Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program

Argonne manages the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program for the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), operating outdoor research stations on the Southern Great Plains , the North Slope of Alaska and the Tropical Western Pacific.

ARM is the DOE's largest global change research program. It was created to help resolve scientific questions related to global climate change, with a specific focus on the crucial role of clouds and their influence on radiative feedback processes in the atmosphere. ARM's primary goal is to improve the treatment of cloud and radiation physics in global climate models so they can more accurately simulate and predict future climate conditions.

ARM's scientists research a broad range of issues that span remote sensing, physical process investigation and modeling on all scales. ARM's site operators focus on obtaining continuous field measurements and providing data products to promote the advancement of climate models.

ARM Climate Research Facility

ARM's climate research sites serve as a national scientific user facility for collaborative research primarily with university, government agency, and national laboratory researchers. These sites provide significant research capability for the global scientific community. The resulting new ARM Climate Research Facility has been designated a national user facility for the purpose of providing this unique asset for the study of global change to a broader national and international research community.

For more information about Argonne's environmental research and cleanup work, visit the following pages on the World Wide Web:

• Environmental Research
• Environmental Protection