Request For Preproposals
Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Climate Research Facility
U.S. Department of Energy
Preproposal Deadline: Thursday, 15 March 2007
For further information, please go to:
http://www.arm.gov/acrf/
or contact:
Wanda R. Ferrell, Program Director
ARM Climate Research Facility
E-mail: Wanda.Ferrell [at] science.doe.gov
The U.S. Department of Energy welcomes preproposals for FY 2009 field
campaigns requesting use of any ARM Climate Research Facility (ACRF),
including the North Slope of Alaska (NSA), ARM Mobile Facility (AMF), or
ARM Aerial Vehicles Program (AVP).
ACRF provides access for domestic and international scientists to
several highly instrumented ground stations for studying cloud formation
processes and their influence on radiative transfer and for measuring
other parameters that determine the radiative properties of the
atmosphere. NSA is one such fixed site that is centered at Barrow and
extends south to Atqasuk, west to Wainwright, and east toward Oliktok,
and has become a focal point for atmospheric and ecological research in
the Arctic.
Requests for use of the AMF should include a deployment time of six to
ten months, and preference will be given to deployments in which the AMF
is embedded in a larger field campaign. Proposals for the ARM AVP for a
short-term field campaign (six weeks or less) must use either fixed ACRF
sites or the AMF. However, more latitude will be given for routine
flights, which may fly patterns away from the fixed sites and the AMF.
Preproposals should be submitted online through the field campaign form
at the ACRF website by Thursday, 15 March 2007. Preproposals should
demonstrate that research funding has already been secured or that a
proposal to a funding agency has been submitted. A select number of full
proposals will be invited, which will be due on 15 May 2007.
For further information and to submit a preproposal, please go to:
http://www.arm.gov/acrf/
or contact:
Wanda R. Ferrell, Program Director
ARM Climate Research Facility
E-mail: Wanda.Ferrell [at] science.doe.gov