Atmospheric Measurement and Observation Facility (AMOF)

AMF(大气测量设施)是在对NCAS的地面设施及其为社区提供的服务进行审查后于2014年4月成立的。AMF为一系列地面、舰基和空中项目部署了最先进的仪器，如雷达、激光雷达和质谱仪，以及辅助仪器和后勤。它支持过去两年在英国和世界各地进行的实验，例如印度、中国和加纳。这些实验室设施在约克郡提供气相化学校准标准，并在萨里大学提供进入环境风洞的通道。位于佛得角韦伯恩和英国电信塔台的野外站点(虽然与STFC雷达、奇尔博顿和Capel Dewi密切合作)为社区提供了一系列野外实验的环境，提供了电力、互联网和空间的基本必需品，以及标准的气象测量。总而言之，AMF为社区提供的能力和专业知识远远超过单个大学所能维持的能力和专业知识。它还承诺开发数据标准，使测量数据能够在未来轻松组合和重复使用。通过工作人员的连续性和对保持最新规定的承诺，它确保了英国社区能够在实验大气科学方面进行国际竞争。本提案阐述了AMF计划如何继续提供一个设施，满足NERC资助的研究界对高质量大气现场测量和实验室数据的需求。设施网页可以通过门户网站www.amf.ac.uk访问，其中详细描述了不同的元素，并可以查看显示元素何时可用的日历。申请人可随时透过网上表格接受申请。每个申请都被指派给一名AMF仪器科学家，该科学家进行技术评估，然后与申请者联系，讨论要求的细节。在成功进行初步评估后，向PI提出正式报价，确定要提供的服务。AMF的主要重点是支持NERC赠款资助的项目，并优先考虑与JES申请一起提交的申请。下一个优先级别是申请NERC NC科学、NERC资助的博士生和在授予补助金后收到申请的NERC补助金。如果有闲置产能，AMF将向其他科学机构(如气象局)或商业用户提供服务，并从他们那里收回适当的成本。一般来说，国家环境研究中心的申请者每个项目有2个月的仪器科学家时间，并且只被要求支付T&S和与部署相关的消耗品。如果一份提案需要超过2个月的时间，PI将需要寻找必要的额外人员资金。AMF的核心原理是向客户交付高质量的数据集，每个仪器或实验提供的数据集的性质在AMF网站上有明确的定义。核心数据在实验结束后2个月内提供；延迟允许适当的质量保证和质量控制。衍生产品也可以通过与IS的讨论提供，但这些可能需要更长的时间，因为它们依赖于科学家的个人专业知识。AMF正在与社区和CEDA合作开发数据标准，使我们的所有数据都能被未来的用户访问和重复使用。在这一项目中，我们与CFARR和MSTRF进行了特别密切的合作，这使我们走上了2020年这三个设施合并的道路。

The AMF (Atmospheric Measurement Facility) was established in April 2014, following a review of NCAS's ground-based facilities and the service they provided to the community. AMF deploys state-of-the-art instrumentation such as radars, lidars and mass spectrometers, together with ancillary instrumentation and logistics, for a range of projects both ground-based, ship-based and airborne. It supports experiments in the UK and across the world, e.g. India, China and Ghana over the past 2 years. The laboratory facilities provide calibration standards in gas-phase chemistry at York and access to the environmental wind tunnel at Surrey University. The field sites at Weybourne, Cape Verde and the BT Tower (and though close collaboration with the STFC radars, Chilbolton and Capel Dewi) offer the community a range of environments for field experiments where the basic necessities of power, internet and space are provided, alongside standard meteorological measurements. Together, AMF offers to the community far more capacity and expertise than could be maintained at an individual University. It also has a commitment to developing data standards that enable measurements to be easily combined and re-used in future. By continuity of staff and a commitment to maintaining up-to-date provision it ensures that the UK community is able to compete internationally in experimental atmospheric science.This proposal sets out how AMF plans to continue to provide a facility meeting the needs of the NERC funded research community for high-quality atmospheric field measurements and laboratory data. The facility web pages may be accessed through the portal at www.amf.ac.uk, where the different elements are described in detail and the calendar showing when elements are available may be viewed. Applications are accepted through an on-line form at any time. Each application is assigned to an AMF instrument scientist, who performs a technical evaluation then liaises with the applicant to discuss details of the requirement. Following a successful initial appraisal, a formal offer is made to the PI defining the service to be provided. The main focus of AMF is support for NERC grant-funded projects, and priority is given to applications that are submitted alongside a JeS application. The next level of priority is given to applications for NERC NC science, NERC-funded PhD students and NERC grants where the application is received after the grant is awarded. If there is spare capacity, AMF will offer its services to other scientific organisations (like the Met Office) or commercial users, from whom suitable costs will be recovered. Generally, NERC applicants receive 2 months instrument scientist time for each project and are only asked to pay additional T&S and consumables associated with a deployment. Should a proposal require more than 2 months IS time the PI will need to find the necessary excess staff funding.AMF's core rationale is the delivery of high-quality datasets to the customer, and the nature of the dataset provided by each instrument or experiment is defined clearly on the AMF web site. Core data are supplied within 2 months of the end of an experiment; the delay allows for proper quality assurance and quality control. Derived products may also be provided through discussion with the IS but these can take longer as they rely on the scientist's individual expertise. AMF is working with the community and with CEDA to develop data standards that make all our data accessible and re-usable by future users. There has been particularly close collaboration with CFARR and MSTRF in this project which puts us on the road to the merger of the three facilities in 2020.