Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Lower Atmospheric Source Regions of Medium-scale Gravity Waves
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Michael J Nicolls($131,500), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. Peter A Stamus($210,500), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Flat And Arecibo, Gravity Wave Dispersion, Reverse Ray Tracing, Secondary Gravity Wave, Viscous Gravity Wave, Wave Dispersion Relation, Gravity Waves, Ionospheric Disturbances, Lower Atmosphere, Neutral Winds, Poker Flat, Accurate, Breaking, Density, Determining, Dissipation, Excited, GW, Information, Modeling, Mountain, Observations, Observed, Period, Perturbations, Profiles, Propagating, Radars, Region, Sources, Thermosphere, Wavelengths.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Tomographic Array for Lightning and Ionospheric Studies (TALIS)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Gary Bust($85,500), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
2. Kenneth B Eack($113,500), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
3. Sigrid Elschot($38,000), New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos
Key terms: Peak Plasma Densities, Lightning Emissions, Coupling, Electromagnetic, Increase, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Layers, Mechanical, Metal, Mhz, Model, Observations, RF, Region, Sporadic-e, Troposphere.

CEDAR: Comprehensive Use of Incoherent Scatter Radar Data to Study the Equatorial Midnight Plasma and Neutral Temperature Maxima (MTM)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Carlos Martinis($317,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Arecibo And Jicamarca, All-sky Imager, Height Dependence, Ion Temperature, Mtm Phenomenon, Additional, Available, Climatology, Equatorial, Fpis, ISR, Indicates, Information, Investigate, Isrs, Latitudinal, Low-latitude, Midnight, Model, Multi-diagnostic, Near, Obtained, Occurrence, Optical, Radars, Temporal, Thermosphere, Tidal.

CEDAR: Nonlinear Wave-Wave Induced Diurnal Tidal Variability
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Scott E Palo($262,500), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Fast Kelvin Waves, Migrating Diurnal Tide, Nonlinear Wave-wave Interactions, Propagating Rossby-gravity Two-day, Rossby-gravity Two-day Wave, Ultra Fast Kelvin, Westward Propagating Rossby-gravity, Circulation Model, Nonlinear Wave-wave, Propagates Vertically, Propagating Rossby-gravity, Rossby-gravity Two-day, Two-day Wave, Wave-wave Interactions, Atmosphere, Day-to-day, Global, Lower-boundary, Potential, TIME-GCM, Thermosphere, Weather.

CEDAR: Modeling Studies of Infrasonic Waves from Thunderstorms and Aurora
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Victor Pasko($253,500), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Thunderstorms And Aurora, Auroral Arcs, Infrasonic Wave, Infrasonic Waves, Infrasound Radiation, Pulsating Aurora, Remote Observer, Altitude, Atmosphere, Effects, Effort, Evidence, Factors, Fate, Ground, Hz, Lightning, Mechanism, Model, Observations, Observed, Propagate, Propagation, Pulses, Range, Recently, Signals, Specific, Sprites, Structure, Supersonic, Thermosphere, Thunderclouds, Two-dimensional.

Analysis of Global Atmospheric Responses to Externally and Internally Driven Global Circuit Variability
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Brian A Tinsley($309,652), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Cosmic Ray Flux, Heliospheric Current Sheet, Solar Wind Electric, Wind Electric Field, Aerosol Particles, Cloud Cover, Conceptual Model, Layer Clouds, Polar Caps, Relativistic Electron, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic, Arctic, Atmospheric, Charge, Circuit, Crossings, Day-to-day, Decreases, Deposits, Droplets, External, Forecasts, Generators, Global, Gradients, Induced, Jz, Low, Meteorological, Nuclei, Opposite, Precipitation, Pressure, Speed, Stations, Strength, Surface, Winter.

CEDAR: Radar and Optical Observations of Enhanced Ion Acoustic Lines and Associated Auroral Fine Structure
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Marilia Samara($154,000), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Generation Mechanisms, Alfven, Auroral, BBELF, Electron, Found, Ground-based, Ionosphere, Moon, Near, Neials, Observations, Occurrence, PFISR, Parameters, Periods, Satellite, Specific, Structures, Waves.

Numerical Simulations of Gravity Wave Instabilities, Wave-Wave and Wave Mean Flow Interactions, Momentum Transport, and Spectral Evolution in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ling Wang($505,000), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Gw Momentum Fluxes, Instability And Interaction, Gw Instability, Instability Dynamics, Interaction Dynamics, Momentum Deposition, Spectral Evolution, Circulation, Climate, Critical, Energy, Environments, Importance, Influences, Interactions, Large-scale, Larger-scale, Latitudes, MLT, Mean, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Parameterizations, Quantify, Simulations, Transport, Variable, Various, Wave-wave, Weather.

RUI: Gravity Wave Effects in the Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region with a 2-D, Nonlinear, Multiple-Airglow Chemistry-Dynamics Model
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Tai-Yin Huang($183,868), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Energy And Momentum, Mesospherelower Thermosphere Region, Airglow Emissions, Airglow Layers, Exothermic Heating, Gravity Wave, Gravity Waves, Wave-induced Secular, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Code, Effects, Interactions, Model, OH, Perturbations, Species, Transport, Wave-induced.

CEDAR: Characterizing the Variability in the High Latitude Ionospheric Electric Field
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Simon G Shepherd($317,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Ssv And Cmv, Electric Field, High-latitude Electric, Joule Heating, Large-scale Convection, Southern Hemisphere, Ambiguity, Climatological, Continuous, Electric-field, High-latitude, Large-scale, Magnetospheric, Maps, Min, Model, Models, Parameters, Product, Relative, Resulting, Significance, Small-scale, Statistical, Superdarn, Widespread.

CEDAR: Solar Cyclic and Climatic Trends in Geocoronal Hydrogen
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Susan M Nossal($283,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Column Emission Intensity, Global Mean Model, Hydrogen Column Emission, Ncar Global Mean, Wisconsin Long-term Mid-latitude, Geocoronal Hydrogen, Investigate Solar, Long-term Mid-latitude, Solar Cycle, Solar Cyclic, Thermospheric Hydrogen, Wisconsin Long-term, Analysis, Comparisons, Density, Doubling, Extend, Future, Historical, Increase, Methane, Observations, Set, Signal-to-noise, Upper.

Lidar and Modeling Studies of Constituent Fluxes by Dissipating Gravity Waves in the Mesopause Region
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Chester S Gardner($183,581), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Heat And Constituent, Leeds Chemical Models, Sor And Msss, Constituent Fluxes, Dynamical Transport, Flux Observations, Gw Transport, Lidar Observations, Mesospheric Constituents, Mesospheric Na, Vertical Dynamical, Chemistry, Effects, Influence, Modified, Odd, Quantify, Seasonal, Structure, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: NSWP--Improvement and Real-time Updating of the International Reference Ionosphere with the Contribution of Auroral Electrons
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Yongliang Zhang($196,514), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Dieter Bilitza($123,736), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Global Auroral Model, Auroral E-layer, Auroral Oval, Incoherent Scatter, Joule Heating, Precipitating Electrons, Thermospheric Convection, Boundaries, Composition, Conditions, Density, Disturbances, E-layer, E-region, Energy, Has, Hme, IRI, Information, Ionosphere, Latitudes, Nme, Peak, Polar, Region, Representation, Time.

CEDAR Postdoc: The Effect of Atmospheric Tides on the Equatorial and Near-Polar Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Thomas J Immel($168,552), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Radio Occultation Profiles, Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere, Electron Density, Tidal Coupling, Tidal Effects, Altitude, Altitudes, Atmosphere, Equatorial, F-region, GPS, Global, ISR, Ionospheric, Latitudes, Neutral, Observations, Pressure, Refractivity, Simulations, Structure, Structures, Temperature, Temporal, Tides, Tropospheric, Was, Zonal.

Using Powerful, Low-Frequency Radio Waves from Lightning to Diagnose the D-region Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Abram R Jacobson($229,609), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: D-region Electron Density, Electron Density Profile, Lightning Radio Emissions, Vertical And Horizontal, 3-300 Khz, D-region Electron, D-region Perturbations, Electron Heating, Horizontal Structure, Narrow Bipolar, Particle Precipitation, Solar Flares, Apply, Conditions, Electromagnetic, Ionospheric, Magnetospheric, Model, Propagation, Radiation, Tasks, Technique, Thunderstorms, Variety.

NSWP: Improving Quantitative Modeling of High-latitude Electrojet Conductivities during Magnetic Storm and Substorm Time
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Meers Oppenheim($241,922), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Anomalous Electron Heating, Heating And Nonlinear, Storms And Substorms, E-region Conductivity, Electric Fields, Magnetic Storms, Nonlinear Currents, Space Weather, Account, CMIT, Codes, Conditions, Conductivities, E-region, Effects, Existing, Intense, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, LFM, Magnetosphere, Model, Models, Module, Observations, Plasma, Predictions, Simulation, Strong, Tested, Turbulence.

A Novel Faraday Filter-based Spectrometer for Studying the Sodium Airglow and Measuring the Atomic Oxygen Mixing Ratio in the Upper Mesosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. None($100,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atomic Oxygen, Compact Spectrometer, Modified Chapman, Na Nightglow, Emission, Instrument, Interactions, Lidar, Lower, MLT, Method, Nard, OO, Ratio, Reactions, Sodium, Value, Values.

Annual Summer CEDAR Workshop
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Barbara Emery($517,931), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Afternoon Workshops, Plenary Sessions, Poster Sessions, Steering Committee, Students Attend, Activities, CEDAR, Meeting, Organized, Primary.

Collaborative Research: Numerical Evaluation of Radar Backscatter from KH Instability and Gravity Wave Breaking for Realistic Radar Parameters and Configurations
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. David C Fritts($218,999), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Patricia M Franke($111,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Horizontal And Vertical, Refractive Index Fluctuations, Zenith And Off-zenith, Dissipation Rates, Gw Parameters, Numerical Simulations, Radar Backscatter, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, DNS, Dynamics, Effects, Estimates, Evolution, Field, Fluxes, Implications, Instability, KH, Mean, Method, Mixing, Potential, Processes, Range, Small-scale, Sources, Spectral, Specular, Turbulence, Turbulent, Was, Wind.

Collaborative Research: RUI--Intermediate Scale Structures in the Auroral Oval and the Ionospheric Trough
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Hugh A Gallagher, Jr.($100,007), SUNY College at Oneonta, Oneonta
2. Trevor W Garner($129,690), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. Allan T Weatherwax($73,592), Siena College, Loudonville
Key terms: Air Travel, Approximate Altitude, Auroral Oval, Degrees North, Geomagnetic Latitude, Ionospheric Trough, Magnetic Latitude, Plasma Irregularities, Radio Beacon, CIDR, Cidrs, Database, Distribution, Establish, Established, Fluctuations, Has, Intermediate, Investigation, Longitude, Mhz, Morphology, NECA, Network, Observed, Occurrence, Receivers, Scintillation, Scintillations, Six, Sixth, Societal, Southern, Space, Structures, TEC, York.

Broadband Electron Acceleration: Outstanding Physics Questions
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Patrick T Newell($300,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Accelerated Electron, Auroral Particle, Broadband Acceleration, Diffuse Electron, Diffuse Ion, Dmsp Satellite, Monoenergetic Acceleration, Database, Electrons, Energy, Oval, Poleward, Precipitation, Processes, Relative.

Studies of the Low-Latitude Ionosphere and Electrodynamics Using Data from the LISN Distributed Observatory
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. J. Vincent Eccles($300,000), Space Environment Corporation, Logan
Key terms: Calibration And Verification, Low Latitude Ionosphere, Vertical Plasma Drift, Pre-reversal Enhancement, Western Half, Conditions, Drivers, ESF, Efforts, Electrodynamics, Equatorial, JRO, LISN, Longitudinal, Low-latitude, Observations, Occurrence, Post-sunset, Quantities, Region, Representation, Shear, South.

Source of High Trace-Velocity Infrasound Signals and Pulsating Auroras
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Hans C Nielsen($404,076), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Acoustic Wave Propagation, Infrasound Signals, Ionospheric Sources, Pulsating Aurora, AMISR, Acquisition, Activity, Analysis, Arrays, Atmospheric, Auroral, Dynamics, Energy, Establish, Information, Infrasonic, Observed, Processes, Set, Trace-velocity.

CEDAR Science Steering Committee 2007-2009
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jeffrey Thayer($178,806), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Upper Atmospheric Facilities, Cedar Program, AMISR, Activities, Aeronomy, Approach, CSSC, Capabilities, Coupling, Developing, Document, Emphasis, NSF, Observations, Programs.

CEDAR: Low and Mid Latitude Imager Observations of Waves and Wave-Induced Phenomena in the Airglow
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

1. Lynette J Gelinas($240,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Airglow Imagers, Airglow Images, Australian Sector, Gravity Waves, Malt Region, Nearly Continuously, Adelaide, Campaign, Climatological, Convective, Correlated, Deposition, Essential, Instabilities, Instability, Lidar, Observational, Observations, Periods, Presence, Sites, Unique.

Space Weather Outreach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: AISL

1. Lisa R Curtis($864,000), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather, Comprehensive, Education, Educators, Exhibit, Games, Informal, Innovative, Online, Outreach, Program, Public, Spectrum, Visitors, Website.

Collaborative Research: Improving Estimated Fluxes of Greenhouse Gases over North America Using a Receptor-Oriented Modeling Framework and In-situ Atmospheric Measurements
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Thomas Nehrkorn($345,961), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
2. Steven C Wofsy($216,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Greenhouse Gases, Analysis, Carbon, Estimates, Model, North, Public.

Heterogeneous Hydroxyl (OH) Chemistry and Aerosol Optical Properties: Direct and Indirect Connections
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Christopher D Cappa($279,999), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Optical Properties, Organic Aerosol, Aerosols, Climate, Directly, Heterogeneous, Light, Spectrometer, Students.

Effects Of Fresh And Aged Sea Salt On The Chemistry Of Urban And Remote Regions
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Barbara J Finlayson-Pitts($658,137), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Nitrate And Nitrite, Salt Particles, Sea Salt, Air, Chemical, Chemistry, Deep, Elucidate, Formation, Halogen, Models, Photochemistry, Precursors, Radicals, Reactions, Tropospheric.

