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.

该项目的主要目标是为地球科学研究界提供一架任务就绪的飞机（怀俄明州国王航空大学）。怀俄明州空中国王大学在国家科学基金会支持的低层大气观测设施中发挥着独特的作用。这种研究飞机提供了一种小型，重量轻，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。在五年的奖励期内，由国家科学基金会资助的科学家可以通过低层大气观测设施计划申请使用飞机、云雷达和/或云激光雷达进行大气研究。该奖项为科学家，工程师，技术人员，飞行员和机械师提供基础支持，他们维护和部署这架尖端研究飞机的飞机和仪器。该奖项包括支持该设施实地部署的科学努力，数据保证和质量控制，整个科学界可访问的数据产品的交付和存档;以及仪器和软件升级的工程努力，这将提高科学和教育对社区的好处。该设施所带来的研究影响可能是广泛和深远的，这取决于通过国家科学基金会的低层大气观测设施计划要求使用该设施的各个项目。怀俄明州研究飞机沿着怀俄明州云雷达、怀俄明州云激光雷达、和相关的研究仪器将能够获得空中原位和遥感测量，以解决广泛的地球科学-相关话题。对该设施的支持将确保获得一架随时可用于任务的研究飞机和相关仪器。怀俄明州空中国王号能够用于从云-气溶胶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化学的研究。由怀俄明州King Air设施收集的数据将利用飞机的现场测量以及怀俄明州云雷达和怀俄明州云激光雷达的遥感能力，针对可以从飞机的灵活性和低运营成本中受益的项目。通过该奖项，地球科学界可以获得的测量能力将使人们更好地了解大气的性质和组成，为有关大气过程的新想法提供信息，为数值模型提供数据，以改善大气的代表性，并最终提高地球-大气天气和气候系统的可预测性。除了飞机所支持的科学研究的深远影响外，通过该奖项支持的工作的影响还植根于他们对下一代观测大气科学家的教育和培训的贡献。由于怀俄明州空中国王大学是由一所大学拥有和经营的，它提供了一个自然的环境，教育和培训年轻的科学家在获得和使用空中大气观测和工具和技术的发展，维护，校准和评估机载仪器。使用该设施和相关数据集的科学家所开发的技能非常适合培训下一代大气科学家在全国各地的实验室或其他空中研究设施内工作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。