RAPID: Radar Deployment for RELAMPAGO (Remote sensing of Electrification, Lightning, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations)

该合同为在阿根廷的大型野战部署科罗拉多州立大学C波段雷达提供资金。具有自适应地面观测的遥感带电、闪电和中/微尺度过程(俗称Relampago)实验旨在观测世界上一些最强烈的雷暴。C波段雷达的加入将有助于填补观测空白，使研究人员能够确定这些雷暴中降水粒子的特征。这是一项国际活动，但它对预报美国恶劣天气的影响是巨大的。研究人员将能够测试为大平原风暴得出的模型和理论是否适用于阿根廷的风暴。如果存在差异，这可能表明可以对模型进行更改，使其更准确。Relampago现场战役将于2018年底在阿根廷科尔多瓦附近举行。科罗拉多州立大学的C波段雷达将与另外两个C波段雷达配对，以覆盖大型雷暴综合体开始的地形下游地区。CSU C波段雷达将侧重于了解对流的加强和增长以及危险对流天气的产生。这一部署将与能源部C波段雷达一起扩展到主要战地活动时间表之外，以努力收集尽可能多的案例。这一奖励反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award provides funding for the deployment of the Colorado State University C-band radar to a large field campaign in Argentina. The Remote Sensing Electrification, Lightning and Mesoscale/microscale processes with Adaptive ground observations (known colloquially as RELAMPAGO) experiment is intended to observe some of the most intense thunderstorms in the world. The addition of the C-band radar will help to fill in an observational gap and allow researchers to determine characteristics of precipitation particles in these thunderstorms. This is an international campaign, but the impacts to forecasting severe weather in the United States are significant. The researchers will be able to test whether the models and theories that have been derived for storms in the Great Plains will hold for those in Argentina. If there are differences, that may point to changes that can be made in models to make them more accurate.The RELAMPAGO field campaign will take place in late 2018 near Cordoba, Argentina. The Colorado State University C-band radar will be paired with two other C-band radars to provide coverage of the region downstream from orographic terrain where large thunderstorm complexes initiate. The CSU C-band radar will focus on efforts to understand the intensification and growth of convection and the generation of hazardous convective weather. The deployment will be extended beyond the main field campaign timeline in tandem with the Department of Energy C-band radar in an effort to collect as many cases as possible.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.