Wyoming King Air as a National Facility

怀俄明国王航空作为国家设施

• 批准号: 1917369
• 负责人: Jeffrey French
• 金额: $ 1276.74万
• 依托单位: University of Wyoming
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1917369&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Wyoming; King; Air; National; Facility

The primary objective of this project is to provide a mission-ready aircraft (the University of Wyoming King Air) to the geoscience research community. The University of Wyoming King Air fulfills a unique role in the suite of lower atmosphere observing facilities supported by the National Science Foundation. This research aircraft provides a small, light weight, and relatively inexpensive aircraft as an agile airborne platform for cloud, precipitation, atmospheric chemistry, wildfire, and boundary layer meteorological research. During the five-year award period, scientists funded by the National Science Foundation may request the use of the aircraft, the cloud radar, and/or the cloud lidar through the Lower Atmosphere Observing Facilities Program for the purpose of conducting atmospheric research. This award provides base support to a staff of scientists, engineers, technicians, pilots, and mechanics, who maintain and deploy the aircraft and instrumentation for this cutting-edge research aircraft. The award includes scientific effort to support field deployments of the facility, data assurance and quality control, delivery and archiving of data products accessible to the entire scientific community; and the engineering effort for instrumentation and software upgrades that will enhance the scientific and educational benefit to the community. The impact of the research enabled by the facility may be broad and far-reaching depending on the individual projects that request its use through the National Science Foundation's Lower Atmospheric Observing Facilities Program.The Wyoming research aircraft along with the Wyoming Cloud Radar, the Wyoming Cloud Lidar, and associated research instruments will enable acquisition of airborne in-situ and remote sensing measurements to address a broad range of geoscience-related topics. Support of the facility will ensure access to a mission-ready research aircraft and associated instrumentation. The Wyoming King Air is capable of use in studies ranging from cloud-aerosol interaction, to boundary-layer dynamics, air quality, cloud and precipitation physics, and chemistry of trace gases and aerosol. The data collected by the Wyoming King Air facility will take advantage of the combined in situ measurements from the aircraft and remote sensing capability of the Wyoming Cloud Radar and the Wyoming Cloud Lidar, targeting projects that can benefit from the agility of the aircraft and its low cost of operation. The measurement capabilities available to the geoscience community through this award will provide a greater understanding of atmospheric properties and composition, inform new ideas about atmospheric processes, feed numerical models to improve atmospheric representation, and ultimately lead to greater predictability of the earth-atmosphere weather and climate systems. In addition to the far-reaching broader impacts of the scientific studies that are enabled by the aircraft, the impacts of the work supported through this award are rooted in their contribution to education and training of the next generation of observational atmospheric scientists. Since the University of Wyoming King Air is owned and operated by a university, it provides a natural setting for educating and training young scientists in obtaining and using airborne atmospheric observations and in the development of tools and techniques for maintaining, calibrating, and assessing airborne instrumentation. The skills developed by scientists who use and work with the facility and associated data sets are well-suited to train the next generation of atmospheric scientists to work within laboratories or other airborne research facilities across the country.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.

该项目的主要目的是向地球科学研究界提供一架可任命的飞机（怀俄明大学国王航空公司）。怀俄明大学国王空气在较低气氛中扮演着独特的角色，观察国家科学基金会支持的设施。这架研究飞机提供了较小，轻巧且相对便宜的飞机，作为云，降水，大气化学，野火和边界层气象研究的敏捷机载平台。在五年奖励期间，由国家科学基金会资助的科学家可能会要求使用飞机，云雷达和/或云激光雷达通过低大气观察设施计划，以进行大气研究。该奖项为科学家，工程师，技术人员，飞行员和机械师的工作人员提供了支持，他们维护和部署了这架尖端研究飞机的飞机和仪器。该奖项包括科学努力，以支持该设施的现场部署，数据保证和质量控制，整个科学界可以访问的数据产品的交付和归档；以及仪器和软件升级的工程工作，将增强社区的科学和教育利益。该设施实现的研究的影响可能是广泛而深远的，具体取决于各个项目，这些项目通过国家科学基金会的低大气观测设施计划，以及怀俄明州的云雷达，怀俄明州的云liDar以及相关的研究工具将启用空中远程传感器和远程衡量标准的范围。该设施的支持将确保使用准备就绪的研究飞机和相关仪器。怀俄明州的国王空气能够用于从云 - 大道相互作用到边界层动力学，空气质量，云和降水物理学以及痕量气体和气溶胶的化学性质的研究。怀俄明州国王航空设施收集的数据将利用飞机的原位测量以及怀俄明州的云雷达和怀俄明州云激光雷达的遥感能力，目标是可以从飞机的敏捷性及其低成本中受益的项目。通过该奖项可为地球科学界提供的测量能力将提供对大气特性和组成的更深入的了解，为大气过程提供新的想法，喂养数值模型以改善大气代表性，并最终导致地球 - 大际天气和气候系统的更大可预测性。除了飞机启用科学研究的更深远的影响外，通过该奖项支持的作品的影响还植根于它们对下一代观察大气科学家的教育和培训的贡献。由于怀俄明大学国王空气由大学拥有和运营，因此为教育和培训年轻科学家提供了一种自然环境，以获取和使用空中大气观测以及开发工具和技术来维护，校准和评估空中仪器。使用该设施和相关数据集的科学家开发的技能非常适合培训下一代大气科学家在实验室或全国各地的其他空降研究设施中工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛的影响，可以通过评估来评估CRITEIA。