AGU Chapman Conference on Mid-latitude Ionospheric Dynamics and Disturbances, Yosemite National Park, CA; January 3-6, 2007
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: AERONOMY

1. Brenda L Weaver($15,750), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: AGU, Attend, Chapman, Conferences, Funding.

CEDAR Postdoc: Imaging Studies of Ionospheric Instabilities
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Michael Mendillo($161,888), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Airglow, Arecibo, Conjugate, Depletions, F-region, ISR, Near, Nm, Observations, Satellite, Site.

SGER: Theory for Satellite Coronae and Atmospheric Escape
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. William H Smyth($129,386), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Planetary Atmospheres, Analytical, Atom, Description, Evolution, Formalism, Non-collisional, Satellite, Three-body.

Collaborative Research: Very Low Frequency (VLF) Remote Sensing of the Lower Ionosphere and Electron Precipitation from the Radiation Belts
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert E Davis($60,000), Taylor University, Upland
2. Umran S Inan($572,074), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Electrodynamic Coupling, Radiation Belts, Vlf Disturbances, Array, Description, Generated, Geomagnetic, HAIL, Ionosphere, Lightning, Receivers.

Mesosphere-Thermosphere Science from Microwave Observations
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Bradford J Sandor($240,372), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Region, Chemical, Microwave, Ozone, Photochemical, Species, Trace, Transport.

Wind and Wave Patterns in the Earth's Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Michael C Kelley($985,351), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: All-sky Cameras, Millstone Hill, All-sky, Electron, Equatorial, ISR, Ion, Line, Molecular, Plasma, Technique, Temperature.

CEDAR Postdoc: Coordinated Space-Based Observations of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Using TIMED/Global UltraViolet Imager (GUVI) and Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Joseph Comberiate($180,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Bubbles, DMSP-, Depletions, Equatorial, Evolution, GUVI, Imager, Imagery, Images, Inversion, Ionosphere, Nm, Plasma, Satellite, Spatial, Ultraviolet.

A Mars Whole Atmosphere Climate Model: Development and Applications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. James R Murphy($673,078), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Martian Atmosphere Permits, Upper Martian Atmosphere, Lower Atmosphere, Adapted, Atmospheric, Circulation, Examination, Mars, Model, Neutral, Processes, Profiles.

Collaborative Research: Meteor Plasmas - Dynamics and Radiowave Scattering
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Meers Oppenheim($100,001), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Basic Plasma Physics, Upper Atmosphere, Meteor, Plasmas, Simulations.

Estimation of Thermospheric Oxygen Density and Temperature From Combined Optical and Radar Measurements
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Lara S Waldrop($313,980), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Altitude Range, Incoherent Scatter, Arecibo, Atmospheric, Coupling, Density, Estimates, Estimation, Factor, Independent, Ionosphere, O-O, Optical, Radar, Technique, Techniques, Temperature, Thermosphere.

Collaborative Research: Common Volume Radar Observations of Irregular Sporadic E Layers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. David L Hysell($255,530), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Miguel F Larsen($248,881), Clemson University, Clemson
3. John Munro($83,172), University of The Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Arecibo Facility, Coherent Scatter, Imaging Radar, Instrument Cluster, Qp Echoes, Add, Capabilities, Clemson, Cornell, Croix, Has, Irregularities, Layer, Layers, Mid-latitude, Neutral, Sporadic, St, Students, UVI.

Thermospheric Responses to Gravity Waves Dissipated by Molecular Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Sharon L Vadas($260,400), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Recently Developed, Space Weather, Wave Propagation, Wave Source, Waves Generated, Model, Thermosphere, Was.

Ground-based Detection of Ionospheric Density Modulations due to Alfven waves using AMISR and Ground-Based Optics at Poker Flat, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Russell Cosgrove($316,545), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Alfven Waves, Density Modulations, Frequency Domain, Iarifi Model, Ion Velocity, AMISR, Advanced, Answering, Experimental, Feedback, Has, IFI, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Mechanisms, Observations, Observed, PFRR, Structure, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Daytime Potassium Doppler Lidar at Arecibo
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Xinzhao Chu($52,286), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Arecibo, Determined, Diurnal, ISR, Layers, Mesopause, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Flickering and Auroral Roar
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Hans C Nielsen($82,750), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Auroral Roar, Flickering Aurora, Geophysical Institute, Optical Flickering, Radio Emissions, Radio Observations, Alaska, Arcs, Band, Collaboration, Frequency, GI, Has, Kaktovik, Observed, USAFA.

CEDAR: Physics of the Hydrogen Geocorona
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Fred L Roesler($432,573), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Pine Bluff, Upper Thermosphere, Atomic, Density, Emission, Geocoronal, Near, Profiles, Quantify, Source.

Radar Studies of the Low Latitude Disturbed Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Bela G Fejer($505,003), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Ionospheric Plasma Drifts, Electric Field, Electric Fields, Low Latitude, Numerical Simulations, Radar Facilities, Solar Wind, Altitudinal, Arecibo, Concerns, Conditions, Coupling, Dependent, Disturbed, Effects, Electrodynamic, Equatorial, Flux, Global, Highly, Jicamarca, Magnetospheric, Model, Participation, Processes, Program, Range, Storm, Students, Time.

A Detailed View of Gravity Waves, Collision Cross Sections, and Currents in the Arecibo Upper Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Frank T Djuth($345,822), Geospace Research Inc, El Segundo
Key terms: Arecibo Observatory, Gravity Waves, Analysis, Collaboration, Observations, Radar.

CEDAR: Statistical Inference of Solar Cycle Signatures and Long Term Trends in Mesospheric Temperature Observations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Syed Azeem($166,093), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Cycle And Long-term, Temperatures And Tidal, Degrees North, Degrees West, Solar Cycle, Teachspace Program, Canada, Graduate, MI, Mesospheric, School, South, Space, Students, Teachers.

CEDAR: A Calibration 'Facility' for CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) Optical Aeronomy
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jeffrey Baumgardner($228,263), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Calibration Facility, Light Sources, Optical, Pass, Sensitivity, Shipped, Sites, Standard.

CEDAR: SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Stellar Occultation: Upper Atmospheric Oxygen (O2) and Ozone (O3)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jerry D Lumpe($50,000), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
Key terms: Altitude Profile, Climate, Density, Models, Solar.

CEDAR Postdoc: Physical Interpretation of Total Electron Content (TEC) Response during Intense Geomagnetic Storms Using Data Assimilation and Physically-Based Models
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Timothy J Fuller-Rowell($147,952), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Specific, Storms, TEC.

Collaborative Research: Coordinated Imaging and Scintillation Study of the Conjugate Nature of Equatorial Plasma Irregularities
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan J Makela($223,538), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. None($50,000), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Magnetic Flux Tube, Gps Receivers, Instruments Deployed, Common, Nm.

CEDAR: Multi-Diagnostic Characterization of Mesospheric Gravity Wave Propagation at Several Globally Distributed Sites
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Steven M Smith($300,103), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Mesospheric Gravity Waves, Temperature And Wind, Mesospheric Gravity, Atmospheric, Campaign, Characteristics, Observatory, Occurrence, Planned, Sources.

Auroral Thermosphere with Nitrogen-Ion (N2+) Lidar and Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR)
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Richard L Collins($573,750), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, AMISR, Auroral, Determined, E-region, Ion, Lidar, Profile, Unprecedented.

Operations of the Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Science Steering Committee (CSSC)
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jan J Sojka($102,881), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Activities, Atmospheric, CEDAR, CSSC, Program.

CEDAR: Development and Optimization of Tomographic Imaging Methods for Advanced Gravity Wave Studies in the Mesospheric and Lower Thermospheric (MLT) Region
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

1. Michael J Taylor($493,588), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Upper Mesosphere, Airglow, Algebraic, All-sky, Imagers, Inversions, OH, Structure, Tomographic, Wave.

Characterizing Middle Atmosphere Thermal Structure, Polar Mesospheric Clouds and Gravity Waves at Rothera, Antarctica (67.5 S)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Xinzhao Chu($184,512), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Antarctic, Balloon, Climatology, Investigate, Lidar, Mesosphere.

Space Weather: Real-time Ionospheric Specification Using the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. John M Hughes($149,533), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Critical Frequency, Skip Distance, Sounding Mode, Frequencies, Ground, Heights, Ionospheric, Layer, Radar, Real-time, Superdarn.

Heterogeneous Organic Oxidation Reactions of Atmospheric Importance Studied by Broadband Vibrational Sum Frequency and Second Harmonic Generation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: ANALYTICAL SEPARATIONS & MEAS.

1. Franz M Geiger($150,001), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Cyclic And Acyclic, Chemistry Program, Gas Phase, Organic Compounds, Oxidation Reactions, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemical, Division, Double, Exposed, Generation, Heterogeneous, Interfaces, Ozone, Products, Specifically, Surface-bound.

Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) Initiative
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

1. William K Peterson($270,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: 50th Anniversary, Epo Effort, International Polar, Virtual Observatories, Access, Activities, Collect, Development, Distribute, Egy, Electronic, Emerging, Established, Facilitate, Geophysical, IGY, Ipys, Organization, Public, Sets, Students.

Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alan R Bandy($2,304,786), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Remote Marine, Aerosol, Budgets, Chemistry, Climate, Composition, DMS, Dimethyl, Drexel, Effect, Fluxes, Formation, Growth, HO, Indirect, Information, Layer, PASE, Public, Radiation, Species, Sulfur.

The Fate of Acyl Peroxy Nitrates During Long-Range Pollution Transport and Atmosphere-Forest Interactions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Joel A Thornton($514,944), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Acyl Peroxy Nitrates, Nitrogen Oxide Reservoirs, Mass Spectrometer, Nitrogen Oxides, Abundance, Atmospheric, Deposition, Field, Organic, Oxidation, Range.

Nitrous Acid (HONO) as the Major Re-NOx-ification Intermediate Product in the Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Xianliang Zhou($513,611), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
Key terms: Daytime Hono Source, Rate And Product, Atmospheric Chemistry, Boundary Layer, Nitric Acid, Organic Compounds, Particulate Nitrate, Product Distribution, Reactive Species, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Establish, Examine, HNO, Hnonitrate, Intermediate, Laboratory, Nitrogen, Nox, OH, Ozone, Pathway, Photochemical, Photochemically, Photolysis, Process, Radicals, Re-nox-ification, Students, Surfaces, Troposphere.

SGER: Atmospheric Chemistry and Air-Water Exchange of Halogenated Organic Compounds in the Remote South Pacific
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rainer Lohmann($56,183), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Persistent Organic Pollutants, Atmospheric, Concentrations, Cruise, Pcbs, Processes, Reactions, Removal, Water.

Chemical Transformations of Nitrogen Oxides in High Latitude Plumes: The Role of Dinitrogen Pentoxide (N2O5) Heterogeneous Hydrolysis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William R Simpson($179,800), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Nitric Acid, Nitrogen Oxides, Chemistry, Day, Heterogeneous, Latitude, Nox, Ozone, Pathway, Pollution, Reaction, Snow, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Radical Chemistry over Sunlit Snow at Summit, Greenland
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jack E Dibb($344,435), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Lewis G Huey($317,355), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Steven B Brooks($55,105), NOAA Air Resources laboratory, Oak Ridge
4. Donald R Blake($71,920), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
5. Jochen P Stutz($344,596), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
6. Barry L Lefer($89,998), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Photochemically Active, Polar Regions, Reactive Halogens, Acid, Chemical, Cycling, Dioxide, Greenland, HO, Hox, Iodine, Model, Monoxide, Nitrogen, Periods, Planned, Processes, Radical, Reactions, Snow, Species, Steady-state, Summit, Transport, Variety.

Aqueous-Phase Chemistry of In-Cloud Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Barbara J Turpin($432,118), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Air Quality, Aqueous Phase, Chemical Model, Cloud Processing, Available, Global, In-cloud, Organic, Reactions, Regional, SOA, Student.

Airborne Measurements of the Physio-Chemistry and Evolution of Aerosols in the Tropics during the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment (PASE)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Steven G Howell($662,056), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Gas Phase, Sulfur Cycle, Aerosol, CCN, Chemical, Chemistry, Concentrations, Formation, Growth, Layer, MBL, Marine, PASE, Sea-salt, Size, Size-resolved.

Megacity Initiative Local and Global Research Observation (MILAGRO) Meeting; Boulder, Colorado; October 23-26, 2006
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ronald G Martin($55,976), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: MILAGRO, Meeting, Preparation, Registration, Rental, Was, Workshop.

Water Vapor Dependence of the Reaction Kinetics of the Methylperoxyl Radical with Hydroperoxyl and Itself
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jaron C Hansen($249,519), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Equilibrium Constant, Atmospherically, CHO, HO, Kinetics, Laser, Measured, Methylperoxyl, Reactions, Torr, Undergraduate, Water.

Kinetics of the Hydroxyl Radical (OH) and Ozone-Initiated Oxidation of Biogenic Terpenes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Philip S Stevens($541,139), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Biogenic Emissions, Oh Radicals, Atmospheric, Bvocs, Compounds, Mechanisms, Oxidation, Ozone, Rate, Reactions, Students, Techniques.

Meteorological Analysis and Support for the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John T Merrill($357,887), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Christmas Island, Field Campaign, Satellite Images, Analysis, Aspects, Atmospheric, Boundary, Budget, Conditions, Meteorological, Observations, PASE, Retrospective, Structure, Sulfur.

