Repository details

ARM Data Center

Name of repository
ARM Data Center
Additional name(s)
  • Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Facility Data Center
Repository URL
https://www.arm.gov/data
Subject(s)
Description
US Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Data Center is a long-term archive and distribution facility for various ground-based, aerial and model data products in support of atmospheric and climate research. ARM facility currently operates over 400 instruments at various observatories (https://www.arm.gov/capabilities/observatories/). ARM Data Center (ADC) Archive currently holds over 11,000 data products with a total holding of over 3 petabytes of data that dates back to 1993, these include data from instruments, value added products, model outputs, field campaign and PI contributed data. The data center archive also includes data collected by ARM from related program (e.g., external data such as NASA satellite).
Contact(s)
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository size
11.000 data products with a total holding of over 3 petabytes of data
Repository type(s)
  • institutional
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.arm.gov/about/mission-and-vision-statements
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • serviceProvider
  • dataProvider

Institutions (11)

Institution
Argonne National Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • ANL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Climate Research Facility
Additional name(s)
  • ARM
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • technical
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
Brookhaven National Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • BNL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • LBL
  • Berkeley Lab
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • LLNL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • LANL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • NREL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • ORNL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Additional name(s)
  • PNNL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
Sandia National Laboratories
Additional name(s)
  • Sandia
  • SNL
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993
Institution
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science
Additional name(s)
  • DOE
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Start date of responsibility
1993

Policies (1)

Policy Name
General Guidelines

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
restricted
Data access restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
other
DataLicense
CC

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (1)

Data upload license name
Data Acquisition & Use
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • DOI
Versioning
yes
Data citation guideline
https://www.arm.gov/working-with-arm/acknowledging-arm/doi-guidance-for-datastreams
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (2)

Type
NetCDF
Url
https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/
Type
REST
Url
https://adc.arm.gov/armlive/

Metadata standards (2)

Metadata standard
CF (Climate and Forecast) Metadata Conventions
Metadata standard
FGDC/CSDGM (Federal Geographic Data Committee Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata)

Remarks

Remarks
ARM is covered by Clarivate Data Citation Index. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was created in 1989 with funding from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to develop several highly instrumented ground stations to study cloud formation processes and their influence on radiative transfer. This scientific infrastructure now includes three heavily instrumented fixed-location atmospheric observatories that represent a broad range of conditions are operated by the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) user facility to gather massive amounts of atmospheric data. In addition to these fixed-location observatories, ARM also offers three mobile facilities, an aerial facility, and a data center available for use by scientists worldwide through the ARM Climate Research Facility—a scientific user facility. ARM was CTS certified unitl 2023-05-16.
Entry date
2013-01-15
Last update
2025-03-21
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re3data.org: ARM Data Center; editing status 2025-03-21; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3M59H last accessed: 2025-04-17