CIF: Storm Peak Laboratory – Facility for Research and Research Training in Atmospheric Sciences

这一社区仪器和设施(CIF)奖是为了表彰对位于科罗拉多州西北部的山顶研究站风暴峰实验室(SPL)的支持。SPL是一个独特的、尖端的、高海拔、中大陆的大气研究站。SPL现有的仪器将为以下方面的研究提供有价值的测量：气溶胶的化学和物理性质；云和雪的微观物理；汞的大气转化和传输；以及探测远距离输送的尘埃和区域野火烟雾。NSF的资金将为维持大气测量提供基线支持，并向更广泛的大气科学界提供质量控制数据，包括质量评估、元数据和来自现有SPL仪器的辅助信息。支持教育和培训的计划是拟议中的努力的一部分。该提案还包括加强大气及相关科学多样性的计划。风暴峰实验室的设施基础设施和一系列15台尖端气象仪器是推进高海拔大气科学研究和研究培训的国家资源。该实验室还通过举办密集的实地活动和实地培训课程，提供气象学、云层、气溶胶、雪水文学和大气气体的长期测量，促进跨学科研究合作。这一奖项将提高更广泛的科学界通过AGS设施申请程序使用SPL仪器和实验室作为研究地点的能力。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。

This Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) award is for support of the Storm Peak Laboratory (SPL), a mountain-top research station in northwestern Colorado. SPL is a unique, cutting-edge, high-elevation, mid-continental, atmospheric research station. Instruments available at SPL will provide valuable measurements for research focused on aerosol chemical and physical properties; cloud and snow microphysics; atmospheric transformation and transport of mercury; and detection of long-range transported dust and regional wildfire smoke. NSF funding will provide baseline support to sustain atmospheric measurements, and provide quality-controlled data, including quality assessments, metadata, and supporting ancillary information from existing SPL instrumentation to the broader atmospheric science community. Programs to support education and training are part of the proposed effort. The proposal also includes plans to enhance diversity in the atmospheric and related sciences. The facility infrastructure and an array of fifteen cutting-edge meteorological instruments at the Storm Peak Laboratory serve as a national resource to advance research and research training in high elevation atmospheric science. The laboratory also fosters interdisciplinary research collaboration by hosting intensive field campaigns and field training courses, providing long term measurements of meteorology, clouds, aerosols, snow hydrology, and atmospheric gases. This award will enhance the ability of the broader scientific community to use SPL instruments and the laboratory as a research site through the AGS 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.