CEDAR: Effects of Orographic Forcing on the Southern Mid-Latitude Mesosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Steven M Smith($154,056), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Mountain Wave, Mountain Waves, Orographic Forcing, Airglow, Atmosphere, Efforts, Flux, Hydroxyl, MLT, Mean, Oxygen, Region, Satellite, Temperature, Temperatures, Tropospheric, Winds.

CEDAR: Mechanisms and Effects of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Umran S Inan($300,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Low Frequency Wave, Electric Fields, Wave Observations, Additional, Emissions, Flashes, Geolocations, Information, Investigation, Lightning, Modeling, Models, Satellite, TGF, Terrestrial, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Determination of Crucial Space Weather Component O/N2 by Laboratory Measurements of O and N2 Absolute Electron-Induced Emission Cross Sections
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Richard Eastes($114,423), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
2. William E McClintock($63,738), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Density Ratio, Emission Cross-sections, N2 Lbh, Remote Sensing, Absolute, Accurate, Ago, Analysis, Atmosphere, Atomic, Cross-section, Cross-sections, Electron-induced, Emissions, Empirical, Experimental, Laboratory, Long-lived, Molecular, Nm, OI, Observations, Physics, Space, Techniques, Ultraviolet, Upper.

CEDAR: Statistical Inference of Solar Cycle Signatures and Long Term Trends in Mesospheric Temperature Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/06/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Syed Azeem($54,669), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Cycle And Long-term, Temperatures And Tidal, Degrees North, Degrees West, Solar Cycle, Teachspace Program, Canada, Graduate, MI, Mesospheric, School, South, Space, Students, Teachers.

EAGER: Thermospheric Helium (He) Resonance LIDAR Development
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Gary R Swenson($296,317), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Frequency Shifting, Lidar Design, Transmitter Power, Capability, Development, Has, Implementing, Instrument, Laser, Nm, Resonance, Task, Upper.

CEDAR Postdoc: Coordinated Optical and Radar Observations of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Elsayed R Talaat($238,072), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Density And Altitude, Geomagnetic Conditions, Mid-latitude Ionosphere, Superdarn Radar, Wallops Island, Airglow, Disturbances, Dynamics, Effects, Es, Especially, Information, Ionospheric, Layers, Long-term, MSTID, Mid-latitude, Mid-latitudes, Mstids, Plasma, Sporadic-e, Users.

NSWP: An Analysis of Space Weather's Impact on Electricity Flows, Power Grid Operations, and Electricity Markets
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Kevin F Forbes($415,938), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Electricity Flows, Loop Flows, Power Grid, Power Grids, Space Weather, Terrestrial Weather, Contribute, Econometrically, Estimate, GIC, Lead, Levels, Operators, Scheduled, Transmission, Unscheduled.

The Unusual Features in Superstorms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Janet U Kozyra($626,091), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Typical Magnetic Storms, Ring Current, Solar Wind, Archive, Auroral, Auroras, Collaboration, Component, Coupling, Difference, Earlier, Effort, Energy, Features, Interdisciplinary, International, Investigate, Ions, Phenomena, Range, Red, Sets, Strong, Superstorm, Superstorms, Virtual.

Atmospheric Tides and Their Effects on Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM) Dynamics, Composition, and Structure
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Maura Hagan($574,785), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Airglow Emissions, Electric Fields, Non-migrating Tidal, Non-migrating Tides, Altitude, Densities, GCM, Global, Ionospheric, Longitude, Minor, Models, NCAR, Non-migrating, Perturbations, Satellite, Temperatures, Winds.

Joint Incoherent Scatter Radar and Electro-Optical Remote-Sensing of the Effects of Auroras as well as Planetary, Tidal and Gravity Waves in the Polar Thermosphere over Sondrestrom
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. John M Hughes($503,484), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Optical And Radar, Planetary And Gravity, Gravity Waves, Joule Heating, Polar Mesosphere, Stratospheric Warming, Auroral, Dynamics, Effects, Energy, Geomagnetic, Information, Investigations, Ionosphere, Observations, Region, Thermodynamics, Thermosphere.

Studies of Plasmashere Boundary Layer with Distributed Arrays of Radio Instruments
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Frank D Lind($470,721), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Distributed Arrays, Electric Fields, Geomagnetic Conditions, Intercepted Signals, Isis Array, Rising Phase, Solar Cycle, Activities, Couple, Critical, Density, Development, Educational, Electron, Existing, Experience, GPS, Gradients, Information, Instruments, Investigate, Investigations, Ionosphere, Irregularities, Magnetosphere, Mid-latitudes, Network, Observations, PBL, Performance, Plasmasphere, Primary, Radar, Radio, Range, Region, Scintillation, TEC.

RAPID: Airborne Campaign for Imaging Polar Mesospheric Clouds During the Deep Solar Minimum
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jeffrey Thayer($77,451), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Polar Mesospheric Clouds, Occurrence Frequency, Solar Minimum, AIM, Airborne, Aircraft, Campaign, Evolution, Expected, Extensive, Imagers, Imaging, Mesosphere, Near, Observations, Obtain, Obtained, Satellite, Season, Summer, Time, Unique.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--A Novel Technique for Estimating Oxygen Density in the Mid-Latitude Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Steven R Watchorn($138,049), Scientific Solutions Incorporated, North Chelmsford
Key terms: Atomic Oxygen, Charge Exchange, Forward Model, AO, Accurate, Chemical, Constrained, Current, Density, Emission, Energy, Has, Ion, Ionosphere, Mid-latitude, Neutral, Observatory, Optical, Photometer, Program, Radar, Rates, Regard, Strong, Student, Technique, Thermosphere, Thermospheric, Transport, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Physics Based Modeling of Blue Jets
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Gennady M Milikh($173,507), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Mikhail Shneider($94,575), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Gigantic Blue Jets, Blue Starters, Based, Discovered, Flashes, GBJ, Ionosphere, Model, Propagate, Range, UV, Upward.

CEDAR: Continuation to Daytime Potassium Doppler Lidar at Arecibo
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan S Friedman($52,333), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Lower Thermosphere Region, Mesosphere And Lower, Arecibo Lidar, Arecibo Observatory, Faraday Filter, Capability, Complete, Construction, Daytime, Density, Has, Implementation, Nighttime, Nocturnal, Observations, Operation, Optical, Potassium.

The International Heliophysical Year (IHY) Africa 2009 Workshop; Livingstone, Zambia; June 8-12, 2009
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Endawoke Yizengaw($45,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Africa, Donor, Focus, Held, Host, IHY, Institutes, Meeting, Nations, Sessions, Workshop.

Comparative Studies of the Interaction and Ionospheric Processes at a Variety of Different "Non-Magnetic" Solar System Bodies
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Kenneth C Hansen($303,355), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ionospheric Phenomena, Mhd Code, Numerical Schemes, Space Weather, Applications, Bodies, Comparative, Effort, Field, Interaction, Magnetohydrodynamic, Mars, Model, Modified, Processes, Resolution, Solar, Spherical, Titan.

Theoretical Studies in Aeronomy
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Steven L Guberman($584,000), Institute for Scientific Research Inc, Winchester
Key terms: Constants And Quantum, Dissociative Recombination Rate, Electron Temperature Dependence, Recombination Rate Constants, Earth's Ionosphere, Excited Ions, Quantum Yields, Rotationally Excited, Atomic, Calculated, Calculations, Deexcitation, Determined, Electrons, Excitation, Excitationrelaxation, Experimental, Ionospheric, Performed, Prior, Range, Temperatures, Theoretical, Upper, Vibrational, Website.

CAREER: Mesospheric Dynamics during Stratospheric Warming Events
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

1. Syed Azeem($446,646), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Stratospheric Warming, Mesospheric.

CubeSat: CubeSat for Ions, Neutrals, Electron, and Magnetic Fields (CINEMA)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Robert P Lin($1,067,997), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Electron And Ion, Sensitivity And Energy, Energy Resolution, Particle Sensor, Ring Current, Space Weather, CINEMA, Cadence, Coupling, Cubesat, Development, Drive, ENA, Educational, Engineering, Extensive, Image, Imaging, Imperial, Instrument, Involvement, Ions, Kev, Low, Magnetometer, Mission, NASA, Neutrals, Orbit, Precipitation, Pressure, STEIN, Spacecraft, Spin, Students, Technology, Time, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Vertical Heating Structure in Large-Scale Convectively Coupled Tropical Waves
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Xianan Jiang($260,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Yuk L Yung($140,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Heating And Moist, Moist Thermodynamic Structures, Heating Structures, Model Development, Ccews, Characterize, Climate, Compare, Examine, Gcms, Global, Ii, MJO, Models, Pair, Particular, Products, Range, Representation, Seasonal, TRMM, Theoretical, Tropical, Uncertainties, Values, Vertical.

Particle Acceleration during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Michael M Swisdak($370,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Laboratory Reconnection Experiments, Magnetic Reconnection, Acceleration, Development, Electrons, Energization, Energy, Fast, Gain, Hall, Mode, Model, Modes, Particle, Particles, Process, Slow, Solar, Structure, Students, Thermal, Undergo.

Role of Ice in High Latitude Nitrogen Atmospheric Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. William R Simpson($161,037), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Dinitrogen Pentoxide, Field Campaigns, Nitrogen Oxide, Arctic, Engaged, Ice, Industrial, Particulate, Pollution, Quantify, Regulators, Stratified, Studying.

Support for Atmospheric Field Research at Thule, Greenland
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Robert L de Zafra($39,393), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Thule Air Base, Line Shapes, Middle Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Carried, DMI, Effort, GBMS, INGV, Institute, Lidar, Monoxide, National, Observations, Observed, Ozone, Rome, Species.

REU Site: Space and Tropospheric Weather Processing Using DotSat
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

1. Robert Roussel-Dupre($474,240), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: National Laboratory, COSMIAC, Center, Conducting, Design, Engineering, Experience, FMAC, Mexico, Minority, Recruit, Sources, Space, Students, UNM.

Isotope Effects in Methoxy Radical Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Theodore S Dibble($475,582), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
Key terms: Ch2do O2 Reaction, Alkoxy Radicals, Branching Ratio, Ch2do O2, Graduate Students, Molecular Hydrogen, Rate Constants, Atoms, CDO, CHDO, CHO, Calculations, Carried, Chemistry, Degradation, Determination, Deuterated, Deuterium, Direct, Diverse, Effects, Experimental, Experimentally, Function, Kno, Ko, Kot, Larger, Methoxy, NCAR, Normal, Ozone, Reactions, Reliable, SUNY-ESF, Temperature, Tropospheric, Tunneling, Versus.

RUI: Heterogeneous and Photochemical Reactivity of Surface Adsorbed Organics with Atmospheric Oxidants
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ryan Z Hinrichs($349,065), Drew University, Madison
Key terms: Surface Adsorbed Organics, Undergraduate Students, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Condensed-phase, Curricular, Drew, Environmental, Heterogeneous, Photochemical, Principal, Products, Reaction, Reactivity, Supporting, Teacher, Tropospheric.

Aerosol Growth and Chemical Compositions from Heterogeneous Processing of Organic Compounds
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alexei Khalizov($597,358), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Chemical Ionization Tandem, Differential Mobility Analyzer, Drift Chemical Ionization, Ion Drift Chemical, Ionization Tandem Mass, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Chemical Compositions, Heterogeneous Processing, Human Health, Organic Aerosol, Organic Aerosols, Organic Compounds, Particle Size, Particulate Matter, Acidity, Ambient, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Concentrations, Effects, Formation, Gaseous, Generated, Growth, Low, Oxidation, Particles, Products, RH, Reaction, Students, VOC.

Top-Down Constraints on North American Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) Emissions From Tall Tower Measurements and Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Modeling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Dylan B Millet($462,185), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Tall Tower, Atmospheric, BVOC, Bvocs, Chemical, Concentrations, Effects, Emissions, Inverse, Lagrangian, Modeling, Organic, Oxides, Ozone, Play, Seasonal, Sources, Species, Students, VOC, Vocs.

Integrating Multiple Methods to Understand the Atmospheric Chemistry of Mercury and Mercury Dry Deposition from the Pacific to the Basin and Range
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mae S Gustin($250,582), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Concentrations And Deposition, Air Masses, Dry Deposition, Elevation Sites, Hydroxyl Radical, Surrogate Surfaces, Atmospheric, Compounds, Hg, Mercury, Method, Model, Ozone, RGM, Responsible, Specific, Urban.

Advanced Characterization of Tropospheric Sources
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert J Yokelson($505,762), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Gas And Particle, Biomass Burning, Forest Service, Organic Compounds, Particle Phase, Aerosol, Air, Atmospheric, Available, California, Characterize, Chemical, Emissions, Fires, Largest, Lead, Quality, Riverside, SVOC, Simulation, Smoke, Source, Sources, Tracers, VOC.

United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Support Activities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ronald G Martin($0), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: International Program, Ipcc Tsu, Program Integration, Usgcrp Ico, Usgcrp International, Activities, Activity, Assessments, Coordination, Decisions, Future, Global, Interact, Nations, Opportunity, Predict, Reports, Students, UCAR.

Kinetics of Atmospherically Important Radical-Molecule Complexes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jaron C Hansen($259,999), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Kinetics And Product, Oh And Ho2, Product Branching Ratios, Atmospheric Chemistry, Ho2 Radical, Reaction Mechanism, Video Podcasts, Water Vapor, BYUI, Brigham, Class, Designed, Effects, Experiments, HOCHCHO, Has, Influence, Laser, Measure, Opportunities, Organic, Pis, Processes, Produced, Radical-molecule, Reactions, Serve, Tropospheric, Undergraduates.

Impacts of the Biosphere on Global Tropospheric Chemistry and Climate
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Colette L Heald($270,197), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aerosols, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Mechanisms, Model, Organic, Sources.

SGER: Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) Support for HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Michael J Mahoney($45,000), National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Pasadena
Key terms: Potential Temperature, Temperature Profile, Atmospheric, Carbon, Gases, Global, HIPPO, Height, Identifying, MTP, Profiles, Program, Troposphere.

Impact of African Dust on Clouds and Precipitation in a Caribbean Tropical Montane Cloud Forest
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Olga L Mayol Bracero($300,000), University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras, San Juan
Key terms: Cloud Properties, Aerosol, CSJ, Caribbean, Chemical, Clouds, Educational, Field, Influence, LRTAD, Level, Levels, PE, Precipitation, Puerto, Range, Regional, Station, Students, TMCF, UPR-RP, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Program for Research on Oxidants: Photochemistry Emissions and Transport (PROPHET) 2009--Community Atmosphere-Biosphere INteractions EXperiment (CABINEX)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Shan-Hu Lee($139,527), Kent State University, Kent
2. Paul B Shepson($116,836), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. Frank Keutsch($228,189), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
4. Barry L Lefer($116,550), University of Houston, Houston
5. Mary Anne Carroll($231,429), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
6. Detlev Helmig($208,582), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
7. Shelley Pressley($286,992), Washington State University, Pullman
8. Philip S Stevens($145,915), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Field Campaign, Advantage, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Bvocs, Chemistry, Collaborative, Composition, Forest, Hox, Ozone, Students, UMBS.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Changing Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) to NOx Ratios on Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David Cocker III($356,672), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Robert J Griffin($194,940), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Chemical Mechanisms, Oriented Students, Soa Formation, Available, CACMMPMPO, Chamber, Experiments, Graduate, Models, Modules, Nox, Organic, ROG, Rice, Riverside, Simulate, State-of-the-art, UCR.

