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Meteorological monographs 57
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The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program is by all measures a unique enterprise. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) conceived the Program in 1990 as its primary contribution to the then newly created U.S. Global Change Research Program. Ari Patrinos, who was a DOE program manager in 1990, said in his forward to the ARM Program Plan that [the] recent heightened concern about global warming from an enhanced greenhouse effect has prompted the department (DOE) to accelerate the research to improve predictions of climate change. The emphasis is on the timing and magnitude of climate change as well as on the regional characteristics of this change. The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program was developed to supply an improved predictive capability, particularly as it relates to the cloud–climate feedback. ARM was a natural evolution of two separate research efforts within the DOE that were evaluating radiation parameterizations used in general circulation models (GCMs) and assessing the differences in cloud feedback in GCMs. Both of these activities required data, and the ARM Program was designed to provide that data. The original science vision of the ARM Program was for it to be a 10-yr endeavor, but the success of ARM has resulted in the Program continuing for more than 25 years and counting.
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