CIF: Mobile Atmospheric Profiling Network (MAPNet) Facility for Boundary Layer and Precipitation Investigations

这个社区仪器和设施（CIF）奖是为亨茨维尔的移动的大气剖面网络（MAPNet）的亚拉巴马大学。 MAPNet由一套仪器组成，专门用于远程检索温度，湿度，风和大气边界层的其他属性。 MAPNet已被用于研究从严重雷暴到冬季天气的主题，该奖项将为更广泛的科学界提供使用仪器的机会，从而产生新的研究思路和发现。 该设施还将用作教育和推广工具，为各种机构的学生提供与最先进仪器互动的机会。 CIF的这份合同是为了提供四个现有的移动的剖面分析系统，这些系统被集成到移动的大气剖面分析网络（MAPNet）中。 MAPNet由移动的综合剖面系统、快速部署大气剖面系统、移动的多普勒激光雷达和探测系统以及移动的亚拉巴马X波段雷达组成。 风廓线仪、激光雷达、辐射计和其他仪器的组合可以集成在一起，以提供各种条件下大气边界层中风、温度、湿度、气溶胶、云底和降水的高分辨率廓线。 在过去的20年里，位于亨茨维尔的亚拉巴马大学的剖面设施已被用于各种主题的野外活动，如对流启动，恶劣天气和冬季风暴。 可以使用地图网络仪器的新的科学领域包括地表不均匀性对边界层的影响、边界层的时间（早晨、傍晚、降雨引起的）转变、雾、空气质量以及云带电和闪电研究。 该奖项将提高更广泛的科学界通过AGS实地活动申请流程使用MAPNet的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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 the University of Alabama in Huntsville’s Mobile Atmospheric Profiling Network (MAPNet). MAPNet consists of a suite of instruments that specialize in remotely retrieving temperature, moisture, wind, and other properties of the atmospheric boundary layer. MAPNet has been used to study topics from severe thunderstorms to winter weather, and this award will provide for broader scientific community access to the instrumentation, leading to new research ideas and findings. The facility will also be used as an educational and outreach tool, providing opportunities for students at a variety of institutions to interact with state-of-the-art instrumentation. This CIF award is for the provision of four existing mobile profiling systems that are integrated into the Mobile Atmospheric Profiling Network (MAPNet). MAPNet consists of the Mobile Integrated Profiling System (MIPS), the Rapidly Deployable Atmospheric Profiling System (RaDAPS), the Mobile Doppler Lidar and Sounding system (MoDLS), and the Mobile Alabama X-band radar (MAX). The combination of wind profilers, lidars, radiometers, and other instruments can be integrated to provide high-resolution profiles of wind, temperature, humidity, aerosols, cloud base, and precipitation in the atmospheric boundary layer over a broad range of conditions. The University of Alabama at Huntsville profiling facilities have been used over the past 20 years in field campaigns on a variety of topics such as convective initiation, severe weather, and winter storms. New areas of science where the MAPNet instruments could be used include boundary layer impacts from surface heterogeneities, temporal (morning, evening, rain-induced) transitions in the boundary layer, fog, air quality, and cloud electrification and lightning studies. This award will enhance the ability of the broader scientific community to use MAPNet through the AGS field campaign request process.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.