More Climate Modeling Best Estimate Data Available for More Sites

The latest release of the Climate Modeling Best Estimate (CMBE) data set has added soundings and surface meteorological measurements in the CMBE-ATM datastream for Barrow, Alaska, and all three Tropical Western Pacific sites. For these four sites, the cloud and radiation datastream, or CMBE-CLDRAD, now includes the most current available source data, 2010 data in most cases. In addition, the CMBE-CLDRAD datastream has the most recent release of integrated liquid water and water vapor data from the microwave radiometer (MWRRET) data set, which was reprocessed for all sites since the last CMBE release.

Also provided is the statistical summary of the CMBE data for these four ARM sites. It includes both monthly mean and monthly mean diurnal cycle and their climatologies for all the geophysical quantities contained in the CMBE data sets. Current data availability for all of the CMBE data sets is as follows.

For CMBE-ATM:
• NSA.C1 (Barrow, AK) 2001-2010
• SGP.C1 (Lamont, OK) 1993-2008
• TWP.C1 (Manus Island, PNG) 1996-2010
• TWP.C2 (Nauru) 1998-2010
• TWP.C3 (Darwin, AU) 2002-2010

For CMBE-CLDRAD:
• NSA.C1 (Barrow, AK) 1998-2010
• SGP.C1 (Lamont, OK) 1996-2008
• TWP.C1 (Manus Island, PNG) 1996-2010
• TWP.C2 (Nauru) 1998-2010
• TWP.C3 (Darwin, AU) 2002-2010.

More information about this data set is available on the CBME web page. To access these data, log in to the Data Archive. (Go here to request an account.)