Collaborative Research: Peroxide Measurements and Modeling for the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel W O'Sullivan($72,684), United States Naval Academy, Annapolis
2. Brian G Heikes($257,773), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Equatorial Pacific, Gas Phase, Hydrogen Peroxide, Marine Sulfur, Bromine, Climate, DMS, Expected, Fluxes, Mechanism, Modeling, Oxidants, PASE, Particle.

SGER: Airborne Aerosol Number Flux Measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Gintautas Buzorius($62,993), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Aerosol Flux, Airborne, Condensation.

Quantifying Acidification Mechanisms of Saharan Dust Aerosols in the Northeastern Subtropical Atlantic: Implications for Iron Solubility and Marine Primary Productivity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Becky Alexander($301,708), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Atmospheric Acidification, Chemical Transport, Climate Feedbacks, Dust Aerosols, Subtropical Atlantic, Biogeochemical, International, Iron, Marine, Opportunity, Solubility.

Coarse and Fine Aerosol Composition during the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment (PASE)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Steven G Howell($372,724), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Formation And Growth, Aerosol Composition, Aerosol Formation, Christmas Island, Budget, Climate, DMS, Impactor, Marine, NSS, PASE, Pacific, Salt, Size, Species, Sulfate, Sulfur, Total.

SGER: Atmospheric Mercury (Hg) Emissions and Speciation during Flame and Smoldering Combustion of Biomass
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel Obrist($35,597), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Fire Conditions, Particle Emissions, Atmospheric, Expected, Gaseous, Global, Hg, Lead, Mercury, Student.

Collaborative Research: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Investigations of Heterogeneous Processing of Asian Dust
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Vicki H Grassian($154,157), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Kimberly A Prather($514,533), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Dust And Sea, Dust Particles, Gas Phase, Laboratory Studies, Mass Spectrometry, Particle Mass, Sea Salt, ATOFMS, Ace-asia, Aerosol, Analysis, CCN, Chemical, Chemistry, Field, Heterogeneous, Information, Iowa, Kinetics, Occurring, Probe, Processes, Relative, Species, Spectroscopy.

Measurements of Tropospheric OH and HO2 Radicals in Forest Environments
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Philip S Stevens($619,505), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Biogenic Emissions, Forest Canopy, Tower Site, Graduate, HO, Hox, Instrument, OH, Radicals, Students, Various.

CAREER: Particle Morphology and Composition Effects on Chemical Reaction Rates in Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Geoffrey D Smith($678,357), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry, Model Particles, Activities, Aerosol, Aerosols, Air, Atlanta, Center, Fernbank, Influence, Issues, Morphology, Reaction, Reactivity, Teachers.

Laboratory Studies of the Kinetics and Photochemistry of Hydrogen Oxides (HOx) Cycling in the Lower Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Anthony J Hynes($530,581), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Kinetics And Photochemistry, Atmospheric Conditions, Cycling, Experimental, Formaldehyde, Hox, LIF, OH, Processes, Yield.

Sesquiterpene Emissions and Their Impact on Aerosol Formation in the United States
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alex Guenther($558,153), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Sqt Emission Rates, Efforts, Field, Incorporated, Local, Seasonal, Shrubs, Species, Trees.

CAREER: Measurement and Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Isotopic Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Exchange in the Upper Midwest, United States
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy J Griffis($600,904), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Theory And Techniques, Carbon Dioxide, Discrimination Mechanisms, Regional Scales, Approach, Atmosphere, Biophysical, Ecosystem, Fluxes, Heterogeneous, Isotopic, Land, Landscape, Measuring, Methods, Micrometeorological, Modeling, Parameters.

Particle Nucleation Events in the Ohio River Valley
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Roy Mauldin($594,723), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Subsequent Particle Growth, Ultra-fine Particle Concentrations, Condensational Sink, Ultra-fine Particle, Atmospheric, Canopy, Chemical, Forest, Models, Nucleation, Particles, Principal, Quantify.

Effects of Extra-Tropical Fires on Trace Gases and Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jennifer A Logan($580,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Boreal Fire Emissions, Boreal Fires, Carbon Monoxide, Imaging Spectroradiometer, Model Simulations, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Effects, Fuel, Gases, Heights, Transport.

Global Budgets of Atmospheric Trace Gases
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel J Jacob($674,119), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Observations, Global Budget, Inverse Modeling, Model Simulations, Analysis, Anthropogenic, Benefit, Budgets, Chemical, Focus, Mercury, OCS, Processes, Sources.

SGER: Peroxide Measurements during the Milagro Campaign
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Judith B Weinstein-Lloyd($31,361), SUNY College at Old Westbury, Old Westbury
Key terms: Aerosol, Campaign, Global, Hydroperoxide, MILAGRO, Models, Potential, Regional, Species.

Instrumentation for Atmospheric Sulfur Compounds
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alan R Bandy($42,008), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Sulfur Compounds, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Cloud, DMS, Field, Formation, Oxidation, Pressure, Products.

Collaborative Research: The Processing and Radiative Properties of Aerosols over the Western North Atlantic Ocean at Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kenneth J Voss($486,066), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Climate Forcing, Long-term Trends, Measured Continuously, Optical Properties, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Chemical, Cloud, ECOC, Fluxes, Ions, Long-term, Organic, Regimes, Transport.

Global Atmospheric Chemistry: Uncertainties and Errors; Modes and Parametric Models
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Michael J Prather($665,606), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Global Chemical Modes, Grid Resolution, Atmospheric, CTM, Chemistry, Coupled, Ctms, Errors, Model, Models, Numerical, Parametric, Reduced-dimension, Students.

SGER: High Time Resolution Measurements of Peroxy Acyl Nitrates at Mt. Bachelor Observatory During Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment Phase B (INTEX-B)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Joel A Thornton($14,975), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Peroxy Acyl Nitrates, CIMS, Chemical, Effects, Emissions, Long-range, MBO, Nitrogen, Nox, Planned, Regions, Remote, Transport, Troposphere.

CAREER: Atmosphere/Snow/Ice Interactions: Photochemistry of Organic Pollutants in Arctic Snow and Ice
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Amanda M Grannas($677,711), Villanova University, Villanova
Key terms: Laboratory And Field, Snow And Ice, Organic Pollutants, Activities, Barrow, Experiments, Outreach, Photochemical, Processes, Students, Undergraduate, Via.

High Resolution Infrared (IR) Stratospheric Spectral Atlas and Laboratory Studies
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Aaron Goldman($398,417), University of Denver, Denver
Key terms: Spectroscopic Analysis, Stratospheric Spectra, Atmospheric, Cm-, Extend, Laboratory, Line, Obtained, Resolution, Solar, Spectroscopy, Theoretical.

New Mass Spectrometer Technology for Analysis of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Joost A de Gouw($409,918), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ozone And Soa, Field Site, Air, Atmospheric, Biogenic, Chemistry, Forest, MILAGRO, Mexico, Organic, PIT-MS, Primary, Secondary, Sources, Urban, VOC, Vocs.

SGER: Flight Planning and Meteorological Analysis in Support of the HIAPER Progressive Science Mission
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kenneth P Bowman($45,712), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Hiaper Aircraft, Meteorological Analyses, Meteorological Parameters, Analysis, Capabilities, Chemical, Flight, Mission, Objectives, SGER, START.

Collaborative Research: Fire at the Intersection of Global Carbon and Water Cycles
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Peter Hess($653,554), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Charles S Zender($595,689), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
3. Jonathan A Foley($497,973), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Carbon And Water, Water Cycles, Activities, Climate, Effort, Feedbacks, Fire, Model, Moisture.

Collaborative Research: Identifying Hydroclimatic Regimes of Carbon Stability in Northern Peatlands: Holocene Data Analysis and Process-Based Modeling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Stephen E Frolking($720,561), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Glen MacDonald($626,610), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
3. Zicheng Yu($543,105), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Continued Stability, Peatland Hydrology, Arctic, Carbon, Climate, Conditions, Future, Global, Past, Rates, Responsible.

Collaborative Research: Carbon-Climate Interactions with Increasing Water Demand
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Scott C Doney($861,131), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Inez Fung($785,143), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Carbon, Carbon-climate, Droughts, Increase, Linking, Ocean, School.

Interactions Between Water, Energy and Carbon Dynamics as Predictors of Canopy to Ecosystem Scale Vegetation Pattern and Function in a Changing Environment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Murugesu Sivapalan($1,650,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Carbon Cycles, Acclimatization, Climate, Complexity, Dynamic, Energy, Lead, Model, Optimality, Training, Vegetation, Water.

A Multiphase Study of the Nature, Sources, and Fate of Atmospheric Organic Nitrogen
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Paul B Shepson($751,017), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Atmospheric Organic Nitrates, Biogenic Volatile Organic, Sequestering Atmospheric Nitrogen, Volatile Organic Compounds, Alkyl Nitrates, Cloud Water, Field Studies, Ability, Activities, Bvocs, Climate, Exhibit, Fate, Forest, Formation, Involve, Laboratory, Phase, Purdue, UMBS.

Collaborative Research: WCR: Hydrology of Central and Southwest Asia: Connections Between Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Large-scale Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

1. Mathew Barlow($68,076), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Csw Asia, Large-scale Climate, Potential Predictability, Regional Atmospheric, Severe Drought, Atlantic, Circulation, Deficits, Fluctuations, Large-scale, Oscillation, Period, Precipitation, Water.

Collaborative Research: SGER--Profiling and Analysis of Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) HPC Code for Petascale Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Amitava Majumdar($20,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. Thomas H Jordan($10,000), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Kim B Olsen($10,000), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Southern California Earthquake, Petascale Computing, AWM, Adapted, Computational, Diego, Earthquakes, Geosciences, Large-scale, Modeling, Numerical, Optimization, Pilot, Simulation, Workshop.

Geosciences High Performance Computing Research Consortium Workshop; Boulder, CO; September 25-27, 2006
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Timothy Killeen($72,971), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Capability Computing, Center Services, High-performance Computing, Consortium, Geosciences, High-performance, Workshop.

SGER: Feasibility of Taking the MAS (Magnetohydrodynamic Algorithm outside a Sphere) Model to Petascale
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Allan Snavely($40,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Petascale Computing, Solar Corona, Space Weather, Activities, Adapted, Computational, Geosciences, Large-scale, MAS, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Optimization, Pilot, Simulation, Workshop.

SGER: Feasibility of Taking the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model to Petascale
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Allan Snavely($39,553), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Petascale Computing, Adapted, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Computational, Development, Geosciences, Large-scale, Modeling, Numerical, Optimization, Pilot, Simulation, WRF, Workshop.

Workshop on Petascale Computing and the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Allan Snavely($80,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Petascale Computing, Activity, Anticipated, Applications, Codes, Collaborations, Computational, Geoscience, Geoscientists, Intended, Modeling, Performance, Plan, Prepare, Process, Space, Tools, Weather, Workshop.

Extension of Real-Time Data Sharing Throughout the Americas: Getting the Word Out at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2006 Spring Joint Assembly; Baltimore, MD; May 23-26, 2006
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

1. Elen M Cutrim($26,962), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Collaboration, International, South.

Including Atmospheric Turbulence in Numerical Weather Prediction, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Forecasts, and Error Evaluation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Rod G Frehlich($457,420), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Observation Error, Accurate, Atmospheric, Conditions, Estimates, Forecasts, Initialize, Observing, Realistic, Statistics, Turbulent, Variable, Weather.

The Dynamics of Westerly Jets
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sukyoung Lee($472,571), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Conserved Quantities, Westerly Jets, Climate, Dynamics, Mechanisms, Mixing, Regions, Rotating, Set, Simulations, Spiral, Staircases, Structures, Theory.

Interannual and Decadal Variability in the Equatorial Pacific Atmosphere and Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Allan J Clarke($334,307), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Interannual And Decadal, El Nino, Enso Indices, Equatorial Pacific, Oscillator Paradigm, Southern Oscillation, Time Scales, Accurate, Analysis, Asymmetries, Based, Conjectures, Depend, Dischargerecharge, Estimate, Index, Influence, Model, Ocean, Pis, SST.

Collaborative Research: Atlantic Air-Sea Fluxes from Satellites, Their Variability and Analysis of Ocean Models
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. James A Carton($509,633), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. William M Drennan($179,825), University of Miami, Coral Gables
3. Alberto M Mestas-Nunez($124,834), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Heat Flux, Mixed Layer, Atlantic, Climate, Estimates, Limited, Pis, Processes, Satellite, Sub-monthly, Surface.

Further Studies of El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Fei-Fei Jin($468,942), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Enso Modes, Atmosphere-ocean, Behavior, Climate, Coupled, Dynamics, Global, Index, Interactions, Models, Stability, Timescales.

Land-Atmosphere-Ocean-Ice Interface Processes in the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael A Brunke($349,433), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: CCSM, Climate, Model, Vegetation.

The Impacts of Tropical Deforestation on Regional and Global Hydroclimate
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Roni Avissar($300,190), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Land Cover, Land Surface, Vegetation Dynamics, Based, Climate, Coupled, Framework, Global, Hydrology, Model, Processes, Teleconnections.

A Study of Aerosol Effects on Warm Ice Clouds
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Joyce E Penner($510,814), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Warm Ice Clouds, Aerosol Model, Anthropogenic Aerosols, Cam Model, Ice Nucleation, Ice Nuclei, Ncar Cam, Atmospheric, Climate, Concentration, Contribution, Coupled, Development, Dust, Effects, Experiments, Graduate, Has, Liquid, Main, Microphysical, Microphysics, Parameterization, Pis, Precipitation, Predictions, Processes, Quantify, Students, Time.

RUI: Gravity Waves and the Stratospheric Polar Vortex
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Varavut Limpasuvan($225,371), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Polar Stratospheric Clouds, Gravity Waves, Polar Vortex, Climate, Experiments, Formation, Gravity-wave, Incorporated, Lower, Model, Models, Ozone, Propagation, Properties, Sources, Stratosphere, Undergraduate, Wintertime.

The Effects of Tropical Waves on the Formation and Structure of Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William M Frank($450,001), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Formation And Development, Formation And Structural, Large-scale Tropical Waves, Cyclone Formation, Large-scale Tropical, North Atlantic, Observational Analyses, Tropical Cyclones, Wave Types, Activity, Atmosphere, Determined, Equatorial, Experiments, Five, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Influence, Initial, Lead, Modulating, Shown, Simulations, Storm, Storms, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Evaluation of a Coupled Meteorology-Chemistry Model Against Long-Term Measurements of Elemental Carbon and Sulfate for Regional Climate Applications
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Uma Shankar($228,044), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Liaquat Husain($184,415), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
Key terms: Chemistry And Transport, Atmospheric Dynamics, Filters Collected, Radiative Feedbacks, Regionally Representative, Whiteface Mt, BC, Carbon, Climate, Concentrations, Downwind, EC, Emission, Emissions, Highly, Mayville, Model, NY, Ozone, Participation, Particulates, Pis, Sites, Sources, Summer, Winter.

Scientific Program Overview: THe Observing-system Research and Predictability EXperiment (THORPEX) Pacific-Asian Regional Campaign (PARC)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Istvan Szunyogh($15,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Extratropical Transition, Tropical Cyclones, Activities, Focus, North, PARC, THORPEX, Weather.

Interaction of Dust Radiative Forcing and the Asian Summer Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jan Perlwitz($341,375), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Aerosol Radiative Forcing, Dust Radiative Forcing, Ocean Heat Export, Absorbing Aerosols, Aerosol Layer, Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, Radiative Heating, Wind Speed, AGCM, Atmospheric, Balanced, Calculated, Circulation, Climate, Contrast, Cycle, Daily, Decrease, Effect, Evaporation, Model, Models, Monsoon, Precipitation, Prescribed, Previous, Reduction, SST, Seasonal, Strengthened, Surface, Weakens.

Collaborative Research: Global Aspects of Tropical Cyclogenesis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David S Nolan($211,568), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Kerry A Emanuel($180,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Tropical Atmosphere, Climate, Cyclogenesis, Diagram, Disturbance, Experiments, Hurricanes, Index, Instability, Model, Spontaneously, Subcritical.

Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in Models and Observations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric D Maloney($239,382), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Heat Flux Anomalies, Wind Speed, Coupling, Features, Feedback, Focus, ISV, Models, Precipitation, Synoptic-scale, Tropical.

Dynamics of Tropically Forced Zonally Symmetric Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Huei-Ping Huang($398,379), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Extratropical Zonally Symmetric, Symmetric Climate Anomalies, Zonally Symmetric Climate, Extratropical Climate, Extratropical Zonally, Sst Forcing, Transient Eddies, Tropics-extratropics Interaction, Advance, Atmospheric, Circulation, Clarify, Droughts, Dynamics, Forced, Interdecadal, Latter, Linear, Merit, Midlatitudes, Modeling, Models, Ocean, Pis, Precipitation, Signals, Tropical, Tropics-extratropics.

Improving Projections of Regional Climate Change for the United States Using Detection and Attribution Studies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Qigang Wu($340,908), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Anthropogenic Climate, Greenhouse Forcing, Probability Distributions, Regional Climate, Regional Temperature, Applied, Attribution, CCSP, Climatepredictionnet, Contribution, Ensemble, Estimate, Factors, Future, IPCC, Inputs, Methods, Models, Observed, Outcomes, Projections, Signal, Simulations, Training, Uncertainties.

VAMOS Ocean-Cloud-Atmosphere-Land Study (VOCALS) Regional Experiment Scientific Program Overview
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert Wood($23,015), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Marine Boundary Layer, Field Experiment, Intensive Observational, Upper Ocean, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Broad, Chemical, Climate, Coupled, Datasets, Interactions, International, Land, MBL, Models, Month, Processes, Range, Region, Regional, SEP, Vocals-rex.

Improving Hurricane Forecasts with Integrated Water Vapor Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tetsuya Iwabuchi($352,495), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Water Vapor, Assimilated, Caribbean, Continuous, Deformation, Derived, Expected, Fields, Forecasts, Geodetic, Hurricane, Intensity, Model, Network, Observations, Ocean, PW, Predictions, Stations, Survey, Track.

Scientific Program Overview (SPO): HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations of Atmospheric Tracers (HIPPO)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven C Wofsy($9,991), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Sources And Sinks, Atmospheric Tracers, Carbon Dioxide, Cycle, Global, HIAPER, HIPPO, Planned, Tropopause.

SGER: Role of the Indian Ocean in Causing the Excessive Biennial El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Tendency in NCAR's Community Climate Modeling System (CCSM3) Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jin-Yi Yu($25,000), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Indian Ocean, Biennial, Climate, Cycle, ENSO, Experiments, Imposed, Leading, Model, Models, Projections, Regional, Temperatures.

A Multiscale Diagnostic and Prognostic Investigation of Environmental Influences on Tropical Cyclone Life Cycles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lance F Bosart($539,819), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Completed And Ongoing, Tc Life Cycles, Wind And Waves, Multiscale Diagnostic, Tc Life, Tc-environmental Interactions, Tt Process, Catarina, Coastal, Convective, Development, Disturbance, Disturbances, Flooding, Flow, Focus, Has, Heavy, Marine, Mid, Near, Noteworthy, Origin, Pose, Precipitation, Precursor, Presentations, Residentsbusinesses, Shear, Storm, Storms, Students, Tc-environmental, Tcs, Transition, Tropical, Upper-level, Various.

SGER: Parameterization of Sea-Salt Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) Production for 3-D Earth System Models
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William C Keene($25,970), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Ambient Air, Bursting Bubbles, Marine Aerosol, Ocean Surface, Aerosols, Based, CCN, CCSM, Chemical, Climate, Effort, Importance, Indirect, Influences, Larger, Organic, Organic-rich, Pathways, Primary, Reliable, Source, Sub-micron, Tropospheric.

Connecting Vertical Velocity and Microphysics at the Subgrid Scale in General Circulation Models (GCMs)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Vincent E Larson($214,628), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Approach, Atmospheric, Climate, Complexity, GCM, Grid, Implemented, Methodology, Microphysics, Models, Parameterization, Parameterizations, Subgrid, Weather, Wide.

Analyses of Climate Variability and Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David W Thompson($449,512), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Annular Mode, Climate Impacts, Atmospheric, Coupling, Large-scale, Southern.

Tropical-extratropical Interactions in a Hierarchy of Atmospheric Models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Isaac M Held($449,111), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Primitive Equation Models, Hadley Cell, Model Development, Atmosphere, Circulation, Climate, Hierarchy, Idealized, Position, Resource, Sensitivity, Sphere, Strength.

Forcings and Feedbacks: Arctic Sea Ice and the Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gudrun Magnusdottir($257,022), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Pronounced Trends, Sea Ice, Activity, Arctic, Climate, Concentration, Dominant, Feedback, Forced, Forcing, Highly, Model, Observed, Onto, Past, Preliminary, Representing, Resemble, Sea-ice, Sensitive, Was.

SGER: Statistical Study of Global Climate Change and Sea Level
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Douglas W Nychka($25,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Density Function Technique, Probability Density Functions, Sea Level Rise, Greenhouse Gas, Random Variables, Temperature Rise, Various Amounts, Climate, Examined, Probabilities, Product, Simplifications, Tons.

Dynamics and Predictability of Extratropical Vortices
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gregory Hakim($277,784), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Observational And Modeling, Latent Heating, Modeling Approaches, Polar Vortices, Vortex Dynamics, Vortex Intensity, Arctic, Dominate, Extratropical, Predictability, Radiation, Tropopause.

The Impact of Rapidly-Varying Heat Fluxes on Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Matthew E Newman($200,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Coupled Model Runs, Daily And Sub-daily, Surface Heat Fluxes, Air-sea Interaction, Atmosphere-ocean Coupling, Climate Models, Coupled Models, Noise-induced Drift, Rapidly Varying, Sea Surface, Air-sea, Atmosphere-ocean, Character, Depends, Fast-varying, Main, Multiplicative, Noise-induced, Oceanic, Process, Quantities, Representation, SST, State-dependent, Statistics, Stochastic, TAIR, Temperature, Time, Timescales.

Parametrizing Convection Using Satellite-Retrieved Precipitation Profiles
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. T. N Krishnamurti($200,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Cumulus Parameterization Schemes, Empirical Cumulus, Vertical Profiles, Convective, Heatingdrying, High-resolution, Precipitation, Sets, Track.

Tropical Cyclogenesis via Non-Axisymmetric Upscale Energy Cascade and Its Disruption by Vertical Shear
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael T Montgomery($88,855), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Upscale Energy Cascade, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Tropical Cyclone, Avenue, Conditions, Model, Theory, Vortex.

Dynamics of Low-Frequency Modes of the Atmospheric Circulation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Fei-Fei Jin($259,038), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Low Frequency Modes, North Atlantic Oscillation, Anomalies, Dynamical, Feedback, Flow, Interaction, Low-frequency, Models, Sets, Synoptic.

International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Core Project Office
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Philip J Rasch($223,049), NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemical Composition, Larger Atmospheric, Long-range Transport, Activities, CPO, Communication, Emissions, IGAC, International, Long-range, SSC, Troposphere, Workshops.

SGER: Causes and Consequences of Errors in the Simulation of the North Atlantic Current in Community Climate System Model (CCSM)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Frank Bryan($25,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: CCSM, Climate, Dynamical, Errors, Model, Ocean, Simulations, Surface.

SGER: Significance Testing of the Role of Recurving Tropical Cyclones in Subsequent Winter Climate Modulation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert E Hart($23,836), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Subsequent Winter Climate, Anomalous Winter, Climate Forcing, Forcing Mechanism, Forcing Mechanisms, Heat Transport, Recurving Tc, Recurving Tcs, Statistical Significance, Three-month Mean, Anomalies, Autumn, Critical, Energy, Established, Forecasts, Frequency, Globally, Has, Less, Normal, Oscillation, Overriding, Potential, Precipitation, Preliminary, Robustness, Solely, Temperature, Three-month, Tropical.

Reducing Forecast Uncertainty to Improve Understanding of Atmospheric Flow Transitions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul J Roebber($269,626), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Atmospheric Flow, Ensemble Prediction, Increasingly Sophisticated, Neural Networks, Weather Prediction, Deterministic, Error, Forecast, Transitions, Underlying.

CAREER: The Hydrological Cycle and the Maintenance of the Atmospheric Circulation: Entropy Perspective
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Olivier Pauluis($487,084), New York University, New York
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Heat Engine, Hydrological Cycle, Kinetic Energy, Potential Energy, Atmosphere, Climate, Courses, Dissipation, Entropy, Framework, Graduate, Hurricanes, Intensity, Irreversible, Maintenance, Thermodynamics.

SGER: Assessment of the Severe Weather Environment Simulated by Global Climate Models
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David J Karoly($52,550), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Global Climate Models, Severe Weather Environment, Thunderstorms And Tornados, Environmental Conditions, Favorable Conditions, Severe Thunderstorms, Spatial Resolution, Time Resolution, Determining, Estimates, Frequency, Future, Mesoscale, Outcomes, Simulate, Training, Tropospheric.

Toward Eliminating the Double Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone and Improving El Nino/Southern Oscillation Simulation in the NCAR Community Climate System Model Version 3 (CCSM3)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Guang J Zhang($375,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Convection Parameterization, Convection Scheme, Double Itcz, Numerical Experiments, Wind Stress, CCSM, Climate, Coupled, Deficiencies, ENSO, Enhanced, Focus, MJO, Model, Oscillation, Periodicity, Simulation.

Radio Occultation Research and Development
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Benjamin M Herman($172,756), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Active Radio Occultation, Gps Ro, Vertical Resolution, Water Vapor, ATOMMS, Climate, Global, MBL, Mesopause, Observations, Ozone, Retrieval, Satellite-to-satellite, Surface, Temperature, Trace, Troposphere, Tropospheric.

The Role of Extratropical Cooling in Determining the Level of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Activity
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sang-Ik Shin($365,269), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Coupled Tropical, Enso Activity, Enso Acts, Extratropical Pacific, Forces Controlling, Heat Balance, Tropical Pacific, Coolingwarming, Global, Issue, Level, Ocean, Region, Regulates, Stability, Warming.

SGER: Creation of a Homogeneous Self-Consistent Tropical Cyclone Intensity Database for the Immediate Purpose of Performing Global Intensity Trend Analyses
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. James P Kossin($58,662), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Tc Intensity, Archives, Database, Estimates, Global, Has, Homogeneous, Track, Trends.

Advancing Cloud Microphysics Representations in Climate System Models
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Andrew Gettelman($13,031), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Ncar Scientists, CAM, CCSM, Cloud, Invited, Microphysical, Microphysics, Model, Plan, Process, Processes, Schemes, Version, WS, Workshop.

Eighth International Conference on Southern Hemisphere Meteorology and Oceanography; Foz do Iguacu, Brazil; April 24-28, 2006
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Keith Seitter($10,000), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Climate Information, International Conference, Social Impacts, Southern Hemisphere, Atmospheric, Ecological, Global, Land, Monsoon, Oceans, Perspective, Processes, Region, SH.

A Climatological Study of Atlantic Basin Tropical Storms to Provide Satellite Data Assimilation Guidance for Numerical Models
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zafer Boybeyi($380,892), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Assimilation Guidance, Climate, Climatological, Coupled, Forecasting, Has, Intensity, Models, NWP, Prediction, Satellite, TC, Tcs, Weather.

Sub-Daily Scale Extreme Precipitation in Future Climate-Change Scenarios: A Pilot Study
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Matthew Huber($275,075), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Sub-daily Extreme Rainfall, Climate Model, Emissions Scenario, Initial Projection, Sub-daily Extreme, Approaches, CRM, Comparing, Convective, Forced, Future, GCM, Hazardous, Historical, Method, Nested, Nesting, Optimum, Phenomena, Pis, Precipitating, RCM, Severe, Simulate, Simulated, Simulations, Sub-nested, Weather, Yield.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Subtropical Humidity
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Joseph Galewsky($184,842), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Adam H Sobel($288,372), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Controlling Subtropical Humidity, Water Vapor Feedback, Climate, Climates, Diagnostic, Dry, Future, Gcms, Global, Modern, Reanalysis, Saturation, Statistics, Subtropics.

High Resolution Atmospheric/Chemical Transport Modeling for Asian Pollution
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. T. N Krishnamurti($80,884), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Aerosols And Ghgs, Lower Atmosphere, Sensitivity Studies, Solar Heating, Carbon, Contribute, Does, Effects, Forecast, Increase, Model, Pollution, Precipitation, Region.

Intraseasonal Variability of the West African Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric D Maloney($155,599), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: African Monsoon, Boreal Summer, Sub-saharan Africa, West African, AMMA, Atlantic, Connected, Graduate, Intraseasonal, Modulation, OSU, Student, Sub-saharan, Tropical, Waves, White.

Collaborative Research: ITR/AP: Towards The Development Of Operational Adjoint Method Based Ensemble Prediction Techniques For El Nino Southern Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 01/03/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Andrew M Moore($83,700), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Applied Successfully, Ensemble Prediction, Enso Prediction, Weather Prediction, Based, Complex, Coupled, Existing, Has, Methods, Models, Techniques.

The 18th Conference on Climate Variability and Change Scholarships; Atlanta, Georgia; January 29 - February 2, 2006
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Keith Seitter($25,000), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Annual Meeting, AMS, Climate, Conference, Students, Th.

Empirical and Diagnostic Analysis of the Influence of the Madden Julian Oscillation on the Precipitation of Central and North America
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Mathew Barlow($224,131), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Central And North, Madden Julian Oscillation, Julian Oscillation, Analysis, Assessment, Based, Precipitation, Predictability.

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. Diane Portis($214,011), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Phenomenological Characterization, Regional Climate, Spring Onset, Coupling, Dynamical, Indicated, Interannual, Numerical, Observational, Pis, SFW, Stratosphere-troposphere, Stratospheric, Strongly, Tropospheric.

SGER: Polar Education and Outreach Leveraging Windows to the Universe for the International Polar Year
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Community Programs

1. Roberta Johnson($59,986), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Focus, Website.

SGER: Challenging Forecasts for a Challenging Environment: Weather Prediction for Antarctica
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Community Programs

1. Timothy C Spangler($70,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Education And Training, Antarctic Weather, COMET, Create, Experience, Experts, Program.

Implementation of Phase-II Environmental Site Investigations at NASA's Columbia Scientifc Balloon Facility (CSBF), Palestine, Texas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Community Programs

1. Caroline R Massey($104,772), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island
Key terms: Environmental Site Investigation, Ii Environmental Site, Phase Ii Environmental, Administration, CSBF, Facility, Flight, NASA, NSF, Space, Texas.

Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosols over the Eastern Tropical Atlantic and West Africa during Summer 2006/Winter 2007: In situ Measurements and Modeling Efforts
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: EDA-Eng Diversity Activities

1. Gregory Jenkins($491,712), Howard University, Washington
Key terms: West African Scientists, Tropical Atlantic, Tropospheric Ozone, Unique Opportunity, Vertical Distribution, African-american, Collaboration, Dust, Efforts, Examine, Field, Obtained, Opportunities, Ozonesonde, Senegal, Situ, Winter.

RUI: Development of a Fixed Frequency Aerosol Albedometer
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jonathan E Thompson($152,364), University of Nebraska at Kearney, Kearney
Key terms: Aerosol Scattering Coefficient, Atmospheric Aerosols, Extinction Coefficient, Albedo, Experience, Instrument, Ring-down, Sphere, Students, Undergraduate.

Studies of New Elements for Global Electric Circuit Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Maribeth Stolzenburg($296,890), University of Mississippi, University
Key terms: Global Electric Circuit, Vertical Electric Field, Global Circuit, Graduate Students, Lightning Flashes, Mesoscale Convective, Russian Collaborators, Transient Currents, Undergraduate Students, Unscreened Convective, Applied, Atmospheric, Broader, Collaboration, Components, Contribution, Estimate, Expanded, Experimental, Importance, Involves, Mcss, Model, Overall, Physicists, Physics, Profiles, Realistic, Relative, Storm, Storms, Thunderstorm, Thunderstorms, Transients.

CAREER: Upper Atmospheric Density from Precision Orbit Determination
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Craig A McLaughlin($307,852), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Atmospheric Density, Density Fluctuations, Determination, Graduate, Orbit, Participation, Precise, Precision, Satellite, Satellites, Solar, Temporal.

Collaborative Research: NSWP: Generation of Global Forecasts of Middle and Upper Atmospheric Gravity Wave Activity as Applied to the Prediction of Equatorial Spread-F (ESF)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Andrew J Gerrard($192,709), Clemson University, Clemson
2. Timothy J Kane($110,767), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Atmosphere, Characterized, Ray-tracing, Sources, Tropospheric, Weather.

Cyberinfrastructure for Environmental Observation: A Forum for Collaboration
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: ERE General

1. Peter Backlund($397,215), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Cyberinfrastructure Development, Development Efforts, Environmental Cyberinfrastructure, Environmental Observatory, Collaboration, Common, Forum, Information, Interdisciplinary, Meetings.

Detection of Inorganic Dihalogen Gases (Cl2, Br2, I2, BrCl, and ICl) in the Marine Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: ERE General

1. Eric S Saltzman($550,222), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Halogen Compounds, Marine Air, Bromine, Chemistry, Chloride, Cl, Coastal, Field, Gases, Iodine, Molecular, Troposphere.

Storm Penetrating Aircraft Workshop; Rapid City, South Dakota; Fall of 2006
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Donna V Kliche($19,996), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Aircraft, Atmospheric, Meteorology, NGSPA, NSF, Suitable, Workshop.

Understanding the Coupling of Greenhouse Gases (CH4, CO2, H2O) and Energy Fluxes over a Vulnerable Ecosystem: The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Peatland
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. N. Maggi Kelly($1,396,422), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Carbon And Water, Carbon Gases, Activities, Flux, Land, Management, Methane, Microbiological, Models, Net, Peatlands, Processes, Storage, Vulnerable, Wetland.

CAREER: Magnetic Tomography of Emerging Sunspots (MATES)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: International Research Collab

1. Debi Prasad Choudhary($504,825), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Physics And Astronomy, Undergraduate And Graduate, Experimental Astronomy, Graduate Students, Ground Based, Magnetic Field, Solar Physics, Active, Curriculum, Education, Integrated, NAOJ, Observations, Observatory, Program, SFO, Solar-b.

A Statistical UltraLow Frequency (ULF) Fingerprint of Magnetic Storms and Its Application to Electron Energization
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2007; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jeff Sanny($131,948), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ulf Wave Power, Electron Flux, Loyola Marymount, Magnetic Storms, Relativistic Electrons, Based, Development, Dst, Education, Energization, Fingerprint, Geosynchronous, Magnetosphere, Moderate, Statistical, Student, Waves.

Probing the Possible Coupling of Helioseismic Modes to Earth's Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Marc R Lessard($55,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Coupling, Designed, Magnetometer, Oscillations, Solar.

Collaborative Research: Theory and Numerical Simulations of Intermittent Turbulence in Geospace
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Cheng-Chin Wu($61,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Experimental Observations, Intermittent Turbulence, Actual, Compared, Fluctuations, Geospace, Magnetic, Multifractal, Observed, Plasma, Properties, Quantitatively, Spectra.

Study of Cross Polar Cap Potential Behavior During Storms and Superstorms Using Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) Data
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Marc R Hairston($215,000), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Polar Cap Potential, Solar Wind Electric, Wind Electric Field, Magnetic Storms, Polar Ionosphere, Potential Drop, Behavior, Conditions, Conductivity, Coupling, Derived, Extreme, Ionospheric, Magnetosphere, Model, Size, Superstorms.

Magnetospheric Mass Density Model
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kazue Takahashi($463,679), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Lanl Geosynchronous Satellites, Magnetospheric Mass Density, Toroidal Alfven Waves, Electron Density, Field Line, Heavy Ions, Magnetic Equator, Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Spacecraft Observations, CRRES, Consistent, Contribution, Depend, Distribution, Does, Dynamic, Ground, In-situ, Local, Magnetosphere, Model, Parameters, Polar, Processes, Specified, Time, Velocity.

NSWP: The Role of Ion Cyclotron Effects on the Tail and Global Auroral Currents During Substorms
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert M Winglee($315,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Ion Outflows, Auroral, Code, Current, Development, Effects, Examine, Ionosphere, Magnetotail, Model, Plasma, Processes, Solar, Substorm, Substorms.

SGER: Field-Test of a Prototype Giant Magneto-Impedance (GMI) Magnetometer
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Makhlouf Redjdal($50,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Fluxgate Magnetometers, Gmi Technology, Magnetospheric Phenomena, Adapted, Applications, Based, Class, Effect, Field-test, Geophysical, Ground-based, Prototype, Sensor.

Multipoint Magnetospheric Studies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Anthony T. Y Lui($611,901), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetic Reconnection, Magnetospheric Substorms, Plasma Flow, Pressure Reduction, Activity, Continue, Magnetosphere, Phenomena, Processes, Solar, Space.

GEM Postdoc: Nonlinear Scattering of Radiation-Belt Electrons by Chorus Waves
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Richard M Thorne($159,956), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Radiation Belt, Approach, Calculations, Chorus, Effect, Electrons, National, Non-linear, Quasi-linear, Scattering, Wave.

Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Corona and Heliosphere Model (CCHM)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Tamas I Gombosi($470,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Joe Giacalone($150,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. George H Fisher($200,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Ability, Available, CCHM, Center, Computational, Continuous, Corona, Imager, Model, Modeling, Models, Physics, Runs, Sophisticated, Space, Structure, Time-dependent.

Space Plasma Transport by Kinetic Alfven Waves
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Christopher Chaston($220,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Kinetic Alfven Waves, Earth's Magnetosphere, Plasma Transport, Ability, Boundary, Fields, Magnetic, Magnetopause, Magnetosheath, Observations, Plasmas, Suggested.

Collaborative Research: The Community-Based Whole Magnetosphere Model (CWMM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Stanislav Sazykin($175,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
2. Aaron J Ridley($305,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Thomas J Immel($100,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Coupled Model, Magnetosphere Model, Space Environment, Space Weather, CWMM, Center, Components, Developed, Magnetic, Modeling, Models.

Collaborative Research: GEM: Plasma Transport from the Solar Wind to the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Lawrence R Lyons($130,001), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Colby L Lemon($250,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Solar Wind Conditions, Solar Wind Ions, Field Lines, Magnetic Field, Magnetospheric Model, Plasma Sheet, Tail Flanks, Current, Density, Distributions, Effect, IMF, Magnetosheath, Magnetosphere, Observations, Particle, Population, Processes, Properties, RCM-E, Self-consistent, Simulation, Solar-wind, Transport, Velocity.

Fundamental Properties of Magnetic Reconnection in Large-scale Current Sheets
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Tai Phan($404,932), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Current Sheet, Physics, Reconnection.

Theory of Kinetic Alfven Waves on Auroral Field Lines
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L Lysak($299,998), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Auroral Acceleration Region, Auroral Field Lines, Ionospheric Alfven Resonator, Kinetic Alfven Waves, Waves And Wave, Outer Magnetosphere, Wave Packets, Accelerate, Conductivity, Coupling, Current, Density, Describe, Electrons, Feedback, Interaction, Interactions, Investigate, Ionosphere, Lead, Lower, MHD, Models, Numerical, Particles, Particular, Phenomena, Plasma, Play, Power, Precipitation, Processes, Space, Structuring, Theory.

GEM: Global Modeling of the Consequences of High-latitude Merging Processes at the Magnetopause
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jean Berchem($290,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Structure And Dynamics, High-latitude Dayside, High-latitude Region, Large-scale Kinetic, Plasma Sheet, Solar Wind, Contribution, Field, Focus, High-latitude, IMF, Investigation, LLBL, LSK, Large-scale, Latitudes, MHD, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Observations, Periods, Processes, Reconnection, Simulations, Transport.

GEM: Source Processes for Dispersive Shear Alfven Waves
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Christopher Chaston($270,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Magnetosphere And Ionosphere, Alfven Waves, Coupling, Energy, Observations, Processes.

GEM: Development of a Three-dimensional (3-D) Diffusion Code as a Radiation Belt Module in the Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yuri Shprits($240,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Radiation Belt Electrons, Ucla Visualization Portal, 3-d Diffusion, Energy Diffusion, Pitch-angle Scattering, Solar Disturbances, Based, Capability, Code, Current, Dominant, Dynamical, Environment, Geospace, Global, MHD, Magnetosphere, Model, Pitch-angle, Processes, RBM, RCM, Rates, Space, Waves.

GEM: Modeling of Magnetosphere-Ionsophere Coupling (MIC) at High and Mid-Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L Lysak($270,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Wave Modeling Code, Ground Magnetometers, Ionospheric Radars, Magnetosphere-ionosphere Coupling, Available, Convection, Density, Dynamics, Field, Geospace, Has, MHD, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Magnetospheric, Mid-latitudes, Models, Observations, Pc, Plasmasphere, Processes, Propagation, Satellites.

Quantification of Radial Diffusion in Energizing MeV (Millions of Electron Volts) Electrons in the Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xinlin Li($244,398), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Inside Geosynchronous Orbit, Diffusion Model, Electron Volts, Loss Rates, Mev Electrons, Radial Diffusion, Source Population, Contribution, Has, Polar, Radiation, Uncertainty, Validity.

Collaborative Research: Self-Consistent Ring-Current Particle Transport Simulations
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Margaret W Chen($225,001), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
2. Michael Schulz($105,000), Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto
Key terms: Im Magnetic Field, Magnetic Field Structure, Inner Magnetospheric, Magnetic Storms, Particle Transport, Plasma Pressure, Ring Current, Account, Critically, Effects, Electric, Energization, Fields, Images, Index, Instruments, Kinetic, Loss, Models, Phase, Self-consistent, Simulations.

Global Electrodynamics of the Aurora during Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) and Associated Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Interactions
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Judy A Cumnock($487,315), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Magnetosphere-ionosphere Coupling, Transpolar Arcs, Auroral, Dynamics, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Phenomenon.

CAREER: Electric Fields in Space Plasmas--Aurora and Charging
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kristina A Lynch($427,473), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Auroral Regions, Electric Fields, Laboratory Plasma, Space Plasma, Charged, Connections, Coupling, Dartmouth, Effects, Facility, Instrumentation, Physics, Plasmas, Program, Satellite, Sounding-rocket, Spacecraft, Structure.

Global Estimation of Dayside-Merging and Nightside-Reconnection in the Expanding/Contracting Polar Cap Paradigm
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joseph B Baker($89,114), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetospheric Dynamics, Polar Cap, Amount, Flux, Techniques.

International Symposium on Recent Observations and Simulations of the Sun-Earth System (ISROSES); Varna, Bulgaria; September 18-22, 2006
Award Effective Date: 01/20/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Ilia I Roussev($30,091), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Ilia I Roussev($30,091), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Organizing Committee, Space Weather, Conference, Consisting, Conveners, Environment, ILWS, ISROSES, International, Invited, LWS, Nsfs, Objectives, Organize, Presentations, SOC, Solar, Sun-earth, Symposium, Topics.

Collaborative Research: Global Simulations of Substorm Trigger with GGCM: Synergistic Coupling of Magnetic Reconnection and Ballooning-Interchange Instabilities in the Magnetotail
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Chris C Hegna($143,951), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Amitava Bhattacharjee($154,853), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Ballooning Instability, Ballooning-interchange Instabilities, Global Simulations, Magnetic Reconnection, Mhd Simulations, Near-earth Magnetotail, Substorm Conditions, Substorm Onset, Ballooning-interchange, GGCM, Junior, Nearth, Processes, Required, Students, Summer.

Dynamical Data-based Modeling of the Magnetospheric Magnetic Field
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mikhail Sitnov($190,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Geomagnetic Field Models, Basis Functions, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Storms, Solar Wind, Spatial Resolution, Account, Amplitude, Approach, Available, Based, Current, Database, Empirical, Existing, Explore, Fitting, Global, Interplanetary, Local, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Modern, Observations, Set, Space, Spacecraft, Technique, Techniques, Time, Timescales.

GEM Postdoc: Alfven Wave Coupling of Auroral Ionosphere with Magnetospheric Disturbances
Award Effective Date: 09/30/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Li-Jen Chen($67,079), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Dispersive Alfven Waves, Parallel Ion Flow, Code Themselves, Four-field Model, Magnetospheric Disturbances, Mi Coupling, Simulation Models, Computer, Coupled, Formulation, Four-field, Has, Investigate, Ionosphere, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Observers, Own, Processes, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Imaging Auroral Radio Emissions: Multi-technique Investigations Employing Optical, Radar, and Satellite Instruments
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. John M Hughes($41,824), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Alaska And Greenland, Auroral Regions, Imaging Instruments, Radio Emissions, Radio Imaging, Dartmouth, Educational, Facilities, Features, Field, Magnetic, Optical, Phenomena, Satellites, Variety.

Collaborative Research: CMG--Freedom from Coordinate Systems, and Spectral Accuracy with Local Refinement: Radial Basis Functions for Climate and Space-Weather Prediction
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Natasha Flyer($317,171), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Christiane Jablonowski($59,824), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Julia C Muccino($65,839), Arizona State University, Tempe
4. Bengt Fornberg($25,477), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
5. Grady B Wright($44,841), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Accuracy, Applications, Climate, Equations, Geometry, Geoscientists, Modeling, Solar, Spectral, Spherical.

CMG--Particle Filtering for Time-Dependent Tomographic Analysis of the Solar Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Yuguo Chen($838,188), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Algorithms, Approach, Distribution, Filtering, Solar, Statistical.

CMG: Non-Gaussian Statistical Analysis of Large Climate Datasets and Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Mikyoung Jun($1,030,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Non-gaussian Fields, Analysis, Climate, Cross-disciplinary, Distributions, Model, Models, Non-gaussian, Statistical.

Development of Microwave and Lidar Instrumentation to Enhance the University of Wisconsin Facilities for State-of-the Art Cloud Observations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David D Turner($1,118,055), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Mobile Weather Lab, Field Programs, Mobile Lab, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Cloud, Development, Existing, Ground-based, Incorporating, Increase, Increased, Infrared, Instrument, Instrumentation, Instruments, Lidar, Microwave, Observations, Passive, Properties, SSEC, Students, Wisconsin-madison.

Development of C-band Mobile Polarimetric Radar
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Dusan S Zrnic($438,816), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Atmospheric, Available, C-band, Cloud, Education, Mobile, Oklahoma, Pis, Polarimetric, Properties, Radar, Radars, SMART, Various.

Development of ADELE--Airborne Detector for Energetic Lightning Emissions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Joseph R Dwyer($467,220), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: X-ray And Gamma-ray, Count Rates, Gamma Rays, ADELE, Altitudes, Candidate, Detectors, Developed, Emissions, Emitted, Extremely, Hard, Initiation, Largest, Lightning, Modules, Near, Observations, Observed, Optimized, Orbit, Scintillation, Space, Tgfs, Throughput, Thunderstorms.

Acquisition of Instrumentation for Quantification of Organic Compounds Responsible for Aerosol Formation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Paul O Wennberg($545,445), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Volatile Organic Compounds, Aerosol Plays, Chemical Composition, Earth's Atmosphere, Gas Phase, Organic Aerosol, Absorption, Analysis, Atmospheric, Characterization, Chemistry, Chromatography, Climate, Enable, Environmental, Formation, Front, Hygroscopicity, Influence, Instrument, Instrumentation, Instruments, Leading, Mass, Mechanisms, Molecular, Nature, Oxidation, Properties, Rapid, Volatility.

MRI: Development: SWIMS--Standalone WIreless Magnetometer System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Brian J Anderson($720,926), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Ground Magnetometer, Ionospheric Electrodynamics, Low Cost, Low Power, Multiple Sensors, Networks Consisting, Rf Link, Sensor Modules, Solarbattery Powered, Via Wireless, Active, CN, Central, Communicates, Facility, Follow, Installation, Local, Logistical, M-I, MIDIAM, Magnetic, Noise, Observatory, Performance, Required, SM, SWIMS, Single, Stand-alone, Technology.

Acquisition of Remote Sensing Systems for Lower Atmospheric Research and Undergraduate Research Training
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Richard D Clark($279,750), Millersville University, Millersville
Key terms: Remote Sensing, Acoustic, Aerosol, Capability, Experience, Facility, Field, Instruments, Millersville, Students, Training, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

Acquisition of Micrometeorological Instrumentation for Research and Training at California State University, Fresno
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Aribilola Omolayo($208,554), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Contribute, Department, Future, Geography, Instrumentation, Instruments, Micrometeorological, Pollutants, Students, Training, Urban.

Development of Radar Profiler Enhancements to the Mobile Integrated Profiling System (MIPS)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kevin R Knupp($248,139), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Basic And Applied, Boundary Layer Structures, Convergent Boundary Zones, Atmospheric, Biological, CBL, CI, Considerable, Convective, Enhancements, Equipment, Huntsville, Improvements, Instruments, MIPS, Mesoscale, Mhz, Mobile, Phenomena, Precipitation, Profiler, Profiles, Profiling, Properties, Time, UAH, Utilized, Variety, Various, XPR.

Significant Opportunities in Atmospheric Research and Science (SOARS): Sustaining and Advancing an Effective Program
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: NCAR-Nat Center Atmosph Resear

1. Rajul E Pandya($2,868,291), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric, Program, SOARS, Summer.

Second Annual Cybersecurity Summit for Large Federally Sponsored Facilities; Arlington, Virginia; November or December, 2005
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: Other PRA-Othr Prgrm Rltd Admn

1. Mark A Luker($111,720), Educause, Boulder
Key terms: Facilities, Strategies, Summit.

Multi Millennia Climate Variability from Ancient Oak Wood in the Midwest Agricultural Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Anthony R Lupo($297,596), University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Buried, Climate, Has, Oak, Rings.

Collaborative Research: Late Holocene Climate Archives Preserved in Archaeological Shells
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Karen J Walker($76,071), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Donna Surge($233,371), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Archaeological, Florida, Reconstruct.

Reconstructing Past Climates of the Amazon Basin from the Isotopic Analysis of Tropical Trees
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Paul A Baker($279,980), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Tree-ring Width, Amazon, Analyzing, Annual, Carbon, Carbon-, Cellulose, Climate, Isotopic, Lowlands, Oxygen, Peruvian, Precipitation, Ratios, Ring-width, Rings, Site, Tree-ring, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: SGER: Ice Core Paleoclimate Record from Mt. Waddington, British Columbia Coast Range
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Douglas H Clark($38,778), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Eric J Steig($17,309), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Ice Cores, North Pacific, Snow Accumulation, CFCAS, Climate, Drill, Glacier, Modeling, Mt, Paleoclimate, Quantitative, Reconstruction, SGER, Site, Waddington.

Collaborative Research: Project PALEOVAR -- Past Climate Variability: Understanding Mechanisms and Interactions with the Mean State
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Richard L Edwards($150,331), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Nicklas G Pisias($2,745,770), Oregon State University, Corvallis
3. Patrick J Bartlein($438,803), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Terrestrial And Marine, Mean Climate, Academic, Active, Analysis, Climatic, Commitment, Future, Modeling, Models, NSF, Public, Pursue, Quantify, Resources, Specifically, USGS.

Collaborative Research: Climate Model Tests of the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Stephen J Vavrus($199,568), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. William F Ruddiman($54,786), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Climate, Humans, Trend.

Collaborative Research: A Geospatial Approach to Dendroclimatology of Multi-Millennial Bristlecone Pine
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Andrew G Bunn($47,865), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Andrew G Bunn($15,003), Woodwell Climate Research Center, Inc., Falmouth
3. Malcolm K Hughes($396,198), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Bristlecone, Climate, Elevation, Forest, Growth, Implications, Information, Living, Tree, Tree-ring, Trees.

Collaborative Research: Multiproxy Archives of Late Holocene Climate Variability from Ombrotrophic Peatlands in Eastern North America
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Robert K Booth($89,539), Lehigh University, Bethlehem
Key terms: Climate, Peatland, Peatlands, Pollen, Region.

SGER: Solar Influence on High-frequency Climate Variability--Possible Links to the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation and Hurricane Activity
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Terrence M Quinn($74,238), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Existing Highly Resolved, Late Holocene Climate, North Atlantic Basin, Amo-like Oscillations, Climate Proxy, Internal Oscillation, Adjacent, Amo-like, Atmosphere-ocean, Cycle, Forced, Frequency, Global, Influence, Output, Persistent, Presence, Program, SGER.

Collaborative Research: Time-Continuous Climate Simulations of Abrupt Events and Transitions through the Cenozoic
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Robert M DeConto($489,627), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. David Pollard($279,388), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Boundary Conditions, Cenozoic Climate, Greenhouse Gas, Ice Sheets, Accounting, Antarctic, Approach, Components, Cooling, Cycles, Feedbacks, Forcing, Glaciation, Integrations, Long-term, Miocene, Model, Modeling, Models, Oceans, Orbital, Processes, Recognized, Relatively, Temporal, Time, Transient, Transitions.

Analysis and Testing of Proxy-Based Climate Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Michael E Mann($459,398), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Surface Temperature, Climate, Large-scale, Millennia, Mode, Observed, Past, Reconstructions, Southern.

Analytical and Numerical Studies of Katabatic and Anabatic Flows in Stratified Atmospheric Environments
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Evgeni Fedorovich($292,898), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Heat And Momentum, Advanced Numerical, Katabaticanabatic Flows, Natural Convection, Numerical Modeling, Similarity Constraint, Slope Flow, Slope Flows, Weather Prediction, Analytical, Aspects, Atmospheric, Basins, Buoyancy, Climate, Complex, Described, Difficulties, Dynamics, Effects, Forcing, Inhomogeneous, Instability, Knowledge, Local, Methods, Models, Parameterizations, Principal, Processes, Regions, Sloping, Solutions, Stratified, Student, Surface, Synoptic, Techniques, Terrain, Turbulence, Turbulent, Variety, Winds.

Collaborative Research: Data Assimilation Analysis of the Boundary Layer and Convection Initiation During International H2O Project (IHOP)
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yvette P Richardson($329,763), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Conrad L Ziegler($174,917), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Boundary Layer Airflow, Formation And Ci, Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting, Cumulus Formation, Ihop Observations, Targeted Mobile, Analyses, Analysis, Assimilation, Circulations, Combination, Continue, Convection, Convective, Development, Dynamical, Enhanced, Evolution, Field, In-situ, Lagrangian, Mesoscale, Numerical, Ongoing, Previous, Processes, Storms, Water.

Remote Sensing of Tornadoes and Storms with Mobile W-band Polarimetric and X-band Spaced-Antenna and Phased-Array Doppler Radar
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephen J Frasier($773,328), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Doppler Radar, Graduate Students, Mobile Doppler, Severe Storm, Severe Weather, Analysis, Antennas, CASA, Continue, Developed, Development, Dual-polarized, Efforts, Existing, OU, Phased-array, Polarimetric, Spaced-antenna, Storms, Techniques, Technology, Tornadoes, Transceiver, Transverse, Umass, Velocities, W-band, Wind, X-band.

Radar Studies of Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Howard B Bluestein($824,721), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Severe Convective Storms, Storms And Tornadoes, Doppler Radars, Radar Engineers, Reflectivity Fields, Analyzing, Collected, Continue, Mobile, Techniques, Time, W-band, Weather, Wind.

The Helicopter Observation Platform (HOP): Demonstration and Calibration Phase
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Roni Avissar($124,778), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Aerodynamic Envelope, Air, Atmospheric, Available, Capabilities, Characteristics, Climate, Duke, Fluxes, HOP, Health, Helicopter, Instruments, Platform, Processes, Progress, Sensors, Trace, Unique, Various.

Observations and Modeling of Orographic Cumulus Development Using Data Collected During CuPIDO 2006
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph A Zehnder($178,963), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Cloud Resolving, Deep Convection, Desert Southwest, Subsequent Development, Analysis, Based, Collected, Conditions, Convective, Cumulus, Cupido, Doppler, Environment, Evolution, Extend, Forecasters, Information, Interaction, Local, Model, Models, Numerical, Onset, Particular, Principal, Process, Shallow, Simulations, Surface.

Further Analysis of Near-surface Tornado Intensification
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William S Lewellen($336,014), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Corner Flow Collapse, Destructive Potential, Aid, Asymmetric, Conditions, Critical, Damage, Debris, Existing, Field, Interaction, Involved, LES, Lead, Leading, Nsurface, Principal, Produce, Public, Range, Structure, Surface, Tornado, Tornadoes, Vortices, Wind.

Runaway Discharges and Their Roles in Atmospheric Processes
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lee Coleman($420,018), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: X-ray And Gamma-ray, Breakdown Process, Laboratory Sparks, Runaway Breakdown, Runaway Electrons, X-ray Emission, Advances, Amount, Broader, Debate, Field, Flash, ICLRT, Involved, Leaders, Lightning, Little, Mechanism, Natural, Observational, Observations, Previously, Produce, Produced, Return, TERA, Theory, Thunderstorms, X-rays.

Gravity Wave Sources and Parameterization
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. M Joan Alexander($434,093), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Forecasting And Climate, Gravity Wave Effects, Gravity Wave Forcing, Gravity Wave Generation, Mountain Wave Sources, Planetary Wave Propagation, Subgrid-scale Gravity Wave, Boundary Layer, Climate Models, Global Modeling, Global Models, Gravity Waves, Mean Flow, Mean-flow Forcing, Ozone Chemistry, Subgrid-scale Gravity, Wave Dissipation, Waves Generated, Affects, Altitudes, Atmospheric, Boundaries, Cirrus, Cloud, Convection, Convective, Distinguish, Errors, Essential, Global-scale, Height, Initiation, Links, Mean-flow, Methods, Nonstationary, Observations, Occurrence, Parameterization, Parameterizations, Parameterized, Precipitation, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Troposphere, Upper.

Developing Improved Models of the Stable Boundary Layer Incorporating the Residual Layer Region
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael K Tjernstrom($450,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Turbulence Dissipation Rate, Boundary Layer, Residual Layer, Turbulence Structure, Vertical Profiles, Activity, CASES-, Complex, Current, Demonstrated, Field, Future, MH, Modeling, Models, Night, Nighttime, Objective, Observations, Occasion, Processes, Quantities, RL, Region, Regions, SBL, Separate, Stable, TLS, Temperature, Tower, Transport, Wind.

Measuring and Modeling Interactions of the Turbulent Atmospheric Boundary Layer with Multiscale Ground Topology
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Charles V Meneveau($444,979), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Senior High-school Students, Detailed Flow, Fractal Boundaries, Ground Topology, High-school Students, Mountain Ranges, Optically Index-matched, Senior High-school, Atmospheric, Baltimore, Boundary, Canopies, Characterized, Complex, Computational, Development, Drag, Dynamics, Effects, Experimental, Features, Flows, Forces, Fractals, Has, Index-matched, Interactions, Laboratory, Layer, Length, Model, Multi-scale, RNS, Single, Structure, Tool, Vegetation.

Aerosols-Climate Interactions: Development and Tests of a Dust Lifting Model
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nilton D Renno($440,580), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Dust Flux Parameterization, Dust Lifting Model, Lifting And Transport, Plumes And Vortices, Convective Plumes, Dust Electrification, Dust Storms, Electric Fields, Electric Forces, Electrostatic Effects, Radiative Forcing, Wind-blown Saltation, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Available, Climate, Developed, Explanations, Has, Layer, Measured, Natural, Particles, Process, Processes, Surface, Weather, Website, Wind-blown.

Arctic Cloud and Aerosol Remote Sensing Research at Arctic Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing (AFARS)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kenneth Sassen($614,133), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Arctic Clouds, Microphysical Properties, Remote Sensing, AFARS, Aerosol, Aerosols, Characterize, Climate, Conditions, Deg, Dust, Effects, Global, Has, Local, Methods, Midlatitude, Observations, Polar, Program, Raman, Region, Regions, Satellite.

Numerical Investigation of Damaging Wind Mechanisms within Bow Echoes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nolan T Atkins($68,511), Lyndon State College, Lyndonville
Key terms: Damaging Surface Winds, Descending Rear Inflow, Rear Inflow Jet, Straight-line Wind Damage, Bow Echo, Bow Echoes, Conceptual Model, Genesis Mechanism, Straight-line Wind, ARW, Capable, Dynamical, Examine, Experience, Govern, Has, Intense, Mesovortex, Mesovortices, Narrow, Objective, Objectives, Observed, Options, Processes, Produce, Produced, Producing, Running, Shown, Simulations, Strength, Swaths, Undergraduate, Vortices.

Participation in the Ice in Clouds Experiment - Layered Clouds (ICE-L) Field Experiment with the Stratton Park Engineering Company (SPEC) Learjet and Analysis of Data
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Bradley A Baker($440,931), STRATTON PARK ENGINEERING CO., INC., Boulder
Key terms: Heterogeneous Nucleation Mechanisms, Aerosol Characteristics, Field Campaign, Ice Initiation, Spec Learjet, Supercooled Water, Wave Clouds, Aircraft, Allow, Available, C-, Climate, Coordinated, D-S, Days, Detailed, Document, Equipped, Has, ICE-L, Images, Imaging, Microphysical, NSF, Phase, Precipitation, Probe, Rapidly, Regions, Vertical, Was.

Dynamics and Impacts of Mesoscale Gravity Waves in Baroclinic Jet-Front Systems
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Fuqing Zhang($267,192), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Energy And Momentum, Mesoscale Gravity Waves, Midlatitude Baroclinic Jet-front, Baroclinic Jet-front, Baroclinic Waves, Dry Dynamics, Idealized Simulations, Momentum Transport, Satellite Observations, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Circulation, Convection, Generated, Generation, High-resolution, Imbalance, Interaction, Lead, Mechanisms, Moist, Processes, Tropospheric, Weather.

Ice Nuclei and Ice Initiation in Mid-latitude Clouds in Springtime: Background and Dust-Affected
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sonia M Kreidenweis($681,074), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Ice Indirect Effect, Cloud Formation, Cold Cloud, Field Studies, Ice Formation, Ice Initiation, Ice Nucleation, Layer Clouds, Activities, Aerosol, Aerosols, Climate, Compositions, Concentrations, Dust, Effects, Expected, Experiment, Experiments, Global, Graduate, Importance, Issues, Model, Models, Numerical, Particles, Precipitation, Processes, Properties, Transport.

Improving the Representation of Organized Convection in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) Models
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew D Parker($323,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Convective Organization, Cp Schemes, Explicit Convection, Numerical Models, Nwp Models, Operational Nwp, Organized Convection, Translation Speed, Aspects, Configurations, Development, Directly, Downstream, EC, Forecasting, Forecasts, Improvements, Inability, Larger-scale, Limitations, MCS, Mcss, Moisture, Momentum, Motion, Outcomes, Parameterizations, Pis, Prediction, Process, Processes, Propagating, QPF, Representation, Students.

Ice in Clouds Experiment-Layer (ICE-L) Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) Spectral Measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. James G Hudson($352,072), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Dynamically Simple, Involve Ccn, Layer Clouds, Climate, Condensation, Ice, Investigate, Micron, Nucleation, Nuclei, Objectives, Observations, Process, Processes, Range, Resolution, Supersaturation.

Vertical Mixing and Horizontal Transport for Weak-wind Stable Conditions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Larry J Mahrt($648,135), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Mixing And Mesoscale, Turbulence And Mesoscale, Waves And Meandering, Gravity Waves, Meandering Motions, Mesoscale Motions, Mesoscale Transport, Similarity Theory, Strongly-stratified Conditions, Turbulent Mixing, Analyses, Atmospheric, Datasets, Examination, Flux, Fluxes, Formulations, Influences, Intermittency, Layer, Models, Nocturnal, Quality-controlled, Stable, Strongly-stratified, Structure, Surface, Theories, Variety, Weak, Weak-wind.

Effects of Aerosols on Microphysical Properties of Springtime Clouds Containing Ice
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Cynthia Twohy($307,500), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Heterogeneous Ice, Ice Clouds, Ice Formation, Ice Nucleation, Activity, Additionally, Aerosol, Aircraft, Atmosphere, Climate, Collected, Direct, Experiment, Experiments, Field, Human, ICE-L, Influence, Information, Integrated, Land-use, Modeling, Nuclei, Nucleus, Particulate, Precipitation, Primary, Sampling.

Workshop on New Particle Formation in the Atmosphere; Saint Paul, Minneapolis; September 8-9, 2006
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Peter H McMurry($11,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Particle Formation, CCN, September, Workshop.

Improving Microphysics Parameterizations and Quantitative Precipitation Forecast through Optimal Use of Video Disdrometer, Profiler and Polarimetric Radar Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ming Xue($464,616), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Numerical Weather Prediction, Quantitative Precipitation Estimation, Weather Prediction Models, Operational Weather, Polarization Radar, Radar Observations, Advanced, Assimilation, Capabilities, Characteristics, Detailed, Disdrometer, Forecasting, Hydrometeor, Initialization, Microphysical, Optimal, Parameterization, Retrieval, Retrievals, Size, Vertically.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Externally and Internally Modulated Convection on Tropical Cyclone Evolution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew D Eastin($109,046), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
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.

Further Studies of Convective Initiation, Structure and Maintenance
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert G Fovell($479,925), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ability, CI, Convection, Convective, Emphasis, Influence, Initiation, Maintenance, Models, Objective, Principal, Realistic, Storm, Storms.

Atmospheric Nucleation: Quantum Calculations, Kinetic Modeling, and Regional Scale Investigations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Fangqun Yu($496,858), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Nucleation Rate Look-up, Rate Look-up Tables, Atmospheric Nucleation, Ion-mediated Nucleation, Look-up Tables, Rate Look-up, Binary, Cluster, Clusters, Development, Existing, Homogeneous, Ion-mediated, Kinetic, Modeling, Models, Quantum, Ternary, Theories, Thermodynamics.

Collaborative Research: Boundary-Layer Influences on Mountain Waves and Rotors
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Shiyuan Zhong($187,123), Michigan State University, East Lansing
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.

Collaborative Research: Structure and Evolution of Diurnal Cold-Air Pools and Seiches in Small, Closed Basins
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Shiyuan Zhong($241,820), Michigan State University, East Lansing
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.

A Numerical Modeling Investigation of Infrasound Generated by Tornadic Storms
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alfred J Bedard($169,196), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Frequency Range, Severe Storms, Advance-warning, Basis, Detection, Infrasound, Simulations, Tornadoes.

Wave Dynamics in Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael T Montgomery($257,239), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
2. David A Schecter($98,870), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Mean Secondary Circulation, Boundary Layer, Cloud Coverage, Cloudy Vortex, Wave Dynamics, Colorado, Examine, Eyewall, Hurricane, RAMS, Stage, Waves.

A Theoretical and Observational Study of Midlatitude Mesoscale Convective Vortices (MCVs) in Vertical Shear
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael T Montgomery($165,851), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Critical Shear, Warm Season, Ambient, Association, BAMEX, Convection, Convective, Evolution, Intensity, Longevity, MCV, Mcvs, Observational, Prediction, Theoretical, Vorticity.

Collaborative Research: Dynamic and Thermodynamic Control of Tropical Cyclone Intensity in Sheared Environments
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael T Montgomery($330,913), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Hurricane Intensity Forecasts, Operational Forecast Model, Vortex Rossby Waves, Environmental Shear, Shear Flow, Tropical Cyclones, Vortex Core, Advanced, Air, Ambient, Direct, Directly, Dynamic, Dynamical, Exclusively, Focused, Focusing, Generation, Injection, Interaction, Middle, Models, Mutual, Prediction, Previous, Principal, Process, Processes, Skill, Theoretical, Theory, Thermodynamic.

A Two-Pronged Attack on the Problem of Aerosol Climate Forcing
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Theodore L Anderson($437,893), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Airborne And Spaceborne, Aerosol Particle, Anthropogenic Aerosol, Global Distribution, Global Reassessment, Optical Depth, Size Fraction, Activities, Administration, Albedo, Atmospheric, Center, Climate, Cloud, Estimates, Examining, Laboratory, Lidar, Loading, NASA, NOAA, National, Objective, Pis, Properties, Satellite, Satellites.

Correlated Stochastic Processes in Physical Meteorology
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alexander B Kostinski($395,630), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Bunching And Anti-bunching, Space And Time, Droplet Growth, Radar Meteorology, Radiative Transfer, Analysis, Cloud, Clouds, Correlated, Correlation, Correlations, Fluctuations, Implications, Level, Precipitation, Program, Rain, Raindrop, Rainfall, Resulting, Signal, Statistics, Stochastic, Structure, Via.

Field Studies of Raindrop Axis Ratio Distributions Using an Improved 2D-Video Disdrometer and Dual-Polarized Radar
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Viswanathan N Bringi($438,993), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Axis Ratio Distributions, Drop Axis Ratio, Drop Oscillations, Field Campaigns, Rain Retrieval, Vertical Profiles, Algorithms, Attenuation-correction, Characterize, Existing, Ii, Implications, Observations, Polarimetric, Polarization, Procedures, Radar, Shapes, Site, Sites.

Towards Improving Hurricane Intensity Forecasts
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. T. N Krishnamurti($200,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Hurricane Intensity Forecasts, Mesoscale Models, Multi-model Superensemble, Modeling, Multi-model, Prior, Towards.

Characterization of the Daytime Convective Boundary Layer Using Numerical Simulations and Radar Field Experiments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Evgeni Fedorovich($401,938), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Boundary Layer Situations, Convective Boundary Layer, Les And Radar, Radar And Instrumentation, Blr Observations, Layer Situations, Radar Configurations, Radar Observations, Radar Simulator, Virtual Blr, Approaches, Atmospheric, CBL, Curriculum, Developed, Development, Experiments, Fields, Meteorological, Oklahoma, Unique, Various.

Nonlinear Atmospheric Adjustment
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Peter R Bannon($381,255), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Geostrophic And Hydrostatic, Numerical Weather Prediction, Atmospheric Adjustment, Graduate Students, Moist Convection, Numerical Models, Air, Atmosphere, Compressibility, Effects, Forcing, Forcings, Generalized, Insight, Mass, Momentum, Nonhydrostatic, Nonlinear, Propagated, Transformed.

CAREER: Chemical Processing and Cloud Nucleation Activity of Soot Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sarah Brooks($627,644), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Gas Phase, Ice Nucleation, School Students, Soot Aerosol, Warm Cloud, Act, Activity, Aerosols, Aging, Air, Altered, CCN, Chemical, Compounds, Houston, Organic, Oxidation, Precipitation, Teaching, Tropospheric.

CAREER: Development of an Innovative Laboratory for Research and Education in Urban Meteorology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Petra M Klein($674,801), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Flow And Turbulence, Parameterization Schemes, Urban Meteorology, Air, Atmospheric, Boundary-layer, Challenges, Development, Education, Environmental, Exchange, Fellowships, Field, Future, Gap, IAUC, ILREUM, Ii, Iii, Improvement, Integrated, Iv, Knowledge, Laboratory, Layer, Modeling, Models, Modern, Ongoing, Prepared, Programs, Regional, Roughness, Teaching, Terrain, Tools, Urbanization.

CAREER: New Techniques for Aerosol/Cloud Sampling and Analysis
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Suresh Dhaniyala($516,652), Clarkson University, Potsdam
Key terms: Aerosol-cloud Characterization, Outreach Program, Undergraduate Students, Aerosol-cloud, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Compositional, Course, Developed, Fast, Instrument, Mobility, Participation, Particle, Particles, Sampler, Sampling, Techniques.

RUI: Spectral Imaging of Overcast Skies
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Raymond L Lee($181,987), United States Naval Academy, Annapolis
Key terms: Imaging Techniques, Overcast Radiances, Spectral Structure, Atmospheric, Details, Digital, Distribution, Features, Has, Insights, Models, Observational, Overcasts, Public, Spatial, Visible.

Average and Variability Characteristics of Orographic Precipitation at Multiple Scales
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sandra E Yuter($330,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Mesoscale Model Output, National Weather Service, Orographic Precipitation Mechanisms, Small-scale Convective Overturning, Space And Time, Small-scale Convective, Vertical Air, Analyses, Build, Component, Extend, Facilitate, Features, Findings, Forecast, Frequency, Improvement, MAP, Microphysical, Mountain, Operational, Oregon, Properties, Radar, Regional, Sets, Southern, Terrain, Washington.

Observations and Numerical Modeling of Rotor Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Rolf F Hertenstein($250,914), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Colorado Rocky Mountains, Flow Regimes, Front Range, Mountain-waverotor Interface, Mountain-waverotor Structure, Overall Mountain-waverotor, Rotor Types, Sierra Nevada, Current, Differences, Distinct, Dynamics, Has, Inversion, Lee, Modify, Mountain-waverotor, Numerical, Observations, Principal, Profile, Quantify, Rotors, Similar, Simulations, Three-dimensional, Underlying, Upstream, Waves.

Formation and Evolution of Pileus Cloud Near the Tropopause
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Timothy J Garrett($35,693), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Tropopause Transition Layer, Stratospheric Humidity, Cirrus, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Convection, Layers, Pileus, TTL.

Scales and Characteristics of Convective Processes in Orographic Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sandra E Yuter($12,711), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Freezing Level, Orographic Precipitation, Size Distribution, Coalescence, Contribute, Difference, Extend, Fallstreaks, Growth, Storms.

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. Donald Burgess($265,074), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
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.

Unidata Summer Workshop 2006: Expanding the Use of Models in the Atmospheric and Related Sciences; Boulder, Colorado; July 10-14, 2006
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Gary M Lackmann($161,844), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Educational Tools, Graduate Students, Computational, Concepts, Courses, Developed, Faculty, Models, Numerical, Sharing, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: SHINE--Stochastic Particle Acceleration by Turbulence in Solar Flares
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Vahe Petrosian($315,642), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Alexandre Lazarian($139,647), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Plasma Turbulence, Solar Flare, Acceleration, Associates, Co-pi, Codes, Developed, Educational, Energy, Expertise, Flares, Has, MHD, Magnetic, Observations, Particles, Pis, Plasmas, Radiation, Stanford, Students, Wisconsin.

Studies of Wave-Particle Interactions for Interstellar Pickup Ions in the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Philip A Isenberg($326,001), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Interstellar Pickup, Magnetic Field, Model's Treatment, Pickup Ions, Solar Wind, Analysis, Behavior, Dispersion, Dispersive, Equatorial, Evolution, Heliosphere, Models, Protons, Resonant, Scattering, Turbulence, Turbulent, Wave, Waves.

Predicting the Heliosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. LENNARD A FISK($349,052), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Energetic Particles, Magnetic Field, Quantitative Description, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Stochastic Acceleration, Heliosphere, Heliospheric, Model, Plans, Settings, Shocks.

CAREER: Investigating Impulsive Heating in the Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Amy Winebarger($442,380), Alabama A&M University, Normal
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Active Regions, Coronal Heating, Graduate Students, Solar Corona, AAMU, Analysis, Loop, Magnitude, Minority, Structures.

SHINE: Understanding the Sun's Open Magnetic Flux
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Peter Riley($279,927), Leidos, Inc., Reston
Key terms: Magnetic Flux, Solar Corona, Space Weather, Correction, Heliosphere, Interplanetary, Magnetograms, Observatory, SHINE.

SHINE Postdoc: Extension of the Breakout Model to More 'Realistic' Coronal Mass Ejections
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Janet G Luhmann($160,343), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Breakout Model, Surface Motions, Actual, Calculations, Coronal, Derived, Eruption, Field, Fields, MHD, Magnetic, Numerical, Postdoctoral, Realistic, Simulations, Solution, Source-surface.

Design and Development Plan for the Frequency Agile Solar Radiotelescope (FASR)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gordon Hurford($1,000,000), Associated Universities, Inc., Vienna
Key terms: Solar Radio Physics, Space Weather, California, Carry, Effort, FASR, Heliospheric, Innovative, Institute, Laboratory, Management, Observatory, Outstanding, Particular, Planning, Required, Resolution, Time, Tools, Unique.

Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. James F Drake($180,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Turbulence And Anomalous, Anomalous Resistivity, Electron Beta, Fast Hall, Local Electron, Magnetic Reconnection, Streaming Instabilities, Sweet-parker Solution, Weakly Collisional, Critical, Current, Driven, Has, Model, Modeling, Plasma, Pressure, Rate, Regions, Simulations, Sweet-parker, Transition, Velocity.

SHINE Postdoc: Using Neutral Helium to Understand Coronal and Heliospheric Plasmas
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. John C Raymond($193,139), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Neutral Helium, Has, Heliospheric, Plasma, Postdoctoral, Solar, Space-based.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Driving Solar Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Simulations with Vector Magnetogram Sequences
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. George H Fisher($127,257), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Thomas R Metcalf($217,500), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
3. Dana Longcope($217,494), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Boundary Conditions, Capability, Directly, Driven, Equations, Evolution, Governing, Methods, Models, Numerical, Observations, Provided, Simulations, Solar, Solve, Techniques, Time-dependent.

REU Site: Research Opportunities for Undergraduates in the Laboratory for Solar And Space Physics at the NASA/Goddard Space Fight Center
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Frederick C Bruhweiler($285,196), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Nsf Reu Site, Solar And Space, Reu Site, Space Physics, CUA, Engineers, Exploration, Has, NASA, Opportunities, Program, Proposers, Students.

Collaborative Research: SHINE--Dynamical Properties of Suprathermal Ions in the Three-Dimensional (3D)-Heliosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Glenn M Mason($101,075), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Dynamical Properties, Inner Heliosphere, Suprathermal Ions, Suprathermal Tail, AU, Acceleration, CME, Evolution, Global, Model, Plan, Population, Proposers, Solar, Spatial, Students, Temporal, Theoretical.

SHINE: Numerical Modeling of SHINE Campaign Events by Means of Coupled MagnetoHydroDynamics-Solar Energetic Particle (MHD-SEP) Simulations
Award Effective Date: 02/03/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Ilia I Roussev($217,770), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Cme-driven Shocks, Coupled Mhd-sep, Inner Corona, Shock Evolution, Solar Eruptions, Solar Particles, Acceleration, BATS-R-US, Cme-driven, Code, Debate, Detailed, FLAMPA, MHD-SEP, Models, Numerical, Observed, Space, Sun, Three-dimensional, Time-dependent.

SHINE: Core and Large Scale Magnetic Structure of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($239,851), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Vector Magnetograms, Analysis, BBSO, Cmes, Coronal, Disk, Eruption, Evolution, Flarecme, Flares, Ha, Large-scale, Magnetic, Observatory, Properties, Remote, SDO, Solar, Solar-b, Structure.

SHINE: Driving Global Heliospheric Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Models with Tomographically-Determined Lower Boundary Conditions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Farzad Kamalabadi($389,487), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Boundary Values, Extreme Ultraviolet, Heliospheric Models, Lower Boundary, Magnetic Field, Tomographic Models, White-light Coronagraph, X-ray Telescope, Coronal, Density, Department, Illinois, Imaging, MHD, Michigan, Ne, Observatory, STEREO, Solar, White-light, X-ray.

Mapping, Modeling and Understanding the Magnetic Chromosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Scott W McIntosh($399,770), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Magnetic Transition Region, Mass And Energy, Chromospheric Plasma, Solar Chromosphere, Convective, Flow, Physics, Processes, Program, Suns, Waves.

SHINE: Nonlinear Electrostatic Structures in the Interplanetary Medium
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Li-Jen Chen($61,304), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Electric Field Pulses, Isolated Electric Field, Interplanetary Medium, Collisionless, Nonlinear, Observational, Observed, Plasma, Properties, Structures, Theoretical.

FDSS: A New Tenure-Track Solar Physicist at University of Colorado (CU)-Boulder: Catalyst for Change
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2005; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Mark P Rast($1,000,280), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Solar And Space, Solar Physics, Space Physics, Space Weather, Atmospheric, Boulder, CU, Center, Cuboulder, Enhance, Essential, Faculty, Graduate, Hire, LASP, NOAASEC, National, Program, Programs, Talent, Undergraduate.

Center for Multi-Scale Modeling of Atmospheric Processes (MMAP)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: STCs - 2006 CLASS

1. A S Denning($37,505,835), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Gcm Grid Column, Global Climate Modeling, Periodic Boundary Conditions, Climate Models, Closure Assumptions, Cloud Field, Conventional Parameterizations, Graduate Education, Gravity Waves, Multi-scale Modeling, Outer Grid, Quasi-3d Mmf, Radiative Transfer, Reliable Predictions, Spatial Structure, Weather Forecasts, Activity, Anthropogenic, Approach, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Based, Book, CSRM, CSU, Center, Chemical, Cloud-scale, Cloudiness, Clouds, Convective, Create, Csrms, Decades, Dynamics, Eliminate, Embedded, Explicitly, Formulation, Gcms, Has, History, Interactions, Journal, Land-surface, MMAP, Microphysics, Mmaps, Mmfs, Modelers, Momentum, Opportunities, Orographic, Precipitation, Processes, Prototype, Quasi-d, Rate, Realistic, Removal, Represent, Resolution, Revolutionary, Shown, Simulate, Simulation, Simulations, Size, Statistics, Strength, Students, Transport, Turbulence, Unique, Version.

Continuing Theoretical Studies of Dynamical Processes in the Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Robert W Schunk($499,999), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Ionospheric And Thermospheric, Neutral Gas, Polar Cap, Polar Wind, AMISR, Auroral, Coupling, Cusp, Electrodynamic, Exosphere, Global, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Mapping, Models, Plasma, Quantify, Thermosphere, Transport.

Collaborative Research: A Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh Lidars
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Jeffrey Thayer($871,626), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. None($858,427), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Alan Liu($1,121,894), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
4. Bifford P Williams($971,807), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Consortium, Coordinates, Lidar, Upper.

CAREER: Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling through Multi-Sensor Data Fusion
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Joshua Semeter($451,739), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Incoherent Scatter, Acceleration, Auroral, Does, Ionosphere, Models, Specific.

CEDAR: Mechanisms and Effects of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Umran S Inan($234,740), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Runaway Acceleration, Based, EMP, Lightning, Mechanism, Model, RHESSI, Relativistic, TGF, Tgfs.

Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) Graduate Studies: High-Latitude E-region Electrodynamics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Jeffrey Thayer($227,833), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Ion Motion, Neutral Winds, Velocity Fields, AMISR, Alaska, Altitude, Density, E-region, Electrodynamic, Graduate, Region, Techniques.

CEO:P--COMET: Coast-to-Mountain Environmental Transect
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: VIRTUAL ORGANIZATIONS

1. Bertram Ludaescher($2,099,971), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: California, Carbon, Coastal, Cyberinfrastructure, Ecosystems, Facilitate, Upwelling.

Imaging Science and Modeling Investigations of the Upper Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Michael Mendillo($1,330,911), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Instabilities, Ionosphere, Latitudes, Observed, Transient.

A Symposium on Seeing; Waikoloa - Hawaii, Hawaii; Winter 2007
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Steven Businger($57,333), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Atmospheric Optical Turbulence, Telescope Image, Effects, Progress, Symposium, Various.

Collaborative Research: Development and Validation of a Comprehensive Magnetosphere Ionosphere Model
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: nan

1. Eduardo A Araujo-Pradere($583,020), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Joachim Raeder($603,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Frank R Toffoletto($155,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Mid And Low, Wind And Interplanetary, Electric Fields, Magnetospheric Convection, Radiation Belt, Real Time, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Accommodate, CGM, Capability, Coupling, Density, Forcing, Geospace, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Magnetosphere, Model, Models, Multiple, Neutral, Plasma, Plasmasphere, Potential, Realistic, Respond, Responsible, Satellite, Specification, Time-dependent, Verification.

Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science (PARS) Summer School
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: nan

1. William A Bristow($190,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Geophysical Institute, Low Frequency, Summer School, Alaska, Auroral, Experiments, Facilities, Fairbanks, Generation, HAARP, Has, Ionosphere, Latitudes, Lectures, PARS, Polar, Radio, Students, Tours, Week.

Collaborative Research: A Next-Generation Model of the Corona and Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Jon Linker($125,000), Leidos, Inc., Reston
2. Dusan Odstrcil($160,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Mas And Enlil, Boundary Conditions, Photospheric Magnetic, Solar Wind, Center, Code, Flux, GUI, Model, Modeling, Models, Output, Physics, Proposers, Time-dependent.

REU Sites: Undergraduate Research Participation Site at the Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: nan

1. Michael R Combi($298,983), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Space Flight, Atmospheric, Program, Staff, Students.

Collaborative Research: The North American Regional Climate Change Assessment Program (NARCCAP)--Using Multiple GCMs and RCMs to Simulate Future Climates and Their Uncertainty
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: nan

1. William J Gutowski($418,832), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Don E Middleton($941,779), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Lisa C Sloan($296,359), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
4. Stephan R Sain($99,175), University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus, Denver
Key terms: Lawrence Livermore National, Climate Modeling, National Center, Regional Climate, Regional Model, Atmospheric, DOE, Diverse, Enhance, European, Global, Issues, Laboratory, NARCCAP, North, Output, Programs, Projections.

Atmospheric Sciences (ATM) Cooperative Support Agreement PY 2006
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2005; Program: nan

1. Robert L Brown($13,349,407), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Upper Atmospheric, Arecibo, Experiments, NAIC, Observations, Observatory, Program, SAS, Space, Temperature.

NSWP: High Frequency (HF) Doppler Radar for Low Latitude Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: nan

1. Rudy A Frahm($299,569), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Vertical Ion Drift, Equatorial Plasma, Neutral Wind, Below, Determined, EPB, Epbs, F-region, Ionospheric, Jicamarca, Onset, Peak, Perturbations, Radio, Scintillations, Signals.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2006

AGU Chapman Conference on Mid-latitude Ionospheric Dynamics and Disturbances, Yosemite National Park, CA; January 3-6, 2007 Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Postdoc: Imaging Studies of Ionospheric Instabilities Award Effective Date: 12/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

SGER: Theory for Satellite Coronae and Atmospheric Escape Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Very Low Frequency (VLF) Remote Sensing of the Lower Ionosphere and Electron Precipitation from the Radiation Belts Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Mesosphere-Thermosphere Science from Microwave Observations Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Wind and Wave Patterns in the Earth's Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Postdoc: Coordinated Space-Based Observations of Equatorial Plasma Bubbles Using TIMED/Global UltraViolet Imager (GUVI) and Defense Meteorological Satellites Program (DMSP) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

A Mars Whole Atmosphere Climate Model: Development and Applications Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Meteor Plasmas - Dynamics and Radiowave Scattering Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Estimation of Thermospheric Oxygen Density and Temperature From Combined Optical and Radar Measurements Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Common Volume Radar Observations of Irregular Sporadic E Layers Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Thermospheric Responses to Gravity Waves Dissipated by Molecular Viscosity and Thermal Conductivity Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Ground-based Detection of Ionospheric Density Modulations due to Alfven waves using AMISR and Ground-Based Optics at Poker Flat, Alaska Award Effective Date: 05/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Daytime Potassium Doppler Lidar at Arecibo Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Flickering and Auroral Roar Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Physics of the Hydrogen Geocorona Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Radar Studies of the Low Latitude Disturbed Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

A Detailed View of Gravity Waves, Collision Cross Sections, and Currents in the Arecibo Upper Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Statistical Inference of Solar Cycle Signatures and Long Term Trends in Mesospheric Temperature Observations Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: A Calibration 'Facility' for CEDAR (Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions) Optical Aeronomy Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: SOlar Radiation and Climate Experiment (SORCE) Stellar Occultation: Upper Atmospheric Oxygen (O2) and Ozone (O3) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Postdoc: Physical Interpretation of Total Electron Content (TEC) Response during Intense Geomagnetic Storms Using Data Assimilation and Physically-Based Models Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Coordinated Imaging and Scintillation Study of the Conjugate Nature of Equatorial Plasma Irregularities Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Multi-Diagnostic Characterization of Mesospheric Gravity Wave Propagation at Several Globally Distributed Sites Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Auroral Thermosphere with Nitrogen-Ion (N2+) Lidar and Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Operations of the Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Science Steering Committee (CSSC) Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Development and Optimization of Tomographic Imaging Methods for Advanced Gravity Wave Studies in the Mesospheric and Lower Thermospheric (MLT) Region Award Effective Date: 01/01/2006; Program: AERONOMY

Characterizing Middle Atmosphere Thermal Structure, Polar Mesospheric Clouds and Gravity Waves at Rothera, Antarctica (67.5 S) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

Space Weather: Real-time Ionospheric Specification Using the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: AERONOMY

Heterogeneous Organic Oxidation Reactions of Atmospheric Importance Studied by Broadband Vibrational Sum Frequency and Second Harmonic Generation Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: ANALYTICAL SEPARATIONS & MEAS.

Electronic Geophysical Year (eGY) Initiative Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: ARC Rsch Support & Logistics

Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Fate of Acyl Peroxy Nitrates During Long-Range Pollution Transport and Atmosphere-Forest Interactions Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Nitrous Acid (HONO) as the Major Re-NOx-ification Intermediate Product in the Troposphere Award Effective Date: 12/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Atmospheric Chemistry and Air-Water Exchange of Halogenated Organic Compounds in the Remote South Pacific Award Effective Date: 11/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Chemical Transformations of Nitrogen Oxides in High Latitude Plumes: The Role of Dinitrogen Pentoxide (N2O5) Heterogeneous Hydrolysis Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Radical Chemistry over Sunlit Snow at Summit, Greenland Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Aqueous-Phase Chemistry of In-Cloud Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Airborne Measurements of the Physio-Chemistry and Evolution of Aerosols in the Tropics during the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment (PASE) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Megacity Initiative Local and Global Research Observation (MILAGRO) Meeting; Boulder, Colorado; October 23-26, 2006 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Water Vapor Dependence of the Reaction Kinetics of the Methylperoxyl Radical with Hydroperoxyl and Itself Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Kinetics of the Hydroxyl Radical (OH) and Ozone-Initiated Oxidation of Biogenic Terpenes Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Meteorological Analysis and Support for the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment Award Effective Date: 09/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Peroxide Measurements and Modeling for the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Airborne Aerosol Number Flux Measurements Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Quantifying Acidification Mechanisms of Saharan Dust Aerosols in the Northeastern Subtropical Atlantic: Implications for Iron Solubility and Marine Primary Productivity Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Coarse and Fine Aerosol Composition during the Pacific Atmospheric Sulfur Experiment (PASE) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Atmospheric Mercury (Hg) Emissions and Speciation during Flame and Smoldering Combustion of Biomass Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Field, Laboratory, and Modeling Investigations of Heterogeneous Processing of Asian Dust Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measurements of Tropospheric OH and HO2 Radicals in Forest Environments Award Effective Date: 08/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Particle Morphology and Composition Effects on Chemical Reaction Rates in Aerosols Award Effective Date: 07/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Laboratory Studies of the Kinetics and Photochemistry of Hydrogen Oxides (HOx) Cycling in the Lower Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 06/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Sesquiterpene Emissions and Their Impact on Aerosol Formation in the United States Award Effective Date: 06/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Measurement and Modeling of Land-Atmosphere Isotopic Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Exchange in the Upper Midwest, United States Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Particle Nucleation Events in the Ohio River Valley Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Effects of Extra-Tropical Fires on Trace Gases and Aerosols Award Effective Date: 05/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Global Budgets of Atmospheric Trace Gases Award Effective Date: 04/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Peroxide Measurements during the Milagro Campaign Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Instrumentation for Atmospheric Sulfur Compounds Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: The Processing and Radiative Properties of Aerosols over the Western North Atlantic Ocean at Bermuda Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Global Atmospheric Chemistry: Uncertainties and Errors; Modes and Parametric Models Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: High Time Resolution Measurements of Peroxy Acyl Nitrates at Mt. Bachelor Observatory During Intercontinental Chemical Transport Experiment Phase B (INTEX-B) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Atmosphere/Snow/Ice Interactions: Photochemistry of Organic Pollutants in Arctic Snow and Ice Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

High Resolution Infrared (IR) Stratospheric Spectral Atlas and Laboratory Studies Award Effective Date: 03/01/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

New Mass Spectrometer Technology for Analysis of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Award Effective Date: 02/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Flight Planning and Meteorological Analysis in Support of the HIAPER Progressive Science Mission Award Effective Date: 01/15/2006; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Fire at the Intersection of Global Carbon and Water Cycles Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: Identifying Hydroclimatic Regimes of Carbon Stability in Northern Peatlands: Holocene Data Analysis and Process-Based Modeling Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: Carbon-Climate Interactions with Increasing Water Demand Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Interactions Between Water, Energy and Carbon Dynamics as Predictors of Canopy to Ecosystem Scale Vegetation Pattern and Function in a Changing Environment Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

A Multiphase Study of the Nature, Sources, and Fate of Atmospheric Organic Nitrogen Award Effective Date: 02/01/2006; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative Research: WCR: Hydrology of Central and Southwest Asia: Connections Between Regional Atmospheric Circulation and Large-scale Climate Variability Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: BE: NON-ANNOUNCEMENT RESEARCH

Collaborative Research: SGER--Profiling and Analysis of Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) HPC Code for Petascale Simulations Award Effective Date: 09/01/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Geosciences High Performance Computing Research Consortium Workshop; Boulder, CO; September 25-27, 2006 Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

SGER: Feasibility of Taking the MAS (Magnetohydrodynamic Algorithm outside a Sphere) Model to Petascale Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

SGER: Feasibility of Taking the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model to Petascale Award Effective Date: 08/15/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Workshop on Petascale Computing and the Geosciences Award Effective Date: 04/01/2006; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Extension of Real-Time Data Sharing Throughout the Americas: Getting the Word Out at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) 2006 Spring Joint Assembly; Baltimore, MD; May 23-26, 2006 Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Catalyzing New Intl Collab

Including Atmospheric Turbulence in Numerical Weather Prediction, Data Assimilation, Ensemble Forecasts, and Error Evaluation Award Effective Date: 03/01/2007; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics