Wyoming King Air as a National Facility

怀俄明国王航空作为国家设施

• 批准号: 1917369
• 负责人: Jeffrey French
• 金额: $ 1276.74万
• 依托单位: University of Wyoming
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1917369&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Wyoming; King; Air; National; Facility

The primary objective of this project is to provide a mission-ready aircraft (the University of Wyoming King Air) to the geoscience research community. The University of Wyoming King Air fulfills a unique role in the suite of lower atmosphere observing facilities supported by the National Science Foundation. This research aircraft provides a small, light weight, and relatively inexpensive aircraft as an agile airborne platform for cloud, precipitation, atmospheric chemistry, wildfire, and boundary layer meteorological research. During the five-year award period, scientists funded by the National Science Foundation may request the use of the aircraft, the cloud radar, and/or the cloud lidar through the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities Program for the purpose of conducting atmospheric research. This award provides base support to a staff of scientists, engineers, technicians, pilots, and mechanics, who maintain and deploy the aircraft and instrumentation for this cutting-edge research aircraft. The award includes scientific effort to support field deployments of the facility, data assurance and quality control, delivery and archiving of data products accessible to the entire scientific community; and the engineering effort for instrumentation and software upgrades that will enhance the scientific and educational benefit to the community. The impact of the research enabled by the facility may be broad and far-reaching depending on the individual projects that request its use through the National Science Foundation's Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities Program.The Wyoming research aircraft along with the Wyoming Cloud Radar, the Wyoming Cloud Lidar, and associated research instruments will enable acquisition of airborne in-situ and remote sensing measurements to address a broad range of geoscience-related topics. Support of the facility will ensure access to a mission-ready research aircraft and associated instrumentation. The Wyoming King Air is capable of use in studies ranging from cloud-aerosol interaction, to boundary-layer dynamics, air quality, cloud and precipitation physics, and chemistry of trace gases and aerosol. The data collected by the Wyoming King Air facility will take advantage of the combined in situ measurements from the aircraft and remote sensing capability of the Wyoming Cloud Radar and the Wyoming Cloud Lidar, targeting projects that can benefit from the agility of the aircraft and its low cost of operation. The measurement capabilities available to the geoscience community through this award will provide a greater understanding of atmospheric properties and composition, inform new ideas about atmospheric processes, feed numerical models to improve atmospheric representation, and ultimately lead to greater predictability of the earth-atmosphere weather and climate systems. In addition to the far-reaching broader impacts of the scientific studies that are enabled by the aircraft, the impacts of the work supported through this award are rooted in their contribution to education and training of the next generation of observational atmospheric scientists. Since the University of Wyoming King Air is owned and operated by a university, it provides a natural setting for educating and training young scientists in obtaining and using airborne atmospheric observations and in the development of tools and techniques for maintaining, calibrating, and assessing airborne instrumentation. The skills developed by scientists who use and work with the facility and associated data sets are well-suited to train the next generation of atmospheric scientists to work within laboratories or other airborne research facilities across the country.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的主要目标是为地球科学研究界提供一架可执行任务的飞机（怀俄明大学空中国王）。怀俄明大学国王航空在国家科学基金会支持的低层大气观测设施套件中发挥着独特的作用。这种研究飞机提供了一种小型、轻量且相对便宜的飞机，作为云、降水、大气化学、野火和边界层气象研究的敏捷机载平台。在五年奖励期内，美国国家科学基金会资助的科学家可以通过低层大气观测设施计划请求使用飞机、云雷达和/或云激光雷达来进行大气研究。该奖项为科学家、工程师、技术人员、飞行员和机械师提供基础支持，他们负责维护和部署这架尖端研究飞机的飞机和仪器。该奖项包括支持设施现场部署、数据保证和质量控制、整个科学界可访问的数据产品的交付和归档的科学努力；仪器和软件升级的工程工作将提高社区的科学和教育效益。该设施所进行的研究的影响可能是广泛而深远的，具体取决于通过国家科学基金会的低层大气观测设施计划请求使用该设施的各个项目。怀俄明州研究飞机以及怀俄明州云雷达、怀俄明州云激光雷达和相关研究仪器将能够获取机载原位和遥感测量结果，以解决广泛的地球科学相关主题。该设施的支持将确保能够使用准备执行任务的研究飞机和相关仪器。怀俄明州 King Air 能够用于从云-气溶胶相互作用到边界层动力学、空气质量、云和降水物理学以及痕量气体和气溶胶化学的研究。怀俄明国王航空设施收集的数据将利用飞机的现场测量组合以及怀俄明云雷达和怀俄明云激光雷达的遥感能力，目标是能够受益于飞机的敏捷性和低空飞行能力的项目。运营成本。通过该奖项向地球科学界提供的测量能力将有助于更好地了解大气特性和成分，提供有关大气过程的新想法，提供数值模型以改善大气代表性，并最终提高地球大气天气和大气的可预测性。气候系统。除了飞机所开展的科学研究产生更深远的影响外，该奖项支持的工作的影响还植根于它们对下一代观测大气科学家的教育和培训的贡献。由于怀俄明大学空中国王分校由大学拥有和运营，因此它为教育和培训年轻科学家获取和使用机载大气观测以及开发用于维护、校准和评估机载仪器的工具和技术提供了一个自然的环境。使用和使用该设施及相关数据集的科学家所开发的技能非常适合培训下一代大气科学家在全国各地的实验室或其他机载研究设施中工作。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并已通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，认为值得支持。