MRI: Development of a Cavity Ring-Down Sensor for Real-Time Measurement of Atmospheric Mercury Concentrations and Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Anna Gannet Hallar($653,473), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Atmospheric Hg, Current, DRI, Deploy, Design, Developed, Ecosystems, Educational, Existing, Participation, Prototype, Publications, Sensor, Students, Undergraduate, Wavelength.

RUI: Investigating Natural Seepage of Light Alkanes from Oil and Natural Gas Deposits
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lambert Doezema($152,102), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Light Alkanes, Natural Seepage, Analytical, Chromatography, Emissions, Estimated, Factors, Flux, Gas, Has, Hydrocarbons, Importance, Macroseepage, Methane, Microseepage, Recently, Source, Students, Variety, Various, Wide.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory and Theoretical Studies of Mineral Aerosol Heterogeneous Interactions with Mixtures of Atmospheric Gases at Relevant Temperatures and Humidities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Courtney D Hatch($168,700), Hendrix College, Conway
2. Jonas Baltrusaitis($52,211), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Electronic Properties, Gaseous Mixtures, Heterogeneous Reactivity, Heterogeneous Uptake, Mineral Aerosol, Mineral Dust, Reactive Gas, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chamber, Chemistry, Climate, Components, DRIFTS, Effects, Experiments, Gases, Hendrix, Humidity, Laboratory, Mechanistic, Model, Reaction, Representative, Single, Students, Surface, Temperature, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Hygroscopic Properties of Aerosol Organics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lynn R Mazzoleni($125,437), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
2. Anna Gannet Hallar($386,695), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
3. Don R Collins($100,150), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Inorganic And Organic, Molecular Weight Wsoc, Aerosol Hygroscopicity, Ccn Activity, Hygroscopic Growth, Köhler Theory, Laboratory Experiments, Mixed Inorganic, Organic Composition, Storm Peak, Thermodynamic Equilibrium, Aerosols, Cloud, Contribution, Courses, Directly, Effects, Field, Incorporated, Model, Modeling, Models, Organics, SPL, Students.

Photooxidation of Biogenically Produced Alkenes: Impacts on HOx, NOx, and Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul O Wennberg($352,530), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Biogenic Alkenes, Chemical Ionization, Hydrogen Peroxide, Mass Spectrometer, Aerosol, Collaborations, Field, Formation, Levels, Mechanisms, Organic, Ozone, Poorly, Regime.

Hygroscopic Phase Transitions of Atmospheric Particles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Scot T Martin($582,832), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Hygroscopic Phase Transitions, Atmospheric Particles, Complex Organic, Organic Molecules, Relative Humidity, Web Browser, Aerosol, Chemical, Effects, Has, Laboratory, Lower, Mixed, Multitude, SOA, Site, Sulfate, Website.

Collaborative Research: Air/Sea Gas Exchange Studies of Carbon Dioxide, Dimethyl Sulfide, and Acetone by Eddy Correlation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Warren J De Bruyn($92,667), Chapman University, Orange
2. Eric S Saltzman($459,492), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
3. Scott D Miller($274,489), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Biological Productivity, Gas Exchange, Wind Speed, Conditions, Cruise, Cruises, Latitude, Oceans, Pacific, School, Students, Undergraduate.

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Processing by a Fog Cloud - Field and Laboratory Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kalliat T Valsaraj($465,388), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Compounds, Fog, Oxy-pahs, Pahs, Processing, Toxic.

Measured Organic Particle Types with Molecular Modeling of their Volatility and Uptake Properties
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lynn M Russell($539,526), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric, Computational, Individual, Morphology, Organic, Particle, Particles, Smog, Techniques.

International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Core Project Office
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sarah J Doherty($275,138), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Activities, CPO, Conferences, IGAC, International, Knowledge, Oversight, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Reactions and Fate of Amines in the Atmosphere Emitted from Animal Feeding Operations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kathleen L Purvis-Roberts($69,574), Claremont McKenna College, Claremont
2. Robert S Brown($194,482), Utah State University, Logan
3. David Cocker III($211,045), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Aerosol Formation Reactions, Utah And California, Chamber Studies, Formation Reactions, Large-scale Food, Aerosols, Air, Ambient, Amine, Amines, Analysis, Assist, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, CMC, Chemistry, Compounds, Development, Large-scale, Methodology, Students, UCR, USU.

Biogenic Volatile Organic Carbon (VOC) Emission and Organic Aerosol Composition During the Biosphere Effects on Aerosol and Photochemistry Experiment (BEARPEX)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Allen Goldstein($703,312), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Detailed Organic, Models Predicting, Organic Aerosol, Secondary Organic, Voc Emissions, Aerosols, BEARPEX, Biogenic, Climate, Collaborative, Composition, Contributions, Formation, Instrumentation, Primary, SOA.

RUI: Application of Solid Phase Microextraction to Determine Emission Rates of Sesquiterpenes from Terrestrial Vegetation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Bradly M Baker($257,795), University Enterprises, Incorporated, Sacramento
Key terms: Analysis, Available, Biogenic, Bvocs, Compounds, Development, Gas, Organic, Relatively, SPME, Sampling, Soas, Sqts, Student, Students, Surfaces, Techniques, Undergraduate.

EAGER: Do Air Pollutants Modify the Strength and Quality of Floral Scents?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jose D Fuentes($161,427), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Floral Scents, Flowering Plants, Threshold Amounts, Air, Alfalfa, Atmospheric, Bees, Chemical, Compounds, Field, Interactions, Investigated, Laboratory, Pollination, Pollution, Products, Radical, Reactions, Signals, Volatile.

CAREER: Ground-truthing Ozone and Particulate Matter Sensitivities to Emissions Trends
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel S Cohan($497,768), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Emissions Trends, Inverse Modeling, Pollutant Concentrations, Pollutant Sensitivities, Accuracy, Air, Campuses, Engage, Environmental, Hands-on, Investigate, Models, Ozone, PM, School, Students.

Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol Exposed to Acidic Sulfates: Chamber and Field Studies
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Myoseon Jang($527,690), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Bulk Phase Products, Measure Aerosol Acidity, Acidic Sulfate, Acidic Sulfates, Heterogeneous Chemistry, Heterogeneous Reactions, Organic Compounds, Soa Formation, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Developed, Properties.

Measurement and Interpretation of OH, HO2, and OH Reactivity during BEARPEX 09
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William H Brune($457,061), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Oh And Ho2, Atmospheric Chemistry, Oh Reactivity, BEARPEX-, Forests, Measured, Models, Penn, Profiles, Radical, Students.

SGER: Measurements of Nitrous Acid and Nitric Acid during BEARPEX 2009
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Xinrong Ren($96,700), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Field Testing, Nitrous Acid, Acids, Artifacts, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Method, Nitric, Nitrogen, Oxidation, Radical.

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Investigating Potential Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Increases Due to Beetle Infestation Across the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kara E Huff Hartz($41,291), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
2. Anna Gannet Hallar($55,581), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Lodgepole Pine, Climate, Emission, Emissions, Forest, Formation, Infestation, Monoterpenes, Organic, Rapidly, SOA, Trees, VOC, Western.

EAGER: Mixing Ratio and Flux Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds During BEARPEX 2009 Using a Portable, Self-sufficient REA-GC-FID System
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Gunnar Schade($85,697), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Biogenic Voc Fluxes, Atmospheric Chemistry, Texas Aandm, Allow, Conditions, Deployment, Emissions, Field, Forest, Graduate, Instrument, Student, Vocs.

Analysis of Volatile Organic Compound Oxidation Chemistry and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation with Novel Instrumentation for in Situ Carbonyl Detection
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Frank Keutsch($466,696), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Measuring Formaldehyde, Aerosol, Combined, Formation, Instrument, Laser-induced, Organic, Oxidation, Participation, Photochemical, Program, SOA, VOC.

Quantum Origin of Anomalous Isotope Effects
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Dmitri Babikov($284,823), Marquette University, Milwaukee
Key terms: Dynamics, Effects, Energy, Formation, Graduate, Molecular, Oxygen, Ozone, Quantum, Step, Undergraduate.

2009 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Atmospheric Chemistry; Waterville Valley, New Hampshire; August 23-27, 2009
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nancy R Gray($22,850), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, Conference, Gordon.

CAREER: Chemical Aging of Biomass Burning Aerosol by Heterogeneous and Photosensitized Heterogeneous Reactions with Atmospheric Trace Gases
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Knopf($682,106), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Heterogeneous Oxidation Kinetics, Kinetics And Reaction, Reaction Products, School Students, Summer Workshop, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, BBA, Burning, Chemical, Involve, Local, Particles, Teachers, Undergraduate.

CAREER: The Atmospheric Chemistry of Ice and Snow
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. V Faye McNeill($585,835), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Trace Gases, York City, Acid, Atmospheric, Chemical, Climate, Educator, Ice, Interactions, K-, Laboratory, Layers, Principal, Students.

Photochemical Aging of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Asian Particulate Matter
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Staci Simonich($332,945), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Trans-pacific Atmospheric Transport, Asian Pm, Incomplete Combustion, Photochemical Aging, Trans-pacific Atmospheric, Undergraduate Students, Unsubstituted Pahs, Aerosol, COCC, Emission, Laboratory, Nitro-pahs, Oregon, Oxy-pahs, Reactions.

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. Gabrielle Petron($19,804), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Greenhouse Gases, Analysis, Carbon, Estimates, Model, North, Public.

Thermodynamic Modeling of Atmospheric Organic Particulate Matter (OPM) in Salt-Containing, Potentially Multi-Phasic Particulate Matter (PM) Systems
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. James F Pankow($33,753), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: One-dimensional Box Model, Gasparticle Partitioning, Modeling Framework, One-dimensional Box, Organic Compounds, Aerosol, Development, Evaluation, Mixed.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Ozone Photochemistry in Lower Free Troposphere Continental Outflow Traveling Over the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert C Owen($519,792), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Anthropogenic And Boreal, Boreal Fire, Pollution Transport, Tropospheric O3, Analyzed, Atmospheric, Azores, CTM, Emissions, FLEXPART, GAW, Measured, Model, Observed, PAN, Pico, Relative, Simulations, Station.

Carbon Dioxide and Water Flux Responses to Extreme Weather and Climate Anomalies: A Fluxnet Synthesis
Award Effective Date: 08/31/2008; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

1. Christopher A Williams($494,056), Clark University, Worcester
Key terms: Carbon And Water, Flux Tower Sites, Assess, Climate, Coherent, Extreme, Observed, Pis.

Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II--Integrated Weather and Wildfire Simulation and Optimization for Wildfire Management
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2009; Program: CDI TYPE II

1. James J Nutaro($295,541), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
2. Yang Hong($483,634), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
3. Lewis Ntaimo($220,825), Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, College Station
Key terms: Firefighting Resource Management, Weather And Wildfire, Effective Wildfire, Stochastic Optimization, Wildfire Behavior, Wildfire Management, Wildfire Modeling, Wildfire Simulation, Assimilation, Complexity, Components, Computational, Dynamic, Education, Environment, Integrate, Methods, Prediction, Robust, Students, Texas, Tools, Training.

Geoscience Applications on Petascale Systems: Requirements Workshops; Early in August-2005 for a 4-6 Weeks Period
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Volodymyr V Kindratenko($100,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: High-end Computing, Planning Effort, Architecture, Computational, Design, Geoscience, Geosciences, High-end, Requirements, Technical.

RUI: Do Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) and Isoprene Control Iron Bioavailability in Marine Aerosols?
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Anne M Johansen($146,254), Central Washington University, Ellensburg
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Global Climate, Iron Bioavailability, Carried, DMS, Feedback, Increase, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Previously, Program, Students.

Phenomenological and Predictability Studies of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones in Relation to the Pacific Jet Stream
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daniel Keyser($650,999), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Downstream High-impact Weather, Eastern North Pacific, Large-scale Flow Regimes, North Pacific Jet, North Pacific Tcs, Pacific Jet Stream, Western North Pacific, Downstream High-impact, High-impact Weather, Large-scale Flow, Limit Predictability, Accomplished, Analysis, Cyclones, Episodes, Expected, Extratropical, Forecast, Operational, Skill, Transitions.

The Eighth Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability: Decadal Predictability and Prediction--Are We Ready?; Saint Michaels, Maryland; October 12-15, 2009
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Vikram M Mehta($7,500), The Center for Research on the Changing Earth System, Catonsville
Key terms: Decadal Climate, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Feedbacks between Marine Stratiform Cloud, Atmospheric Circulation and Temperature on Decadal Timescales and in Anthropogenic Change
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Joel R Norris($333,001), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Robert Burgman($430,102), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Local And Regional, Atmospheric Circulation, Global Climate, Model Simulations, Positive Feedback, San Diego, Stratus Decks, Subtropical Msc, Activities, Cloud, Clouds, Cloudy, Datasets, Decadal, Feedbacks, Greenhouse, Increase, Long-term, Miami, Observed, Processes, Resulting, School, Sensitivity, Sign, Students, Sunlight, Warm, Warming.

Changes of Rainfall Seasonality and Drought Severity over Amazonia and Their Connections to Global Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Rong Fu($555,231), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Seasonality And Drought, Amazonian Countries, Climate Models, Drought Severity, Rainfall Seasonality, Wet Season, Anthropogenic, Decades, Die-back, Education, Forest, Future, Global, Has, Lead, Mechanisms, Onsets, Past, Programs, Projections, Region, Students, Tropical, Warming.

RAPID: Evaluation of the Impact of Near-surface Turbulence on the Active Temperature, Ozone and Moisture Microwave Spectrometer (ATOMMS) Measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Emil Kursinski($74,163), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Global Climate Observing, Amplitude Scintillations, Atomms Follow-on, Atomms Instrument, Atomms Signals, Error Source, Middle Atmosphere, Radio Occultation, Remote Sensing, Tone Measures, Turbulent Fluctuations, Ultimate Performance, Unwanted Amplitude, Absorption, Atmospheric, Caused, Complete, Completed, Critical, Demonstration, Effects, Evaluation, Follow-on, Imaginary, Index, Information, Isolate, MLS, Microwave, Monitoring, Nearly, Nsurface, Objectives, Quantify, RO, Real, Refraction, Refractivity, Testing, Time, Tones, Turbulence, Uncertain, Version, Via.

The Ocean-Atmosphere Energy Transport Conference; Pasadena, California; November 5-7, 2009
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Raffaele Ferrari($15,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Energy Transport, Atmospheric, Conference, Oceanic, Space.

Effects of Cloud and Radiation Processes on the Global Water and Energy Cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Xiaoqing Wu($308,331), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Radiation And Precipitation, Water And Energy, Energy Cycle, Global Water, Water Vapor, Climate, Cloud, Gcms, Processes, Simulations, Surface.

A Physics Coupler for Climate Models
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Vincent E Larson($366,409), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Small-scale Cloud Structure, Climate Models, Grid Box, Physics Coupler, Small-scale Cloud, Assumed, Clouds, Directly, Future, Integration, Method, Methods, PDF, Precipitation, Processes, Rates, Simulations.

Mechanistic Investigations of Secondary Organic Aerosol Growth
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Giuseppe Petrucci($392,519), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Organic Aerosol, Reduced Nitrogen, Soa Yields, Aging, Atmospheric, Biogenic, Chemical, Compounds, Experiments, Gas, Growth, Mechanisms, Phase, Reaction, Sequestration, Terpenoid, Variety.

