CEDAR: Investigating E Region Auroral Irregularities with Coherent and Incoherent Scatter Radar and Optics
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. David L Hysell($402,724), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Scatter Radar, Analysis, Auroral, Convection, E-region, Investigate, Ionosphere, Irregularities, Irregularity, Near, Neutral, Plasma, Theoretical, Wave.

CEDAR: Global and Local Measurements of Lightning-Mesosphere Interactions
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Steven A Cummer($237,644), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Upper Atmosphere, Effects, Electromagnetic, Global, Ground-based, Optical, TLE, Tles.

CEDAR: Advancing Meteor Aeronomy, Observations, and Physics
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Meers Oppenheim($308,230), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Deceleration, Developed, Effort, Estimates, Meteor, Neutral, Observations, Radar, Scatter, Simulations, Wind.

High-Latitude Ionospheric Composition and its Importance to Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Matthew D Zettergren($202,755), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Ion Composition, Analysis, Modeling, Radar.

Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Investigation of Midlatitude Ionospheric Irregularities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. John Munro($436,875), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Miguel F Larsen($265,853), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Scatter Radar, Arecibo, Caribbean, Electrodynamic, Ground-based, Imagers, Instrumentation, Ionospheric, Irregularities.

Collaborative Research: Observations and Modeling of Acoustic Waves in the Ionosphere and Lower Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Richard L Walterscheid($120,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
2. Michael P Hickey($90,000), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
3. Geoffrey Crowley($184,279), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Acoustic Waves, Ionospheric, Perturbations.

Ionospheric Storm Transition Region Properties
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Seebany Datta-Barua($80,001), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Model, Models, Plasma, SED, Spatial, Structuring.

Continuing Theoretical Studies of Dynamical Processes in the Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jan J Sojka($300,001), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Atmospheric, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Plasma, Radars, Regions, Topics.

NSWP: Understanding Ionospheric Response to Storm-induced Thermospheric Neutral Composition Change
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Hyosub Kil($344,191), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Ionospheric Storm, Space Weather, Thermospheric Composition, Vertical Profiles, Density, F-region, Investigation, Ionosphere, KASI, Korea, Producing, Region.

Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) Science Workshop; Breckenridge, Colorado; May 18-20, 2010
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Meg Austin($9,709), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: CNOFS, Workshop.

Advanced Computational Capabilities for Exploration in Heliophysical Science (ACCHS) Workshop; Boulder, Colorado; August 16-18, 2010
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Philip G Judge($10,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Physics, Advanced, Computational, Computing, Instruments, Produce.

Simulations and Theory of Medium to Small Scale E-region Turbulance
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Meers Oppenheim($580,818), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Density, E-region, Electron, Instabilities, Ionosphere, Plasma, Simulation, Thermal.

CEDAR: Physics of the Hydrogen Geocorona
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Edwin J Mierkiewicz($270,520), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Analysis, Atmospheric, Density, Dynamical, Empirical, Spectroscopic.

Excitation and Emission Properties of Molecular Nitrogen for Earth's Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Charles P Malone($298,108), Space Environment Technologies, Pacific Palisades
Key terms: Strong Rotational Dependence, Cross Sections, Molecular Nitrogen, Predissociation Yields, Solar Radiation, Absorption, Atmospheric, Critical, Discrete, Electronic, Emission, Excitation, Has, Laboratory, Measured, Program, Properties, Strongly, Theoretical, Transition, Ultraviolet, Ungerade.

Space-Time Description of Non-Migrating Tidal Effects in the Low-Latitude Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Roland T Tsunoda($389,910), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: International, Non-migrating, Structures, Wave.

NSWP: Quantifying the Thermosphere-ionosphere Response to Solar and Geomagnetic Forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Mariangel Fedrizzi($337,615), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Capability, Long-term, Model.

CEDAR: Interactions of Short-Period Gravity Waves with the Horizontally-Inhomogeneous Structure of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan B Snively($75,470), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Airglow, Effects, MLT, Multi-scale, Structure, Waves.

Laboratory Studies of O(1D) Processes Important in the Upper Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Konstantinos Kalogerakis($326,092), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Red Line Emission, Collisional Removal, Energy Transfer, Oxygen Atoms, Rate Coefficient, Temperature Dependence, Atmospheric, Correct, Emissions, Experiments, Ionospheric, Laboratory, Lasers, Modeling, OD, Processes, Quantification, Range.

CAREER: The Plasmochemistry and Photochemistry of the Upper Atmosphere Induced by Transient Luminous Events
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ningyu Liu($412,801), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Florida Tech, Atmospheric, Building, Education, Objectives, Optical, Program, Public, School, TLE, Tles.

CEDAR: Dynamics of the Neutral Upper Atmosphere and Coupling to the Topside Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert B Kerr($777,720), Scientific Solutions Incorporated, North Chelmsford
Key terms: Arecibo Observatory, Chemical Coupling, Lower Thermosphere, Neutral Winds, Topside Ionosphere, Upper Thermosphere, Development, Dynamic, Exosphere, Female, Fpis, ISR, Instrumentation, Near, Optical, Techniques, Temperatures, Upgraded.

CEDAR: Natural and Rocket-Triggered Lightning in the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere (MLTI) System
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert C Moore($275,000), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Natural And Rocket-triggered, Experimental Effort, Hz-20 Mhz, Natural Lightning, Rocket-triggered Lightning, Successfully Produce, Transient Luminous, Characteristics, Conductivity, Investigate, Ionospheric, Observations, Observed, Signals, Tles, VLF, Wideband.

CEDAR: Investigation of Baroclinic Disturbances in the Polar Wintertime Middle Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. V. L Harvey($421,463), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Stratosphere And Mesosphere, Vertical Coupling, Atmospheric, Baroclinic, Ground-based, Models, Observations, Polar, Wintertime.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Application of the RENOIR System in Brazil to Study the Gravity Wave Trigger Mechanism In the Production of Equatorial Spread F and Scintillations
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. John W Meriwether($174,024), Clemson University, Clemson
2. Jonathan J Makela($205,496), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Ionospheric Irregularities, Activity, Brazil, Clemson, ESF, Effects, Equatorial, FPI, GPS, Illinois, Imaging, Instruments, Observations, Plasma, RENOIR, Scintillation, Thermospheric, Wide-field.

CEDAR: Quantitiative Assessment of Proton Aurora Using State-of-the-art Models
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Supriya Chakrabarti($373,511), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Doppler Profiles, Incoming Protons, Poker Flat, Proton Aurora, Energy, Modeling, Observations, PFISR.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Tomographic Array for Lightning and Ionospheric Studies (TALIS)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Sigrid Elschot($114,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Peak Plasma Densities, Lightning Emissions, Coupling, Electromagnetic, Increase, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Layers, Mechanical, Metal, Mhz, Model, Observations, RF, Region, Sporadic-e, Troposphere.

CEDAR: Three Dimensional (3D) Modeling of the Formation and Evolution of Meter Scale Ionospheric Structures
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Lars P Dyrud($40,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Gravity Waves, Middle Atmosphere, Northern Latitudes, Activities, Climatology, Common, Contributions, Coupling, Establish, Fairly, Ground-based, Information, Layers, Lower, MIL, Mean, Mesosphere, Mils, Occurrences, Propagation, Satellite, Source, Tides.

Collaborative Research: A New 50 MHz Radar for Meteor and Aeronomical Science
Award Effective Date: 07/31/2009; Program: AERONOMY

1. Lars P Dyrud($66,678), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Non-specular Trails, Atmospheric, Characterization, Echoes, Meteor, Non-specular, Radar, Radio, Upper.

CEDAR: Polar Mesospheric Clouds Using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model 3
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2007; Program: AERONOMY

1. Cora E Randall($312,597), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Dynamics And Chemistry, Ground-based And Satellite, Space Shuttle Exhaust, Anthropogenic Influences, Climate Model, Pmc Formation, Pmc Occurrence, Sulfate Aerosol, Water Vapor, Atmospheric, Brightness, Clouds, Current, Enabling, Eruption, Global, Incorporate, Investigate, Long-term, Mesospheric, Microphysics, NCAR, Natural, Observations, Observed, Perturbations, Pmcs, Public, Solar, Students, Upper, Volcanic, WACCM.

Collaborative Research: Measuring Air-Sea Gas Exchange in High Winds for Improvement of Physics-Based Air-Sea Transfer Parameterizations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Barry J Huebert($837,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Jeffrey E Hare($309,700), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Transfer, Gas Transfer Parameterization, Air-sea Gas, Carbon Dioxide, Climate Models, Dedicated Cruise, Future Climate, Gas Exchange, Ocean Surface, Water Column, Wind Regimes, Atmospheric, Breaking, Bubbles, DMS, Drag, Experimental, Gases, Has, Momentum, Observations, Processes, Range, Shear, Shown, Tangential, Teachers, Wave, Waves, Winds, Workshops.

The Data Legacy of the Scripps Carbon Dioxide Program
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Ralph F Keeling($679,179), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Global Climate, Atmospheric, Available, CDIAC, Comprise, Computer, Context, Datasets, Document, Effort, Flask, Late, Program, Recovering, Resources, Scripps, Time, Webpage.

EAGER: Advancing the Analysis of Secondary Organic Aerosols Through Innovations in Soft Ionization Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Giuseppe Petrucci($100,000), University of Vermont & State Agricultural College, Burlington
Key terms: Formation And Growth, Atmospheric Aerosols, Atmospheric Chemistry, Mass Spectrometry, Organic Aerosols, Soa Formation, AMS, ASOA, Aging, Amines, Atmosphere, BSOA, Basic, Compounds, Cycle, Date, Developing, Emphasis, Ions, Less, Methods, Placed, Play, Reactive, Respectively, Students.

Collaborative Research: Isotopic and Compositional Investigation of the Sources and Interactions of Reactive Nitrogen in the Marine Atmosphere at Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Meredith Hastings($304,627), Brown University, Providence
2. Andrew J Peters($139,499), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
3. Daniel M Sigman($389,830), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Broader Audience, Marine Atmosphere, North Atlantic, Atmospheric, BIOS, Bermuda, Brown, Composition, Contribution, Cycle, Deposition, Development, Education, Field, Graduate, Implications, Laboratory, Ocean, Post-doctoral, Princeton, Program, Sampling, Sources, Technician, Training, Undergraduate.

Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol by Aqueous-phase Reactions of Phenols
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Cort Anastasio($463,192), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Aqueous-phase Reactions, Atmospheric Particles, Mass Spectrometry, Secondary Organic, Amounts, Aqueous-phase, Atmosphere, Characterize, Combustion, Compounds, Conjunction, Contribution, Drops, Emitted, Estimate, Formation, Formed, Gases, Graduate, Has, High-resolution, Laboratory, Phenol, Phenols, SOA, Source, Sources, Students, Techniques, Was, Water, Wood, Yields.

RUI: Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of the Atmospheric Chemistry of Isoprene and its First-Generation Products
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alam Hasson($251,020), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Reaction Products, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Climate, Formation, Fresno, Hydroperoxides, Hydroxyl, Increase, Isoprene, Models, Nitrate, Nitrates, Nox, OH, Organic, Oxide, Participation, Radical, Radicals, Reactions, Students, Teachers, Undergraduate, Workshops.

Selected Studies of the Atmosphere with an Emphasis on Air Quality in China and on Prospects for Wind and Solar Energy as Potential Future Substitutes for Fossil Fuel
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Michael B McElroy($655,480), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Carbon, China, Collaboration, Colleagues, Continuous, Development, Dioxide, Environment, Future, Harvard, Model, Site.

Development of a Laser Photofragmentation/ Laser-Induced Fluorescence Instrument for Tropospheric Measurements of Nitrous Acid
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sebastien Dusanter($393,225), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Air, Anticipated, Atmosphere, Concentrations, Control, Description, Field, Future, HONO, Instrument, Laboratory, Models, Nm, OH, Occurring, Sources, Techniques.

RUI: Impact of Changing Fuel Usage on the Atmospheric Cycling of Ethanol, Optically Active Organic Compounds and Iron (Fe) in Rainwater
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Joan D Willey($614,480), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Fossil Fuel Emissions, Marine Primary Productivity, Various Fuel Sources, Combustion Sources, Fuel Usage, Hydrogen Peroxide, Vehicle Fuel, Abundance, Atmospheric, CDOM, Carbon, Changing, Chemistry, Chromophoric, Comparison, Composition, Concentrations, Current, Ethanol, Explores, Feii, Future, Global, Increased, Iron, Ligands, Objective, Organic, Origin, Phase, Potential, Precipitation, Profile, Rainwater, Shifting, Speciation, Students, Time, Troposphere.

EAGER: A Prototype Dense Observing Network for Air Quality (AQ) and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Monitoring
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ronald C Cohen($102,586), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Atmospheric, Available, Core, Design, Educational, Extent, Instrument, Museums, Prototypes, Schools, Useful.

RAPID: Spatially Enhanced Broadband Array Spectrograph System (SEBASS) Survey Over the Gulf Oil Spill
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David M Tratt($129,668), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Oil Leak, Twin Otter, Altitudes, ER-, Emissions, Flight, Flights, Gulf, RAPID, Site.

Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Transformation of Isoprene: Relevance to Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Michael R Hoffmann($471,892), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Marc M Baum($379,387), Oak Crest Institute of Science, Monrovia
Key terms: Oak Crest, Photochemical Oxidation, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Heterogeneous, Investigated, Isoprene, Organic, Products, Range, Reactions, SOA, School, Students, Transition.

RAPID: Ice Supersaturated Regions and Distribution of Water Vapor During the Third HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) Deployment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mark A Zondlo($119,646), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Ice Supersaturated Regions, Hippo Global, Upper Troposphere, Vcsel Dataset, Water Vapor, Analyses, Calibrations, Campaigns, Chemistry, Climatologies, Field, Hygrometer, Laboratory, NSF, Properties, Trace, Vertical.

RAPID: Chemical Analysis of Atmosphere Associated with Gulf Oil Spill
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Donald R Blake($92,807), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Gulf Oil Spill, Twin Otter Aircraft, Flight Plan, Remote Sensing, AGS-, AVIRIS, C-, Collected, Coordinated, ER-, Gas, Hydrocarbons, Initiated, Methane, Opportunity, Platforms, RAPID, RV, Sampling, Species, Was.

