While the overall object of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) program, to study cloud formation processes and their influence on radiative transfer, has not changed since the program’s inception in 1992 [1], the challenges associated with and the methods applied to ensure ARM data is of “known and reasonable” quality have evolved as the program has matured. This paper describes an effort initiated in 2005 to create standards to guide the creation, formatting, and assessment of QC in ARM Value-Added Products (VAPs). It includes background on the motivation and process for creating the standards, a description of the requirements defined to guide the development of the standards, the standards themselves, and tools created to verify VAP data products properly adhere to the standards.
Revised: September 27, 2010 |
Published: June 20, 2010
Citation
Gaustad K.L., C.J. Flynn, S.J. Beus, and B.D. Ermold. 2010.The Development of QC Standards for ARM Data Products. In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing, 548-553. New York, New York:ACM.PNNL-SA-71148.doi:10.1145/1851476.1851556