ADVANCE Fellows: How Dust Affects the Electrodynamics of the Earth's Mesosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

1. Lynette J Gelinas($70,809), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Sounding Rocket, Development, Ionospheric, Program.

SGER: Investigation of ESF Triggers Using Balloon-Based and Ground Diagnostics.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Timothy A Cook($75,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Esf Onset, Gravity Wave, Nm Airglow, Balloons, Daytime, Investigate, OI.

How Does the High-Altitude Plasma Distribution Change During Magnetic Storms
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Gary Bust($72,867), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Electron Content, Plasma Distribution, Drift, Global, Images, Ionospheric, Magnetic, OSEC, Peak, Phase, Storm, TEC, Three-dimensional, Topside, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Daytime Potassium Doppler Lidar at Arecibo
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Qihou Zhou($56,958), Miami University, Oxford
2. Xinzhao Chu($17,006), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Jonathan S Friedman($167,899), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Arecibo, Determined, Diurnal, ISR, Layers, Mesopause, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: High-Time-Resolution Resonance Lidar Detection of Meteor Trails
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan S Friedman($58,842), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Diego Janches($465,716), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Metallic Deposition, Resonant Lidar, Upper Mesosphere, Ca, Layers, Meteor, Observations, Quantified, Resolution, Upgraded.

FDSS: Space Science Faculty Development at Pennsylvania State University
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. W. Kenneth Jenkins($900,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Curriculum, Faculty, Outreach, Pennsylvania, Radar, Space, Training.

FDSS: Augmentation of Space Sciences Faculty at Dartmouth
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. James W LaBelle($985,914), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Engineering School, Experimental Space, Dartmouth, Faculty, Has, Interdisciplinary, Past, Program, Resources, Student, Sustain, Training, Undergraduate.

Studies of the Plasmasphere Boundary Layer with Distributed Arrays of Radio Instruments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Frank D Lind($331,711), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Millstone Hill, Array, Austin, Coherent, DASI, Diagnostics, Distributed, GPS, ISIS, Imaging, Ionospheric, Radar, Receivers, TEC, Texas.

Ray Methods for Atmospheric Gravity Waves
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Dave Broutman($389,874), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Common, Date, Effort, Methods, Varying.

CAREER: Development of a Distributed, Multistatic Meteor Radar System
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Scott E Palo($499,397), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Middle Atmosphere, Algorithms, Analysis, Population, Radar, Unified, Winds.

Micrometeors and Their Interaction with the Atmosphere: A Comprehensive Study Using the Arecibo and Jicamarca Observatories
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Diego Janches($462,099), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Dust, Evolution, Formation, Meteor.

Simulations and Theory of Small Scale E-region Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Meers Oppenheim($480,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Capability, E-region, Instabilities, Numerical, Plasma, Simulations, Simulators, Turbulence, Wave.

CEDAR Postdoc: Modeling Radar Observations of Meteor Trails
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: AERONOMY

1. Lars P Dyrud($160,598), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Meteor, Model, Observations.

Spaceship Earth: Probing the Solar Wind with Cosmic Rays
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. John M Clem($557,010), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Galactic Cosmic Rays, Neutron Monitors, Applications, Has, Radiation, Solar, Spaceship, Transient, Transport.

SGER: Coupling of Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry and Tundra Ecophysiology by Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Mark J Potosnak($25,120), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Arctic Tundra, Tundra Ecosystem, BVOC, Ecosystems, Emissions, Existing, Fluxes, Sensitive, Toolik.

SGER: Independent Determinations of Bromine (Br) and Chlorine (Cl) in Barrow, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Valerie L Young($50,696), Ohio University, Athens
Key terms: Previously Untested Method, Boundary Layer, Loss Rates, Ozone Destruction, Photochemical Cycles, Arctic, Brcl, Halogen, Monoxide, Polar, Program, Ratios, Springtime, Troposphere.

Formaldehyde Desorption and Production from Ice Surfaces
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David Tan($423,810), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Acids, Air, Cell, Chemistry, Concentrations, Desorption, Field, Formaldehyde, Ice, Mixtures, Polar, Prepared, Snowice.

Evolution of Aerosol Hygroscopicity, Mixing State, and Cloud Activation Efficiency
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Don R Collins($289,535), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Differential Mobility Analyzers, Tandem Differential Mobility, Mexico City, Surface Sites, Aerosol, Aircraft, Board, Downwind, Hygroscopicity, Main, Measured, Megacity, Operate, Size, Size-resolved, Volatility.

The Acidity of the Quasi-Liquid Layers of Ice and Snow
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Agustin J Colussi($549,998), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Frozen Electrolyte Solutions, Ice And Snow, Environmental Relevance, Local Acidity, Magnetic Resonance, Ph Probes, Chemical, Fluids, NMR, Properties, Spectroscopic.

The Impact of Aged Boreal Fire Emissions on the Composition of the Remote Midlatitude Lower Free Troposphere, Using Measurements at the PICO-NARE Station
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kateryna Lapina($295,052), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Atlantic Ocean, Biomass Burning, Boreal Fires, Atmosphere, Azores, Effects, Emissions, Global, Ozone, Pathways, Pico, Remote, Sources, Troposphere.

RUI: Kinetics and Products of Hydroxyl Radical (OH) and Chlorine (Cl) Reactions with High Molecular Weight Organic Aerosol Precursor Compounds
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Zhuangjie Li($191,565), CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation, Fullerton
Key terms: Kinetic And Product, Oh And Cl, Turbulent Flow Conditions, Atmospheric Organic, Mw Oapcs, Organic Aerosol, Organic Aerosols, Rate Constants, Undergraduate Students, Acid, CSUF, Chemistry, Determination, Environmental, Objective, Obtained, Quality, Reactions, Temperature.

How Do Particle Chemical Properties Affect Aerosol Chemical Reactions?
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Scot T Martin($618,814), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Reactive Organic Molecules, Atmospheric Particles, Minor Constituents, Oleic Acid, Aerosol, Ammonium, Chemical, Compositions, Effects, Experiments, Hypothesized, Incorporated, Information, Lifetimes, Matrix, Mechanisms, Ozone, Products, Reaction, SOA.

Evolution of Meteorology and Ozone in the Mexico City Outflow
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rahul A Zaveri($312,739), Smith College, Northampton
Key terms: Comet Balloons, Ground, Outflow, Ozone, Time.

Source Characterization for Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments-Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign (MIRAGE-Mex City)
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert J Yokelson($473,751), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Emission Factors, Mexico City, Biofuel, Biomass, Burning, Carbon, Compounds, Emissions, FTIR, Fires, Measured, Mounted, Sources.

Real-Time Size and Composition Aerosol Measurements on the NSF C-130 Aircraft and Integrated Data Analysis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Edward J Dunlea($200,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: AMS, Aerosols, Information, Models, NSF.

Characterization and Apportionment of Primary and Secondary Organic Aerosols during the MIRAGE-Mex Experiment Using GCMS and LCMS Methods
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rebecca J Sheesley($199,802), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Atmospheric Aerosols, Analysis, Chemistry, Chromatography, Composition, Expected, Field, Mass, Methods, Organic, Undergraduate.

Measuring Methyl Halide Fluxes in Temperate Grasslands Using Stable Isotope Tracers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert Rhew($396,506), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Isotope Tracer Technique, Stable Isotope Tracer, Consumption Fluxes, Methyl Bromide, Methyl Halides, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Ecosystems, Grasslands, Net, Ozone, Quantify, Temperate, Undergraduate.

Measurement of DiMethyl Sulfide (DMS) Air-Sea Exchange by Eddy Covariance
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Byron W Blomquist($673,319), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Eddy Covariance, Factors Controlling, Air-sea, Atmospheric, Climate, DMS, Exchange, Flux, Fluxes, Formation, Instrument, Objectives.

Collaborative Research: Organic Trace Gas Studies from Whole-Air Sampling of the Impact of Megacities and Intercontinental Transport on Regional and Global Environments
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Donald R Blake($676,409), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Elliot Atlas($218,198), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Educational Opportunities, Mexico City, Aerosol, Airborne, C-, Chemical, Compounds, Emissions, Formation, Ground-based, IMPEX, Megacity, Near, Organic, Plume, Reactive, Reactivity, Regional.

Measurement of Urban Volatile Organic Compound Fluxes during Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments (MIRAGE) in Mexico City
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Halvor H Westberg($263,403), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Regional And Global, Volatile Organic Compounds, Carbon Monoxide, Field Program, Global Environments, Measure Fluxes, Megacity Impacts, Mexico City, Analysis, Environmental, Techniques, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Aerosol Impacts on the Regional and Global Environment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lynn M Russell($526,958), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Gregory L Kok($293,835), Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder
3. William P Arnott($74,977), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Mexico City, Aerosol, Chemical, Effect, MIRAGE, Properties, Transport.

Elastic Lidar Measurements in Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments-Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign (MIRAGE-Mex)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William Eichinger($320,597), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Elastic Lidar, Mexico City, Aerosol, Aerosols, Allow, Atmosphere, Height, Information, Mobile.

Isotopic Composition of Nitrous Oxide and Carbon Dioxide
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Geoffrey A Blake($398,031), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Atmospheric Gases, Atmospheric Modeling, Caltechjpl 2-dimensional, Carbon Dioxide, Isotopic Fractionation, Ncar 3-dimensional, Nitrous Oxide, Atmosphere, Combination, Mechanisms, Mesosphere, Principal, Processes, Recently, Sources, Surface, Transport.

Thermodynamic Modeling of Atmospheric Organic Particulate Matter (OPM) in Salt-Containing, Potentially Multi-Phasic Particulate Matter (PM) Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. James F Pankow($424,999), Oregon Health & Science University, Portland
Key terms: One-dimensional Box Model, Gasparticle Partitioning, Modeling Framework, One-dimensional Box, Organic Compounds, Aerosol, Development, Evaluation, Mixed.

SGER: Profiler Measurements in Support of Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments (MIRAGE)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kevin R Knupp($143,727), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Mhz Wind Profiler, Boundary Layer, Field Campaign, MIRAGE, Operate, Profiles.

SGER: Wind Profile Measurements in Support of the Megacity Impacts on Regional And Global Environments (MIRAGE) Study Experiment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Richard Coulter($60,635), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Regional And Global, Mexico City, Wind Profiler, Field, MIRAGE, Megacity, Provided, Urban.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Aerosols on the Photochemistry during Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments-Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daewon W Byun($185,289), University of Houston, Houston
2. James R Slusser($98,215), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aerosols, Instruments, Photochemistry.

Measurement of Aerosols and Trace Gases in Mexico City Outflow during Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments-Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign (MIRAGE-Mex)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lewis G Huey($643,958), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Aerosols, Deployed, Ground-based, Instruments, Measure, Organic.

Effect of Heterogeneous Interactions on Optical, Hygroscopic, and Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) Properties of Organic Atmospheric Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy B Onasch($550,020), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Ccn Activity, Optical Properties, Aerosol, Aerosols, Composition, Controlled, Instrument, Laboratory, Measure, Morphology, Particles, Size, Transformations.

Tropical Tropopause Layer Chemistry Experiment (TTL-CHEM) - Project Coordination
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul O Wennberg($12,475), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Chemical, Ozone, Region, Tropical, Ttl-chem.

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Sources and Processes of Organic Fine Particulate Matter in Mexico City
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jose L Jimenez($150,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Scott Herndon($303,038), Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica
Key terms: Fine Particles, Mexico City, Aerosol, Ambient, Analysis, Concentrations, DOE, Detailed, Emission, Primary, Secondary, Supported.

Feasibility Study for the Atmospheric Measurement of Potential Aerosol Mass (PAM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William H Brune($175,845), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Aerosol Precursor Gases, Potential Aerosol Mass, Countries, Graduate, Monitoring, Networks, Regulatory, Routine, Students.

Field, Laboratory, and Theoretical Study of Soot Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Peter R Buseck($499,453), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Electron Tomography, Soot Particles, Climate, Pollutants, Transformations.

Ground-Based Observations of Nitrogen Oxides and Nitrates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ronald C Cohen($385,228), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Nighttime Chemistry Involving, Nitric Acid, Climate, Information, Nitrates, Nitrogen, Processes.

Photochemistry at Organic Particle-Air Interfaces
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sergey Nizkorodov($341,897), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Air Pollution, Solar Radiation, Atmosphere, Environmental, Photochemical, Processes, Students, Training.