EAGER: Measurement of the Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Composition of Evaporating Water Using a Novel Cavity Ring-Down Technique
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Zachary Sharp($132,700), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Evaporation And Condensation, Traditional Mass Spectrometry, Experimental Technique, Isotopic Fractionation, Water Vapor, Wide Range, Approach, Atmospheric, Developed, Has, Phd, Published.

RAPID: A Field Intercomparison of High-Resolution Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Knopf($42,147), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Field Campaign, Hr-ptr-tof Ms, Allow, BEACHON-ROCS, Carbon, Deployment, Developers, Evaluation, Forest, Hr-ptr-tof, Instrument, Technology, Time, VOC.

RAPID: Fossil-Fuel Extraction Industry Methane Emission Ground Reference Measurements during the AVIRIS Response to the Gulf Oil Spill
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Bruce P Luyendyk($110,711), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Gulf Oil Leak, Current Mission, Geologic Source, Ground Reference, Methane Emissions, Twin Otter, AVIRIS, Air, Airborne, Allowing, Allows, CH, Collected, Estimated, Flaring, GOSAT, Hyperspectral, Observations, Platform, Plume, RAPID, Radiative, SEBASS, Situ, Sources, Spill, Transit.

Collaborative Research: Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) Studies of Soot, Organic Matter, and Associated Aerosol Particles During CalNex
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Serena Chung($13,363), Washington State University, Pullman
2. Peter R Buseck($566,548), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Environmental Cell, Global Climate, Optical Properties, Airborne, Calnex, Collected, Compared, Contribute, Detailed, Electron, Health, Information, Metal-bearing, Nanoparticles, OM, Obtained, Presentations, TEM, Techniques, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Sources and Processes of Primary and Secondary Particulate Matter (PM) and Precursor Gases in the California-Mexico Border Region
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Renyi Zhang($181,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
2. Linsey C Marr($178,310), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Lynn M Russell($181,058), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
4. Luisa T Molina($264,348), Molina Center for Strategic Studies in Energy & the Environment, La Jolla
Key terms: California-mexico Border Region, Quality And Climate, Regional Air Quality, Transport And Transformation, California-mexico Border, Fixed Site, Meteorological Parameters, Particulate Matter, Aerosols, Analysis, Assess, Emissions, Gases, Measure, Mexican, Mobile, Pollutants, Processing, Sources, Students, Tasks.

Emissions and Chemistry from the Tianjin Region in China
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy VanReken($240,674), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Atmospheric, Benefit, Chemical, Chemistry, China, Compounds, Emission, Emphasis, Field, Gas, Global, Megacity, Ozone, Pis, Program, Region, Tianjin, Vocs.

Understanding Northern Hemisphere (NH) Summer Season Tropospheric Ozone Variability across the Northern Tropical Atlantic through Focused Upstream/Downstream Campaigns
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Belay B Demoz($478,161), Howard University, Washington
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Boundary Layer, Cape Verde, Nitrogen Oxides, Ozone Depletion, Ozonesonde Launches, Ozonesonde Preparation, Sao Vicente, Surface Ozone, Aerosol, Aews, Africa, Augustseptember, Barbados, Campaign, Caribbean, Collaboration, Daily, Dakar, Dust, Enhancement, Expected, Field, Focus, Graduate, IOP, Occurring, Opportunities, Ozonesonderadiosonde, Senegal, Students, Tropical.

ETBC: Global 3-D Modeling of Atmospheric Mercury and its Coupling to the Ocean and Land: Impacts of Past and Future Anthropogenic Emissions
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel J Jacob($550,306), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Mercury Cycle, Mercury Speciation, Modeling Framework, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere, Emissions, Environmental, Future, Geos-chem, Global, Link, Methylmercury, Oceanic, Terrestrial, Three-dimensional.

EAGER: Analysis of Kinetics and Products of Glyoxal Uptake in the Presence of Hydroxyl Radicals (OH)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Frank Keutsch($98,910), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fast Uptake, Reaction Products, Soa Formation, Aerosol, Conditions, Exploratory, Glyoxal, Students, Undertaken.

Determination of Heterogeneous Photochemistry Related to Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Species
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lei Zhu($555,303), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
Key terms: Absorption Cross Sections, Cavity Ring-down Spectroscopy, Uv Absorption Cross, Cavity Ring-down, Graduate Student, Heterogeneous Photolysis, Hno3h2o Co-deposited, Postdoctoral Scholar, Ring-down Spectroscopy, Surface-adsorbed Hno3, Acid, Active, Atmospheric, Co-deposited, Director, Efforts, HNOHO, HONO, Has, NOY, Nox, Outreach, Ozone, Photochemistry, Plans, Shepherd, Species, Suny-albany, Surface-adsorbed, Yields.

Collaborative Research: EAGER--Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from the Tundra and Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mark J Potosnak($54,684), DePaul University, Chicago
2. Bradly M Baker($36,146), University Enterprises, Incorporated, Sacramento
Key terms: Toolik Field Station, Atmospheric Chemistry, Bvoc Emissions, Tundra Ecosystem, Arctic, Campaign, Chicago, Collaboration, Global, Has, On-going, Species.

EAGER: Differentiating Heterotrophic and Root Respiration Through Concurrent Measurement of CO2 and O2 Fluxes in Soils
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jianwu Tang($149,211), Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole
Key terms: Microbial And Root, Respiration And Root, Terrestrial And Ocean, Microbial Respiration, Oxidative Ratio, Oxidative Ratios, Root Respiration, Soil Respiration, Carbon, Field, Fluxes, Graduate, Method, Objectives, Oxygen, Partition, Shape.

Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Processing of Iron--Does Particle Size Influence Iron Solubility?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Pierre Herckes($220,238), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Brian J Majestic($89,710), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Cloud Waters, Iron Solubility, Particle Size, Sulfur Dioxide, ASU, Affects, Arizona, Atmospheric, CCN, Continent, Determined, Fraction, Granting, Has, Influence, Investigated, Marine, NAU, Native, Ocean, Phd, Reactions, Student, Students, Training, Undergraduate.

Understanding Atmospheric Sulfur Cycle using Triple Isotopes of Oxygen and Sulfur (ASCTIOS)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mark H Thiemens($368,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Global Chemistry Models, Cape Grim, Southern Hemisphere, Sulfate Aerosols, Anthropogenic, Atmospheric, Australia, Formation, Has, Ice, Natural, Potential, Sources, Station, Sulfur.

Quantifying Particulate Matter Emission Factors from Prescribed Burning with Application to Mitigating the Impact on Air Quality
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Glynnis C Bugna($399,396), Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Fire Carbon Dioxide, Air Quality, Carbon Isotope, Fire Pm2, Aerosol, BBA, Burning, Calculation, Composition, Conditions, Current, Developed, EF, Efs, Emission, Factors, Generated, Methods.

2010 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere; Les Diablerets, Switzerland; May 23-28, 2010
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nancy R Gray($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Biogenic Hydrocarbons, Junior Scientists, Atmospheric, Conference.

Whole Air Sampling Measurements and Data Analysis from the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 Experiment and the HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observation Campaign
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Elliot Atlas($533,560), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Carbon Cycle Gases, Climate-relevant Trace Gases, Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate-relevant Trace, Model Simulations, Pole-to-pole Observation, Add, Air, Analysis, Chemical, Comparison, Development, Distributions, Examine, Global, HIAPER, HIPPO, NOAA, Pole-to-pole, Range, START, Stratosphere, Transport, UTLS, Unique.

CAREER: Towards a Better Understanding of Ambient Semi-volatile Organic Aerosol: Investigation of Thermodynamic Properties of Multi-component Organic Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Andrey Y Khlystov($167,896), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Ambient Aerosol, Ambient Aerosols, North Carolina, Organic Aerosol, Outreach Component, Thermodynamic Properties, Air, Audience, Carbon, Compound, Compounds, Conditions, Controlled, Educational, Environmental, Equilibrium, Function, Investigated, Laboratory, Main, Matrix, Mixture, Models, Modified, Multi-component, Partitioning, Polarity, Public, Semi-volatile, Students, Volatility.

Understanding Recent Changes in the Atmospheric Methane Growth Rate through Analyses of the Isotopic Composition of Methane in a Rare Air Archive
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. M.A.K. Khalil($253,061), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Available Prior, Isotopic Composition, Atmospheric, CC, CH, Changing, DH, Oregon, Portland, Sources, Students, Time.

Sensitive and Versatile Tropospheric Hydrogen Chloride (HCl) Instrument
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Azer Yalin($228,132), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Halogen Activation, Hcl Sensor, Tropospheric Halogen, CRDS, CSU, Chlorine, Climate, Cycles, Design, Detection, Development, Gas, Instrument, Methane, Optical, Product, Sensitivity, Source, Species, Spectroscopy, Students.

Collaborative Research: EAGER--Deployment of a New Photofragmentation Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Nitrous Acid (HONO) Measurement on FIONA
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David Tan($161,454), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Anne T Case-Hanks($56,365), The University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe
Key terms: Lower Mississippi Delta, Atmospheric Chemistry, Nitrous Acid, Access, Atmosphere, Contribute, Critical, Deployment, FIONA, HONO, Instrument, Louisiana, Monroe, OH, Species, Tech, ULM.

Formation and Growth of Particles in the Troposphere: Modeling, Data Analyses, and Comparisons
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Fangqun Yu($519,958), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Formation And Growth, Global Aerosol Modeling, Ccn Concentrations, Nucleation Mechanisms, Nucleation Rate, Particle Formation, Analyses, Atmospheric, Available, Climate, Dependences, Derived, Educational, IMN, IRF, Importance, Improvement, Models, Opportunities, Processes, Representation, Students, Sub-grid, Training, Tropospheric, Uncertainties.

RUI: Laboratory Studies of Particle Nucleation--Homogeneous Nucleation Involving Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4), Water (H2O), and Ammonia (NH3) Vapors
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David R Hanson($308,758), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
Key terms: Local And National, Extended Source, Flow Reactor, Nucleation Rates, Sulfuric Acid, Allow, Ammonia, Augsburg, Bulk, Concentration, Developed, Enhance, Evaluating, Formation, Foster, Growth, Laboratory, Meetings, Opportunities, Particle, Particles, Photolytic, Processes, Relative, Students, Training, Undergraduate.

Chapman Conference on Complexity and Extreme Events in Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. A Surjalal Sharma($20,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Graduate Students, Complex, Conference, Extreme, Features, Lead, Organized, Participation.

CDI-Type II: New Cyber Technologies to Enable Space Weather Forecasting
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CDI TYPE II

1. Dennis S Bernstein($1,714,815), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Reliable Space Weather, Space Weather Forecasting, Space Weather Modeling, Weather Forecast Capability, Challenges, Collaboration, Errors, Graduate, Limited, Methods, Models, National, Reliability, Tools.

Collaborative Research: Large-Scale Atmospheric Response to the North Pacific Western Boundary Current Fluctuations and its Potential Predictability
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Young-Oh Kwon($426,822), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Michael A Alexander($530,767), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperature, Strong Sea Surface, Atmospheric Circulation, High-resolution Datasets, Model Simulations, North Pacific, Oceanic Fronts, Overlying Atmosphere, Affect, Currents, Fluctuations, High-resolution, Long-range, Midlatitude, Prediction, Suggest, Weather.

Collaborative Research: The Southern Subtropical Anticyclones
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Carlos R Mechoso($466,215), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Chunzai Wang($224,071), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Climate Models, Southern Hemisphere, Anticyclones, Atlantic, Features, Found, Monsoons, Pacific, Representation, Subtropical.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the impacts of atmospheric and land surface heterogeneity and scale on soil moisture-precipitation feedbacks
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Pierre Gentine($275,163), Columbia University, New York
2. Kirsten L Findell($301,629), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Soil Moisture, Atmospheric, Coupling, Drought, Enhanced, Feedback, Lack, Lead, Models, Observations, Precipitation, Surface, Wetter.

Analysis of the Radiative Response of Clouds to El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Climate Fluctuations
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Andrew E Dessler($150,218), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Climate Model Projections, Sign And Strength, Climate Models, Cloud Feedbacks, Clouds, Concentrations, Determining, ENSO, Earth, Expected, Observations, Radiation, Source, Temperature.

Stochastic Dynamics of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Thomas Birner($436,684), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Stratospheric Polar Vortex, Models, Ssws, Stable, Stratosphere, Transitions, Weather.

Heavy Precipitation over Western North America: Synoptic/Mesoscale Forcing and Decadal Trends
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Clifford F Mass($499,515), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Coast Heavy Precipitation, Flooding And Slope, West Coast Heavy, Future Trends, Intellectual Merit, Past Trends, Slope Failures, Ability, Accurate, California, Characteristics, Climate, Climatology, Conditions, Declarations, Determining, Frequency, Global, High-resolution, Information, Large-scale, Meteorological, Model, Models, Oregon, Region, Regional, Simulations, Washington.

Effects of Freshwater Flux Forcing on Interannual Climate Variability and Predictability in the Tropical Pacific
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Rong-Hua Zhang($599,998), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Fwf-induced Climate Feedback, Simulations And Predictions, Coupled Ocean-atmosphere, Enso Simulations, Fwf Forcing, Fwf-induced Climate, Tropical Pacific, Water Cycle, Account, Global, HCM, Has, Interannual, Model, Models, Modulation, Ocean-atmosphere, Predictability, Salinity.

Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Gravity Waves and their Effects on General Circulation and Climate; Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii; February 27-March 4, 2011
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Brenda L Weaver($27,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Circulation And Climate, Atmospheric Circulation, Gravity Waves, Chapman, Conference, Effects, Models, Observations, Students.

Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in Models and Observations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric D Maloney($425,553), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Indian Ocean, Atmospheric, Circulation, Development, Eastward, MJO, Moisture, Precipitation, Propagates, Tropical, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Sources of Black Carbon, Methane Sulfonic Acid, and Other Particulate Constituents over 45 Years in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Vincent A Dutkiewicz($273,917), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
2. Philip K Hopke($349,331), Clarkson University, Potsdam
Key terms: Arctic, BC, Climate, Concentrations, Contributions, Health, Kevo, PM, Particles, Sulfate, Trends.

