Computing and Hardware Upgrades for Atmospheric Radar Research

伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign）长期以来一直利用雷达技术研究大气和电离层。目前在其厄巴纳野外站正在进行若干项目，以及在秘鲁吉马卡使用非相干散射雷达，这些项目将通过购置新的计算机和雷达硬件而得到加强。这种设备将用于数据采集、处理和分析，以及对现有各种雷达中的一种或另一种进行操作控制。这些升级将与现有的平流层和中间层雷达结合其他仪器一起用于研究整个区域的重力波活动。进一步的研究将针对厄巴纳和吉马卡的中层大气分层现象。

The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign has been involved in the study of the atmosphere and ionosphere using radar techniques for a long time. Currently there are a number of projects taking place at their Urbana Field station as well as in using the incoherent scatter radar in Jicamarca, Peru that would be enhanced through the acquisition of new computer and radar hardware. This equipment would be used for data acquisition, processing and analysis as well as in the operational control of one or the other of the various available radars. These upgrades will be used with the available Stratospheric and Mesospheric radars in conjunction with other instrumentation in studies of gravity wave activity throughout that region. Additional studies will be directed to middle atmospheric layering phenomena at both Urbana and Jicamarca.