SBIR Phase I: The Marine Profiling Radiometer

SBIR 第一阶段：海洋剖面辐射计

• 批准号: 0944622
• 负责人: Marian Klein
• 金额: $ 15万
• 依托单位: Boulder Environmental Sciences and Technology, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-01-01 至 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0944622&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Marine; Profiling; Radiometer

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop an instrument that enables continuous, autonomous surveillance of key meteorological parameters, i.e., temperature, humidity profiles, cloud liquid water path, and integrated water vapor. The Marine Profiling Radiometer (MPR) is designed for operation on a buoy, ship, or for land-based applications. Despite the increased utility of weather forecasts over the past decades, accuracy decreases rapidly as the scale of the weather features decreases and the time range of the forecasts increases. Forecasting the evolution and movement of smaller-scale, short-lived, often intense weather phenomena such as tornadoes, hail storms, and flash floods is less mature than prediction of larger-scale weather systems. This is caused, in part, by inadequate observations. The proposed technology will fill the missing gap in data. Phase I will develop a simplified prototype of MPR to experimentally validate new concepts of ambient calibration, as well as, a self-cleaning mechanism for protection of optical components. The novel calibration approach will enable standalone operation even under extreme weather conditions that can be encountered in harsh marine environments. The major innovation of this all-weather technology is its ability to provide otherwise un-obtainable data in a timely and cost effective manner.The broader impact/commercial potential of this project is in demonstrating a novel approach to radiometer calibration that could lead to advancement in its use and dramatic improvement in the understanding of the thermodynamic state of the atmosphere, especially in the boundary layer. As 50% of the US population lives within 50 miles of the coast, better information about offshore conditions can have significant economical impact. Improved forecasts will benefit water management of reservoirs/coastal regions, can be used by commercial/military vessels to improve safety and enhance missile guidance system accuracy. MPR data will improve coastal meteorology, improve protection mechanisms and reducing evacuation costs for severe weather events; enhance our understanding of ocean-atmosphere interaction and provide information about regional climate change; reduce the cost associated with offshore wind farm and oil platform operation while improving overall safety; facilitate optimization of the electrical grid improving energy efficiency; enhance weather/dispersion model ensembles for homeland security applications; and provide current weather information to help ensure efficient and environmentally sound sea and port operations for commercial and recreational vessels.

这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将开发一种仪器，能够连续、自主地监测关键气象参数，即温度、湿度分布、云中液态水路径和综合水汽。海洋剖面辐射计(MPR)专为浮标、船舶或陆上应用而设计。尽管天气预报的实用性在过去几十年中有所增加，但随着天气特征的规模减小和预报时间范围的扩大，准确率迅速下降。对龙卷风、冰雹风暴和山洪等较小规模、短暂、通常很强烈的天气现象的演变和移动的预测，不如对较大规模天气系统的预测成熟。这在一定程度上是由观察不足造成的。拟议中的技术将填补数据中缺失的空白。第一阶段将开发一个简化的MPR原型，以实验验证环境校准的新概念，以及用于保护光学部件的自清洁机制。新的校准方法将使其能够在恶劣的海洋环境中遇到的极端天气条件下进行独立操作。这项全天候技术的主要创新是能够以及时和具有成本效益的方式提供原本无法获得的数据。该项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于展示了一种新的辐射计校准方法，这种方法可以促进其使用，并极大地改善对大气，特别是边界层的热力学状态的了解。由于50%的美国人口居住在距离海岸50英里的范围内，更好地了解近海情况可能会产生重大的经济影响。改进的预报将有利于水库/沿海地区的水管理，可被商用/军用舰艇用于改善安全性和提高导弹制导系统的准确性。海洋气象预报数据将改进沿海气象，改进保护机制，降低恶劣天气事件的疏散成本；提高我们对海洋-大气相互作用的了解，提供有关区域气候变化的信息；降低海上风电场和石油平台运营的相关成本，同时提高整体安全性；促进电网的优化；提高能效；增强国土安全应用的天气/扩散模式组合；以及提供当前天气信息，以帮助确保商业和娱乐船只的高效和无害环境的海上和港口作业。