Instructional Equipment for Field Work in Climatology and Meteorology

该项目将使修读气候与气象学课程的本科生能够直接体验气候仪器。这将影响专业和非专业学生，因为其目的是在三个入门课程以及选定的高级课程中向学生介绍设备。新设备将允许学生在实验室进行测量，并准备个别研究项目，将他们测量的当地天气状况与天气状况联系起来。这些高级学生将能够参加测量理论和技术、微气象学和水文气候学的课程，在那里他们将熟悉最先进的测量能量和水的传输技术，以及从地面到大约1.5公里大气中的风温和湿度分布。为了实现这一点，将购买的设备包括介绍性气象站、电子微气象设备、风速计、湿度计、时域反射仪土壤湿度系统、声波风速计温度计、莱曼阿尔法湿度计、鲍文比率系统和系绳探测仪系统。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、加拿大和新西兰被发现是成功的，即使是在第一年的水平上也是如此。这将使参加气候与气象学课程的学生获得类似类型的有益学习体验。

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.