Open AccessTropical Western Pacific site science mission plan. Semiannual project report, January--June 1998
Author(s) -
Thomas P. Ackerman,
Jim Mather,
W.E. Clements,
F.J. Barnes
Publication year - 1998
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/676914
Subject(s) - environmental science , climatology , arctic , radiative transfer , meteorology , geography , oceanography , geology , physics , quantum mechanics
The Department of Energy`s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program was created in 1989 as part of the US Global Change Research Program to improve the treatment of atmospheric radiative and cloud processes in computer models used to predict climate change. The overall goal of the ARM program is to develop and test parameterizations of important atmospheric processes, particularly cloud and radiative processes, for use in atmospheric models. This goal is being achieved through a combination of field measurements and modeling studies. Three primary locales were chosen for extensive field measurement facilities. These are the Southern Great Plains (SGP) of the United States, the Tropical Western Pacific (TWP), and the North Slope of Alaska and Adjacent Arctic Ocean (NSA/AAO). This Site Science Mission Plan [RPT(TWP)-010.000] describes the ARM program in the Tropical Western Pacific locale