Collaborative Research: Using Controlled Aerosol Perturbations to Improve Understanding of Cloud Responses for Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John H Seinfeld($239,713), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Lynn M Russell($243,575), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Bruce A Albrecht($47,714), University of Miami, Coral Gables
4. Armin Sorooshian($120,000), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Global Climate Models, Future Climate, Modeling Studies, Ability, Aircraft, Atmosphere, Broader, Cloud, Dynamical, Educational, Gcms, Inform, Largest, Natural, Observations, Particle, Play, Predictions, Processes, Radiative, Teaching, Uncertainty.

Global Cloud Climatology from Surface Observations: Analyses and Decadal Update
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Stephen G Warren($257,923), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cloud Types, Diurnal Cycles, Analyzed, Climate, Clouds, Cover, Database, Databases, Decades, Height, Interannual, Investigated, Land, Modeling, Night, Observations, Ocean, Past, Radiative, Resulting, Slight, Surface, Trends, Updated.

How Will Global Warming Change the Storm Tracks? Investigating the Importance of Diabatic Processes using High-resolution Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gary M Lackmann($608,073), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Damaging Winds, Extratropical Cyclones, Flooding Rains, Global Climate, Individual Storms, Broader, Diabatic, Dynamics, Effects, Expected, Heat, Model, Potential, Projecting, Stormtracks, Troposphere, Uncertain, WRF, Warmer.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of the MJO (DYNAMO) Scientific Program Overview
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Chidong Zhang($7,598), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Steven A Rutledge($15,347), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Robert A Houze($7,500), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Atmospheric Circulation, Cloud Populations, Diego Garcia, Field Campaign, Indian Ocean, Madden-julian Oscillation, Observing Array, Radiosonde Launches, Air-sea, Analysis, Australia, Benefit, Convection, Convective, DYNAMO, Envelope, Essential, Fluctuations, Gan, Has, Held, Hurricanes, Initiation, Interaction, Intraseasonal, Island, Islands, MJO, Madden-julian, Models, Moistening, Moisture, Numerical, Onset, Organized, Planned, Play, Radars, Rvs, Ships, Tropical, Variety.

Collaborative Research: A Pilot Study of Simultaneous Parameter and State Estimation in Coupled Ocean-Atmosphere General Circulation Models Using the Ensemble Kalman Filter
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zhengyu Liu($559,712), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Robert Jacob($59,931), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Coupled Dynamics, Ensemble Based, Model Parameters, Parameter Optimization, Tropical Climate, Assimilation, Improvement, Oagcms, Strategy, Systematic.

Support for a Symposium to Honor Mike Wallace's Contributions to the Field of Climate Dynamics; Seattle, Washington; September 27-28, 2010
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David W Thompson($20,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Climate Dynamics, Climate Scientists, Former Students, Graduate Students, Atmospheric, Cover, Current, Field, Has, Symposium, Th, Travel, Wallaces.

Dynamical Effects of Water Vapor and on Storm Tracks and their Response to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tapio Schneider($499,077), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Storm Tracks, Water Vapor, Circulation, Comprehensive, Dynamical, Dynamics, GCM, Models, Physics.

Dynamical and Chemical Diagnosis of Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 (START08) Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kenneth P Bowman($477,158), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Extratropical Lower Stratosphere, Model Simulations, Trace Species, Tropospheric Air, Advance, Aircraft, Analysis, Composition, Development, GV, Graduate, Methods, NCAR, START, Students, Transport, UTLS, Upper.

CAREER: Characterizing the Uncertainty in Projections of Climate Change in the Semi-Arid Tropics Based on the Moist Static Energy Framework
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Alessandra Giannini($743,639), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Moist Static Energy, Static Energy Framework, Model Projections, Semi-arid Regions, Advance, Broader, Characterization, Climate, Component, Educational, Implications, Influences, Interaction, Local, Neighborhood, Observed, Phases, Policy, Practice, Precipitation, Processes, Regional, Semi-arid, Societies, Students, Tropics, Uncertainty.

Dynamics of the Boreal Summer Intraseasonal Oscillation: Multiscale Interactions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kazuyoshi Kikuchi($597,427), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Asian, BSISO, Cloud, Development, Droughts, Examines, Extent, Floods, Monsoon, Oscillation, Precipitation, QBW.

Cumulus Convection and Large-Scale Tropical Flows
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David J Raymond($546,567), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Convectively Coupled, Easterly Waves, Field Campaigns, Graduate Students, Mass Flux, Simple Models, Tropical Convection, Tropical Cyclones, Broader, CRM, Circulation, Clouds, Collaboration, Development, Dynamics, Examination, Extension, Extent, Has, Hurricanes, International, Quasi-equilibrium, Surface, Theory, Weather, Wind.

Inherent Predictability of Observed Seasonal Mean Precipitation Variations Over the Continental United States
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Guido D Salvucci($405,249), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Stochastic Weather-generation Models, Daily Precipitation, Inherent Predictability, Inherently Predictable, Numerical Model, Seasonal-mean Precipitation, Stochastic Weather-generation, Weather-generation Models, Climate, Drought, Envelope, Establish, Identifying, Interannual, Multi-decadal, Observed, Regions, Seasonal-mean.

Collaborative Research: Changes in Characteristics of Global Precipitation Since 1900 from Observations, Analyses, and Models: Mechanisms and Uncertainties
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Phillip A Arkin($233,450), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Samuel S Shen($305,364), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Differences, Effort, Has, Ii, Minority, Modeled, Precipitation, Reconstructed, Students, Training, Uncertainties, Underrepresented.

Idealized Models for Tropical Climate Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Adam H Sobel($599,356), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Tropical Climate Dynamics, Approximation, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Circulation, Development, Eddies, Extratropical, Has, Models, Rainfall, SCM, Surface, Temperature, WTG, Zones.

Studies on Dynamics of ENSO (El Nino-Southern Oscillation) Complexity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Fei-Fei Jin($448,345), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Enso Modes, Global Impacts, Climate, Coupled, Has, Investigate, Lead, Mechanisms, Phenomenon.

A Model-based Investigation of Climate Variability and Climate Change: Focus on the West African Monsoon System
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Matthew B Fulakeza($441,704), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: 21st Century, African Easterly, Climate Models, Global Climate, Monsoon Onset, Regional Model, Wa Climate, ACMAD, Advance, Analysis, CORDEX, Center, Development, Projections, RM, Shared, Simulation, Simulations, Trends, WCRP.

Collaborative Research: Cloud Macrophysical Parameterization and Its Application to Aerosol Indirect Effects
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Graeme L Stephens($641,374), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Robert Wood($577,881), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Hugh Morrison($890,850), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
4. Vincent E Larson($894,105), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Climate Models, CLUBB, Clouds, Improvements, Method, Pdfs, Policy.

CAREER: Dynamics and Impacts of Fine-Scale Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noah S Diffenbaugh($443,795), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Climate Model Experiments, Elevated Greenhouse Forcing, Fine-scale Climate, Analyses, Analysis, Approach, Assessment, Benefit, Fine-scale, Indicators, Processes, Quantitative, Severe, Spatial, Tangible, Testing, Uncertainty.

The Role of Water Vapor in Midlatitude Stormtracks and the Global Circulation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Olivier Pauluis($695,366), New York University, New York
Key terms: Mid-latitude Weather, Potential Temperature, Upper Troposphere, Ability, Affect, Assess, Based, Branch, Circulation, Climate, Constant, Dry, Global, Isentropes, Isentropic, Level, Mid-latitude, Models, Moist, Numerical, Partitioning, Poleward, Reanalysis, Subtropical, Surfaces, Transport.

Coupled Aerosol and Climate Models: An Intercomparison of the GFDL Model and the NCAR Model
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Joyce E Penner($700,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Aerosol Model, Climate Models, AR, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Cloud, Coupled, Fields, Report.

Tropospheric Anthropogenic Aerosols and Climate
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Chien Wang($592,606), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Aerosol Forcing, Aerosol Model, Anthropogenic Pollutants, Natural Aerosols, CCSM, Chemical, Climate, Cloud, Effects, Environment, Examine, Feedbacks, Models, Module, Size, Surface.

CAREER: The Climatic Relevance of Pollen in the Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Allison Steiner($599,940), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Magnitude And Spatial, Primary Biogenic Aerosols, Biosphere-atmosphere Interactions, Green Roof, Pollen Emissions, Radiative Forcing, Regional Climate, Spatial Distribution, Act, Biosphere-atmosphere, CCN, Contribution, Development, Direct, Education, Fine, Indirect, International, Middle, Model, Nuclei, Public.

Dynamics of Low Frequency Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter J Webster($1,970,572), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Asian Monsoon, Monsoon Rainfall, Warm Pool, Convection, Dynamics, Extremely, Has, Intraseasonal, Large-scale, Pacific, Predictable, Region, Severe, Size, South, Tropical, Yto-year.

REU Site: Summer Fellowships in Biogeochemistry and Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric S Saltzman($342,523), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Analysis, Atmospheric, Biogeochemistry, Climate, Diverse, Experience, Fields, Graduate, Program, Programs, Qualified, Range, Seek, Students, Terrestrial, Undergraduate.

Gravity Wave Sources and Parameterization
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. M Joan Alexander($592,877), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Gravity Wave Generation, Atmospheric Circulation, Broader Impacts, Global Models, Gravity Waves, Parameterization Development, Affect, Atmosphere, Cirrus, Climate, Convection, Effects, Forcing, Future, Local, Modeling, Momentum, Observational, Processes, Treatment, Upper, Weather.

Mechanisms of Climate Variability and Change
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dennis L Hartmann($1,751,305), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Global Warming, Positive Feedback, Water Vapor, Analysis, Behavior, Climate, ENSO, FAT, Interaction, Model, Oscillation, QBO, Simulations, Students, Topic, Topics, Weak.

EAGER: Project Surya - Mitigation of Global and Regional Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Veerabhadran Ramanathan($300,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cooking And Heating, Absorbing Aerosol, Bc Emissions, Radiative Forcing, Reflecting Aerosol, Clean, Conversion, Cooling, Efficiencies, Global, India, Net, People, Ratio, Reduction, Stoves, Surya, Tested, Village, Warming.

Workshop for In Situ Airborne Instrumentation: Addressing and Solving Measurement Problems in Ice Clouds; Seaside, Oregon; June 25-27, 2010
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Darrel Baumgardner($15,000), Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder
Key terms: Cloud Particles, Workshop Participants, Aircraft, Broad, Comprehensive, Early-career, Exchange, Facilitate, Gaps, Ice, Identification, Instrument, Limitations, Obstacles, Oregon, Participation, Progress, Protocols, Standardized, Technologies, Via.

CAREER: Water and Energy Cycle Research and Education from the Stable Water Isotope Budget Near a Tall Tower in the Colorado Front Range
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David C Noone($722,421), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Determining Isotopic Composition, Factors Determining Isotopic, Gas Exchange, Middle Schools, Useful Information, Water Vapor, Atmosphere, Carbon, Evaporation, Fluxes, Heat, Isotope, Land, Latent, Meteorological, Precipitation, Processes, Serve, Soil, Strength, Students, Surface, Tower.

Further Study of Dynamics of Low-Frequency Variability of the Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Fei-Fei Jin($492,736), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Induced Dynamic Instability, Synoptic-eddy Induced Dynamic, Atmospheric Low-frequency, Dynamical Coupling, Flow Anomalies, Low-frequency Flow, Middle Latitude, Synoptic-eddy Induced, Climate, Climatic, Extratropical, Ii, Low-frequency, Mechanisms, Planetary-scale.

Improving the Understanding and Modeling of Land Processes in the Community Climate System Model (CCSM4.0)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael A Brunke($911,324), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Dynamic Vegetation, Energywatercarbon Cycles, Land Surface, Nitrogen Cycling, Affect, CCSM, CLM, Climate, Does, Global, Groundwater, Implementation, Interdisciplinary, Model, Modeling, Processes, Treatment.

The Effect of Moist Processes on Midlatitude Static Stability
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dargan M Frierson($329,363), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Air Masses, Condensational Heating, Midlatitude Atmosphere, Midlatitude Stability, Static Stability, Upper Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Cold, Consequences, Determined, Height, Influences, Lower, Processes, Temperature, Tropics, Troposphere, Warm, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Continued Development of Global Positioning System (GPS) as an Instrument for a Continental-Scale Soil Moisture Network
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John J Braun($148,310), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Kristine M Larson($643,633), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Soil Moisture Estimates, Gps Snr, Climate, Environment, Influence, Network, PBO, Sites, Vegetation.

Intraseasonal Variability of the West African Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric D Maloney($214,165), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: African Easterly, Darfur Region, Easterly Wave, Easterly Waves, Enhanced Atlantic, Mjo Affects, West Africa, Activity, Equation, Mjo-related, Model, Modulates, Potential, Precipitation, Prediction, Teleconnection, Tropical.

Future Changes in the Seasonal Cycle: Mechanisms and Implications
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michela Biasutti($543,359), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Global Warming Simulations, Temperature And Precipitation, Model Simulations, Rainy Season, Rainy Seasons, Sea Ice, Seasonal Cycles, Atmosphere, Century, Climate, Consequences, Delay, Delayed, Delays, Extent, Has, Latitudes, Ocean, Onset, Regions, Sahel, Serve, Shortening, Shown, Surface, Termination.

A Moist Pathway of Extratropical Cyclogenesis and Its Implications for High Impact Weather and Atmospheric Predictability
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard Moore($710,243), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Storm Dynamics, Storm Genesis, Findings, Forecast, Predictability, THORPEX, Unique, Via.

Analyses of Large-Scale Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David W Thompson($823,146), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Numerical Experiments, Observational Analyses, Stratospheretroposphere Coupling, Thermal Forcings, Anthropogenic, Assess, Circulation, Climate, Component, Drive, Extratropical, Investigate, Mechanisms, Model, Ozone, Processes, Stratospheric, Tropospheric.

