EAGER: Novel Applications of Mobile Observational Strategies to Non-Severe Atmospheric Scenarios

美国国家科学基金会使用探索性研究的早期概念拨款（EAGER）资助机制来支持在未经测试但具有潜在变革性的研究思路或方法的早期阶段的探索性工作。这个EAGER项目是由于Dear Colleague Letter NSF 16-080邀请来自历史上的黑人学院和大学的申请者提交提案，以加强该机构教师的研究能力而获得的。杰克逊州立大学的这个项目旨在利用移动观测系统收集多尺度气象数据，并对从未采样过的尺度大气环境进行数据分析。该项目为本科生提供研究经验。该项目由地球科学理事会综合与合作教育与研究部资助。该项目旨在将移动观测的应用范围大大扩展到地理和现象学领域，这些领域基本上仍然是“未探索的领域”，在固定的原位观测系统中没有采样。由于以高频率采样的移动观测可以很容易地检测到几十米到几百公里尺度上的空间变化，而不考虑云或降水条件，它们可以独特地填补固定站之间的空白，以便将大气尺度从微尺度连接到天气尺度。该研究将与密苏里大学哥伦比亚分校的研究人员合作，在所有季节进行和分析各种各样的移动样带。案例预计将集中在斜压区，湿度边界和微观尺度的变化。主要的原始数据产品将是每2秒采样一次的温度和湿度。在适当的情况下，将用对流层低空无线电探空仪发射补充地表样带。

The National Science Foundation uses the Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) funding mechanism to support exploratory work in its early stages on untested, but potentially transformative, research ideas or approaches. This EAGER project was awarded as a result of the invitation in the Dear Colleague Letter NSF 16-080 to proposers from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to submit proposals that would strengthen research capacity of faculty at the institution. The project at Jackson State University seeks to collect multi-scale meteorological data with mobile observing systems and perform the data analysis of atmospheric environments at scales never before sampled. The project provides research experiences for undergraduate students. This project is funded by the Division of Integrative and Collaborative Education and Research in the Directorate for Geosciences.This project seeks to substantially expand the realm of applications for mobile observations to geographic and phenomenological settings that essentially remain "unexplored territory" at scales that are unsampled by fixed in situ observing systems. Because mobile observations sampled at high frequency can readily detect spatial variations on scales ranging from tens of meters to hundreds of kilometers regardless of cloud or precipitation conditions, they can uniquely fill in gaps between fixed stations in order to bridge atmospheric scales from microscale to synoptic scale. The research will conduct and analyze a wide variety of mobile transects in all seasons and in collaboration with researchers at with University of Missouri at Columbia. Cases are expected to focus on baroclinic zones, moisture boundaries, and microscale variability. Primary raw data products will be temperature and humidity sampled at 2 second intervals. The surface transects will be supplemented where appropriate with lower tropospheric radiosonde launches.