SGER: Wind Profile Measurements in Support of the Megacity Impacts on Regional And Global Environments (MIRAGE) Study Experiment

将部署一台雷达风廓线，以支持大城市对区域和全球环境的影响(MIRAGE)墨西哥城研究。该项目作为探索性研究小额赠款(SGER)得到支持，因为它将满足对通常可由NCAR综合探测系统提供的设施的迫切需求；然而，在此期间无法提供这些设施。该项目涉及在现场项目期间修复、安装和操作墨西哥Vera Cruz的风廓线仪。数据将被收集、质量控制，并提供给科学界。特别是，气象预报模型将直接使用这些数据，这将为飞机在研究期间的运行提供关键支持。海市蜃楼研究将表征墨西哥城城市羽流对周围地区的潜在影响；这样做将大大增加我们对城市乃至区域和全球尺度上的化学反应和物理反应及动力学的了解。这项实地工作将与其他几个机构(美国能源部、国家航空航天局、墨西哥科学家和机构)的项目合并在一个伞式组织Milagro(巨型城市倡议：本地和全球研究观察)下。

A radar wind profiler will be deployed in support of the Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments (MIRAGE) Mexico City study. This project is supported as a Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) because it will fill an urgent need for a facility that normally could be provided by an NCAR Integrated Sounding System; however, those are not available during the time period. This project involves the repair, installation, and operation of a wind profiler at Vera Cruz, Mexico, during the field project. Data will be collected, quality controlled, and provided to the scientific community. In particular, the data will be used directly by meteorological forecasting models, which will provide crucial support for the operations of the aircraft during the study.The MIRAGE study will characterize the potential impacts of the Mexico City urban plume in the surrounding regions; doing so will substantially increase our understanding of chemical and physical reactions and dynamics on urban to regional and global scales. The field effort will be merged with projects of several other agencies (U.S. Department of Energy, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Mexican scientists and agencies) under the umbrella organization MILAGRO (Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observations).