
2.5 Carbon Dioxide Flux System (CO2FLX).................................................................................. 6
2.6 Carbon Monoxide System (CO)................................................................................................ 6
2.7 Cimel Sun Photometer (CSPOT) .............................................................................................. 6
2.8 Disdrometer (DISDROMETER) ............................................................................................... 6
2.9 Eddy Correlation Station (ECOR)............................................................................................. 6
2.10 Energy Balance Bowen Ratio Station (EBBR) ......................................................................... 7
2.11 G-Band (183.3 GHz) Water Vapor Radiometer (GVR)............................................................ 7
2.12 Infrared Thermometer (IRT) ..................................................................................................... 7
2.13 Micropulse Lidar (MPL) ........................................................................................................... 8
2.14 Microwave Radiometer (MWR)................................................................................................ 8
2.15 High-Frequency Microwave Radiometer (MWRHF) ............................................................... 8
2.16 Microwave Radiometer Profiler (MWRP) ................................................................................ 8