EAGER: An International, Dedicated High-End Collaborative Project to Revolutionize Climate Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. James L Kinter($260,850), Institute of Global Environment and Society, Rockville
Key terms: Dedicated Computational Resources, Numerical Weather Prediction, Weather And Climate, Weather Prediction Models, Atmospheric Models, Climate Modeling, Climate Models, Resolution Models, Ability, Atmosphere, Available, Convection, Demand, Extreme, Fluxes, Forecast, Future, Global, Grids, Has, Hindcasts, International, Ocean, Processes, Produce, Resolving, Run, Runs, Seasonal, Simulate, Simulated, Simulations, Spatial, Statistics, Surface, Th, Time.

Forecasting Critical Weather Events: Determining Worst Case Scenarios and Associated Probabilities
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Thomas Nehrkorn($416,251), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Life And Property, Severe Weather, Allow, Approach, Computer-based, Conditions, Deterministic, Developing, Exigent, Extreme, Forecast, Forecasting, Forecasts, Has, Lead, Methods, Optimal, Precision, Probabilistic, Probability, STP, Storm, Techniques, Tornadoes.

Mesoscale Vegetation-atmosphere Feedbacks
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Somnath Baidya Roy($249,148), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Deforested Patches, Negative Feedback, Plant Growth, Vegetation Breezes, Background, Biosphere-atmosphere, Climate, Cover, Deforestation, Effects, Feedbacks, Fishbone, Hydrometeorology, Investigate, Mesoscale, Model, Precipitation, Rondonia, Seasonal, Threshold, Vegetation-atmosphere.

Investigation of the Aerosol Indirect Effect on Ice Clouds and its Climate Impact Using A-Train Satellite Data and a GCM (General Circulation Model)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kuo-Nan Liou($549,082), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Aerosol Indirect Effect, Crystal Effective Size, Ice Crystal Effective, A-train Satellite, Aerosol Direct, Climate Modeling, Ice Clouds, Radiative Forcing, A-train, Aerosols, Effects, Employed, GCM, Gcms, Investigate, Parameterization, Polluted, Quantify, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Formation in Central Los Angeles for Research at the Nexus of Air Quality and Climate Change (CalNex 2010)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Allen Goldstein($254,124), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Rodney J Weber($336,580), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Central Los Angeles, Air Quality, Gasparticle Partitioning, Organic Aerosol, Analysis, Calnex, Capabilities, Chemical, Experiment, Instruments, Objective, Range, SOA, Sources, Unique, Urban, Water-soluble.

Multi-Model Analysis of Stratospheric Chemistry-Climate Couplings
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Darryn W Waugh($363,786), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Climate And Weather, Stratospheric Ozone Recovery, 21st Century, Multi-model Projections, Tropospheric Climate, Analysis, Ccms, Earth, Multi-model, Play, Stratospheric-resolving.

Mineral Aerosol Variability in the Anthropocene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Natalie M Mahowald($451,282), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Desert Dust Aerosols, Available Observations, Model Estimates, CCSM, Climate, Current, Future, Ii, Iii, Improvements, Iv, Mineral, Modeling, Spatial, Uncertainty.

Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability and Its Impact on the Atmosphere in Climate Models
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael A Alexander($327,635), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Large-scale Atmospheric Circulation, Tropical Pacific Decadal, Climate Models, Future Climates, Global Climate, Large-scale Atmospheric, Wind Forcing, Anomalous, Assessing, Examine, Experiments, Influences, Output, Predictability, Regions, Surface.

Investigating Internal Dynamics and Climate Variability Using Networks
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kyle L Swanson($249,998), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Climate, Modes, Network, Previous, Shifts, Student, Synchronization.

Collaborative Research: The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-Mediterranean Teleconnection: Observations and Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jeffrey L Shaman($415,544), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Eli Tziperman($120,562), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean Region, Naa Jet, North Africa, ENSO, Ocean, Pacific, Precipitation, Rossby, Teleconnection, Teleconnections.

Decadal Modulation of El Niño Southern Oscillation and Its Interactions with Tropical Pacific Climate
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jin-Yi Yu($370,823), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Enso-pacific Climate Interaction, Intermediate Coupled Model, Ocean And Monsoons, Decadal Enso, El Niño, Enso Dynamics, Enso-pacific Climate, Extreme Enso, Indian Ocean, Numerical Experiments, Spatial Asymmetry, Strong Enso, Tropical Pacific, CGCM, Cgcms, Mechanism, Models, Niña, Observational, Weak.

What Causes the Tropical Atlantic SST Bias in CCSM3?
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Chunzai Wang($366,322), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Tropical Atlantic Climate, Atlantic Ocean, Climate Models, Coupled Atmosphere-ocean, Equatorial Atlantic, Andor, Atmosphere-ocean, CCSM, Dynamic, Fixed, Local, Processes, Regions, Remote, Run, Runs, SST, Skill, Surface, Version.

Mechanisms and Effects of Tropical Indian Ocean Variability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Shang-Ping Xie($525,408), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Capacitor Effect, El Nino, Northwest Pacific, Tio Warming, Climate, Climatic, ENSO, Effects, Experiments, Indian, Mechanisms, Model, Teleconnection.

Tropical Atmosphere/Ocean Variability in the Boreal Summer and Its Relationship with Atlantic Hurricanes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daniel Vimont($669,052), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: External Forcing Mechanisms, Tropical Cyclone Activity, Boreal Summer, AMM, Analysis, Atlantic, Atmospheric, Climate, Conditions, Coupled, Dynamical, Global, Influence, Models, Processes.

Impurities in Snow and Ice (ISI) Workshop; Silverton, Colorado; July 15-18, 2009
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Christopher C Landry($25,257), Center for Snow and Avalanche Studies, Silverton
Key terms: Benefit, Cover, Draft, Dust, Effects, Forcing, Forcings, Global, Has, Ice, Impurities, Impurity, Modeling, Monitoring, Protocols, Radiative, Reveal, Snow, Soot, Workshop.

Assessing Atmospheric Extreme Events in a Stochastic Framework
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Philip G Sura($366,378), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Multiplicative Noise, Non-gaussian Atmospheric, Non-gaussian Statistics, Probability Density, Stochastic Theory, Assessment, Atmosphere, Climate, Depends, Detailed, Dynamical, Extreme, Flow, Has, Non-gaussian, Observations, Recently, Risk, Systematically, Weather, Winds.

EAGER: Climate Feedback Drift in Models and Observations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kyle L Swanson($99,634), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Climate Dynamical, Feedback Drift, Practical Importance, Empirical, Model, Models, Possibility, Process, Underlying.

Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Radiation and Climate in 2009; New London, New Hampshire
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Qiang Fu($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Radiation And Climate, Radiative Forcing, Challenges, Conference, Field, GRC, Issues, Processes.

Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Angular Momentum and Budgets, Climate Implications, and Earth Motions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David A Salstein($455,102), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Angular Momentum Budget, Atmosphere's Lower Interface, Atmosphere's Lower, Climate Modes, Climate Signals, Analysis, Assessing, Atmospheres, Atmospheric, Based, Besides, Changing, Distribution, Earth, Especially, Fields, Fluctuations, Forces, Geophysical, Hydrological, Hydrology, Hydrosphere, Investigate, Means, Models, Motions, Oceans, Pis, Property, Rotation, Solid, Surroundings, Torques.

Collaborative Research: Study of the Relationship between Regionally Localized and Zonally Symmetric Anomalously Persistent Weather States
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sergey V Kravtsov($302,336), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
2. Steven Feldstein($91,932), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Flow Regimes, Regime Types, Analyses, Atlantic, Atmospheric, Episodes, Experiments, Forecasting, Models, Performed, Persistence, Processes, Simulations, Statistical.

RUI: Observations and Modeling of Solar Total and Spectral Variability
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gary A Chapman($258,767), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Solar Active Regions, Spectral Solar Irradiance, Total And Spectral, Photometric Images, Solar Features, CSUN, Cycle, Relative, SFO, Wider.

Collaborative Research: Environmental Control of Tropical Cyclone Activity
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David S Nolan($424,576), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Kerry A Emanuel($399,771), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Activity, Cloud-resolving Model, Global Warming, Interannual Variance, Tropical Cyclones, Applied, Climate, Cloud-resolving, Disturbances, Environments, Failure, Formation, GPI, Has, Large-scale, Shear, Storms.

The Effects of El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) on the Mean Climate State of the Tropical Pacific
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. De-Zheng Sun($410,736), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Eddy Heat Flux, Equatorial Upper Pacific, Tropical Pacific Climate, Coupled Climate, Coupled Experiments, Enso Activity, Heat Budget, Heat Fluxes, Model Coupled, Numerical Experiments, Ocean Model, Surface Forcing, Time-mean Effects, Empirical, Global, Gradients, Models, NCAR, Temperature, Thermal, Time-mean, Time-scales, Warms, Water.

Application of the CAM/CARMA Aerosol Model to Simulate Smoke, Dust and Sea Salt Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Owen B Toon($1,587,712), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmosphere, CARMA, Climate, Dust, Fires, Global, Has, Model, NCAR, Organics, Particles, Previous, Sectional, Simulations, Smoke, South, Sulfates.

Flux Distributions and Path Densities: A New Look at Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange (STE)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lorenzo M Polvani($548,837), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Atmospheric Composition, Boundary-layer Air, Flux Distributions, Idealized Model, Transport Diagnostics, Allow, Boundary-layer, Circulation, Computed, Cross-tropopause, Fluxes, High-school, Meteorological, Models, Outreach, Path-density, Paths, Processes, Quantified, Quantify, Rates, STE, Species, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Student, Value.

Transport in Baroclinic Flows
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. R. Alan Plumb($389,616), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmosphere And Ocean, Balanced Flows, Baroclinic Flows, Tracer Variance, Approach, Assess, Cascade, Diffusion, Equivalent, Expression, Horizontal, Oceanic, Theoretical, Transport, Two-dimensional, Vertical.

RAPID: Evaluation of CAM4 and CCSM4 Boundary Layer Clouds, Radiation, and Precipitation over the VOCALS Region
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael A Brunke($80,636), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Boundary Layer Clouds, Ipcc Ar5, Atmospheric, CCSM, Carried, Climate, Contribution, Earlier, Model, Models, Precipitation, Radiation, Timely, VOCALS, Version.

U.S. Climate Variability and Predictability Program (CLIVAR) Project Office Activities, 2009-2014
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David M Legler($0), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Usclivar Po, Activities, Activity, Administration, CLIVAR, Climate, Coupled, Development, Extend, Implementation, Inter-annual, Models, National, Predictability, Program, Programs, Seasonal, Time-scales.

Assessing Atmospheric Predictability with a Global Analysis-Forecast System
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Istvan Szunyogh($223,163), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Examine, Forecasting, Forecasts, Model, Models, Observations, Operational, Predictability.

SGER: Using CCSM4 to Study Greenland Ice Sheet Response to Anthropogenic Forcings
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kurt M Cuffey($197,358), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Ice Sheet Model, Local And Global, Forcing Scenarios, Global Climate, Ice Sheets, Sea Level, AR, Anthropogenic, Bi-directionally, CCSM, Contribution, Coupled, Estimates, Evolution, Feedbacks, GCM, Highly, IPCC, Processes, Risk, Surface.

The Climate Memory of Tropical Cyclones: Dimensions, Magnitude, Mechanisms for Generation and Removal, and Implications
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert E Hart($418,524), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Aggregate Energy Measures, Tc Footprint, Atmospheric, Climate, Datasets, Define, Exists, Gap, Mechanisms, Quantify, Reanalysis, Simulation, Tcs.

CAREER: The Effect of Latent Heating on the Hadley Circulation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dargan M Frierson($576,196), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Hadley Circulation, Atmosphere, Climate, Compare, Condensation, Educational, Effects, Experiments, Fluxes, Has, Heat, Hierarchy, Idealized, Importance, Model, Models, Ocean, Performed, Public, Simulations, Students, Symmetric, Theories, Zonally.

CAREER: Assessing the Role of Land Surface Processes on the Climatic Changes in the Heavy Rain and Convection over the Indian Monsoon Region
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dev Niyogi($745,752), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Convection And Heavy, Heavy Rainfall Climatology, Indian Monsoon Region, Land Surface Feedback, Graduate Students, Heavy Rains, Middle School, Activities, Climate, Detected, Findings, Mechanisms, Media, Models, Multidecadal, Observations, Processes.

Idealized Modelling of Stratospheric Impacts on Weather and Climate
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lorenzo M Polvani($556,117), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Comprehensive Climate Models, Modeling Studies, Stratospheric Conditions, Tropospheric Circulation, Weather Forecasts, Contributions, Idealized, Improvement, Investigate, Stratosphere.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Observed Low Frequency Variability of Sea-Surface Temperature (SST) in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zhaohua Wu($90,026), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Ensemble Coupled Version, Atmospheric Models, Intrinsic Atmospheric, Weather Noise, Application, Atmosphere, CCSM, Circulation, Climate, Derived, GCM, Modes, Observational, Observations, Ocean, Overturning, SST, Timescales.

Continued Operation of COSMIC in Support of Research Operational Applications
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William S Schreiner($0), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Gps Ro, Operational Weather, Weather Forecasting, Atmospheric, Broad, COSMIC, Centers, Centre, Climate, Continued, Design, Global, Has, Ii, Improvement, International, Ionospheric, Meteorological, Months, Observations, Office, Processing, Program, Regions, Satellites, Software, Soundings, Tracking, Was.

The Role of Vegetation, Aerosols and Surface Fluxes for Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2008; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert E Dickinson($533,447), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Energy And Water, Climate Model, Surface Energy, Aerosols, Analysis, Atmospheric, Component, Interactions, Land, Modeling, Vegetation.

Heterogeneous Oxidations of Chemically Diverse Organic Species Relevant to Tropospheric Aerosol Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: ELECTROCHEMISTRY & SURFACE CHE

1. Franz M Geiger($481,988), Northwestern University, Evanston
Key terms: Heterogeneous Chemistry, Organic Compounds, Activities, Advances, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Chemical, Climate, Generation, Kinetic, Oxidation, Public, Spectroscopic, Stereochemistry, Surface.

Collaborative Research: ETBC--Exploring Forest Ecosystem Response to Water Availability and the Impact on Biogeochemical and Water Cycles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. James N Smith($399,257), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Jose L Jimenez($1,000,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. William H Brune($110,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
4. Jessica E Prenni($500,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Voc Emissions, Aerosols, Biogenic, Broader, Climate, Cloud, Ecosystems, Field, Investigations, Involving, Model, Moisture, NCAR, Nuclei, Particles, Quantify, Sites, Sources, Surveys, Vegetation.

A Chemical History of Anthropogenic Input to the Atmosphere throughout the Industrial Era
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Mark Flanner($774,455), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Ice Cores, Aerosol, Anthropogenic, Atmospheric, Basis, CAM, Chemical, Climate, Comparison, Deposition, Developed, Emissions, Engineering, Estimate, Histories, History, Inputs, Models, Period, Precursors, Short-lived, Species, Technology, Trace, Tracers, Transport, Trends.

GEM: Multiple Satellite Study of Dayside Transient Events in the Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Hien B Vo($100,000), Inter American University of Puerto Rico San Juan, San Juan
Key terms: Aerospace, Examine, Ionosphere, Magnetopause, Propagate, Transient, Waves.

CAREER: Towards a Better Understanding of Turbulence Structures in a Disturbed Atmospheric Surface Layer
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Heping Liu($484,967), Jackson State University, Jackson
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Active Turbulence, Atmospheric Stratifications, Coherent Eddies, Disturbed Asl, Graduate Students, Large-scale Coherent, Turbulence Structures, Water Vapor, Activities, Education, Exchange, Jackson, Large-scale, Layer, Momentum, Predictions, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Measurement and Modeling of Aerodynamic Interactions between Tree-Sway Motion and Turbulence in and above a Forest Canopy
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. April Hiscox($147,524), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Mark Rudnicki($427,424), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Tree Sway Motions, Aerodynamic Interactions, Coherent Structures, Coupled Les-tree-sway-model, Crsl Turbulence, Education Program, Elastic Properties, Forest Canopies, Forest Ecology, Forest Meteorology, Numerical Modeling, Short Crops, Tree-sway Motions, Aeroelasticity, Atmospheric, Campaign, Canopy, Carry, Characteristics, Climate, Collaborative, Ecosystems, Effects, Field, Force, Future, Graduate, Has, Intensive, Les-tree-sway-model, Micrometeorology, Models, Multiple, Pis, Primary, Quantify, Site, Spatial, Temporal, Terrestrial, Tree-sway, Trees.

EAGER: Preliminary Work for the Development of the Next-Generation Storm-Penetrating Aircraft
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Donna V Kliche($82,562), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Meteorological Conditions, Weather Phenomena, A-, Aircraft, Analysis, Capable, Description, Developing, Effort, Extend, Has, Intense, Leading, Observations, Platform, Processes, Range, Replacement, SDSMT, SPA, Severe, Storm, Storms, T-, Thunderstorms, Utilized.

Wyoming King Air as a National Facility
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Zhien Wang($11,286,598), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Cooperative Agreement, Hours, NSF, Wyoming.

Support for Space Weather Meetings
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Meg Austin($35,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather, Academia, Awareness, Education, Educational, Field, Meeting, Meetings, Targeted.

Phase Coherence in Elemental Auroral Structure
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Joshua Semeter($260,114), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Discrete Aurora, Poker Flat, Account, Auroral, Capabilities, EMCCD, Elemental, Energy, Fine-scale, High-speed, Imaging, Observational, Physics, Processes, Specific, Structure, THEMIS, Unique, Wave.

Solar Wind Magnetosphere Coupling Functions: Practicalities and Physicalities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Thomas Sotirelis($360,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Merging Rate, Solar Wind, Wide Variety, DMSP, Dayside, Distribution, Funding, Magnetosphere, Predictors, Rapid, Space.

CEDAR Postdoc: Aeronomical and Spectroscopic Studies of Key Airglow Features at High/Low Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Tom G Slanger($221,088), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Flat Incoherent Scatter, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Poker Flat Incoherent, Oh Meinel, Spectra Obtained, Band, Bands, Compared, Deduced, Investigations, Latitude, Latitudes, Low, Mesospheric, Observations, Spectrograph, Temperatures, V=.

Modeling and Analysis of the Landfalling Hurricane Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Joshua M Wurman($512,826), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: Organized Features, Radar Observations, Allow, Axis, Beneath, Damage, Doppler, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Influence, Intensity, Landfalling, Low-level, Mobile, Storm, Structures, Surface, Vertical, Wind, Winds.

CMG: Functional Data Modeling of Climate-Ecosystem Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Surajit Ray($363,851), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Growing Season, Land Surface, Satellite Observations, Analysis, Characteristics, Climate, Defined, Derivatives, Developed, Functions, Heterogeneity, Modeling, Onset, Quantify, Relating, Trends, Vegetation.

MSI: The COsmic-ray Soil Moisture Observing System (COSMOS)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. William J Shuttleworth($5,449,995), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Soil Water Content, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Remote Sensing, Soil Moisture, Water Equivalent, Atmospheric, Available, Benefit, COSMOS, Climate, Cosmic-ray, Critical, Cycle, Existing, Field, Ground, Instrument, Internet, Involves, Issues, Land-atmosphere, Leadership, Measuring, Methods, Probe, Probes, Processes, Rectify, Validation, Vegetation, Weather.

CAREER: Cloud and Fog Processing of Organic Matter
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Pierre Herckes($569,117), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Field Experiments, Laboratory Experiments, Organic Matter, Undergraduate Students, ASU, Arizona, Chemistry, Classroom, Cloud, Clouds, Cooperation, Environmental, Formation, Graduate, Modules, Nitrosamines, Outreach, Program, Routine, Sampling, Species, Water.

CEDAR Postdoc: Polar Mesospheric Cloud Structures as Evidence of Coupling Between the Upper and Lower Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Scott Bailey($183,906), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Ice Voids, Lower Thermosphere, Nogaps Alpha, AIM, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, CIPS, Cloud, Clouds, Conditions, Meteorological, Model, Models, Navy, PMC, Regions, Satellite, Stands, Waves.

CEDAR Postdoc: Meteoric Smoke Studies at High Latitude using the Poker Flat ISR
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jonathan T Fentzke($165,336), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Meteoric Smoke Particles, Polar Mesosphere, Activity, Arecibo, Clouds, Observations, PFISR, Summer.

CEDAR Postdoc: Numerical Modeling of Mesospheric Bores, Nonlinear Ducted Waves, and Interpretation of Observations in the Middle Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Brian Laughman($173,283), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Mesosphere And Lower, Bore Dynamics, Lower Thermosphere, Mesospheric Bores, Airglow, Atmosphere, Background, Conditions, Effort, Environments, Forcings, Lidar, Model, Numerical, Observations, Observed, Phenomena, Radar, Realistic, Task, Thermal, Various, Wave.

Horizontal Vector Wind Field Measurement with Eye-Safe Elastic Lidar
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Shane D Mayor($554,585), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
Key terms: Power Plants, Scanned Region, Turbulence Intensity, Aerosol, Agricultural, Applications, Atmosphere, Available, Backscatter, Correlation, Dispersion, Fields, Hazardous, Images, Lidar, Measured, Monitoring, Operations, Periods, Plumes, Predicting, Program, Sites, Situ, Spatial, Stability, Tower, Waves, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Predictability of the Physical Climate System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. James L Kinter($7,202,295), Institute of Global Environment and Society, Rockville
2. Jagadish Shukla($3,798,208), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Software And Information, Weather And Climate, Climate Forecast, Climate Models, Climate Prediction, Global Climate, Theoretical Physics, Atmospheric, Basic, Bed, CCSM, CMMAP, COLA, Center, Changing, Colas, Cycle, Decadal, ENSO, Efforts, Individual, Initial, International, Land, Leadership, Modeling, NOAA, NSF, National, Nations, Panels, Predictability, Program, Services, Strategic, Strengths, Supported, Workshops, World.

Deep Convective Transport to the Upper-Troposphere/Lower-Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jeffrey S Tilley($333,155), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Deep Convective Transport, Radar Reflectivity Observations, Field Campaigns, Utls Region, Chemical, Climate, Detrainment, Estimates, Gases, Modeling, Models, Storms.

REU Site: Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Michael R Combi($651,456), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Space Physics, Atmospheric, Department, Experience, Faculty, Has, Laboratory, Participants, Program, REU, Staff, Students.

CAREER: Dynamics of African Easterly Waves: Integrating Phenomenological Studies and Mathematical Instruction in Atmospheric Science
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Anantha Aiyyer($556,607), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Streamwise Varying Waveguide, Aew Origin, African Easterly, Mathematical Instruction, Numerical Simulations, Aews, Atmospheric, Component, Evolution, Examine, Genesis, Investigate, Range, Students, TC.

CAREER: Effects of the Magnetosheath Properties on the Dynamics and Plasma Transport Produced by the Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and on the Plasma Sheet Anisotropies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Katariina Nykyri($483,699), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Mars And Venus, Analysis Methods, Kelvin-helmholtz Instability, Kinetic Simulations, Magnetosheath Properties, Plasma Sheet, Compared, Comparisons, Coupling, Dynamics, ERAU, Earth, Effects, GEM, Global, Graduate, Hybrid, Ion, KHI, Kelvin-helmholtz, MHD, Magnetospheric, Multi-spacecraft, Observed, Phd, Processes, Program, Resulting, Space, Spacecraft, Starting, Statistical, Student, Students, Techniques, Topics, Utilizing.

CAREER: Three-Dimensional Onset and Evolution of Spontaneous Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jan Egedal($750,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Magnetic Reconnection, Plasma Physics, Unique Opportunity, Collisionless, Energy, Experimental, Experiments, Explosive, Fusion, Graduate, Lectures, MIT, Onset, Plasmas, Spontaneous, Students, Theoretical, Undergraduate, VTF.

GEM: Inner Radiation Belt Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Timothy B Guild($315,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Inner Radiation Belt, Inner Belt, Radiation Environment, Solar-cycle Reanalysis, Space Weather, Statistical Techniques, Applied, Geomagnetic, Long-term, Model, Observations, Short-term, Solar-cycle, Trapping.

Nonlinear Wave-particle Interactions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jacob Bortnik($684,683), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Wave-particle Interactions, Amplitude, Beam, Coherent, Directorate, Division, Electrons, Energetic, LAPD, Quasilinear, Radiation, Simulations, Theory, Wave-particle, Waves, Whistler.

REU Site: Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions in a Changing Global Environment
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Mary Anne Carroll($630,602), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Invasive Species, Projects Focused, Reu Students, Act, Atmospheric, Biosphere-atmosphere, Deposition, Drivers, Ecological, Ecology, Global, Interactions, Nitrogen, Participation, Program, Recruiting, UMBS, Underrepresented.

Using Oxygen Isotopes to Constrain Ozone Sources and Sinks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Greg Michalski($299,748), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Ozone Isotope Composition, Ozone Isotopic Composition, Pressure And Temperature, Isotope Effects, Laboratory Experiments, Temperature Dependence, Application, Atmospheric, Dependencies, Development, Global, Has, Oxygen, Processes, Progress, Sampling.

REU Site: The City University of New York/Goddard Institute for Space Studies Center for Global Climate Research
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Leon P Johnson($340,350), CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn
Key terms: Atmospheric Aerosols, Global Climate, Underrepresented Minorities, York City, CUNY, Collaboration, Enrichment, Environment, Experience, Faculty, GISS, Percent, Represent, STEM, Southern, Strong, Student, Students, Undergraduate, Urban.

CAREER: Transport of Ions and Electrons in Solar Energetic Particle Events -- Towards an Integrated Space Weather Model
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Gang Li($535,691), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Energetic Particle Transport, Energetic Particles, Graduate Students, Solar Wind, Space Physics, Space Weather, Curriculum, Development, Directly, MHD, Model, SEP, Training, Turbulence, UAH, Workshop.

CAREER: In Situ Constraints on Nocturnal Nitrogen Oxide Chemistry in Forested and Marine Environments
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Joel A Thornton($845,385), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Analysis, Campaign, Campaigns, Chemistry, Clno, Field, K-, MBL, Makah, Marine, Mechanisms, Modeling, Olympic, Park, Rural, School, Ship, Situ, UW, Undergraduates.

Analysis of Coupling between Oceanic Kelvin Waves and Atmospheric Convection, and Its Impacts on Weather over the Tropical Pacific
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Paul E Roundy($353,566), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Oceanic Kelvin Waves, Westerly Wind Bursts, Convectively Coupled, Tropical Cyclones, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Convection, Coupling, Development, Evolution, MJO, Pacific, Potential, Structures, Warm, Weather.

Comparison of Climate Feedbacks in Atmospheric versus Coupled General Circulation Models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Karen M Shell($428,000), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Atmospheric Gcms, Climate Feedbacks, Climate Sensitivity, Computationally Expensive, Coupled Gcms, Kernel Technique, Mixed-layer Oceans, Model Development, Radiative Kernel, Agcms, Aogcms, Differences, Extended, Influence, Isolate, Mixed-layer, Models, Oceanic, Responsible, Satellite, Simulations, Student.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the Chemical Reach of the Madden-Julian Oscillation: Satellite/In-Situ Data Analysis and Chemistry/Transport Modeling
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Peter G Hess($250,481), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Baijun Tian($299,012), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
3. Yuk L Yung($26,971), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ozone And Aerosols, Atmospheric Ozone, Caltech, Chemical, Climate, Cornell, Dynamical, Intraseasonal, MJO, Model, Observations, Oscillation, Training.

NSWP: Poynting and Kinetic-Energy Flux Derived from the FAST Satellite: an Empirical Model
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hasan Bahcivan($315,106), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Auroral Acceleration Region, Energy Input, Kinetic Energy, Poynting Flux, Space Weather, Available, Binned, Circulation, FAST, Magnetosphere, Model, Models, Parameters, Particular, Produced, Satellite, Spatial, Specification, Thermosphere.

Collaborative Research: Intermittent Turbulence Study of Space Plasmas Using ROMA and DSRG
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Cheng-Chin Wu($64,950), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Tom Chang($225,356), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Analysis, Analytical, Behavior, Magnetosphere, Numerical, Phenomena, Plasma, Potential, Theoretical.

GEM: Ion Outflow Effects on Plasma Sheet Filling and Transport
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Eun-Hwa Kim($398,601), Department of Energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton
Key terms: Heavy Ions, Plasma Physics, Combination, Examine, Kinetic, Laboratory, Magnetopause, Mass, Processes, Transport, Undergraduate, Waves.

GEM: Simulations of Diffuse Auroral Electron Transport and Precipitation in Realistic Model Storms and Substorms
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Margaret W Chen($300,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Electron Precipitation, Calculate, Existing, Field, Geospace, Ionospheric, Magnetic, Model, Space, Useful.

GEM Postdoc: Characteristics of Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) Waves Associated with Electron Acceleration to Relativistic Energies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joseph B Baker($194,869), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Radiation Belt, Wave Power, Storms, Strong, ULF.

Measurement of Mass-Loading Effects On Transport Processes in the Earth's Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kazue Takahashi($375,000), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Mass Loading, Boundary, Class, Density, Effect, Effects, Examined, IMF, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Prolonged, Rate, Student.

Magnetospheric Ultra-Low Frequency (ULF) Wave Power Distribution in Response to Interplanetary Geoeffective Structures
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xi Shao($270,000), Sarissa, Inc, Rockville
Key terms: Ulf Wave Power, Solar Wind, Affect, Analysis, Determined, Magnetosphere, Phenomena, Simulations, Waves.

NSWP: Solar Energetic Particles in Geospace: Numerical Model Development and Validation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Brian T Kress($127,432), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Solar Energetic, Earth, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Models, Radiation.

Kinetic Theories of Ultra-Low Frequency and Current-Sheet Instabilities in Magnetospheric Plasmas
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Liu Chen($241,728), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Earth's Magnetosphere, Energetic Ions, Ulf Waves, Wave Modes, Code, Coupling, Examine, Simulation, Simulations.

Energetic Particles in the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yongliang Zhang($450,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Solar Wind Drivers, Inner Magnetosphere, Radiation Belt, Radiation Belts, Ring Current, Electric, Geomagnetic, Interactions, Loss, Model, Processes, Sometimes, Transport.

Collaborative Research: GEM: Plasma Sheet Instabilities prior to THEMIS Substorm Expansion Onsets
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Amitava Bhattacharjee($130,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Chris C Hegna($440,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Substorm Growth Phase, Plasma Instabilities, Plasma Sheet, Stability Analysis, Themis Substorm, Conditions, Configuration, Examine, MHD, Observations, Onset, Openggcm, Plasmasheet, Simulations.

Gyrokinetic Particle Simulation of Compressible Electromagnetic Turbulence in High-Beta Plasmas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Zhihong Lin($30,000), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms:

Grad Student Support for Dipole Coordinate Hybrid Code Simulation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Richard E Denton($67,762), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Earth, Magnetosphere, Waves.

