The CSU-CHILL National Facility

该项目将继续作为NSF国家研究设施运行和维护CHILL雷达。 大多数活动保持不变。 CSU/CHILL将与NCAR S-Pol、Pawnee（CSU）、KFTG（丹佛）和KCYS（夏延）雷达合作，继续参与并扩大其在前线观测网络试验台（FRONT）的活动。 CHILL将在S和X波段工作，使其成为一种独特的双频、双极化馈电雷达，有望开辟新的研究途径。 CSU将继续拥有VCHILL，这是一项教育推广活动，允许教师从任何地方获得历史CHILL数据，并在真实的时间内操作CHILL，并在课堂环境中显示。CSU将继续其成功的20小时研究项目，工程和气象学学生的REU项目，并提供内部研究活动。 该设施可通过竞争性研究赠款提供给研究界，并通过批准的成本可偿还项目提供给更广泛的研究界。然而，在合作协议的第二年，NSF将召开一次雷达研讨会并对CHILL进行现场访问。 该讲习班和实地考察的结果将决定国家科学基金会是否在第三年征求一项建议，继续将雷达作为国家设施运行，还是将第三年作为CHILL设施的淘汰年。相控阵雷达、移动的雷达等新技术的出现可能使CHILL雷达成为多余。 未知的因素是在CHILL的S波段上增加了X波段。 头两年的结果将有助于确定可以获得多少新科学。

The project is to continue the operation and maintenance of the CHILL radar as a NSF National Research Facility. Most of the activities remain the same. CSU/CHILL will continue to participate and expand its activities in the Front Range Observational Network Testbed (FRONT) in collaboration with the NCAR S-Pol, Pawnee (CSU), KFTG (Denver), and KCYS (Cheyenne) radars. CHILL will operate with S and X bands, making it a unique dual frequency, dual polarized feed radar that is expected to open new avenues of research. CSU will continue to have VCHILL, a educational outreach activity that allows instructors from anywhere to obtain historical CHILL data and to operate the CHILL in real time and display in the classroom setting.CSU will continue its successful 20 hour research projects, REU projects for engineering and meteorology students and to provide in-house research activities. The facility is available to the research community through competitive research grants and to the broader reserach community through approved cost reimbursable projects.During year 2 of the Cooperative Agreement, however, NSF will convene a radar workshop and site visit to CHILL. The results of that workshop and the site visit will determine if in the third year NSF will solicit a proposal to continue to operate the radar as a National Facility or to use the third year as the phase out year for the CHILL facility. New technologies, such as phased array radars, mobile radars may make the CHILL radar unnecessary. The unknown factor is the addition of the X-band to the CHILL's S-band. The results during the first two years will help determine how much new science can be obtained.