A 10-yr Climatology (1999-2009) on 4-dimensional Precipitation Characteristics Using Weather Radar Observations in the European Alps
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Katja Friedrich($413,811), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Precipitation Characteristics, Precipitation Intensity, Upstream Conditions, Water Vapor, Alps, Climate, Climatology, Distribution, European, Four-dimensional, Ii, Iii, Observations, Radar, Regions, Satellite.

Collaborative Research: VOCALS--Structure and Mechanisms of Coupled General Circulation Models' Systematic Biases in Southeast Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Toshiaki Shinoda($110,584), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Global Climate Models, Structure And Mechanisms, Ocean Gcm, Upper Ocean, AR, Cgcms, Coupled, Examine, Experiments, Forced, IPCC, Ocean-cloud-atmosphere-land, Processes, Region, SEP, Stratocumulus, VAMOS, VOCALS.

Deriving Mutually-Consistent Carbon-Water Fluxes at the Regional Scale from Observations by Using a Coupled Biosphere-Atmosphere Model
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2009; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lixin Lu($191,043), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Forward And Inverse, Carbon-water Inversion, Joint Carbon-water, Water Fluxes, Analysis, Carbon-water, Centered, Cycles, Domain, Estimates, Framework, Information, Modeling, Models, North, Observational, Observations, Satellite, Surface, Tower, Uncertainties, WLEF.

ETBC: Aerosol and Precipitation Chemistry and Deposition Rates in the Western Atlantic Trade Winds: The Link to Sources, Transport, and Deposition Processes - II
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Jingfeng Wu($616,796), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: African Dust, Aerosol, Anthropogenic, Barbados, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Daily, Deposition, Lead, Link, Miami, Modeling, Ocean, Processes, Program, Remote, Transport.

CAREER: 3-D Global Full Maxwell's Equations Modeling of the Effects of a Coronal Mass Ejection on the Earth
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jamesina J Simpson($462,507), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Electric Power, Computational, Currents, Electromagnetic, FDTD, Global, Ionospheric, Mexico, Model, Solutions, Spatial.

REU Site: Summer Research for Undergraduates in Atmospheric Sciences
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Gerhard Kramm($196,100), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Graduate Students, Atmospheric, Broad, Center, Chemistry, Encouraged, Experience, Fields, Geophysical, Interdisciplinary, Mentor, Native, Numerical, Opportunity, Perspective, Physics, REU, Theme.

Acoustical Monitoring and Analysis of Lightning
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Rene O Arechiga($350,652), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Complementary Information, Langmuir Laboratory, Positive Leaders, Acoustic, Enable, Has, Instruments, Lightning, Methods, Mexico, Negative, Pilot, Radio, Sources, Techniques.

Symposium on Aerosols in Geoengineering; Portland, Oregon; October 26-30, 2010
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Lynn M Russell($25,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Aerosol Experts, Annual Meeting, Current Geoengineering, AAAR, Aerosols, Risks, Symposium, Uncertainties.

Collaborative Research: ETBC--The Cycling of Nitrogen in an Earth System Model: Constraints and Implications for Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Global Systems Science

1. Elisabeth A Holland($425,726), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. James T Randerson($471,605), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
3. Christine L Goodale($687,168), Cornell University, Ithaca
4. Scott C Doney($326,740), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
5. Cynthia D Nevison($165,306), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Model Domains, Nitrogen Cycle, Nr Cycle, Reactive Nitrogen, Terrestrial Carbon, Activities, Atmosphere, CCSM, Climate, Coupled, Developed, Global, Graduate, Has, Increased, Involved, Overall, Simulations, Species.

An Improved Understanding of Water Isotope Fractionation in Atmospheric Vapor and Its Source
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Chun-Ta Lai($399,440), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Hydrospheric Isotope Models, Atmospheric Vapor, Isotope Fractionation, Mechanistic Algorithms, Stable Isotope, Vapor Isotope, Air, Surface, Synthesis, Water.

Carbon Dioxide and Water Vapor Isotopes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Xuhui Lee($239,933), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Isotopic Parameterization, ABL, Atmospheric, Available, Carbon, Datasets, Fluxes, Isotopes, LES, Land, Model, Public, Surface, Water.

P2C2: A Hydrogen Isotopic Approach to Resolving Precipitation Seasonality: Application to East Asian Speleothem Oxygen Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Instrumentation & Facilities

1. Steven C Clemens($306,844), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Delta Deuterium, Isotopic Composition, Leaf Wax, Cave, Chinese, Consistent, Phase, Precipitation, Primary, Winter.

NSWP: Space Weather Investigations: Ionospheric Effects at the Longitudes of Maximum Geomagnetic/Geographic Offset
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Philip J Erickson($384,822), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Australia, Generation, Hemisphere, SED.

Augmentation to Ensure a Successful ATOMMS Demonstration and Evaluation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Angel Otarola($1,952,495), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Band Tones, Middle Atmosphere, Vertical Resolution, Water Vapor, ATOMMS, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Design, Errors, Frequencies, GPS, Global, Incomplete, Information, Isolate, LEO, Method, Observations, Operate, Performance, Quantify, Receiver, Sounding, Sources, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Characteristics of Lower Tropospheric Airborne GPS Radio Occultation Observations and Their Impact in Hurricane Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Shu-Hua Chen($262,831), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. JAMES L GARRISON($324,177), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. Feiqin Xie($266,637), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Hurricane Genesis Process, Tropical Cyclone Genesis, Gps Ro, Radio Occultation, Space Borne, Vertical Resolution, Activity, Airborne, Assimilation, Female, Has, Horizontal, Led, Minimal, Models, Moistening, Moisture, Observations, Operational, PREDICT, Promote, Serve, Students.

CAREER: Using an Urban-to-Rural Gradient as a Proxy for Global Change Effects on Selected Biosphere-Atmosphere Trace Gas Exchanges
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Gunnar Schade($611,357), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Teachers And Students, Bvoc Emissions, Undergraduate Students, Climate, Field, Gradients, Houston, Isoprene, Laboratory, Own, Parameters, Program, Sites, Temperature.

RAPID: Bridging Support for Greenland West Coast Magnetometers Conjugate to Antarctic Magnetometer Chain
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: International Research Collab

1. Calvin Robert Clauer($58,976), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: National Space Institute, Additional, Coast, Continue, DNSI, Danish, Denmark, Effort, Gap, Greenland, Has, Network, Operation, Planned, Recently, Stations.

GEM: Plasma Pressure and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Mapping in the Substorm Growth Phase
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Chih-Ping Wang($300,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Magnetic Field Lines, Accurately Map, Configuration, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Magnetotail, Model, Parameterized.

SHINE Postdoc: Topological Modeling of Energy and Helicity in Eruptive Flares
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. George H Fisher($168,277), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Mcc Model, Space Weather, Wide Variety, Berkeley, Cmes, Coronal, Eruption, Field, Icmes, Montana, Phd, Postdoctoral, Solar.

Bow Shock-Magnetopause Coupling Processes as a Function of Interplanetary Magnetic Field (IMF) Orientation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David Sibeck($624,944), Solana Scientific Inc., Solana Beach
Key terms: Bow Shock, Solar Wind, Discontinuities, Examine, Foreshock, IMF, Magnetic, Magnetopause, Magnetosheath, Nature, Processes, Region, Simulations, Spacecraft.

GEM Postdoc: Development of a Substorm-time Magnetic Field Model Based on Computer Experiments and Investigation of Related Ionosphere-Magnetosphere Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Frank R Toffoletto($200,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Magnetic Field Configuration, Substorm Growth Phase, Rcm-e Simulations, Conditions, Expansion, Model, Module, RCM-E, Space, Systematically.

Modeling Ultra-Low Frequency (ULF) Waves in the Near-Earth Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L Lysak($345,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ulf Wave Model, Ion Cyclotron, Ionospheric Waveguide, Near-earth Regions, Ulf Waves, Code, Ground, Ionosphere, MHD, Magnetometers, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Mass, Modeling, Nearth, Observed, Onset, Periods, Physics, Propagation, Simulation, Sources.

Collaborative Research: NSWP: Modeling and Observations of the East-West Effect in Solar Energetic Particle Flux at Geosynchronous
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Juan V Rodriguez($200,852), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Brian T Kress($84,061), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Eastward And Westward, Particle Fluxes, Solar Wind, Energetic, Energies, Magnetosphere, Particles, Reach, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: GEM--Asymmetric Entry and Transport of Magnetospheric Plasma During Periods of Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Lawrence R Lyons($163,336), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Colby L Lemon($165,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Disturbed Times, Magnetically Quiet, Northward Imf, Plasma Sheet, Plasma Simulations, Cold, Conditions, Earth, Field, Has, Investigate, Magnetosphere, Mechanism, Periods, Space, Transport.

GEM: Determination of the True Ionospheric Currents and Conductances from Combined Ground- and Space-Based Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Haje Korth($358,065), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: True Ionospheric Currents, Ionospheric Conductances, Ionospheric Electrodynamics, Circulation, Determined, Electric, Geospace, Global, Ionosphere, Magnetospheric.

GEM: The Timing of Plasma Sheet Flows Relative to the Onset of Various Modes of Magnetospheric Response to the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L McPherron($400,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Geomagnetic Activity, Magnetospheric Physics, Onset Times, Plasma Flows, Solar Wind, Time Sequence, Auroral, Available, Delays, Establish, Field, Infer, Magnetic, Onsets, Phenomena, Signatures, Start, Substorm, Synchronous, Tail, Variety.

CAREER: The Effect of Shear Flow on the Scaling of Magnetic Reconnection and Solar Wind-Magnetospheric Coupling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Paul A Cassak($426,427), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Shear Flow, Conditions, Function, Reconnection, Scaling, Space.

Collaborative Research: Multi-Spacecraft Investigation of Hot Flow Anomalies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hui Zhang($205,922), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Qiugang Zong($140,387), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Magnetosphere And Ionosphere, Bow Shock, Hot Flow, Inside Hfas, Particle Heating, Space Physics, Characteristics, Heated, Interaction, Near, Observed, Particles, Solar, THEMIS.

Collaborative Research: Reconnection in the Dayside Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Viacheslav G Merkin($46,824), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Barrett N Rogers($369,190), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Earth's Magnetosphere, Magnetic Reconnection, Codes, Coupling, Dayside, Global, Local, MHD, Simulations, Techniques.

NSWP: Causal Electron Precipitation in Geospace Weather: Model Development, Validation, Event Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. William Lotko($307,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Electron Precipitation, Lfm Model, Precipitation Models, Simulation Model, Space Weather, Advancing, Characteristics, Derived, Development, Education, Effects, Electrical, Electrodynamics, Geospace, Global, Interaction, Ionosphere, MHD, MI, Magnetosphere, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Principal, Simulations, TIEGCM, Variables.

GEM: Solar Wind Triggering, Periodicity, and Evolution of Sawtooth Events During Magnetic Storms
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Chaosong Huang($276,000), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection, Magnetopause Reconnection Line, Magnetotail Magnetic Flux, Sawtooth Oscillations, Solar Wind, Effective, Evolution, Input, Length, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Onset, Parameters, Substorms.

Response of Day-Side Geomagnetic Field to the Northward Turning of IMF Bz
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Shinichi Ohtani($100,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Knowing Exactly, Magnetic Field, Hits, IMF, Magnetopause, Magnetosphere, Method, Polarity, Spacecraft.

GEM: The Entry of Ions into and Population of the Magnetosphere During Quiet Times
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mostafa El-Alaoui($272,968), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Solar Wind Ions, Magnetic Conditions, Distribution, Disturbed, Entry, Ionosphere, MHD, Magnetosphere, Magnetotail, Model, Observed, Plasma, Quiet, Times, Tracing.

Global Distributions of Ultra-Low Frequency (ULF) Wave Power in the Quiet Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jeff Sanny($191,198), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Quiet Times, Solar Wind, Statistical Maps, Sunspot Minimum, Ulf Waves, Unusually Quiet, Baseline, Formation, Magnetically, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Mission, Play, Steady, Students, Was.

SuperMAG Enhanced Capabilities Enabling Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Research
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Syau-Yun Hsieh($395,561), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Ground-based Magnetic Field, Ground-based Magnetic, Additional, Available, Collaboration, Distribution, Effort, Existing, Expand, Facility, Has, Operation, Public, Service, Stations, Students, Supermag, Teachers, Time, Usage, User, Users, Worldwide.

Physics Modeling of Solar Wind Driven Storms and Substorms in the Earth's Magnetosphere-Ionosphere System
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Wendell Horton($363,557), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Kinetic Theory, Magnetic Field, Plasma Currents, Boundary, Components, Dayside, Describe, Dynamics, Energy, Equations, Has, Magnetosphere, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Model, Physics, Set, Storms, Supersonic, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Radioastronomical Remote Sensing of the Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Steven R Spangler($304,925), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Justin Kasper($75,295), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Faraday Rotation, Plasma Physics, Solar Corona, Array, Cedar, Center, Coronal, EVLA, Inner, Iowa, Lead, MHD, Models, Observations, Students, VLA.

Kinetic Physics of Homogeneous Turbulence in Collisionless Plasmas
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Homayoun Karimabadi($57,939), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Ion Inertial Length, Short Wavelength Regime, Inertial Range, Kinetic Simulations, Particle Kinetic, Solar Wind, Wavelength Modes, Wavelength Turbulence, Cascade, Cell-based, Code, Computational, Description, Files, Focus, Has, Limits, MHD, Physics, Plasmas, Push, Shorter, Theory, Transition, Treatment, Wavelengths.

Coupling Between Plasma and Neutrals: Theoretical Development and Applications to Chromospheric Heating and Magnetosphere-ionosphere Coupling
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Paul Song($251,091), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Theoretical Analysis, Analytical, Applied, Coupling, Equations, Realistic.

The Current-Voltage Relationship in Large-scale Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yongliang Zhang($270,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Auroral Precipitation, Birkeland Current, Birkeland Currents, Distributions.

Workshop on the Auroral Substorm and its Importance on the Development of Solar-Terrestrial Research; Jhongli, Taiwan (R.O.C.); April 8-10, 2010
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jesper W Gjerloev($20,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms:

RAPID: Adding Energetic Particle and Magnetic Field Measurements to a Russian University Satellite Mission
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Vassilis Angelopoulos($150,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Electrons And Ions, Radiation Belt, Atmosphere, Collaboration, Detector, Energetic, Instruments, Lomonosov, MSU, Mechanisms, Missions, NASA, Nearth, Package, Particle, Particles, Precipitating, Precipitation, Quantify, Satellite, UCLA, Upcoming.

CAREER: Magnetospheric Energy Input Uncertainty and its Impact on the Thermosphere/Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yue Deng($463,508), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Energy Inputs, Density, Ionosphere, Neutral, Non-hydrostatic, Processes, Students, Thermosphere.

NSWP: Predicting Geomagnetically Induced Fields Driven by Solar Wind Pressure Discontinuities
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2009; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David L Murr($80,663), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
Key terms: Geomagnetically Induced Fields, Upstream Solar Wind, Si Currents, Caused, Developed, Electric, Empirical, Gics, Ionospheric, Magnetic, Method, Model, Models, Physics-based, Radar, Surface, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: CMG--Analysis and Modeling of Rotating Stratified Flows
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Leslie M Smith($300,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Susan Kurien($177,028), New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos
Key terms: Atmospheric And Oceanic, Geophysical Flows, COMET, Development, Dynamics, Energy, Fluid, Models, Motion, Motions, Theory, Turbulence, Turbulent.

CMG Research: A Copula-Based Probabilistic Approach for Space-Time Characterization of Droughts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Rao S Govindaraju($346,553), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Hydrologic Variables, Spatial Scales, Approach, Current, Dependence, Description, Developed, Distributions, Drought, Droughts, Enable, Indices, Individual, Joint, Methods, Models, Sources, Statistical, Temporal.

CMG Research: Enhanced Empirical Orthogonal Function (EOF) Representations and Time-varying Statistical Models for Climate Patterns
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: MATHEMATICAL GEOSCIENCES

1. Gudrun Magnusdottir($624,318), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Component Analysis, Eof Analysis, Error Analysis, Statistical Methods, Action, Assumption, Centers, Climate, Covariance, Estimates, Explored, Features, Field, Functions, Geoscience, Has, Lack, Limitations, MSLP, Meteorological, Model, NAO, Nonstationary, Parameters, Phase, Program, Sea, Set, Time.

CEDAR: Investigating Atmospheric Effects of Energetic Particle Precipitation Using Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM)
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: MID-SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Cora E Randall($253,276), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Nitric Oxide, Altitudes, Coupling, Energetic, Modeling, Precipitation, Transport, WACCM.

Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) Operations and Maintenance: The First Deployments
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2006; Program: MID-SIZE INFRASTRUCTURE

1. Michael J Nicolls($14,055,615), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Phased Array, Upper Atmosphere, AMISR, Access, Advisors, Assisting, Awardee, Basic, Designed, Distributed, Earth, Facilities, Facility, Focus, Has, Ionosphere, Processed, Processes, Range, Steering, Structures, Student, Students, Training, User.

MRI-R2: Development of Owens Valley Solar Array to a Community Facility
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Dale E Gary($5,121,584), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Space Weather Physics, Ovsa Facility, Radio Emission, Signal Processing, Analysis, Antennas, Astronomy, Effort, Electronics, Engineers, Existing, Has, Instrumentation, Magnetic, National, Pis, Software, Solar, Students, Techniques, Tools, Training.

MRI-R2: Development of Next-generation Imaging Spectrometer Based on a Tunable Liquid Crystal Filter
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Joshua Semeter($775,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Hyperspectral Imager, Lc Filter, Controlled, Degrade, Extremely, Field, Imaging, Individually, LCHSI, Narrow-band, Optical, Quadrant, Resulting, Single, Substrate, Technology, Tunable, Tuned, Wavelength.

Collaborative Research: MRI-R2--Acquisition of a Mobile Atmospheric Profiling System for Multi-Campus Research and Education (CSU-MAPS)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. John Monteverdi($418,485), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
2. Tai-Ran Hsu($446,894), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Heights Near, Rapid Deployment, CSU-MAPS, Campuses, Effort, Energy, Extending, Instruments, Meteorological, Meteorology, Profiles, Students, Supported, Wildfire.

MRI-R2: Development and Deployment of Automated Continuous Wave Quantum Cascade Laser Instruments For On-Site Monitoring of the Four Isotopomers of Nitrous Oxide
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Ronald G Prinn($1,035,845), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Greenhouse Gas, Mole Fraction, Nitrous Oxide, Analysis, Automated, Budget, Deployment, Development, Global, Has, High-frequency, Instruments, Isotopic, Isotopomers, MIT, Natural, Ppb, Sites, Uncertainties, Undergraduate.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Small Computing Cluster for Geophysical Research
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kehui Xu($104,604), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Polar Stratospheric, Applied, Available, Benefit, CCU, Carolina, Ccus, Cluster, Coastal, Conducting, Courses, Education, Faculty, Low-oxygen, Marine, Physics, Primary, Processes, Regional, Simulate, Students.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Proton Transfer Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer for Atmospheric Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Karena A McKinney($626,024), Amherst College, Amherst
Key terms: Bvoc Emissions, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Biogenic, Bvocs, Center, Compounds, Context, Factors, Focus, Harvard, Instrument, Mass, Opportunities, Organic, Ptr-tof-ms.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of Stable Isotope Instrumentation for High Precision Paleoclimatic and Environmental Research at the Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Beizhan Yan($811,868), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Instruments, Involve, LDEO, Observatory, Organic, Stable, Students.

MRI-R2: Acquisition of a Semi-Continental Scale Atmospheric Acoustic Transportable Array
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Frank L Vernon($807,971), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmospheric Acoustics, Infrasound Array, Infrasound Propagation, Real Time, Access, Actual, Adaptive, Audience, Effects, Free, Models, Network, Noise, Ocean, Opportunities, Permit, Perspectives, Pressure, Range, Regional, Reinvestment, Seismic, Seismology, Signals, Sources, Surface, Unprecedented, Weather.

RAPID: Impact of Gulf Oil Surface Films on Atmosphere-Ocean Exchange
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Wade McGillis($122,591), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Air-sea Fluxes, Oil Spill, Regional Meteorology, Air-sea, Alabama, Chemistry, Conjunction, Gases, Has, Heat, Methane, Momentum, Ocean, Spills, Subsurface, Surface, Surfactant, Unprecedented.

Collaborative Research: Holocene Hydrologic Variability across the Western Pacific Warm Pool
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. John W Jenson($164,335), University of Guam, Mangilao
2. Jay L Banner($504,472), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Insolation Forcing, Solomon Islands, Tropical Pacific, Dynamics, ENSO, Guam, Holocene, Hydrologic, Monsoon, Paleoclimate, Philippines, Precipitation, Sites, Speleothem, Speleothems, Vanuatu, WPWP.

RAPID: Recovery of Data from the 5 August 2010 Petermann Glacier Breakup
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jason E Box($63,000), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Ice Island, Ice Shelf, Petermann Glacier, August, Breakup, Cameras, Details, GPS, Loss, Quantitative, RAPID, Sensors, Time, Time-lapse.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Hydrological Variability during the Last Millennium from High Resolution Proxies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. David E Black($78,467), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Thomas E Miller($390,909), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
3. Yochanan Kushnir($148,171), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Late Holocene, Caribbean, Climate, Hydroclimate, Speleothem.

P2C2: Flickering Climate: Assessment of the Non-Stationary Environment in the Great Lakes Area, 14 ka to 8 ka BP- A Time of Rising Human Population and Mega-Fauna Extinction
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Irina P Panyushkina($597,430), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Cold Period, Dryas Cold, Lakes Region, Variance Amplification, Abrupt, Climate.

Effectively Communicating Science Annual Workshops
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. John O Sonsteng($289,000), Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul
Key terms: Communicate Complex, Courtroom Setting, Technical Issues, Audiences, Climate, Communicating, Communication, Dispute, Expert, Information, Involve, Manner, Oral, Participants, Practical, Practice, Workshop, Workshops, Written.

Cave Ventilation and Dripwater Geochemistry: Modern Time Series Speleothem Paleoproxy Calibration
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. William C Burnett($726,955), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Isotopic And Chemical, Air Flow, Carbon Dioxide, Cave Air, Array, Calcite, Chemistry, Drip, Establish, Experiments, Measuring, Monitoring, Ongoing, Paleoclimate, Rates, Rn, Signals, Situ, Speleothems, Temperature, Ventilation, Volume, Water.

Southern Hemispheric Climate and Carbon Cycle Reponse to Orbital Forcing During the Last ~400,000 Years
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Axel Timmermann($427,199), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Marine Carbon Cycle, Greenhouse Gas, Intermediate Complexity, Ocean Ventilation, Southern Hemisphere, Transient Climate, Forcing, Model, Orbitally-induced, Simulations, Time.

P2C2: Holocene and Late Pleistocene Climate Change in Tropical South America Based on Speleothems from the Peruvian Andes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Stephen J Burns($291,764), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: 50-year Resolution, Delta Oxygen-18, Altiplano, Climate, Glacial, Holocene, Interglacial, Investigate, Period, Precipitation, Produce, Time, Transition.

P2C2: Upper Colorado River Basin Snowpack Reconstructions Incorporating Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Henri D Grissino-Mayer($186,198), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Public, Snowpack, Ssts, UCRB.

P2C2: Seasonality from Speleothems--High-Resolution Ion Microprobe Studies at Soreq Cave, Israel
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. John W Valley($163,771), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Analytical, Annual, Climate, Isotope, LGM, Resolution, Sub-annual, Time, Trace.

P2C2: Extreme Climate Events in the Holocene Controlled by El-Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Anomalies: Millennia-Long Stalagmite Records from the Southwest Pacific
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Paul Aharon($417,438), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Carbon, Chronology, Climate, Niue, Region, SWP, Speleothems, Strong, Students.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Dust Interactions with Climate in the African Humid Period
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Natalie M Mahowald($326,013), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Gisela Winckler($97,794), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Desert Dust, Dust Deposition, Humid Period, Time Period, Aerosols, Available, CCSM, Region, Source.

P2C2: Multi-Scale Analysis of Stable Isotope - Climate Relationships in Tropical Proxy Records
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Mathias Vuille($289,574), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Holocene Climate, Stable Isotopic, Ability, Circulation, Cycle, GISS, Influence, Model, Modele-r, Modeling, Output, Proxy, Reproduce, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Late Holocene Climate Variability from Stable Isotope Ratio Analysis of Coast Redwood Tree Ring Cellulose.
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. James A Johnstone($635,739), Southern Oregon University, Ashland
2. Todd E Dawson($331,018), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Coastal Northern California, Stable Isotope Analysis, Pacific Coast, Reconstructing Climate, Summer Climate, Aim, Broad, Fog, Information, PDO, Range, Redwood, Strong, Temperatures, Tree.

P2C2: Tree Ring Studies of Hydroclimatic Variability in Tropical Southern Africa
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Matthew D Therrell($252,127), Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale
Key terms: Southern Africa, Hydroclimatic, Network, Tree-ring.

Workshop Proposal: Increasing U.S. Graduate Student Participation in the International Urbino Summer School in Paleoclimatology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Stephen A Schellenberg($48,807), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Graduate Students, Summer Course, Summer School, Urbino Summer, Attendance, Climate, Paleoclimatology, Purpose, Representation, Three-week.

Transient Climate Evolution of the last 21,000 years (TraCE-21): Understanding Deglacial Climate Changes using CCSM
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Anders E Carlson($597,319), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Transient Climate, Abrupt, CCSM, Forcing, Mechanisms, Primary.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Paleoclimate and Cultural Change in Mesoamerica: Testing the Hypothesis of ENSO Forcing of Late Holocene Rainfall Variability
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Victor J Polyak($144,025), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Matthew S Lachniet($346,491), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Mexico.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Multiproxy Reconstructions as A Missing-Data Problem: New Techniques and their Application to Regional Climates of the Past Millennium
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Tapio Schneider($89,058), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Julien Emile-Geay($291,582), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Balakanapathy Rajaratnam($197,925), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Algorithm, Climate, Methods, Missing, Past, Proxies, Regional, Statistics.

EAGER: A Test for the Younger Dryas Impact Hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Stein B Jacobsen($80,400), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Dryas Boundary, Ice Core, Iridium Concentrations, Analyses, Bolide, Climatic, Continuous, EAGER.

Workshop on Predicting the Climate of the Coming Decades; Miami, Florida; January 11-14, 2010
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Amy C Clement($10,000), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Coming Decades, Climate.

Remote Lightning Current and Charge Measurements
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Steven A Cummer($404,555), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Charge Remote Sensing, Current And Charge, Gamma Ray Flashes, Net Thunderstorm Charge, Terrestrial Gamma Ray, Thunderstorm Charge Transfer, Charge Density, Energetic Lightning, Joint Analysis, Lightning Current, Lightning Flash, Lightning Flashes, Lightning Stroke, Runaway Breakdown, Atmospheric, Broadband, Connection, Create, Details, Effort, Existing, Graduate, Has, Initiation, LMA, Media, Modeling, Parameters, Practical, Processes, Public, Radio, Range, Strokes, Student, Tasks, Techniques, Tgfs, Thunderstorms, Undergraduate, Unusual.

Exploiting Synergies between Remote Sensing and in Situ Measurements during ICE-T to Better Understand Ice Generation in Tropical Clouds
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David Leon($538,084), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Nucleation And Multiplication, Global Climate, Ice Formation, Ice Nucleation, Numerical Models, Spectrometer Probe, Wyoming Cloud, Aerosol, Clouds, Conditions, Dust, Field, ICE-T, Investigate, Lead, Lidar, Mechanisms, Precipitation, Processes, Radar, Radiative, Simulations, Situ, WCL, WCR.

RAPID: REAL Security and Safety
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Shane D Mayor($25,292), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
Key terms: Beam Steering Unit, Operation, Platform, REAL, Reals, Reliable.

Ice Nuclei and Ice Formation Processes in Tropical Cumulus Clouds
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Anthony J Prenni($426,880), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Flow Diffusion Chamber, Primary And Secondary, Cumulus Clouds, Field Campaign, Ice Formation, Ice Nuclei, Secondary Ice, Atmospheric, Biological, C-, ICE-T, Participation, Precipitation, Processes, Tropical.

