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Welcome to the University of Alaska, Fairbanks (UAF) North Slope of Alaska (NSA) ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF) operations page. This page is primarily intended for instrument mentors, the NSA Operations (OPS) team, Site Science Team (SST) members, and other people connected to NSA ACRF. If you are new to ARM in general, we suggest you start from the ARM web site. For more general information about the activities at the NSA ACRF, you can read this presentation or go to the official ARM NSA site pages.

From these pages one can monitor parts of the data acquisition process and access daily data visualizations from the different instruments. These data visualizations are produced in near real time automatically and are called Quick-Looks (QLs) . The quick-looks contains unofficial data of unknown quality. Once data is released one can obtain the full data-set from any instrument available, and along with that, a statement about the data quality from the ARM archive.

  Questions or comments about this page: e-mail Hans Eide


Links of Interest for NSA Operations Support

  • NSA OPS Internal Pages (OMIS)

  • NSA OPS Telecon. Minutes Data-base

  • NSA OPS Weekly Reports Data-base

  • NSA/UAF OPS Internal Calendar



    • Quick-look Browsing and System Status

    NSA/ACRF UAF Operations NEWS:

  • [27/07/08]: Update on the upgrade
    The upgrade of nanuna is complete now, QL production resumed earlier last week with the arrivial of 64 bit IDL and new license file. We will pass half a million QL images pretty soon too now, but with the new hardware this is easy to handle.

  • [26/06/08]: nanuna has been upgraded
    All brand new hardware, mostly. There are som issues to be worked out because we are now on a 64 bit architechture (previous was 32 bit), and so binaries from old-nanuna does not work on new-nanuna. Expect to have this solved (and QL production running again) by the end of this week.

  • [10/02/06]: Data now from the DMF
    The data we use for Quick-Looks (QLs) and Quality Assurance is now downloaded from the ARM Data Management Facility (DMF). This saves us some bandwidth to the North Slope, but some data get in a bit delayed and in chunks (e.g. the TSI).

  • [09/26/06]: IOP camera from sky-deck
    We have an extra live (near real-time) camera going because of the Radiometer Intercomparison IOP. Our friend the Total Sky Imager (TSI) is also back. Both images can be seen at the Barrow (C1) page. The IOPCam updates every 5 minutes! There is also a daily movie from the TSI images there.

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