Mercury Cycling in the Marine Environment
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Huiting Mao($530,268), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Appledore Island, Atmospheric Mercury, Gaseous Mercury, Analysis, Global, Hampshire, Hg, Hgp, MBL, Marine, Program, Public, RGM, Sampling, Site.

Western Airborne Mercury Observations (WAMO)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Jaffe($320,786), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Gem And Rgm, Atmospheric Mercury, Agree, Airborne, Aircraft, Bachelor, Chemical, Gaseous, Instrument, Mt, Observations, Quantify, Resolution, Sources.

SGER: Whole Air Sampling with Advanced Whole Air Sampler (AWAS) during HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observation (HIPPO) Global
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Elliot Atlas($49,963), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Carbon Cycle Gases, Atmospheric Chemistry, Trace Gas, Trace Gases, Wide Range, Add, Additional, Air, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere, Chemical, Compounds, Development, Distributions, Enhance, Flasks, Global, HAIS, HIPPO, Lifetimes, Link, Models, NOAA, Selected, Set, Source.

Workshop on Reducing the Uncertainty in Measurements of Atmospheric Mercury; Seattle, Washington; October 23-25, 2008
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Jaffe($32,809), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Ability, Atmosphere, Current, International, Mercury, Report, Workshop.

SGER: Impacts of Air Pollution Controls on Primary and Secondary Aerosols during CAREBEIJING
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Qi Zhang($35,000), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Air Quality, Fine Particle, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Beijing, CAREBEIJING, Chemistry, Composition, Size-resolved, Urban, Vehicle.

Atmospheric Transport and Photo-chemical Transformation of Iron: Model Development, Application, and Verification with Surface and Satellite Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nicholas Meskhidze($287,323), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Ambient Particles, Grid Simulations, Mineral Aerosols, Mineralogical Composition, Assessment, Atmospheric, Deposition, Dfe, Dissolution, Dust, Fe, Fluxes, Global, Iron, Model, Ocean, Oceans, Transport, Water-soluble.

SGER: VOCALS--Clinometer Stabilized MAX-DOAS Measurements of Aerosol Precursor Trace Gases Over the Tropical and Southeast Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rainer M Volkamer($85,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Secondary Organic Aerosol, Halogen Oxides, Ron Brown, Atmospheric, Directly, Field, MAX-DOAS, Marine, Particle.

Photochemistry of Secondary Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sergey Nizkorodov($447,840), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Photochemical Reactions Occurring, Reactions Occurring Inside, Solar Radiation, Aerosol, Information, Matter, Model, Organic, Photochemistry, Photodissociation, SOA, Spectra.

SGER: Water Vapor Measurements from the G-V VCSEL Hygrometer during START08/PreHIPPO
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mark A Zondlo($31,253), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Trace Gas Species, Tropopause Region, Vcsel Hygrometer, Water Vapor, Accurate, Analysis, Calibration, Climate, Dataset, Dynamics, G-V, Instrument, Laboratory, NSF, Onboard, Startprehippo, Student.

MRI: Development of a LASER Sensor for the Measurement of Elemental and Reactive Gaseous Mercury
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William M Drennan($646,110), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Reactive Gaseous Mercury, Current Approaches, Elemental Mercury, Temporal Resolution, Based, Denuders, Detection, Hg, Instrument, Instrumentation, Laser, Pis, RGM, Sampling, Significantly, Speciation, Time.

Collaborative Research: Simulations of MILAGRO Meteorology and Transport for Analysis of Atmospheric Chemistry Data
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Benjamin de Foy($175,689), Saint Louis University, Saint Louis
2. Luisa T Molina($182,653), Molina Center for Strategic Studies in Energy & the Environment, La Jolla
Key terms: Air Quality, Mexico City, Source Regions, Analysis, Local, MCMA, Meteorological, Meteorology, Opportunities, Simulations, Urban.

Collaborative Research: Determination of Nitrous Acid and Nitrogen Dioxide Flux and Concentration Over Forest Canopies Using Quantum Cascade Laser Absorption Spectroscopy
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Scott Herndon($206,172), Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica
2. J W Munger($303,601), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Measure Hono, Nitrous Acid, Capable, Experience, Field, Flux, Fluxes, Instrument, Loss, QCLAS, Site.

RUI: Experimental Investigation of the Physico-chemical Properties of Aqueous Organic and Mixed Organic/Inorganic Systems Important in the Upper Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Keith D Beyer($487,626), University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse
Key terms: Concentrationactivity Relationships, Dicarboxylic Acids, Humidity-controlled Thermogravimetric, Phase Diagrams, Aerosol, Analysis, Aqueous, CHO, DRH, DSC, HTGA, Humidity-controlled, Investigated, Involved, Measured, Relative.

Line Shape Parameters and Their Temperature Dependence for Molecules of Importance in Earth's Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert Gamache($356,065), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Line Shift, Remote Sensing, Temperature Dependence, Allow, Atmosphere, Calculate, Education, Error, Gases, Half-width, Information, Parameters, Theoretical.

SGER: The Initial Phase of Development of Digital Microfluidic Impactor
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Andrey Y Khlystov($159,761), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Ambient Aerosol, Situ Analysis, Detector, Development, Has, Integrated, Sampling, Technology, Unit.

A Particle-Resolved Aerosol Model of Soot Aging
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nicole Riemer($492,072), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Aerosol, Aging, Atmosphere, Coagulation, Condensation, Model, Models, Parameterizations, Particles, Processes, Size.

Models for Atmospheric Organic Nitrate-Forming Reactions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John R Barker($550,216), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Alkene, Calculations, Dynamics, Energy, Function, IVR, Kinetics, Models, Nitrate, Nitrates, Potential, QCT, Quantum, RO, Radical, Radicals, Reaction, Reactions, Slow, Theory, Yields.

Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in the Southeastern United States
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rodney J Weber($394,535), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Aerosol, Compounds, Investigate, Organic, Particle, Partitioning, Products, SOA, Secondary, Urban, Vocs, Water-soluble.

SGER: Integrated Sampling Campaign Aimed at Understanding the Atmospheric Mercury Cycle on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul Drevnick($25,794), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Mobile Mercury Laboratory, Atmospheric Mercury, Woods Hole, Collected.

Kinetics and Thermochemistry Studies of Carboxylic and Other Acids Using Negative Ion Proton Transfer Mass Spectrometry (NI-PTMS)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Solomon Bililign($323,360), North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, Greensboro
Key terms: Acetate Ion, Carboxylic Acids, Acetic, Gas-phase, Ionization, NI-PTRMS.

VOCALS: Atmospheric Sulfur Chemistry in the South East Pacific
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alan R Bandy($306,023), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Atmospheric, Chemical, Chemistry, Cloud, Controlling, Graduate, Obtained, Processes, Properties, SEP, Sulfur.

Collaborative Research: VOCALS--Interaction of Aerosols with Marine Boundary Layer Clouds
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Cynthia Twohy($194,217), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. James R Anderson($372,560), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Ambient Aerosol, Cloud Droplets, Residual Nuclei, Analysis, Chemical, Clouds, Drizzle, Following, Impactor, Properties, SEP, Size, VOCALS.

RUI: Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosol Precursors from the Oxidation of Aromatics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Matthew J Elrod($298,469), Oberlin College, Oberlin
Key terms: Air Pollution, Air Quality, Aromatic Compounds, Ability, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Contribute, Experiments, Formation, Has, Identification, Lead, Models, OH, Oxidation, Ozone, Particular, Process, Processes, Program, SOA, Significantly, Species, Students.

RUI: Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation by Cloud Processing of Alpha-Dicarbonyl and Amine Compounds
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David O De Haan($309,999), University of San Diego, San Diego
Key terms: Glyoxal And Methylglyoxal, Alpha-dicarbonyl Compounds, Atmospheric Conditions, Atmospheric Significance, Cloud Processing, Reaction Kinetics, Reaction Products, Aerosol, Aerosols, Alpha-dicarbonyl, Aqueous, Bulk, Characterize, Climate, Droplets, Drying, Efficient, Experiments, Forming, Models, NMR, Nucleophiles, Organic, Particle, Particles, Pathways, Phase, Potential, Re-dissolved, Reactions, SOA, Sources, Visibility.

REU Site: Regional Atmospheric Chemistry: State-of-the-Art Measurement and Modeling in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Shane A Brown($231,199), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Pacific Northwest, Agricultural, Engineering, Faculty, Focus, Graduate, Individual, Opportunities, Participants, Program, Pursue, REU, Student, Students, Summer, Underrepresented, WSU, Workshops.

The Significance of International Transport of Air Pollutants
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Terry J Keating($100,000), ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, Washington
Key terms: Air Quality, Agreed, Atmospheric, EPA, International, NAS, National, Transfer, Transport.

Laboratory Studies of Heterogeneous Oxidation of Organic Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Allen L Robinson($395,547), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Motor Oil, Organic Aerosol, Organic Aerosols, Aging, Assess, Atmospheric, Climate, Complex, Compounds, Existing, Experiments, Heterogeneous, Mixtures, Models, OH, Particles, Simple, Visibility.

CAREER: Aerosol-Water Interactions in the Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy M Raymond($520,802), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
Key terms: Wet And Dry, Aerosol Population, Aerosol-water Interactions, AFM, Aerosol-water, Aerosols, Allow, CCNC, Chemical, Cloud, Conditions, Controlled, Developed, ESEM, Experiments, Imaging, Laboratory, Measuring, Nano, Particle, Particles, Properties, SEM, TDMA, Techniques, Time.

VOCALS: Airborne Measurements of Aerosol Dynamics and Evolution
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Steven G Howell($764,364), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Aerosol Properties, Aerosol Sources, Cloud Properties, Optical Properties, C-, CCN, Effects, Experiment, Formation, Processes, VOCALS.

VOCALS: Cloud Chemistry Measurements in the Southeast Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jeffrey L Collett($224,502), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Cloud Chemistry, Cloud Water, Marine Cloud, Broader, Clouds, Composition, Educational, Experiment, Oxidized, Pacific, Range, Region, Sulfur, VOCALS, Vocals-rex.

Measuring and Modeling the Physicochemical Properties of Organic Matter in Atmospheric Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lynn M Hildemann($450,032), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Atmospheric Aerosols, Organic Aerosols, Solution Model, Surface Composition, Aqueous, Equilibrium, Mixed, Properties, Solutions, Thermodynamic, Wide.

VOCALS: Measurements of Organic Aerosol Composition to Improve Aerosol-Cloud Characterization
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lynn M Russell($495,687), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Organic Composition, Organic Fraction, Organic Functional, Organic Mass, AMS, Aerosol, Aerosols, Compounds, Contribute, FTIR, Measured, Microphysical, Models, NEXAFSSTXM, Optical, Properties, Thermodynamic, VOCALS, X-ray.

Collaborative Research: Fire at the Intersection of Global Carbon and Water Cycles
Award Effective Date: 08/14/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Natalie M Mahowald($595,399), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Carbon And Water, Water Cycles, Activities, Climate, Effort, Feedbacks, Fire, Model, Moisture.

Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II--The Open Wildland Fire Modeling E-community: A Virtual Organization Accelerating Research, Education, and Fire Management Technology
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: CDI TYPE II

1. Claudio T Silva($641,588), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Janice L Coen($355,109), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Jan Mandel($653,556), University of Colorado at Denver-Downtown Campus, Denver
Key terms: Computing And Analysis, Collaboration Tools, Software Engineering, Web-based Service, Build, Collaborators, Complexity, Computational, Create, Education, Environment, Existing, Fire, Interdisciplinary, Management, Models, Portal, Provided, Visualization, Weather, Web-based, Wildfire, Wildfires.

Information Technology Research (ITR): Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2003; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Suresh Marru($2,234,101), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Real Time, Atmospheric, Information, LEAD, Models, On-demand, Operational, Students, Tools, Weather.

Large-Scale Influences on Tropical Cyclogenesis
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John E Molinari($523,252), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Precursor Disturbances, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Cyclones, Equatorial, Forecast, Formation, Ii, Iii, Literature, Operational, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Consensus on Climate Predication by Adaptive Synchronization of Models
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ljupco Kocarev($21,009), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. Benjamin P Kirtman($80,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Climate Models, Connection Coefficients, Predictive Features, Applied, Century, Consensus, Fuse, Ongoing, Pairs, Run, Scheme, Synchronization, Synchronize, Training, Variables.

Interfacing Major Field Experiments with Physical Parameterizations in Atmospheric General Circulation Models
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Minghua Zhang($498,578), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Sources And Sinks, Atmospheric Momentum, Climate Models, Horizontal Momentum, Momentum Sources, Momentum Transport, Cloud, Conditions, Experiment, Field, GCM, Integrated, Large-scale, Observations, Ocean, Parameterizations, Products, Tropical, Tropics, Water.

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and Tropical Deep Convection
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Marat Khairoutdinov($421,729), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Affect Tropical Deep, Atlantic Hurricane Activity, Tropical Deep Convection, Upper Troposphere-lower Stratosphere, Troposphere-lower Stratosphere, Upper Troposphere-lower, Circulation, Cloud, Cloud-resolving, Has, Interactions, Investigate, Little, Modeling, Predictors, QBO, Statistical.

Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling Studies
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Mark P Baldwin($599,266), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Affect Tropospheric, Climate Models, Ozone Layer, Stratosphere-troposphere Coupling, Surface Climate, Composition, Concentrations, Contribute, Decades, Effects, Especially, Greenhouse, International, QBO, Realistic, Required, Stratosphere-troposphere, Stratospheric.

