Cooperative Agreement: Operation of the Chill Radar Facility for Research and Education

研究雷达已被证明是一个非常有用的工具 广泛的气象主题。 这类研究 包括对降水产生的研究， 个别云的特征，以调查严重的 雷暴，以垂直风结构取样研究 大规模天气模式的分析，全球水资源的分析， 预算. 气象雷达的主要实际应用 包括精确遥感降雨量的能力， 水文目的和远程探测恶劣天气， 如龙卷风、山洪暴发、飓风和微暴流。 的确， 这些实际应用的好处是主要的 国家气象观测发生根本变化的原因 系统通过安装下一代气象 雷达（NEXRAD）和垂直风探测系统（剖面仪）。 有必要继续进行最先进的研究， 气象雷达，并培训下一代气象雷达和 研究和业务雷达气象学家。 这种需要 加速研究和教育活动， 美国政府最近在一份报告中强调， 气象学会基于一次会议， 雷达气象研究和教育的状况。 因此，美国国家科学基金会发布了一个项目， 征求管理一个主要雷达设施的意见 教育/研究环境。 的主要研究者 获胜的提案提出了一个令人印象深刻的管理计划 雷达设施，以支持内部和外部 (to雷达教育和研究活动 气象学 这些活动包括： 工程师、计算机科学家和气象学家， 继续推进科学前沿，培养一个 新一代雷达气象学家和雷达工程师。//

Research radars have proven to be an extremely useful tools for a broad range of meteorological topics. Such research has encompassed studies of the precipitation producing characteristics of individual clouds, to investigations of severe thunderstorms, to sampling of vertical wind structure for study of large scale weather patterns, to the analysis of global water budgets. Major practical applications of meteorological radar include the capability of accurate remote sensing of rainfall for hydrological purposes and remote detection of severe weather such as tornadoes, flash floods, hurricanes and microbursts. Indeed, the benefits of these practical applications are the primary reason for fundamental changes in the Nation's weather observing system via installation of the next generation of meteorological radars (NEXRAD) and vertical wind sounding systems (profilers). There is a need to continue state-of-the-art research in meteorological radar and to train the next generation of both research and operational radar meteorologists. This need for accelerated research and educational activities has been emphasized recently in a report issued by the American Meteorological Society based on a meeting focussed on assessing the state of radar meteorological research and education. Accordingly, the National Science Foundation issued a project solicitation for management of a major radar facility in an educational/research setting. The Principal Investigator of the winning proposal has put forth an impressive plan for management of the radar facility in support of both in-house and external (to the institution) educational and research activities in radar meteorology. These activities include interactions between engineers, computer scientists and meteorologists in an effort to continue to push back the frontiers of the science and to train a new generation of radar meteorologists and radar engineers. //