CIF: Supporting the Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC) Portable Atmospheric Research Center (SPARC)

该社区仪器和设施(CIF)奖是对威斯康星大学麦迪逊空间科学与工程中心便携式大气研究中心(SPARC)移动研究实验室的支持。SPARC CIF将为研究界提供一套专门的大气观测仪器，这些仪器安装在一个流动的研究实验室中，可以迅速部署到感兴趣的区域进行大气科学研究。SPARC提供了测量地球大气中影响人类的最低水平的属性的能力，对于测试和改进天气预报、空气质量和气候变化模型至关重要。该项目将涉及学生、科学家、技术人员和社区成员的参与和学徒，以培养下一代研究人员。由大气发射辐射干涉仪、高光谱分辨率激光雷达和多普勒测风激光雷达组成的高度专业化的地面遥感仪器将同时提供行星边界层中的热力学和运动学轮廓，以及整个大气在高时间和垂直分辨率下的云和气溶胶特性的详细轮廓。这些观测将使新的实地实验能够测试边界层中的物理过程模型，并填补当前观测系统中阻碍科学进步的空间和时间空白。社区对该设施的使用将支持广泛领域的基础研究，包括中尺度气象学、对流层化学、云物理、陆地-大气相互作用、气候学和能量平衡研究。该项目将在全国范围内推行一项教育和推广计划，特别注重让未被充分代表的群体参与到科学中来。这一奖项反映了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 Community Instruments and Facilities (CIF) award is for support of the University of Wisconsin–Madison Space Science and Engineering Center Portable Atmospheric Research Center (SPARC) mobile research laboratory. The SPARC CIF will provide the research community access to a specialized suite of atmospheric observing instrumentation housed in a mobile research laboratory that can be rapidly deployed to regions of interest for atmospheric science research. SPARC provides capability to measure properties of the lowest levels of the Earth’s atmosphere that impact people and is critical for testing and improving models for weather forecasting, air quality, and climate change. The project will involve the participation and apprenticeship of students, scientists, technical staff, and community members in order to train the next generation of researchers. The highly specialized ground-based remote sensing instruments comprising of the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer, High Spectral Resolution Lidar, and a doppler wind lidar will provide simultaneous thermodynamic and kinematic profiles in the planetary boundary layer, along with detailed profiles of cloud and aerosol properties of the entire atmosphere at high temporal and vertical resolution. These observations will enable new field experiments to test models of physical processes in the boundary layer, and to fill spatial and temporal gaps in current observing systems that have prevented scientific advancement. Community access to this facility will support fundamental research in a broad range of fields including mesoscale meteorology, tropospheric chemistry, cloud physics, land-atmosphere interaction, climatology, and energy balance studies. The project will pursue an education and outreach program nationwide with particular focus on involving underrepresented groups in the sciences.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.