Wyoming King Air as a National Facility

通过遥感和现场测量对大气进行观测对于大气科学的进步是必要的。在过去的40年里，仪表化的研究飞机在提供这些观测方面发挥了宝贵的作用。在接下来的几年里，对这种飞机的需求将是巨大的，因为研究涵盖了广泛的研究问题，包括大气化学、中尺度气象学和云物理。这些大气科学领域是未来十年的高度优先研究领域。该奖项向整个大气科学界提供怀俄明大学国王航空研究飞机。怀俄明州国王航空公司将被视为所有其他大气科学社区设施，由NSF设施咨询委员会根据社区同行审查程序进行分配。怀俄明大学的人员在空中研究方面经验丰富，而King Air是一个最先进的研究平台。在之前的三年奖项中，该大学在满足社区需求方面表现出了非凡的表现。该奖项还有助于维持怀俄明大学在航空研究方面的活跃项目，并通过与其他大学达成的新协议将这一教育利益扩展到其他机构。在过去的三年里，怀俄明大学培养了许多优秀的空中研究科学家。

Observations of the atmosphere through remote sensing and in-situ measurement are necessary for advancement in atmospheric science. Instrumented research aircraft are invaluable in providing these observations over the last four decades. The need for such aircraft will be great over the next few years for research covering a broad range of research problems including atmospheric chemistry, mesoscale meteorology and cloud physics. These areas of atmospheric science are high priority research areas for the next decade. This award makes available to the entire atmospheric sciences community the University of Wyoming King Air research aircraft. The Wyoming King Air will be treated as all other atmospheric sciences community facilities with allocation being made by an NSF Facility Advisory Council based on a community peer-review process. The University of Wyoming personnel are experienced in airborne research and the King Air is a state-of-the-technology research platform. During a previous three year award, the University demonstrated exceptional performance in servicing the community needs. This award also helps maintain an active program in airborne research at the University of Wyoming and extend this educational benefit to other institutions through emerging agreements with other universities. The University of Wyoming produced many excellent airborne research scientists over the last three years.