The Sky’s the Limit: Monitoring the Earth’s Radiation Balance with Active Cavity Radiometers Team 10 Engineering /6/04

Team Members Aaron Buys John Vander Weide Llian Breen

Outline Project Review Design Norms Challenges Progress Changes

Proposed Solution Radiation measurement with an ACR VS. SatelliteWeather Balloon

ACR Design – Revised Block Diagram Cavity Earth Thermistor Battery Radiosonde Transmitter ReceiverComputer Heater ControlsSet Point Current and Volt Meter

ACR Design – Section View

Design Norms Stewardship Transparency Cultural Appropriateness

Progress and Changes First prototypes have proved successful Work with Intermet Part Ordering FEA/CAD modeling Shutter progress

Challenges Overcome  Price of certain goods  Controls  Completely new radiosonde interface Ongoing  Software Needs  Aaron and John are geniuses

Questions?