The CSU-CHILL National Facility

CSU-CHILL 国家设施

• 批准号: 1138116
• 负责人: Steven Rutledge
• 金额: $ 282.94万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-11-15 至 2015-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1138116&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSU; CHILL; National; Facility

The project is to continue the operation and maintenance of the CHILL radar as a NSF National Research Facility. Most of the activities remain the same. CSU/CHILL will continue to participate and expand its activities in the Front Range Observational Network Testbed (FRONT) in collaboration with the NCAR S-Pol, Pawnee (CSU), KFTG (Denver), and KCYS (Cheyenne) radars. CHILL will operate with S and X bands, making it a unique dual frequency, dual polarized feed radar that is expected to open new avenues of research. CSU will continue to have VCHILL, a educational outreach activity that allows instructors from anywhere to obtain historical CHILL data and to operate the CHILL in real time and display in the classroom setting.CSU will continue its successful 20 hour research projects, REU projects for engineering and meteorology students and to provide in-house research activities. The facility is available to the research community through competitive research grants and to the broader reserach community through approved cost reimbursable projects.During year 2 of the Cooperative Agreement, however, NSF will convene a radar workshop and site visit to CHILL. The results of that workshop and the site visit will determine if in the third year NSF will solicit a proposal to continue to operate the radar as a National Facility or to use the third year as the phase out year for the CHILL facility. New technologies, such as phased array radars, mobile radars may make the CHILL radar unnecessary. The unknown factor is the addition of the X-band to the CHILL's S-band. The results during the first two years will help determine how much new science can be obtained.

该项目将继续运行和维护寒意雷达作为NSF国家研究设施。大多数活动保持不变。CSU/CHILL将继续参与并扩大其与NCAR S-Pol、波尼（CSU）、KFTG（丹佛）和KCYS（夏延）雷达合作的前距离观测网络试验台（Front）的活动。CHILL将在S和X波段工作，使其成为一种独特的双频、双极化馈电雷达，有望开辟新的研究途径。科罗拉多州立大学将继续开展VCHILL，这是一项教育推广活动，允许任何地方的教师获取历史CHILL数据，并实时操作CHILL并在课堂环境中显示。科罗拉多州立大学将继续其成功的20小时研究项目，为工程和气象学生提供REU项目，并提供内部研究活动。该设施通过竞争性研究补助金向研究界开放，并通过批准的可报销费用项目向更广泛的研究界开放。然而，在合作协议的第二年，NSF将召开雷达研讨会并对CHILL进行实地考察。研讨会和实地考察的结果将决定美国国家科学基金会是在第三年征求一份建议，继续将该雷达作为国家设施运行，还是将第三年作为CHILL设施的逐步淘汰年。新技术，如相控阵雷达、移动雷达可能会使CHILL雷达变得不必要。未知的因素是在CHILL的s波段上增加x波段。头两年的结果将有助于确定能获得多少新科学。