MRI: Development of a Multiphase Turbulent Reaction Chamber for Laboratory Studies of Atmospheric Aerosol and Cloud Processes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lynn R Mazzoleni($1,392,951), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Aerosol And Cloud, Temperatures And Pressures, Cloud Chamber, Well-characterized Turbulence, Characterization, Chemical, Clouds, Facility, Formation, Ice, Morphological, Occurring, Particles, Processes, Properties, Range, Simulate, Turbulent, Well-characterized.

MRI: Development of a Photo-Acoustic Light Absorption and Albedo Spectrometer for the Characterization of Aerosol Radiative Transfer in the Solar Spectrum
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William P Arnott($649,801), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Absorption And Albedo, Absorption And Scattering, Aerosol Absorption Spectra, Aerosol Radiative Forcing, Aerosol Single Scattering, Global And Regional, Light Absorption Coefficients, Photoacoustic Aerosol Light, Satellite Remote Sensing, Single Scattering Albedo, Snow And Ice, Albedo Spectra, Optical Properties, Remote Sensing, Aerosols, Ambient, Bands, Beam, Brown, Carbon, Caused, Climate, Continuum, Deposition, Development, Dust, Employment, Graduate, Has, Instrument, Laser, Mineral, Modeling, Modification, Optics, PALAAS, Postdoctoral, Principle, Real, School, Situ, Spectral, Spectrometer, Spectrum, Students, Super, Surface, Time, Uncertainties, Undergraduate, Unknown, Wavelength.

Studies of the Atmospheric Boundary Layer Using Numerical Simulations Coupled With Radar/Sodar-Based Field Observations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Evgeni Fedorovich($757,335), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Stable Boundary Layer, Virtual And Real, Les Code, Sbl Conditions, Stably Stratified, Virtual Sodar, Wind Profiler, ABL, Atmospheric, CBL, Development, Existing, Generation, Modeling, Regimes, Simulations, Transition, Transitional.

The Arctic Facility for Atmospheric Remote Sensing for Research and Training
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kenneth Sassen($633,119), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Clouds And Aerosols, Cloud Microphysical, Microphysical Properties, Polarimetric Doppler, Remote Sensing, AFARS, Activity, Arctic, Dust, High-latitude, Methods, Observations, Polarization, Radar, Satellite.

Laboratory and Field Studies of Cloud-Turbulence Interactions via Digital Holography
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Raymond A Shaw($688,384), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Size And Spatial, Cloud Droplets, Cloud Particles, Droplet Dynamics, Droplet Size, Lagrangian Droplet, Spatial Distribution, Spatial Distributions, Acceleration, Aspect, Atmospheric, Clouds, Contribute, Detailed, Environment, Fields, Flows, Furthermore, Holography, Institute, Instrument, Laboratory, Observations, Parameter, Precipitation, Process, Processes, Quantitative, Relative, Strongly, Students, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) Spectral Measurements in the Tropical Phase of the Ice in Clouds Experiment (ICE-T)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. James G Hudson($405,834), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Dri Ccn Spectrometers, Cloud Ice, Ice-t Field, Aerosol, Analysis, Available, Clouds, Complete, Depends, Experiment, ICE-T, Low, Phase, Processes, Size, Spectra, Student, Tropical, Warm.

Tornado-Surface Interaction
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William S Lewellen($397,703), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Occurrence And Behavior, Near-surface Tornado, Simulation Studies, Surface Roughness, Tornado Behavior, Tornado Corner, Tornado Damage, Tornado Dynamics, Tornado Occurrence, Analysis, Broader, Buildings, Complexity, Component, Debris, Effects, Environments, Fields, Flows, Forcing, Has, Idealized, Importance, Inflow, Intensification, LES, Nsurface, Numerical, Observations, Potential, Prediction, Public, Range, Simple, Storm, Structures, Tornadic, Tornadoes, Variety, Vortices.

Potential Impacts of Aerosol Particles on Severe Storms and Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William R Cotton($601,208), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aerosol Influences, Convective Storms, Hail Formation, Severe Convective, Alter, Assessing, Attention, CCN, Cloud, Developed, Dust, Dynamics, Environmental, Has, Ingested, Mcss, Model, Modeling, Nuclei, Perform, Potential, RAMS, Scheme, Simulations, Tornadogenesis.

The Implications of Surface Heterogeneity and Mesoscale Variability on the Dynamics of Stable Atmospheric Boundary Layers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Elie R Bou-Zeid($370,902), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Heterogeneity And Mesoscale, Atmospheric Boundary, Surface Heterogeneity, Allow, Andor, Conditions, Dynamics, Fields, Flow, Flows, Interactions, Layer, Models, Numerical, Planned, Pursue, Representation, Roughness, SABL, Stable, Structure, TKE, Transport, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: Convective Organization and Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kerry A Emanuel($304,134), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Marat Khairoutdinov($125,615), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Moist Atmospheric Convection, Numerical Model, Self-organized Criticality, Climate, Decline, Lead, Radiative-convective, Self-aggregation, Self-organized, Simulations, Surface.

Measurement of Ice Nuclei in the Contact Mode
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Claudio Mazzoleni($400,786), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Contact Mode Depend, Contact Nucleation, Contact Nuclei, Earth's Climate, Nucleation Rate, Act, Aerosol, Design, Does, Effect, Enhance, Freezing, Graduate, Heterogeneous, Ice, Infrastructure, Instruments, Knowledge, Nations, Particle, Particles, Size, Students, Supercooled, Surface, Water.

Collaborative Research: Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher A Cantrell($6,550), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Steven A Rutledge($19,933), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. William H Brune($24,968), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Airborne And Ground-based, Convective Clouds, Field Campaign, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Chemical, Composition, DC, Document, GV, Instrumented, Lightning, NSFNCAR, Observations, Outflow, Precipitation, Species, Storms, UT, Variety, Via.

CAREER: A New Direction into Atmospheric Near-Surface Transport for Weak-Wind Conditions in Plant Canopies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christoph K Thomas($665,707), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Air Exchange, Boundary Layer, Lower Atmosphere, Overstory Density, Plant Canopies, Turbulent Fluxes, Activities, Analysis, Applied, Canopy, Classroom, Concepts, Conditions, Demand, Developed, Directly, Field, Flow, Formulations, Framework, Gases, Hands-on, K-, Lead, Mechanisms, Mixing, Models, Motions, Nature, Oregon, Reach, Set, Similarity, Students, Subcanopy, Submesoscale, Surface, Teacher, Techniques, Temperature, Theoretical, Transport, Turbulence, Weak, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Impacts of Mineral Dust on the Lifecycle of Tropical Convection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Cynthia Twohy($337,666), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Susan C van den Heever($268,739), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atlantic Basin, Convective Clouds, Tropical Storm, Aerosol, Combination, Dust, Effects, Formation, Hurricane, Influences, Observations, Precipitation, SAL, Saharan, Simulations.

Development of a Near-UV Aerosol Albedometer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jonathan E Thompson($355,654), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Direct Optical Characterization, Aerosol Scattering, Integrating Sphere, Aerosols, Alter, Atmospheric, Characterize, Coefficient, Development, Extinction, Has, Instrument, Laboratory, Measured, Near, Radiative, UV.

Collaborative Research: EAGER--Dual-Polarimetric Doppler-On-Wheels Observations of Long Lake-Axis-Parallel Lake-effect Storms over Lakes Erie and Ontario
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Scott Steiger($86,761), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
2. Jeffrey W Frame($34,711), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Bands, DOW, Exploratory, Intense, Lakes, Llap-type, Mobile, Polarized, Precipitation, Snowbands, Storms, Typically, Undergraduate, Via.

Cyclogenesis in a Tropical Wave Critical Layer: Vertical Structure of the "Wave Pouch" and Impacts of the Large-scale Environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Zhuo Wang($284,117), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Field Campaign, Hurricane Formation, Numerical Model, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Tropical Cyclone, Wave Pouch, Conditions, Cyclonic, Does, Effort, Environmental, Interaction, Lead, Marsupial, PREDICT.

In Situ Measurements of Stratospheric Aerosol Size Distributions and Their Use in a New Aerosol Surface Area Climatology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Terry L Deshler($1,052,950), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Sage Ii, Stratospheric Aerosol, Analysis, Backscatter, Chlorine, Comparisons, Completing, Derived, Extinction, Extinctions, Laramie, Lidar, Mid, OPC, Ozone, Polar, Radiation, Refine, Situ, Surface.

Ice Nucleation in Maritime Cumuli: Considering Dynamical and Microphysical Interactions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sonia G Lasher-Trapp($496,640), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Ice Crystal Nucleation, Ice Nucleation Mechanisms, Liquid And Ice, Primary And Secondary, Desert Dust, Ice Crystals, Ice Nuclei, Ice Particles, Maritime Clouds, Numerical Modeling, Secondary Ice, Activation, Atmospheric, Benefit, Considering, Effects, Enhanced, Evolution, Interact, Knowledge, Microphysical, Multiple, Observations, Observed, Past, Precipitation, Prediction, Predictions, Simulations, Sometimes, Students, Transport.

Electrification and Lightning in Convective and Mesoscale Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Timothy J Lang($817,222), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Convection And Lightning, Structure And Lightning, Charge Moment, Recently Developed, Regional Differences, Storm Structure, Aerosols, Algorithm, Convective, Environment, Environmental, Ground, Icmc, Icmcs, Lowered, Mcss, Mesoscale, Meteorological, Precipitation, Statistical, Stratiform, Task, Tles.

Dark Lightning
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Abram R Jacobson($192,657), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Intracloud Charge Transfer, Lightning Initiation, Current, Detectable, Lacks, NBE, Nbes, Physics, Processes, Unlike, VHF, Weather.

An Investigation of a Bifurcating Pathway to Tropical Cyclogenesis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Melville E Nicholls($325,807), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Numerical Modeling Studies, Sea Surface Temperature, Tropical Cyclone Development, Vertical Wind Shear, Bifurcating Pathways, Environmental Conditions, Surface Winds, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Tropical Cyclones, Atmospheric, Bifurcation, Developed, Examine, Existence, Formation, Ice, Initial, MCV, Microphysical, RAMS, Radiation, Sensitivity, WRF.

Spectral Characterization of Atmospheric Dust from the IR to the UV: A Combined Laboratory and Modeling Study of Composition, Size, and Shape Effects on Dust Optical Properties
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Paul D Kleiber($382,391), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Dust Optical Properties, Mineral Dust Aerosol, Particle Css Distributions, Air Quality, Dust Loading, Dust Retrievals, Light Scattering, Remote Sensing, Absorption, Accurate, Atmospheric, Balance, Climate, Modeling, Program, Situ, Spectrum, Students, Theoretical, Treatment, Weather.

Physics Of Stratocumulus Top (POST) and Rain in Cumulus over the Ocean (RICO) Data Analysis
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hermann E Gerber($74,693), Gerber Scientific Inc., Reston
Key terms: Precipitation Rates, Stratocumulus Top, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Cumulus, Effort, Entrainment, Focus, Growth, Modeling, POST, RICO, Regions, Spectra, UGN.

Heavy Rainfall Mechanisms During the 2008 Terrain-influenced Monsoon Rainfall Experiment (TiMREX)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Richard H Johnson($555,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Heavy Rainfall, Analysis, Atmospheric, Investigation, Mountainous, Observations, Precipitation, Processes, Rawinsonde, Remote, Satellite, Sounding, Special, Taiwan, Timrex.

Models for Large-Eddy Simulation in the Atmospheric Boundary-Layer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert L Street($224,639), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Atmospheric Boundary-layer, Complex Terrain, Grid Resolution, Land Surface, Les Techniques, State-of-the-art Tool, Boundary-layer, Developing, Effects, Flow, Flows, Fluxes, Simulation, State-of-the-art, Treatment, Turbulence.

Combined Laboratory and Modeling Studies of Ice Vapor Growth
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jerry Harrington($718,190), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Aspect Ratio, Cirrus Clouds, Growth Rates, Ice Crystals, Ice Growth, Ice-containing Clouds, Vapor Growth, Vapor Phase, Competing, Evolution, Exist, Ice-containing, Laboratory, Liquid, Models, Parameterizations, Simulations, Students, Supersaturation, Uncertainties.

CAREER: Multiscale Investigation of Warm-Season Precipitation Extremes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Russ S Schumacher($209,682), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Forecasts And Warnings, Extreme Precipitation, Extreme Rainfall, Flash Flooding, Heavy Rainfall, Produce Extreme, Accurate, Analyses, Challenges, Circulations, Convective, Development, Elevated, Flash-flood, Lead, Linear, Local, Mcss, Mesoscale, Meteorological, Methods, Midlatitude, Numerical, Predictability, Prediction, Processes, Quantify, Simulations, Societal, Society, Students, Warm-season, Weather.

Seeing Clearly: The Measurement and Impacts of Atmospheric Turbulence and Refractivity on the Propagation of Extraterrestrial Radiation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Steven Businger($12,986), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Atmospheric Turbulence, Astronomical, Development, Seeing, Text.

X-band Phased-Array Spaced-Antenna Interferometry for Cross-Beam Wind Estimation by Mobile Doppler Radar
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephen J Frasier($641,423), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Doppler Radars, Horizontal Wind, Mobile Radar, Radar Antenna, Radar Technology, Severe Weather, Analysis, Application, Design, Effort, Has, Information, Involved, Observations, Phased-array, SA, Spaced-antenna, Students, Technique, Techniques, X-band.

EAGER: Monitoring the Global Electric Circuit from Ocean Straits
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert H Tyler($120,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Earth's Electrodynamics, Gc Currents, Atmosphere, Century, Charge, Circuit, Climate, Component, Continuous, Downward, Electric, Fairweather, Global, Has, Models, Monitoring, Ocean, Oceans, Processes, Theory.

EAGER: Observations of High-Energy Radiation from Lightning from a Mobile Platform
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph R Dwyer($34,999), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: High-energy Radiation, Thunderstorm Lightning, ADELE, Air, Campaign, Conditions, Field, Florida, Gamma-ray, High-energy, Observing, Summer, Time.

