Workshop to Explore Science Opportunities and Concepts for a US Aerosol-Cloud-Microphysics Research Facility; Boulder, Colorado - Fall 2019

探索美国气溶胶云微物理研究设施的科学机会和概念研讨会；

• 批准号: 1945681
• 负责人: Raymond Shaw
• 金额: $ 2.58万
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1945681&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Explore; Science; Opportunities; Concepts

This award is for a workshop that will explore scientific questions and set priorities for a potential US-based aerosol-cloud research facility. Clouds are an integral part of weather and climate but the physics behind many cloud processes are not fully understood. The US research community must currently work with colleagues in Europe to gain access to a large cloud chamber facility. The workshop will investigate whether a US-based large chamber facility would be a significant benefit to the scientific community and, if so, what that chamber should look like. The main societal impact of this workshop will be future-looking, as an eventual cloud-aerosol chamber would provide a national resource to help improve weather and climate modeling.The meeting will take place in Boulder, Colorado in late 2019. The main objective of the workshop will be to gauge community interest and to obtain a sense of priorities for the various scientific challenges that are likely to be amenable to laboratory investigation. The organizers note that the need for a cloud chamber with path lengths over 10m and a total volume over 100m3 has been previously described in agency documents and in community discussions. This workshop will address questions about what can be learned in such a chamber that can't otherwise be studied, and what kind of measurement capabilities it should have. The investigators have estimated attendance at 40-50 personnel with expertise in aerosol and atmospheric chemistry, cloud microphysics, cloud modeling and parameterization, radiation propagation and transfer, and turbulent convection and multiphase flows.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.

该奖项是针对一个讲习班的研讨会，该研讨会将探讨科学问题并为潜在的美国气雾云研究机构设定优先级。 云是天气和气候不可或缺的一部分，但是许多云过程背后的物理学尚未完全了解。 美国研究社区目前必须与欧洲的同事合作，才能进入大型云室设施。 研讨会将调查一个总部位于美国的大型商会设施对科学界是否有重大好处，如果是，该会议厅应该是什么样的。 该研讨会的主要社会影响将是未来的，因为最终的云 - 大赛室将提供一个国家资源，以帮助改善天气和气候建模。会议将于2019年底在科罗拉多州的博尔德举行。工作室的主要目标是评估社区兴趣并获得各种科学挑战的意义，以使各种科学挑战有可能成为实践的调查。 组织者指出，对路径长度超过10m的云室的需求和以前在代理文件和社区讨论中已经描述了超过100m3的总量。 该研讨会将解决有关无法研究的会议厅中可以学到的问题的问题，以及它应该具有什么样的测量功能。 The investigators have estimated attendance at 40-50 personnel with expertise in aerosol and atmospheric chemistry, cloud microphysics, cloud modeling and parameterization, radiation propagation and transfer, and turbulent convection and multiphase flows.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.