MRI: Development of PAEROS (Portable AERosol Observing System) for Global Observations
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gregory C Roberts($1,247,692), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Natural And Anthropogenic, Global Climate, Instrument Package, Particle Counter, Size Distributions, Unmanned Aerial, World's Oceans, AC, Absorbing, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Autonomous, Broader, CCN, Continuous, Critical, Current, Development, Dramatically, Effect, Enhance, Expected, Infrastructure, Instrumentation, Involvement, Kg, Less, Measure, Miniature, Observations, Operate, PAEROS, Pis, SIO, Scripps, Single, Supersaturation, Technology, Vessels, Worlds, ×.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Climate Feedbacks and 3-D Global Warming Patterns in Global General Circulation Climate Models
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Guang J Zhang($231,503), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Ming Cai($503,788), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases, Ipcc-ar4 Climate Simulations, Atmospheric Temperatures, Climate Feedbacks, External Forcing, Global Climate, Global Warming, Inter-model Spread, Ipcc-ar4 Climate, Partial Temperature, Shed Light, Total Temperature, Water Vapor, Analysis, CCSM, CFRAM, Contributions, Coupled, Existing, Explore, Framework, GCM, Individual, Inter-model, Outputs, Parameterizations, Pis, Processes, Spatial, Surface.

NSWP: Tomographic Reconstruction of the 3-D Coronal Magnetic Field from Space- and Ground-Based Intensity and Polarimetry Data
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Hao Sheng Lin($559,931), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Coronal Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Field Configuration, 3d Coronal, Space Weather, Vector Tomography, Capabilities, Ground-based, Observations, Solar, Techniques, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Balanced Models--Theoretical Development, Solution and Application
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Wayne H Schubert($280,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Scott R Fulton($299,999), Clarkson University, Potsdam
Key terms: Balanced Atmospheric Models, Atmospheric Dynamics, Balance Assumption, Balanced Models, Hurricane Dynamics, Potential Vorticity, Resulting Models, Aspects, Available, Based, Developing, Flows, Midlatitude, Phenomena, Principles, Spherical, Turbulence.

Assessing Global and Regional Land Surface Skin Temperature Variations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Menglin S Jin($388,416), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Air Temperature, Satellite Observations, Skin Temperature, Surface Temperature, Activity, Attribution, Estimates, Global, Land, Trends.

Collaborative Research: Intercomparison of Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotope Measurements from Mauna Loa, Hawaii and Implications for Characterizing Subtropical Humidity
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David C Noone($36,522), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Zachary Sharp($62,300), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Atmospheric Water Cycle, Water Vapor Isotope, Water Vapor Isotopologues, Chapman Conference, Climate Studies, Graduate Students, Mauna Loa, Remote Sensing, Spectroscopic Techniques, Advances, Allow, Available, Colleagues, Compare, Conditions, Continuous, Earth, Field, Has, Hawaii, Humidity, Industry, Instrument, Intercomparison, JPL, Lab, Laser-based, Limitations, Mass, Pis, Presentations, Program, Ratios, Resources, Site, Subtropical, Technologies, Traditional, Week.

Support for a Symposium to Honor Alan Plumb's Contributions to the Science of Stratospheric Dynamics and Chemisty; New York, NY; October 24-25, 2008
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lorenzo M Polvani($10,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Geophysical Union, Invited, Participation, Presentations, Students, Symposium, Talks.

The Potential Vorticity Staircase: Formation and Maintenance of Zonal Jets
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard K Scott($519,609), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Mixing And Transport, Angular Momentum, Waves Propagating, Zonal Jets, Atmospheres, Dynamical, Eddy, Formation, Gradients, Mechanisms, PV, Structures, Tracer.

Projects in Climate Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John M Wallace($681,706), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: 20th Century Climate, 20th Century, Global Warming, Assessing, Dynamics, Prediction, Robust, Snowpack, Strength, Temperature, Trends, Tropical, Wave, Weather.

The Response of Convective Precipitating Storms to Anthropogenically Enhanced Global Radiative Forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noah Diffenbaugh($616,112), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Convective Precipitating Storms, Graduate And Undergraduate, Climate Models, Global Model, Wrf Model, Affect, Analysis, Anthropogenic, Approach, CPS, Concentrations, Cpss, Developed, Distributions, Dynamics, Ensemble, Experiments, Faculty, GHG, Hail, Hazardous, Hazards, Increases, Integrations, Level, Modeling, Nested, Parameters, Phenomena, Pilot, Pis, Potential, Purdue, Statistics, Strategies, Strategy, Students, Techniques, Time, Weather, Wind.

SGER: Upgrading Community Atmosphere Model (CAM) Cloud Macrophysics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Christopher S Bretherton($33,468), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Model Grid Cell, 'empty Clouds', Climate Model, Cloud Condensate, Cloud Cover, Cloud Fraction, Cloud Particles, Cumulus Convection, Aerosol, Atmospheric, CAM, CCSM, Cloud-aerosol, Code, Efforts, IPCC, Interaction, Leading, Moist, Parameterizations, Physics, Precipitation, Processes, Regions, Shortcomings, Simulation, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: VOCALS--Structure and Mechanisms of Coupled General Circulation Models' Systematic Biases in Southeast Pacific
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Toshiaki Shinoda($129,015), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Jialin Lin($179,151), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Global Climate Models, Structure And Mechanisms, Ocean Gcm, Upper Ocean, AR, Cgcms, Coupled, Examine, Experiments, Forced, IPCC, Ocean-cloud-atmosphere-land, Processes, Region, SEP, Stratocumulus, VAMOS, VOCALS.

Modeling Climate Variability and Change of the Greater Horn of Africa
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard O Anyah($356,937), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Climate Prediction, Gha Sub-region, Indian Ocean, Regional Climate, Water Resources, Africa, Conditions, Extreme, Horn, Interactions, Local, Model, Models, Performance, Pis, Processes, Setting, Simulation, Sub-region, Surface, Unique, Victoria.

Further Studies on the Meteorology of Western Equatorial Africa
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sharon E Nicholson($549,417), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Africa, African, Basis, Circulation, Equatorial, Factors, Gap, Interannual, Knowledge, Meteorology, Rainfall, Region, Regions, Water.

SGER: Antarctic GPS Radio Occultation Profiling from Stratospheric Balloons
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jennifer S Haase($133,793), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Polar Vortex, Antarctic, Atmosphere, Balloon, Breakup, Contribute, Developed, France, Stratospheric, Unique.

SGER: VOCALS--The Influence of Continental Aerosols on Stratocumulus Clouds
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gilberto J Fochesatto($120,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Cloud Layer, Field Site, Microphysical Characteristics, Polarimetric Lidar, Aerosol, Aerosols, Air, Chile, Coast, Continent, MBL, October, Optical, Polluted, Properties, Remote, Sc, VOCALS, Vocals-rex.

Subtropical Anticyclone Forcing of the Antarctic Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Matthew H Hitchman($434,039), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Initial Conditions, Ozone Croissant, Ozone Transport, Planetary Waves, Southeast Asian, Southern Hemisphere, Tropical Convection, Analyses, Anticyclones, Austral, Australian, Dynamical, Dynamics, ENSO, Flow, Forcing, Interannual, Jet, Mean, Midlatitude, Monsoon, Performed, Ridge, SH, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Subtropical, Traveling, Winter, Zone.

Use of Regional Atmospheric Modeling to Improve Short and Long-term Forecasting Capability of the North American Monsoon System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Francina Dominguez($374,930), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Anthropogenic Climate, Numerical Weather, Warm Season, Assess, Capability, Forecasts, Mexico, Model, Monsoon, North, Objectives, Potential, Prediction, Regional, Societal, WRF.

Modeling the Tropical Atmosphere-Ocean System: Determining the Causes of Near Future Subtropical Drying
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yochanan Kushnir($543,251), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Precipitation And Evaporation, Atmospheric Circulation, Future Drought, Mean Circulation, Model Projections, Simplified Models, Subtropical Drying, Water Vapor, Climate, Coupled, Droughts, Dynamical, Dynamics, Eddies, Forcing, Gcms, Interactions, Level, North, Rising, Southwest, Subtropics, Tropical.

Activities of the Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Chris Elfring($650,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Atmospheric And Climate, Basc Strives, Decision Makers, Activities, Analysis, Assistance, Board, Broad, Decision-making, Discussion, Diverse, Diversity, Ensure, Government, Has, Independent, Information, Issues, Nation, National, Opportunities, Public, Volunteers.

Collaborative Research: Testing Climate Models by Feedback Analysis Using Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) and Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation Data
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard M Goody($515,949), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Xianglei Huang($243,796), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Climate Models, Longwave Feedbacks, Observational Constraints, Radiative Forcing, Radio Occultation, AIRS, Analysis, Atmospheric, Fingerprints, Greenhouse, Obtained, Radiance, Satellite, Spectral, Surface, Temperature, Trends, Uncertainty.

Studies of the Structure, Evolution and Dynamics of Lower Stratospheric Frontal Zones Associated with Upper-level Jet/Front Systems and their Influence on Tropopause Deformation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jonathan E Martin($314,448), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Coherent Tropopause Disturbances, Lower Stratospheric Frontal, Stratospheric Frontal Zones, Jet Core, Life Cycles, Local Deformation, National Center, Stratospheretroposphere Exchange, Surface Cyclogenesis, Tropopause Deformation, Upper-level Jetfront, Analysis, Circulations, Ctds, Development, Evolution, Examine, Examined, Extratropical, Extreme, FNL, Fine-scale, Hypothesized, Influence, Model, Output, PV, Performed, Polar, Potential, Selected, Separate, Simulations, Steepening, Structural, Structure, Subtropical, Tropospheric, ULJF, Uljfs, Upper-level, WRF, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Variations and Trends in Fall Precipitation over the Central United States: Issues of Physical Mechanisms, Circulation Anomalies and Boundary Forcing
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Shafiqul Islam($313,548), Tufts University, Somerville
2. Mingfang Ting($263,002), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Current Climate Models, Trends And Decadal, Winter And Summer, Fall Precipitation, Observed Trends, Produce Trends, Apparent, Associational, Atmospheric, Broad, Central, Dominant, Dry, Existing, Findings, Future, Has, Limiting, Mechanisms, Observational, Origins, Partnership, Pis, Seasons, Students.

Learning about the Tail of the Probability Density Function for Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael E Schlesinger($555,348), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Climate Sensitivity Estimates, Current Climate Sensitivity, Thick Upper Tail, Air Temperature, Confidence Interval, Radiative Forcing, Surface Air, Additional, Aerosol, Anthropogenic, Bayesian, Broader, Climatic, Economic, Estimation, Human-induced, IPCC, Inclusion, Inform, Non-sulfate, Observations, Paleoclimatic, Pdfs, Pis, Public, Range, Resulting, Strategies, Updated.

Improvement of Mid-Latitude Atmospheric Predictions Using Coherent Tropical Convective Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard Kleeman($338,807), New York University, New York
Key terms: Numerical Weather Prediction, Primitive Equation Model, Coherent Phenomena, Forecast Skill, Mid-latitude Predictions, Stochastic Model, Tropical Coherent, Aspects, Convection, Depiction, Expect, Features, Following, Forecasts, Has, Influence, Mid-latitude, Models, Obtain, Operational, Predictability, Regions, Representation, Spatial, Theoretical, Tropics, Various.

Stratosphere-troposphere Interactions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. R. Alan Plumb($367,228), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Annular Modes, Surface Climate, Zonal Flow, Circulation, Dynamical, Dynamics, Especially, Experiments, Implications, Model, Modeling, Perturbations, Processes, Realistic, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Tropospheric.

Deriving Mutually-Consistent Carbon-Water Fluxes at the Regional Scale from Observations by Using a Coupled Biosphere-Atmosphere Model
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lixin Lu($239,998), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Forward And Inverse, Carbon-water Inversion, Joint Carbon-water, Water Fluxes, Analysis, Carbon-water, Centered, Cycles, Domain, Estimates, Framework, Information, Modeling, Models, North, Observational, Observations, Satellite, Surface, Tower, Uncertainties, WLEF.

Analyses of Global Climate Variability in Data and In Models
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ka-Kit Tung($553,887), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Coupled Atmosphere-ocean Models, Atmosphere-ocean Models, Coupled Atmosphere-ocean, Global Climate, Ipcc Ar4, Solar Cycle, Solar-cycle Forcing, Transient Climate, CWT, Confirm, Decadal, External, Has, Independent, LDA, Methods, Oscillation, Perturbations, QBO, Range, Solar-cycle, Spatial, Stratosphere, Troposphere, Uncertainty, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Analysis and Modeling of Convectively-Coupled Equatorial Waves and the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Patrick Haertel($99,515), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Ccews And Mjos, Kelvin Waves Forced, Mechanisms And Interactions, Mjo-related Wind Perturbations, Multiple Conflicting Theories, Oceanic Kelvin Waves, Mjo-related Wind, Analysis, Atmospheric, Behavior, Circulation, Disturbances, Existence, Global, Inadequacy, Model, Models, Observational, Representations, Uncertainties.

9th International Conference on Carbonaceous Particles in the Atmosphere (ICCPA); Berkeley, California; August 12-14, 2008
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Surabi Menon($30,000), Department of Energy, Washington
Key terms: Carbonaceous Aerosols, Berkeley, Conference, Held, ICCPA, Th.

Using the VOCALS and Satellite Data to Improve the Treatment of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds and Turbulence in the NCEP CFS03 and NCAR CCSM3
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael A Brunke($145,121), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Marine Boundary Layer, Clouds, Combined, Field, Models, Observations, Overall, Pacific, Satellite, VAMOS, VOCALS.

Processes Linking Easterly Waves and the North American Monsoon System
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yolande L Serra($449,423), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Waves And Tropical, Easterly Waves, Model Simulations, Monsoon Forecasts, Monsoon Precipitation, Monsoon Region, Regional Model, Tropical Disturbances, Arizona, Contribute, NAME, North, Potential, Processes, Resolution, Short-term, Southwest, Undergraduate, WRF.

Dynamics of Interactions between Wave Packets and Explosive Cyclogenesis over Western North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Edmund K Chang($445,579), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Excite Rossby Wave, Rossby Wave Trains, Western Pacific Cyclones, Explosive Cyclogenesis, Initial Conditions, Wave Packets, Affect, Analyses, Asia, CAM, Days, Dynamical, Dynamics, Eastward, Ensemble, Evolution, Factors, Forecast, Forecasted, Forecasts, Frequently, Less, Main, Modeling, Predictability, Predictable, Propagate, Robustly, Sensitivity, Technique, Weather.

