EVS directs and manages operations within DOE’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and leads instrumentation operations to ensure quality observations for researchers around the world.
ARM is a multi-platform scientific user facility with instruments at fixed and varying locations around the globe for obtaining continuous field measurements of atmospheric data. EVS manages the Southern Great Plains (SGP) and ARM Mobile Facility 3 (AMF3) observatories. SGP was the first field measurement site established by the ARM user facility and the world’s largest and most extensive climate research facility. Scientists use data from the SGP to learn about cloud, aerosol, and atmospheric processes, which in turn leads to improvements in models of the Earth’s climate.