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

合作协议：用于研究和教育的低温雷达设施的运营

• 批准号: 8919080
• 负责人: Stephen Cox
• 金额: $ 134.79万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 1990
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1990-04-15 至 1995-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8919080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Cooperative; Agreement; Operation; Chill; Radar

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. //

研究雷达已被证明是一种非常有用的工具，适用于广泛的气象主题。这类研究包括对个别云的降水产生特征的研究，到对严重雷暴的调查，到为研究大尺度天气模式而对垂直风结构进行采样，到分析全球水收支。气象雷达的主要实际应用包括为水文目的对降雨进行准确遥感的能力，以及对龙卷风、山洪暴发、飓风和微暴发等恶劣天气进行遥感的能力。事实上，这些实际应用的好处是国家天气观测系统通过安装下一代气象雷达(NEXRAD)和垂直测风系统(剖面仪)而发生根本性变化的主要原因。需要继续在气象雷达方面进行最先进的研究，并培训下一代研究和业务雷达气象学家。美国气象学会最近发表的一份报告强调了加速研究和教育活动的必要性，该报告的基础是一次会议，重点是评估雷达气象研究和教育的状况。因此，国家科学基金会发布了一个项目征集，以管理教育/研究环境中的一个主要雷达设施。获胜提案的首席调查员提出了一项令人印象深刻的雷达设施管理计划，以支持内部和外部(对该机构)雷达气象学方面的教育和研究活动。这些活动包括工程师、计算机科学家和气象学家之间的互动，以努力继续推动科学的前沿，并培训新一代雷达气象学家和雷达工程师。//