CIF: Millimeter-wavelength Radar Facility for Cloud and Precipitation Research

CIF：用于云和降水研究的毫米波雷达设施

基本信息

批准号：
2113070
负责人：
Pavlos Kollias
金额：
$ 33.48万
依托单位：
SUNY at Stony Brook
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Continuing Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-08-15 至 2024-07-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113070&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CIF Millimeter wavelength Radar Facility

项目摘要

This Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) award is for support of a state-of-the-art 35-GHz (Ka-band, 8-mm wavelength) Scanning Polarimetric Radar (KASPR) and a supporting set of modern auxiliary, microwave, and optical sensors as a truck-mounted, transportable, “cloud” radar-based instrumentation suite for studying a range of dynamical & microphysical cloud processes. This comprehensive millimeter-wavelength cloud radar facility can provide measurements in a wide spectrum of cloud and precipitation conditions from coastal fog to winter storms. The facility is complementary to other airborne and surface-based community observing facilities and is suitable for both land and ship-based deployments. The facility and will enable the study of cloud systems critical to climate applications such as boundary layer clouds, convective anvils, mid-latitude cirrus, and mixed-phase stratiform clouds. It is expected to provide unique, high spatiotemporal resolution microphysical and dynamical observations that are needed for investigation of the role of meteorology and aerosol in altering cloud and precipitation systems using a combination of observational and modeling analyses. The CIF will bring together scientists, engineers, and undergraduate and graduate students from universities across the nation including underrepresented students in the Geosciences. The facility will provide foundational training in observational research and operation of remote sensing facility to the next generation of atmospheric scientists. This award will enhance the ability of the broader scientific community to use the radars through the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences facility request process.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.

该社区仪器和设施（CIF）奖是为了支持最先进的35-GHZ（KA波段，8毫米波长）扫描极化雷达（KASPR）和一组支持的现代辅助，微波和光学传感器，并且是用于卡车，可运输的，可运输的，可运输的，“云”雷达仪器的仪器，用于研究仪表式套件，用于研究云范围和动态云范围。这种全面的毫米波长云雷达设施可以在各种云和从沿海雾到冬季风暴的降水条件下提供测量。该设施已完成其他基于空中的社区观察设施，适合土地和基于船舶的部署。该设施并将能够研究对气候应用至关重要的云系统，例如边界层云，对流砧，中纬度纤维和混合相层状云。预计它将提供独特的，高空间的时间分辨率的微分辨率和动态观测，这些观察结果是使用观察和建模分析的组合来投资气象和气溶胶在改变云和降水系统中的作用。 CIF将汇集来自全国大学大学的科学家，工程师，本科生和研究生，包括地球科学中代表性不足的学生。该设施将为下一代大气科学家提供观察性研究和远程灵敏度设施运作的基础培训。该奖项将增强更广泛的科学界通过大气和地理科学设施使用雷达的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来获得的支持。