Climate Research Section
The Climate Research Section within Argonne National Laboratory's Environmental Science Division (EVS) develops and operates instrumentation for process-scale investigations of atmospheric science and climate. Resources are available to make routine meteorological observations and to measure levels of trace atmospheric constituents and the exchange of trace gases with the earth’s surface from surface- and aircraft-based platforms. EVS climate research staff support instruments that measure key climate variables at three U.S. Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) climate research facilities and two AmeriFlux sites. Measurements range from routine surface observations of wind speed and direction, temperature, and relative humidity, to advanced remote sensing of aerosol distributions in the atmospheric boundary layer.
The two AmeriFlux sites that the Climate Research Section maintains are within a restored prairie and an agricultural field at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Illinois. The two sites are used to conduct process-scale investigations to improve understanding of the effects of climate on ecosystem exchanges of carbon, nitrogen, and water. Sampling and analytic instrumentation for measuring trace atmospheric gases and aerosols are also developed and operated by EVS climate research scientists.
Section Members
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Coulter, Richard
 (630)252-5833
 (630)252-2959
 rlcoulter@anl.gov
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Section:
Climate Research
Location: Illinois-203
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