Education and Outreach using the MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidars (MPD) and NYSM Profiler Network before, during, and after the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

在 2024 年日全食之前、期间和之后使用微脉冲差分吸收激光雷达 (MPD) 和 NYSM 剖面仪网络进行教育和推广

• 批准号: 2345420
• 负责人: Junhong Wang
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Albany
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-03-01 至 2025-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345420&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Education; Outreach; using; MicroPulse; Differential

The 2024 North American total solar eclipse will carve a path of totality from Texas to New England, providing millions of Americans with the opportunity to directly observe a rare celestial and atmospheric event. This project will capitalize on public fascination with eclipses to conduct an education and outreach-focused observational campaign that will measure the response of the atmosphere to a total solar eclipse. Undergraduate students will participate in a scientific field campaign making use of state-of-the-art profiling instruments, and subsequently analyze those data in a classroom setting. Outreach activities will be conducted with K-12 students and the general public, including weather balloon launches.Total solar eclipses provide a natural experiment to assess what happens to the atmosphere when solar radiation is reduced. To measure the atmospheric response to the 2024 Eclipse, the research team will deploy three MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidars (MPDs), which can continuously measure temperature and water vapor in the lower atmosphere, and conduct daily weather balloon launches for the entire month of April 2024. The MPDs will be co-located with other advanced atmospheric profiling instruments at three New York State Mesonet (NYSM) sites, two of which are along the path of totality. The primary project objective is to take advantage of this unique field project to train undergraduate students on scientific field campaigns, state-of-art profiling instruments, and subsequent scientific data analysis. The ancillary scientific benefit of the measurements will be to cross-validate the MPD against other instrumentation and determine the optimal mix of profiling instruments that are needed to measure atmospheric temperature and moisture fields.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.

2024年北美总太阳日食将从德克萨斯州到新英格兰的整体道路，为数百万美国人提供直接观察到罕见的天体和大气活动的机会。 该项目将利用公众对日食的迷恋，以进行教育和外展观察运动，该运动将衡量大气对完全日食的反应。 本科生将利用最先进的分析工具参加科学现场活动，然后在课堂环境中分析这些数据。 外展活动将与K-12学生和公众一起进行，包括天气气泡发射。太阳日食提供了一个自然的实验，以评估当太阳辐射减少时的气氛会发生什么。 为了衡量大气对2024日食的反应，研究小组将部署三个微孔差异吸收室（MPD），可以在低大气中连续测量温度和水蒸气，并在2024年4月2024年4月的每日天气气球上发射。 主要项目目标是利用这个独特的现场项目，以培训本科生进行科学现场活动，最先进的分析工具以及随后的科学数据分析。 测量的辅助科学益处将是对其他仪器进行交叉验证MPD，并确定衡量大气温度和水分领域所需的分析仪器的最佳组合。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得的支持。通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评论标准进行评估。