RAPID: Radar Deployment for RELAMPAGO (Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations)

RAPID：RELAMPAGO 的雷达部署（通过自适应地面观测对电气化、闪电和中尺度/微尺度过程进行遥感）

• 批准号: 1849522
• 负责人: Ve Chandrasekar
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-08-15 至 2020-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1849522&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Radar; Deployment; RELAMPAGO; Remote

This award provides funding for the deployment of the Colorado State University C-band radar to a large field campaign in Argentina. The Remote Sensing Electrification, Lightning and Mesoscale/microscale processes with Adaptive ground observations (known colloquially as RELAMPAGO) experiment is intended to observe some of the most intense thunderstorms in the world. The addition of the C-band radar will help to fill in an observational gap and allow researchers to determine characteristics of precipitation particles in these thunderstorms. This is an international campaign, but the impacts to forecasting severe weather in the United States are significant. The researchers will be able to test whether the models and theories that have been derived for storms in the Great Plains will hold for those in Argentina. If there are differences, that may point to changes that can be made in models to make them more accurate.The RELAMPAGO field campaign will take place in late 2018 near Cordoba, Argentina. The Colorado State University C-band radar will be paired with two other C-band radars to provide coverage of the region downstream from orographic terrain where large thunderstorm complexes initiate. The CSU C-band radar will focus on efforts to understand the intensification and growth of convection and the generation of hazardous convective weather. The deployment will be extended beyond the main field campaign timeline in tandem with the Department of Energy C-band radar in an effort to collect as many cases as possible.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项为在阿根廷的大型野外活动中部署科罗拉多州立大学 C 波段雷达提供资金。 遥感电气化、闪电和中尺度/微尺度过程与自适应地面观测（俗称 RELAMPAGO）实验旨在观测世界上一些最强烈的雷暴。 C波段雷达的加入将有助于填补观测空白，并使研究人员能够确定这些雷暴中降水颗粒的特征。 这是一项国际活动，但对预报美国恶劣天气的影响是巨大的。 研究人员将能够测试针对大平原风暴得出的模型和理论是否适用于阿根廷的风暴。 如果存在差异，则可能需要对模型进行更改以使其更加准确。RELAMPAGO 实地活动将于 2018 年底在阿根廷科尔多瓦附近进行。 科罗拉多州立大学的 C 波段雷达将与另外两台 C 波段雷达配对，覆盖大型雷暴复合体发起的地形地形下游区域。 CSU C 波段雷达将重点致力于了解对流的强化和发展以及危险对流天气的产生。 该部署将与能源部 C 波段雷达一起延长到主要现场活动时间表之外，以努力收集尽可能多的案例。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。