Investigating the Structure of Tornadoes and the Near-tornado Environment Using Mobile High-frequency Ka-band Doppler Radar Technology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher C Weiss($355,344), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Field Program, Texas Tech, Engineering, Environment, Mobile, Objectives, Opportunity, Radar, Radars, Sensitivity, Structure, Students, Tornado, Ttuka, VORTEX, Vertical, Vortices.

Orographic Precipitation and Regional Climates
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald B Smith($706,258), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Climate Zones, King Air, Mountain Ridge, Orographic Precipitation, Ascent-forced, Cloud, Clouds, Comparatively, Complex, Convection, Describe, Flow, Isolated, Latitudes, Means, Terrain, Trajectories, Upstream, Water, Weather.

Radiative Transfer in Absorbing Aerosols and Snow Grains: Theory and Experiment
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kuo-Nan Liou($1,000,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Radiative Transfer, Black, Ice, Model, Particles, Properties, Scattering, Snow, Theoretical.

Orographic Influences on Lake-Effect Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. W. James Steenburgh($471,147), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Salt Lake Basin, Tug Hill Plateau, Weather And Climate, Lake Ontario, Lake-effect Regions, Lake-effect Snowstorms, Lake-orographic Precipitation, Large-scale Flow, Northern Utah, Altering, Broad, Courses, Ecology, Graduate, Hydrology, Influence, Lake-effect, Lake-orographic, Large-scale, Morphology, Orography, Prediction, Processes, Program, Rise, York.

Analysis and Observations of Particle Size Distribution in Supercell Thunderstorms
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Katja Friedrich($363,399), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Beneath Supercell Thunderstorms, Forecasts And Warnings, Polarimetric Doppler Radar, Comprehensive Analysis, Falling Hydrometeors, Radar Observations, Severe Weather, Short-term Forecasts, Size Distributions, Broader, Characteristics, Disdrometer, Disdrometers, Downdrafts, Existing, Field, Graduate, High-resolution, Intense, Lack, Microphysical, Mobile, Precipitation, Processes, Representation, Short-term, Tornadic, VORTEX.

Studies of Severe Convective Storms and Tornadoes Using Mobile Doppler Radar Data
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Howard B Bluestein($761,234), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Collection And Analysis, Doppler Radar, Severe Thunderstorms, Descriptions, Involvement, Mobile, Numerical, Polarimetric, Previously, Produce, Rapid-scan, Rapidly, Storm, Students, Supercells, Tornadic, Tornadoes.

Collaborative Research: Colorado Airborne Multi-Phase Cloud Study (CAMPS)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Linnea M Avallone($486,420), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Zhien Wang($179,103), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Vertical And Horizontal, Atmospheric Radiation, Climate Models, Cloud Properties, Horizontal Structure, Mixed-phase Clouds, Aircraft, Andor, Assess, CAMPS, Colorado, Exercises, Ice, Information, Liquid, Mixed-phase, Particle, Remote, Representation, Sensors, Situ, Steamboat, Water.

Study of Atmospheric Turbulence in the Stable Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Zbigniew Sorbjan($292,558), Marquette University, Milwaukee
Key terms: Nocturnal Boundary Layer, Stably Stratified Boundary, Stratified Boundary Layer, Numerical Models, Developed, LES, Similarity, Simulations, Stable, Turbulence.

EAGER: Marine Biogenic Aerosols as Cloud Condensation Nuclei over the Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Daniel C Thornton($142,465), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Atomic Mass Units, Marine And Non-marine, Ambient Aerosols, Ccn Activity, Diameter Andlt, Marine Biogenic, Mass Units, Micrometer Andlt, Molecular Weight, Primary Objective, Sea Water, Surface Waters, Atmospheric, Biological, Chemical, Cloud, Clouds, Collected, Concentration, Concentrations, Containing, Cruise, Department, Departments, Fraction, Fractions, Interdisciplinary, Lt, Meteorological, Observations, Oceanography, Organic, Radiative, Seawater, Situ, Size.

EAGER: Multi-frequency Studies of Lightning Initiation and Propagation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Maribeth Stolzenburg($104,339), University of Mississippi, University
Key terms: Initiation And Lightning, Lightning Flashes, Lightning Initiation, Lightning Propagation, Air, Antennas, Aspects, Crossed-loop, Fast, Five, Ground, Hazard, KSC, Magnetic, Network, Observe, People, Physics, Property, Pulses, Sensitive, Sensors, Training.

Instability Analysis of Terrain-Induced Canopy Flows
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Chuixiang Yi($333,874), CUNY Queens College, Flushing
Key terms: Canopy Flow, Canopy Flows, Carbon Dioxide, Complex Terrain, Eddy Flux, Nonlinear Dynamics, Advection, Analytical, Atmosphere, Budget, Canopies, Conditions, Drainage, Instability, Models, Nighttime, Observations, Processes, Regimes, Respiration, Sites, Theoretical, Transition, Transport, Upward.

Collaborative Research: Persistent Wintertime Temperature Inversions in the Salt Lake Basin
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John D Horel($543,699), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Shiyuan Zhong($224,832), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Air Pollution, Persistent Inversions, Urban Basins, Analyses, Breakup, Broader, Climate, Destruction, Fog, Formation, Knowledge, Lead, Leading, Maintenance, Mechanisms, Meteorological, Model, Modeling, Models, Observations, Pools, Potential, Processes, SLB, Simulations, Weather, Western, World.

2010 Meteorological/Light and Color in the Open Air Conference; St. Marys City, Maryland; June 16-20, 2010
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Charles L Adler($11,383), St Mary's College of Maryland, Saint Marys City
Key terms: Light And Color, Computer Graphics, Keynote Speaker, Natural World, Advertised, Art, Atmosphere, Boyden, Conference, Conferences, Covered, DC, Disciplines, Discuss, Especially, Free, Gallery, Inspire, Landscape, Lecture, Local, Marys, Meetings, Nature, Optics, Papers, Participants, Physics, Popular, Public, Rainbow, Special, St, Subject, Topics, Washington.

Can a Spray Infused Boundary Layer Alter the Air-Sea Momentum Transfer Rates in High Winds?
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Mark Donelan($386,830), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Air-sea Momentum, Drag Coefficient, Droplet Size, Extreme Conditions, Momentum Transfer, Observed Trend, Wind Speed, ASIST, Air-sea, Bulk, Concentrations, Contrast, Direct, Effect, Effects, Facility, Field, Has, Hurricane, Inflow, Injected, Intensity, Laboratory, Layer, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Observations, Primary, Range, Spray, Surface, Velocity, Winds.

Formation and Maintenance of Thin Tropical Cirrus and Its Role in Troposphere-Stratosphere Exchange
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Thomas P Ackerman($371,238), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Kelvin Wave Activity, Maintaining Thin Cirrus, Microphysics And Radiative, Thin Cirrus Layers, Tropical Tropopause Layer, Coupled Model, Radiative Heating, Radiative Transfer, Air, Assessment, Clouds, Dynamics, Ice, Importance, Lack, Magnitude, Maintenance, Models, Play, Process, Processed, Processes, Stratosphere, Transport, Troposphere, Vertical.

Improving Prediction of Precipitation by Objective Estimation of Bulk Effects of Cloud and Precipitation Microphysical Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/08/2009; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Tomislava Vukicevic($342,877), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Cloud And Precipitation, Bulk Microphysical, Cloud Microphysical, Radar Observations, Widely Available, Approach, Assimilation, Atmospheric, Global, Inclusion, Individual, Initially, Model, Models, Operating, Parameterization, Parameterizations, Parameters, Processes, Storm, Variety, WRF.

2010 USA Science and Engineering Festival EXPO; Washington, DC; October 22-25, 2010
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Susan Foster($15,098), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Public, Society.

Solar Coronal Loops Workshop V; Palma de Mallorca, Spain; June 2011
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Ignacio Ugarte-Urra($10,000), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Coronal Loops Workshop, Solar Physics, Has, Meeting, Postdocs, SDO, Students.

Predicting the Heliosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. LENNARD A FISK($296,784), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Solar Wind Ions, Developed, Energetic, Flux, Heliospheric, Investigate, Magnetic, Physics, Plans, Suprathermal.

Study of the Solar Dynamics and its Evolution During Cycle 23 Based on an Improved Mode Fitting of a Solar Cycle Worth of Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) Observations
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Sylvain G Korzennik($404,924), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Mode Characteristics, Solar Cycle, Allow, Application, Derived, Developed, Effort, Evolution, Existing, Fitting, GONG, Internal, Methodology, Nearly, Notes, Observations, Sets, State-of-the-art, Technique, Time.

The National Solar Observatory's Annual Solar Physics Workshops of the American Astronomical Society
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jason Jackiewicz($45,000), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Solar Physics Meetings, Attend, SPD, Students.

NSWP: Modeling Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Initiation with Magnetic Flux Emergence
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bart van der Holst($382,744), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Convection Zone, Flow Fields, Flux Emergence, Space Weather, CRASH, Code, Corona, Coronal, Determined, Developed, Domain, Graduate, MHD, Magnetic, Michigan, Model, Models, Solar.

NSWP: Photospheric Magnetic Evolution and Impulsive Solar Activity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Brian Welsch($367,917), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Flare Forecast Workshop, Proxy Poynting Flux, Flare Activity, Magnetic Evolution, Solar Flare, Space Weather, Analysis, Ars, Assist, Flares, Flows, LOS, Magnetogram, Measures, Parameter, Photospheric, Previous, Processes, Proposing, Statistically, Techniques.

Strong Alfven-Wave Turbulence with Cross Helicity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Benjamin D Chandran($466,005), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Shine Workshop, Short Courses, Solar Wind, Account, Density, Education, Equations, MHD, Pis, Plasma, Student, Students, Theories, Turbulence.

Imaging Spectroscopy of Coherent Radio Bursts on the Sun: a New Probe of Magnetic Energy Release
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Timothy S Bastian($135,215), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Broadband Imaging Spectroscopy, Magnetic Energy Release, Owens Valley, Solar Flares, Array, Bursts, Coherent, EVLA, Instrumentation, Observations, Observatory, Phd, Promising, Proposers, Radio, Student, Wavelengths.

SHINE: The CME-Dimming Connection: How a More Complete Understanding of CME Energetics and Magnetic Connectivity can be Achieved through Dimming Observations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Giuliana deToma($451,696), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cme Magnetic, Space Weather, Cmes, Coronal, Dimming, Evolution, Observations, SWPC, Solar.

Using Observations to Elucidate the Magnetic Structure of Erupting and Non-Erupting Filaments
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Karin Muglach($363,145), Artep Incorporated, Ellicott City
Key terms: Filament Channel, Magnetic Flux, Space Weather, Brightenings, Cmes, Erupting, Eruption, Filaments, Flows, Formation, Solar, Spacecraft, Systematic.

Solar Polarization Workshop 6: A New Era for Solar Polarimetry; Maui, Hawaii; May 31 - June 4, 2010
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jeffrey R Kuhn($20,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Solar Polarization, Discuss, Instrument, Magnetic, Stars, Technology.

Advanced Theory and Methods for Radio Spectral Diagnostics of Solar Flares
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gelu M Nita($478,107), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Energy Release, Particle Acceleration, Software Tools, Solar Physics, Space Weather, Actively, CSTR, Directly, Enhance, Flares, Forward-fitting, Imaging, Instruments, Methods, Observations, Output, Parameters, Pis, Plasma, Processes, Radio, Resolution, Spectroscopy, Widely.

SHINE: Separating the Dynamic and Quiescent Corona: A New Tool for the Detection and Analysis of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Shadia R Habbal($416,100), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Cme Disturbances, Heliospheric Plasma, Magnetic Field, Background, Cmes, Corona, Coronal, Detection, Developed, Development, Maps, Pis, Propagation, Solar, Useful.

Collaborative Research: SHINE--Observations and Modeling of Energetic Particles Associated with Corotating Interaction Regions During Solar Cycles 23 and 24
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Mihir I Desai($126,302), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
2. Gang Li($172,579), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
3. Glenn M Mason($110,001), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Interplanetary Magnetic Field, 3d Structure, San Antonio, CIR, Cirs, Energetic, Evolution, Existing, Particle, Particles, Solar, UAH.

RAPID: Acquiring Extensive High Resolution Solar Data for Enhancing Research on the Build-up to Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Yong Lin($124,997), Helio Research, La Crescenta
Key terms: Solar Cycle, Solar Imaging, Advantage, Contribute, DOT, Directly, Effort, Female, High-resolution, Minimum, Opportunity, Optical, Palma, Rise.

SHINE: Self-Consistent Turbulent Magnetic Reconnection in the Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Chung-Sang Ng($383,718), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Education Outreach, Magnetic Reconnection, Solar Corona, Alfvén, Coronal, Large-scale, MHD, Motions, Physics, Process, Rate, Turbulence, UAF, Uafs.

SHINE: Instability of Large-Scale Current Sheets, Plasmoid Formation, and Particle Acceleration in Coronal Plasmas
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Amitava Bhattacharjee($379,120), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Electromagnetic Particle Simulations, Eruptive Flares, Magnetic Reconnection, School Students, Accelerating, Effort, Eruption, Hampshire, Instability, Investigate, Onset, Particles, Plasmas, Plasmoid, SMART, Solar.

SHINE: Studies of Solar Wind Turbulence and Thermodynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Chadi S Salem($393,525), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Proton And Electron, Solar Wind Electron, Solar Wind Turbulence, Electron Thermodynamics, Temperature Anisotropy, Astrophysical, Dissipation, Fluctuations, Heating, Instabilities, Investigation, Modes, Physics, Waves.

SHINE: Synoptic Observations in Support of Solar and Heliospheric Modelling
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Roger K Ulrich($450,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Solar Surface, Cycle, MWO, Magnetic, Models, Operational, Space.

CAREER: Computational Physics for Research and Industry
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Vladimir Florinski($509,191), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Computational Physics, CSPAR, Computing, Department, Huntsville, Interstellar, Model, Program, Supercomputer, UAH.

SHINE: Kinetic Heating of Coronal Hole Ions for Generation of the Solar Wind by Imbalanced Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Philip A Isenberg($434,138), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Coronal Hole Protons, Particle And Wave, Detailed Kinetic, Numerical Model, Solar Wind, Wave Growth, Add, Compare, Existing, Generation, Models, Nonlinear, Observations, Output, Plasma, Predictions, Spacecraft, Turbulence, Turbulent, Yield.

