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 年北美日全食将开辟一条从德克萨斯州到新英格兰的日全食路径，为数百万美国人提供直接观察罕见天体和大气事件的机会。 该项目将利用公众对日食的迷恋来开展以教育和外展为重点的观测活动，测量大气对日全食的反应。 本科生将利用最先进的分析仪器参加科学领域活动，然后在课堂环境中分析这些数据。 外展活动将针对 K-12 学生和公众进行，包括气象气球发射。日全食提供了一个自然实验来评估当太阳辐射减少时大气会发生什么。 为了测量大气对2024年日食的反应，研究团队将部署三台微脉冲差分吸收激光雷达（MPD），可以连续测量低层大气的温度和水蒸气，并在2024年4月整个月每天进行气象气球发射MPD 将与其他先进的大气剖面仪器位于纽约州 Mesonet (NYSM) 的三个站点，其中两个站点位于全食路径上。 项目的主要目标是利用这个独特的实地项目对本科生进行科学实地活动、最先进的分析仪器和随后的科学数据分析方面的培训。 测量的辅助科学效益将是对 MPD 与其他仪器进行交叉验证，并确定测量大气温度和湿度场所需的分析仪器的最佳组合。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为值得支持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。