Within Penn State's Meteorology Department, a research group headed by
Dr. Thomas Ackerman is participating in two different atmospheric
radiation research projects. The Pilot Radiation Observation Experiment
(PROBE) was a test deployment for the Department of Energy's Atmospheric
Radiation Measurement (ARM) program. The field work took place in
Kavieng, Papua New Guinea. TOGA COARE (Tropical Ocean and Global
Atmosphere Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere Response Experiment) is a project
whose focus is to study the interaction of the atmosphere with the warm
pool of the tropical, western Pacific. Archived atmospheric radiation
data from these two projects may be found at the locations below.