Its data trove is growing at a rate of one petabyte a year. Today, ARM, a DOE Office of Science user facility supported by nine national laboratories, collects that much data about every six days. In 2016, ARM reached one petabyte of data.Ĭollecting those first 16 terabytes took nearly 10 years.
Upgrades and aspirations are outlined in a 31-page Decadal Vision document, released last year.ĪRM Data Services Manager Giri Prakash said that when he started at ORNL in 2002, ARM had about 16 terabytes of stored observational data.īy 2010, the total was 200 terabytes. With that much data on hand, ARM is taking steps over the next decade to upgrade its field measurements, data analytics, data-model interoperability and data services. That’s the capacity of about 50,000 smartphones, at 64 gigabytes per phone. In the past 30 years, the multi-laboratory ARM facility has amassed more than 11,000 data products. In some cases, experts use these processed data to create higher-end data products that sharpen high-resolution models. The team at the ARM Data Center refine the data so they are more useful to researchers and ensure their quality. Observational measurements include daily records of temperature, wind speed, humidity, cloud cover, atmospheric particles called aerosols and dozens of other atmospheric processes that are critically important to weather and climate.
The observations, comprising more than 3.3 petabytes of data so thus far, start as raw data from more than 460 instruments worldwide. Newswise - As the Department of Energy’s Atmospheric Radiation Measurement user facility marks 30 years of collecting continuous measurements of the Earth’s atmosphere this year, the ARM Data Center at Oak Ridge National Laboratory is shepherding changes to its operations to make the treasure trove of data more easily accessible and useful to scientists studying Earth’s climate around the world. News Research News Releases Journal News Medical News Science News Life News Business News Expert Pitch Google Fact Check Research Alert Marketplace News With Video/Audio Multimedia RSS Feeds by Latest News Coronavirus News Currently Embargoed
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