ARM Data Workbench

The Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) User Facility provides an interactive data-computing ecosystem called the ARM Data Workbench, which presents tools for users to find, download, stage, visualize, manage, publish, and understand ARM data.

A key feature of the workbench is JupyterHub, a popular tool for supporting scientific analysis through notebook-based computational environments. Hosted by the ARM Data Center, JupyterHub provides scalable computing infrastructure designed to meet the needs of a variety of users. The workbench offers interactive JupyterLab environments tailored for computing and analyzing ARM data.

Recently, the ARM Data Center introduced a new workbench component, the ARM Data Studio, which allows users to select data, retrieve measurements, visualize results, and perform analyses without needing code.

The data studio is meant to serve as a first step into working with ARM data. More advanced work with ARM data (i.e., using code to interact with the data) should take place in JupyterHub instead of the data studio.

Any user with an active ARM account can explore ARM Data Workbench capabilities.

To gain access to parallel processing capabilities, save files past a single session, and stage data to JupyterHub from ARM’s Data Discovery portal, users must apply for elevated access.