CAREER: Evaluating Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David Cocker III($452,502), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Air Pollution, Air Quality, Soa Formation, Advance, Aerosol, Component, Critical, Education, Investigate, K-, Local, Modules, Nox, Processes, Program, Public, Region, Students, Teaching.

American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 2005 Conference; Austin, Texas; October 17-21, 2005
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Melissa Baldwin($30,000), American Association for Aerosol Research, Mount Laurel
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosol, Environmental, Expertise, Interact, Students.

International Workshop on Agriculture Impacts of Air Quality; Washington, District of Columbia; During 2006
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Dev Niyogi($30,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Agricultural Practices, Air Quality, Agriculture, Workshop.

Development of Instrumentation and Methods for Measurements of Water-Soluble Organic Chemical Compounds in Ambient Aerosol Particles
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rodney J Weber($51,642), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Fine Particle, Organic Aerosol, Atmospheric, Carbon, Compounds, Formation, Methods, Online, Techniques, Water-soluble.

Global-Scale Photochemistry of Oxidants, Peroxides and Organic Nitrates: A Model-Based Investigation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Joyce E Penner($521,624), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Long-range Transport, Reactive Nitrogen, Global, Long-range, Model, Organic, Ozone, Peroxides, Photochemistry.

SGER: Measurements in Exhaust Plumes of Rockets in Conjunction with WB-57F Ascent Video Experiment (WAVE)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Linnea M Avallone($153,386), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Factors Influencing, Middle Atmosphere, Ozone Loss, Radiative Balance, Utls Region, Aircraft, Chemical, Determining, Particle, SGER, Space, Water.

A Comparison of Aerosol Organic Carbon Measurements and Models in the Free Troposphere at Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO)
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Barry J Huebert($773,891), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Organic Aerosol Mass, Organic Carbon, Climate, MLO, Model, Models, OM, Routinely, Simulations.

Reactions in an Ion Trap to Improve On-line Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compound (OVOC) Measurements
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Gary L Glish($68,077), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Gary L Glish($121,047), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Ambient, Compounds, Innovative, Vocs.

New Instrumentation for Emission Measurements
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Gary Bishop($143,680), University of Denver, Denver
Key terms: Human Health, Vehicular Emissions, Application, Climate, Conditions, Existing, Lead, On-road, Pollution, Sensor, Sensors, Technology, Testing, Urban, Variety.

The Influence of Megacities on Atmospheric Biogeochemical Cycles
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel D Riemer($725,304), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycles, Developing Regions, Developing Urban, Local Scientists, Carbon, Developed, Global, Information, Multiple, Nitrogen, Population, Potential, World.

Extending the Use of Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS) for New Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds and Their Oxidation Products - Phase II
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Allen Goldstein($549,852), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Secondary Organic Aerosol, Terpene Oxidation Products, Blodgett Forest, Forest Canopy, Models Predicting, Smog Chamber, Voc Emissions, Atmospheric, Biogenic, Chemical, Climate, Compounds, Field, Flux, Formation, Measured, Observe, Ozone, PTR-MS, Prof, Terpenes, Vertical.

Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of the Oxidation of Isoprene and Other Select Model Alkenes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Neil M Donahue($468,560), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Activity, Alkene, Ambient, Isoprene, Ozone, Photochemical, Previous, Students.

Laboratory Studies on the Aqueous Phase Reactivity of Molecular Markers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Pierre Herckes($115,393), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Organic Compounds, Aerosols, Ambient, Atmospheric, Laboratory, Tracers, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Photochemical Production of Radical Oxidants and Hydroperoxides from Organic Matter and Nitrate in Sea-Salt Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Dennis A Hansell($67,291), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Aerosols, Compounds, Found, Importance, Marine, Oxidized, Quantify, Sunlight.

WCR: Water Cycle in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System: A Theoretical Study
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Hsien-Wang Ou($81,739), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Water Cycle, Theoretical, Transport.

Collaborative Research: WCR: Is Deforestation Changing the Hydrologic Climate and Vegetation Dynamics of the Amazon?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Rafael Bras($399,590), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Paul R Moorcroft($284,359), Harvard University, Cambridge
3. Roni Avissar($94,482), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Changing Hydrologic Climate, Long-term Hydrologic Climate, Long-term Hydrologic, Vegetation Dynamics, Amazonia, Deforestation, Forest, Model, Region, Simulating.

WCR: Coupled Climatic-Hydrologic Change in the Terrestrial Water Cycle of North America in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Impacts
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. Ying Fan Reinfelder($818,564), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Regional Climate, Water Cycle, Coupled, Model, Reservoirs, Subsurface, Surface, Terrestrial.

WCR: Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean: Climatology, Variability, and Response to Deep Convection
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

1. None($379,252), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Tropical Atlantic Ocean, Deep Convection, Upper Tropospheric, Upper-tropospheric Humidity, Water Vapor, Directly, Domit, Observed, Specific, Time, Transport, Upper-tropospheric, Vertical.

Long-Term Trends (~1850 - 2007) of Atmospheric Elemental Carbon Concentrations: Measurements and Comparison with Model Estimates
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Liaquat Husain($143,664), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
Key terms: Atmospheric Concentrations, Whiteface Mountain, Approach, Climate, EC, Fossil, Increased, Sediments.

Inaugural Meeting of the National Forum for Geosciences Information Technology (FGIT); Washington, DC; October 6-7, 2005
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Robert B Wilhelmson($94,528), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Information Technology, White Papers, Contribute, Cyber-infrastructure, Deployment, Development, Discussion, Education, Exchange, FGIT, Foster, Geoscience, Geosciences, Hosting, Issues, Meeting, Meetings, National, Participants, Potential, Public, Reports, Topics, Workshop.

Lidar Sensors and Cyberinfrastructure for Arctic Atmospheric Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE & SENSORS

1. John Livingston($886,946), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Aerosol, Aerosols, Arctic, Contribute, Development, Involve, Lidar, Observations, Operations, RMR, Remote, Resolution, Stratospheric, Temperatures, Transport, Unique, Vertical.

Development of an 'Offline' Version of Weather Research Forecast/Chemistry (WRF/Chem)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. Georg Grell($19,800), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Air Pollution, Air Quality, Chemistry Model, Indian Scientists, Wrfchem Model, Actions, Atmospheric, Capabilities, Chemical, Cost, Forecasting, Meteorological, Meteorology, Modeling, Offline, Online, Operational, Options, Tool, WRFCI.

Empirical Climate Prediction and Understanding Related to Hurricanes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. None($249,946), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Extended Range Seasonal, Hurricane Prediction, Atlantic, Forecasts, Improvement, Insurance, Public, Tropical, Utilize.

Workshop on Tropical Cyclones and Climate; Palisades, New York; March 27-29, 2006
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Suzana J Camargo($10,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Graduate Students, Larger-scale Climate, Tropical Cyclones, Has, Influence, Larger-scale, Losses, Workshop.

Structural Changes in the Tropical Hadley Circulation: Past and Future Trends
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Thomas J Reichler($173,453), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Tropical Hadley Cell, Global Climate, Factors, Trends.

Aerosol/Boundary Layer Cloud Interactions--Simulations and Parameterization Testing
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. None($510,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aerosol Source Model, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Cloud Nucleating Aerosol, Precipitating Boundary Layer, Properties And Precipitation, Cloud Properties, Cloud-nucleating Aerosol, Field Campaigns, Forecast Models, Source Model, Trade Wind, Unique Opportunity, Aerosols, CCN, Calibrate, Climate, Cloud-nucleating, Clouds, Concentrations, Designed, Examine, Forecasts, GCCN, LES, Operational, Parameterized, RICO, Range, Simulations.

Synoptic-Dynamic Climatology of East Coast Winter Storms and Their Impacts
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. None($75,002), Cornell Univ - State: AWDS MADE PRIOR MAY 2010, Ithica
Key terms: Jet Stream, Climatology, ECWS, Ecwss.

Mechanisms for the Regulation of Minimum Mid-tropospheric and Surface Temperatures at High Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Mark C Serreze($72,606), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Surface And Mid-troposphere, Air Temperatures, Mid-troposphere Air, Arctic, Has, Increase, Mechanism, Mid-tropospheric, Processes, Regulates, Sats, Warmer, Warming, Winter, Wintertime.

Adjoint-Derived Sensitivity Diagnosis of Mid-Latitude Weather Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael C Morgan($341,764), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Idealized And Observed, Adjoint Model, Adjoint Tools, Diagnostic Tools, Model Output, Forecast, Function, Predictability, Regions, Sensitivity, Weather.

SGER: Coupling an Ice Sheet Model to Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William H Lipscomb($25,000), Department of Energy Albuquerque Operations Office, Albuquerque
Key terms: Ice Sheet Melting, Ice Sheet Model, Sea Level, CCSM, Climate, Effects, Global, Simulations, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Analysis and Modeling of Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves and the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. None($34,968), Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove
2. Patrick Haertel($304,067), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Ccews And Mjos, Kelvin Waves Forced, Mechanisms And Interactions, Mjo-related Wind Perturbations, Multiple Conflicting Theories, Oceanic Kelvin Waves, Mjo-related Wind, Analysis, Atmospheric, Behavior, Circulation, Disturbances, Existence, Global, Inadequacy, Model, Models, Observational, Representations, Uncertainties.

Mixing and Transport in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard K Scott($273,030), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Mixing And Transport, Utls Region, Climate, Dynamics, Processes, Range, Resulting, Tracers.

Dynamics of Low Frequency Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter J Webster($1,782,200), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Climate Prediction, Numerical Models, Tropical Climate, Interannual, Intraseasonal, Tropics.

Modeling of Cold Fronts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Mark T Stoelinga($362,432), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cold Fronts Adopt, Corrugated Narrow Rainband, Initial And Boundary, Lower-tropospheric Cold Fronts, Narrow Rainband Structure, Boundary Conditions, Controlling Parameters, Forward-tilting Structure, Lower-tropospheric Cold, Approach, Carry, Clouds, Designed, Direct, Dynamical, Formation, Forward-tilting, Frontal, Has, Horizontal, Hypothesized, Idealized, Importance, Isolate, Mechanisms, Meteorological, Microphysical, Model, Numerical, Observational, Phenomena, Physics, Potential, Precipitation, Prediction, Processes, Real-weather, Relative, Shear, Simulations, Stability, Strong, Weather.

Understanding the Dynamic Land-Atmosphere System: Multiple Equilibrium States and Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Guiling Wang($365,347), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Multiple Equilibria, Multiple Equilibrium, Biosphere-atmosphere, Changing, Circulation, Climate, Exist, Existence, Global, Interactions, Model, Modeling, Models.

Surface, Boundary Layer and Cloud Interactions of Energy, Water and Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Alan K Betts($606,100), Betts, Alan K, Pittsford
Key terms: Clouds And Precipitation, Boundary Layer, Global Models, Land Surface, Energy, Evaluating, Modeling, Reanalyses, Water.

Climate System Functioning with Optimally Adapted Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Axel Kleidon($134,760), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Climatic Impacts, Global Climate, Global Climatic, Vegetation Properties, Climate-vegetation, Coupled, Functioning, Quantify.

Dynamical Processes of Equatorial Atmospheric Angular Momentum
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven Feldstein($167,884), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Atmospheric Angular Momentum, Equatorial Atmospheric Angular, Intra-seasonal Fluctuations, Pole Position, Drive, Dynamics, Intra-seasonal, Processes, Relative.

Tropical Cyclogenesis within Equatorial Waves
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John E Molinari($543,865), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Wave, Wave Packets, Western Pacific, Equatorial, Rossby, Theory, Waves.

Late 20th Century Hydrologic Change in Western North America: Regional Impacts and the Role of Climate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Shaleen Jain($181,043), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Western North.

Multi-scale Analysis of African Easterly Waves
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Christopher Thorncroft($672,403), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: African Easterly Waves, Tropical Atlantic.

Climatology of Forecast Skill and Major Forecast Failures over North America and Adjacent Waters
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lynn A McMurdie($356,829), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Forecast Errors, Forecast Failure, Forecast Failures, Forecast Skill, Initial Condition, Particular Regions, Differences, Effects, Experience, Model, Models, Numerical, Operational, Pis.

2005 Radiation and Climate Gordon Conference; Waterville, Maine; July 24-29, 2005
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Nancy R Gray($15,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Radiation And Climate, Discussion Leaders, Fourth Gordon, Gordon Conferences, Radiative Transfer, Benefit, Cloud, Clouds, Expected, Field, GRC, Interaction, Observing, Phases, Speakers, Students, Water.

REU Site: Summer Fellowships in Biogeochemistry and Climate Change at the University of California, Irvine
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jefferson K Moore($280,487), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Analysis, Biogeochemical, Chemistry, Climate, Conjunction, Department, Diverse, Experience, Facilities, Faculty, Field, Involving, Lectures, Program, Students, Techniques, Undergraduate.

CAREER: Diabatic Heating in the Subtropics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Courtney Schumacher($562,275), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Large-scale Circulation, Convective, Large-scale, Precipitating, Students, Subtropics.

Support for the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Chris Elfring($550,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Atmospheric And Climate, Broader Impacts, Decision Makers, Increasingly Visible, Activities, BASC, Board, Boards, Diversity, Energy, Extremely, Federal, Fields, Government, Has, Information, Issues, Knowledge, Meetings, Meteorology, Methods, Nation, Public, Reports, Society.

Fifth International Global Energy and Water Cycle Experiment (GEWEX) Science Conference; Costa Mesa, Orange County, California; June 20-24, 2005
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert A Schiffer($25,000), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Energy And Water, Global Energy, Water Cycle, Modeling.

Numerical Climate Modeling and Water Vapor Feedback
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven C Sherwood($202,794), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Water Vapor, Atmospheric, Climate, Component, Forecasts, Gcms, Global, Humidity, Model, Modeling, Models, Paleoclimate, Societal, Yale.

Collaborative Research: An Observational and Modeling Study of Spring Onset in the Northern Hemisphere Circulation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert X Black($352,574), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Phenomenological Characterization, Regional Climate, Spring Onset, Coupling, Dynamical, Indicated, Interannual, Numerical, Observational, Pis, Predictability, SFW, Stratosphere-troposphere, Stratospheric, Strongly, Tropospheric.

Large-Scale Dynamics and the Maintenance and Variability of the Hydrological Cycle of the Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tapio Schneider($387,072), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Baroclinic Eddies, Water Vapor, Circulation, Transport, Troposphere.

Ship-Board Atmospheric Sounding over the Kuroshio Extension: A Supplement to CLIVAR KESS
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Bo Qiu($219,707), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Kuroshio Extension, Sea Surface, Sst Fronts, Storm Track, Affect, Allows, Atmospheric, Climate, Cloud, Field, Formation, Interaction, KE, KESS, Kes, Observations, Ocean-atmospheric, Oceans, Phenomenon, Region, Temperature, Velocity, Wind, Winter.

Continued Studies of the Structure, Evolution, and Energetics of Subtropical Cyclones in the Northern Pacific and Atlantic Ocean Basins
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jonathan E Martin($374,145), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Cyclone, Cyclones, Subtropical.

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journal of Climate Special Issue on Community Climate System Model
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Keith Seitter($110,000), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Scientists And Students, Special Issue, CCSM, CCSM-, Climate, Document, Model, Serve, Version.

Collaborative Research: Linkages in Winter-Time Climate Variability and the Basis for Climate Predictability in the North Atlantic Sector
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dara Entekhabi($208,476), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Judah Cohen($286,924), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Climate, Models, Seasonal, Supported, Temporal.

SGER: Statistical Analysis of Multi-Model Ensembles of Climate Experiments
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Stephan R Sain($20,208), University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus, Denver
Key terms: Regional Climate Modeling, Regional Climate Models, Boundary Conditions, AOGCM, Analysis, Baseline, CCSP, Establish, Framework, Multiple, NARCCAP, North, Program, RCM, Rcms, Reanalysis, Statistical.

Testing Climate Models by Detecting Climate Signals in Space Data
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard M Goody($604,935), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Climate Models, Approach, Bayesian, Credibility, Evaluation, Inference, Level, Methodology, Methods, Moments, Objective, Observed, Permits, Quality, Radiances, Refractivities, Statistical.

CAREER: Connections between Stratospheric Perturbations and Climate Change - Research and Teaching Integration
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eugene C Cordero($626,830), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Climate Model, Effective Teaching, Forcing Mechanisms, Future Climate, Mechanisms Responsible, Stratospheretroposphere Coupling, Activities, Affect, CDG, Component, Development, Educational, Improvement, Investigation, Outcomes, Perturbations, Properties, QBO, Seeks, Stratospheric, Student, Various, WACCM.

SGER: Improving Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Snow/Ice Radiative and Heating Processes and Asssessing the Importance of the Soot Albedo Effect
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Charles S Zender($26,828), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Snow And Ice, Snow Albedo, CCSM, Climate, Feedback, Heating, Improvements, Model, Soot.

Collaborative Research: Climate Process Team on Low-Latitude Cloud Feedbacks on Climate Sensitivity
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Brian E Mapes($188,636), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Climate Models, Cloud Feedbacks, Modeling Centers, Atmospheric, CAM, CPT, Convective, Future, GCM, NCAR, National, Processes, Space.

American Meteorological Society (AMS) Journals to Developing Countries
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Community Programs

1. Keith Seitter($25,000), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: AMS, Administration, Journals, National, Weather.

CEDAR: High-Spectral Width High Frequency (HF) Radar Ionospheric Backscatter with Coordinated Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) Diagnostic Observations
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Gerard T Blanchard($217,779), Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond
Key terms: Field Line Separatrix, Hf Radar Coherent, Magnetospheric Reconnection Rate, Regions And Boundaries, Common Mode, Spectral Width, AMISR, Affect, Alaska, Backscatter, Conditions, EPSCOR, Electron, Gather, Ionospheric, Kodiak, Open-closed, Purpose, Radars, Rates, Spatial, Special, Superdarn, Time, Volume.

New Particle Formation in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere During HIAPER Progressive Science Missions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Shan-Hu Lee($161,749), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Aerosol Size, Particle Formation, Denver, HIAPER, HPS, Spectrometer.

High Resolution Absolute-dated Histories of Northern and Southern Low Latitude Precipitation: Links between Low and High Latitude Climate over Glacial-Interglacial Cycles
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Hai Cheng($688,420), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Oxygen Isotopic Composition, Low Latitude, Northern Hemisphere, Climate, Earlier, Eastern, Forcing, Greenland, High-resolution, History, Periods, Precipitation, Relate, Sites, Southern, Speleothem, Triggers, Versus.

Collaborative Research: Identifying the Footprints of Human Colonization on Australian Ecosystems and Climate
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Gifford H Miller($355,023), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Marilyn L Fogel($358,580), Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington
Key terms: Human Colonization, Activities, Activity, Australia, Australian, Climate, Ecosystem, Extinct, GIS, Global, Marsupial, Megafauna, Monsoon, Schools, Strong, Students, Tracers, Vegetation, Was, Website.

Collaborative Research: Dunefield Records of Late Quaternary Climatic Change, Northern China
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Joseph A Mason($288,665), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Ronald J Goble($87,581), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Northern China, Climatic, Composite, Designed, Dune, Geomorphic, Monsoon, Orbital.

Multi-Proxy Lake Sediment Records from Northern Epirus and Greek Macedonia: Implications for Late Holocene Climate Variability and Land Use Change
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Michael F Rosenmeier($157,701), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Mediterranean And West, Sediment Cores, Abrupt, Climate, Environmental, Extent, Fluctuations, Greece, Greek, High-resolution, Holocene, Reconstruct.

Collaborative Research: Late Holocene Climate of the Central Andes Identified from Sedimentary, Stable Isotopic, Geochemical and Biological Proxies
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Mark B Abbott($353,787), University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh
2. Donald T Rodbell($331,854), Union College, Schenectady
Key terms: Degrees South, Hydrologic Status, Allow, Authigenic, Carbonate, Climatic, Document, Information, Lake, Lakes, Level, Oscillation, Pacific, Region, Students, Undergraduate, Water.

Collaborative Research: Lake Peten-Itza Drilling Project, Guatemala: A Terrestrial Archive of Northern Neotropical Climate and Environmental Change for the Last Climate Cycle
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: GLOBAL CHANGE

1. Jason Curtis($298,904), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Thomas P Guilderson($45,423), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Emi Ito($120,191), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
4. Christina D Gallup($36,642), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: High-latitude North Atlantic, High-latitude North, Lake Peten-itza, Sediment Cores, Time Scales, Cariaco, Circulation, Climate, Drilling, Guatemalan, ITCZ, Linkages, Lowland, Northern, Peten-itza, Precipitation, Rainfall, Region.

HSD: Paleoclimatic Change, Landscape Evolution, and Cultural Transformations in Far Western Tibet from 2,500 Years Before the Present to the Present
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: HSD - AGENTS OF CHANGE

1. Mark S Aldenderfer($725,789), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Mark S Aldenderfer($700,789), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Asian, Basic, Climate, Competition, Comprehensive, HSD, Himalayan, Historical, Human, Insights, Intensity, Livelihood, Long-term, Monsoon, Obtain, People, Peoples, Region, Shift, Students, Tibet.

DRU: Energy, Air Pollution, and Health Inequalities in Accra, Ghana: Understanding the Technological, Social, and Behavioral Determinants
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: HSD - DEC, RISK & UNCERTAINTY

1. Majid Ezzati($746,208), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Air Pollution Exposure, Pollution And Health, Environmental Risks, Health Inequalities, Health Outcomes, Household Energy, Urban Infrastructure, Accra, Ambient, Applications, Cities, City, Competition, Distribution, Educational, Findings, Growing, HSD, Industrial, Level, Management, Measure, Methodology, Methods, Opportunities, Policy, Population, Residents, Resulting, Slums, Students, Technologies.

SGER: Coronal Studies at the 2006 Total Solar Eclipse
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jay M Pasachoff($61,298), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Observe Coronal Velocities, Coronal Heating, Coronal Oscillations, Eclipse Site, Activity, Aspects, Expedition, Filter, Greece, IAU, International, Observations, Solar, Student, Students, Williams.

CAREER: Aerosol Properties and Effects through Organic Aerosol Characterization, Integrated Analysis of Multi-Instrument Data, and Aerosol-Cloud Nucleation Closure
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jose L Jimenez($721,333), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Aerosol Properties, Chemistry Course, Field Campaigns, Organic Aerosol, Organic Aerosols, Recently Developed, AMS, Analysis, Analyzing, CCN, Characterization, Closure, Component, Development, Effects, Objectives, Obtained, Participation, Program, Resources, Systematically, Training, Undergraduate.

Cumulus Ensemble Sensitivities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: LARGE-SCALE DYNAMIC METEOROLOG

1. Brian E Mapes($235,173), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Deep Convection, Atmospheric, Cloud, Clouds, Cumulus, Large-scale, Models, Occurrence, Sensitivity, Troposphere.

Plasma Dynamics in the Solar Wind Driven Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Wendell Horton($70,000), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Model, Modeling.

CAREER: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling-Nonlinear Alfven Waves and Particle Acceleration
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yi-Jiun Su($262,088), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Alfven Wave Properties, Nonlinear Alfven Wave, Current Region, Earth-based S-bursts, Electron Acceleration, Particle Acceleration, Source Mechanism, Alfvenic, Analysis, Background, Code, Compare, Developed, Distribution, Earth-based, Energy, Field, Fluctuations, Geomagnetic, Linear, Magnetic, Observations, Physics, S-bursts, Satellite, Signatures, Students, Women.

Closed to Open: Particle Signatures Across a Topological Transition
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Patrick T Newell($330,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Closed Field, Energetic Electrons, Energy Ions, Field Line, Field Lines, High-energy Magnetospheric, Magnetic Field, Particle Characteristics, Particle Precipitation, Web Site, Boundary, Detailed, High-energy, Involve, Lead, OCB, Shadow, Transition.

SHINE: Understanding the Magnetic Origins of Coronal Mass Ejections and Forecasting Their Occurrence from Line-of-Sight Magnetograms
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David Falconer($211,526), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Active-region Nonpotentiality, Cme Productivity, Line-of-sight Magnetograms, Magnetic Flux, Vector Magnetograms, Active-region, Cmes, Evolution, Expects, Forecasting, Importance, Line-of-sight, Measures, Parameters, Quantities, Solar.

The Role of Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) Field Fluctuations in Radial Transport in the Outer Radiation Belt Electrons
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kazue Takahashi($300,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Electric And Magnetic, Drift Motion, Energetic Electrons, Global Ulf, Magnetic Field, Radial Transport, Radiation Belt, Single Spacecraft, Ulf Drivers, Ulf Fields, Ulf Phenomena, Ulf Waves, Based, Behavior, Corresponding, Detailed, Diffusion, Energy, Exhibit, Flrs, Fluctuations, Frequency, Geomagnetic, Inner, Model, Observations, Observed, Particles, Quantified, Quantify, Relative, Relativistic, Resonance, Theory, Time, Various.

Statistical Evaluation of the Solar Wind Control of the Large-scale Birkeland Currents
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Brian J Anderson($269,939), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Birkeland Current Distributions, Magnetic Field, Mhd Simulations, Simulations Capture, Solar Wind, CHAMP, Currents, DMSP, Dependencies, Global, Ionosphere, Iridium, Magnetosphere, Model, Modeling, Observed, Oersted, Parameters, Quantitatively, Satellite, Satellites, Step.

Theoretical Computation of Anomalous Resistivity for Substorm and Reconnection Onset
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Peter H Yoon($65,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Current Sheet Structure, Thin Current Sheets, Anomalous Resistivity, Harris Model, Electromagnetic, Excitation, Instability, Magnetic, Onset, Prior, Reconnection, Substorm, Theoretical, Theory.

Systematic Study of Field-aligned Current Sources Based on Satellite Magnetic Field and Particle Precipitation Data
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Simon Wing($283,353), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Boundaries Relative, Magnetic Field, Nightside Facs, Particle Precipitation, Precipitation Regions, Conditions, Currents, Dependence, Set, Structures.

CEDAR: Interhemispheric High Latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamics Using a Coordinated Analysis of AMISR, Sondrestrom, SuperDARN and Other Data Sets
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Calvin Robert Clauer($169,369), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Electric Potential, Ionospheric Drift, Potential Cells, Simultaneous Development, Solar Wind, Atypical, Distribution, Global, Hemispheres, Models, Northern, Northward, Polar, Radar, Radars, Saturation, Southern, Strongly, Summer, Transpolar, Winter.

GEM-CEDAR Postdoc: Understanding MIC through Tomographic Imaging of the Ionospheric and Plasmaspheric Density Using Ground and Space-Based GPS Receiver
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Endawoke Yizengaw($180,093), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dual-band Gps Receivers, Ground And Space-based, Ionosphere And Plasmasphere, Ionospheric And Plasmaspheric, Combined Observations, Dual-band Gps, Ground-based Gps, Inner Magnetosphere, Tomographic Reconstructions, Topside Ionosphere, Analysis, Density, Developed, Electron, Future, Global, Ground-based, Images, LEO, Mid-latitude, Monitoring, Plasmapause, Satellite, Satellites, Structure, TEC, Time.

GEM Postdoc: Dawnside Proton-Cyclotron Interactions and Their Implications for the Proton Aurora
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Umran S Inan($157,060), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Proton Aurora, EMIC, Energy, Interactions, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Observations, Outer, Protons, Spacecraft, Transfer, Wave, Waves.

NSWP: Space Weather--Further Development of Empirical Models of Plasma Densities in Near-Earth Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Bodo W Reinisch($141,494), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Density Distributions, Magnetic Field, Altitude, Database, Dynamics, Empirical, Geomagnetic, Local, Models, Plasma, RPI, Remotely, Satellite.

GEM: Solar Wind Entry into the Magnetospohere and Its Paths to the Plasma Sheet
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Tai Phan($749,893), Solana Scientific Inc., Solana Beach
Key terms: Global Hybrid, Hybrid Simulations, Plasma Sheet, Solar Wind, Boundary, Concerns, Dayside, Entry, Flanks, Investigated, Ion, Ions, Kinetic, Latitude, Magnetopause, Magnetosphere, Processes, Spacecraft, Transport.

NSWP: Policy Research on Integrating Space Weather Observations and Forecasts into Airline Operations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Genene Fisher($170,261), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Space Weather Information, Airline Operations, Aviation Industry, Industry Leaders, Policy Issues, Effective, Effects, Forecasts.

NSWP: Quantitative Forecast and Specification of Radiation Belt Electrons
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xinlin Li($267,557), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Electron Fluxes, Geosynchronous Orbit, Advance, Current, Electrons, Forecasting, Forecasts, Has, L=, Model, Radial, Radiation, Specifications, Times.

NSWP: Theoretical Modeling of the Inner Radiation Belt, II
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mark D Looper($298,409), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Inner Radiation Belt, Neutron Decay Source, Empirical Models, Light Ions, Neutral Atmosphere, Nuclear Reactions, Radial Diffusion, Solar Cycle, Trapped Particles, Based, Dependence, Determined, Energy, Existing, Loss, Mechanisms, Processes, Protons, Relative, Sources, Spatial.

GEM: Small and Medium Scale Modeling of the Auroral Downward Current Region
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert E Ergun($300,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Downward Current Region, Electron Phase-space Holes, Parallel Electric Fields, Analytical Modeling, Electron Phase-space, Ion Outflow, Phase-space Holes, Wave Turbulence, Accelerated, Combination, Conditions, Coupling, Electrostatic, Fluxes, Intense, Investigated, Localized, Main, Modified, Moving, Observations, Physics, Plasmas, Relation, Simulations, Strong, Strongly, Upwards.

GEM: Source of Energetic Ions in the Cusp and Minor Ion Transfer Across the Magnetopause
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Karlheinz J Trattner($240,000), Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto
Key terms: Draped Field Lines, Geomagnetic Field Lines, Imf Field Lines, Quasi-parallel Bow Shock, Quasi-parallel Shock Region, Density Ratio, Energetic Ions, Quasi-parallel Bow, Quasi-parallel Shock, Solar Wind, Accelerated, Connect, Connection, Cusp, Focus, Magnetopause, Magnetosheath, Magnetospheric, Mass, Observed, Phase, Polartimas, Possibility, Source, Tools, Traced, Transfer.

NSWP: Predicting Geomagnetically Induced Fields Driven by Solar Wind Pressure Discontinuities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Simon G Shepherd($320,473), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Geomagnetically Induced Fields, Upstream Solar Wind, Si Currents, Caused, Developed, Electric, Empirical, Gics, Ionospheric, Magnetic, Method, Model, Models, Physics-based, Radar, Surface, Techniques.

FDSS: Virginia Tech Space Science Initiative
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joseph J Wang($805,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Augmentation, Established, Faculty, Graduate, Space.

GEM: Ionospheric Control of the Nightside Magnetosphere-Ionosphere (M-I) Coupling
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Shinichi Ohtani($240,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Field-aligned Current, Particle Precipitation, Summer Hemisphere, Winter Hemisphere, Acceleration, Asymmetry, Auroral, Based, Conductivity, Currents, Dark, Density, Difference, Electrons, Examined, Explanations, FAC, Facs, Field-aligned, Flowing, Has, Intense, Ionospheric, Relation, Sector, Solar, Structures, Sunlit, Upward.

Collaborative Research: GEM: Solar Wind Entry Sites, Paths, and Transport Mechanisms Deduced from Model-Data Comparison
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Marit Oieroset($350,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Joachim Raeder($248,966), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Cold Dense Plasma, Dense Plasma Sheet, Solar Wind Plasma, Entry Sites, Hot Tenuous, Magnetic Field, Model-data Comparisons, Space Weather, Available, Base, Density, Formation, IMF, Magnetosphere, Mechanisms, Model-data, Satellite, Transitions.

GEM: Magnetic Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. John C Dorelli($179,999), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Hall Electric Fields, Dayside Magnetopause, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Reconnection, Solar Wind, Code, Earth, MHD, Magnetosphere, Near, Paradigms, Plasma, Play, Postulates, Three-dimensional.

Collaborative Research: Validating Global Magnetospheric Models with Theoretical Magnetograms
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Michael W Liemohn($150,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Richard A Wolf($225,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Ring Current Models, Closure Path, Computational Module, Dst Index, Magnetic Disturbance, Magnetic Field, Partial Ring, Based, Comparisons, Currents, Earth, Global, Ground, Ionospheric, Issues, Magnetosphere, Phase, Space, Theoretical, Volume.

GEM: Quantitative Comparison of the Theory and Observations of Relativistic Electron Precipitation due to Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robyn M Millan($274,238), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron, Ion Cyclotron Waves, Electron Precipitation, Emic Wave, Emic Waves, Geomagnetic Conditions, Radiation Belts, Relativistic Electron, Acceleration, Electrons, Energy, Flux, Has, Local, Losses, Models, Observed, Particle, Scattering, Simulation, Specifically.

Collaborative Research: ITR: Global Multi-Scale Kinetic Simulations of the Earth's Magnetosphere Using Parallel Discrete Event Simulation
Award Effective Date: 03/20/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. None($802,021), SciberQuest, Del Mar
Key terms: Automatic Optimization, Earth's Magnetosphere, Solar Wind, Algorithms, Balances, DES, Development, Dynamics, Interaction, Methods, Parallel, Physics, Regimes, Regions, Required, Simulation, Simulations, Space, Sub-regions.

FDSS: Faculty Development in Space Weather Research: A Systems Perspective
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. John F Wallin($872,293), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Physics And Astronomy, Space Weather Program, Approach, DPA, Faculty, Focus, GMU, Implement, Knowledge, Phd, Positions, SCS, Strong, Students.

Analysis of Plasma Wave Growth, Anomalous Resistivity, and Diffusion in the Dayside Magnetopause and Reconnection Region
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Petr Hellinger($210,000), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Plasma Wave Instrument, Anomalous Resistivity, Newly Developed, Non-linear Studies, Polar Spacecraft, Reconnection Region, Wave Modes, Analysis, Board, Diffusion, Has, Hybrid, Ion, Magnetopause, Non-linear, Observations, PWI, Shown, Unique, Vlasov, Waves.

CMG: Analysis of Transport, Mixing, and Coherent Structures in Hurricane Intensity
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Michael J Kirby($1,573,078), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Maximum Wind Intensity, Hurricane Intensity, Moist Air, Analyzing, Eye-wall, High-resolution, Methods, Mixing, Processes, Theory.

CMG: Unstable Periodic Solutions for Models of Atmospheric Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Grant Branstator($188,234), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Unstable Periodic Orbits, Atmospheric Dynamics, External Forcing, Analysis, Approximate, Circulation, Compared, Long-range, Model, Models, Nature, Operator, Predictability.

CMG: Characterization of Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Dynamics and Breakdown Using Statistical Learning Methods and Satellite Data
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Padhraic Smyth($618,180), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Visible And Infra-red, Atmospheric Circulation, Available Via, Circulation Model, Itcz Dynamics, Relative Frequency, Relative Vorticity, Statistical Techniques, Westward-propagating Disturbances, Applied, Applying, Breakdown, Combination, Comparing, Derived, Developed, Estimation, Fields, GOES, Imagery, Influence, Methods, Parameters, Satellite, Scatterometer, Search, Sequences, Simulations, Structure, Westward-propagating.

Collaborative Research: CMG: Ensemble Data Assimilation Based on Control Theory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2003; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Dacian Daescu($396,304), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Non-gaussian Error Statistics, Non-gaussian Error, Approach, Conditions, Forecasts, Involves, Method, Methods.

Development of an Instrument for Multispectral Measurement of Aerosol Light Absorption
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. William P Arnott($165,090), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Absorb, Absorption, Aerosol, Aerosols, Available, Climate, Instrument, Measure, Measuring, Solar, Spectra, Spectrum, Ultraviolet, Wavelengths.

Acquisition of a Small Computing Cluster for Atmospheric Physics Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Varavut Limpasuvan($61,623), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Applied Physics, Model Simulations, CCU, Cluster, Education, Undergraduate.

NIRT: Clusters to Nanoparticles: Implications for Atmospheric Nucleation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: NANOSCALE: INTRDISCPL RESRCH T

1. Roy Mauldin($1,562,556), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Atmosphere, Chemical, Development, Instruments, Measure, Nucleation, Particle, Size.

Airborne Measurements of Aerosol Physio-Chemistry and Optical Properties of Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: NANOSCALE: INTRDISCPL RESRCH T

1. Vladimir N Kapustin($508,353), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Optical Properties, Aerosol, Counters, Instrument, Mobility, Particle, Student, Three-wavelength.

Stochastic Modeling of Episode Duration, Magnitude, and Peak in Long Paleo Records
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Laurel S Saito($241,226), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Duration And Magnitude, Hydroclimatic Episodes, Peak Value, Stochastic Models, Drought, Droughts, Joint, Paleoclimatic, Quantify.

Determining Patterns of Abrupt Climate Change during the Last Glacial-Interglacial Transition (LGIT) in the Southern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Marcus J Vandergoes($389,671), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Deglacial Climate, Kettlehole Bog, Quagmire Tarn, Analysis, Carried, Detailed, Facilitate, Global, Pollen.

Climate Implications of the Messinian Desiccation of the Mediterranean Basin: General Circulation Model (GCM) Simulations and Process Model Studies
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Daniel B Kirk-Davidoff($312,205), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Atmospheric Module, Deep Basin, Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean Sea, CCSM, Circulation, Climate, Conditions, Core, Desiccation, Developed, Evaporation, Isolation, Messinian, Model, Models, Opportunity, Salt, Standard, Topography.

Collaborative Research: Aquatic Paleoclimate Proxy Records of Tropical Temperature Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Josef P Werne($73,225), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
2. Konrad A Hughen($87,354), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Water Column, Examine, Live, Proxy, Temperature.

The Holocene History of Drift Ice at the Present-Day Limits Off North Iceland and the Eastern Canadian Margin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Anne Jennings($198,808), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Drift Ice, East Greenland, Hematite-stained Quartz, North Atlantic, Climate, Hematite-stained, Holocene, IRD, Iceland, Mineral, Seas, Shelf, Signal, Sites, Strong.

Testing the Hypothesis: Recurring Century-Length Episodes of Reduced Summer Monsoon Precipitation Are Linked to Ocean/Atmosphere Dynamics in the Tropical Pacific
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Lowell D Stott($448,589), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: India And China, Indian And Asian, Sea Surface Temperature, Western Tropical Pacific, Asian Monsoon, Indian Ocean, Monsoon Regions, Western Tropical, Atmospheric, Climate, Core, Has, Indonesia, Ocean-atmospheric, Oxygen, Persistent, Precipitation, Proxy, Resolution, Strength, Time.

Modeling Climate Evolution Since Mid-Holocene with Earth System Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Zhengyu Liu($454,297), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Abrupt Climate, Graduate Students, Asia, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: Full-Holocene Decadal-Scale Isotopic Paleoclimate Record from Speleothems, Oregon Coast Range
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Peter U Clark($619,625), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Richard L Edwards($105,398), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Pacific Northwest, Climate, High-resolution, Holocene, Oregon, Speleothems.

Collaborative Research: Rapic Climate Change due to Sea Ice Dynamics in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Eli Tziperman($326,999), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. David S Battisti($352,343), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Sea Ice Extent, Climate Modeling, Greenland Ice, Rapid Climate, Abrupt, Circulation, Experts, Influence, Modest, Paleoclimate.

SGER: Is Bolling Warming Recorded by the Southeastern Margin of the Laurentide Ice Sheet?
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Brenda L Hall($39,959), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Laurentide Ice Sheet, Bolling, Chronology, Climate, Glacial, LIS, Maines, Meltwater, Program, Public, SGER, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Water Isotope Model-Data Comparison for Holocene Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Delia Oppo($383,616), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Gavin A Schmidt($156,426), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Hydrologic Cycle, Water Isotope, AOGCM, Climate, Coupled, Experiment, Experiments, Freshwater, Global, Holocene, Ice, Insolation, Model, Seawater, Signature, Simulations, Was.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of the 41-Ka Climate Cycle: Ice Volume and Insolation Forcing
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Eli Tziperman($244,876), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Maureen E Raymo($383,800), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Foraminfera Oxygen Isotope, 41-ka Oscillations, Coupled Climate-ice, Ice Sheet, Ice Volume, Late Pliocene, Milankovitch Forcing, Models Suggest, Ablation, Atmospheric, Benthic, Climate-ice, Constraint, Cycle, Exist, Influenced, Insolation, Internal, Investigate, Modeling, North, Norway, Pleistocene, Precessional, Was.

Tropical Hydrography and Atlantic Salinity Since the Glacial Maximum Near the Bahamas
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. William B Curry($360,708), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hydrological Cycle, Time Scales, Atlantic, Circulation, Climate, Examine, Forcing, Future, Ocean, Past, Salinity, Students.

Reconstructing Monsoon and Climate Variability from Naimona'nyi Ice Cores, Southwest Himalayas
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Ellen Mosley-Thompson($870,654), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Naimona'nyi Ice Field, Arabian Sea, Ice Cores, Naimona'nyi Ice, Precipitation Arrives, Summer Monsoon, Tibetan Plateau, Western Himalayas, Winter Precipitation, Winter Snowfall, Anticipated, Circulation, Climate, Glaciers, Has, Histories, History, Loss, Low, Monsoonal, Naimonanyi, Produce, Reconstruct, Resolution, Strong, Via, Westerly.

Phanerozoic Seafloor Spreading Rate and Compositional History of the Atmosphere, Ocean, and Sediments: A Dynamical Approach
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Fred T Mackenzie($168,840), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Climate, Modes, Rates.

Orbital Impact on Past and Future Sea Level
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. George Kukla($337,222), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Sea Level, Climate, Current, Insolation, Oscillation.

Collaborative Research: Surface-Atmosphere Feedbacks and Holocene Climate Variations in Eastern North America: Linkages, Impacts, and Governing Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 08/23/2004; Program: Paleoclimate

1. John W Williams($156,012), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Eastern North, Holocene Climate, Surface-atmosphere Feedbacks, Critical, Effects, External, Forcings, Gas, Generation, Global, Interactions, Internal, Land-cover, Mechanisms, Model, Networks, Orbital, Processes, Proxy, Reconstructions, Regional, Surface-atmosphere.

Detecting Synoptic-Scale Precursors of Tornado Outbreaks
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lance M Leslie($352,278), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Outbreak And Non-outbreak, Severe Weather, Synoptic-scale Signals, Tornado Outbreak, Tornado Outbreaks, Correlations, Covariates, Days, Fields, Mesoscale, Models, Numerical, Operational, Predict, Processes, Range, Relative, Simulations, Synoptic-scale, Tornadic, Tornadoes.

Volcanic Lightning: Observations and Constraints on Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephen R McNutt($54,227), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Volcano Induced Lightning, Charging, Environment, Interdisciplinary, Principal.

Boundary Layer Structure and Evolution During Terrain-induced Rotor EXperiment (T-REX)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yannick P Meillier($499,957), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Boundary Layer Height, Doppler Lidar, Small-scale Turbulence, Stable Boundary, Accurate, Assimilation, Conditions, Daytime, Estimates, Evolution, Field, Focus, Guide, High-resolution, Information, Model, Optimal, Processes, Profiles, Real-time, Rotor, Situ, Small-scale, T-REX, TLS, Temperature, Terrain, Wind.

Evaluating Predictability of Mesoscale Circulations, Morphologies, and Rainfall Evolution for Warm Season Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William A Gallus($345,229), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Development And Evolution, Warm Season Mesoscale, Broader Impacts, Convective Parameterizations, Grid Spacing, Grid Spacings, Near-cloud Resolving, Numerical Model, Allow, Circulations, Differences, Ensembles, Examine, Explicit, Forecasting, Forecasts, MCS, Mcss, Midwestplains, Morphologies, Ncloud, Observed, Occurring, Operational, Performed, Physics, Primary, Principal, Public, QPF, Rainfall, Range, Runs, Schemes, Sensitivity, Simulation, Simulations, Spread, Various, Verification, WRF.

Tornadic Storms with Doppler Polarimetric Radar
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alexander V Ryzhkov($413,897), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Nontornadic Supercell Storms, Tornadic And Nontornadic, Doppler Spectra, Orthogonal Polarizations, Polarimetric Signatures, Tornadic Storms, Tornado Detection, Velocity Fields, Wsr-88d Radar, Air, Analysis, Collected, Comprehensive, Debris, Dual-doppler, Examined, KOUN, National, Numerical, Oklahoma, Precipitation, Radars, Spectral, Unique, Vertical, WSR-D.

Coherent Doppler Lidar Deployment and Data Analysis for Terrain-induced Rotor EXperiment (T-REX)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Harindra Joseph Fernando($459,808), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Coherent Doppler Lidar, Atmospheric Rotors, Analysis, Arizona, Development, Downstream, Evidence, Exist, Flows, Has, Lofting, Simulations, Size, Streamwise, Strength, Strong, Surface, T-REX, Vortices, Wavy.

Storm-Scale Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting Using Advanced Data Assimilation Techniques: Methods, Impacts and Sensitivities
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Keith A Brewster($835,002), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Convective Storms, Heavy Precipitation, Accurate, Advanced, Analyses, Analysis, Assimilation, Conditions, DVAR, Deployment, Design, Directly, Ensemble, Expected, Forecasting, GPS, Guidance, High-resolution, Improvement, Initial, Model, NWP, National, Network, Numerical, Observational, Observations, Optimal, Prediction, Processes, Sensitivity, Severe, Time, WRF, Weather.

Atmospheric Boundary Identification and Delineation Experiment II (ABIDE-2)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kevin R Knupp($531,622), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Convective Boundary Layer, Convergent Boundary Zone, Convergent Boundary Zones, Nocturnal Boundary Layer, Stable Nocturnal Boundary, Unstable Convective Boundary, Atmospheric Profiling, Biological Fliers, Convective Initiation, Doppler Radar, Initiation Properties, Water Vapor, ABIDE-, Airflow, Conditions, Derived, Following, Profiler, Profilers, Radars, Scanning, Sodar, Transition, Velocity, Weather.

On the Measurement and Potential Applications of Non-Rayleigh Signal Statistics to Studies of Clouds and Rain
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Arthur R Jameson($415,450), RJH Scientific Incorporated, El Cajon
Key terms: Non-rayleigh Signal Statistics, Rayleigh Statistical Theory, Non-rayleigh Signal, Observational Evidence, Scanning Procedures, Theoretical Basis, Andor, Applications, Assumption, Deviations, Explore, Magnitude, Observations, Potential, Precipitation, Quantify, Radar, Rain.

The Influence of Mountains on Climate
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald B Smith($843,000), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Mountain Waves, Orographic Precipitation, Regional Climate, Thermal Circulations, Analysis, Approach, Approaches, Atmospheric, Bls, Contribute, Developed, Dynamics, Field, Knowledge, Numerical, Principal, Surface, Tested, Testing, Theoretical, Theories, Theory, Winds.

Simulation of Mountain Forced Turbulence and Boundary Layer Interactions
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Eric D Skyllingstad($269,231), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Boundary Layer Depth, Mountains Force Turbulence, Upstream Boundary Layer, Flow Conditions, Intellectual Merit, Internal Wave, Mountain Wave, Rotor Formation, Surface Boundary, Terrain Features, Wave Breaking, Atmospheric, Drag, Dynamics, Effects, Efforts, Examine, Flows, Forced, Forcing, Graduate, Has, Heating, Interaction, Lead, Local, Momentum, Mountain-forced, Parameterizations, Planned, Prediction, Range, Simulate, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: Structure and Evolution of Diurnal Cold-Air Pools and Seiches in Small, Closed Basins
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Andreas Muschinski($295,468), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Charles D Whiteman($335,740), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
3. Shiyuan Zhong($99,051), University of Houston, Houston
4. David C Fritts($300,000), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Applied And Basic, Meso And Micro-scale, Structure And Evolution, Cold Pool, Cold-air Pool, Meteor Crater, Arizona, Basin, Benefits, Breakup, Climate, Cold-air, Complex, DNS, Effort, Expected, Field, Has, Knowledge, LES, Lead, MM, Meso-, Mesoscale, Meteorology, Modeling, Observations, Pools, Principal, SBL, Seiches, Simulation, Simulations, Terrain, Waves, Western, Wide.

Collaborative Research: Inhibition of Snowfall by Pollution Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Randolph D Borys($513,958), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. None($254,491), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Rates And Amounts, Air Pollution, Cloud Droplets, Mesoscale Model, Snowfall Rate, Snowfall Rates, Aerosol, CCN, Clouds, Concentration, Crystal, Decreases, Determining, Effect, Effects, Particles, Precipitation, Size, Supercooled, Water.

Dynamical Processes of Orographic Cumuli
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Rick R Damiani($460,473), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Structure And Evolution, Cloud Radar, Cumulus Convection, Cumulus Development, Cumulus Dynamics, Newly Developed, Nwp Models, Aircraft, Arizona, Circulations, Context, Cumuli, Decay, Describe, Digital, Dynamical, Echo, Effect, Entrainment, Environment, Field, Gain, Gcms, Insights, Means, Mesoscale, Objective, Observations, Operational, Orographic, Parameterization, Processes, Remains, Resolved, Situ, Thermodynamic, WCR.

Collaborative Research: Boundary-Layer Influences on Mountain Waves and Rotors
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Charles D Whiteman($335,996), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Shiyuan Zhong($71,776), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Boundary Layer Evolution, T-rex Field Experiment, Valley Boundary Layer, Channeled Flows, Climatological Analyses, Lee Waverotor, Lee Waves, Owens Valley, T-rex Field, Turbulent Erosion, Valley Cold, Air, Allow, Broader, Climate, Climatology, Collected, Comprehensive, Conditions, Deep, Diurnal, Effects, Formation, Interaction, Knowledge, Lead, Modeling, Mountain, Network, Objectives, Observations, Pools, Potential, Principal, Rotor, Rotors, Sierra, Synoptic, Temperature, Valleys, Weather, Wind.

Influence of Land Use and Landscape Heterogeneity on Cloud Formation and Atmospheric Circulation in Southwest Australia
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Udaysankar S Nair($532,432), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Cloud Formation, Landscape Heterogeneity, Mesoscale Circulations, Native Vegetation, Southwest Australia, Spatial Scales, Surface Energetics, Agricultural, Analysis, Atmospheric, Combination, Croplands, Differences, Drastic, Expected, Generated, Graduate, Has, Nature, Observations, Observed, Regional, Satellite, Secondary, Statistical.

Turbulence--Cloud Interactions: Laboratory and Field Studies
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Raymond A Shaw($550,111), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Drop Spatial Distributions, Theoretical And Modeling, Engineering Multiphase, Multiphase Flows, Turbulence Chamber, Turbulence Reynolds, Assumption, Atmospheric, Cloud, Clouds, Clustering, Digital, Drops, Has, Inline, Inside, Laboratory, Principle, Resolution.

Lightning and Thunderstorm Studies
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald J Thomas($1,365,817), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Lightning Mapping Observations, Lightning Discharges, White Sands, Activity, Applications, Central, Continued, Convective, Development, Electrical, Has, Inverted-polarity, LMA, Laboratory, Meteorological, Mexico, NASA, National, Network, Networks, Oklahoma, Processes, Real-time, Storm, Storms, Structure, Time.

T-Rex Observational and Numerical Study of Sierra Nevada Mountain Waves and Rotors
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Vanda Grubišić($710,430), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Cold Air Pools, Southern Sierra Nevada, Complex Terrain, Downslope Windstorms, Mountain Waves, Owens Valley, Sierra Rotors, Thermally Forced, Airflow, Aviation, Collected, Dynamics, Evolution, Flow, Flows, Graduate, High-resolution, Interaction, Lee, Mesonetwork, Mesoscale, Modeling, Numerical, Observational, Observations, Phenomena, Predictability, Simulations, State-of-the-art, Structure, Surface, T-REX, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Non-Uniform Surface Conditions on Lake-Effect Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Neil F Laird($158,436), Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva
2. David A Kristovich($304,597), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Non-classic Lake-effect, Bands, Boundary, Cloud, Complex, Conditions, Convective, Environmental, Evolution, Forecasting, Frontal, Ice, Improvements, Influence, Investigations, Lake-effect, Lakes, Layers, Mesoscale, Mid-latitude, Modified, Non-classic, Numerical, Observations, Phenomena, Processes, Quantify, Structure, Synoptic.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Externally and Internally Modulated Convection on Tropical Cyclone Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew D Eastin($103,501), Central College of Iowa, Pella
2. Paul Reasor($329,483), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Idealized Numerical, Numerical Modeling, Rapidly Intensifying, Tropical Cyclone, Vertically-sheared Hurricane, Atmospheric, Convection, Convective, Core, Dynamics, Evolution, Eyewall, Has, Hurricanes, Observational, Observations, Observed, Radar, Resiliency, Simulations, Structure, Students, Three-dimensional, Vertically-sheared, Vortex.

A Feature-based, Objective, and Automatic Precipitation Verification Methodology
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Scott Sandgathe($304,221), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Statistical Aspects, Weather Forecasting, CA, Clusters, Clustersfeatures, Ensemble, Features, Field, Fields, Forecasts, Framework, Has, Matching, Mesoscale, Methodology, Methods, NWP, Numerical, Observation, Precipitation, Students, Verification, Washington.

Studies of Orographic Precipitation in Cool and Warm Climates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert A Houze($593,142), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Coalescence And Riming, Dynamical And Microphysical, Growth And Fallout, Frontal Phase, Highly Unstable, Mountain Barrier, Mountain Range, Mountain Wave, Nearly Neutral, Orographic Precipitation, Postfrontal Phase, Precipitation Growth, Time Scales, Unstable Orographic, Analysis, Circulation, Conditions, Convection, Convective, Cyclone, Cyclones, Devastating, Encounters, Examine, Examined, Eyewall, Flooding, Floods, Flow, Graupel, Importance, Interaction, MAP, Mechanisms, Midlatitude, Model, Moist, Motion, Preliminary, Principal, Processes, Produce, Producing, Regime, Regimes, Region, Relation, Representative, Shorten, Stage, Storm, Storms, TRMM, Terrain, Tropical, Vertical, Warm, Warmer.

Acquisition of a Meteorological Data Storage, Analysis, and Display System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher Thorncroft($376,193), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Educational Purposes, Storage Array, Allow, Art, Diagnostic, Display, Facilities, Facility, Graduate, Meteorological, Server.

Acquisition of Instrumentation for Enhancing Studies of Aerosol-Cloud Interactions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sonia M Kreidenweis($908,758), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Particle Composition, Aerosols, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Colorado, Equipment, Formation, Ice, Instruments, Nucleation, Properties, Spectrometer.

Evaluation and Improvement of Microphysical Parameterizations in Mesoscale Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Clifford F Mass($596,133), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cloud And Precipitation, Clouds And Precipitation, Weather Prediction Models, Excessive Snow, Field Studies, Mesoscale Model, Model Simulations, Moist Physics, Operational Forecasting, Oregon Cascades, Wide Variety, Windward Slopes, Amounts, BMP, Based, Benefits, Bmps, Compare, Comprehensive, Crest, Deficiencies, Development, Distributions, Errors, Examined, Fidelity, Frontal, Has, IMPROVE-, Iops, Microphysical, Microphysics, Modifications, Mountain, Observations, Orographic, Parameterizations, Performance, Processes, Radar, Regional, Structures, Substantial, Washington.

Modeling Coherent Structure in Convective Boundary Layers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alexander Gluhovsky($407,724), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Convective Boundary Layers, Formidable Theoretical Challenge, Basis Functions, Coherent Structures, Conservation Properties, Describing Turbulent, Differential Equations, Galerkin Method, Atmospheric, Css, Developed, Dynamics, Eofs, Fields, Flows, Fluid, Has, LOM, Loms, Mechanisms, Observational, Original, Traditional, Turbulence.

CAREER: Integrated Studies of Recurring, Non-Traditional Mesoscale Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/26/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew D Parker($491,503), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Convective Organization, Enrolled Students, Hazardous Weather, Meso Program, Meteorological Education, Ps Mcss, Secondary School, Abilities, Benefit, Communication, Elevated, Enhanced, Explanation, Forecast, Graduate, Has, Information, Integrated, LS, Maintenance, Mechanisms, Mesoscale, Non-traditional, Outcomes, Outreach, Precipitation, Processes, Produce, Recurring, Skills, Society, Stratiform, Web-based.

Collaborative Research: Creation of an Online Archive of Airborne Storm Penetration
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Steve Williams($98,587), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Active, Aircraft, Archive, Available, Digital, Has, Service, Situ, T-.

Turbulent Collision-Coalescence of Cloud Droplets and its Impact on Warm Rain Formation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Wojciech W Grabowski($522,701), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Air Turbulence, Collection Kernel, Flow Dissipation, Theoretical Approach, Warm Precipitating, Warm Rain, Allows, Atmospheric, Cloud, Clouds, Cumulus, Developed, Distribution, Droplets, Effects, Engineering, Enhanced, HDNS, KCE, Method, Model, Objective, Observations, Pair, Precipitation, Processes, Quantify, Rate, Reynolds, Size, Time, Weather.

Electromagnetic and Optical Investigations of Cloud-to-Ground Lightning and Its Connections to In-Cloud Discharge Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William H Beasley($49,191), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Cloud-to-ground Lightning, Lightning Flashes, Cloud-to-ground, Discharge, In-cloud, Observations, Optical, Processes.

The Co-Evolution of Mesoscale Airflow over Mountains and the Larger Scale Flow
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Dale R Durran($562,029), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Gravity Wave Drag, Waves And Lee, Weather And Climate, Global Weather, Large-scale Flow, Lee Vortices, Mountain Waves, Wave Drag, Air, Barrier, Circulations, Development, Effect, Environments, Examine, Exert, Influence, Interaction, Large-scale, Larger-scale, Local, Models, Quality, Regions, Spatial, Temporal.

Use of High Resolution Field Data to Improve Model Microphysics and Investigate Orographic Precipitation Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brian A Colle($261,324), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Numerical Weather Prediction, Global Climate, Mesoscale Models, Model Microphysical, Oregon Cascades, Orographic Precipitation, Quantitative Precipitation, Situ Aircraft, Stony Brook, Three-dimensional Structures, Additional, Aloft, Bmps, Cloud, Field, High-resolution, Ice, Mechanisms, Microphysics, Modeling, Observations, Processes, Radar, Simulations, Snow, Three-dimensional, Training, Verify, WSR-D.

Collaborative Research: Improved Understanding/Prediction of Severe Convective Storms and Attendant Phenomena through Advanced Numerical Simulation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew S Gilmore($765,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Jerry M Straka($57,836), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Numerical Simulations, Polarimetric Radar, Storm Rotation, Theme Centers, Tornado Genesis, Aimed, Analysis, Assimilation, Back-building, Behavior, Boundary, Environmental, Evolution, Focus, Forecast, Increased, Influencing, Intensity, Lines, Longevity, Low-level, Microphysical, Microphysics, Model, National, Physics, Represent, Representation, Severe, Storm-scale, Storms, Supercell, Supercells.

Studies of Orographic Precipitation Processes
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert M Rauber($326,201), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Polarization Radar Signatures, Mountain Cloud, Mountainous Regions, Orographic Cloud, Polarization Radars, Water Resources, Aircraft, Available, Finer, Has, Microphysical, Objectives, Precipitation, Prediction, Processes, Topographic.

Studies of Midlatitude Mesoscale Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. None($960,242), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Accompanying Severe Weather, Mesohighwake Low Couplets, Stratiform Precipitation Regions, Bow Echoes, Extreme Rainfall, Mesoscale Convective, Oklahoma Mesonet, Surface Observations, Surface Signatures, Analyses, Features, Leading, Mcss, Mcvs, Parallel, Prediction, Pressure, Processes, Produce, Skill, Sometimes, Storms, Trailing, Winds.

Mesoscale Air-Sea Coupling in Tropical Cyclones Isidore and Lili
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. George R Halliwell($668,290), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Mesoscale Ocean, Ocean Features, Ocean Model, Surface Wind, Tropical Cyclones, Upper Ocean, ABL, Advection, Atmospheric, Boundary, Effects, Fluxes, Forcing, Heat, Intensity, Interactions, Layer, Lead, Mixing, Moisture, OML, Objectives, Oceanic, Principal, Profiles, Storm, Temperature, Warm.

Tropical Cyclone Response to Time-Dependent Heating and Theory of Tropical Cyclone Motion
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hugh E Willoughby($334,183), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Imposed Heat Sources, Axially Symmetric, Mean Vortex, Mean-vortex Structures, Tc Intensification, Baroclinic, Complexity, Derived, Effects, Energy, Environmental, Equation, Evolution, Forcing, Forecasts, Frequency, Has, Heating, Intensity, Level, Mean-vortex, Model, Motion, Potential, Realistic, Time, Track, Two-layer, Vorticity.

Studies of Flow and Turbulent Mixing over Complex Terrain
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert L Street($634,233), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Local And Regional, Land Surface, Mesoscale Computer, Turbulence Models, Atmospheric, Effects, Enable, Flow, Grid, Land-surface, Larger-scale, Phenomena, Representation, Simulations, Small-scale.

SGER: Spectral (bin) Microphysics in the Weather Research Forecast Model: An Investigative Tool for Scientific Advancement
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Barry H Lynn($32,710), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mesoscale Model, Spectral Representation, Wrf Model, Advanced, Benefit, Hydrometeor, Hydrometeors, Implementing, Microphysical, Populations, Processes, Represented, Scheme, Schemes, Shown.

Numerical Modeling Studies of Storm Electrification and Lightning
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Conrad L Ziegler($556,990), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Electrification And Lightning, Convective Region, Field Observations, Mesoscale Convective, Stratiform Region, Stratiform Regions, Charge, Electrical, Evolution, Flashes, Graduate, Lighting, Mcss, Model, Near, Numerical, Processes, Storm, Storms, Structure, Students, Testing.

Collaborative Research: Study of the Genesis, Evolution, Structure, and Dynamic Climatology of Tornadoes and Their Environments
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yvette P Richardson($510,002), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. WENCHAU LEE($971,731), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: Evolution And Structure, Broad Range, Analysis, Carefully, Climatology, Collected, Concerning, DOW, Deployments, Dimensional, Dual-doppler, Environments, Experiment, Field, Genesis, High-resolution, Observations, Obtained, Quality, ROTATE, Radar, Scanning, Sets, Structures, Tornado, Tornadoes, Tornadogenesis, VORTEX.

SGER: Exploration for Aerosols in Nucleated Marine Coastal Environment
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Glenn E Shaw($127,222), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Low Tide, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Clean, Cloud, Coastal, Explore, Growth, Heterogeneous, Newly, Nucleation, Particle, Particles, Properties, Sources, Substantial.

Collaborative Research: Self-Organization of Vortices as a Contributing Mechanism for Tropical Cyclogenesis
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. James P Kossin($204,023), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. None($49,615), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Genesis Process, Parent Vortex, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Cyclones, Based, Circulation, Clusters, Configurations, Core, Formation, Formed, Has, Knowledge, Merger, Method, Multiple, Potential, Predictive, Processes, Progress, Strongly, Structure, Towards, Vortices.

Aircraft and Surface Observation of Aerosol and Cloud Properties in the Houston Area
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Don R Collins($252,045), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Size Distributions, Aerosol, Aerosols, Anomalies, Cities, Cloud, Droplet, Effects, Field, Houston, Influence, Measure, Observations, Pollution, Program, Properties, Surface, Texas, Urban.

CAREER: Three-Dimensional Measurements of Atmospheric Water Vapor Using Miniaturized Microwave Radiometers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2004; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. None($333,092), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Demonstration Network, Larger Networks, Water Vapor, Applications, Atmospheric, Comparison, Design, Distribution, Enable, Fabrication, GPS, Industry, MMIC, Miniaturized, Observations, Prediction, Program, Radiometers, Remote, Sensor, Sensors, Slant, Students, Technology, Undergraduate, Weather.

Observations and Modeling of Orographic Cumulus Development Using Digital Imaging and Data Cataloguing
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2004; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Corinna Gries($431,012), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Deep Convection, Desert Southwest, Orographic Cumulus, Arizona, Automatically, Cloud, Collected, Conditions, Convective, Developed, Development, Environment, Extend, Focus, Forecasters, Information, Initial, Model, Models, Modification, Numerical, Particular, Process, Profile, Shallow, Techniques, Time, Tools, Transition, Volume, Volumetric.

Operation and Application of High-Resolution Full-Disk Global H-alpha Network
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($270,191), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Combine Network H-alpha, Network H-alpha, Solar Observatory, BBSO, Carry, Continue, Eruption, Filament, Filaments, Flares, Full-disk, Global, Imager, Magnetic, Oscillations, Resolution, Space, Stations.

NSWP: Can the Kink Instability Trigger Solar Energetic Events?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Graham K Barnes($275,231), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Vector Magnetic Field, Active Regions, Kink Instability, Solar Energetic, Axis, Mechanism, Method, Observational, Proposers, Twist, Winding.

Mysterious Activities of Our Magnificent Sun
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Zdzislaw E Musielak($250,186), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Constructed Theoretical Models, Magnetic Waves, Mechanisms Operating, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Chromosphere, Solar Wind, Transition Region, Acceleration, Acoustic, Activity, Basic, Energy, Has, Heating, Pis, Public, Reconnection, Regions, Resulting, Sources.

Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Charged Particle Transport, and Turbulence in the Extended Solar Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. William H Matthaeus($450,000), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Mhd Turbulence, Solar Wind, Analysis, Basic, Energetic, Energy, Heating, Nonlinear, Particle, Plasma, Plasmas, Simulation, Space, Techniques, Theories, Theory, Transport.

Cyclotron Radiation Model of Type III Bursts
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Ching-Sheng Wu($125,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Iii Bursts, Magnetic Field, Observational Evidence, Radio Bursts, Solar Radio, China, Closely, Coronal, Effects, Electromagnetic, Emission, Interplanetary, Model, Radiation, Standard, Waves.

RUI: A Study of the Sources of Solar Total and Spectral Variability
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stephen R Walton($212,707), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Solar Active Regions, Spectral Solar Irradiance, Total And Spectral, Photometric Images, Solar Features, CSUN, Cycle, Relative, SFO.

SHINE Postdoc: Modeling Elevated Charge States in Hot ICMEs and SEP Events to Study Their Inner Coronal Sources
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Susan Lepri($160,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Icmes And Seps, Acceleration Mechanisms, Energetic Particles, Hot Icmes, In-situ Charge, Ionic Composition, Solar Energetic, Solar Wind, Corona, Coronal, Enable, Evolution, Heliosphere, In-situ, Model, Modeling, Models, Observations, Observed, Reflect, Sources, Sun, Thermal.

SHINE: Magnetic Reconnection in Solar Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 10/21/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jiong Qiu($169,204), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Magnetic Configurations, Magnetic Reconnection, Mass Ejections, Acceleration, Cmes, EUV, Eruption, Evolution, Filaments, Ha, Large-scale, Magnitude, Measured, Observationally, Observations, Patches, Rate, Solar.

SGER: Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Initiations as a Result of Magnetic Helicity Accumulation in the Corona
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Mei Zhang($23,780), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Magnetic Helicity, Upper Bound, Accumulation, CME, Cmes, Coronal, Effort, Evolution, Field, Proposers, Space, Theory.

FDSS: Faculty Position in Solar Physics at the University of Arizona
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Joe Giacalone($1,000,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Solar Physics, Arizona, Attract, Broader, DPSLPL, Department, Faculty, Heliospheric, NSO, Planetary, Program, Students, Teaching.

Collaborative Research: Polarimetric Imaging and Spectroscopy of the Corona from 500-1500nm during Total Solar Eclipses
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Donald L Mickey($309,988), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Munir H Nayfeh($83,126), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Martina B Arndt($25,630), BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY, Bridgewater
Key terms: Coronal Magnetic Field, Nanometer Size Dust, Size Dust Particles, Dust Grains, Inner Corona, Near Infrared, Polarized Fluorescence, Silicon Nanoparticles, Solar Wind, China-russia, Direction, Discrete, Eclipses, Emission, Interplanetary, Laboratory, Libya, Lines, Observations, Polarimetric, Shapes, Signature, Spectrum.

SHINE: Ion Acceleration and Evolution of Spatio-Temporal Profiles in Energetic Storm Particle Events
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Dietmar Krauss-Varban($295,704), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Energetic Ions, Energetic Particle, Interplanetary Shocks, Kinetic Simulations, Shock Acceleration, Fluxes, Large-scale, Medium, Observations, Pis, Plasmas, Program, Proposers, SHINE, Turbulence.

SHINE: A Search to Identify the Relationship between Heliospheric and Solar Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Signatures
Award Effective Date: 02/03/2004; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Alysha Reinard($71,526), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cmes, Compared, Individual, Solar, Sun.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Mid-Latitude and Equatorial Electrodynamics and Severe Space Weather during the Communication/Navigation Outage Forecast System (C/NOFS) Era
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Andrew J Gerrard($21,340), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: All-sky, CNOFS, Huancayo, Irregularities, Jicamarca, Mission, Observations, Observatory, Plasma, Radar, Scintillations.

CEDAR: Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) and Imaging Radar Studies of the Auroral Electrojet
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. David L Hysell($283,429), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Auroral Echoes Depend, Joule Heating, Scatter Radar, Wave Heating, AMISR, Anchorage, Convection, Doppler, Effects, Experimental, Field, Investigation, Plasma, Training.

AMISR Graduate Studies: Development of Multi-sensor Analysis Techniques and a Synergistic Educational Program
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Joshua Semeter($244,974), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Electrical Engineering Curriculum, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Background Plasma, Basic Ionospheric, Educational Objectives, Graduate Student, Remote Sensing, AMISR, Auroral, BU, Boston, Capabilities, Course, Dissertation, Energy, Funding, Has, ISR, Inversion, Item, Optical, Pis, Produce, Relative, Tools, Undergraduate.

CEDAR: A Robust Interferometer for Studies of Thermospheric Composition and Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Steven R Watchorn($175,574), Scientific Solutions Incorporated, North Chelmsford
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Airglow Emissions, Atomic Oxygen, Conventional Interferometers, Mass Spectrometer, Atmosphere, Ground-based, Measure, Model, Nanometer, Near, Neutral, Optical, SHS, Single, Thermospheric.

CEDAR: Atmosphere/Ionosphere Coupling in the Creation of Topside Spread Echoes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Gregory D Earle($212,549), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Midlatitude Spread, Plasma Density, Topside Ionograms, Topside Sounder, Code, Effects, F-region, ISS-B, Induced, Investigate, Investigation, Model, Observed, Occurrence, Perturbations, Propagation, Ray-tracing, Rocket, Spreading, Structures.

NSWP: Collaborative Analyses of the Formation, Activation and Long-term Slow Rise of Filaments as Precursors to Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Alexei A Pevtsov($478,263), Helio Research, La Crescenta
Key terms: Filament Eruption, Long-term Slow, Mass Motions, Activation, Activations, Barbs, Body, Filaments, Formation, Long-term, Magnetic, Model, Observational, Six, Telescopes, Theoretical.

SGER: Ground-based Optical Detection of the Ring Current
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Elizabeth A Kendall($37,908), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Ground-based Optical Instruments, Ring Current Composition, Ring Current Precipitation, Ground-based Optical, Climate, Distributed, Emissions, Energy, Evolution, Feasibility, Geomagnetic, Global, Hawaii, IMAGE, Latitude, Magnetic, Measure, Monitoring, Morphology, Network, Observations, Observed, Region, Satellites, Situ, Storms, Weather.

Multi-Diagnostic Characterization of Mesospheric Gravity Wave Propagation at the Arecibo Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Steven M Smith($59,337), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Resonance Lidar, Characteristics, Investigate, Line.

NSWP: Space Weather--Three-Dimensional Models of Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Onset and Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Philip A Isenberg($354,124), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Analytical And Numerical, Coronal Magnetic Field, Titov And Demoulin, Flux Rope, Magnetic Field, CME, Configuration, Energy, Equilibrium, Eruption, Evolution, Line-tied, Model, Onset, Proposers, Students.

NSWP: Multiple Incoherent Scatter Radar Long-Term Database Study of Upper Atmosphere Climatology and Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Shun-Rong Zhang($371,891), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Thermospheric And Ionospheric, Millstone Hill, Scatter Radar, Density, Electron, ISR, Models, Neutral, Norway, Temperature.

SGER: Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) Studies at High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Frank T Djuth($50,926), Geospace Research Inc, El Segundo
Key terms: Directed Parallel, Enhanced Plasma, Geomagnetic Field, Hf Beam, Radio Wave, AMISR, Airglow, Answered, Conditions, Experiments, Facility, Frequency, Generated, Geophysical, HAARP, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Lines, Modification, Physics, Program, Publications, Radar, Strong, Students, Training.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Quantification of Gravity Wave Instability Dynamics and Mean Forcing Using MTM and Related Instrumentation at ALOMAR and Maui MALT
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. David C Fritts($246,059), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Michael J Taylor($225,032), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Dynamics, Mean, Methodology, Momentum, Quantification, Regions, Sites.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Studies of Radio-Wave Scatter and Dynamical Processes in the Polar Summer Mesopause Region
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Phillip B Chilson($44,738), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Middle Atmosphere, Vertical Structure, Approach, Echoes, Mesospheric, Polar, RIM, Radar, Resolution, Technique, Temperature.

Maui/MALT: Coordinated Seasonal Investigations of Gravity Wave Characteristics and Mesospheric Temperature Variability
Award Effective Date: 08/25/2004; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Michael J Taylor($102,092), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Mesosphere And Lower, Lower Thermosphere, Air, Campaign, Intensity, Long-term, Mauimalt, Temperature.

Maldives AUAV Campaign (MAC): Observing Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation Interactions Simultaneously from Three Stacked Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (AUAVs)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Veerabhadran Ramanathan($449,421), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Cloud Albedo, Cloud Microphysics, Miniaturized Instruments, Particular Emphasis, Solar Absorption, Aerosols, Auavs, Below, Campaign, Clouds, Cloudy, Drop, Lightweight, MAC, Maldives, Measure, Mission, Observe, Polluted, Radiation, Simultaneously.

Collaborative Research: Tropical Forcing of Hydrological Variations Over North America during the Last Millennium
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Richard Seager($491,901), Columbia University, New York
2. Amy C Clement($211,387), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: El Nino-southern Oscillation, El Nino-southern, Nino-southern Oscillation, Solar Irradiance, Tropical Pacific, Coupled, Drought, Ensembles, External, Intermediate, Knowledge, Mechanisms, Mid-holocene, Millennium, Model, North, Observations, Orbital, Period, Persistent, Simulations, Volcanism.

Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Reconstructions for the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Cary J Mock($289,485), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Atlantic Basin Tropical, Tropical Cyclone Activity, Forcing Mechanisms, Land Falling, Tropical Cyclones, Archives, Circulation, Climatic, Coastal, Colonial, Diaries, Documentary, Eastern, Examine, Florida, High-resolution, Hurricane, Instrumental, Modern, Newspapers, North, Oscillation, Paleo-hurricane, Reconstruct, Reconstructions, Selected, Ship, Time.

NSWP: Determining the Relationships between Promptly Penetrating, Daytime Low Latitude Electric Fields and Interplanetary Electric and Magnetic Field Conditions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: nan

1. Adela F Anghel($114,445), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ionospheric Electric Fields, Penetrating Electric Fields, Magnetic Field, Drifts, Driven, IMF, Interplanetary, Jicamarca, Peru, Radar.

Mesospheric Research Based on the Analysis of Temperatures and Densities from the Utah State University/Center for Atmospheric and Space Sciences Atmospheric Lidar Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: nan

1. Vincent B Wickwar($40,085), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Lidar, Temperature.

NSWP: Space Weather--An Examination of Short Term Forecasting of Equatorial Spread-F Using a Longitudinal Chain of Wind Measuring Fabry-Perot Interferometers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: nan

1. Rick J Niciejewski($392,151), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ascension Island, Equatorial Spread-f, Neutral Winds, Brazil, Effort, F-region, Fabry-perot, Forecast, Instrumentation, Peru, Scintillations, Spread-f.

NSWP: Synoptic Solar Magnetic Field Measurements at the Mt. Wilson 150-foot Tower Telescope in Support of Heliospheric Predictions and Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Roger K Ulrich($368,264), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Basic Magnetic Field, Potential Field Theory, Spectral Line Pair, Electric Currents, Combination, Component, Continuation, Curl, Estimate, Estimation, Fields, Found, Heliospheric, Investigate, MWO, Magnetograms, Method, Mt, Nearth, Photospheric, Plans, Predict, Products, Program, Regular, Solar, Transverse, Wilson.

Development of the First Distributed Observatory Dedicated to Studies of the Low Latitude Ionosphere and Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Cesar E Valladares($1,509,890), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Ionospheric Irregularities, Chain, Degrees, Frequency, GPS, Information, Latitude, Low, Magnetometers.

NSWP: Studying the Phenomenology of the Calm before the Storm in CIR/Magnetosphere Interactions: Preconditioning of the Magnetosphere prior to High-Speed Streams
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Joseph Borovsky($288,873), Department of Energy Albuquerque Operations Office, Albuquerque
Key terms: Geomagnetic Storms, Los Alamos, Solar Wind, Calm, Calms, Occurring, Summer.

FDSS: Solar and Space Science Development at the Institute for Astronomy
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Donald L Mickey($643,400), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Solar And Space, Coronal Magnetic, Critical Mass, Graduate Education, Magnetic Field, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Magnetic, Solar Physics, Activities, Astronomy, Computational, Faculty, Has, Ifa, Ifas, Individual, Institute, Maui, Observational, Photosphere, Program, Resources.

SGER: Hydrological Cycles in the Tropics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: nan

1. William K Lau($25,000), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Land And Oceans, 140-year Simulations, 20th Century, Coupled Models, Gcm Simulations, Precipitation Efficiency, Surface-air Temperature, Tropical Land, Warm Rain, Water Vapor, Aspect, Document, Gcms, Observations, Past, Pis, Ratio, Simulated, Ssts, Surface-air, Trends, Validate.

Next Millennium Research at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Donald T Farley($7,528,199), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Equatorial Ionosphere, Access, Adding, Additional, Aeronomy, Antenna, Capabilities, Cornell, Database, Educational, Has, Incoherent, Jicamarca, Modes, Observing, Peruvians, Phd, Physics, Radar, Receiving, Remote, Scatter, Source.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2005

ADVANCE Fellows: How Dust Affects the Electrodynamics of the Earth's Mesosphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: ADVANCE - FELLOWS

SGER: Investigation of ESF Triggers Using Balloon-Based and Ground Diagnostics. Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

How Does the High-Altitude Plasma Distribution Change During Magnetic Storms Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Daytime Potassium Doppler Lidar at Arecibo Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: High-Time-Resolution Resonance Lidar Detection of Meteor Trails Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

FDSS: Space Science Faculty Development at Pennsylvania State University Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

FDSS: Augmentation of Space Sciences Faculty at Dartmouth Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

Studies of the Plasmasphere Boundary Layer with Distributed Arrays of Radio Instruments Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

Ray Methods for Atmospheric Gravity Waves Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: Development of a Distributed, Multistatic Meteor Radar System Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

Micrometeors and Their Interaction with the Atmosphere: A Comprehensive Study Using the Arecibo and Jicamarca Observatories Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

Simulations and Theory of Small Scale E-region Turbulence Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Postdoc: Modeling Radar Observations of Meteor Trails Award Effective Date: 01/15/2004; Program: AERONOMY

Spaceship Earth: Probing the Solar Wind with Cosmic Rays Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

SGER: Coupling of Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry and Tundra Ecophysiology by Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Fluxes Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

SGER: Independent Determinations of Bromine (Br) and Chlorine (Cl) in Barrow, Alaska Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Formaldehyde Desorption and Production from Ice Surfaces Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Evolution of Aerosol Hygroscopicity, Mixing State, and Cloud Activation Efficiency Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Acidity of the Quasi-Liquid Layers of Ice and Snow Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Impact of Aged Boreal Fire Emissions on the Composition of the Remote Midlatitude Lower Free Troposphere, Using Measurements at the PICO-NARE Station Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Kinetics and Products of Hydroxyl Radical (OH) and Chlorine (Cl) Reactions with High Molecular Weight Organic Aerosol Precursor Compounds Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

How Do Particle Chemical Properties Affect Aerosol Chemical Reactions? Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Evolution of Meteorology and Ozone in the Mexico City Outflow Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Source Characterization for Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments-Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign (MIRAGE-Mex City) Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Real-Time Size and Composition Aerosol Measurements on the NSF C-130 Aircraft and Integrated Data Analysis Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Characterization and Apportionment of Primary and Secondary Organic Aerosols during the MIRAGE-Mex Experiment Using GCMS and LCMS Methods Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measuring Methyl Halide Fluxes in Temperate Grasslands Using Stable Isotope Tracers Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measurement of DiMethyl Sulfide (DMS) Air-Sea Exchange by Eddy Covariance Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Organic Trace Gas Studies from Whole-Air Sampling of the Impact of Megacities and Intercontinental Transport on Regional and Global Environments Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measurement of Urban Volatile Organic Compound Fluxes during Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments (MIRAGE) in Mexico City Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Aerosol Impacts on the Regional and Global Environment Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Elastic Lidar Measurements in Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments-Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign (MIRAGE-Mex) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Isotopic Composition of Nitrous Oxide and Carbon Dioxide Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Thermodynamic Modeling of Atmospheric Organic Particulate Matter (OPM) in Salt-Containing, Potentially Multi-Phasic Particulate Matter (PM) Systems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Profiler Measurements in Support of Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments (MIRAGE) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Wind Profile Measurements in Support of the Megacity Impacts on Regional And Global Environments (MIRAGE) Study Experiment Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Impact of Aerosols on the Photochemistry during Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments-Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measurement of Aerosols and Trace Gases in Mexico City Outflow during Megacity Impacts on Regional and Global Environments-Mexico City Pollution Outflow Field Campaign (MIRAGE-Mex) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Effect of Heterogeneous Interactions on Optical, Hygroscopic, and Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) Properties of Organic Atmospheric Aerosols Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Tropical Tropopause Layer Chemistry Experiment (TTL-CHEM) - Project Coordination Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Sources and Processes of Organic Fine Particulate Matter in Mexico City Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Feasibility Study for the Atmospheric Measurement of Potential Aerosol Mass (PAM) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Field, Laboratory, and Theoretical Study of Soot Aerosol Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Ground-Based Observations of Nitrogen Oxides and Nitrates Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Photochemistry at Organic Particle-Air Interfaces Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Evaluating Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Processes Award Effective Date: 07/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

American Association for Aerosol Research (AAAR) 2005 Conference; Austin, Texas; October 17-21, 2005 Award Effective Date: 06/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

International Workshop on Agriculture Impacts of Air Quality; Washington, District of Columbia; During 2006 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Development of Instrumentation and Methods for Measurements of Water-Soluble Organic Chemical Compounds in Ambient Aerosol Particles Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Global-Scale Photochemistry of Oxidants, Peroxides and Organic Nitrates: A Model-Based Investigation Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Measurements in Exhaust Plumes of Rockets in Conjunction with WB-57F Ascent Video Experiment (WAVE) Award Effective Date: 05/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

A Comparison of Aerosol Organic Carbon Measurements and Models in the Free Troposphere at Mauna Loa Observatory (MLO) Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Reactions in an Ion Trap to Improve On-line Volatile Organic Compound (VOC) and Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compound (OVOC) Measurements Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

New Instrumentation for Emission Measurements Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Influence of Megacities on Atmospheric Biogeochemical Cycles Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Extending the Use of Proton-Transfer-Reaction Mass Spectrometer (PTR-MS) for New Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds and Their Oxidation Products - Phase II Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Experimental and Theoretical Investigations of the Oxidation of Isoprene and Other Select Model Alkenes Award Effective Date: 02/15/2005; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Laboratory Studies on the Aqueous Phase Reactivity of Molecular Markers Award Effective Date: 10/01/2004; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Photochemical Production of Radical Oxidants and Hydroperoxides from Organic Matter and Nitrate in Sea-Salt Aerosols Award Effective Date: 04/15/2004; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

WCR: Water Cycle in a Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere System: A Theoretical Study Award Effective Date: 04/15/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Collaborative Research: WCR: Is Deforestation Changing the Hydrologic Climate and Vegetation Dynamics of the Amazon? Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

WCR: Coupled Climatic-Hydrologic Change in the Terrestrial Water Cycle of North America in the 20th and 21st Centuries: Natural Variability and Anthropogenic Impacts Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

WCR: Upper Tropospheric Water Vapor over the Tropical Atlantic Ocean: Climatology, Variability, and Response to Deep Convection Award Effective Date: 02/01/2005; Program: BE-UF: WATER CYCLE

Long-Term Trends (~1850 - 2007) of Atmospheric Elemental Carbon Concentrations: Measurements and Comparison with Model Estimates Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Inaugural Meeting of the National Forum for Geosciences Information Technology (FGIT); Washington, DC; October 6-7, 2005 Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Lidar Sensors and Cyberinfrastructure for Arctic Atmospheric Research Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE & SENSORS

Development of an 'Offline' Version of Weather Research Forecast/Chemistry (WRF/Chem) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

Empirical Climate Prediction and Understanding Related to Hurricanes Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Workshop on Tropical Cyclones and Climate; Palisades, New York; March 27-29, 2006 Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Structural Changes in the Tropical Hadley Circulation: Past and Future Trends Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Aerosol/Boundary Layer Cloud Interactions--Simulations and Parameterization Testing Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Synoptic-Dynamic Climatology of East Coast Winter Storms and Their Impacts Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Mechanisms for the Regulation of Minimum Mid-tropospheric and Surface Temperatures at High Latitudes Award Effective Date: 11/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Adjoint-Derived Sensitivity Diagnosis of Mid-Latitude Weather Systems Award Effective Date: 10/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

SGER: Coupling an Ice Sheet Model to Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Analysis and Modeling of Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves and the Madden-Julian Oscillation Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Mixing and Transport in the Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Dynamics of Low Frequency Phenomena Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Modeling of Cold Fronts Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics