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Wendler, Timothy
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TRACER Radar b1 Data Processing: Corrections, Calibrations, and Processing Report
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility deployed the first ARM Mobile Facility (AMF1) to Houston, Texas for the Tracking Aerosol Convection Interactions Experiment (TRACER) field campaign. The TRACER campaign was conducted from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022, with an intensive operational period (IOP) from June 1 to September 30, 2022.
ARM FY2023 Radar Plan
The fundamental objective of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility’s radar capability is to provide high-quality radar observations to the scientific user community with an overarching goal of improving the treatment of clouds and precipitation in climate models. ARM has a complement of 32 radars, including scanning and zenith-pointing varieties (Table 1). The effort to maintain and operate these radars is significant and requires a large, distributed staffing commitment. It has not been feasible to ensure the continuous, high-level operations expected by the ARM user community for all radars at all times, so priorities are established to routinely manage select radar operations every fiscal year. These priorities for FY23 are listed herein.