SHINE: Studies of the Heliospheric Magnetic Field and Slow Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Nancy U Crooker($245,339), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Slow Solar Wind, Solar Wind Arises, Magnetic Flux, Space Weather, Center, Course, Current, Cycle, Field, Heliospheric, Model, Predictions, Sun.

Probability Distribution Functions of Field Variations, Non-Gaussianity and Intermittency in the Turbulent Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stephen Kahler($343,690), Helio Research, La Crescenta
Key terms: Probability Distribution Functions, Magnetic Field, Non-gaussian Pdfs, Solar Wind, Energetic, Non-gaussian, Phase, Predictions, Proposer, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: A Next-Generation Model of the Corona and Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Dusan Odstrcil($94,473), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Mas And Enlil, Boundary Conditions, Photospheric Magnetic, Solar Wind, Center, Code, Flux, GUI, Model, Modeling, Models, Output, Physics, Proposers, Time-dependent.

Physics of Solar Radio Emission Process
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2010; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Peter H Yoon($174,075), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Harmonic Emissions, Nonlinear Plasma, Radio Emission, Space Weather, Bursts, Cmes, Complete, Electromagnetic, II, III, Physics, Plans, Radiation, Solar, Turbulence.

SHINE: Understanding the Sun's Open Magnetic Flux
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2009; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Peter Riley($153,010), Predictive Science Incorporated, San Diego
Key terms: Magnetic Flux, Solar Corona, Space Weather, Correction, Heliosphere, Interplanetary, Magnetograms, Observatory, SHINE.

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

1. Jon M Saken($83,918), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Hydrogen And Helium, Ions And Neutrals, Coronal Magnetic, Dust Grains, Eclipse Expeditions, Electron Temperature, Inner Corona, Magnetic Field, Solar Corona, Local, Observations, Students.

Collaborative Research: Development of Airborne Lidar and Temperature Mapper "Facility" Instruments for the NSF GV and Measurements during SAANGRIA
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Michael J Taylor($399,999), Utah State University, Logan
2. Bifford P Williams($620,000), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Ngv Instruments, Southern Andes, Aircraft, Altitudes, Atmospheric, Circulation, Climate, Effects, Flight, GW, Gws, Lower, Measure, SAANGRIA, Stratospheric, Thermosphere.

MRI: Acquisition of Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Juan F Arratia($2,600,891), Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan
Key terms: Ionospheric Plasma Laboratory, Arecibo Observatory, Incoherent Scatter, Puerto Rico, AIRES, Argentina, Astronomy, Atmospheric, Conjugate, Global, Graduate, Instrumentation, Ionosphere, Program, Radar, State-of-the-art, Students, Technology, Training, Undergraduate.

EAGER: Satellite TV Signal Measurement of Precipitable Water and Rain
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Lars P Dyrud($100,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Precipitable Water Content, Rain And Precipitable, Microwave.

A Decadal Strategy for Solar and Space Physics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Michael Moloney($200,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Programs And Focused, Solar And Space, Decadal Survey, Flight Programs, Operational Programs, Space Physics, Basic, Committee, Federal, Field, Ground-based, Meetings, NASA, NOAA, NSF, Priorities, Report, Workforce.

EAGER: The International Space Station (ISS) as Launch Platform for Phenomena of Interest in the Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere (ITM)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Charles Swenson($69,713), Utah State University Research Foundation, North Logan
Key terms: Design And Trade, International Space Station, Engineering Design, Space Weather, Capability, Center, Collaboration, Feasible, ISS, Launch, Magnetosphere, Method, Phenomena, Platform, Range, Technology, Viability.

EAGER: Commercialization of Space Weather Specification and Forecast
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Daniel F Moorer,Jr.($59,969), Wacari Group, LLC, Boulder
Key terms: Products And Services, Private Sector, Space Weather, Terrestrial Weather, Commercial, Has, Meteorology, NWS, Nature, Specification.

Space Weather Meetings Support 2010
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Meg Austin($37,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Actionable Information, Broad User, Held Annually, Space Weather, Academia, Drive, Government, Products, Serve, Services.

NSWP: Coherent Backscatter Radar Imaging Studies of Equatorial Spread F with the Sao Luis Radar in Brazil
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Fabiano Rodrigues($324,918), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Scattering Structures, Spatial Distribution, ESF, F-region, Interferometric, Irregularities, Plasma, Radar, Sizes.

Lidar and Modeling Studies of Constituent Fluxes by Dissipating Gravity Waves in the Mesopause Region
Award Effective Date: 07/16/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Alan Liu($196,120), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Heat And Constituent, Leeds Chemical Models, Sor And Msss, Constituent Fluxes, Dynamical Transport, Flux Observations, Gw Transport, Lidar Observations, Mesospheric Constituents, Mesospheric Na, Vertical Dynamical, Chemistry, Effects, Influence, Modified, Odd, Quantify, Seasonal, Structure, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: A Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh Lidars
Award Effective Date: 04/02/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Michael J Taylor($371,058), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Consortium, Coordinates, Lidar, Upper.

Collaborative Research: CubeSat: Focused Investigations of Relativistic Electron Burst Intensity, Range, and Dynamics (FIREBIRD)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Harlan Spence($288,364), University of New Hampshire, Durham
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.

NSWP: Next Generation AMIE: Assimilative Mapping of Space-based and Extremely Localized Observations of Ionospheric Electrodynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: nan

1. Tomoko Matsuo($385,060), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: AMIE, Investigate, Magnetic, Model.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Atmospheric Remote Sensing Focused Around the CSU-CHILL National Radar Facility
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: nan

1. Ve Chandrasekar($375,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Radar Facility, Radar Meteorology, Reu Site, Advanced, Background, CSU-CHILL, Developing, Enables, Engineering, Experience, Gain, Generation, NCAR, Staff, Students, Unique.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2010

CEDAR: Investigating E Region Auroral Irregularities with Coherent and Incoherent Scatter Radar and Optics Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Global and Local Measurements of Lightning-Mesosphere Interactions Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Advancing Meteor Aeronomy, Observations, and Physics Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

High-Latitude Ionospheric Composition and its Importance to Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Investigation of Midlatitude Ionospheric Irregularities Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Observations and Modeling of Acoustic Waves in the Ionosphere and Lower Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Ionospheric Storm Transition Region Properties Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Continuing Theoretical Studies of Dynamical Processes in the Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

NSWP: Understanding Ionospheric Response to Storm-induced Thermospheric Neutral Composition Change Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Communication/Navigation Outage Forecasting System (C/NOFS) Science Workshop; Breckenridge, Colorado; May 18-20, 2010 Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Advanced Computational Capabilities for Exploration in Heliophysical Science (ACCHS) Workshop; Boulder, Colorado; August 16-18, 2010 Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Simulations and Theory of Medium to Small Scale E-region Turbulance Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Physics of the Hydrogen Geocorona Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Excitation and Emission Properties of Molecular Nitrogen for Earth's Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Space-Time Description of Non-Migrating Tidal Effects in the Low-Latitude Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

NSWP: Quantifying the Thermosphere-ionosphere Response to Solar and Geomagnetic Forcing Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Interactions of Short-Period Gravity Waves with the Horizontally-Inhomogeneous Structure of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Laboratory Studies of O(1D) Processes Important in the Upper Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: The Plasmochemistry and Photochemistry of the Upper Atmosphere Induced by Transient Luminous Events Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Dynamics of the Neutral Upper Atmosphere and Coupling to the Topside Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 02/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Natural and Rocket-Triggered Lightning in the Mesosphere-Lower Thermosphere-Ionosphere (MLTI) System Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Investigation of Baroclinic Disturbances in the Polar Wintertime Middle Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Application of the RENOIR System in Brazil to Study the Gravity Wave Trigger Mechanism In the Production of Equatorial Spread F and Scintillations Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Quantitiative Assessment of Proton Aurora Using State-of-the-art Models Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Tomographic Array for Lightning and Ionospheric Studies (TALIS) Award Effective Date: 12/15/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Three Dimensional (3D) Modeling of the Formation and Evolution of Meter Scale Ionospheric Structures Award Effective Date: 07/31/2009; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: A New 50 MHz Radar for Meteor and Aeronomical Science Award Effective Date: 07/31/2009; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Polar Mesospheric Clouds Using the Whole Atmosphere Community Climate Model 3 Award Effective Date: 12/15/2007; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Measuring Air-Sea Gas Exchange in High Winds for Improvement of Physics-Based Air-Sea Transfer Parameterizations Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

The Data Legacy of the Scripps Carbon Dioxide Program Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

EAGER: Advancing the Analysis of Secondary Organic Aerosols Through Innovations in Soft Ionization Aerosol Mass Spectrometry Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Isotopic and Compositional Investigation of the Sources and Interactions of Reactive Nitrogen in the Marine Atmosphere at Bermuda Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol by Aqueous-phase Reactions of Phenols Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Mechanistic and Kinetic Studies of the Atmospheric Chemistry of Isoprene and its First-Generation Products Award Effective Date: 11/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Selected Studies of the Atmosphere with an Emphasis on Air Quality in China and on Prospects for Wind and Solar Energy as Potential Future Substitutes for Fossil Fuel Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Development of a Laser Photofragmentation/ Laser-Induced Fluorescence Instrument for Tropospheric Measurements of Nitrous Acid Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Impact of Changing Fuel Usage on the Atmospheric Cycling of Ethanol, Optically Active Organic Compounds and Iron (Fe) in Rainwater Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: A Prototype Dense Observing Network for Air Quality (AQ) and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions Monitoring Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Spatially Enhanced Broadband Array Spectrograph System (SEBASS) Survey Over the Gulf Oil Spill Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Photocatalytic Transformation of Isoprene: Relevance to Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Ice Supersaturated Regions and Distribution of Water Vapor During the Third HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observations (HIPPO) Deployment Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Chemical Analysis of Atmosphere Associated with Gulf Oil Spill Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Measurement of the Oxygen and Hydrogen Isotope Composition of Evaporating Water Using a Novel Cavity Ring-Down Technique Award Effective Date: 08/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: A Field Intercomparison of High-Resolution Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometers Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Fossil-Fuel Extraction Industry Methane Emission Ground Reference Measurements during the AVIRIS Response to the Gulf Oil Spill Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) Studies of Soot, Organic Matter, and Associated Aerosol Particles During CalNex Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Characterization of Sources and Processes of Primary and Secondary Particulate Matter (PM) and Precursor Gases in the California-Mexico Border Region Award Effective Date: 07/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Emissions and Chemistry from the Tianjin Region in China Award Effective Date: 07/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Understanding Northern Hemisphere (NH) Summer Season Tropospheric Ozone Variability across the Northern Tropical Atlantic through Focused Upstream/Downstream Campaigns Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

ETBC: Global 3-D Modeling of Atmospheric Mercury and its Coupling to the Ocean and Land: Impacts of Past and Future Anthropogenic Emissions Award Effective Date: 06/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Analysis of Kinetics and Products of Glyoxal Uptake in the Presence of Hydroxyl Radicals (OH) Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Determination of Heterogeneous Photochemistry Related to Atmospheric Reactive Nitrogen Species Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: EAGER--Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions from the Tundra and Arctic Atmospheric Chemistry Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Differentiating Heterotrophic and Root Respiration Through Concurrent Measurement of CO2 and O2 Fluxes in Soils Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Processing of Iron--Does Particle Size Influence Iron Solubility? Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Understanding Atmospheric Sulfur Cycle using Triple Isotopes of Oxygen and Sulfur (ASCTIOS) Award Effective Date: 05/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Quantifying Particulate Matter Emission Factors from Prescribed Burning with Application to Mitigating the Impact on Air Quality Award Effective Date: 04/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2010 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere; Les Diablerets, Switzerland; May 23-28, 2010 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Whole Air Sampling Measurements and Data Analysis from the Stratosphere-Troposphere Analyses of Regional Transport 2008 Experiment and the HIAPER Pole-to-Pole Observation Campaign Award Effective Date: 04/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Towards a Better Understanding of Ambient Semi-volatile Organic Aerosol: Investigation of Thermodynamic Properties of Multi-component Organic Aerosols Award Effective Date: 03/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Understanding Recent Changes in the Atmospheric Methane Growth Rate through Analyses of the Isotopic Composition of Methane in a Rare Air Archive Award Effective Date: 03/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Sensitive and Versatile Tropospheric Hydrogen Chloride (HCl) Instrument Award Effective Date: 02/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: EAGER--Deployment of a New Photofragmentation Laser Induced Fluorescence (LIF) Nitrous Acid (HONO) Measurement on FIONA Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Formation and Growth of Particles in the Troposphere: Modeling, Data Analyses, and Comparisons Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Laboratory Studies of Particle Nucleation--Homogeneous Nucleation Involving Sulfuric Acid (H2SO4), Water (H2O), and Ammonia (NH3) Vapors Award Effective Date: 01/15/2010; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Chapman Conference on Complexity and Extreme Events in Geosciences Award Effective Date: 08/01/2010; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

CDI-Type II: New Cyber Technologies to Enable Space Weather Forecasting Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: CDI TYPE II

Collaborative Research: Large-Scale Atmospheric Response to the North Pacific Western Boundary Current Fluctuations and its Potential Predictability Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: The Southern Subtropical Anticyclones Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the impacts of atmospheric and land surface heterogeneity and scale on soil moisture-precipitation feedbacks Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Analysis of the Radiative Response of Clouds to El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Climate Fluctuations Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Stochastic Dynamics of Sudden Stratospheric Warmings Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Heavy Precipitation over Western North America: Synoptic/Mesoscale Forcing and Decadal Trends Award Effective Date: 12/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Effects of Freshwater Flux Forcing on Interannual Climate Variability and Predictability in the Tropical Pacific Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Chapman Conference on Atmospheric Gravity Waves and their Effects on General Circulation and Climate; Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii; February 27-March 4, 2011 Award Effective Date: 10/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in Models and Observations Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Sources of Black Carbon, Methane Sulfonic Acid, and Other Particulate Constituents over 45 Years in the Arctic Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Using Controlled Aerosol Perturbations to Improve Understanding of Cloud Responses for Climate Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Global Cloud Climatology from Surface Observations: Analyses and Decadal Update Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics