Support for the Participation of U.S. Scientists in the International Conference on Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation; Tao-Yuan, Taiwan; May 14-16, 2013

该奖项资助美国科学家前往台湾桃园参加第二届GPS无线电掩星国际会议（ICGPSRO）。 国家科学基金会通过大学大气研究公司与台湾国家空间组织建立了长期的伙伴关系，共同开发天基全球定位系统无线电掩星技术，作为一种观测大气层的技术。 这一伙伴关系产生了气象、电离层和气候星座观测系统（COSMIC），这是一个由带有全球定位系统接收器的极轨道卫星组成的六颗卫星星座（2006年发射）。 COSMIC使命取得了巨大成功，后续的使命--COSMIC-2正在研制中。 COSMIC-2将由两个六颗卫星星座组成，一颗在极地轨道，另一颗在低倾角热带轨道，新卫星比上一代有实质性的改进。该奖项的目的是鼓励美国研究界采用COSMIC-2数据。 计划于2016财政年度发射的COSMIC-2热带星座将提供前所未有的热带温度和湿度垂直分布图，以及热带电离层状况的覆盖范围。 该奖项将允许最多10名美国研究人员参加会议，并确定COSMIC-2数据的最佳研究用途，并将与台湾同行合作，以确定共同感兴趣的领域和潜在的美台合作。

This award funds the travel of US scientists to attend the Second International Conference on GPS Radio Occultation (ICGPSRO) in Tao-Yuan, Taiwan. NSF has a longstanding partnership, through the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, with the Taiwanese National Space Organization (NSPO), in the development of space-based GPS radio occultation (RO) as a technology for observing the atmosphere. This partnership produced the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, the Ionosphere, and Climate (COSMIC), a six-satellite constellation of polar orbiting satellites with GPS receivers (launched in 2006). The COSMIC mission has beeh highly sucessful, and a follow-on mission, COSMIC-2, is under development. COSMIC-2 will consist of two six-satellite constellations, one in polar orbits and one in low-inclination tropical orbits, and the new satellites contain substantial enhancements over the previous generation.The purpose of this award is to encourage the adoption of COSMIC-2 data by the US research community. The COSMIC-2 tropical constellation, with a planned launch date in Fiscal Year 2016, will provide unprecedented vertical profiles of temperature and moisture in the tropics, as well as coverage of conditions in the tropical ionosphere. This award will allow up to 10 US researchers to attend the meeting and determine the optimal research uses of COSMIC-2 data, and will work with their Taiwanese counterparts to identify areas of common interest and potential US-Taiwanese collaboration.This award is co-funded by the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering