SGER: Flight Planning and Meteorological Analysis in Support of the HIAPER Progressive Science Mission

这项探索性研究小额赠款（SGER）将支持飞行计划和气象分析，以支持区域运输的平流层-对流层分析（START）空中使命。START实验的科学目标是研究对流层上部/平流层下部（UT/LS）区域的动力学和化学特性。START将通过测量一套化学示踪剂和气象参数（包括温度和风场），并结合模型分析来实现这些目标。该项目将有助于任务后的分析工作，包括飞机飞行轨迹的反向轨迹、气象参数图、沿着飞行轨迹的气象参数横截面，以及气象分析与现有卫星数据的结合，以及流动变形的后验分析。START是HIAPER（环境研究高空仪器化机载平台）进步科学任务，其目的是了解HIAPER飞机的作战方面，以便进行研究，并证明HIAPER飞机在有限有效载荷的情况下的能力经过飞行测试的仪器。该项目将通过推进HIAPER飞机的全面飞行研究能力的发展而使大气研究界受益。由于距START使命开始的时间间隔非常短，因此该项目作为SGER提交。

This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) will support flight planning and meteorological analyses in support of the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport (START) airborne mission. The scientific objectives of the START experiment are to study the dynamical and chemical properties of the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UT/LS) region. START will pursue these objectives through the measurement of a set of chemical tracers and meteorological parameters (including temperature and winds fields), combined with model analyses. This project will contribute post-mission analysis efforts, including back trajectories for aircraft flight tracks, maps of meteorological parameters, cross sections of meteorological parameters along the flight track, and integration of meteorological analyses with available satellite data, as well as a posteriori analysis of the flow deformation.START is one of the HIAPER (High-Altitude Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research) Progressive Science missions, which are designed to learn about operational aspects of the HIAPER aircraft for research and to demonstrate the capabilities of HIAPER with a limited payload of flight-tested instrumentation. This project will benefit the atmospheric research community by advancing the development of full flight research capabilities of the HIAPER aircraft. Due to the very short time interval until the beginning of the START mission, this project was submitted as an SGER.