Transcript Slide 1

Upper
Atmospheric
Facilities
Components of the UAF
Program
• Five incoherent scatter radar
facilities
• Partial funding for SuperDARN
• Half of CEDAR Program*
• Lidar Consortium
• Contributions to CCMC and Space
Weather
• Miscellaneous awards
• AMISR Construction (Mgmt.)
• Center for Integrated Space Weather
Facility Award Status
• Sondrestrom: Renewal proposal being reviewed
for start early in FY09
• Millstone: Five-year award initiated in FY08
• Arecibo: New award initiated in FY05 expires
March 2010
• Jicamarca: Five-year award initiated in FY05
(Hysell replaced Farley as PI of new award)
• AMISR: Five-year operations award started in
FY06
• SuperDARN: Five-year award initiated in FY05;
jointly funded with AER, MAG, and Polar
Programs
Facility Award Status (cont.)
• AMISR Construction—Four year award
initiated in FY03 still in progress
• Lidar Consortium—four-institution
collaborative project initiated in Aeronomy and
transferred to UAF in FY07.
• UAF sharing of CEDAR program with
Aeronomy ended after FY06. Exchanged for
Lidar Consortium.
• AMISR graduate student support and optics
awards competed in FY06.
Additional Usage Indicators for UAFs
• Number of data users (individually and
institutionally)
• Number of papers published using
data (with and without facility staff coauthorship)
• Number of students using data and
number of theses based on UAF data
• Number of operating hours requested
• Number of ancillary instruments at
UAF sites
The Returns from Facility Investments
• Facility data are widely used to conduct fundamental
research in atmospheric sciences
• Facilities have played a key role in both undergraduate and
graduate education
• Facilities represent strategic sites for instrument
deployment
• Facility data are used in the design and validation of many
ground-based and space-based instruments
• Ground-based atmospheric science facilities play a major
role in both the planning and execution of every major
space science program
Is UARS able to maintain all its
facilities if some major hardware
failure occurs?
• Probably not. Replacement value for
any of the facilities is at least $15M.
• All facilities will probably need to be
replaced in 10 to 20 years.
• AMISR technology makes gradual
replacement feasible.
• Bigger issue is how to phase in new
facilities.
Facility Strategic Planning
• Facilities are completing an integrated plan for
the next seven years, as recommended in 2003 by
the facility review panel chaired by Susan Avery.
• The fourth all-facility planning meeting is being
held at Haystack Observatory in September 2008.
• Part of this meeting will also include participation
from other UARS investigators with facility-type
projects to assess the demand for expanding the
facilities program beyond the current scope.
Table of Contents
I.
BACKGROUND
Introduction
Radar Techniques for Upper Atmospheric Research
II.
FACILITY DESCRIPTIONS
The Jicamarca Radio Observatory
The Arecibo Observatory
The Millstone Hill Observatory
The Sondrestrom Radar Facility
SuperDARN
The Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar
Facility Management and Review
III.
FACILITY CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPACE SCIENCE
Ionospheric Irregularities
Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
Topside Ionosphere
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere C oupling at High Latitudes
Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling at Mid and Low Latitudes
D-Region, Mesosphere, Meteors
IV.
FACILITY CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAJOR SCIENCE PROGRAMS
Space Weather
Global Change
Space Missions
Radio Science
V.
FACILITY STRATEGIES
VI.
EDUCATION AND OUTREACH
VII
IMPLEMENTATION
Appendix A History of Incoherent Scatter
Appendix B Other Instrumentation at UAF Sites
Appendix C Planned Upgrades and Enhancements to Existing Facilities
An Integrated Approach to
Management, Operations
and Science
For the
National Science
Foundation’s
Upper Atmospheric
Facilities
Echo
Arctic Air
An Integrated Approach to
Management, Operations and
Science For the National Science
Foundation’s
Upper Atmospheric Facilities
An Integrated Approach to
Management, Operations
and Science For the National
Science Foundation’s
Upper Atmospheric
Facilities
Surface
Winds
UAF Funding Breakdown
Total: $11.9M
Other, 0.8
Jicamarca, 1.5
SuperDARN, 0.6
Lidars, 0.8
Arecibo, 1.7
AMISR, 2.3
Millstone, 1.9
Sondrestrom, 2.3
UAF Spending Breakdown
16
14
12
Lidar Consortium
SuperDARN
$M
10
CEDAR
AMISR
8
Sondrestrom
Millstone
6
Arecibo
4
Jicamarca
2
0
FY05
FY06
FY07
UAF Spending
UAF FY Expenditures
UAF Budget
16
14
12
$M
10
8
6
4
2
0
FY05
FY06
FY07
UAF 2011 Budget ($M)
O ther, 2
Jicamarca, 1.5
SuperDARN, 0.4
Lidars, 1.3
AMISR, 3
Arecibo, 3
Millstone, 2
Sondrestrom, 2.4