CIF: Making the Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber Available to the Community for Aerosol-Cloud-Turbulence Research

CIF：将 Pi 对流云室提供给社区进行气溶胶云湍流研究

• 批准号: 2113060
• 负责人: Raymond Shaw
• 金额: $ 113.3万
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 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: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113060&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CIF; Making; Pi; Convection; Cloud

This Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) award is for support of the Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber at Michigan Technological University. This project will make the Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber and an extensive set of supporting instrumentation available to the atmospheric sciences community for investigations of atmospheric processes that include aerosols and clouds. The Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber is designed to simulate cloud conditions within the range of pressures and temperatures that occur in the lower part of the atmosphere (the troposphere). It is the only operating major laboratory cloud chamber for research use in North America. The award will also support a 10-week experiential learning program for visiting students through a Chamber laboratory fellowship program and broaden student participation in the physical sciences. The Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber has a proven record of enabling productive and insightful research in aerosol-cloud interactions, ice nucleation and mixed-phase cloud properties, cloud optical properties, and moist Rayleigh-Bénard convection. The Pi Chamber and supporting instruments make a facility that enables measurement of thermodynamics, turbulence, aerosol, and cloud properties for research in the atmospheric sciences. This award will enhance the ability of the broader scientific community to request and use the Pi Cloud Chamber for research 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.

该社区工具和设施（CIF）奖是为了支持密歇根技术大学的PI对流库德商会。该项目将使PI对流云室和大气科学社区可用的一系列支持仪器，用于包括气溶胶和云在内的大气过程的投资。 PI对流云腔室旨在模拟大气下部（对流层）的压力和温度范围内的云条件。它是北美唯一用于研究用途的主要实验室云室。该奖项还将通过室内实验室奖学金计划和扩大学生参与物理科学的参观为10周的经验丰富的学习计划。 PI对流云腔室具有在气溶胶云相互作用，冰核和混合相云特性，云光学性质以及潮湿的雷利 - 贝纳德连接方面具有生产性和有见地的研究的可靠记录。 PI室和支撑仪器建立了一个设施，可用于测量热力学，湍流，气溶胶和云特性，以进行大气科学研究。该奖项将提高更广泛的科学界通过大气和地理水平科学设施进行研究和使用PI云室的能力进行研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来评估的。