Surface Boundary Forcing and Sahelian Climate Variability and Anomalies
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yongkang Xue($377,751), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: African, Climate, Land, Late, Modeling, Models, Potential, Region, SST, Sahel, Seasonal, Surface, Temperature.

The Global Climate Implications of Earth System Change in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter K Snyder($217,373), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Arctic Land-surface, Climate Model, Global Climate, Assessment, Boreal, Land-surface, Vegetation.

Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in Models and Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric D Maloney($348,601), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Heat Flux Anomalies, Wind Speed, Coupling, Features, Feedback, Focus, ISV, Models, Precipitation, Synoptic-scale, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Westerly Wind Burst Modulation by the Sea-Surface Temperature (SST): from Understanding to El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Prediction
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Benjamin P Kirtman($226,520), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Zhiming Kuang($465,792), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: El Nino, Enso Prediction, Prediction Model, Wwb Model, Analyses, Applied, Characteristics, Coupled, DARE, Effects, Effort, Empirical, Large-scale, Mechanisms, Predictability, SST, Skill, Stochastic, Wind, Wwbs.

VOCALS: C-130 Observations and Numerical Modeling of Marine Boundary Layer Clouds during the VOCALS Regional Experiment (REx)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert Wood($840,530), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Clouds And Precipitation, Marine Boundary Layer, Southeast Pacific Ocean, C-130 Aircraft, Regional Experiment, Stratocumulus Clouds, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Build, Chemical, Climate, Degrees, Drizzle, Flight, Gaps, Interactions, LES, Land, Missions, Model, Observational, Observations, Particles, Poc-drift, Pocs, Processes, Properties, Simulations, VAMOS, VOCALS, Vocals-rex.

VOCALS: Comprehensive Studies of Marine Stratocumulus during VOCALS-REx Using Airborne Radar, Lidar, and In Situ Measurements
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David Leon($576,551), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Marine Stratocumulus Clouds, Cloud Decks, Cloud Microphysical, Drizzle-aerosol-cloud Interactions, Mesoscale Organization, Mesoscale Structures, Nsf C-130, Quantitative Estimates, CCN, Characteristics, Cloud-base, Composite, Cross-sections, Datasets, Depiction, Developed, Drizzle-aerosol-cloud, Formation, Integrated, Layer, Linkages, Pocs, Processes, Radar, Rate, Removal, Spectra, Velocity, Vocals-rex.

Antarctic Climate Variability and Tropical Teleconnections
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Keith M Hines($390,000), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Sam And Enso, Gcm Simulations, Global Climate, School Students, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic, Center, Decadal, Developed, Lectures, National, Observational, Polar, Teleconnection, Teleconnections, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Development of GPS as a Soil Moisture Instrument
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kristine M Larson($113,128), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. John J Braun($37,793), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Continuously Operating Gps, Gps Multipath Amplitudes, Land Surface Model, Operating Gps Networks, Gps Sites, Soil Moisture, Atmospheric, Available, Compared, Exist, Existing, Geodetic, Hydrologic, International, Reflectance, SNR, Situ, Technique, Techniques, Water.

Collaborative Research: VOCALS--Climate Simulation and Operational Forecasting Using a Regional Earth System Modeling Framework
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Curtis Deutsch($559,135), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Gregory R Carmichael($250,025), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Natural And Anthropogenic, Atmospheric Model, Earth-system Modeling, Global Climate, Global Models, Land Surface, Modeling Framework, Oceanic Model, Vocal Rex, Vocals Region, Vocals Rex, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Campaign, Careful, Chemical, Clouds, Components, Context, Coupled, Developed, Dynamics, Earth-system, Errors, Geographical, Infrastructure, Interactions, Interlocking, Marine, Mechanisms, Observations, Pacific, Placing, Processes, Regional, Resolution, Simulation, Simulations, Stratus, Unique, Upwelling, VAMOS, Validation, Vocals-rex.

VOCALS: The Dynamics and Modeling of Andes-induced Perturbations and Their Impact on Stratocumulus and Coastal Upwelling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Qingfang Jiang($185,655), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Waves And Circulations, Cloud Deck, Forecast Skill, Numerical Models, Southeast Pacific, Stratocumulus Cloud, Vocals Observations, Atmospheric, COAMPS, Campaign, Coast, Component, Effort, Field, Forecasting, Forecasts, High-resolution, Navy, Observational, Regional-scale, Tested.

Diabatic Ekman Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David A Schecter($369,669), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Diabatic Ekman Turbulence, Ekman Turbulence Model, Parameter Settings, Tropical Atmosphere, Tropical Cyclones, Coherent, Developed, Dynamical, Predictability, Preliminary, Processes, Regions, Structures, Vortex, Vortical, Vortices.

Intraseasonal Variability of the West African Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 02/18/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. None($127,092), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: African Monsoon, Boreal Summer, Sub-saharan Africa, West African, AMMA, Atlantic, Connected, Graduate, Intraseasonal, Modulation, OSU, Student, Sub-saharan, Tropical, Waves, White.

Eddy-Jet Interaction and Climate
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noboru Nakamura($435,049), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Decay Rate, Global Mixing, Activity, Amplification, Applied, Circulation, Diagnostic, Eddies, Flow, Interaction, Jets, Long-term, Method, Models, Modulations, Simulations, Tracer, Traditional, Transport.

On the Marsupial Theory for Tropical Cyclogenesis Within Tropical Wave and Monsoon Trough Environments: A Multiscale Observational, Modeling and Theoretical Study
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael T Montgomery($1,080,607), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Critical Layers, Critical Level, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Waves, Weakly Rotating, Analyses, Atmospheric, Convection, Cumulus, Examine, Experiments, Field, Marsupial, Modeling, Pocket, Program, Proto-vortices, Regions, Trough, Vortex.

The Impact of Rapidly-Varying Heat Fluxes on Air-Sea Interaction and Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Philip G Sura($123,159), Florida State University, Tallahassee
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.

VOCALS: Cloud Remote Sensing in Support of VOCAL-REx: Linking Cloud Optical Properties to Aerosol and Precipitation Variability
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paquita Zuidema($210,414), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Graduate Student, Microwave Radiometer, Stratocumulus Clouds, Affect, Climate, Drizzle, Gaps, Has, LWP, Lwps, Model, Models, Observations, Particles, Program, Simulations, VAMOS, Vocals-rex.

Collaborative Research: Evaluation of Suggestions to Geoengineer the Climate System Using Stratospheric Aerosols and Sun Shading
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard P Turco($77,571), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Georgiy L Stenchikov($622,275), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Climate Models, Geoengineering Schemes, Injected Aerosols, Solar Radiation, Analyzed, Benefits, Detailed, Effects, Evolution, Experiments, Geoengineered, Goddard, Increase, Injection, Interactions, Involve, Modeling, Natural, Policy, Potential, Resolution, Scenarios, Space, Warming.

Workshop on Teaching Weather and Climate Using Laboratory Experiments; Chicago, IL; Summer 2008
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noboru Nakamura($15,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Laboratory Experiments, Discuss, Workshop.

Atlantic Seasonal Hurricane Prediction and Understanding
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. None($159,945), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atlantic Basin Seasonal, Extended Range, Hurricane Forecasts, Probability Forecasts, Seasonal Hurricane, Activity, Development, Improvement, Intra-seasonal, Landfall, Prediction.

Collaborative Research: West African Mesoscale Convective Systems and Their Interactions with the Synoptic Environment
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Christopher Thorncroft($414,757), SUNY at Albany, Albany
2. Earle R Williams($275,201), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Diabatic Heating Fields, Mobilizing And Transporting, Weather And Climate, African Monsoon, Doppler Radar, Synoptic Environment, Transporting Dust, Tropical Atlantic, West Africa, West African, Aews, Aims, Analysis, Has, Interactions, Knowledge, MIT, Mcss, Mesoscale, Nature, Observations, Passage, Special, Summer.

SGER: Flight Tests and Validation of the New HIAPER GISMOS Radio Occultation System
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jennifer S Haase($76,876), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Graduate Students, Airborne, Atmospheric, Available, GISMOS, HIAPER, Independent, Instrumentation, Profiles, Testing, Validation.

AMS Journals to Developing Countries
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Community Programs

1. Keith Seitter($75,000), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Climate, Countries, Journals.

Design and Testing of a Microchip-Based System for In Situ Aerosol Composition Measurements
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: ELECTROCHEMISTRY & SURFACE CHE

1. Jeffrey L Collett($598,537), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aerosol, Detection, Microchip, Miniaturized.

Physical, Chemical, and Optical Properties of Snow: Impacts on Ocean-Atmosphere-Sea Ice-Snowpack Interactions (OASIS) and Sensitivity to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Harald J Beine($543,432), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Inon Snow Grains, Field Campaign, Light Absorption, Snow Photochemistry, Barrow, Chemical, Chromophores, Contributions, Coordination, Davis, Measure, OASIS, Organic, Outreach, Species, Students, UCD.

Collaborative Research: Asian Ice Core Array (AICA)--Reconstruction of Past Physical and Chemical Climate over Asia
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Vladimir B Aizen($531,435), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Karl J Kreutz($415,336), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Asian Climate, Asian Ice, Atmospheric Circulation, Central Asia, Chemical Species, Circulation Features, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Undergraduate Students, AICA, Atmosphere, Environmental, Global, Past, Region, Source, Success.

Emerging Topics in Biogeochemical Cycles (ETBC): Cheju Atmospheric Brown Cloud (ABC) Plume-Monsoon Experiment [CAPMEX] during the Summer Olympics of 2008
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Veerabhadran Ramanathan($514,835), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric Brown Clouds, Unmanned Air Vehicles, Asian Scientists, Black Carbon, East Asia, East Asian, Solar Radiation, Abcs, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Beijing, CAPMEX, Climate, Collaborations, Components, Consists, Cycle, Developing, Forcing, International, Model, Observations, Pollution, Region, Satellite, Set, Students, Time.

Mercury Oxidation and Depletion in the Reactive Halogen Enriched Troposphere of the Dead Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Menachem Luria($449,982), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Atmospheric Mercury, Dead Sea, Reactive Halogen, AMDE, Depletion, GEM, Gaseous, Levels, Nevada, Observed, Oxidation, Oxides, RHC, Students.

MRI: Acquisition of a Computer Cluster for Space Weather Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Amy Winebarger($190,707), Alabama A&M University, Normal
Key terms: Aamu Physics Department, Integrated Space Weather, Space Weather Modeling, Computational Physics, Historically Black, Solar Physics, Advanced, CISM, Center, Cluster, Faculty, Node, Students, Unique.

NSWP: Numerical Investigation of Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Cannibalism in the Inner Heliosphere and Its Implications for Space Weather
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Noe Lugaz($193,508), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: 3d Mhd, Space Weather, CME, Cmes, Interactions, Modeling, Models, Numerical, SEP, Solar, Successive.

Analyses of Observed Magnetic Field Characteristics for the Understanding of Solar Eruptions Physics Using a Data-Driven Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic (3D MHD) Model
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Shi T Wu($287,726), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: 'us-slovak Space Weather', Non-potential Magnetic Field, 'us-slovak Space, Active Region, Boundary Conditions, Non-potential Magnetic, Solar Eruption, Solar Eruptions, AR, Actual, Effects, Energy, Evolution, Flux, Graduate, Has, Model, Observations, Photospheric, Principal.

Extratropical Control of Gulf Surges: The Role of Rossby Wave Breaking and Associated Mesoscale Processes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. John T Abatzoglou($502,983), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Interior Western, Inverted Trough, Monsoonal Surges, Poleward Shift, Wave Breaking, Air, Basin, Contrasts, Extratropical, Extratropics, Favorable, Forcing, Gulf, Heating, Importance, Leads, Low, Mesoscale, Midlatitude, Modeling, Moisture, North, Rossby, Simulations, Surface, Thermal, Tropical, Tropics, Tropospheric.

CAREER: Formation Pathway of Polar Derivatives of Nitro-Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (Nitro-PAHs)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Alena Kubatova($678,306), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Air Pollution, Analytical Methods, Atmospheric Chemistry, Diesel Exhaust, Nitro-pah Derivatives, Classes, Course, Determining, Education, Enrollment, Experience, Graduate, MS, Mass, Mechanisms, Nitration, Nitro-pah, PM, Pahs, Participating, Particulate, Polar, Program, Reaction, Reactions, Redesigned, School, Sensitive, Species, Students, Techniques, Undergraduate, Workshop.

CAREER: Upper Atmospheric Density from Precision Orbit Determination
Award Effective Date: 02/14/2008; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Craig A McLaughlin($423,037), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: Atmospheric Density, Density Fluctuations, Determination, Graduate, Orbit, Participation, Precise, Precision, Satellite, Satellites, Solar, Temporal.

Integration of WeatherBug Schools Program into Curriculum of Springfield Ball Charter School for Student, School, School District, and Community Educational Enhancement
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Mike P Nellessen($15,000), Springfield Ball Charter School, Springfield
Key terms: School.

CIRPAS Twin Otter Aircraft Support of the Physics of Stratocumulus Top (POST) Experiment
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Haflidi H Jonsson($211,000), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Cloud, Facility, Instrumented, Platform.

Airborne Support for the TCS-08/T-PARC Project
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Michael Grimmett($1,212,000), Department of Navy Naval Research Laboratory, Washington
Key terms: Tropical Cyclones, Aircraft, ELDORA, Forecasting, Observations, Pacific, Radar, Region.

Collaborative Research: Creation of an Online Archive of Airborne Storm Penetration
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2005; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Donna V Kliche($150,982), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Active, Aircraft, Archive, Available, Digital, Has, Service, Situ, T-.

Collaborative Research: DRU--Warning Decisions in Extreme Weather Events: An Integrated Multi-Method Approach
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: HSD - DEC, RISK & UNCERTAINTY

1. Kathleen J Tierney($271,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Rebecca Morss($330,932), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Ann Bostrom($145,850), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Extreme Weather, Information Distribution, Sound Decision, Weather Warnings, Governmental, Injuries, Property, Public, Uncertainty.

Understanding the Development and Application of Simplified Dynamical Models
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Wayne H Schubert($528,796), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Existing Filtered Model, Filtered Model Designed, Accurately Describes, Atmospheric Dynamics, Filtered Models, Hurricane Dynamics, Inertia-gravity Waves, Kelvin Waves, Large-scale Tropical, Longwave Model, Rapid Intensification, Rossby Waves, Rossby-haurwitz Waves, Tropical Atmosphere, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Dynamics, Wavenumber Space, Application, Applications, Conditions, Derivation, Developed, Development, Dynamical, Equation, Equations, Especially, Focuses, Gained, Harmonic, Has, II, Inertia-gravity, Knowledge, Large-scale, Motions, Rossby-haurwitz, Simplified, Sphere, Theory, Tool, Tools, Weather.

CAREER: Strengthening the Predictive Ability for New Particle Formation--A Combined Field, Data Analysis, and Modeling Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Charles O Stanier($575,514), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Vertical Profiles, AAO, Aircraft, Campaign, Concentrations, Existing, Ground-based, Health, Method, NPF, Nucleation, Particle, Sampling, Size, Ultrafine.

NSWP: Data-based Forecasting of the Geomagnetic Field with High Resolution in Space
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mikhail Sitnov($300,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Actual Sym-h Index, Magnetospheric Magnetic Field, Wind And Imf, Actual Sym-h, High-resolution Model, Interplanetary Medium, Magnetic Storms, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Spacecraft Observations, Sym-h Index, Time Histories, Available, Based, Codes, Currents, Dynamics, Empirical, Forecasting, Global, Has, High-resolution, Information, Local, Magnetosphere, Models, Parameters, Picture, Radiation, Set, Situ, Spatial, Storm-time, Structure, Technique, Tool.

Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. George L Siscoe($297,442), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Universal Process, Basic, CCMC, Epcs, Equilibrium, Lessons, Loss, MHD, Magnetic, Signature, Simulation, Substorms.

GEM: Cusp Particle Energization from Waves
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jay R Johnson($300,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Wave-particle Interactions, Cusp, Energization, Magnetosheath, Model, Particles, Physics, Program, Satellite, Topic, Utilize, Wave-particle.

CEDAR/GEM Postdoc: Assess the Impact of Non-Hydrostatic Processes on the Response of the Thermosphere/Ionosphere System to Magnetospheric Forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Timothy J Fuller-Rowell($83,714), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Champ And Grace, Circulation Models, Electric Field, Energy Inputs, Global Ionosphere-thermosphere, Grace Satellites, Neutral Density, Nitric Oxide, Non-hydrostatic Phenomena, Activity, Atmospheric, CTIP, Compare, Dependence, Examine, FPI, GITM, Gcms, Importance, Investigations, Magnetospheric, Non-hydrostatic, Processes, Simulations, Thermosphereionosphere, Vertical.

SGER: Nonlinear Theory of Anomalous Resistivity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Peter H Yoon($39,900), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Anomalous Resistivity, Magnetic Reconnection, Non-linear Theory, Earth, Has, Non-linear, Plasma, Processes.

GEM: Quantifying the Rate of Diffuse Auroral Electron Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jacob Bortnik($400,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Diffuse Auroral Precipitation, Electron Scattering, Global Distribution, Pitch-angle Scattering, Plasma Sheet, Precipitated Particles, Atmosphere, Chorus, Conductivity, Current, Diffusion, ECH, Electrical, Electrons, Energy, Ionization, Lead, Lines, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Model, Nearth, Pitch-angle, Processes, Rate, Rates, Source, Waves.

Dayside Cavity Mode Oscillations in the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kazue Takahashi($237,516), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Cavity Mode Waves, Magnetic Pulsation, Ground-based, Plasmasphere.

GEM: Anti-Parallel and Component Merging Scenarios in Collisionless Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Homayoun Karimabadi($304,089), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Periodic Boundary Conditions, Magnetic Reconnection, Aspect, Code, Has, Led, Physics, Plasma, Pressure, Region, Simulations, Students.

Collaborative Research: Auroral Radio Emissions Related to Substorms and Energetic Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James W LaBelle($200,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. John M Hughes($23,000), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
3. Allan T Weatherwax($23,000), Siena College, Loudonville
Key terms: Radio Emissions, Auroral, Mf-bursts, Mission.

AMPERE: Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Haje Korth($4,063,838), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetosphere And Ionosphere, Birkeland Currents, Commercial Satellite, Flight Software, Jhu Apl, Latitude Resolution, Magnetic Field, Satellite Network, Space Physics, Space Weather, AMPERE, BSC, Continuous, Coverage, Degree, Degrees, Enable, Facility, Field-aligned, Global, Ground, ISLLC, Iridium, Monitoring, Observational, Operated, Real-time, Satellites, Services, Wide.

NSWP: Magnetotail State and Dynamics Under Strong Forcing
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L McPherron($242,934), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ensemble Arrays, Epoch Time, Main Phase, Sawtooth Injection, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Time Delay, Advanced, Broad, Calculated, Cdf, Coupling, Driving, Dynamic, Filter, Filters, Function, IMF, Linear, Lists, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Maps, Mode, Modes, Objective, Onset, Opportunity, Prediction, Probability, Relative, Represented, Specific, Substorm, Substorms, Trigger, UCLA, Variable, Window.

SuperDARN Radar Investigations of Global Processes in the High-Latitude Ionosphere: Infrastructure, Community Support, and Science
Award Effective Date: 05/31/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. J Michael Ruohoniemi($1,058,750), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Electric Fields, Superdarn Radars, Collaboration, Convection, Distribution, Entire, Global, High-latitude, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, JHUAPL, Network, Northern, Operation, Responsible, Software.

GEM: Diffuse Aurora Model with Optimal Parameterization
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Patrick T Newell($300,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Coupling Function, Diffuse Aurora, Particle Precipitation, DMSP, Model, Models, Resulting, Solar.

Storm-Time Magnetospheric Dynamic Processes: Periodic Substorms, Sawtooth Oscillations, and Steady Magnetospheric Convection
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Chaosong Huang($144,544), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Steady Magnetospheric Convection, Solar Wind, Examine, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Periods, Sawtooth, Substorms, Topic.

GEM: Geospace Environment Modeling Workshop Coordination and Management: 2008 - 2011
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Calvin Robert Clauer($540,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Gem Program, Fall, Workshops.

Studies of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling and Space Weather using the Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies (MACCS)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David L Murr($1,039,996), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ulf Waves, Activities, Collection, Dissemination, MACCS, Operation.

Collaborative Research: Relativistic Particle Precipitation and Upper Atmospheric Effects
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Edgar A Bering($50,002), University of Houston, Houston
2. Michael P McCarthy($216,791), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Robyn M Millan($35,906), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Energetic Particle Precipitation, Precipitate Relativistic Electrons, Upper And Middle, Middle Atmosphere, Accelerate, Balloon, Conductivity, Examine, Fields, Incoming, Mechanisms, Observations, Particles, Protons, Transport.

Energetics of the Plasma Sheet
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Richard Kaufmann($156,559), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Based Models, Entropy Parameters, Field Parameters, Heat Fluxes, Magnetic Field, Plasma Sheet, Space Weather, Boltzmann, Electron, Energy, Environmental, Flow, Global, Ion, Regions, Satellite, Selected.

International Coordination Office for the Scientific Committee On Solar-TErrestrial Physics - Climate And Weather of the Sun-Earth System (SCOSTEP-CAWSES) Program
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2005; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. None($266,399), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Space Weather, Climate, Global, International, Specific, Themes.

CMG COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Development of Bayesian Hierarchical Models to reconstruct climate over the past millennium
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2007; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Michele M Hluchy($87,862), Alfred University, Alfred
Key terms: Hockey Stick Graph, Surface Temperature, BHM, Climate, Controversy, Dispute, Past, Proxy, Reconstructions, Warming.

Collaborative Research: CubeSat Firefly--Understanding Earth's Most Powerful Natural Particle Accelerator
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: MID-SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Douglas E Rowland($600,457), NASA/GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER, Greenbelt
2. Allan T Weatherwax($329,432), Siena College, Loudonville
Key terms: Firefly Cubesat, Gamma Rays, Acceleration, Access, Analysis, Development, Dust, Educational, Electron, Electrons, Energized, GRD, Kev, Lightning, Manual, Mev, Mission, Observed, On-orbit, Planets, Processes, Produce, Radiation, Siena, Space, Spacecraft, Students, Tgfs, UMES, Website.

Wallops Flight Facility Support for Cubesat-based Science Mission
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: MID-SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Scott H Schaire($203,177), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island
Key terms: Nasa Wff, Space Weather, Cubesat, Flight, Launch, Mission, NSF, Nano-satellite, P-POD, Spacecraft, Technical.

Tropical Cyclogenesis and Climate: Physical Basis, Predictability and Prediction
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: MID-SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Peter J Webster($525,675), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Climate Model, North Atlantic, Substantial Contributors, Tc Characteristics, Tc Genesis, Tc Intensity, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Cyclones, Warmer Climate, Warming World, Analysis, Continue, Days, Development, Forecasts, Frequency, Hemisphere, Increase, Investigate, Models, Pis, Remain, Sets, Simulations, Tcs, Theoretical.

Collaborative Research: CubeSat-based Ground-to-Space Bistatic Radar Experiment--Radio Aurora Explorer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: MID-SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Hasan Bahcivan($457,017), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. James W Cutler($595,510), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Adverse Effect, Field-aligned Irregularities, Magnetic Field, Radio Aurora, Cubesat, Engineering, FAI, Field-aligned, Ground, Has, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Mission, Objective, Plasma, RAE, Radar, Receiver, Satellite, Space.

MRI: Development of a Thermospheric Wind Imager
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Mark Conde($684,788), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: All-sky Imaging, Existing Narrow-field, Pfisr Radar, Poker Flat, Tristatic Array, Alaska, All-sky, Australia, Collaboration, Earth, Establish, Five, Flow, Flows, Instruments, Ion, Momentum, Narrow-field, Nature, Neutral, Precision, Resolution, Small-scale, Spatial, Spectrometers, Temperature, Three-component, Volume.

MRI: Acquisition of Upper-Air and Surface Observing Systems for Weather Research and Instruction at SUNY Oswego
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Steven Skubis($156,072), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
Key terms: Lake-effect Snow Bands, Structure And Evolution, Lake Ontario, Lake-effect Snow, Low-cost Field, Mesoscale Models, Plains Thunderstorms, Suny Oswego, Accurate, Acquired, Air, Allow, Conditions, Engage, Equipment, Facilities, Interactions, Low-cost, MRI, Meteorological, Meteorology, Near, Observations, Observing, Phenomena, Principal, Proximity, Sampling, Simulations, Soundings, Students, Surface, Upper-air, Weather.

Tribal College and University Climate Change Course Series
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: OPPORT FOR ENHANCING DIVERSITY

1. Carrie L Billy($150,000), American Indian Higher Education Consortium, Alexandria
Key terms: Climate, Collaboration, Course, Geosciences, Indian, Indigenous, Issues, Knowledge, NCAR, Opportunity, Students, Tcus, Traditional, Water, Weather.

Spatiotemporal Drought Variability of the Near East and Eastern Mediterranean from Tree Rings
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Ramzi Touchan($370,829), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Mediterranean And Near, Near East, Climate, Drought, Investigate, Proxy, Reconstructions.

P2C2: Tropical-Subtropical Teleconnections During a Warmer Climate: 5-7 ka BP
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Philip E van Beynen($269,071), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Climate.

P2C2: Northern Annular Mode (NAM) Variability during the Little Ice Age and Medieval Warm Period in a Cave Ice Core Record from Northwestern Romania
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Bogdan P Onac($132,694), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Climate, Development, Europe, LIA, MWP, NAM, Persistent, Romania, Signature, Was.

P2C2: Mechanisms of Regional Climate Change and Impacts on Water Availability in Texas from the Last Glacial Maximum to Present-Day
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Zong-Liang Yang($421,188), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Climate Models, Aid, Graduate, K-, Texas.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Continental Response to Abrupt Climate Change Post 70 ka: An Integrated Isotopic and Trace Element Study of Sierra Nevada Speleothems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Warren D Sharp($61,555), Berkeley Geochronology Center, Berkeley
2. Isabel P Montañez($291,634), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Isotopic And Geochemical, Isotopic And Trace, Winter Storm Tracks, Precisely Dated, Western North, Calcite, Climate, Conditions, Drip, Equilibrium, Precipitation, Sierra, Speleothem, Waters.

P2C2: North American Monsoon Variability Using Instrumental and Tree-Ring Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Christopher L Castro($607,832), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Circulation, Combined, Downscaled, Long-term, NAM, Network, North, Portion, Precipitation, Southwest, Strong, Tree-ring.

SGER: Hydroclimatic History of the Northeastern Pacific Using the DELTA18O from Tree Cellulose
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Lowell D Stott($55,583), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Oxygen Isotopic Shift, 20th Century, Bristlecone Pine, Cellulose Extracted, Exploratory Investigation, Oxygen Isotopes, Primary Source, Annual, Atmospheric, California, Latitudes, Margin, Mil, Moisture, Oxygen-, Program, Rings, SGER, Site, Tree, Trees, Was, Western.

MRI: Acquisition of a High-Resolution Double-Focusing Magnetic Sector-Field Mass Spectrometer (HR-ICP-MS) for Paleoclimate and Biogeochemical Research
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Susan E Trumbore($360,703), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Mass Spectrometer, Applications, Cycling, Elemental, Isotope, Paleoclimate.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Geothermics of Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. David S Chapman($192,199), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Robert N Harris($108,078), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Ground Surface Temperatures, Temperature-depth Profiles, Boreholes, Climate, Graduate, Investigate, Involve, Lead, Meteorological, Multi-proxy, Portion, Reconstructions, Strong, Temperature-depth, Utah, WEST.

P2C2: Extend the Record of the Indian Summer Monsoon Variability to the Past 2000 Years with Inter-Annually Resolved Speleothem Isotopic Records from the Core Monzoon Zone of India
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Ashish Sinha($193,262), California State University-Dominguez Hills Foundation, Carson
Key terms: Core Monsoon Zone, ISM, India, Indian, Oscillation, Past, Portion, Precipitation, Proxy, Sets, Strong.

