Instructional Equipment for Field Work in Climatology and Meteorology

该项目将使参加气候与气象学专业课程的本科生能够直接体验气候仪器。这将影响到专业和非专业，因为目的是让学生在三门入门课程和精选的高级课程中接触设备。新设备将允许学生在实验室进行测量，并准备个人研究项目，这些项目将把他们测量到的当地天气条件与天气条件联系起来。高级学生将能够学习测量理论和技术、微气象学和水文气候学课程，在这些课程中，他们将熟悉测量能量和水的运输的最新技术，以及从地面到大约1.5公里进入大气的风的温度和湿度剖面。为此，将购买的设备将包括入门气象站、电子微气象设备、风速计、干湿计、时域反射土壤湿度系统、声速风速计温度计、莱曼α湿度计、鲍文比系统和绳传探空系统。在美国，接触微气象仪器在本科阶段相对有限，但在澳大利亚、加拿大和新西兰，甚至在一年级阶段也被发现是成功的。这将为参加气候与气象学课程的学生提供类似的有益学习经验。

The project will enable undergraduate students taking courses in the Climate & Meteorology Program to have direct experience with climatological instrumentation. This will affect both majors and non-majors as the intention is to introduce students to exposure to equipment in the three introductory courses as well as selected advanced courses. The new equipment will allow students to undertake measurements in laboratories and to prepare individual research projects which will link local weather conditions, which they have measured, to the synoptic conditions. The advanced students will be able to take courses in measurement theory and techniques, micrometeorology and hydroclimatology, where they will become familiar with the state- of-the-art techniques for measuring the transport of energy and water, and the wind temperature and humidity profiles from the ground to approximately 1.5 km into atmosphere. To permit this the equipment that will be purchased will consist of introductory weather stations, electronic micrometeorological equipment, anemometers, psychrometers, time domain reflectometry soil moisture system, sonic anemometer thermometer, lyman alpha hygrometer, bowen ratio system, and a tethersonde system. In the U.S. exposure to micrometeorological instrumentation is relatively limited at undergraduate level but has been found to be successful in Australia, Canada and New Zealand, even at first year level. This would permit a similar type of beneficial learning experience to be had for students taking courses in the Climate & Meteorology Program.