Support for the Participation of U.S. Scientists and Students in the International Conference on Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation; Taipei, Taiwan; March 9-11, 2016

支持美国科学家和学生参加全球定位系统（GPS）无线电掩星国际会议；

• 批准号: 1555013
• 负责人: Nicholas Pedatella
• 金额: $ 4.9万
• 依托单位: University Corporation For Atmospheric Res
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1555013&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Participation; U.S.; Scientists; Students

This award funds the travel of US scientists to attend the Third International Conference on GPS Radio Occultation (ICGPSRO) in Taipei, Taiwan. NSF has a longstanding partnership with the Taiwanese National Space Organization (NSPO), in the development of space-based GPS radio occultation (GPSRO) as a technique for observing the atmosphere. This partnership, conducted through the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research and with the participation of other US agencies, produced the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, the Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC). COSMIC is a six-satellite constellation of polar orbiting satellites with GPS receivers launched in 2006. The COSMIC mission has been highly successful, and the follow-on COSMIC-2 mission is under development as a joint US-Taiwan project with the first of two launches scheduled for 2016. While COSMIC-2 is not an NSF-funded mission, the observations to be collected will be of greater quality and quantity than existing GPSRO measurements and hold substantial promise as a resource for NSF-funded researchers.The conference covers a number of topics related to RO measurement techniques and the use of GPSRO data for weather, climate, and space weather research. The meeting will provide a venue to expose US participants to the GPSRO technique and its research applications, to foster interactions between end users of the data and developers of the observing technology, and to promote international collaborations between US and Taiwanese scientists. Funds provided through this award will support the travel of up to ten U.S. scientists and students to attend the conference. US participants will be a mix of students, early career scientists, and senior researchers.The award has broader impacts due to the practical value of GPSRO observations as an input to weather forecasts and for tracking the state of the ionosphere. GPSRO data has been demonstrated, for example, to be effective at reducing errors in forecasts of hurricane tracks. In addition, the observations are absolutely calibrated and thus useful for detecting long-term trends in atmospheric temperature, and can be used to help calibrate other kinds of weather satellites. Beyond these societal broader impacts, the meeting will provide valuable education and mentorship for students and early career scientists.

该奖项为美国科学家的旅行提供了资金，参加了台湾台北举行的第三届国际GPS广播宣传会议（ICGPSRO）。 NSF与台湾国家太空组织（NSPO）建立了长期合作伙伴关系，在开发基于空间的GPS无线电掩盖（GPSRO）方面是观察气氛的一种技术。 这种合作伙伴关系是通过大气研究公司和其他美国机构参与的，生产了气象学，电离层和气候（宇宙）的星座观测系统。 Cosmic是一个六卫星星座的极地轨道卫星，并于2006年发射了GPS接收器。宇宙任务非常成功，并且随着联合美国台湾项目的发展，宇宙2的宇宙-2任务正在开发中。计划于2016年进行的发布。尽管Cosmic-2不是NSF资助的任务，但要收集的观察结果将比现有的GPSRO测量值更大和数量，并具有实质性的承诺，作为NSF资助的研究人员的资源。会议涵盖A涵盖A与RO测量技术有关的主题数量以及GPSRO数据用于天气，气候和太空天气研究的数量。该会议将为我们的参与者提供GPSRO技术及其研究应用程序的场所，以促进数据的最终用户与观察技术的开发人员之间的互动，并促进美国与台湾科学家之间的国际合作。 通过该奖项提供的资金将支持多达十位美国科学家和学生参加会议的旅行。 美国的参与者将成为学生，早期职业科学家和高级研究人员的混合。由于GPSRO观察的实际价值，该奖项具有更大的影响，这是对天气预报的投入和跟踪电离层状态的投入。 例如，已经证明了GPSRO数据可以有效减少飓风轨道预测的错误。 此外，观察结果是绝对校准的，因此可用于检测大气温度的长期趋势，可用于帮助校准其他类型的天气卫星。 除了这些社会更广泛的影响之外，会议还将为学生和早期职业科学家提供宝贵的教育和指导。