The Infrared Sky Imager: A New Instrument at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site D. Klebe 1,2 , V. Morris 3 , R. Blatherwick 4,2 and B. Lamarre 2 1 Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205; 719-964-3838, E-mail: [email protected] 2 Solmirus Corporation, Woodland Park, CO 80863 3 Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 99352 4 University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208 The Solmirus Corporation received funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0008650) to develop a diurnal sky cover (SC) data product utilizing the infrared radiometrically-calibrated data from their All Sky Infrared Visible Analyzer (ASIVA) instrument. Nighttime SC has long been a critical programmatic gap in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program observational data set and is an important factor in understanding the life cycle of clouds, one of the central themes of the Atmospheric System Research Program. An ASIVA instrument has been purchased to fill this gap and has been in operation at the Southern Great Plains (SGP) site since May of 2014. In this poster we discuss the SC data products (both infrared and visible) that are currently available from this instrument entitled the Infrared Sky Imager (IRSI). We also discuss additional data products developed under the grant and their possible inclusion to the IRSI datastreams. Figure 1. IRSI installed at ARM SGP in May of 2014

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The Infrared Sky Imager: A New Instrument at the ARM Southern Great Plains Site

D. Klebe1,2, V. Morris3, R. Blatherwick4,2 and B. Lamarre2

1Denver Museum of Nature and Science, Denver, CO 80205; 719-964-3838, E-mail: [email protected] Corporation, Woodland Park, CO 808633Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA 993524University of Denver, Denver, CO 80208

The Solmirus Corporation received funding by the U.S. Department of Energy (DE-SC0008650) to develop adiurnal sky cover (SC) data product utilizing the infrared radiometrically-calibrated data from their All SkyInfrared Visible Analyzer (ASIVA) instrument. Nighttime SC has long been a critical programmatic gap in theAtmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program observational data set and is an important factor inunderstanding the life cycle of clouds, one of the central themes of the Atmospheric System Research Program.An ASIVA instrument has been purchased to fill this gap and has been in operation at the Southern Great Plains(SGP) site since May of 2014. In this poster we discuss the SC data products (both infrared and visible) that arecurrently available from this instrument entitled the Infrared Sky Imager (IRSI). We also discuss additional dataproducts developed under the grant and their possible inclusion to the IRSI datastreams.

Figure 1. IRSI installed at ARM SGP in May of 2014