P2C2: Multi-Century Streamflow Derived from Watershed Modeling and Tree-Ring Data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Laurel S Saito($291,801), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Analysis, Approach, Mechanistic, Model, Nevada, Precipitation, Stream-flow, Technique, Time, Tree-ring, Watershed.

Collaborative Research: A New Method for Understanding Mechanisms of Ice Sheet Demise Using Married General Circulation and Energy-Moisture Balance Model Simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Anders E Carlson($213,390), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Allegra LeGrande($195,452), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ice Sheet Decay, Sheet Mass Balance, Water Isotopes, Deglaciation, EMBM, GCM, Involved, Model, Skill, Technique, Time.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Reconstructing Tropical Pacific Climate Variability and Monsoon Systems, and Abrupt Changes from Ice Cores on Irian Jaya, Indonesia and Hualcan, Peru
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Raden D Susanto($134,904), Columbia University, New York
2. Ellen Mosley-Thompson($1,094,433), Ohio State University Research Foundation -DO NOT USE, Columbus
Key terms: Hualcán Ice, Ice Cores, Ice Fields, Puncak Jaya, Climate, Especially, Glaciers, Pacific, Peru, Perus, Recover, Retreat, Tropical, Warming, Water.

P2C2: Insolation Control on Ice Sheet Mass Balance in the 41-Kyr World: A Test of Multiple Hypotheses
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Maureen E Raymo($377,860), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Glacial Cycles, Ice Sheet, Ice Volume, Late Pliocene, Ablationmeltwater, Climate, Insolation, Laurentide, Milankovitch, Models, NH, Obliquity, Paced, Pleistocene, Portion, Precession, Predicts, Signal, Strong.

Workshop: Paleoclimate Modeling Intercomparison Project on Coupled Simulations; Estes Park, Colorado; September 14-19, 2008
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Bette L Otto-Bliesner($20,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Paleoclimate Modeling, AR, Climate, Discuss, IPCC, Simulations, Uncertainties, Workshop.

Holocene Sea Surface Temperature (SST) and El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Reconstructions from Peruvian Mollusks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Julian P Sachs($98,898), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: El Nino, Enso Activity, Mollusk Shells, Climate, Graduate, Holocene, Intensity, Pacific, SST, Seasonal, Temperature.

Workshop on Synthesizing Transient Climate Evolution of the Last 21,000 Years (SynTraCE-21000); Madison, Wisconsin; August 11-13, 2008
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Zhengyu Liu($24,995), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Abrupt, Climate, Comprehensive, Database, Development, Evolution, Forcing, Multi-proxy, Simulations, Synthesis, Transient, Workshop.

Mesoamerican Dendroclimatology: Climate Dynamics and Socioeconomic Applications
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. David W Stahle($327,273), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Mexico And Guatemala, Montezuma Baldcypress, Southern Mexico, Chronologies, Climate, Drought, Historical, Past, Precipitation, Reconstructions.

Reducing and Representing Uncertainties in High-Resolution Proxy Climate Data Workshop; Trieste, Italy; June 9-11, 2008
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jonathan T Overpeck($15,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Climate Proxies, Coordinated, Explore, Uncertainties, Workshop.

Workshop: Benefit and Practicality of the Establishment of a Virtual Climate Institute on the West Coast; Los Angeles, California; Summer 2008
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Lowell D Stott($16,745), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Cyber-enabled Virtual, Virtual Institute, Cyber-enabled, Establishing, Expertise, Paleoclimatology.

SGER: Regional Climate Modeling of Western North America in the Early Eocene: Applying a New Cutting-edge Model to a Long-standing and Significant Paleoclimate Problem
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Lisa C Sloan($81,070), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Earth's Climate, Issues Surrounding, Regional Climate, Temporal Resolution, Analysis, Analytical, Approach, Eocene, Geologic, Model, Models, Period, Program, SGER, Sparse, Time.

Controls on Variations in the Isotope Composition of Precipitation during Warm Climates
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Liviu Giosan($241,024), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Boundary Conditions Appropriate, Circulation Model, Isotope-temperature Relationships, Isotopic Composition, Oxygen Isotope, Precipitation Oxygen, Time Period, Water Isotope, Climate, Climates, Continent, Estimates, Freshwater, Isotope-temperature, Isotopes, Modern, Performed.

Synoptic-Scale Influences on Outbreaks of Severe Convection
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael B Richman($479,336), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Contrasting Outbreak Types, Lead Times, Severe Weather, Ability, Atmospheric, Damaging, Days, Discern, Forecast, Measures, Mesoscale, Models, Nature, Non-tornadic, Outbreaks, Reliably, Runs, Thunderstorms, Tornadic, Tornadoes.

Collaborative Research: The Diurnal Evolution of Stable Boundary Layers in an Enclosed Basin
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Charles D Whiteman($616,847), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Shiyuan Zhong($201,883), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Closed Basin, Radiative Transfer, Sbl Evolution, Analyses, Broader, Concepts, Development, Experimental, Field, Flows, Innovative, Knowledge, Modeling, Pis, Processes, Set, Sidewalls, Teaching, Tested, Turbulence, Weather.

VORTEX2: A Study of Tornado and Tornadic Thunderstorm Dynamics through High-Resolution Simulation, Advanced Data Assimilation and Prediction
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Keith A Brewster($779,791), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Field Experiment, Field Phase, Hazardous Weather, Tornadic Thunderstorms, Advanced, Assimilation, Dynamics, Environment, Forecasting, Knowledge, Lead, Microphysical, Models, NWP, Observations, Operational, Participation, Predictability, Processes, Resolution, Sets, Simulation, Special, Spring, Storms, Supercell, Tornado, Tornadoes, Tornadogenesis, VORTEX.

Collaborative Research: Inhibition of Snowfall by Pollution Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Douglas H Lowenthal($244,804), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. Sandra E Yuter($69,467), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
3. William R Cotton($487,286), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: San Juan Mountains, Wintertime Orographic Precipitation, Aerosol Pollution, Pollution Aerosol, Supercooled Water, Activities, Aerosol-induced, Amounts, Class, Clouds, Colorado, Field, Graduate, Has, Increased, Influences, Lead, Led, Meteorology, Modeling, Potential, Principal, Public, Reduction, SPL.

Development and Testing of a Unified Parameterization of Diabatic Heating - Proof of Concept
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Roger A Pielke($386,096), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Diabatic Heating, Dimensional Model, Input Variables, Meteorological Fields, Model Run, Unified Lut, Accurate, Approach, Computational, Cost, Derived, Fraction, Integrated, Models, Numerical, Original, Parameterization, Parameterizations, Principal, RAMS, Speed, Standard.

Mesoscale Airflow Over Mountains: Orographic Drag and Upstream Convective Initiation
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Dale R Durran($617,541), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: South Asian Monsoon, Weather And Climate, Air Stream, Climate Models, Deep Convection, Global Weather, Large-scale Flow, Trigger Deep, Atmosphere, Barrier, Blocked, Convective, Drag, Examine, High-resolution, Influence, Large-scale, Low-level, Mountain, Resulting, Simulations, Thunderstorms, Triggering, Upstream.

VORTEX2: Multiscale Analyses of Tornadic Storms Using Multiparameter Mobile Radars
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Conrad L Ziegler($805,007), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Angular Momentum, Polarimetric Signatures, Rear-flank Downdraft, Supercell Storms, Tornadic Storms, Ability, Aid, Assimilation, Coordinated, Depth, Doppler, Dual-polarimetric, Dual-polarization, Dynamics, Entire, Environmental, Evolution, False, Forecasting, Heterogeneity, Knowledge, Lack, Lead, NWS, Objectives, Observations, Precipitation, Radar, Radars, Rflank, Supercells, Tornadogenesis, VORTEX, Vorticity, Weather.

VORTEX2: Damage Survey and Photogrammetric Analyses of Tornadoes, Mesocyclones, and Hook Echoes Observed during VORTEX II
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nolan T Atkins($250,225), Lyndon State College, Lyndonville
Key terms: Damage Intensity, Damage Survey, Doppler Radars, Hook Echo, Observed Damage, Parent Circulation, Surface Damage, Tornadic Storms, Visual Characteristics, Warning Process, Wind Speeds, Analysis, Attendant, Based, Cloud, Debris, EF, Evolution, Examine, Features, Field, Flow, Ground, Has, High-resolution, Intriguing, Knowledge, LSC, Marks, Mesocyclone, Mobile, Objective, Objectives, Onto, Photography, Radar-detected, Single-doppler, Time, Tornado, Tornadoes, Trochoidal, Undergraduate, VORTEX, Weak.

On Variable Terrains and Diurnal Variations in Surface Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Zhaoxia Pu($235,745), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Actual Observations, Weather Forecast, Challenge, Design, Errors, Experiments, Incorporation, Methods, Model, Networks, Numerical, Observing, Osses, Sites, Surface, Temperature, WRF.

Dynamics and Impacts of Mesoscale Gravity Waves in Baroclinic Jet-Front Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Fuqing Zhang($250,537), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
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.

VORTEX 2: Storm-scale Baroclinity Using Fine-scale Observations and Numerical Models
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher C Weiss($719,197), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Thermodynamic And Kinematic, Storm-scale Baroclinity, Air, Component, Field, Gradients, Improvement, Issue, Knowledge, Low-level, Maintenance, Models, Numerical, Objectives, Observations, Opportunity, Spatial, Sticknet, Storm-scale, Storms, Students, Supercell, Surface, Suspected, Tornado, Tornadogenesis, Unprecedented, VORTEX, Vorticity, Wind.

Observations of the Spatial-Statistical Structures of Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Arthur R Jameson($448,262), RJH Scientific Incorporated, El Cajon
Key terms: Radar Reflectivity, Radar Signal, Rainfall Intensity, Signal Behavior, CHILL, CI, Complication, Context, Derived, Effort, Errors, Estimates, High-resolution, Models, Non-rayleigh, Potential, Precipitation, Radars, Rayleigh-type, Resolution, Spatial, Storm, Structure, Well-behaved.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Relationships between First Lightning, In-cloud Microphysics and Satellite-Observed Cumulus Cloud-top Properties
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lawrence D Carey($392,246), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
2. Eugene W McCaul($118,579), Universities Space Research Association, Washington
Key terms: Cloud Growth, Convective Cloud, Convective Clouds, Cumulus Cloud, Dual-polarimetric Doppler, Polarimetric Radar, Satellite Observations, Aviation, Character, Cloud-top, Current, Developed, Distributions, Dual-polarimetric, Estimate, GOES, In-cloud, Intensity, Lightning, MODIS, Mechanisms, Microphysics, Rates, Time, Weather.

Basic Mechanisms of Tropical Cyclone Size and Structure Change
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Elizabeth Ritchie($280,165), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Size, Broad Structural, Large-scale Environments, Tropical Cyclones, Control, Environmental, Evolution, Large-scale, Operational, Storm, Structure.

Orographic Precipitation Processes in Midlatitudes and Tropics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert A Houze($599,804), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Heavily Precipitating Convective, Deep Convection, Low-level Flow, Mountain Barrier, Mountain Ranges, Orographic Precipitation, Satellite Database, Windward Slope, Baroclinic, Base, Based, Cells, Derived, Enhanced, Enhancement, Established, Has, High-resolution, Himalayas, Land, Low-level, MAP, Midlatitude, Models, Near, Output, Processes, Regions, Sharp, Subcontinent, Terrain, Tropical.

PRE-Depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics (PREDICT)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael T Montgomery($16,778), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Atmospheric Disturbances, Aircraft, Coordination, Field, Formation, Grow, Growing, Hurricane, PREDICT, Supported, Tropical.

SGER: Origin and Consequences of 'Dry Lightning' in a Dry Desert Environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John Hallett($25,975), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Charge Generation, Dry Thunderstorms, Ability, Air, Cloud, Conditions, Fire, Fires, Health, Implications, Investigation, Lead, Leading, Level, Local, Moist, Surface, °C.

Progressively Complex Numerical Studies of Infrasound Generated by Atmospheric Convection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David A Schecter($365,958), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Atmospheric Modeling, Convective Storm, Intellectual Merit, Tornado Warning, Acoustic, Current, Detection, Developing, Emissions, Field, Frequencies, Hz, Infrasound, Knowledge, Methods, Principal, Processes, Structure, Theory, Turbulence, Unsteady, Vortex.

Digital High-Speed Spectroscopic Lightning Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Richard E Orville($412,051), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Lightning Channels, Return Strokes, Current, Equipment, Facilities, Flash, Information, Lighting, National, Natural, Oklahoma, Optical, Resolution, Site, Texas, Visible.

Criticality: A Theory for Understanding and Forecasting Deep Convective Initiation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Adam L Houston($226,730), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: 1d Criticality Model, Buoyancy And Dilution, 1d Criticality, Criticality Metrics, Deep Convection, Forecasting Dci, Operational Forecasting, Regulating Mechanisms, Third Objective, Water Resources, Aims, Analysis, Concept, Convective, Development, Dimensional, Discriminate, Disseminated, Enable, Environments, Experiments, Forecasts, Initiation, Involves, Likelihood, Local, Management, Parcels, Regime, Regional, Supercritical.

Indirect Aerosol Effects on Tropical Convection
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Susan C van den Heever($342,209), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Convective Cloud, Deep Tropical, Radiative-convective Equilibrium, Tropical Cloud, Aerosol, Atmosphere, CCN, Climate, Clouds, Concentrations, Development, Distribution, Emerging, Ice, Incursions, Influencing, Nuclei, Precipitation, Processes, Properties, Radiative-convective, Regions, Variable, Vertical, Water.

MRI: Development of a Mobile, Rapid-scan, X-band, Polarimetric Doppler Radar
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Howard B Bluestein($875,000), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Electronically Scanned Radars, Short Time Scales, Convective Storms, Graduate Students, Polarimetric Capability, Rapidly Scanning, Available, Cost, Doppler, Experience, Features, Field, Meteorological, Mobile, Phenomena, Severe, Tornadoes, Volume.

VORTEX2: Mobile Upsonde Measurements and Studies of Lower Tropospheric Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew D Parker($475,098), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Lapse Rates, Lower Tropospheric, Knowledge, Non-tornadic, Outflow, Processes, Routine, Storms, Students, Supercells, Thermodynamic, Tornadoes, Tornadogenesis, VORTEX, Warnings.

Improving Understanding and Prediction of Atlantic Tropical Cyclogenesis
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Da-Lin Zhang($685,491), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Atlantic Tc Genesis, Potential Vorticity, Upscale Growth, West Africa, Aews, Bottom, Cgvs, Conditions, Convergence, Effects, Evolution, Examine, Hurricane, Model, Predictability, Prediction, SAL, Simulations, Storms, Tcs, Transformation, Upward.

Mechanisms of Convection-Wave Interactions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. George N Kiladis($352,674), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Model Runs, Analyses, Clues, Convective, Detailed, Diagnostic, Disturbances, Diurnal, Expected, Frequencies, Modeling, Models, Moisture, Observational, Observations, Regional, Techniques, Temperature, Tropical, WRF, Wave, Waves.

High Temporal-Resolution Analysis of Electrical Activity in a Severe Hailstorm Scanned Using Phased Array Radar
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher Emersic($56,783), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: High-resolution Lightning, Lightning Activity, Radar Reflectivity, Severe Weather, Anticipated, Array, Dynamics, Electrical, Evolution, Examine, Hail, Hailstorm, High-resolution, Inverted, Observed, Polarity, Relating, Storm, Storms, Was.

The Horizontal and Vertical Structure of Tropical Cyclones: Theory, Observations, and Idealized Modeling
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David S Nolan($371,423), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Hurricane Wind Field, Vertical And Horizontal, Broader Impacts, Tropical Cyclone, Vertical Structure, Controlled, Cyclones, DVPAS, Environments, Future, Has, Idealized, Intensity, Mean, Model, Simulations, Size, Symmetric, Tools, WRF.

Lake Breeze System of the Great Salt Lake
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John D Horel($285,122), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Traditional Mesoscale Simulations, Air Quality, Salt Lake, Arid, Bordered, Breeze, Circulations, Coastal, Coastline, Coastlines, Described, Development, Extensive, Formation, GSL, Has, Heating, Impacting, LES, Lake-breeze, Meteorology, Observations, Presence, Radar, Steep, Surface, Terrain, Thermally-driven, Underlying, Urban, Water, Weather, Wind.

Mountain Weather Workshop; Whistler, British Columbia, Canada; August 5-8, 2008
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephan F De Wekker($15,060), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Mountain Meteorology, Mountain Weather, AMS, Current, Discussion, Field, Forecasters, Forecasting, Lectures, Monograph, Opportunity, Students, Unique, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: VORTEX2--Multi-Scale and Multi-Platform Study of Tornadoes, Supercell Thunderstorms, and Their Environments
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Karen A Kosiba($1,508,066), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
2. Yvette P Richardson($1,014,259), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Robert J Trapp($63,802), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Mobile Mesonets, Situ Thermodynamic, Tornado Genesis, Tornadoes Experiment, Analysis, Comprehensive, Core, Field, Instrumentation, Integrated, Maintenance, Pis, Program, ROTATE, Radars, Structure, Tornadogenesis, VORTEX.

Study Dust Optical and Radiative Properties Using Optimal Morphological Sets
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ping Yang($419,905), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Airborne Dust, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Available, Climate, Computer, Direct, Effort, Light, Methods, Particles, Properties, Radiative, Representative, Sophisticated, Thermal, Via.

A Modeling Study of Factors that Control the Vigor of Deep Cumulus Convection
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Francis Robinson($370,497), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Global Climate, Activity, Atmospheric, Basic, Calculations, Cloud, Cloud-resolving, Clouds, Convection, Convective, Factors, Intensity, Model, Models, Numerical, Properties, Simple, Student, Surface, Surrounding, Undergraduate, Vigor, WRF.

Assimilating Doppler Radar Data for Storm-Scale Numerical Prediction Using an Ensemble-based Variational Method
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Keith A Brewster($199,990), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: 3dvar And Enkf, Background Error Statistics, Spatial And Temporal, Convective-scale Flows, Wsr-88d Radars, Assimilation, Centers, Consistent, Convective-scale, Dynamics, Efficient, Large-scale, Methods, NWP, Operational, Prediction, Principal, Storm-scale, Suitable, Technique, Techniques, Variables, Variational, WSR-D.

CAREER: Towards Better Representations of the Nocturnal Low-Level Jets in New Generation Large-Eddy and Mesoscale Models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sukanta Basu($352,068), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Particular Attention, Renewable Energy, Texas Tech, Wind Turbines, Accurate, Approach, Classroom, Conditions, Controls, Development, Effort, Field, Generation, LLJ, Level, Momentum, Nighttime, Nsurface, Numerical, Observational, Primary, Secondary, Simulations, Structure, Students, Surface, Tandem, Via, Winds.

Improving Prediction of Precipitation by Objective Estimation of Bulk Effects of Cloud and Precipitation Microphysical Processes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Tomislava Vukicevic($370,983), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cloud And Precipitation, Bulk Microphysical, Cloud Microphysical, Radar Observations, Widely Available, Approach, Assimilation, Atmospheric, Global, Inclusion, Individual, Initially, Model, Models, Operating, Parameterization, Parameterizations, Parameters, Processes, Storm, Variety, WRF.

REU Site: Experience for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CREST
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Reginald A Blake($459,108), CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn
Key terms: Graduate Students, Remote Sensing, York City, Appropriate, Conferences, Contribute, Encourage, Enhance, Established, Increased, NOAA-CREST, Participation, REU, Selected, Site, Sub-disciplines, Technology, Underrepresented, Variety.

Thermal Runaway Breakdown of Air: A Possible Origin of Energetic Radiation Generated in the Earth's Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Victor Pasko($253,460), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Energetic Radiation Originating, Gamma Ray Emissions, Relativistic Runaway Electron, Thermal Runaway Breakdown, Thermal Runaway Electrons, X-ray And Gamma-ray, Earth's Atmosphere, Energetic Emissions, Air, Atomic, Condition, Discharges, Electric, Energies, Energy, Explaining, Extremely, Field, Generated, Has, High-energy, Initiated, Interactions, Investigate, Lightning, Mechanism, Mev, Observations, Observed, Particles, Rays, Resulting, Space, Stepping, Theory, Training.

Radar-Derived Refractivity and Its Impact on Model Analysis and Forecasting Using Advanced Data Assimilation Methods
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sebastian M Torres($709,621), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Advanced Radar, Atmospheric Moisture, Doppler Radars, Accurately, Assess, Assimilation, Development, Emerging, Evolution, Forecasts, Ground-based, Initiation, Mesh, Networks, Numerical, Observations, Operational, Platforms, Precipitation, Refractivity, Reliably, Required, Resolution, Severe, Signals, Storms, Surface, Systematic, Techniques, Thunderstorm, Variety, Weather.

The Properties of Mixed Phase- and Ice Clouds in the Arctic Using a Tethered Balloon System Deployed in Support of the International Polar Year (IPY)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. R. Paul Lawson($514,273), Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken
Key terms: Radiative Energy, Arctic, Cloud, Cloudcover, Clouds, Conditions, Detailed, Ice, Institute, Low-level, Microphysical, Model, Obtain, Obtained, Polar, Properties, SPEC, Spring, Stevens, Surface, Visible.

Study of Processes Leading to Tropical Cyclone Structure and Intensity Changes
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yuqing Wang($398,016), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Concentric Eyewall Cycle, Outer Spiral Rainbands, Structure And Intensity, Tropical Cyclone Structure, Asymmetric Forcing, Environmental Flow, Eyewall Convection, Inner Core, Tropical Cyclones, Circulation, Conditions, Formation, Idealized, Leading, Model, Numerical, Potential, Prediction, Process, Processes, Shear, Storm, Subsequent, TC, Vertical.

Tropical Cyclone Structure and Dynamics Based on Data from the Hurricane Rainband and Intensity Experiment (RAINEX)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert A Houze($1,030,993), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Doppler Radar, Dry Air, Hurricane Intensity, Hurricane Ophelia, Latent Heating, Numerical Forecasts, Outer Rainbands, Secondary Eyewall, Aircraft, Burst, Circulation, Coastal, Convection, Convective, Document, Documented, Dropsonde, Dropsondes, Dynamics, ELDORA, Experiment, Extremely, Eyewalls, Flight, Hurricanes, Katrina, Primary, RAINEX, Real-time, Regions, Rita, Storm, Storms, Structure, Structures, Tropical, Was, Wind.

Surface Boundary Layer Characterization in Urban Areas
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Steven R Hanna($349,219), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Urban Boundary Layer, Air Passes, Boundary Layers, Rural Air, Surface Fluxes, Allow, Basic, Below, Building, Canopy, Comprehensive, Development, Downtown, Field, Flow, Meteorological, Models, Parameterizations, Products, Relations, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Lightning and Associated Electrical Activity at Erupting Volcanoes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald J Thomas($500,987), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Stephen R McNutt($104,243), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Volcanic Electrical Activity, Active Volcanoes, Additional Tool, Lightning Mapping, Main Eruption, Time Resolution, Volcanic Plume, Alaska, Antennas, Ascertain, Atmospheric, Characterize, Charging, Collaborations, Continuous, Detailed, Developed, Development, Has, Instrumentation, Involve, LMA, Lead, Monitor, Monitoring, Observations, RF, Sites, Thunderstorms, Volcanologists.

Numerical Study of the Riming Growth of Graupel
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Pao-Kuan Wang($568,456), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Riming Growth Process, Weather And Climate, Cloud Physics, Collision Efficiency, Collisional Growth, Falling Ice, Flow Fields, Ice Particle, Ice Particles, Numerical Models, Supercooled Droplets, Accreting, Atmospheric, Available, Clouds, Conditions, Convective, Equations, Graupel, Hence, Information, Knowledge, Parameterizations, Processes, Quantitative.

Collaborative Research: Airborne Radar Investigation of Mountain Waves and Rotors
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Samuel Haimov($192,705), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Internal Rotor Structure, Atmospheric Rotors, Complex Terrain, Dynamical Evolution, Intellectual Merit, Internal Structure, Medicine Bow, Mountain Waves, Nasa06 Campaign, Remote Sensing, Sierra Nevada, Airborne, Aircraft, Aloft, Analysis, Aviation, Collected, Considerable, Dynamics, Field, Flight, Flow, Ground-based, High-resolution, Instrumentation, Lee, Merge, Mesoscale, Model, Numerical, Objective, Observational, Principal, Radar, Range, Situ, T-REX, Turbulence, Was, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Challenges in Understanding Tornadogenesis and Related Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Erik N Rasmussen($247,939), Rasmussen Systems LLC, Mesa
2. Robert P Davies-Jones($670,954), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Tornado Cyclone Genesis, Arching Process, Counter-rotating Vortices, Drawn Upward, Horizontal Vorticity, Negative Buoyancy, Rear Flank, Rfd Buoyancy, Vortex Lines, Arches, Conditions, Counter-rotating, Cyclonic, Directly, Diversity, Downdraft, Female, Forming, Has, Knowledge, Observational, Pair, Precipitation, Rings, Seminars, Supercell, Supercells, Tornadogenesis, Updraft, Vertical.

2008-2009 Cybersecurity Summit for NSF Large Research Facilities
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Rodney J Petersen($146,079), Educause, Boulder
Key terms: Cybersecurity, Facilities, Strategies.

Doppler On Wheels Mobile Radar Network
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Joshua M Wurman($6,486,102), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: Ground Level, Mobile Radar, National Facility, Activities, Atmospheric, DOW, Deployment, Doppler, Dows, Environments, Fields, Has, Low, Multiple-doppler, Network, Observations, Rapid, Single-doppler, Three-dimensional, Variety, Wheels.

Operation and Application of High-Resolution Full-Disk Global Halpha Network
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($606,752), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Seven Stations, Solar Observatory, Austria, BBSO, Carry, China, Collaboration, Continue, GHN, Global, International, Network, Observations, Operate, Space, Students.

Collaborative Research: Testing a New Concept for the Long-term Build-up to Coronal Mass Ejections
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Terry G Forbes($64,772), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Paul M Bellan($120,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
3. Yong Lin($465,679), Helio Research, La Crescenta
Key terms: Cavity Magnetic Field, Filament Magnetic Field, Filament Channel, CME, Formation, Mass, Mechanisms, Pis, Process, Thread-by-thread, Triggering, Visible.

SHINE Postdoc: The Role of Coronal Mass Ejections in Reversal the Open Magnetic Flux of the Sun
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Ofer Cohen($160,000), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Solar Magnetic Field, Long-term Evolution, Magnetic Flux, Solar Cycle, Ambient, Cmes, Coronal, Effect, Investigate, Long-term, Particles, Propagation, Reversal, Space.

NSWP: Multiscale Study of Magnetic Field-Line and Energetic Particle Dispersal in the Turbulent Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stephen Kahler($152,561), Helio Research, La Crescenta
Key terms: Energetic Particle, Particle Scattering, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Dispersal, Field-line, Fields, MFL, Magnetic, Mfls, Particles, Physics, Transport, Turbulent, Wandering.

Collaborative Research: Eclipse Observations of Heavy Ions, Neutrals and Dust Grains in the Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Donald L Mickey($286,800), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Martina B Arndt($43,200), BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY, Bridgewater
3. Munir H Nayfeh($29,881), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Hydrogen And Helium, Ions And Neutrals, Coronal Magnetic, Dust Grains, Eclipse Expeditions, Electron Temperature, Inner Corona, Magnetic Field, Solar Corona, Local, Observations, Students.

SHINE: Validating and Comparing Velocities Estimated from Magnetograms
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Brian Welsch($212,463), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Energy And Helicity, Photospheric And Chromospheric, Velocity Estimation Methods, Chromospheric Magnetograms, Accurately, Affect, Derived, Fluxes, Magnetic, Model, Solar, Synthetic, Velocities.

High Resolution Studies of Solar Activity with New Solar Telescope
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Wenda Cao($1,582,693), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Visible And Near, Nst Observations, Solar Physics, Solar Telescope, BBSO, Field, Fields, Generation, Investigations, Magnetic, NJIT, Space, Technology, Vector.

