CIF: Community Instruments and Facilities: Mobile and Quickly Deployable Radars

该社区仪器和设施(CIF)奖是为了支持伊利诺伊大学的移动和快速部署的车轮上多普勒(DOW)、快速扫描DOW和C波段车轮上(COW)雷达网络，统称为DOWNET。雷达网将提供可定制的、灵活的和有针对性的各种天气观测，包括严重风暴、洪水事件、龙卷风、湖泊效应雪、火羽、地形降水、飓风和沿海冬季风暴。DOWNET将与面向科学用户社区的下一代可视化和现场协调软件打包在一起。DOWNET CIF奖是为了表彰维护和操作支持的基线水平，以使雷达系统可供不同的研究和教育团体使用。DOWNET系统将通过教育提案向教育机构提供尖端雷达，包括历史上的黑人学院和大学。该奖项将加强地方和国家层面的公众天气意识和教育培训。DOWNET将支持改进对高影响天气事件的警告的研究，这将减少天气灾害造成的生命和财产损失。来自DOWNET的数据也可以用来改进天气和气候模式中关键小规模过程的表现。参与地方和国家的外展活动，以及每年颁发该奖项的强有力的教育计划，将扩大不同社区和服务不足社区的参与。此外，该奖项将增强更广泛的科学界通过AGS设施请求过程使用雷达的能力。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 University of Illinois’s mobile and quickly deployable Doppler on Wheels (DOWs), Rapid-Scan DOW, and C-band on Wheels (COW) radar network, collectively termed as the DOWNET. The radar network will provide customizable, flexible, and targeted observations of various types of weather, including severe storms, flooding events, tornadoes, lake-effect snow, fire plumes, orographic precipitation, hurricanes, and coastal winter storms. The DOWNET will be packaged with next generation visualization and field coordination software for the scientific user community. The DOWNET CIF award is for a baseline level of maintenance and operations support to make the radar systems available to a diverse research and education community. The DOWNET system will provide cutting-edge radar to educational institutions, including Historically Black Colleges and Universities through educational proposals. The award will enhance public weather awareness and educational training at local and national levels. DOWNET will support research to improve warnings of high-impact weather events, which will mitigate loss of life and property to weather hazards. Data from DOWNET can also be used to improve representation of critical small-scale processes in weather and climate models. Participation in local and national outreach events and a robust educational program each year of the award will broaden participation from diverse and underserved communities. Additionally, this award will enhance the ability of the broader scientific community to use the radars 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.