Theory of Kinetic Alfven Waves on Auroral Field Lines
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L Lysak($309,796), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Auroral Field Lines, Alfven Waves, Auroral Zone, Nonlinear Interactions, Acceleration, Based, Coupling, Density, Earth, Evolution, Investigate, Ionosphere, Kinetic, Lower, MHD, Magnetosphere, Methods, Model, Models, Numerical, Physics, Plasma, Power, Processes, Region, Serve, Theory.

The Origin of Plasmaspheric Hiss
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jacob Bortnik($339,947), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Chorus Waves, Frequency Band, Geomagnetic Activity, Radiation Belts, Ray Tracing, Distribution, Effects, Has, Hiss, Incoherent, Propagation.

A Three-Dimensional Global Hybrid Simulation Study of Magnetic Reconnection at the Dayside Magnetopause
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. XUEYI WANG($210,000), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Magnetic Reconnection, Plasma Physics, Code, Contribute, Dayside, Determination, Field, Global, Hybrid, Investigation, Ion, Magnetopause, Magnetosphere, Properties, Transfer.

GEM: Communications Coordinator
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Peter J Chi($278,913), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Communications Coordinator, Activities, Catalog, Following, GEM, Magnetospheric, Reports, Students, Tasks.

GEM: Quantitative Estimates of Plasmaspheric Losses and Implications for Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Umran S Inan($287,899), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Polar Cap Potential, Cold Plasma, Magnetic Reconnection, Dayside, Density, Flow, Implications, Plasmasphere, Plasmaspheric, Spacecraft, Transport.

GEM: Why Does the Magnetosphere Enter a Steady Mode of Energy Transport Instead of an Oscillatory Mode?
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Anna D DeJong($255,000), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Steady Magnetospheric Convection, Comprehensive List, Energy Transfer, Identifying Smcs, Magnetosphere Enters, Sawtooth Oscillations, Allow, Bbfs, Compare, Created, GEM, Investigate, Main, Method, Mode, Modes, Objectives, Shared, Transport.

GEM: Empirical Modeling of Plasmaspheric Density Distribution and Investigations of Plasmaspheric Dynamic
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jiannan Tu($300,000), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Empirical Model, Solar Wind, Density, Magnetic, Plasmasphere.

Stability of Thin Current Sheet in the Magnetotail: Theory, Simulations, and Observations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Amitava Bhattacharjee($360,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Realistic Magnetotail Equilibria, Thin Current Sheets, Ballooning Instabilities, Collisionless Reconnection, Current-driven Instabilities, Applications, Current-driven, Effects, Evolution, Investigate, Kinetic, Magnetospheric, Nonlinear, Physics, Program, SMART, Simulations, Stability, Theory.

Nonlinear Theory of Anomalous Resistivity for Buneman Instability
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Peter H Yoon($210,600), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Anomalous Resistivity, Electrical Resistivity, Fb Instability, Frozen-in-flux Condition, Kinetic Instabilities, Magnetic Reconnection, Nonlinear Theory, Numerical Simulations, Plasma Instabilities, Plasma Physics, Reactive Instability, Farley-buneman, Frozen-in-flux, Lead, Magnetospheric, Mechanism, Onset, Process, Space, Theoretical, Valid.

GEM: Evolution of Plasmasphere, Plumes and Fine Structure
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jerry Goldstein($269,881), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Epoch Time, Fine Structure, Plasmaspheric Plumes, Analysis, Database, Dayside, Density, Distribution, Fine-scale, Global, Missions, Model, Plasmasphere, Transport.

Solar Wind Energy Transfer to Geospace during Periods with Large Transverse Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Ramon E Lopez($402,976), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Solar Wind Energy, Solar Wind Flow, Transferring Solar Wind, Wind Electric Field, Bow Shock, Nonlinear Magnetospheric, Polar Cap, Closure, Convection, Current, Geospace, IMF, Interaction, Involved, Ionospheric, Linearly, Magnetosphere, Non-linear, Physics, Plasma, Potential, Students, Values, Various.

GEM: Phase Space Density Gradient of Energetic Electrons at Geosynchronous Orbit During Sharp Solar Wind Pressure Enhancements
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xinlin Li($154,025), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Radiation Belt Particles, Sharp Solar Wind, Wind Pressure Enhancements, Geosynchronous Orbit, Magnetic Storms, Radial Gradient, Radial Profile, Solar Cycle, Conditions, Difficult, Electrons, Energetic, Geospace, Interplanetary, Magnetospheric, Mechanisms, Obtain, PSD, Prior.

Acceleration of Radiation Belt Electrons: In Situ Heating vs. Inward Radial Transport
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xinlin Li($302,300), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Inside Geosynchronous Orbit, Mev Electrons, Plasma Waves, Radial Diffusion, Radiation Belts, Situ Heating, Enhancement, GPS, Model, Satellite, Source.

NSWP: A New Empirical Model for Prediction of Ground-Level Geomagnetic Perturbations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Calvin Robert Clauer($360,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Ground, Has, Model, Models, Potential, Space.

NSWP: Formation and Characteristics of the Harang Reversal and Relations to Substorms: Simulations with the Rice Convection Model
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Chih-Ping Wang($535,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Formation And Characteristics, Electric Field, Harang Reversal, Ionospheric Electric, Plasma Sheet, Conditions, Correlations, Coupling, Decrease, Dynamics, Effect, Evolution, Magnetic, Model, Observations, Potential, Processes, Quantitative, RCM, Simulations, Substorm, Substorms, Theory.

GEM: Assessing the Storm-Time Magnetic Distortion in the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Michael W Liemohn($396,835), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Magnetic Field Distortions, Inner Magnetosphere, Inner Magnetospheric, Magnetospheric Magnetic, Numerical Models, Aspects, Current, Observations, Plasma, Storm, Storms.

NSWP: Geosynchronous High Energy Electron Specification and Storm-Time Analysis at Constant Mu
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jennifer L Gannon($120,966), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Radiation Belts, Solar Cycle, Examine, Flux, Fluxes, GOES, Motion, Particle, Satellites, Space.

CAREER: Scale-independent Measures and Prediction of Space Weather
Award Effective Date: 08/10/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James Wanliss($281,627), Presbyterian College, Clinton
Key terms: K-12 Teachers, Account, Analyses, Behavior, Educational, Ground-based, Local, Magnetic, Magnetometer, Multi-fractal, Prediction, Programs, Statistical, Storm, Students, Time, Workshops.

GEM: Can Global Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Codes Model Magnetic Reconnection in the High Lundquist Number Limit?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2008; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Amitava Bhattacharjee($300,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Global Mhd Code, Global Mhd Simulations, Storms And Substorms, Axford Conjecture, Boundary Conditions, Resistivity Model, Solar Wind, Approach, Current, Depend, Does, Driving, Dynamics, GGCM, Geospace, Kinetic, Magnetic, Magnetopause, Modelers, Numerical, Openggcm, Physics, Produce, Program, Reconnection, Spine, Strong, Vlasov.

Spatio-temporal Statistical Framework for the Evaluation of Global Change in the Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Jan J Sojka($360,000), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Five Decades, Ionospheric Models, Upper Atmosphere, Consequence, Cooling, Datasets, Distribution, Greenhouse, Increases, Layer, Lowering, Observations, Statistical, Trends, Value.

CMG: Reconstructing Climate from Tree Ring Data
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Edward R Cook($598,083), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate Reconstructions, Non-climatic Influences, Tree Ring, Tree Rings, Benefit, Extent, Factors, Filtering, Growth, Information, Methods, Models, Natural, Non-climatic, Past, Range, Ring-based, Source, Statistical, Water.

CMG: Coarse-graining and Multiscale Analysis of Stochastic Particle-resolved Aerosol Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Lee X DeVille($773,466), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Aerosol Simulation, Aerosols, Air, Atmospheric, Climate, Clouds, Evolution, Improvements, Lead, Models, Particles, Particulate, Pollution, Simulate, Simulations, Size, Space, Tracking, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: CMG-- Models, Tools and Analysis for Studies of the Magnetosphere and Upper Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. C. Shane Reese($147,965), Brigham Young University, Provo
2. Michael J Wiltberger($516,406), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Electron Energy, Optimal Values, Parameter Relating, Parameter Values, Plasma Density, Electric, Electrons, Estimated, Ionosphere, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Models, Parameters, Practical, Satellite, Statistical, Thermosphere.

Collaborative Research: CMG--Ensemble Data Assimilation for Nonlinear and Nondifferentiable Problems in Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Ionel M Navon($286,191), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Milija Zupanski($399,056), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Nonlinear And Nondifferentiable, Nonlinearity And Nondifferentiability, Space And Time, Cost Function, Ensda Methods, Forecast Model, Simplifying Assumptions, Applications, Assimilation, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Complex, Ensemble, Estimate, Evaluating, Forecasts, Guess, Imperfect, Indirectly, Models, Observations, Predict, Produce, Rain, Temperature, Training, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: MSI--Mid-Latitude SuperDARN Radar Infrastructure for the Study of Ionospheric Electrodynamics and Atmospheric Processes on Global Scales
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: MID-SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Elsayed R Talaat($513,056), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Simon G Shepherd($1,526,357), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. Raymond A Greenwald($2,313,925), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
4. William A Bristow($1,903,002), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: High-latitude Superdarn, International Partners, Mid-latitude Extension, Radar Network, Superdarn Network, Superdarn Radars, Atmosphere, Build, Chain, Earth, Effort, Existing, Extending, Furnish, Has, High-latitude, Infrastructure, Ionosphere, Island, Large-scale, Latitudes, MSI, Magnetosphere, Mid-latitude, Opportunities, Physics, Polar, Products, Sites, Space, Students.

MRI: Development of a Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometer Using Isotope Dilution for Atmospheric Peroxide Measurements
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Daniel W O'Sullivan($444,081), United States Naval Academy, Annapolis
Key terms: Instrument Development, Post-doctoral Scholar, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Cloud, Fast, GV, Peroxides, Post-doctoral, Processes, Resolve, Significantly, Situ, Time, Troposphere, Undergraduate.

MRI: Development of Cryogenic Infrared Spectrograph for the 1.6 Meter Solar Telescope in Big Bear
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Roy Coulter($1,314,315), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Bear Solar, Solar Observatory, Solar Telescope, Spatial Resolution, ATST, Aperture, CIRS, Chromosphere, Development, Infrared, Magnetic, NIR, NST, Observations, Photosphere, Spectrographs, Spectrum, Substantial, Suns, Technology.

MRI: Acquisition of a Suite of Advanced Imagers for Auroral and Upper Atmospheric Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Marilia Samara($503,892), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Low Frequency Waves, Emission, Emissions, Instruments, Near, Optical, Processes.

MRI: Development of a Dynamically Adaptive Autonomous Antarctic Low-Power Geophysical Instrument Array for Space Science Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Majid Manteghi($1,999,999), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Dual Frequency Gps, Frequency Gps Receiver, Dynamically Adaptive, Instrument Platform, Low-power Geophysical, Space Weather, Antarctic, Autonomous, Capable, Chain, Conjugate, Developed, Development, Enable, Engineers, Global, Low-power, Magnetic, Magnetometer, Models, NASA, Network, Polar, Program, Programs, Satellite, Stations, Students, Value.

MRI: Acquisition of Two High-Resolution Mass Spectrometers for Gas and Particle Measurements in Collaborative Laboratory Research and Field Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Barbara J Finlayson-Pitts($680,680), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Organic Aerosol Formation, Secondary Organic Aerosol, Urban Air Pollution, Air Pollutants, Mass Spectrometer, Postdoctoral Fellows, Trace Gases, Acquisition, Airuci, Application, Applications, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Biological, California, Climate, Designed, Equipment, Faculty, High-resolution, Instrumentation, Instruments, Interact, Meetings, Mentoring, Organics, Particles, Processes, Produced, Public, Reactions, Sources, State-of-the-art, Teachers, Technologies, Time-of-flight, Training.

MRI: Development of a New Instrument to Observe Isotopic Fluxes of Methane and Carbon Dioxide from Arctic Melt Regions, to Link Carbon Fluxes, Climate Feedbacks and Sea Level Rise
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. James G Anderson($1,048,994), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Dioxide And Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Reservoirs, Colleagues Studying, Broader, Carbon-, Climate, Fluxes, Graduate, Harvard, Highly, Instrument, Instrumentation, Observations, Students.

MRI: Development of a Chemical Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer for On-line Organic Aerosol Analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kimberly A Prather($586,523), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Complex Mixtures, Mass Spectrometer, Mass Spectrometry, Organic Content, Organic Species, Aerosol, Aerosols, Americans, Analysis, Analytical, Atmospheric, CI, CI-ATOFMS, Chemistry, Compounds, Hosts, Information, Instrument, Ion, Ionization, On-line, Outreach, Particles, Pharmaceutical, Programs, Public, Screening, Selective, Sensitive, Single, Students, Time-of-flight, Undergraduates, Unique.

MRI: Acquisition of Advanced Scientific GPS Receivers for Magnetospheric and Ionospheric Research
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David L Murr($444,081), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
Key terms: Gps Receivers, Magnetometer Array, Undergraduate Students, Advanced, Arctic, Augsburg, Available, Ionospheric, MACCS, Minnesota, Opportunities, Region, Scintillation, Sites, Space.

Regional and Global Impacts of Tropical Deforestation Under Increasing CO2 Concentrations on Mutliscale Eco-Hydro-Climatological Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: NEON-Concept & Development

1. Roni Avissar($869,791), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Evaluation And Improvement, Amazon Basin, Carbon Dioxide, Changing Climate, Increasing Atmospheric, Numerical Experiments, Vegetation Dynamics, Deforestation, EHC, Feedbacks, Gcms, Global, Interactions, Multiscale, OLAM, Processes, Quantify, Scenarios, Supported, Tropical.

NSF Support for CLIVAR Project Office Activities, 2009-2014
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. David M Legler($2,059,772), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Usclivar Po, Activities, Activity, Administration, CLIVAR, Climate, Coupled, Development, Extend, Implementation, Inter-annual, Models, National, Predictability, Program, Programs, Seasonal, Time-scales.

CMG: Multivariate Nonstationary Spatial Extremes in Climate and Atmospherics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH CMG

1. Peter Guttorp($325,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Spatially Varying Parameters, Changing Climate, Extreme Value, Extreme Values, Mixture Models, Multivariate Spatial, Time Period, Available, Estimate, Expected, Expressed, Extremes, Likelihood, Long-term, Means, Observations, Past, Planning, Regions, Return, Techniques, Usually.

CAREER: Spectroscopic Measurements of Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Precursor Gases through Laboratory and Aircraft Studies
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2009; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Rainer M Volkamer($651,618), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Laboratory Experiments, Organic Aerosol, Students Underrepresented, CHOCHO, Chemical, Compounds, DLESE, Developed, Gases, Measure, Reactions, SOA, Sources, Vocs.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Ice Core Paleoclimate Records from Combatant Col, British Columbia, Canada
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Eric J Steig($217,297), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Joseph McConnell($210,236), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
3. Douglas H Clark($281,109), Western Washington University, Bellingham
4. Erin C C Pettit($156,981), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Combatant Col, Ice Core, Snow Accumulation, Annual, Canada, Existing, North, Precipitation, Site.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Reconstructing North Pacific Climate Variability Using a Multi-Millennial Tree-Ring Resource for Glacier Bay, Alaska
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Daniel E Lawson($182,974), Department of Army Cold Regions Research & Engineering Lab, Vicksburg
2. Gregory C Wiles($93,917), College of Wooster, Wooster
3. Rosanne D D'Arrigo($99,227), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: North Pacific Climate, Millennia, Modes, Multi-decadal, Past, Shifts, Tree-ring.

