Antarctic Neutral Thermospheric and Mesospheric Dynamics and Thermodynamics

这项工作将负责开发几乎完全自动化的法布里-珀罗干涉仪（FPI），并利用它来测量南极上空大气热层和中间层区域的风和温度。这些数据将大大补充其他南极仪器和新的哈雷站雷达所获得的数据。它对美国国家科学基金会的新倡议CEDAR也很重要，该倡议旨在解决全球大气动力学问题。自动FPI将由申请人和来自阿拉斯加大学校园的客座调查人员通过卫星中继远程指挥。正常操作将要求南极工作人员只在不频繁的时间表上更换数据存储介质。提议者和他的合作者是大气动力学和光学领域的领导者，可以期望他们做得很好。有关机构的设施是绰绰有余的。由于所涉及的仪器开发，部分资金由极地业务科提供。该方案建议按修订后的水平提供三年的资金。

This work will undertake the development of a nearly fully automated Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) and to employ it to measure the winds and temperatures of the thermospheric and mesopheric regions of the atmosphere over the South Pole. The data will greatly complement those obtained by other South Pole instrumentation and the new Halley Station radar. It will also be important to the new NSF initiative CEDAR, which addresses global atmospheric dynamics. The automated FPI will be remotely commanded by the proposer and guest investigators from the University of Alaska campus using satellite relay. Normal operation will require that the South Pole staff only change the data storage medium on an infrequent schedule. The proposer and his co-investigators are leaders in atmospheric dynamics and optics and can be expected to do an excellent job. The facilities of the institutions involved are more than adequate. Due to the instrument development involved partial funding is being provided by the Polar Operations Section. The Program recommends funding at the revised level for three years.