A Low-power, Quick-install Polar Observation System ('AMIGOS-II') for Monitoring Climate-ice-ocean Interactions

用于监测气候-冰-海洋相互作用的低功耗、快速安装极地观测系统（“AMIGOS-II”）

• 批准号: 1441432
• 负责人: Ted Scambos
• 金额: $ 27.53万
• 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: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-06-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1441432&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Low; power; Quick; install; Polar

The investigators propose to build and test a multi-sensor, automated measurement station for monitoring Arctic and Antarctic ice-ocean environments. The system, based on a previously successful design, will incorporate weather and climate sensors, camera, snow and firn sensors, instruments to measure ice motion, ice and ocean thermal profilers, hydrophone, and salinity sensors. This new system will have two-way communications for real-time data delivery and is designed for rapid deployment by a small field group. AMIGOS-II will be capable of providing real time information on geophysical processes such as weather, snowmelt, ice motion and strain, fractures and melt ponds, firn thermal profiling, and ocean conditions from multiple levels every few hours for 2-4 years. Project personnel will conduct a field test of the new system at a location with a deep ice-covered lake. Development of AMIGOS-II is motivated by recent calls by the U.S. Antarctic Program Blue-Ribbon Panel to increase Antarctic logistical effectiveness, which cites a need for greater efficiency in logistical operations. Installation of autonomous stations with reduced logistical requirements advances this goal.

研究人员提议建立和测试一个多传感器、自动化的测量站，用于监测北极和南极的冰海环境。该系统基于之前成功的设计，将包括天气和气候传感器、相机、雪和降雪传感器、测量冰层运动的仪器、冰和海洋热剖面仪、水听器和盐度传感器。这一新系统将具有双向通信，以实现实时数据传输，并专为一个小外地小组的快速部署而设计。Amigos-II将能够在2-4年内每隔几个小时从多个层面提供有关地球物理过程的实时信息，如天气、积雪融化、冰移和应变、裂缝和融化池塘、降雪热剖面和海洋状况。项目人员将在一个有很深冰层覆盖的湖泊的地点对新系统进行现场测试。Amigos-II的开发是受到美国南极计划蓝丝带小组最近呼吁提高南极后勤效率的推动，该小组指出，需要提高后勤行动的效率。减少后勤需求的自主站的安装推进了这一目标。