Development of the Platteville Atmospheric Observatory

普拉特维尔大气观测站的发展

• 批准号: 9724570
• 负责人: Susan Avery
• 金额: $ 61万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-10-01 至 2002-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9724570&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Development; Platteville; Atmospheric; Observatory

This grant develops the Platteville Atmospheric Observatory, located in Platteville, Colorado. The observatory currently has VHF, UHF, and boundary layer wind profilers for lower atmospheric measurements of winds, waves and stability. The PI plans to establish a medium frequency radar and all-sky meteor radar, providing measurements of upper atmosphere winds. She will also upgrade the VHF wind profiler and UHF boundary layer profiler to provide greater sensitivity for atmospheric coupling and precipitation studies. In sum, these acquisitions, developments and upgrades will implement research of large scale wave motions and their influence on circulation, wave-wave interactions, coupling of energy and momentum between regions of the atmosphere via gravity waves, boundary layer evolution, and land-atmosphere hydrological processes.

这项赠款用于开发位于科罗拉多普拉特维尔的普拉特维尔大气观测站。 天文台目前有甚高频、超高频和边界层风廓线仪，用于测量低层大气的风、波和稳定性。 PI计划建立一个中频雷达和全天流星雷达，提供高层大气风的测量。 她亦会提升甚高频风廓线仪和超高频边界层廓线仪，以提高大气耦合和降水研究的灵敏度。 总之，这些收购，开发和升级将实施大尺度波动及其对环流，波-波相互作用，通过重力波，边界层演变和陆-气水文过程的大气区域之间的能量和动量耦合的影响的研究。