Opportunities to apply DOE ARM facility measurements of aerosols, clouds, precipitation, and radiation toward ACCP science

A key component of the 2017 NASA Earth Science Decadal Survey is building orbital and suborbital programs to address science objectives related to Aerosols, Clouds, Convection and Precipitation (ACCP). Ground-based observations can provide constraints and validation datasets for ACCP focused measurements and science objectives related to cloud feedbacks, aerosol-cloud interactions, and aerosol profiles. The DOE Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility is developing new capabilities and datasets that enable characterization of aerosol vertical profiles using multi-wavelength retrievals, and advanced filtering capabilities and metadata to help identify time periods of scientific interest, referred to as data epochs. Upcoming ARM Mobile Facility deployments to the southeast U.S. and southern California coast will target aerosol and convective cloud processes, and marine clouds, respectively. This presentation will provide an overview of new opportunities for collaboration toward addressing both ARM and ACCP objectives.