Collaborative Research: CEDAR--The Sources of Gravity Waves Observed in the Thermosphere at the Arecibo Observatory
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Michael J Nicolls($103,110), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. Sharon L Vadas($196,836), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Neutral Wind, Ray Tracing, AO, Arecibo, Atmospheric, Dynamics, Lower, Models, Sources, Thermosphere.

CEDAR: Multi-spectral Imaging Investigation of the Auroral Fine Structures Associated with Naturally Enhanced Ion Acoustic Lines
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Marilia Samara($244,191), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Ion Acoustic, Auroral, Energy, Imagers, Neials, Observations, Waves.

CEDAR: Numerical Investigation of Observed Multiscale Dynamics in the Middle Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Brian Laughman($79,478), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Wave And Instability, Gravity Waves, Realistic Flows, Atmospheric, Dynamics, Effort, Instabilities, MLT, Models, Numerical, Processes, Simulations, Transport, Vital.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Observational and Numerical Studies of Tide-planetary Wave Coupling
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Dennis Riggin($76,784), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Jens Oberheide($151,274), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Global Tidal Winds, Planetary Waves, Atmospheric, Interaction, Model, Radars, Temperature, Tides.

RAPID: Limb-imaging Ionospheric and Thermospheric EUV Spectrograph (LITES)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Supriya Chakrabarti($155,990), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Demonstration, Detector, Existing, High-sensitivity, Instrument, LITES, Payload, Satellite, Spectral, USAF, Upgraded.

CEDAR: On the Spectrum and Variability of Large-scale Equatorial Spread-F Structures
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Fabiano Rodrigues($43,384), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Large-scale Esf Structures, Geophysical Conditions, Large-scale Esf, Density, Dominant, Function, Occurrence, PLP, Spectrum.

Ionospheric Storm Transition Region Properties
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Seebany Datta-Barua($240,002), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Model, Models, Plasma, SED, Spatial, Structuring.

CEDAR: A Novel Atomic Edge Filter Enabling Na Doppler Lidar for Simultaneous Wind and Temperature Measurements from Troposphere to Lower Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ling Wang($271,666), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Lidar, Lower, Mesosphere, Scattering, Sodium, Temperature, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Observations and Analysis of Wave-Induced Constituent Transport in the Mesopause Region above Cerro Pachon, Chile and Table Mountain, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Chester S Gardner($1,067,756), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Xinzhao Chu($343,575), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Alan Liu($365,832), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Na And Fe, Wave-induced Vertical Transport, Atmospheric Chemistry, Cerro Pachon, Effective Vertical, Mesopause Region, Oceanic Fe, Stratospheric Aerosols, Table Mountain, Thermal Balance, Vertical Fluxes, Wave-induced Transport, Wave-induced Vertical, Affects, Airglow, Atmosphere, Band, Calculations, Characterize, Chemical, Climate, Combination, Constituent, Constituents, Earth, Global, Heat, Influence, Layers, Lower, MLT, Mesospheric, Metal, Meteoric, Model, Modeling, Models, Observations, Quantify, Seasonal, Sites, Structure.

Mesospheric Aeronomy Using Incoherent Scattering
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Suman Ganguly($299,861), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
Key terms: Chemistry, Compare, Ions, Mesospheric, Models, Parameters, Radar.

Radar Studies of Short-Term Variability in the Electrodynamics of the Low Latitude Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Bela G Fejer($552,002), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Analysis, Ionosphere, Peru, Radar, Scatter.

Alfvenic Aurora: Characteristic and Extreme
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Patrick T Newell($311,212), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Broadband Electron Precipitation, Empirical Precipitation Model, Solar Wind Driving, Space Weather Operations, Alfvénic Acceleration, Alfvénic Aurora, Auroral Precipitation, Particle Precipitation, Seasonal Dependence, Upper Atmosphere, Addressing, Continued, DMSP, Effort, Energy, Has, Ionosphere, Modeling, Objective, Previous, Substorm, Various, Was.

Colorado State University (CSU) Lidar Data Reanalysis for Gravity Wave and Long-term Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. David A Krueger($104,581), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Spatial Resolution, Acquired, Investigations, Re-processed.

Collaborative Research: Ionospheric Contribution to Geomagnetic Storms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Aaron J Ridley($88,742), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Thomas J Immel($230,709), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Geomagnetic Storm Intensity, Magnetic Activity, Numerical Experiments, Feedback, Investigate, Ionosphere, Model, SWMF, TEC.

Trough Signatures in Poker Flat (Alaska) Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR) Data
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Philip G Richards($291,464), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Latitude Ionization Trough, Electron Density, Analysis, FLIP, Low, Magnetic, Model, Observations, PFISR, Solar, Spikes, Summer.

Dynamics of the Neutral Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert B Kerr($477,225), Scientific Solutions Incorporated, North Chelmsford
Key terms: Arecibo Observatory, Neutral Winds, Activity, Allow, Automated, Existing, FPI, Facility, Thermospheric, Upgrade.

Collaborative Research: Electron Thermal Balance and Tests of Long Term Thermospheric Cooling at Arecibo
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Frank T Djuth($627,214), Geospace Research Inc, El Segundo
2. Herbert C Carlson($739,075), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Temperature.

Annual Summer CEDAR Workshop
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Meg Austin($720,835), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Meeting.

RAPID: The First Ever Demographic Study of Solar Physics, Space Physics, and Upper Atmospheric Physics
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Cherilynn Morrow($39,858), Georgia State University Research Foundation, Inc., Atlanta
Key terms: Solar And Space, Space Physics, Demographic.

Support for Student Travel to the AGU Chapman Conference on Modeling the Ionosphere/Thermosphere System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. David L Hysell($10,000), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Conference, Future, Model, Modeling, Models.

Transition of the CEDAR Database to Madrigal
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. John M Holt($280,134), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Wide Variety, Access, Analysis, Archive, Archiving, Atmospheric, CEDAR, Center, Component, Database, Distributed, Distribution, Employed, Existing, Format, Has, Infrastructure, Madrigal, Nodes, Primary, Program, Software, Standard.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Large Amplitude Variations & Instabilities due to Strong Interactions between Tides & Planetary Waves in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Therm
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Richard L Walterscheid($210,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Upper Mesosphere, Airglow, Instability, Model, Nonlinear, Subharmonic, Tide, Tides.

CEDAR Postdoc: Antarctic Mesospheric Gravity Waves Utilizing a High Altitude Numerical Weather Prediction System
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Kim Nielsen($230,921), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
Key terms: Atmospheric Conditions, Gravity Waves, Latitudes, Model, Propagation, Sources.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Planetary Scale Waves in the Ionosphere Using Arecibo and COSMIC
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Qihou Zhou($60,160), Miami University, Oxford
2. Scott L England($147,085), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Arecibo Observatory, Acquired, Density, Electron, Existing, Ground-based, ISR, Ionospheric, Satellite, Wave.

CEDAR: An Investigation of the Anomalous Pedersen Current Driven by the E Region Plasma Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Hasan Bahcivan($352,960), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Electron Pederson Current, Anomalous, Carried, Electric, Estimates, ISR.

CEDAR/GEM Postdoc: Fully Electrodynamic 3D Time-Domain Model of Lightning-Ionosphere Interactions
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Supriya Chakrabarti($159,937), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Ionosphere And Magnetosphere, Lightning Peak Current, Lightning Energy, Worldwide Lightning, Basis, Coupling, Day, Density, Duration, Effects, Global, Ground-based, Ionospheric, Lower, Model, Observations, Satellite, Time.

Support for the CEDAR Science Steering Committee 2010-2012
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. John C Foster($101,320), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Annual, CEDAR, CSSC.

CEDAR Postdoc: Study of the Effects of Coulomb Collisions on H+ (Hydrogen) and He+ (Helium) Plasmas for Topside Incoherent Scatter Radar Applications at Jicamarca
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

1. Erhan Kudeki($194,689), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Jicamarca Radio Observatory, Antenna Beams, Coulomb Collisions, Magnetic Field, Topside Ionosphere, Collisional, Development, Effects, Experiments, Model, Observations, Perpendicular, Plasma, Temperatures, Validated.

CEDAR: Interactions of Short-Period Gravity Waves with the Horizontally-Inhomogeneous Structure of the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan B Snively($190,028), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Airglow, Effects, MLT, Multi-scale, Structure, Waves.

Mesoscale Airflow over Mountains: Wave Drag and Orographic Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Dale R Durran($714,240), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Air Stream, Global Weather, Large-scale Weather, Atmosphere, Barrier, Downstream, Drag, Dry, Effort, Examine, Flow, Flows, Forced, Interactions, Investigate, Large-scale, Low-level, Models, Mountain, Precipitation, Theoretical, Topography, Water.

Collaborative Research: CubeSat--Composition Variations in the Exosphere, Thermosphere, and Topside Ionosphere (EXOCUBE)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Susan M Nossal($72,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Robert B Kerr($408,826), Scientific Solutions Incorporated, North Chelmsford
3. Jordi Puig-Suari($476,000), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Neutral And Ionized, Radar And Optical, Cal Poly, Space Weather, Upper Atmosphere, Calibration, Collaboration, Composition, Degree, Densities, Density, Developed, EXOCUBE, Experimental, Global, Has, Hydrogen, Instrument, Investigations, Longitude, Mode, Models, NASA, Objective, Satellite, Set, Sites, Species, Students, Techniques, Wisconsin.

CAREER: Meteor and Meteoroid Characterization Using High-Power Large-Aperture Radar Data
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Sigrid Elschot($628,838), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Meteor Head, Ablation, Development, Electromagnetic, Experimental, Model, Modeling, Plasma, Scattering, Theory.

The First All-Sky Airglow Imaging Experiments Over Western Europe
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Jeffrey Baumgardner($363,832), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Sar Arc, Sky Camera, Boston, Collaboration, Current, Effort, Europe, Geomagnetic, Instrument, Italy, Longitudinal, Padua, Set, Source.

Projects in Climate Dynamics II
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. John M Wallace($465,093), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Anthropogenic, Climate, Consists, Field, SAT, SLP, SST, Sea, Surface, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Feedbacks Affecting High Altitude Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Catherine Naud($269,405), Columbia University, New York
2. Ming Xu($300,356), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Neural Network Analysis, Surface-based And Satellite, Altitude Regions, Climate Variables, Cloud Cover, Global Average, Mountain Regions, Satellite Observations, Atmospheric, Colorado, Contribute, Feedbacks, Increasing, Quantify, Rates, Temperatures, Water.

CAREER: Understanding Changing Seasonality, Variability and Extremes in the Northeast U.S. Climate
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Anji Seth($574,711), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Cold Season, Climate, Course, Developing, Extremes, Global, Intensity, Moisture, Multi-model, NE, Northeast, Precipitation, Probabilistic, Projections, Regional, Temperature, Variables.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Decadal Climate Predictability and Climate Impacts (IDCPI) on the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. David C Noone($660,353), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. John P Wilson($1,538,861), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Lisa C Sloan($442,377), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
4. Niklas Schneider($598,770), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Decadal Climate, Assess, Drought, Future, Has, IDCPI, Models, Predictions, Regional, SST, Skill, Unites, Western.

Satellite Detection of Effects of Absorbing Aerosols on Clouds over Urban Areas
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mark Z Jacobson($218,914), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Aerosol Optical Depth, Cloud Optical Depth, AOD, Absorbing, Aerosols, COD, Climate, Effects, Examined, Has, Instrument, MODIS, Region, Regions, Rural, Satellite, Urban, Urbanized, Versus.

Abundance and Group Reactivity of Intermediate Volatility Organic Compounds (IVOCs) in Urban Air Measured by TD-PTR-MS
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. B. Thomas Jobson($513,494), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Diesel Engine Exhaust, Mass Spectrometry, Organic Compounds, Urban Air, Abundance, Alkanes, Approach, Carbon, Enhance, Establish, Experiments, Field, Formation, Gas, IVOC, Ivocs, Knowledge, Measured, Method, Reaction, SOA, Sampling, Source, Undergraduate.

Characterization of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol through Integrated Analysis and Modeling of MILAGRO-2006 Multi-platform Measurements
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Luisa T Molina($337,579), Molina Center for Strategic Studies in Energy & the Environment, La Jolla
Key terms: Chemical Transport Models, Modeling Studies, Aerosols, Emissions, Investigate, MILAGRO, Meteorological, Organic, PM, Regional, Sources.

Collaborative Research: Reactivity Associated with Ambient Particles: Hydrogen Peroxide, Quinones, Transition Metals and Hydroxyl Radical
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alam Hasson($208,959), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
2. Suzanne E Paulson($630,167), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Peroxide And Hydroxyl, Hydrogen Peroxide, Hydroxyl Radical, Los Angeles, Ros Chemistry, Aerosol, Aerosols, California, Enhance, Examined, Metals, Organic, Organics, Oxidation, Partnership, Quinones, Sites, Students.

Laboratory Studies of Multicomponent Aerosol Nucleation Involving Organic Amine Compounds
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Shan-Hu Lee($500,000), Kent State University, Kent
Key terms: Acid Aerosol Nucleation, Sulfuric Acid Aerosol, Organic Acids, Aerosols, Amines, Ammonia, Atmospheric, CCN, Climate, Cloud, Compared, Compounds, Concentrations, Effects, Formation, Growth, Particles, Play, Predictions, Processes, Source, Uncertainties.

Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Processing of Iron--Does Particle Size Influence Iron Solubility?
Award Effective Date: 10/24/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Brian J Majestic($100,193), University of Denver, Denver
Key terms: Cloud Waters, Iron Solubility, Northern Arizona, Particle Size, Sulfur Dioxide, ASU, Affects, Atmospheric, CCN, Continent, Determined, Fraction, Granting, Has, Influence, Investigated, Marine, NAU, Native, Ocean, Phd, Principal, Reactions, Student, Students, Training, Undergraduate, Was.

The Chemistry and Sources of Carbon Monoxide in Present and Past Atmospheres
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John E Mak($753,172), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Ice Cores, Low-volume Air, Abundance, Analytical, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, CH, Concentration, Delto, Gases, Lifetimes, Low-volume, Measure, Measured, Mechanisms, OH, Past, Program, Reactive, School, Students, Temporal, Undergraduate.

EAGER: Feasibility of Shipboard Eddy Covariance Measurements Using PTR-TOFMS
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Eric S Saltzman($138,813), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Volatile Organic Compounds, Airsea Gas, Field, Fluxes, PTR-TOFMS.

RUI: Secondary Organic Aerosol and Brown Carbon Formation from Aldehydes, Ammonium Salts, and Amines
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David O De Haan($337,508), University of San Diego, San Diego
Key terms: Brown Carbon Formation, Soa And Brown, Reaction Products, Reaction Rates, Aerosol, Alpha-dicarbonyls, Atmospheric, Characterize, Compounds, Diverse, Measure, Mentored, Methods, NMR, Spectroscopy, Students, Training, Undergraduate, Uv-vis.

Collaborative Research: Fog Drop Reactions of Green Leaf Volatiles as a Source of Secondary Organic Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Cort Anastasio($230,214), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Kalliat T Valsaraj($393,561), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Louisiana And California, Organic Compounds, Secondary Organic, Aqueous, Drops, Fog, Fogwaters, GLV, Glvs, Graduate, Illuminated, Photooxidation, Products, Reactions, SOA, Source, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Chemical, Physical, and Radiative Properties of North Atlantic Free Tropospheric Aerosol after Long-range Transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Seth Olsen($146,398), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Robert C Owen($614,943), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
3. Detlev Helmig($250,582), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Chemical Transport, Long-range Transport, Long-range Transported, North Atlantic, Pico Mountain, Radiative Forcing, Radiative Properties, Aerosol, Aerosols, Air, Co-pollutants, Continent, Dispersion, Free, Has, Light-absorbing, Long-range, Observatory, Optical, Outflow, Simulations, Site, Tropospheric.

Collaborative Research: TORERO - Tropical Ocean tRoposphere Exchange of Reactive Halogen Species and Oxygenated VOC
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rainer M Volkamer($764,695), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Jim Bresch($108,445), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Reactive Halogen Species, Ocean Sources, Remote Ocean, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Climate, Coastal, FT, Field, Investigate, OVOC, RHS, Released, TORERO, Unique, Upwelling.

Nitrogen Oxide Chemistry: Connecting Ambient Concentrations to Mechanisms of Emission, Oxidaton and Aerosol Formation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ronald C Cohen($221,692), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Atmosphere And Forests, Air Quality, Factors Regulating, Mixing Ratios, Nitrogen Exchange, Nitrogen Oxides, BEARPEX, Based, California, Canopy, Compensation, Constraints, Cycling, Directly, Fluxes, Measured, Mechanistic, Nature, Nox, Noy, Overall, Students, Various, Via.

Measurements of HOx Radical Chemistry in a Changing Forest Environment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Philip S Stevens($446,119), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Hydroxyl And Hydroperoxyl, Atmospheric Chemistry, Biogenic Emissions, Forested Environments, Hydroperoxyl Radicals, Aerosols, Allowing, Atmosphere, Climate, Current, Graduate, Has, Interferences, Laboratory, Measure, Overall, Ozone, Site, Students.

Symposium on Aerosols and Precipitation; Orlando, Florida; October 4-7, 2011
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sonia M Kreidenweis($10,152), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Precipitation, Symposium.

Collaborative Research: Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and their Impacts in a Changing Temperate Forest
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy K Starn($48,475), West Chester University of Pennsylvania, West Chester
2. Paul B Shepson($162,743), Purdue University, West Lafayette
3. John V Seeley($156,740), Oakland University, Rochester
Key terms: Bvocs And Reaction, Carbon Sequestration, Reaction Products, Sampling Apparatus, Aerosol, Ambient, Calibration, Climate, Detector, Field, Forest, Interactions, Investigations, Isoprene, Nitrates, Nitrogen, Organic, Oxidation, PROPHET, Pis, Quantify, Semi-autonomous, Students, UMBS, Webquest.

2011 International Year of Chemistry (IYC) Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Change; Washington, DC; November 7-10, 2011
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Renyi Zhang($25,000), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Ozone And Climate, Policy Decision, Stratospheric Ozone, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Co-sponsors, Contributions, Industry, International, Invited, Meteorological, Presentations, Society, Symposium.

Collaborative Research: Up-scaling from Leaf to Canopy the Aerosol-sized Particle Collection Mechanism Within a Non-uniform Canopy Medium
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Gabriel G Katul($200,973), Duke University, Durham
2. Sara C Pryor($568,088), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Fluxes And Mean, Concentration Profiles, Dry Deposition, Forested Sites, Particle Deposition, Particle Size, Aerosol, Aspects, Canopy, Collection, Concentrations, Descriptions, Experiments, Foliage, Leaf, Level, Models, Regional, Size-resolved, Surface, Turbulence, Uncertainties, Via.

RAPID: TAG-AMS Measurements of Organic Aerosol during the BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011 Field Campaign
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Allen Goldstein($162,420), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Particulate Organic Matter, Air Quality, Ambient Aerosols, Chemical Processing, Field Campaign, Mass Spectrometer, Organic Composition, Volatile Organic, AMS, Atmosphere, BEARPEX, Beachon-rombas, Biogenic, Blodgett, Contribute, Deployment, Feedbacks, Forest, Forests, Gained, Insight, Manitou, Precursors, Resulting, Secondary, Sources, TAG, TAG-AMS.

2011 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Atmospheric Chemistry; Mount Snow, Vermont; July 24-29, 2011
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nancy R Gray($25,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, Conference, Gordon.

Mercury Cycling in the Marine Environment
Award Effective Date: 05/27/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Huiting Mao($300,620), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
Key terms: Appledore Island, Atmospheric Mercury, Gaseous Mercury, Analysis, Global, Hampshire, Hg, Hgp, MBL, Marine, Program, Public, RGM, Sampling, Site.

Influence of Free Tropospheric Ozone and Particulate Matter (PM) on Surface Air Quality across the West Coast of the United States
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Jaffe($820,985), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Air Quality, Free Tropospheric, Tropospheric Ozone, Asian, Focus, Global, Graduate, Has, MBO, Observations, Pollutants, Satellite, Site, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Reno Atmospheric Mercury Inter-comparison Experiment
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Anthony J Hynes($170,313), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Daniel A Jaffe($205,133), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Robert W Talbot($150,754), University of Houston, Houston
4. Daniel Obrist($50,023), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
5. Eric Prestbo($88,487), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Atmospheric, Compounds, Elemental, Examine, Gaseous, Global, Hg, Interference, Mercury, Methods, Pollutant, Site, Uncertainties.

Workshop on Measuring and Modeling at the Interface of Air Quality and Climate to Understand Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ann Marie G Carlton($19,951), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Atmosphere, Bvocs, Workshop.

Towards a Molecular Understanding of Atmospheric Nucleation: Reactions of Amines with Sulfuric Acid Clusters
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Joern Ilja Siepmann($690,038), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Chemical Ionization, Cluster Cims, Mass Spectrometer, Molecular Clusters, Aerosol, Albedo, Allows, Amines, Atmosphere, Cloud, Concentrations, Efforts, Formation, Laboratory, Mobility, Nucleation, Nuclei, Particle, Processes, Source, Students, Uncertainty.

Environmental Conditions and Characteristics of Ice Supersaturated Regions in Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3)
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mark A Zondlo($759,939), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Troposphere And Lower, Field Campaign, Lower Stratosphere, Upper Troposphere, Water Vapor, Aircraft, Cirrus, Conditions, DC, Environments, GV, Hygrometer, Ice, Regions, Students, VCSEL.

Measurements of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds, Non-Methane Hydrocarbons, and Halocarbons aboard the NSF-GV Aircraft during DC3
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel D Riemer($365,729), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Upper Tropospherelower Stratosphere, Volatile Organic Compounds, Active Convection, Chemical Composition, Dc3 Program, Deep Convective, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Hours, Instrument, Mid-latitude, Nitrogen, Ppt, Quantify, Species, UTLS.

Airborne Measurements of Inorganic Acids during the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Experiment
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lewis G Huey($460,298), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Radical Levels, Acid, Aircraft, CIMS, Chemical, Chemistry, Convective, DC, G-V, HNO, HONO, Hcl, Observations, Observed, Processes, Serve, Species, UT, Useful.

Production of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) by Lightning during the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Experiment
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kenneth E Pickering($428,592), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Unit Flash Length, Convective Clouds, Dc3 Mission, Dc3 Observations, Flash Rates, Lightning Nox, Model Output, Activities, Analysis, Chemistry, Convection, Downwind, Estimates, Field, Forecasts, Improvements, Lnox, Magnitude, Modeling, Outflow, Ozone, Resulting, Simulated, Simulations, Storms, Students, Vertical, Wrf-chem.

RAPID: A New Technique for Vertical Profiling of Volatile Organic Compounds Within and Above the Convective Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Knopf($65,500), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Frozen Sampling, Vertical Profile, Vertical Profiles, Air, Aircraft, BEACHON, Balloon, CBL, Campaign, Canopy, Chemistry, Collect, Field, Students, Technique, Time, Trapped, Tubing, Usually, Vocs.

Collaborative Research: Secondary Organic Aerosol Production in Real Atmospheric Waters
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jeffrey L Collett($438,787), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Frank Keutsch($282,979), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Barbara J Turpin($574,965), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Aqueous Soa Formation, Secondary Organic Aerosol, Aerosol Concentrations, Organic Matter, Wet Aerosols, Atmospheric, Chemical, Compounds, Conditions, Designed, Does, Evidence, Experiments, Explained, Field, Filtered, Fog, Fogs, Formed, Less, Magnitude, Models, Pathway, Precursors, Process, Reactions, Water.

Lake Sediments as Records of Atmospheric Elemental Carbon, ~1900 to 2014
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Vincent A Dutkiewicz($381,620), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
Key terms: Atmospheric Ec, Ec Aerosols, Ec Concentration, Ec Concentrations, Lake Sediments, Whiteface Mt, Archived, Century, Cores, Determined, Filters, Fine.

CAREER: Photochemical Aging of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol: Chamber Studies of the Chemical Evolution of Oxidized Organic Species
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jesse Kroll($616,834), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Laboratory Studies, Organic Aerosol, Outreach Program, Oxidized Organics, Photochemical Aging, Public School, Aimed, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Boston, Chamber, Composition, Concentrations, Developed, Directly, Education, Educational, Experimental, Fraction, Graduate, Implemented, Inform, Mass, Mits, OA, OH, Oxidant, Oxidation, Promote, Schools, Species, Students, Training, Undergraduate, Via.

CAREER: Understanding Chemistry, Transport and Fate of Mercury and Persistent Organic Pollutants through Global Atmospheric Modeling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Noelle E Selin($600,054), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Global Mercury, Graduate Students, Atmospheric, Educational, Focused, Hg, Pops.

Effect of Water and Acidity on Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John H Seinfeld($536,074), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Laboratory Chamber Studies, Volatile Organic Compounds, Aerosol Acidity, Aerosol Mass, Gas-particle Partitioning, Highly Oxidized, Organic Aerosol, Particle-phase Chemistry, Radiative Forcing, Soa Formation, Aerosols, Ambient, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Experiments, Gas-particle, Levels, Model, Oxidation, Particle-phase, RH, Spectrum, Vocs, Water.

Collaborative Research: DC3--Integrating Probabilistic Forecasting and Optimization to Provide Decision Support to Meteorological Field Campaigns
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: CI REUSE

1. Johannes Verlinde($365,377), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Arthur A Small($172,759), Venti Risk Management, State College
Key terms: Field Experiment, Achieve, Aircraft, Challenges, Decision, Developed, Flight, Guidance, Intellectual, Meteorological, Multi-objective, Multiple, NWP, Objectives, Quantitative, Regions, Resource, Resources, Serve, Techniques, Weather.

Collaborative Research: EaSM Type I--Assessing High-Impact Weather Response to Climate Variability and Change Utilizing Extreme Value Theory
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: COFFES

1. Howard C Kunreuther($144,066), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2. Phillip Griffiths($455,934), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Weather Extremes, Climate, Commercial, Development, Industrial, Local, Potential, Risk, Societal, Storms.

Collaborative Research: Developing a Next-Generation Approach to Regional Climate Prediction at High Resolution
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Howard C Kunreuther($2,094,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Gregory Hakim($381,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Societal And Industry, Atmospheric Chemistry, Regional Climate, Societal Applications, Adaptation, Approach, Approaches, Benefit, Decision, Developed, Development, Downscaling, Enable, Feature, Long-term, Model, Prediction, Predictions, Predictive, Program, Tools, Weather.

Collaborative Research:Integration of Decadal Climate Predictions, Ecological and Human Decision-Making Models to Support Climate-Resilient Agriculture in the Argentine Pampas
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Richard W Katz($170,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Rajagopalan Balaji($62,736), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Michael J North($532,155), University of Miami, Coral Gables
4. Walter E Baethgen($88,996), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Decadal Climate Predictions, Decision Makers, Food Security, Activity, Adaptation, Agricultural, Argentina, Capacity, Central, Decision-makers, Decision-making, Development, Dialogue, Enhance, Global, Information, Integrative, Knowledge, Naturalhuman, Regions, Sectors, Societal, World.

Collaborative Research: A Pilot Project on Interactive Land Use and Climate Predictions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Liangzhi You($110,000), International Food Policy Research Institute, Washington
2. Chuanrong Zhang($503,800), University of Connecticut, Storrs
3. Jeremy S Pal($211,410), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
Key terms: Climate And Land, Food Policy, Future Climate, Regional Climate, West Africa, Biophysical, Broader, Driver, Factors, Model, Models, Predictions, Socioeconomic.

Multiscale Modeling of Aerosol Indirect Effects on Decadal Timescales
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Richard C Somerville($1,350,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Aerosol Indirect Effects, Advanced Parameterizations, Aerosol Effects, Atmospheric Conditions, Aerosols, Challenges, Climate, Clouds, Cumulus, Educational, Interactions, Modeling, Ocean, Simulations, Teaching, Training.

Climate Mitigation and Earth System Management from Local to Global Scale: Modeling Technology-Driven Futures
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Ge Sun($2,299,999), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Air Quality, Climate, Control, Development, Future, Global, Has, Integrated, Mitigation, Model, Potential.

Collaborative Research: Improved Regional and Decadal Predictions of the Carbon Cycle
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Christine A Shoemaker($1,064,047), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. James T Randerson($884,194), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
3. Ivan D Lima($355,820), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Gordon Bonan($599,338), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Regional And Decadal, Carbon Cycle, Climate, Comparisons, Cross-disciplinary, Datasets, Future, Improvements, Land, Metrics, Model, Models, Ocean, Predictions, Programs, Projections, Spread, Students.

Multi-scale climate information for agricultural planning in southeastern South America for coming decades
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Walter E Baethgen($919,153), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate Information, Agricultural, Decadal, Decision, Development, Past, Pis, Timescales.

An Informed Guide to Climate Data Sets with Relevance to Earth System Model Evaluation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Clara Deser($1,049,973), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Informed Guide, Selected Climate, CMIP, Coupled, Datasets, Enhance, Esms, Evaluation, Limitations, Sets.

Collaborative Research: Simulations of Anthropogenic Climate Change Using a Multi-Scale Modeling Framework
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: CYBERINFRASTRUCTURE

1. Marat Khairoutdinov($329,872), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. A S Denning($1,489,045), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Andrew Gettelman($325,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Anthropogenic Climate, Broader Impacts, Century Climate, Land Surface, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Based, CESM, CRM, Decadal, Effects, Emissions, Extreme, Future, Generation, Global, Grid, Land-surface, Model, Models, Modes, Pis, Processes, SP-CESM, Simulation, Society, Training, Version.

Temporal-Spatial Evolutions of Low-Frequency Climate Variability and Warming Trend
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zhaohua Wu($396,805), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Empirical Mode Decomposition, Low-frequency Climate Modes, Low-frequency Climate, Model Simulations, Analysis, Atlantic, Characteristics, Counterparts, Developed, Evolution, Following, Has, Iii, Improvement, MEEMD, Method, Multidecadal, Spatial-temporal, Tools, Trend.

Collaborative Research: Topographically Bound Balanced Motions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Scott R Fulton($298,715), Clarkson University, Potsdam
2. Wayne H Schubert($391,985), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Plains Low-level Jet, Low-level Jet, Low-level Jets, Plains Low-level, Solar Heating, Topographic Features, Applied, Atmospheric, Developed, Dynamics, Elevated, Flows, Found, Inversion, Isentropic, Technique, Topography.

Dynamics of the Midlatitude Circulation and Implications for a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Isaac M Held($606,252), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Height And Sharpness, Greenhouse Gas, Jet Streams, Storm Tracks, Tropopause Height, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Circulation, Climate, Consider, Jets, Latitude, Midlatitude, Position.

Understanding the Connection Between Tropical Cyclones and Climate Through Multi-Model Simulations
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daehyun Kim($699,620), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Multi-model Dataset, Activity, Analysis, Climate, Cyclone, Multi-model, Set, TC, Tropical.

The Dynamics of Storm Tracks and Jets in the Atmosphere and Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven Feldstein($562,003), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Atmosphere And Ocean, Storm Tracks, Drive, Jet, Jets, Knowledge, Models, Processes, Surface, Teachers, Workshops.

RAPID: Assessment of the Drought Situation in the Horn of Africa
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sharon E Nicholson($76,445), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Africa, Disasters, Drought, Factors, Meteorological, Region, Seasonal, Severity.

Origin of the Tropical Lower Stratospheric Response to 11-Year Solar Forcing: Possible Feedbacks from the Coupled Troposphere-Ocean Response
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lon L Hood($114,693), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Air-sea Interactions, Stratospheric Ozone, Air-sea, Atmosphere, Climate, Radiation, Simulations, Solar, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Lagrangian Modeling of Convectively Coupled Equatorial Waves and the Madden Julian Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Alexey Fedorov($342,568), Yale University, New Haven
2. Katherine H Straub($61,045), Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Climate Modeling, Atmospheric, Convective, Disturbances, Has.

Eastern North Pacific Tropical Cyclones: Their Large-scale Patterns, Variability, and Impacts on the Southwestern U.S. Region
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Elizabeth Ritchie($150,061), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Eastern North Pacific, North Pacific Tropical, Large-scale Circulation, Activity, Climate, Increase, Large-scale, Ncoastal, Southwestern, TC.

Analysis of the Influence of Convectively Coupled Atmospheric Waves and Extratropical Rossby Waves on the Structure and Evolution of the Observed Madden Julian Oscillation (MJO)
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul E Roundy($516,951), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Convectively Coupled, Equatorial Waves, Extratropical Waves, Convection, Extreme, Interact, MJO, Organized, Tropical, Tropics.

Constraining Tropical Low Cloud Feedbacks Using Observations of the Fast Cloud Response
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert M Pincus($397,045), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Low Cloud Feedback, Climate Models, Cloud Properties, Empirical Relationships, Global Warming, Large-scale Variables, Low Clouds, Neural Network, Satellite Observations, Combination, Established, Estimates, Large-scale, Less, Method, Prevalent, Projections, Reflective, Sunlight, Surface, Temperature, Uncertainty.

RAPID: Detectability of Changes in the Walker Circulation in Response to Global Warming
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Pedro Di Nezio($29,951), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Pedro Di Nezio($29,951), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Sea Level Pressure, 20th Century, Climate Simulations, Climatic Variables, Decision Makers, East-west Sea, Global Warming, Ipcc Ar5, Slp Gradient, Tropical Climate, Walker Cell, Walker Circulation, Consequences, Dominant, East-west, Extent, Has, Implications, Issues, Low, Natural, Observations, Observed, Performed, Precipitation, Rainfall, Trend, Trends, Tropical-mean, Weakening, Worldwide.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Atlantic Decadal-to-Multidecadal Variability and Predictability
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Edwin K Schneider($294,631), George Mason University, Fairfax
2. Benjamin P Kirtman($354,389), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atmospheric Component Model, Ocean Component Model, Atlantic Sst, North Atlantic, Weather Noise, Average, CCSM, Climate, Copies, Examine, Fluxes, IE-CCSM, Meridional, Multidecadal, Predictability, Ssts, Structure, Surface, Time.

Testing the Unified System of Equations in Atmospheric Models
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Celal Konor($302,767), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric Models, Hydrostatic Models, Nonhydrostatic Global, Nonhydrostatic Motions, Appropriate, Cloud, Equations, Simulation, UN.

Collaborative Research: The Effect of Near-Equatorial Islands on Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter H Molnar($57,743), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Kerry A Emanuel($274,047), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric, Carried, Circulation, Climate, Distribution, Effects, Examine, Islands, MIT-GCM, Model, Ocean, Parameterizations, Tropical.

The Impact of Downward Wave Coupling on the Tropospheric Circulation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tiffany A Shaw($343,641), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Downward Zonal Mean, Zonal Mean Coupling, Climate Prediction, Tropospheric Circulation, Wave Reflection, DWC, Dynamical, Potential, Seasonal, Stratosphere, Troposphere.

Upscale Feedback of Tropical Atmospheric Synoptic-Scale Variabilities to Intraseasonal Oscillations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tim Li($370,034), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Energy Conversions, Mjo Convection, Momentum Transport, Nonlinear Rectification, Nonlinearly Rectified, Ocean Nonlinear, Phase Relationships, Tropical Convection, Upscale Feedback, Atmospheric, Current, Eddy, Examine, Experiments, Flux, Following, Heat, Intraseasonal, Investigate, Modeling, National, Oscillation, Phases, Process, Processes, Reanalysis, SSV, Surface, Synoptic, Weather.

Supporting Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Chidong Zhang($526,049), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Dynamo Field Campaign, Forecast And Analysis, Indian Ocean, Large-scale Conditions, Mjo Initiation, Activities, Aircraft, Broader, CINDY, Chief, Collected, Convective, Deployment, Development, ECMWF, Essential, Forecasts, Graduate, Has, International, Large-scale, Layer, Main, Monitoring, Multiple, October, Operations, Oversee, Phase, Post-deployment, Postdoc, Pre-deployment, Radars, Region, Students, Travel, Weather.

An Experiment Relating Black Carbon Content to Reduction of Snow Albedo
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Stephen G Warren($324,731), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Snow Grain Size, Albedo Reduction, Artificial Snowpacks, Radiative Forcing, BC, Bands, Climate, Concentration, Experiments, Filters, Functions, Investigate, Laboratory, Measured, Model, Models, Natural, Obtain, Quantities, Sky, Solar, Soot, Water.

Collaborative Research: Dropsonde Measurements for Characterizing Lower Troposphere Moisture Variability and Air-sea Interaction over the Tropical Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Shuyi S Chen($247,801), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Qing Wang($192,800), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Air-sea Interactions, Airborne Expendable, Deep Convection, Field Campaign, Indian Ocean, Mjo Initiation, Pacific Ocean, Air-sea, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Convective, DYNAMO, Dropsondes, Essential, Fluxes, Has, Heat, Layer, Moisture, Moisture-convection, Multiple, NOAA, Organized, Phase, Prediction, Radar, Shallow, Winds, Worldwide.

A Study of Frontal-Scale Air-Sea Interaction along the Gulf Stream Extension Using a High-Resolution Coupled Regional Climate Model
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ramalingam Saravanan($538,585), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Climate Model, Gulf Stream, Regional Climate, Affect, Atlantic, Atmospheric, GSE, Has, Interaction, Ocean, Pis, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: Tropical Variability in a New Generation of Coupled Climate Simulations with Explicitly Resolved Convection
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Cristiana Stan($99,887), Institute of Global Environment and Society, Rockville
2. Charlotte A Demott($249,920), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Asian Summer Monsoon, Cloud Resolving Model, El Ninosouthern Oscillation, Climate Model, Atmospheric, CCSM, Component, Convection, Improvements, MJO, Models, Parameterization, Performed, SP-CCSM, Simulation, Tropical, Version, Weather.

Easterly Wave-Itcz Interaction and Tropical Cyclone Formation over the Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zhuo Wang($401,954), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Formation, Easterly Waves, Itcz-wave Interaction, Large-scale Circulation, Wave Pouch, Atlantic, Framework, Itcz-wave, Large-scale, Link, MDR, Storm.

New Ideas in Statistical Seasonal Forecasting: Application to North American Temperature and Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daniel S Wilks($406,959), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Seasonal Forecasts, Surface Temperature, Analysis, Century, Climate, Exploration, Low-frequency, Means, Predictand, Prediction, Predictors, Statistical, Training.

High-Resolution Radiosonde Data, Gravity Waves, Turbulence, and the Extratropical Tropopause
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ping Liu($702,745), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Vertical Resolution, Archived, Available, Has, High-resolution, Levels, Radiosonde, Raw, Tropopause, Turbulence, Turbulent.

RUI: Dynamical Coupling during Major Stratospheric Sudden Warming
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Varavut Limpasuvan($254,185), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Stratosphere And Mesosphere, Elevated Stratopause, Parameterized Gw, ARPS, Activities, Coupling, Examined, Forcings, Gws, Model, Observations, Pws, SSW, Ssws, Undergraduate, WACCM, Waves.

Development of a Climatology of Precipitation System Organization in North Carolina to Improve Climate Precipitation Forecasts
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Rosana Nieto-Ferreira($314,033), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Climate And Hydrological, Climate Model, North Carolina, Process-based Downscaling, Radar Reflectivity, Regional Climate, Synoptic Regimes, Climatology, Convective, Datasets, Delivery, Flow, NASA, NMQ, NOAA, National, Precipitation, Process-based, Rainfall, Rivers, Simulations, Spatial, Time, Water, Watershed.

Fundamental Studies of Disturbed Tropical Cyclones: A Deeper Look into the Causes and Consequences of Asymmetric Structure Under Various Environmental Conditions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David A Schecter($486,740), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Models, Environmental Conditions, Reduced Model, Tropical Cyclones, Vortex Intensity, Asymmetries, CSR, Create, Effects.

The Madden-Julian Oscillation and Predictability of Extreme Precipitation in the United States
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Charles Jones($466,314), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Extreme Precipitation Forecasts, CONUS, Economic, Examines, Largest, MJO, Phases, Preliminary, Skill, Value, Week.

RAPID: Representation of Atlantic Multidecadal Variability and its Hydroclimate and Surface Temperature Links in Climate Simulations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sumant Nigam($30,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Climate Models, Ipcc Ar5, AMO, Atlantic, Hydroclimate, Lead, Multidecadal, Phase, Representation, Simulations.

RAPID: Decadal Variability of the American Monsoons--An Assessment of CMIP5 Simulation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Charles Jones($30,000), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Climate Model, Cmip5 Models, Ipcc Ar5, Model Simulations, AMS, Americas, Atlantic, Characteristics, Decadal, Forcings, Monsoon, Monsoons, Observed, Oscillation, Past, Precipitation, Projected, Represent, Representing, Statistical.

Dynamics and Impacts of Mesoscale Gravity Waves in the Moist Baroclinic Jet-Front Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Fuqing Zhang($566,219), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Dynamics And Impacts, Energy And Momentum, Gravity Waves Generated, Idealized Moist Baroclinic, Mesoscale Gravity Waves, Moist Baroclinic Jet-front, Moist Baroclinic Waves, Baroclinic Jet-front, High-resolution Simulations, Mesoscale Predictability, Moist Convection, Momentum Transport, Aircraft, Analyzing, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Circulation, Fluxes, High-resolution, Interaction, Interactions, Large-scale, Lead, Observations, Processes, Propagation, Small-scale, Source, Transfer, Tropospheric, Weather.

Collaborative Research: The Amazon Groundwater and Its Impact on Evapotranspiration and the Climate of South America
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ying Fan Reinfelder($307,724), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Francina Dominguez($225,813), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Amazon Forest, Deep Roots, Dry Season, Hydraulic Redistribution, Land Surface, Shed Lights, Soil Moisture, Climate, Continent, DRM, Deeper, Deforestation, Developed, Fields, Functions, Future, Groundwater, Hence, Influence, Leaf-hydro, Model, Precipitation, Process, Regional, Simulate, South, Suggest, Water.

2011 Gordon Research Conference on Radiation and Climate; Waterville, Maine; July 10 - 15, 2011
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Nancy R Gray($20,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Radiation And Climate, Early-career Scientists, Graduate Students, Outstanding Issues, Remote Sensing, Aerosol, Aerosols, Cloud, Clouds, Conference, Early-career, Expected, Feedbacks, GRC, Gordon, Interactions, Meeting, Observational.

RAPID: Initial Assessment of IPCC AR5 Multi-model Ensembles for Hydroclimatic Features at Global and Regional Scales
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Venkatesh Merwade($29,999), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Model Simulations Prepared, Climate Models, Decision Makers, Global Warming, Hydrological Cycle, Ipcc Ar5, Land Cover, Evapotranspiration, Expected, Extent, Forcing, Hydroclimate, LULC, Regional, Variables.

RAPID: Long-term Trends of the Atlantic Interhemispheric SST Gradient in the CMIP5 20th Century Simulations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John Chiang($32,894), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Sst Gradient Trend, 20th Century, Indirect Effects, Ipcc Ar5, Simulations Prepared, Sulfate Aerosols, Assessing, Atlantic, Determining, Ensemble, Forced, Hemisphere, Magnitude, Radiative.

RAPID: Prediction and Predictability for the Multi-decadal Variability in a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Hyemi Kim($29,962), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: 20th Century, Climate Model, Decadal Climate, Decadal Fluctuations, Extreme Climate, Ipcc Ar5, Natural Decadal, Statistical Methods, Analyses, Anthropogenic, Extent, Prepared, Risk, Simulations, Warming.

RAPID: Carbon Cycle-Climate Feedback Analysis in CMIP5 Models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ning Zeng($29,762), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Carbon-climate Feedbacks, Ipcc Ar5, Model Behaviors, Model Simulations, CMIP, Carbon-climate, Century, Current, Future, Models, Observations, Projected, Sensitivity, Strength.

The Dynamics of the Hadley Circulation and its Response to a Wide Range of Climate Changes: From a Hierarchy of Models to New Theories
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tapio Schneider($507,084), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Hadley Cell, Hadley Circulation, Climate, Climates, Equator, Has, Ice, Motions, Regions, Rising, Simulated, Simulations, Subsiding, Subtropics, Warming.

Hydroclimatic variability in southwestern North America
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David S Gutzler($29,976), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Model Simulations Prepared, Spring And Summer, Assessment Report, Ipcc Ar5, Soil Moisture, Southwestern North, Summer Seasons, CMIP, Consistent, Examine, Examines, Generation, Hydroclimatic, Population, Projected, Pronounced, Rainfall, Region, Surface, Trends, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Dynamic Vegetation Feedback and Regional Climate Predictions in West Africa
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jeremy S Pal($70,649), Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
2. Guiling Wang($446,034), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Lateral Boundary Conditions, Regional Climate Model, Regional Climate Predictions, Food Policy, Future Climate, Model Version, Vegetation Feedback, Vegetation-climate Interactions, West Africa, African, Center, Context, Coupled, Dynamic, Global, Influence, International, Long-term, Models, Precipitation, Resulting, Trend, Vegetation-climate.

RAPID: Drought Risk and Low-frequency Hydroclimatic Variability in CMIP5 Simulations
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Toby R Ault($29,999), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Model Simulations Prepared, Assessment Report, Ipcc Ar5, Low-frequency Hydroclimate, Climate, Drought, Found, Future, Generation, Low-frequency, Models, Projections, Risk.

RAPID: Evaluation of Multidecadal Variability in Surface Solar Radiation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Joel R Norris($29,999), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dimming And Brightening, Assessment Report, Climate Simulations, Insolation Trends, Ipcc Ar5, Radiative Forcing, Aerosol, Aerosols, Cloud, Driven, Earlier, Generation, Greenhouse, Model, Models, Observed, Reproduce, Seeks, Uncertainty.

RAPID: Warming Holes--Can Climate Models Represent the Variability and Sources of Regional Temperature Trends in the Continental United States?
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kenneth E Kunkel($36,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Climate Simulations, Ipcc Ar5, Model Simulations, Simulations Prepared, Warming Hole, Assessing, Future, Models, Temperature.

RAPID: Evaluation of Climate Models in the Southeast Pacific Marine Stratocumulus Region
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Anita Rapp($29,996), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Climate Models, Cloud Feedbacks, Ipcc Ar5, Model Simulations, Clouds, Diagnostic, Expected, Msc, Observations, Properties, Responsible, Satellite, Uncertainties.

RAPID: Predictability of Atmospheric Teleconnections in Initialized Decadal Forecasts
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Amy B Solomon($29,951), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Assessment Report, Decadal Climate, Hindcast Experiments, Ipcc Ar5, Simulations Prepared, Anomalies, Comparisons, Extent, External, Forced, Forecast, Forecasts, Initialized, Makers, Model, Ocean, Performed, Predictability, Predictable, SST, Starting, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Zonal Mean Atmospheric Circulation Changes under Global Warming and the Linkage to the Hydrological Response and Extremes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gang Chen($290,870), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Jian Lu($204,511), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Global Warming Forcing, Sensitivities And Mechanisms, Annual Cycle, Atmospheric Circulation, Circulation Regimes, Ghg Warming, Hydrological Cycle, Leading Mode, Climate, Extremes, Globe, Mean, Precipitation, Sectors, Simulations, Water.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Roles of Factors Critical to MJO Simulations Using the NCAR CAM3 with Deterministic and Stochastic Convection Parameterization Closures
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Guang J Zhang($367,077), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Samuel S Shen($131,268), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Central Equatorial Pacific, Convective Momentum Transport, Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Weather And Climate, Broader Impacts, Climate Models, Cumulus Clouds, Mjo Simulation, Convection, Deep, Objective, Plays, Process, Processes, Representation, Stratiform, Versus.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Initiation with DYNAmics of the Madden-julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Observations and a Hierarchy of Models
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zhiming Kuang($333,260), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Eric D Maloney($279,976), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Adam H Sobel($320,721), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Dynamo Observations, Field Campaign, Indian Ocean, Madden-julian Oscillation, Mjo Initiation, Pacific Ocean, Activities, Compare, Convective, Experiments, Forcing, Global, Graduate, Large-scale, Limited, Model, Models, Naval, Office, Outreach, Prediction, Processes, Propagates, Specific, Students, Worldwide.

Ship and Island Based Radar Observations in the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation Project (DYNAMO)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven A Rutledge($1,229,385), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Cloud Resolving, Deep Convection, Field Campaign, Indian Ocean, Mjo Initiation, Broader, Convective, DYNAMO, Essential, Heating, Layer, Moistening, Multiple, Radar, Radars, Tropical.

RAPID: Physical Behavior of Precipitation Extremes in CMIP5 GCMs and Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William J Gutowski($29,472), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Simulations And Observations, Climate Simulations, Extreme Precipitation, Ipcc Ar5, Simulations Prepared, Analysis, Behavior, Future, Model, Models.

Making Sense of the Multi-Model Decadal Prediction Experiments from CMIP5 Workshop; Aspen, Co; June 26 - July 1, 2011
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John Katzenberger($30,000), Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt
Key terms: Decadal Prediction, Decadal Simulations, Ipcc Ar5, Analysis, Workshop.

RAPID: Mechanisms of 20th Century Mediteranean Drying: The Role of External Forcing Versus Natural Variability
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yochanan Kushnir($37,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: 20th Century Climate, Century Climate Simulations, 20th Century, Climate Model, Decision Makers, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gas-induced, Ipcc Ar5, Mediterranean Drying, Simulations Prepared, Analysis, Atlantic, Consequence, Ensemble, Gas-induced, Mechanisms, NAO, Natural, Phase, Region, Robust.

Studies in the Climate Dynamics of Moist Processes
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. J David Neelin($965,689), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Large-scale Atmospheric Conditions, Convective Rainfall, Large-scale Atmospheric, Tropical Climate, Tropical Convection, Water Vapor, Behavior, Complex, Divided, Importance, Interactions, Moisture, Precipitation, Processes, Properties, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: Tropical Cyclones in a Warming Climate: Lessons from Model Simulations of the Last Glacial Maximum and Holocene
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Suzana J Camargo($171,486), Columbia University, New York
2. Joseph Galewsky($254,619), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
3. Robert L Korty($255,776), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Lgm And Mid-holocene, Global Warming, Ice Age, Past Climates, Ago, Behavior, Factors, Forcing, Genesis, Has, Hurricanes, Inform, Models, Simulations, Tcs, Tropical.

Convective Precipitation and Heating Structures Observed by the SMART-Radar During the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation Project (DYNAMO)
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Courtney Schumacher($723,498), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Addu Atoll, Field Campaign, Indian Ocean, Mjo Initiation, Precipitating Convection, Radial Velocity, Content, Convective, DYNAMO, Duration, Essential, Heating, International, Layer, Multiple, Radar, Radars, Reflectivity.

Radar Observations of the Cloud Population in the Developing Madden-Julian Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert A Houze($822,314), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cloud Population, Field Campaign, Humidity Field, Indian Ocean, Mjo Initiation, Broader, Characteristics, Clouds, Convection, Convective, DYNAMO, Essential, Layer, Main, Multiple, Oceanic, Populations, Pre-onset, Radar, S-polka, Stages.

Assessing Interannual Variability and Trends of Extratropical Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange: Using a Hierarchy of Atmospheric Global Circulation Models and Measurements
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter G Hess($309,772), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Chemistry And Atmospheric, Investigate And Isolate, Sst And Radiative, Atmospheric Dynamics, Chemistry-climate Model, Model Simulations, Radiative Forcings, Tropospheric Ozone, Chemistry-climate, Circulation, Idealized, Models, Observed, Oscillation, STE.

Predicting Major Dry Spells of the Monsoon a Week to Ten Days in Advance
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. T. N Krishnamurti($165,000), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Indian Summer Monsoon, Dry Spells, Modeling Components, Africa, Antecedents, Dynamical, Generation, Prediction, Similar, TIGGE, Vorticity.

Atmospheric Sounding Network in the Dynamics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation Project (DYNAMO)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard H Johnson($685,594), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Dynamo Campaign, Field Campaign, Indian Ocean, Mjo Initiation, Quality Control, Sounding Network, Analysis, Cloud, Convection, Convective, Essential, Evolution, Fields, Layer, Moistening, Moisture, Multiple, Overarching, Plan, Populations, Pre-onset, Vessels.

Collaborative Research: The El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO)-Mediterranean Teleconnection: Observations and Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jeffrey L Shaman($265,960), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Mediterranean Basin, Mediterranean Region, Naa Jet, North Africa, ENSO, Ocean, Pacific, Precipitation, Rossby, Teleconnection, Teleconnections.

African Monsoon Systems: Basic Dynamics and Applications to Interannual and Decadal Prediction
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Edward K Vizy($457,282), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: African Monsoon, Cold Surges, Global Warming, Monsoon Rains, West Africa, Climate, Dynamics, Effects, Focus, GHA, Sahel.

Teleconnections: Intraseasonal Dynamics and its Relationship to Interannual and Interdecadal Variability
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven Feldstein($540,920), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Atmospheric, Climate, Dynamics, Has, Implications, Teleconnection, Weather.

A Modelling and Empirical Study of the Climate of the Lake Victoria Basin of Eastern Africa
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Fredrick Semazzi($520,097), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Climatology And Interannual, Lake Victoria Basin, Regional Climate, Activities, Assessment, Based, Circulation, Climatic, Coupled, Detailed, Dominant, Feature, International, Knowledge, LVB, LVB-WS, Mechanisms, Model, Regcm-pom, Responsible, Simulations.

Education and Outreach in Climate Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Karyn Sawyer($177,373), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Field Campaigns, Junior Scientists, Senior Scientists, Activities, Benefit, Broader, CLD, Climate, Issues, JOSS, Mentoring, Opportunities, Provided, Quickly, Requests, Travel.

2010 Huntsville Workshop: Partially Ionized Plasmas Throughout the Cosmos; Nashville, Tennessee; October 3-8, 2010
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2010; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gary P Zank($12,000), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms:

CAREER: Multiscale Investigation of Warm-Season Precipitation Extremes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Russ S Schumacher($594,759), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
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.

Sahel Seasonal to Decadal Climate Variability and Atmosphere/Surface Two-Way Interactions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Yongkang Xue($496,742), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Modeldynamic Vegetation Model, Sahel Climate Sidva, African Monsoon, Climate Model, External Forcings, Sahelian Climate, Anomalies, Applied, Assess, Atmospheric, Available, Century, Comprehensive, Comprehensively, Conditions, Decadal, Especially, Features, Feedback, GCM, Has, Information, Interactions, Interannual, LULC, Land, Processes, Regional, Relative, SST, Seasonal, Simulations, Social, Sources, Surface, WAM.

Climate Variability and Impacts on Regional Surface Runoff in High Asia Mountains
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: EMERGING TOPICS

1. Charles Jones($563,506), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Indian Summer Monsoon, Ism And Wd, Surface Water Budget, Winter Western Disturbances, Asia Mountains, Asian, Central, Characterize, Climate, Current, Educational, Geomorphology, Graduate, Hydrology, Investigate, Involve, Multi-annual-to-decadal, Processes, Rain, Rainfall, Regions, Runoff, Snow, Snowmelt.

FESD Type 1: Sun to Ice--Impacts on Earth of Extreme Solar Events
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Harlan Spence($5,000,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Charged Particles, Extreme Solar, Ice Core, Solar Activity, Age, Atmosphere, Chemical, Dangerous, Effects, Investigates, Pose, Processes, Risks, Society, Space, Sun, Sun-to-ice.

MRI-Acquisition: Puerto Rico Atmospheric Major Research Laser Instrumentation Program (PR-LASER)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Juan F Arratia($658,049), Universidad Metropolitana, San Juan
Key terms: Arecibo Observatory, Puerto Rico, Atmospheric, Enhance, Graduate, Laser, Lidar, MLT, Potassium, State-of-the-art, Students, Technologies, Technology, Training, Transmitter, UMET, Undergraduate, Winds.

Multiple Equilibria and Self-aggregation of Deep Tropical Convection
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sharon L Sessions($302,865), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Tropical Convection, Self-aggregation, Utilize.

CAREER: Studies of 3D Dynamics in the Global Magnetosphere Using High-performance Heterogeneous Computing Architectures
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kai Germaschewski($495,886), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Thin Current Sheets, Magnetic Reconnection, Secondary Instabilities, Space Weather, Applicable, Applications, Based, Code, Computational, Computer, Demonstration, Developed, Generation, Global, Graduate, Hall, Investigate, MHD, Magnetosphere, Model, Outreach, Physics, Range, School, Source, Students, Tool.

Collaborative Research: Measurement and Modeling of Aerodynamic Interactions between Tree-Sway Motion and Turbulence in and above a Forest Canopy
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. April Hiscox($69,220), University South Carolina Research Foundation, Columbia
Key terms: Tree Sway Motions, Aerodynamic Interactions, Coherent Structures, Coupled Les-tree-sway-model, Crsl Turbulence, Education Program, Elastic Properties, Forest Canopies, Forest Ecology, Forest Meteorology, Numerical Modeling, Short Crops, Tree-sway Motions, Aeroelasticity, Atmospheric, Campaign, Canopy, Carry, Characteristics, Climate, Collaborative, Ecosystems, Effects, Field, Force, Future, Graduate, Has, Intensive, Les-tree-sway-model, Micrometeorology, Models, Multiple, Pis, Primary, Quantify, Site, Spatial, Temporal, Terrestrial, Tree-sway, Trees.

CAREER: Towards a Better Understanding of Turbulence Structures in a Disturbed Atmospheric Surface Layer
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2010; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Heping Liu($474,960), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Active Turbulence, Atmospheric Stratifications, Coherent Eddies, Disturbed Asl, Graduate Students, Large-scale Coherent, Turbulence Structures, Water Vapor, Activities, Education, Exchange, Jackson, Large-scale, Layer, Momentum, Predictions, Surface.

Workshop on Ecosystem Impacts of Geoengineering in San Diego, CA; Jan. 31 - Feb. 2, 2011
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Lynn M Russell($30,000), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Geoengineering Schemes, Global Warming, Potential Impacts, Synthesis Report, Affect, Consequences, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Geoengineering-research, Hazards, Workshop.

FESD Type-1: Electrical Connections and Consequences Within the Earth System
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Front in Earth Sys Dynamics

1. Wiebke K Deierling($4,500,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Electrical Connections, Affect, Atmosphere, Clouds, Current, Earth-atmosphere-geospace, Edge, Educate, Global, Lightning, Processes, Space.

The Effects of Solar Variability on Earth's Climate: A Workshop
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Michael Moloney($49,984), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Solar Cycle, Climate, Committee, Discussions, Earth, Future, NASA, NRC, NSF, Specific, Time, Topics, Workshop.

Large-Eddy-Simulation Studies and In-situ Observations of Land Atmosphere Exchanges in Large Wind Farms
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Marc B Parlange($295,029), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Heat And Moisture, Wind Turbine Arrays, Atmospheric Boundary, Atmospheric Conditions, Graduate Education, Land Surface, Pi's Ongoing, Roughness Lengths, Sensible Heat, Wind Energy, Wind Farm, Wind Farms, Wind Turbines, ABL, Computational, Convective, Effective, Effects, Fluxes, Global, Ground, Growth, Has, High-school, In-situ, Increased, LES, Land-atmosphere, Local, Modeling, Modifications, Modified, Neutral, Outreach, Parameters, Pis, Play, Portions, Regional, Simulations, Stable, Students, Theory, Various, Wakes, Water.

Significant Opportunities in Atmopheric Research and Science (SOARS)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Rebecca Haacker-Santos($3,298,568), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric, Program, Students, Summer.

REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CREST_2
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Reginald A Blake($919,700), CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn
Key terms: Ground-based Remote Sensing, Pursue Stem Education, Ground-based Remote, Undergraduate Students, Applications, Choose, City, Endeavors, Engaged, Engineering, Engineers, Future, Graduate, Mathematics, Mentors, NOAA-CREST, Opportunity, Scholars, Technology, Unique, York.

CAREER: Drought Predictability and the Role of Land-Atmosphere Interactions in the U.S. Great Plains
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Steven M Quiring($570,575), Texas A&M Research Foundation, College Station
Key terms: Land Surface Models, Moisture Influences Climate, Soil Moisture Influences, Spatial And Temporal, Land-atmosphere Coupling, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Undergraduate Students, Drought, Interannual, Land-atmosphere, Plains, Seasonal, Strength, Time.

A Study of Multiple Environmental Influences on the Lightning of a Continental Cumulonimbus Cloud Simulated by a Numerical Model
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Barry Lienert($267,177), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Environmental Factors, Cloud, Cloud-base, Convective, Electrification, Hawaii, Height, Instability, Lightning, Model, Physics, Public, STEPS, Simulating, Single, Storm, Storms.

Coupling of Gas-Phase Radical Oxidation Chemistry and Organic-Aerosol Formation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: International Research Collab

1. Neil M Donahue($661,375), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Matter Health Effects, Particulate Matter Health, Aerosol Mass, Gas-phase Organic, Mass Spectrometer, Organic Aerosol, Carbon, Carried, Climate, Designed, Experiments, Formation, Gas-phase, Interactions, Model, Oxidation, Oxygen, Peroxides, Precursors, Properties, SOA, Selected, Space, Traditional.

Development of Large-Scale Electric Fields in the Inner Magnetosphere during Substorms
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xiaoyan Xing($300,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Electric Fields, Electromagnetic Energy, Inner Magnetosphere, Magnetic Substorm, Magnetosphere-ionosphere Coupling, Substorm Onset, Focus, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Path, SAPS, Spacecraft, Subauroral, THEMIS, Temporal, Time.

Geospace Environment Modeling Workshop Coordination and Management 2012-2014
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Calvin Robert Clauer($465,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Gem Program, Fall, Workshops.

Electron Acceleration By Large-Amplitude Oblique Whistler Waves
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Peter H Yoon($300,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Large-amplitude Whistler Waves, Radiation Belt Electrons, Large-amplitude Whistler, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, Benefits, Density, Has, Nonlinear, Obliquely, Particle, Physics, Plasma, Play, Propagating, Propagation, Relativistic, Source.

Multi-Satellite Investigation of Plasma Sheet Flux Rope Formation and Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James A Slavin($291,641), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Flux Rope, Flux Ropes, Mining Tool, Analysis, Axis, Evolution, Formation, Magnetic, Onset, Reconnection, Space, Technique, X-lines.

Upper Atmospheric and Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Using the Kodiak SuperDARN Radar
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. William A Bristow($1,345,660), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: International Network, Space Physics, Upper Atmosphere, Convection, Earth, Generation, Ionosphere, Kodiak, Magnetosphere, Maintenance, Motion, Nations, Operation, Plasma, Plays, Programs, Radar, Site, Solar, Superdarn, Wind.

CEDAR: Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) Measurements of Flow Bursts and Relations to Auroral Electrodynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yukitoshi Nishimura($450,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Substorm Onset, Auroral, Bursts, Convection, Empirical, Ionosphere, Radars, Timing.

SuperMAG Based Studies of External Substorm Triggering and Interhemispheric Currents
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Patrick T Newell($300,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetic Indices, Substorm Onsets, AU, Available, Currents, Stations, Substorms.

Gap Filling of Solar Wind Data by Singular Spectrum Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yuri Shprits($97,633), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Solar Wind, Space Weather, Analysis, Available, Benefits, Continuous, Dataset, Gaps, IMF, Observations, SSA, Variety.

Identification of Underlying Dynamics of the Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jay R Johnson($360,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Space Weather Tools, Causal Dependencies, Information-dynamical Measures, Solar Wind, Underlying Dynamics, Cumulant-based, Development, Flux, Horizon, Magnetospheric, Methods, Nonlinear, Predictability, Predictive, Statistical, Variables.

Collaborative Research: Ground-based Imager and Magnetometer Network for Auroral STudies (GIMNAST)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Stephen B Mende($800,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Christopher T Russell($50,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Auroral Arcs, Auroral Phenomena, Scatter Radars, Space Weather, Themis-gbo Network, Canadian, Coverage, Facilities, Magnetic, Mission, Operation, Portion, Solar, THEMIS-GBO, Topics.

GEM: Whistler-Mode Waves in the Radiation Belt: Propagation and Wave-Particle Interactions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Anatoly V Streltsov($283,000), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
2. Anatoly V Streltsov($93,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Energetic Electrons, Radiation Belts, Particles, Play, Processes, Propagation, Space, Waves.

Multi-Instrument Observation of Dynamics of the Ionospheric Trough During Substorms
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mark B Moldwin($320,739), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Plasma Density, Examine, Field, Harang, Ionospheric, Large-scale, Magnetic, Mid-latitude, Observations, Play, Radar, Substorms, Trough.

CEDAR: Numerical Prediction of the Storm Time Geospace Currents and Magnetic Perturbations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Naomi Maruyama($107,773), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Magnetic Perturbations, Based, Current, Effects, Magnetospheric, Network, Storm-time.

Global Storm-Time Losses and Radial Transport of the Outer Belt Electrons at Earth
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Aleksandr Y Ukhorskiy($300,012), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Inductive Electric Fields, Solar Wind Dynamic, Storm-time Ring Current, Wind And Geomagnetic, Electron Fluxes, Geomagnetic Conditions, Magnetic Field, Radial Transport, Radiation Belt, Storm-time Ring, Transport Rates, Accounts, Average, Based, Described, Diffusion, Dimensional, Drift, Features, Fluctuations, Following, Function, Global, Induced, Losses, Model, Models, Outer, Phase, Quantify, Reconfigurations, Summer, ULF.

Satellite Remote Sensing Study of Dayside Magnetospheric Ultralow-Frequency Waves
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kan Liou($375,500), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetic Flux Transfer, Pc5 Frequency Range, Pc5 Ulf Waves, Pressure Pulse Driven, Solar Wind Pressure, Auroral Images, Magnetosphere Responds, Spectral Analysis, Determining, Distinguish, Disturbances, Earth, Features, Global, Knowledge, Mode, Polar, Quasi-periodic, S-transform, Speed, Techniques, Traditional.

Thin Current Sheets and the Evolution of Auroral Forms
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Christopher Chaston($330,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Thin Current Sheets, Auroral Forms, Dynamic Evolution, Reimei Spacecraft, Analysis, Drive, Motions, Observations, Particle, Plasma, Processes, Region, Simulation, Teaching, Vorticity.

Collaborative Research: NSWP--Machine Learning and Data Assimilation for Real-Time Radiation Belt Forecasting
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xinlin Li($170,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Radiation Belt, Forecasts, Los, Model, Operational.

Kinetic Structure, Stability, and Dynamics of Current Sheets in Magnetospheric Plasmas
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David L Newman($420,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Current Sheet Equilibria, Current Sheets, Earth's Magnetosphere, Initial Conditions, Magnetic Reconnection, Asymmetric, Class, Diverse, Instabilities, Kinetic, Magnetopause, Magnetotail, Modeled, Non-equilibrium, Observed, PIC, Physics, Plasma, Simulations, Solar, Stable.

Dynamics of the Inner Radiation Belt Near the Trapping Limit
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mary K Hudson($299,999), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Inner Radiation Belt, Magnetic Field Models, Solar Energetic Protons, Magnetic Storms, Dynamics, Effects, Fields, Losses, Magnetospheric, Numerical, Particle, Trapping.

EAGER: Addressing Key Unsolved Issues in Reconnection Physics Through Linear Theory of Tearing Instability
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Vadim Roytershteyn($80,000), SciberQuest, Del Mar
Key terms: Asymptotic Approach, Linear Theory, Magnetic Reconnection, Tearing Mode, Formation, Instability, Non-linear, Plasma, Plasmas, Simulations.

GEM: Transit-time Scattering of Energetic Electrons
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jacob Bortnik($285,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Radiation Belt Dynamics, Radiation Belts, Earth, Electrons, Energization, Has, Mechanism, Processes, Society, Waves.

Collaborative Research: GEM: Global Modeling of the Magnetosheath Using Comparisons Between MHD, Hybrid Simulations and Observations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Nojan Omidi($110,000), Solana Scientific Inc., Solana Beach
2. Jean Berchem($415,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Global Mhd Simulations, Hybrid Simulations, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Earth, Effects, Kinetic, Large-scale, Local, Magnetosheath, Magnetosphere, Modeling, Observations, Processes, Treat.

GEM: Occurrence and Properties of Magnetic Reconnection in Magnetosheath Current Sheets
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Marit Oieroset($330,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Current Sheets, Magnetosheath Reconnection, Process, Turbulent.

Bursty Bulk Flows, Dipolarization Fronts, and Particle Energization in the Substorm Plasma Sheet
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Andrei Runov($279,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Bursty Bulk Flows, Near-earth Plasma Sheet, Dipolarization Fronts, Energetic Particles, Energetic Plasma, Near-earth Plasma, Amplitude, Injection, Lead, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Nearth, Phenomena, Play, Substorms, Transported.

REU Site: Research Opportunities for Undergraduates in the Heliophysics Science Division at the NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Douglas M Rabin($436,215), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Space Physics, NASAGSFC, Program, STEM, Solar, Students, Undergraduate.

GEM: Identifying Impact of the Coupling to Ionosphere-Thermosphere on the Near-Earth Electric Fields and Currents
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Naomi Maruyama($233,932), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Conductance And Neutral, Ionospheric Conductance, Neutral Winds, Ring Current, Coupling, Effort, Extended, Ionosphere, Ionosphere-thermosphere, Magnetosphere, Mid-latitude, Newly, Observations, Proposing, Region, Utilized.

Collaborative Research: GEM: Investigation of UT Dependence of Magnetic Storm Strength
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Thomas J Immel($300,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Michael W Liemohn($120,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Enhanced Magnetic Activity, Magnetic Storm Strength, Dst Index, Geomagnetic Storms, Ion Outflow, Ionospheric Plasma, Ut Dependence, Abundance, Berkeley, Examination, Findings, Has, Latitudes, Magnetometer, Magnetosphere, Michigan, Middle, Models, Pressure, Processes.

Workshop: Development of an Integrated Understanding of the Sun-Earth System in Borovets, Bulgaria; September 12 - 16, 2011
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Ilia I Roussev($15,383), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Solar Wind, Bulgaria, Environment, Held, ISROSES-II, Magnetosphere, Modeling, Nsfs, September, Space, Sun-earth, Symposium.

MRI: Acquisition of a High-resolution, Time-of-flight Gas Chromatograph/Mass Spectrometer for Research and Training in Atmospheric, Marine, Environmental, and Biomedical Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Song Gao($200,715), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Complex Mixtures, Compounds, Trace.

Transition Costs Associated with the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputer Center (NWSC) Facility
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: NCAR-WY Supercomputer Center

1. Angela Kamrath($2,100,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Computing Facility, Supercomputing Operations, Boulder, CI, CISL, Cheyenne, Costs, Cyberinfrastructure, Equipment, Facilities, Laboratory, ML, NCAR, NWSC, Ncars, Service, Transfer, Transition, Wyoming.

CAREER: Understanding the Evolution and Nature of Shocks and Sheets in Space Physics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: OPPORT FOR ENHANCING DIVERSITY

1. Merav Opher($785,410), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Solar Wind, Space Weather, Accelerate, Close, Evolve, Heliospheric, Nature, Particles, Pis, Plasma, Propagate, Seps, Sheets, Shocks, Sun.

Third International Symposium on Shallow Flows; Iowa City, Iowa; June 4-6, 2012
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. George S Constantinescu($12,000), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Contaminants, Diverse, Early-career, Exchange, Hydrological, Meeting, Processes, Students, Transport.

P2C2: Synchronization of the Polar Regions and the Origin of the Bipolar Seesaw
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jose A Rial($287,730), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Coupling, Polar, Synchronization.

MRI: Acquisition of a Light Stable Isotope Mass Spectrometer for High-Resolution Paleoclimatology and Undergraduate Education and Training in the Geosciences
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Kyle K Nichols($827,931), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Key terms: Acquisition, Analytical, Isotope, Water.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--ICE age Chemistry And Proxies (ICECAP) Phase 2
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Loretta Mickley($330,595), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Becky Alexander($325,600), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Aim, Climate, Isotopes, Sulfate.

P2C2: High-Resolution Records of Rapid Climate Change in Speleothem Records from the Bahamas
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Amy C Clement($827,865), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Sea Level, Atlantic, Bahamas, Caves, Ceased, Climate, Flooded, Periods, Sea-level, Speleothems, Stalagmites, Students.

P2C2: Reconstructing Winter Temperatures in the Rocky Mountains Using Tree-Ring Oxygen Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Adam Z Csank($239,050), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Colorado, Delta-oxygen, Montana, North, Reconstructing, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Western Equatorial Pacific Rainfall during the Holocene - New Interannual Records from High Resolution Borneo Stalagmites
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. David C Lund($188,621), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Jerry F McManus($79,617), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: El Nino, ENSO, Holocene, Speleothems, Time.

RUI: P2C2--Reconstruction of Recent and Late Holocene Tropical Cyclone Landfalls in Northwestern Australia using Flood Deposits in Aragonite Stalagmites
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Rhawn F Denniston($98,000), Cornell College, Mount Vernon
Key terms: Late Holocene, Tropical Cyclone, Activity, Caves, Dated, Extremely, Flood, Growth, Kimberley, Stalagmite, Stalagmites.

