Atmospheric Measurement and Observation Facility (AMOF)

AMF（大气测量设施）成立于2014年4月，在对NCAS的地面设施及其为社区提供的服务进行审查后成立。AMF为一系列陆基、舰载和机载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。它支持在英国和世界各地的实验，例如印度，中国和加纳在过去两年。实验室设施提供了在约克的气相化学校准标准和进入萨里大学的环境风洞。位于佛得角Weybourne和BT Tower的现场站点（尽管与STFC雷达、Chilbolton和卡佩尔德维密切合作）为社区提供了一系列现场实验环境，其中提供了电力、互联网和空间等基本必需品，以及标准气象测量。总之，AMF提供给社会远远超过可以在单个大学保持更多的能力和专业知识。它还致力于开发数据标准，使测量结果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承诺，以保持最新的规定，它确保了英国社区能够在实验大气science.This提案中的国际竞争，AMF计划如何继续提供一个设施，满足NERC资助的研究社区的高质量的大气现场测量和实验室数据的需求。可通过门户网站www.amf.ac.uk访问设施网页，其中详细介绍了不同的要素，并可查看显示要素可用时间的日历。任何时候都可以通过在线表格接受申请。每个申请都被分配给AMF仪器科学家，他们进行技术评估，然后与申请人联系，讨论要求的细节。在成功的初步评估之后，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。下一个优先级是给予申请NERC NC科学，NERC资助的博士生和NERC赠款金，其中申请是在获得补助金后收到的。如果有多余的能力，AMF将向其他科学组织（如气象局）或商业用户提供服务，从他们那里收回适当的成本。一般来说，NERC申请人为每个项目提供2个月的仪器科学家时间，只要求支付与部署相关的额外T&S和消耗品。如果一项提案需要超过2个月的IS时间，PI将需要找到必要的额外人员资金。AMF的核心理念是向客户提供高质量的数据集，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，使我们的所有数据可供未来用户访问和重用。在这个项目中，我们与CFARR和MSTRF进行了特别密切的合作，这使我们走上了在2020年合并三个设施的道路。

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.