RAPID: 2009 Dry-Season Ablation on Kilimanjaro Glaciers: a Measurement and Dating Opportunity
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Douglas R Hardy($48,011), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Air Photos, Ice Cores, Kilimanjaro Glacier, Ablation, Decrease, Has, Loss, Mountain, Mt, NIF, Nearly, October, Program, RAPID, Summit, Timely, Was, Wet.

P2C2: Dynamical Climate Reconstruction Using Paleoclimate Data and Ensemble State Estimation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Gerard Roe($370,030), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Approach, Climate, Ensemble, Observations, Paleoclimate, Past, Quantitative.

Collaborative Research: An Abyssal Circulation Type Section for the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jerry F McManus($520,410), Columbia University, New York
2. William B Curry($1,260,191), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Atlantic, Abyssal, Analyses, Analysis, Circulation, Cores, Plan, Water.

Collaborative Research: The Role of Deep-Ocean Circulation in Greenhouse Climates: Integrating Numerical Simulations with Proxy Data of Water Mass Composition
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Matthew Huber($55,663), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Deborah J Thomas($476,171), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Deep Waters, Activities, Circulation, Climate, Drilling, Pacific, Students.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Orbital Timescale Climate Variability: Simulation of Mechanisms and Comparison with Paleoclimate Observations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Anthony J Broccoli($382,880), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Amy C Clement($356,793), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Orbital Forcing, Orbital Timescales, Does, Tropical.

P2C2: Late Holocene Hydroclimate Variability in the Great Basin, and Its Causes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Nicholas Graham($392,838), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Basin, Modern, Past.

P2C2: ENSO Paleoclimatology in Queensland, Australia
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Michael N Evans($489,008), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Annual.

P2C2: Stalagmite Records of Tropical Climate from Northern Borneo: Interglacial and Termination Structure Across Several Glacial Cycles
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jess F Adkins($388,963), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Insolation Forcing, Climate, Interglacials, Investigate, Precipitation, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Locally-Constrained Climate Field Reconstructions of the Last Millennium: Methods and Application
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jason E Smerdon($274,418), Columbia University, New York
2. Michael N Evans($69,281), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Cfrs, Climate, Estimates, Non-local, Proxies, Reconstructions.

P2C2: A Network of Paleo-Monsoon Rainfall Stations in Southeast Asia to Investigate Atmospheric Circulation Changes over the Past Four Centuries
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Lowell D Stott($404,575), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Climate Analysis, Delta Oxygen-18, Se Asia, Annual, Cellulose, Pine, Precipitation, Rings, Sites, Tree, Trees, Tropical.

Charles Keeling Memorial Climate-Related Science and Policy Workshops; Washington, DC; June 2009-June 2010
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Anthony Socci($226,416), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Capitol Hill, AMS, Climate, Workshops.

P2C2: Testing Speleothem-Based Radiocarbon Calibrations Through A Process-Based Cave Study and a New 35 Kyr Calibration Curve
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Kathleen R Johnson($461,495), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Calibration Curve, Carbon Dioxide, Climatic Controls, Environmental Controls, Soil Carbon, Carbon-, Constructing, DCF, Dating, Existing, HS, Investigate, Investigating, Modern, Monthly, Radiocarbon, Speleothem, Stalagmite.

P2C2: North American Megadrought: Atmosphere-Ocean Forcing and Landscape Response from the Medieval Period to the Near-Term Greenhouse Future
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Benjamin L Cook($638,135), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Atmosphere Model Simulations, Force Vegetation Models, Vegetation And Dust, Additional Simulations, Boundary Conditions, Dust Sources, Future Climate, Medieval Megadroughts, Feedbacks, Module, Ssts, Supporting.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Toward Improved Projections of the Climate Response to Anthropogenic Forcing: Combining Proxy and Instrumental Observations with an Earth System Model
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Klaus Keller($541,184), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Axel Timmermann($228,676), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Abrupt, Climate, Dynamical, EMIC.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Understanding the Role of a High-Latitude Convective Cloud Feedback in Equable and Future Climate Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Matthew Huber($188,021), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Eli Tziperman($461,147), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Convective Cloud Feedback, Climate, Eocene, Investigate, Observations, Warming.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Exploring the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. John E Kutzbach($393,523), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. William F Ruddiman($137,172), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Dioxide And Methane, Carbon Dioxide, Model Simulations, Anthropogenic, Assemble, Atmospheric, Climate, Climatic, Experiment, Extent, Gases, Ice, Levels, Modern, Ocean, Snow.

AMS Summer Policy Colloquium 2009-2011
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. William H Hooke($350,400), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: AMS, Broader, Colloquium, Policy, Public.

P2C2: A Bayesian Approach to Estimating Temperature and Precipitation and Their Inter-Relationship over the Last Millennium
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Peter Huybers($400,302), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Analysis, Precipitation, Temperature.

P2C2: Hydroclimatic Variability in the Southwest United States: New High-Resolution Speleothem Records of Past Drought
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Julia E Cole($400,603), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Drought, Regional.

EAGER: Exploratory Analyses of Sediment Cores from Lac Toponowini (French Guiana)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Maureen Conte($35,977), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Analyses, Climate, ITCZ, Surrounding, Toponowini.

SGER: The Chesapeake Bay Region's Response to Late-Cenozoic Isostatic Uplift, Subsidence, and Tectonism
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Erik T Brown($10,570), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Sea Level, Cores, Program, SGER, Surrounding.

Modeling Unsteady Reconnection in the Magnetotail
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. Mikhail Sitnov($292,416), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Thin Current Sheets, Magnetic Reconnection, Thicker Plasma, Boundaries, Codes, Collisionless, Earth, Electrons, Embedded, Fields, Kinetic, Laboratory, Magnetotail, Models, Motions, Onset, Particles, Physics, Plasmas, Processes, Regimes, Region, Solar, Summer, Tail-like, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Studies of Formation, Aging and Physicochemical Properties of Atmospheric Organic Particulate Matter
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. Timothy B Onasch($123,508), Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica
2. William H Brune($196,832), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Paul Davidovits($242,231), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Organic Aerosol, Activity, Atmospherically, CCN, Characterize, Composition, Fairs, Pis, SOA, School, Schools, Students.

Magnetospheric Electron Density
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. Phillip Webb($366,639), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Accelerate Radiation Belt, Growth And Propagation, Radiation Belt Electrons, Chorus Waves, Electron Density, Affects, Examine, IMAGE, Magnetosphere, Models, Phenomena.

Effects of Topography on Turbulent Fluxes in Stable Boundary Layers Using a New Generation Large-Eddy Simulation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: PetaApps

1. Fernando Porte-Agel($349,065), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Atmospheric Simulation Models, Stable Boundary Layers, Wind Tunnel Experiments, Atmospheric Stability, Climate Models, Educational Tool, Large-eddy Simulation, Regional-scale Fluxes, Turbulent Fluxes, Ability, Accuracy, Combination, Complex, Effects, Field, Graduate, Interaction, Interactions, LES, Land-atmosphere, Large-eddy, Parameterization, Performance, Potential, Regional-scale, Students, Subgrid-scale, Substantial, Topography, Weather.

Modeling Cloud Responses to Global Atmospheric Circuit Variability
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brian A Tinsley($305,116), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Atmospheric Electric Circuit, Global Atmospheric Electric, Aerosol Particles, Aerosol Scavenging, Atmospheric Circulation, Electrical Effects, Global Circuit, Charge, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Correlations, Current, Droplets, Factors, Human, Ice, Internal, Mechanism, Model, Models, Observations, Processes, Responsible, Solar, Students, Treatment, Weather.

American Association for Aerosol Research 2009 Annual Conference; Minneapolis, Minnesota; October 26-30, 2009
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Melissa Baldwin($10,000), American Association for Aerosol Research, Mount Laurel
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosol, Environmental, Expertise, Interact, Students.

Synergistic Studies of Raindrop Shapes, Oscillations and Orientations Using 2D-Video Disdrometer, Advanced Radar and Wind Tunnel
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Viswanathan N Bringi($450,846), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Time Varying Shapes, Drop Shapes, Orientation Distributions, Oscillation Modes, Rain Microstructure, Brisbane, Drops, Dual-polarized, Has, Huntsville, Polarimetric, Radar, Radars, Range, Size, Upgrade, Weather.

RUI: Visual and Spectral Properties of Tropospheric Haze
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Raymond L Lee($211,157), United States Naval Academy, Annapolis
Key terms: Angular And Spectral, Haze Polarization, Haze Spectra, Imaging Techniques, Multispectral Imaging, Tropospheric Haze, Atmospheric, Colorimetric, Digital, Distributions, Hyperspectral, Mapping, Measure, Objective, Optical, Photometric, Properties.

Role of Intense Convection in Sheared Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John E Molinari($443,271), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Graduate Students, Helicity Distribution, Hurricane Bonnie, Tropical Cyclones, Ambient, Azimuthal, Cells, Conferences, Downshear, Evolution, Examine, Hurricanes, Observations, Obtained, Presence, Radar, Range, Shear, Storm, Storms.

RICO - Continuing Research
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Larry DiGirolamo($800,163), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Clouds And Precipitation, Marine Boundary Layer, Shallow Tropical Convection, Trade Wind Cloud, Trade Wind Clouds, Cloud Organization, Graduate Students, Aerosol, Analyses, Climate, Direct, Effects, Has, Influences, Mechanisms, Mesoscale, Moisture, Properties, RICO, Was.

Tropical Cyclogenesis in the PRE-depression Investigation of Cloud-systems in the Tropics program (PREDICT): The Marsupial Paradigm in Action
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael T Montgomery($257,121), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Critical Layer, Environmental Conditions, Field Campaign, Marsupial Paradigm, Severe Weather, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Analyses, Climate, Development, Formation, Gyre-pouch, Has, Interaction, Large-scale, Mesoscale, PREDICT, Processes, Storm, Storms, Synoptic, Vortical, Wave, Waves.

Dynamical Processes of Orographic Cumuli II
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Bart Geerts($475,985), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Vertical And Horizontal, Cloud Circulations, Cloud Radar, Cumulus Convection, Cumulus Dynamics, Cumulus Properties, Cupido Dataset, Field Campaign, Aircraft, Combination, Cumuli, Cumulus-environment, Dry, Entrainment, Environment, Evolution, Fine-scale, Flight-level, Following, Interaction, Model, Models, Numerical, Objective, Observations, Observed, Orographic, Particular, Precipitation, Resolved, Structure, Was, Wind.

Multi-Scale Observational Analyses within the "Marsupial Pouch" of Pre-Depression Tropical Disturbances
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael M Bell($615,890), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: G-v Aircraft, Tropical Cyclone, Allow, Analyses, Atlantic, Composites, Datasets, Development, Disturbances, G-V, Hurricanes, Mesoscale, Multiple, NASA, NOAA, Observational, Obtained, Opportunities, PREDICT, Prediction, Radar, Situ, Structure, Temperature, Theoretical, Unique, Vorticity.

EAGER: A Prototype System for Electrical and Meteorological Measurements in Convective Vortices
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nilton D Renno($83,110), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Graduate Student, Basic, Circulations, Dust, Effort, Flow, Instrument, Momentum, Pressure, Processes, Theory, Vortices.

Numerical Studies of Meteor Crater Cold Pool Responses to Realistic Dynamical and Radiative Forcing and Comparisons with METCRAX Measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David C Fritts($298,413), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Boundary Layer Flows, Cold Pool Dynamics, Cold Pool Flows, Cold Pool Stratification, Dynamical And Radiative, Instability And Mixing, Realistic Boundary Layer, Meteor Crater, Numerical Studies, Basins, Breakup, Date, Forcing, Formation, High-resolution, Idealized, METCRAX, Performed.

WAVACS: Water Vapour in the Climate System Workshop; Cargese, Corsica; September 14-26, 2009
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Elisabeth Moyer($10,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Students And Postdoctoral, Summer School, Water Vapor, Associates, Diverse, Established, Global, Precipitation, Processes.

North Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Genesis Pathways
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lance F Bosart($548,106), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Atlantic Tc Seasons, North Atlantic Tc, Tc Genesis Pathways, Brbrwith Respect, Control Tc, Tc Development, Tc Genesisnull, Analysis, Criterion, Diagnostic, Distinctive, Dynamical, Environmental, Governing, Individual, PREDICT, Pathway-dependent, Six, Tropical.

Analysis of Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph R Dwyer($433,700), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Aircraft, Conceivably, Extend, Gamma-ray, Instrument, Lightning, Observations, Orbit, Process, Radiation, Recently, Spacecraft, TGF, Tgfs, Thunderstorms.

Characterizing Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Genesis Using Special PREDICT Measurements and Satellite Observations/Products
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher Velden($375,001), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Genesis, Formation, PREDICT, Prediction, Processes, Unique, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Intermittent and Steady State Processes in Orographic Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sandra E Yuter($345,879), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Brian A Colle($296,811), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Intermittent Orographic Precipitation, Intermittent Precipitation Cells, National Weather Service, Broader Impacts, Model Output, Stony Brook, Assistants, Campus, Field, Forecast, Forecasts, Graduate, Has, Individual, Models, Network, Numerical, Observations, Oregon, Processes, Radar, Students, Terrain, Undergraduate.

Microphysical and Kinematic Storm Properties Affecting Electrification and Lightning Production
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Terry J Schuur($521,579), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Electrification And Lightning, Asymmetric Mcss, Electric Field, Isolated Storms, Lightning Mapping, Polarimetric Radar, Storm Observations, Stratiform Region, Analysis, Conditions, Convective, Initiated, Kinematics, Mesovortex, Microphysical, Microphysics, Oklahoma, Organization, Regions, Soundings, Strong, Structure, Students, Surrounding.

CMG: Multiscale Modeling of Urban Atmospheres in a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Harindra Joseph Fernando($774,986), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Global Models, Represent Urban, Spatial Scales, Upscale Influences, Atmospheric, Cities, Climate, Downscale, Effect, Effects, Incorporated, Larger, Modeling, Regions.

MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for an Integrated South Florida Cloud-Aerosol-Rain-OBserving System (CAROB)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Bruce A Albrecht($822,473), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Aerosol, Aerosols, Airmasses, Cloud, Components, Development, Effort, Environment, Equipment, Existing, Florida, Ghz, Instrumentation, Interactions, Miami, Processes, Radar, Ranging, Summer, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Continental/Oceanic Transition of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Tropical Cyclogenesis during the African Multidisciplinary Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sen Chiao($196,247), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
2. Gregory Jenkins($221,644), Howard University, Washington
Key terms: Cheikh Anta Diop, West African Monsoon, Eastern Atlantic, Florida Institute, Mesoscale Convective, Mesoscale Models, Tropical Cyclone, Weather Prediction, Aircraft, Assimilation, Capacity, Forecasting, Howard, Human, Increase, Mcss, Modeling, Numerical, Processes, Run, SAL, Simulating, Simulation, Students, Technology, Transition, Undertake, WRF.

Collaborative Research: Measurements and Advanced Modeling of Dispersion in the Urban Environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Pablo I Huq($323,776), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Concentration Statistics, Density Stratification, Stably Stratified, Water Tunnel, Atmospheric, Chemical, Conditions, Development, Dispersion, Environments, Experimental, Experiments, Flow, GMU, Ii, Iii, Lagrangian, Numerical, Parameterizations, Performance, Predict, Students, Theory, Time, Urban.

Lightning Detection And Ranging (LDAR II) Network Operation and Analyses Over a Highly Polluted City - Houston, Texas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Richard E Orville($694,210), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Ldar Ii Network, Lightning Detection Network, Cg Flashes, Cg Strokes, Flash Rates, Total Lightning, Web Site, Charge, Cloud, Cloud-to-ground, Houston, NLDN, Primary, Programs, Students, Texas.

Vorticity and Thermodynamic Budgets in Easterly Waves -- PREDICT Participation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David J Raymond($329,150), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Absolute Vorticity, Dropsonde Observations, Easterly Waves, Low Levels, Precipitable Water, Saturation Fraction, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Cyclones, Accurately, Atmospheric, Convection, Convergence, Deep, Derived, Development, Disturbances, Factor, Factors, Field, Formation, Inflow, Models, PREDICT, Rainfall, Region, Spin, Spinup, Surface, Temperatures, Tends, Troposphere.

Collaborative Research: Ensemble-Based Predictability, Sensitivity and Data Assimilation in PREDICT
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sharanya J Majumdar($214,462), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Ryan D Torn($278,595), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Genesis, Field Experiment, Tropical Cyclones, Disturbance, Model, Models, Numerical, Observations, PREDICT, Predictability, Prediction, Processes, Wind.

Lightning: Electromagnetic Environment and Source Parameters
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Vladimir A Rakov($1,279,792), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Lightning Detection, Damage, Electromagnetic, Emissions, Established, Extend, Facilities, Facility, Field, Florida, Generation, International, Involve, Nearby, Observational, Presentations, Principal, Processes, Propagation, Public, Supported, Unique, Via.

Merging of Observations and Models for the Earth's Schumann Resonances
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Earle R Williams($477,976), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Rhode Island, Activity, Analyses, Analysis, Climate, Comprehensive, Convective, ELF, Global, Ionosphere, Lightning, Means, Measure, Network, Observations, SR, Stations.

Analysis of Predictability of Convective Initiation and Morphological Evolution Using Near-Cloud Permitting Grid Spacing Models
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William A Gallus($455,862), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Cloud Microphysical, Numerical Simulations, Quantitative Precipitation, Severe Weather, Atmospheric, Convective, Evolution, Forecasts, Initiation, MCS, Methods, Model, Models, Observations, Parameterization, Processes, Public, Schemes, Simulated.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Supercell/Tornado Genesis, Structure and Evolution Using Observations and Numerical Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew S Gilmore($390,000), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
2. Robert B Wilhelmson($1,010,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Structure And Evolution, Capping Inversions, Environmental Conditions, Long-lived Supercell-spawned, Polarimetric Radar, Supercell Storms, Supercell-spawned Tornadoes, Tornado Genesis, Analysis, Assimilation, Build, Illinois, Influence, Long-lived, Means, Methods, Model, Modeling, Numerical, Observations, Parameter, Particular, Pis, Resolution, Sets, Simulation, Simulations, Supercell-spawned, Supercelltornado.

Ensemble-Based Hurricane State Estimation, Intensity Prediction, and Targeting
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Gregory Hakim($394,950), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Structure And Intensity, Hurricane Intensity, Hurricane Structure, Initial Conditions, Actual, Analysis, Assess, Assimilation, Builds, Component, Continuity, Dynamical, Dynamics, Ensemble, Experiment, Features, Forecasts, Has, Lack, Observational, Observations, Predictability, Simulations, Storms, Targeting, Updates.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory and Ground-Based Studies Addressing Unresolved Aspects of Atmospheric Ice Nucleation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Markus D Petters($782,407), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Numerical Modeling Studies, Atmospheric Processing, Global Climate, Ice Formation, Ice Initiation, Ice Nucleation, Ice Nuclei, Laboratory Studies, Mineral Dust, Activation, Advanced, Aerosol, Aerosols, Application, Apply, Atmosphere, Biological, Carbonaceous, Clouds, Composition, Concentrations, Critical, Degrees, Detector, Development, Has, Importance, Investigate, Issues, Methods, Natural, Observed, Opportunity, PPD, Participation, Particle, Particles, Pis, Precipitation, Principal, Processes, Properties, Quantify, Real-time, Relation, Size, Source, Sources, Specific, Temperature, Unresolved.

Doppler Radar Observations and Ensemble-Based Data Assimilation for Cloud-Resolving Hurricane Prediction
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Fuqing Zhang($550,146), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Structure And Intensity, Hurricane Intensity, Hurricane Structure, Radar Observations, Tropical Cyclones, Assimilation, Benefit, Collected, Doppler, Dynamics, Educational, Enda, Explore, Extensive, Field, Forecast, Hurricanes, Imperfect, Limits, Numerical, Observing, Predictability, Prediction, RAINEX, Skill, Techniques.

The 18th International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA); Prague, Czech Republic; August 10-14, 2009
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. None($18,600), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric Aerosol, International.

Workshop on Electrification of Water Drops and Ice Particles: Simulations in the Laboratory and in the Natural Environment; Telluride, CO; August 10-14, 2009
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. George E Ewing($20,000), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Advances, Electrification, Ice, Natural, Obvious, Phenomena, Telluride, Water, Workshop.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on Effects of Thunderstorms and Lightning in the Upper Atmosphere; University Park, Pennsylvania; May 10-14, 2009
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brenda L Weaver($45,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Gamma Ray Flashes, Thunderstorms And Lightning, Chapman Conference, Upper Atmosphere, Breakdown, Discharge, Discovery, Effects, Energetic, Energy, Experiments, Extensive, Field, Gas, Meeting, Meteorology, Mev, Observations, Optical, Physics, Processes, Range, Satellite, Sessions, Space, Students, Techniques, Transient.

Collaborative Research: SGER--Measurements of Particle Size and Fall Velocity Distributions within Supercell Thunderstorms
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Katja Friedrich($40,638), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Terry J Schuur($41,259), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Cold Pool Characteristics, Near Surface Buoyancy, Particle Size Distribution, Polarimetric Radar Observations, Pool Characteristics Beneath, Severe Storm Behavior, Microphysical Characteristics, Microphysical Composition, Mobile Polarimetric, Severe Storms, Situ Microphysical, Storm Evolution, Campaign, Collected, Collection, Coordinated, Disdrometer, Enable, Lead, Microphysics, Network, VORTEX, Verification.

Collaborative Research: Development of Unmanned Aircraft System for Research in a Severe Storm Environment and Deployment within the VORTEX 2
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Katharine M Kanak($44,041), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Erik N Rasmussen($13,275), Rasmussen Systems LLC, Mesa
3. Brian M Argrow($289,557), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Rear Flank, Rfd Buoyancy, Supercell Updraft, Unmanned Aircraft, Counter-rotating, Cyclonic, Development, Future, Knowledge, Low-level, Observations, Obtain, Pair, Pilot, Precipitation, Regulatory, Supercells, Tornadic, Tornado, Tornadogenesis, UAS, Utilize, Vortex, Vortices, Vorticity.

Development of Unmanned Aircraft System and Its Use in Investigating the Impact of Pre-Existing Airmass Boundaries on Supercell Rotation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Adam L Houston($88,185), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Boundaries And Nearby, Airmass Boundaries, Brbrthe Analysis, Horizontal Vorticity, Nearby Storms, Preexisting Airmass, Supercell Rotation, Collected, Coordinated, Development, Enhanced, Fields, Insufficient, Motion, Observations, Properties, Requires, Retrieved, Severe, Specific, Thermodynamic, UAS, VORTEX.

Lightning Initiation by Streamer Emission from Thundercloud Hydrometeors
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ningyu Liu($235,912), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Electric Field, Ability, Avalanches, Condition, Has, Hydrometeors, Initiate, Lightning, Observations, Process, Processes, Rests, Streamer, Streamers, Thunderstorms, Vicinity.

Collaborative Research: Investigations of Mesoscale and Microscale Processes in Extratropical Cyclones and Mesoscale Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kevin R Knupp($509,533), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
2. Brian F Jewett($1,289,230), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Northwest And Warm, Education Component, Extratropical Cyclones, Field Campaign, Involving Students, Modeling Studies, Numerical Modeling, Precipitation Substructures, Warm Frontal, Winter Weather, Alabama, Atmospheric, Basis, Cloud, Contribute, Departments, Dynamic, Features, Fronts, Instabilities, Mesoscale, Microphysical, Mobile, Observational, Observations, Observed, Principal, Processes, Profiling, Properties, Radar, Resolution, Sensing, Spatial, Structures, Vertical.

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

1. Kenneth E Kunkel($81,301), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
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.

An Investigation of the Local and Regional Environment of Intense Convective Systems in West Africa
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2006; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher Thorncroft($330,671), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Intense Convective, Land Surface, West Africa, Convection, Development, Precipitation, Regional.

Estimation of Cloud Properties in Three-dimension (3D) from Cloud Resolving Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2005; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Katja Friedrich($408,954), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Statistical Error Analysis, Cloud Properties, Assimilation, DOE-ARM, Observations, Satellite, Space.

RUI: Physics of Coronal Energy Storage
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. None($113,758), Middlebury College, Middlebury
Key terms: Magnetic Fields, Solar Corona, Space Weather, Energy, Finite-element, Physics, Plans, Technique.

Non-equilibrium Magnetohydrodynamic Behavior of Plasmas Having Complex, Evolving Morphology
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Paul M Bellan($30,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Plasma Physics, Experimental, Plasmas.

Three-Dimensional Magnetic Configuration and Evolution of Flare Productive Active Regions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($277,983), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Coronal Magnetic Field, Free Magnetic Energy, Active Regions, Magnetic Configurations, Boundary, Cmes, Evolution, Flare, Flares, SDO, Solar.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: The Geometrical and Kinematic Evolution of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Alysha Reinard($99,621), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cme Evolution, Interplanetary Medium, Space Weather, Expect, ICME, Icmes, Model, Models, Parameters, Responsible, SHINE.

NSWP: Automated Shock Analysis for Space Weather Predictions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Charles W Smith($113,818), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Space Weather, ACE, Advance, Analyses, Approaching, Automated, Code, Effort, Has, Papers, Physics, Pis, Protect, Shock, Shocks, Solar, Solutions, Spacecraft.

SHINE Postdoc: Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) and Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI) 3D-Reconstructions and Imaging of the Solar, Heliospheric, and INterplanetary Environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bernard V Jackson($159,971), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: 3d Reconstruction, 3d Reconstructions, Elb Analyses, Radio Telescopes, Solar Wind, Space Weather, EISCAT, Field, Ground-based, Has, IPS, Images, International, Observations, Pis, Plasma, Region, STEREO, Spacecraft, Structures.

Anomalous Difusion in the Collisionless Solar Wind Plasma
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gary P Zank($438,228), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Energetic Charged Particles, Field-line Random Walk, Magnetic Field-line Random, Anomalous Diffusion, Field-line Random, Graduate Student, Magnetic Field-line, Solar Wind, Collisionless, Non-classical, Non-gaussian, Space, Transport.

SHINE: Origin and Evolution of Structure in the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. John Steinberg($360,133), Department of Energy Albuquerque Operations Office, Albuquerque
Key terms: Coronal Hole, Magnetic Field, Solar Surface, Solar Wind, Amount, Boundaries, Calculate, Catalog, Discontinuities, Discontinuity, Flux, Helios-, Pis, Plasma, Reconnection, Region, Structures, Sun.

SHINE: Imaging and Analyses of Heliospheric Structures for Using InterPlanetary Scintillation (IPS) and Solar Mass Ejection Imager (SMEI)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Andrew Buffington($400,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Plasma Structures, Solar Wind, Analyses, Available, Center, Density, Environment, Existing, Global, Ground-based, Heliospheric, IPS, Mass, Models, Observations, Pis, Plans, SMEI, STEREO, Spacecraft, Technique, Tomographic, Tool, Velocity.

REU Site: Solar Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Kelly E Korreck($347,988), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Cfa Senior, Solar Physics, Space Weather, Component, Highly, International, Involve, Mentors, Minority, Program, REU, Student, Students, Undergraduates, Visiting.

SHINE: Turbulence and Perpendicular Ion Heating in the Corona and Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Benjamin D Chandran($346,075), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: 1d Fluid Model, Perpendicular Ion Heating, 1d Fluid, Quasi-parallel Cascade, Solar Wind, Incorporate, Investigate, Properties, Quasi-parallel, SHINE, Schools, Specialized, Students, Temperature, Turbulence, UNH.

SHINE: Solar Wind Magnetic Field Discontinuities and the Role of Alfvenic Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bernard J Vasquez($181,316), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Solar Wind Near, Turbulent Cascade, Turbulent Fluctuations, Compare, Discontinuities, Dissipation, Found, Heating, Heliosphere, Method, Processes, Properties.

SHINE: Digitization of 27 Years of Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) Films and Application in Statistical Study of Filaments and Flares
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($431,262), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Solar Flares, Undergraduate Students, Acceleration, BBSO, Digital, Digitized, Entire, Eruption, Filament, Filaments, Film, Films, Full-disk, HXR, Images, Inch, Observations, Operational, Postdoc, Public, Requested, Resolution, Space, Statistical.

SHINE: Electron Pitch-Angle Scattering during Solar Electron Bursts
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Curt A de Koning($235,333), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Iii Radio Bursts, Solar Electron Bursts, Solar Wind Plasma, Electronelectron Instability, Genesis Spacecraft, Pitch-angle Scattering, ACE, Analysis, Collaborators, Consistent, IMF, Interplanetary, Magnetic, PAD, Pitch-angle, Plans, Program, Students.

CAREER: Developing High Resolution Infrared Instrumentation to Explore Solar Activity
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Wenda Cao($488,835), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Spectroscopic And Polarimetric, Astronomical Instrument, Njit Campus, Teaching Laboratory, Astronomy, Available, BBSO, Bbsos, Computer, Design, Development, Education, Energy, Engineering, Enhance, Flares, Graduate, IRIM, Imaging, Instruments, NIR, NST, Nsts, Physics, Pis, Resolution, Solar, Students, Undergraduate, Upgraded.

CAREER: A Portable Solar Adaptive Optics System for High-Resolution Imaging Investigations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Deqing Ren($547,581), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: High-resolution Solar Imaging, Sensing And Reconstruction, Tomographic Wave-front Sensing, Adaptive Optics, High-resolution Solar, Kitt Peak, Tomographic Wave-front, Wave-front Sensing, Wave-front Sensor, Astronomy, CSUN, Development, Education, Excellent, Guide, IR, Long-term, MCAO, Magnetic, NSO, Near, Observing, PSAO, Plans, Stars, Students, Sun, Technique, Training, Ìm.

Mapping, Modeling and Understanding the Magnetic Chromosphere
Award Effective Date: 11/05/2008; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Scott W McIntosh($285,384), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Magnetic Transition Region, Mass And Energy, Chromospheric Plasma, Solar Chromosphere, Convective, Flow, Physics, Processes, Program, Suns, Waves.

Viscous Effects in Magnetic Reconnection and Energy Dissipation in the Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2007; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Yuri E Litvinenko($294,061), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Coronal Heating, Solar Corona, Compare, Contribute, Contribution, Dissipation, Education, Energy, Field, Flare, MHD, Magnetic, Principal, Reconnection, Solutions, Students, UNH, Viscosity, Viscous.

Research on Modeling Large Scale Dynamical Effects on Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Sedimentary Geo & Paleobiology

1. Raymond T Pierrehumbert($1,160,480), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Extra-solar Planet Climate, Extra-solar Planet, Radiative Transfer, Atmospheric, Basic, Development, Dynamics, Effects, Human, Investigations, Modeling, Nature, Past, Physics, Planets.

CubeSat: Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Xinlin Li($1,001,936), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric And Space, Earth's Radiation Belt, Electron And Proton, Radiation Belt Electrons, Aerospace Engineering, Earth's Radiation, Energetic Particle, Energetic Particles, Energetic Protons, Proton Telescope, Relativistic Electron, Solar Flares, Space Physics, Space Weather, Effort, Instrument, Investigate, Laboratory, Mev, Mission, Reptile, SEP, Spacecraft.

NSF Support for Continued Operation of COSMIC Research and Operational Applications, 2008-2012
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: TAIWAN ROCKET (NCAR)

1. David Ector($4,535,350), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Gps Ro, Operational Weather, Weather Forecasting, Atmospheric, Broad, COSMIC, Centers, Centre, Climate, Continued, Design, Global, Has, Ii, Improvement, International, Ionospheric, Meteorological, Months, Observations, Office, Processing, Program, Regions, Satellites, Software, Soundings, Tracking, Was.

NSF Support for U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Support Activities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Unallocated Program Costs

1. Ronald G Martin($2,521,471), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: International Program, Ipcc Tsu, Program Integration, Usgcrp Ico, Usgcrp International, Activities, Activity, Assessments, Coordination, Decisions, Future, Global, Interact, Nations, Opportunity, Predict, Reports, Students, UCAR.

CubeSat: Dynamic Ionosphere Cubesat Experiment (DICE)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Geoffrey Crowley($1,199,535), Utah State University Research Foundation, North Logan
Key terms: Electric Field, Electric Fields, Ionospheric Plasma, Space Weather, Bulge, Carry, Cubesat, DC, DICE, Educational, Effects, Features, Involved, Involvement, Measure, Mission, Objective, Plume, Probe, SED, Students, Technology, USA.

Collaborative Research: The SuperDARN Upper Atmosphere Facility - Operations, Community Support, and Science from the Polar Cap to Mid-latitudes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Joseph B Baker($2,349,894), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
2. Robin J Barnes($1,353,113), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Hf Radars, Plasma Circulation, Plasma Structuring, Solar Wind, Space Environment, Upper Atmosphere, Virginia Tech, Access, Atmospheric, Collaboration, Coupling, Distribution, Energy, Field, Generate, Information, International, Ionospheric, JHUAPL, Mid-latitudes, Motions, Network, Polar, Software, Superdarn, Technical, Training, Waves, Web.

The Millstone Geospace Science Center
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Frank D Lind($400,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Upper Atmosphere, Center, Computing, Control, Equipment, Existing, Facility, Geospace, Instruments, Millstone, Onsite, Operation, Radar, Receiver, Space, Teaching, Upgrades.

EAGER: Studies of the Small-Scale Atmospheric Structure Associated with Turbulence Generation Using the SOUSY Radar and an Autonomous, Unmanned Mini-Glider
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Ben B Balsley($52,051), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Local Dynamic Instability, Potential Temperature Profiles, Radar Beam, Altitude, Atmospheric, Balloon, Databird, Echo, Feature, Glider, High-resolution, Information, Initial, Involving, Models, Peru, Resolution, Ri, Success, Turbulence, Variety, Vertical.

EAGER: Exploration of the Source of Polar Mesospheric Summer Echoes at 33 cm Observed with the Poker Flat Incoherent Scatter Radar
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Marlene C Rosenberg($49,998), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Dust Charging, Dusty Plasma, Frequency Pmse, Modeling Effort, Turbulence Scattering, Approach, Instabilities, Involving, Mesopause, Observations, Relates, Required, Summer.

Colllaborative Research: CubeSat: Focused Investigations of Relativistic Electron Burst Intensity, Range, and Dynamics (FIREBIRD)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. David M Klumpar($911,637), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Scientists And Engineers, Cubesat Mission, Electron Microbursts, Energy Dependence, Individual Microburst, Radiation Belts, Relativistic Electron, Space Weather, Carry, Education, Electrons, FIREBIRD, Field, Investigation, Loss, Low, Size, Spacecraft, Spatial, Students, Technology.

EAGER: Exploration of the Ocean Surface for the Source of Arecibo's Continuous Thermospheric Gravity Waves
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Frank T Djuth($48,253), Geospace Research Inc, El Segundo
Key terms: Acoustic Gravity Wave, Gravity Wave Propagation, Arecibo Observatory, Satellite Altimetry, Upper Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Ocean, Puerto, Thermospheric, Waves.

Wallops Flight Facility Support for Second Cubesat-based Science Misson
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Scott H Schaire($99,121), NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center/Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island
Key terms: Nasa Wff, Cubesat, Flight, Launch, Mission, NSF, Nano-satellite, Spacecraft.

Naval Postgraduate School Support for Firefly Cubesat Science Mission
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. James H Newman($205,000), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Flight Unit, Activities, Adamsat, Cubesat, Firefly, Fly, Integration, Launch, Mass, NPS, NSF, Npscul, Npscul-lite, P-POD, Sponsored, Structure, Unavailable.

New Frontiers at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory: The Beginning of Solar Cycle 24
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: nan

1. Wesley E Swartz($8,290,912), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Radar Remote Sensing, Upper Atmospheric Facilities, Equatorial Ionosphere, Equatorial Spread, Plasma Irregularities, Access, Acquisition, Anomalous, Communication, Cornell, Databases, Development, Dynamics, Education, Effects, Jicamarca, Jicamarcas, Lines, Main, Mission, Modes, Observing, Organized, Physics, Plans, Radio, Real-time, Region, Release, Requirements, Service, Space, Technological, Twilight.

USAF Support for COSMIC Research and Operational Applications, 2008-2012
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: nan

1. William S Schreiner($348,611), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Gps Ro, Intellectual Merit, Operational Weather, Weather Forecasting, Atmospheric, Broad, COSMIC, Centers, Centre, Climate, Continued, Design, Global, Has, Ii, Improvement, International, Ionospheric, Meteorological, Months, Observations, Office, Processing, Program, Regions, Satellites, Software, Soundings, Tracking, Was.

AGCI Interdisciplinary Science Workshop: Decadal Climate Prediction and Services; Aspen, Colorado; September 20-25, 2009
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: nan

1. John Katzenberger($30,000), Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt
Key terms: Climate Modeling, Decadal Prediction, AGCI, Builds, Capability, Design, Directly, Purpose, Resource, User, Workshop.

A Multi-Institutional Post-Doctoral Program for Climate/Earth System Modeling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: nan

1. James L Kinter($1,199,506), Institute of Global Environment and Society, Rockville
Key terms: Climate And Earth-system, Climate Modeling, Modeling Laboratories, Post-doctoral Program, COLA, Center, Climate-, Collaboration, Highly-qualified, Level, National, Post-doctoral.

NASA Support for the Climate Variability and Predictability (CLIVAR) Project Office Activities, 2009-2014
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: nan

1. David M Legler($2,062,952), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Usclivar Po, Activities, Activity, Administration, CLIVAR, Climate, Coupled, Development, Extend, Implementation, Inter-annual, Models, National, Predictability, Program, Programs, Seasonal, Time-scales.

NASA Support for Continuing Operation of COSMIC's Research and Operational Applications, 2008-2012
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: nan

1. William S Schreiner($899,208), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Gps Ro, Intellectual Merit, Operational Weather, Weather Forecasting, Atmospheric, Broad, COSMIC, Centers, Centre, Climate, Continued, Design, Global, Has, Ii, Improvement, International, Ionospheric, Meteorological, Months, Observations, Office, Processing, Program, Regions, Satellites, Software, Soundings, Tracking, Was.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2009

CEDAR: Effects of Orographic Forcing on the Southern Mid-Latitude Mesosphere Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Mechanisms and Effects of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Determination of Crucial Space Weather Component O/N2 by Laboratory Measurements of O and N2 Absolute Electron-Induced Emission Cross Sections Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Statistical Inference of Solar Cycle Signatures and Long Term Trends in Mesospheric Temperature Observations Award Effective Date: 09/06/2009; Program: AERONOMY

EAGER: Thermospheric Helium (He) Resonance LIDAR Development Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Postdoc: Coordinated Optical and Radar Observations of the Ionosphere and Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

NSWP: An Analysis of Space Weather's Impact on Electricity Flows, Power Grid Operations, and Electricity Markets Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

The Unusual Features in Superstorms Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Atmospheric Tides and Their Effects on Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM) Dynamics, Composition, and Structure Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Joint Incoherent Scatter Radar and Electro-Optical Remote-Sensing of the Effects of Auroras as well as Planetary, Tidal and Gravity Waves in the Polar Thermosphere over Sondrestrom Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Studies of Plasmashere Boundary Layer with Distributed Arrays of Radio Instruments Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

RAPID: Airborne Campaign for Imaging Polar Mesospheric Clouds During the Deep Solar Minimum Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--A Novel Technique for Estimating Oxygen Density in the Mid-Latitude Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Physics Based Modeling of Blue Jets Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Continuation to Daytime Potassium Doppler Lidar at Arecibo Award Effective Date: 04/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

The International Heliophysical Year (IHY) Africa 2009 Workshop; Livingstone, Zambia; June 8-12, 2009 Award Effective Date: 03/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Comparative Studies of the Interaction and Ionospheric Processes at a Variety of Different "Non-Magnetic" Solar System Bodies Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Theoretical Studies in Aeronomy Award Effective Date: 01/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: Mesospheric Dynamics during Stratospheric Warming Events Award Effective Date: 04/01/2005; Program: AERONOMY

CubeSat: CubeSat for Ions, Neutrals, Electron, and Magnetic Fields (CINEMA) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Collaborative Research: Vertical Heating Structure in Large-Scale Convectively Coupled Tropical Waves Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Particle Acceleration during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Role of Ice in High Latitude Nitrogen Atmospheric Chemistry Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Support for Atmospheric Field Research at Thule, Greenland Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

REU Site: Space and Tropospheric Weather Processing Using DotSat Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: ARCTIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

Isotope Effects in Methoxy Radical Chemistry Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Heterogeneous and Photochemical Reactivity of Surface Adsorbed Organics with Atmospheric Oxidants Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Aerosol Growth and Chemical Compositions from Heterogeneous Processing of Organic Compounds Award Effective Date: 11/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Top-Down Constraints on North American Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) Emissions From Tall Tower Measurements and Lagrangian Particle Dispersion Modeling Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Integrating Multiple Methods to Understand the Atmospheric Chemistry of Mercury and Mercury Dry Deposition from the Pacific to the Basin and Range Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Advanced Characterization of Tropospheric Sources Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

United States Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) Support Activities Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Kinetics of Atmospherically Important Radical-Molecule Complexes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Impacts of the Biosphere on Global Tropospheric Chemistry and Climate Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Microwave Temperature Profiler (MTP) Support for HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Impact of African Dust on Clouds and Precipitation in a Caribbean Tropical Montane Cloud Forest Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Program for Research on Oxidants: Photochemistry Emissions and Transport (PROPHET) 2009--Community Atmosphere-Biosphere INteractions EXperiment (CABINEX) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Impact of Changing Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) to NOx Ratios on Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Development of a Cavity Ring-Down Sensor for Real-Time Measurement of Atmospheric Mercury Concentrations and Fluxes Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Investigating Natural Seepage of Light Alkanes from Oil and Natural Gas Deposits Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Laboratory and Theoretical Studies of Mineral Aerosol Heterogeneous Interactions with Mixtures of Atmospheric Gases at Relevant Temperatures and Humidities Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Hygroscopic Properties of Aerosol Organics Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Photooxidation of Biogenically Produced Alkenes: Impacts on HOx, NOx, and Aerosol Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Hygroscopic Phase Transitions of Atmospheric Particles Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Air/Sea Gas Exchange Studies of Carbon Dioxide, Dimethyl Sulfide, and Acetone by Eddy Correlation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Processing by a Fog Cloud - Field and Laboratory Studies Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measured Organic Particle Types with Molecular Modeling of their Volatility and Uptake Properties Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Core Project Office Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Reactions and Fate of Amines in the Atmosphere Emitted from Animal Feeding Operations Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Biogenic Volatile Organic Carbon (VOC) Emission and Organic Aerosol Composition During the Biosphere Effects on Aerosol and Photochemistry Experiment (BEARPEX) Award Effective Date: 07/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Application of Solid Phase Microextraction to Determine Emission Rates of Sesquiterpenes from Terrestrial Vegetation Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Do Air Pollutants Modify the Strength and Quality of Floral Scents? Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Ground-truthing Ozone and Particulate Matter Sensitivities to Emissions Trends Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Characterization of Secondary Organic Aerosol Exposed to Acidic Sulfates: Chamber and Field Studies Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measurement and Interpretation of OH, HO2, and OH Reactivity during BEARPEX 09 Award Effective Date: 07/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SGER: Measurements of Nitrous Acid and Nitric Acid during BEARPEX 2009 Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Investigating Potential Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Increases Due to Beetle Infestation Across the Western United States Award Effective Date: 06/15/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Mixing Ratio and Flux Measurements of Volatile Organic Compounds During BEARPEX 2009 Using a Portable, Self-sufficient REA-GC-FID System Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Analysis of Volatile Organic Compound Oxidation Chemistry and Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation with Novel Instrumentation for in Situ Carbonyl Detection Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Quantum Origin of Anomalous Isotope Effects Award Effective Date: 06/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2009 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Atmospheric Chemistry; Waterville Valley, New Hampshire; August 23-27, 2009 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Chemical Aging of Biomass Burning Aerosol by Heterogeneous and Photosensitized Heterogeneous Reactions with Atmospheric Trace Gases Award Effective Date: 04/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: The Atmospheric Chemistry of Ice and Snow Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Photochemical Aging of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons on Asian Particulate Matter Award Effective Date: 02/01/2009; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

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

Thermodynamic Modeling of Atmospheric Organic Particulate Matter (OPM) in Salt-Containing, Potentially Multi-Phasic Particulate Matter (PM) Systems Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Ozone Photochemistry in Lower Free Troposphere Continental Outflow Traveling Over the North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 08/01/2007; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Carbon Dioxide and Water Flux Responses to Extreme Weather and Climate Anomalies: A Fluxnet Synthesis Award Effective Date: 08/31/2008; Program: BE: CARBON & WATER IN ES

Collaborative Research: CDI-Type II--Integrated Weather and Wildfire Simulation and Optimization for Wildfire Management Award Effective Date: 11/01/2009; Program: CDI TYPE II

Geoscience Applications on Petascale Systems: Requirements Workshops; Early in August-2005 for a 4-6 Weeks Period Award Effective Date: 08/01/2005; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

RUI: Do Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) and Isoprene Control Iron Bioavailability in Marine Aerosols? Award Effective Date: 01/01/2009; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Phenomenological and Predictability Studies of Western North Pacific Tropical Cyclones in Relation to the Pacific Jet Stream Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Eighth Workshop on Decadal Climate Variability: Decadal Predictability and Prediction--Are We Ready?; Saint Michaels, Maryland; October 12-15, 2009 Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Feedbacks between Marine Stratiform Cloud, Atmospheric Circulation and Temperature on Decadal Timescales and in Anthropogenic Change Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Changes of Rainfall Seasonality and Drought Severity over Amazonia and Their Connections to Global Climate Change Award Effective Date: 12/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

RAPID: Evaluation of the Impact of Near-surface Turbulence on the Active Temperature, Ozone and Moisture Microwave Spectrometer (ATOMMS) Measurements Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Ocean-Atmosphere Energy Transport Conference; Pasadena, California; November 5-7, 2009 Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Effects of Cloud and Radiation Processes on the Global Water and Energy Cycle Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

A Physics Coupler for Climate Models Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics