Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility Management Plan

Summary

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility, established in 1989, operates to enhance the understanding and modeling of atmospheric processes, particularly clouds and aerosols. The facility, which began collecting data in 1992, currently maintains approximately 430 ground-based instruments across three fixed observatories (Southern Great Plains, North Slope of Alaska, Eastern North Atlantic) and three mobile facilities. Mobile facilities AMF1 and AMF2 are deployed for 6 to 24-month campaigns, while AMF3 is used for intermediate 5-year deployments. A new Challenger 850 jet, purchased in 2019, is expected to be ready for aerial research operations in 2026, replacing the G-1 aircraft retired in 2018. All data collected by ARM are processed, archived in NetCDF format, and made openly available to the research community, often within one day of collection.

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