SHINE: Turbulence and Plasma Heating in the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Eliot Quataert($215,712), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Solar Wind Plasma, Turbulent Fluctuations, Field, Heating, Kinetic, MHD, Modeling, Turbulence.

SHINE: Connecting Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Dynamics to Coronal Emissions through Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Katharine K Reeves($276,047), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: CME, Cmes, Developing, Emissions, Energy, Eruption, Exhibit, Model, Museum, Physics, Solar.

SHINE: Coronal and Interplanetary Magnetic Field: Structure, Topology, Flux Tubes, Transport of Energetic Particles
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. William H Matthaeus($311,834), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Coherent Flux Tube, Smooth Flux Tube, Standard Flux Tube, Field Line, Interplanetary Magnetic, Magnetic Fluctuations, Random Walk, Coronal, Fields, Investigate, Limitations, Models, Seps, Solar, Structure, Topological, Turbulence.

SHINE: Improving Understanding of Solar Corona Dynamics Using Laboratory Simulations of Coronal Loops
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Paul M Bellan($308,090), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Boundary Conditions, Magnetic Flux, Plasma Configurations, Solar Coronal, Adjacent, Compared, Density, Diagnostics, Experimental, Experiments, Has, Imaging, Loop, Measure, Models, Phenomena, Time, X-ray.

SHINE: Enhancement and Documentation of the Community Heliospheric Modeling System
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Dusan Odstrcil($26,636), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: CCMC, Center, Code, Coronal, Document, Documentation, ENLIL, Features, Has, Heliospheric, Metadata, Model, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Observations, Solar, User, Utilizing, Various, Visualization.

CAREER: Comprehensive Study of Initiation and Evolution of Solar Energetic Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jie Zhang($468,498), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Solar Physics, Space Weather, Acceleration, Based, Cmes, Coronal, Flares, Main, Models, Phase.

CAREER: Magnetic Reconnection--An Observational Investigation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jiong Qiu($475,906), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Astronomy Course, Magnetic Reconnection, Theoretical Models, Evolution, Implement, Observations, Plans, Quantities, Solar, Students, Undergraduate.

Stellar and Solar Magnetic Activity Cycles
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jeffrey C Hall($479,208), Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff
Key terms: 'solar Analog' Stars, Activity And Luminosity, Solar And Stellar, 'solar Analog', Ca Ii, Emission Lines, Long-term Solar, Solar Luminosity, Stellar Activity, Active, Arizona, Behavior, Critical, Cycle, Has, Insight, Long-term, Minima, Observations, Operated, Pis, Public, SSS, School, Suns.

Highly Periodic Solar Wind Density Structures: Characteristics and Magnetosphere Coupling
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Harlan Spence($128,964), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Periodic Density Structures, Periodic Structures, Evolution, Explore, Observed, Shocks.

NSWP: Magnetic Reconnection and Distribution of Accelerated Electrons in Solar Flares
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Haimin Wang($142,242), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Flare And Cme, Accelerated Electrons, Electron Acceleration, Magnetic Reconnection, Solar Flare, Space Weather, Spectral Index, Eruption, Evolution, Examine, Flaring, HXR, Sigmoidal, Spatial, X-ray.

P-POD Auxiliary Payload on the STP-ST26/Minotaur-IV Launch
Award Effective Date: 02/14/2008; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Dennis McNabb($121,438), Department of the Air Force, Space and Missile Systems Center, Kirtland Afb
Key terms: Space Weather, Launch, Mission, NSF, Nano-satellite.

Unidata 2013: A Transformative Community Facility for the Atmospheric and Related Sciences
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Mohan K Ramamurthy($19,763,525), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Activities, Education, Tools.

Continued Operation of COSMIC in Support of Research and Operational Applications for Years 2008-2011
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: nan

1. William S Schreiner($418,109), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Gps Ro, Operational Weather, Weather Forecasting, April, Atmospheric, Broad, COSMIC, Centers, Centre, Climate, Component, Constellation, Continue, Continued, Design, Expected, Funding, Global, Has, Ii, Improvement, International, Ionospheric, Meteorological, Months, Observations, Office, Operate, Private, Processing, Program, RTS, Regions, Satellites, Software, Soundings, Tracking, Was.

US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Monitoring the Ionospheric Weather Over Egypt Using a Chain of Coherent Ionosphere Doppler Receivers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: nan

1. Trevor W Garner($88,651), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Equatorial Fountain, Ionospheric Weather, Radio Environment, Real-time Monitoring, Africa, Alexandria, Anomaly, CIDR, Center, Cidrs, Degrees, Density, Egypt, Egyptian, Electron, Forecasting, Helwan, International, Latitude, Magnetic, Peaks, Real-time, Space.

Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) Interdisciplinary Science Workshop: Decadal Climate Prediction; Aspen, CO; June 22-28, 2008
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: nan

1. John Katzenberger($49,647), Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt
Key terms: Climate Modeling, Climate Projections, Decadal Prediction, Short-term Climate, Time Scales, AGCI, Assessment, Current, Decades, Decision, Experiments, Explicitly, Has, IPCC, Information, International, Involved, Issues, Models, Program, Session, Short-term.

US-Egypt Cooperative Research: Chemistry-Climate Feedbacks on Egypt and the Nile River Basin
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Allison Steiner($90,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Future Climate, Regional Climate, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Basin, Chemical, Chemistry, Coupled, Egypt, Egyptian, Gas, Mechanism, Model, Nile, Regcm, Species.

REU Site: Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: nan

1. William R Paterson($180,674), Hampton University, Hampton
Key terms: Program Promotes, Reu Program, Student Participants, Activities, Analysis, Aspects, Basic, Climate, Environment, Faculty, Geosciences, Observations, Participation, Space.

NSWP: High Frequency (HF) Doppler Radar for Low Latitude Studies
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: nan

1. Geoffrey Crowley($299,569), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Vertical Ion Drift, Equatorial Plasma, Neutral Wind, Below, Determined, EPB, Epbs, F-region, Ionospheric, Jicamarca, Onset, Peak, Perturbations, Radio, Scintillations, Signals.

Solar Maximum Studies at the Millstone Hill Observatory
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: nan

1. Frank D Lind($10,259,210), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Millstone Hill Observatory, Outreach Activities, Upper Atmosphere, Access, Analysis, Antenna, Available, Broad, CEDAR, Continue, Coupling, Database, Effects, Emphasis, Experiences, External, Instruments, MHO, Massachusetts, Participation, Processes, Program, Radar, Workshops.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2008

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Lower Atmospheric Source Regions of Medium-scale Gravity Waves Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Tomographic Array for Lightning and Ionospheric Studies (TALIS) Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Comprehensive Use of Incoherent Scatter Radar Data to Study the Equatorial Midnight Plasma and Neutral Temperature Maxima (MTM) Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Nonlinear Wave-Wave Induced Diurnal Tidal Variability Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Modeling Studies of Infrasonic Waves from Thunderstorms and Aurora Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Analysis of Global Atmospheric Responses to Externally and Internally Driven Global Circuit Variability Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Radar and Optical Observations of Enhanced Ion Acoustic Lines and Associated Auroral Fine Structure Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Numerical Simulations of Gravity Wave Instabilities, Wave-Wave and Wave Mean Flow Interactions, Momentum Transport, and Spectral Evolution in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

RUI: Gravity Wave Effects in the Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region with a 2-D, Nonlinear, Multiple-Airglow Chemistry-Dynamics Model Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Characterizing the Variability in the High Latitude Ionospheric Electric Field Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Solar Cyclic and Climatic Trends in Geocoronal Hydrogen Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Lidar and Modeling Studies of Constituent Fluxes by Dissipating Gravity Waves in the Mesopause Region Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: NSWP--Improvement and Real-time Updating of the International Reference Ionosphere with the Contribution of Auroral Electrons Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Postdoc: The Effect of Atmospheric Tides on the Equatorial and Near-Polar Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Using Powerful, Low-Frequency Radio Waves from Lightning to Diagnose the D-region Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

NSWP: Improving Quantitative Modeling of High-latitude Electrojet Conductivities during Magnetic Storm and Substorm Time Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

A Novel Faraday Filter-based Spectrometer for Studying the Sodium Airglow and Measuring the Atomic Oxygen Mixing Ratio in the Upper Mesosphere Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Annual Summer CEDAR Workshop Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Numerical Evaluation of Radar Backscatter from KH Instability and Gravity Wave Breaking for Realistic Radar Parameters and Configurations Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: RUI--Intermediate Scale Structures in the Auroral Oval and the Ionospheric Trough Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Broadband Electron Acceleration: Outstanding Physics Questions Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Studies of the Low-Latitude Ionosphere and Electrodynamics Using Data from the LISN Distributed Observatory Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Source of High Trace-Velocity Infrasound Signals and Pulsating Auroras Award Effective Date: 02/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Science Steering Committee 2007-2009 Award Effective Date: 01/15/2008; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Low and Mid Latitude Imager Observations of Waves and Wave-Induced Phenomena in the Airglow Award Effective Date: 01/01/2008; Program: AERONOMY

Space Weather Outreach Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: AISL

Collaborative Research: Improving Estimated Fluxes of Greenhouse Gases over North America Using a Receptor-Oriented Modeling Framework and In-situ Atmospheric Measurements Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Heterogeneous Hydroxyl (OH) Chemistry and Aerosol Optical Properties: Direct and Indirect Connections Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Effects Of Fresh And Aged Sea Salt On The Chemistry Of Urban And Remote Regions Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Mercury Cycling in the Marine Environment Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Western Airborne Mercury Observations (WAMO) Award Effective Date: 12/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Whole Air Sampling with Advanced Whole Air Sampler (AWAS) during HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observation (HIPPO) Global Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Workshop on Reducing the Uncertainty in Measurements of Atmospheric Mercury; Seattle, Washington; October 23-25, 2008 Award Effective Date: 10/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Impacts of Air Pollution Controls on Primary and Secondary Aerosols during CAREBEIJING Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric Transport and Photo-chemical Transformation of Iron: Model Development, Application, and Verification with Surface and Satellite Data Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: VOCALS--Clinometer Stabilized MAX-DOAS Measurements of Aerosol Precursor Trace Gases Over the Tropical and Southeast Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Photochemistry of Secondary Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Water Vapor Measurements from the G-V VCSEL Hygrometer during START08/PreHIPPO Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Development of a LASER Sensor for the Measurement of Elemental and Reactive Gaseous Mercury Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Simulations of MILAGRO Meteorology and Transport for Analysis of Atmospheric Chemistry Data Award Effective Date: 08/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Determination of Nitrous Acid and Nitrogen Dioxide Flux and Concentration Over Forest Canopies Using Quantum Cascade Laser Absorption Spectroscopy Award Effective Date: 07/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Experimental Investigation of the Physico-chemical Properties of Aqueous Organic and Mixed Organic/Inorganic Systems Important in the Upper Troposphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Line Shape Parameters and Their Temperature Dependence for Molecules of Importance in Earth's Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: The Initial Phase of Development of Digital Microfluidic Impactor Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

A Particle-Resolved Aerosol Model of Soot Aging Award Effective Date: 07/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Models for Atmospheric Organic Nitrate-Forming Reactions Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation in the Southeastern United States Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Integrated Sampling Campaign Aimed at Understanding the Atmospheric Mercury Cycle on Cape Cod, Massachusetts Award Effective Date: 05/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Kinetics and Thermochemistry Studies of Carboxylic and Other Acids Using Negative Ion Proton Transfer Mass Spectrometry (NI-PTMS) Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

VOCALS: Atmospheric Sulfur Chemistry in the South East Pacific Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: VOCALS--Interaction of Aerosols with Marine Boundary Layer Clouds Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Tropospheric Ozone and Aerosol Precursors from the Oxidation of Aromatics Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation by Cloud Processing of Alpha-Dicarbonyl and Amine Compounds Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

REU Site: Regional Atmospheric Chemistry: State-of-the-Art Measurement and Modeling in the Pacific Northwest Award Effective Date: 05/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Significance of International Transport of Air Pollutants Award Effective Date: 04/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Laboratory Studies of Heterogeneous Oxidation of Organic Aerosols Award Effective Date: 03/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Aerosol-Water Interactions in the Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

VOCALS: Airborne Measurements of Aerosol Dynamics and Evolution Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

VOCALS: Cloud Chemistry Measurements in the Southeast Pacific Award Effective Date: 03/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measuring and Modeling the Physicochemical Properties of Organic Matter in Atmospheric Aerosols Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

VOCALS: Measurements of Organic Aerosol Composition to Improve Aerosol-Cloud Characterization Award Effective Date: 02/15/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Fire at the Intersection of Global Carbon and Water Cycles Award Effective Date: 08/14/2007; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II--The Open Wildland Fire Modeling E-community: A Virtual Organization Accelerating Research, Education, and Fire Management Technology Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: CDI TYPE II

Information Technology Research (ITR): Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2003; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

Large-Scale Influences on Tropical Cyclogenesis Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Consensus on Climate Predication by Adaptive Synchronization of Models Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Interfacing Major Field Experiments with Physical Parameterizations in Atmospheric General Circulation Models Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Quasi-Biennial Oscillation (QBO) and Tropical Deep Convection Award Effective Date: 12/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling Studies Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

MRI: Development of PAEROS (Portable AERosol Observing System) for Global Observations Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Understanding Climate Feedbacks and 3-D Global Warming Patterns in Global General Circulation Climate Models Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

NSWP: Tomographic Reconstruction of the 3-D Coronal Magnetic Field from Space- and Ground-Based Intensity and Polarimetry Data Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Balanced Models--Theoretical Development, Solution and Application Award Effective Date: 11/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Assessing Global and Regional Land Surface Skin Temperature Variations Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Intercomparison of Atmospheric Water Vapor Isotope Measurements from Mauna Loa, Hawaii and Implications for Characterizing Subtropical Humidity Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Support for a Symposium to Honor Alan Plumb's Contributions to the Science of Stratospheric Dynamics and Chemisty; New York, NY; October 24-25, 2008 Award Effective Date: 09/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Potential Vorticity Staircase: Formation and Maintenance of Zonal Jets Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Projects in Climate Dynamics Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Response of Convective Precipitating Storms to Anthropogenically Enhanced Global Radiative Forcing Award Effective Date: 09/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics