The Aerosol Monitoring Project: Student/Teacher/Scientist Atmospheric Science for the 21st Century

为了响应全球学习和观测惠及环境计划（GLOBE）的机会公告，该项目旨在实现 GLOBE 的目标和目的，即在全球信息网络中将科学家和学童联系起来，最终目标是更好地了解地球环境及其中发生的变化。 该提案将继续支持现有协议，并利用 GLOBE 数据进行科学研究。 该项目将继续支持大气气溶胶光学厚度（AOT）的测量协议，该协议基于廉价的手持式太阳光度计和/或天空色卡。 AOT 测量将向学生介绍空气污染、沙尘暴和森林火灾等自然事件、表面日照变化和哮喘发病率之间的联系。 更高级的学生可以使用这些数据来研究比尔定律的辐射传输。 这些测量将增强来自极其稀疏的地面 AOT 观测网络的数据。 减少气溶胶全球辐射传输效应的不确定性目前是气候研究界最重要的科学优先事项之一。 当地和全球环境条件受到大气雾霾层存在的影响。 能见度本身就是环境质量的一个主要参数，雾霾层影响地球表面辐射传输平衡，并影响光学遥感测量，而光学遥感测量是全球环境变化研究的主要信息来源。 此外，大量气溶胶的存在被认为会加重某些支气管疾病，例如哮喘。学生将为雾霾层的研究贡献定量测量结果。

In response to an Announcement of Opportunity for the Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment Program (GLOBE) this project is designed to meet GLOBE goals and objectives of linking scientists and schoolchildren in a global information network with the ultimate goal of better understanding Earth's environment and changes that take place within it. This proposal will continue to support existing protocols, and conduct scientific research with GLOBE data. The project will continue to support the protocol for the measurement of Atmospheric Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT), which is based on an inexpensive hand-held sun photometer, and/or sky-color cards. Measurements of AOT will introduce students to the connections between air pollution, natural events such as dust storms and forest fires, variations in surface insolation, and incidences of asthma. More advanced students can use the data in studies of Beer's law for radiative transfer. These measurements will enhance data from extremely sparse networks of ground-based AOT observations. Reducing the uncertainties in the global radiative transfer effects of the aerosols s currently one of the highest scientific priorities of the climate studies community. Local and global environmental conditions are affected by the presence of atmospheric haze layers. Visibility is a major parameter in environmental quality in its own right and haze layers affect the surface radiative transfer balance of Earth as well as influencing optical remote sensing measurements which are a major source on information for study of global environmental change. In addition, presence of high amounts of aerosols is thought to aggravate certain bronchial conditions, such as asthma. Students will be contributing quantitative measurements to the study of haze layers.