CIF: Making the Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber Available to the Community for Aerosol-Cloud-Turbulence Research

CIF：将 Pi 对流云室提供给社区进行气溶胶云湍流研究

• 批准号: 2113060
• 负责人: Raymond Shaw
• 金额: $ 113.3万
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-09-01 至 2026-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2113060&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CIF; Making; Pi; Convection; Cloud

This Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) award is for support of the Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber at Michigan Technological University. This project will make the Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber and an extensive set of supporting instrumentation available to the atmospheric sciences community for investigations of atmospheric processes that include aerosols and clouds. The Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber is designed to simulate cloud conditions within the range of pressures and temperatures that occur in the lower part of the atmosphere (the troposphere). It is the only operating major laboratory cloud chamber for research use in North America. The award will also support a 10-week experiential learning program for visiting students through a Chamber laboratory fellowship program and broaden student participation in the physical sciences. The Pi Convection-Cloud Chamber has a proven record of enabling productive and insightful research in aerosol-cloud interactions, ice nucleation and mixed-phase cloud properties, cloud optical properties, and moist Rayleigh-Bénard convection. The Pi Chamber and supporting instruments make a facility that enables measurement of thermodynamics, turbulence, aerosol, and cloud properties for research in the atmospheric sciences. This award will enhance the ability of the broader scientific community to request and use the Pi Cloud Chamber for research through the Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences facility request process.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.

该社区仪器和设施(CIF)奖是为了表彰对密歇根理工大学PI对流云室的支持。该项目将向大气科学界提供圆周率对流云室和一套广泛的辅助仪器，以调查包括气溶胶和云在内的大气过程。圆周率对流云室是用来模拟大气下部(对流层)压力和温度范围内的云条件的。它是北美唯一可供研究使用的主要实验室云室。该奖项还将通过室内实验室奖学金计划支持为来访学生提供的为期10周的体验式学习计划，并扩大学生对物理科学的参与。PI对流-云室在气溶胶-云相互作用、冰核和混合相云特性、云光学特性和潮湿瑞利-Bénard对流方面具有卓有成效和深入的研究记录。圆周率测量室和辅助仪器为大气科学研究提供了一种测量热力学、湍流、气溶胶和云层特性的设备。这一奖项将提高更广泛的科学界通过大气和地球空间科学设施请求程序请求和使用圆周率云室进行研究的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。