Atmospheric Measurement and Observation Facility (AMOF)

AMF（大气测量设施）是在对NCAS的地面设施及其向社区提供的服务进行审查后于2014年4月建立的。AMF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，用于地面、舰载和机载的一系列项目。在过去的两年里，它支持在英国和世界各地的实验，例如印度、中国和加纳。该实验室设施为约克大学的气相化学提供校准标准，并可进入萨里大学的环境风洞。韦伯恩、佛得角和英国电信塔的现场站点（通过与STFC雷达、Chilbolton和Capel Dewi的密切合作）为社区提供了一系列的现场实验环境，在那里提供了电力、互联网和空间的基本需求，以及标准的气象测量。总之，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。它还致力于开发数据标准，使测量在将来能够轻松地组合和重用。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。该提案阐述了AMF计划如何继续提供一个设施，以满足NERC资助的研究界对高质量大气场测量和实验室数据的需求。可通过门户网站www.amf.ac.uk访问该设施网页，其中详细描述了不同的元素，并可查看显示元素可用时间的日历。申请可通过在线表格随时接受。每个申请都被分配给一名AMF仪器科学家，他进行技术评估，然后与申请人联系，讨论要求的细节。在成功的初始评估之后，将向PI发出正式要约，定义要提供的服务。AMF的主要重点是支持NERC资助的项目，优先考虑与JeS申请一起提交的申请。下一级优先考虑NERC NC科学，NERC资助的博士生和NERC补助金的申请，其中申请在授予补助金后收到。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，从他们那里可以收回适当的成本。一般来说，NERC申请人在每个项目中获得2个月的仪器科学家时间，并且只需要支付与部署相关的额外T&S和消耗品。如果提案需要超过2个月的时间，PI将需要找到必要的超额工作人员资金。AMF的核心原理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。实验结束后2个月内提供核心数据；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的讨论来提供，但这需要更长的时间，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，使我们所有的数据都可以被未来的用户访问和重用。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2020年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.