2011 Graduate Climate Conference on Climate and Climate Change in an Array of Disciplines; Woods Hole, MA; October 28-30, 2011
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Raffaele Ferrari($10,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Climate, Conference, Students.

P2C2: Mechanistic Interpretation of the Spatial Signatures of Mid-Holocene Precipitation over South America and the Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Anthony J Broccoli($400,814), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: South Americaatlantic Region, Mid-holocene Precipitation, Mid-holocene, Models, Paleoclimate, Proxies, Signatures.

P2C2: Synoptic Dendroclimatology--Using Tree Rings to Reconstruct the Driving Forces of Hydroclimatic Variability in the Western United States
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Erika K Wise($251,290), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Synoptic Dendroclimatology, Atmospheric, Climate, Controls, ENSO, Existing, Field, Gridded, Objectives, Pressure, Reconstructions.

P2C2: Testing Whether Internal Dynamics is the Pacemaker of the Indian Summer Monsoon Variability on Decadal to Centennial Timescales
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Ashish Sinha($242,822), California State University-Dominguez Hills Foundation, Carson
Key terms: Active-break Cycles, Dominant Pacemaker, External Boundary, Oxygen Isotope, Active-break, Dynamics, Forcing, ISM, India, Indian, Interannual, Internal, Monsoon.

EAGER: Global Warming in an Independent Paleoclimate Record of the Past 100 Years
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. David M Anderson($21,293), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Archivists, Climate, Database, EAGER, GST, Global, Index, Nsf-funded, Paleoclimate, Produced, Short, Temperature, Time, Trend, WDC.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Sea-level Variability over the Past 200,000 years Precisely Reconstructed from Carbonate Deposits in Mallorcan Caves
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jeffrey Dorale($131,861), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Bogdan P Onac($301,684), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Coastal Caves, Sea Level, Mallorca, Range, Resolution, Unique.

P2C2: Rapid Climate Variations--A Speleothem-based High-resolution Record of Rainfall in the Equatorial South Pacific over the Last 83,000 Years
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Robert M Sherrell($528,195), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Generate, Niue, Pacific, Paleoclimate, Rainfall, Ratios, Shift, Tonga, Uth.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Past and Future Drought Variability in the Mediterranean Basin
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Benjamin L Cook($70,388), Columbia University, New York
2. Ramzi Touchan($572,434), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Mediterranean Basin, Climate, Hydroclimate, MBDA.

P2C2: Northern and Southern Low-Latitude Precipitation Histories--Testing Ideas about Millennial and Orbital-Scale Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Richard L Edwards($557,957), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Low Latitude Sites, Oxygen Isotopic Composition, Glacial-interglacial Cycles, Ago, Extend, Glacial-interglacial, Hemisphere, Monsoon, Rainfall, Regions, Time.

Collaborative Research: P2C2: Terrestrial Late Pleistocene Paleoenvironment Back to MIS 3 from Fossil Microflora & Tree Rings in Recent Excavated Landslide Deposits, Western Or
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Irina P Panyushkina($145,833), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Peter VandeWater($37,825), California State University-Fresno Foundation, Fresno
Key terms: Engineering, Logs, Oregon, Tree.

P2C2: Mid to Late Holocene Seasonality from Archaeological Sources in North Atlantic Coastal Scotland
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Donna Surge($464,107), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: International, Seasonality, Transition.

P2C2: Megadrought--Local versus Remote Causal Factors for Medieval North America
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Michael E Mann($469,398), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Medieval Drought, Sst Anomalies, CAM, Devegetation, Investigate, Model, North, Occurred, UNL, WRF.

EAGER: Educational Contributions to the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Field Campaign
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jeffrey S Tilley($87,758), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Convective Clouds, Direct Participation, Field Campaign, Chemistry, DC, Effort, Graduate, Multi-regional, Processes, Students, UND, Undergraduate, Via.

Collaborative Research: The Relationships between Sheared Convective Clouds and Tropical Cyclone Evolution
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Wesley D Terwey($166,679), University of South Alabama, Mobile
2. Christopher M Rozoff($163,486), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Horizontal Wind Shear, Isolated Convective Clouds, Kinematic And Thermodynamic, Cloud Model, Convective Modes, Idealized Cloud, Peer-reviewed Publications, Tc Dynamics, Tc Evolution, Tc Simulations, Analysis, Aspects, Convection, Convective-scale, Forecasting, Intensity, Interactions, Observational, Peer-reviewed, Primary, Processes, Properties, Rainbands, Resulting, Sheared, Structure, Tcs, Theoretical, Three-dimensional, Various, Vertical, Vorticity.

Measurements of Total Water on the Gulfstream-V for Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Linnea M Avallone($374,112), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Total Water, Aboard, Accurate, Chemistry, Climate, Cloud, Colorado, Composition, Convective, DC, Differing, GV, Midlatitude, Ozone, Properties, Radiative, Region, Sampling, UTLS.

An Observational Study of the Kinematic and Microphysical Control of Lightning Properties over Alabama During Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lawrence D Carey($422,736), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Convective Clouds, Deep Convective, Aircraft, Chemical, Chemistry, Composition, Coordination, DC, Effort, Electrification, Focused, Interactions, Observations.

Collaborative Research: Thunderstorm Influences on Lightning and Atmospheric Chemistry in Oklahoma and North Texas during the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Project
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Conrad L Ziegler($496,939), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Eric C Bruning($272,341), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Convective Clouds, Lightning Mapping, Array, Atmospheric, Chemical, Chemistry, Composition, Coordination, DC, Deep, Distribution, Electric, Field, LMA, Microphysical, Processes, Storm, Structure.

Impact of Sahara Dust Layers on Convective Cloud Development and Precipitation over the Tropical Eastern Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jiwen Fan($399,719), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Deep Convective Cloud, Regional And Global, Tropical Deep-convective Cloud, Aerosol-cloud Interaction, Cloud Properties, Deep-convective Cloud, Dust Affects, Global Climate, Ice Nuclei, Indirect Effect, Mechanisms Responsible, Tropical Deep-convective, Acting, Aerosol-cloud, Aerosols, Analysis, Assess, Benefit, Circulation, Clouds, Comprehensive, Imposed, Innovative, Interactions, Model, Observed, Outcomes, Precipitation, Sector, Semi-direct, Vertical.

Impact of Cloud Dynamics on Chemical and Electrical Properties of Storms Observed During Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael I Biggerstaff($661,233), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Convective Clouds, Deep Convective, Chemical, Composition, Coordination, DC, Effort, Electrification, Especially, Focused, Interactions, Microphysical.

Weather Ready Nation Workshop: A Vital Conversation; Norman, Oklahoma; December 13-15, 2011
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Karyn Sawyer($25,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Identifying Advancements, Nation's Resiliency, Pilot Projects, Severe Storm, Severe Weather, End-to-end, Forecasts, Links, Nations, Preparedness, Stakeholder, Tornadoes, Warnings, Workshop.

Stochastic Aspects of Physical and Radar Meteorology
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alexander B Kostinski($400,252), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Cloud Physics, Doppler Radars, Radar Meteorology, Radiative Transfer, Supercooled Water, Terminal Speed, Theoretical Investigation, Analysis, Clouds, Defect, Disdrometers, Droplets, Emphasis, Experiments, Fall, Fluctuations, Heterogeneous, Ice, Implications, Investigated, Precipitation, Properties, Raindrop, Rainfall, Resulting, Signal, Signatures, Structure.

Collaborative Research: Dynamical Processes Driving the Genesis and Maintenance of Tornadic Vortices
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Marcus L Buker($179,226), Western Illinois University, Macomb
2. Gregory J Tripoli($507,889), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Fluid Dynamics, Isolation Process, Tornado Vortex, Alignment, Analogy, Atmospheric, Based, Driven, Framework, Magnetic, Maintenance, Merging, Numerical, Overarching, Processes, Resolution, Theoretical, Theory, Tornadic, Traditional, Vortical, Vorticity.

Turbulence Generation in Common Near-Calm Conditions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Larry Mahrt($853,685), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Machine-generated Fog, Non-turbulent Motions, Sonic Anemometers, Turbulence Quantities, Analysis, Based, Common, Complex, Conditions, Dense, Effort, Emphasis, Existing, Generation, Information, Instructional, Local, Machine-generated, Mixing, Ncalm, Non-turbulent, School, Spatial, Surface, Video, Waves, Weak.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Continental/Oceanic Transition of Mesoscale Convective Systems and Tropical Cyclogenesis during the African Multidisciplinary Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/20/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sen Chiao($106,134), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Cheikh Anta Diop, West African Monsoon, Eastern Atlantic, Florida Institute, Mesoscale Convective, Mesoscale Models, Tropical Cyclone, Weather Prediction, Aircraft, Assimilation, Capacity, Forecasting, Howard, Human, Increase, Mcss, Modeling, Numerical, Processes, Run, SAL, Simulating, Simulation, Students, Technology, Transition, Undertake, WRF.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Tropical Cyclone Evolution in Wind Shear through a Synthesis of Observational Data Sets and Idealized Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John E Molinari($443,956), SUNY at Albany, Albany
2. David S Nolan($465,491), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Intensity And Structure, Modeling Technique Allows, Tropical Cyclone Intensification, Tropical Cyclone Intensity, Technique Allows, Wind Shear, Achieved, Cyclones, Environment, Environmental, Environments, Field, Forecasting, Hurricane, Idealized, Lead, Moderate, Observations, Observed, Obtained, Remains, Sets, Simulations, Storm, Surrounding, Values.

Impact of African Dust on Cloud Properties During ICE-T Using On-line Single Particle Mass Spectrometry
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kimberly A Prather($682,695), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Caribbean Region, Ice Nucleation, Lab Studies, Puerto Rico, Aerosol, Aerosols, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Bioparticles, Chemistry, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Composition, Dust, Exhibit, Focusing, Global, ICE-T, Nucleus, Particle, Particles, Precipitation, Predict, Properties, Public, Range, Schools, Size, Sources, Students, Tropical.

Energetic Radiation from Lightning Leaders: Effects and Origins
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Victor Pasko($404,713), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes, Earth's Atmosphere, Gamma-ray Flashes, Runaway Process, Terrestrial Gamma-ray, Activity, Electric, Electrons, Emission, Emissions, Energetic, High-energy, Importance, Initially, Lightning, Methods, Nature, Observations, Previously, Propagation, Radiation, Recently, Thermal, Thunderstorms, X-rays.

Collaborative Research: Dispersion of Particles Within and Above Plant Canopies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Heidi M Nepf($372,290), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Scott A Isard($455,192), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Atmospheric Turbulence, Plant Canopies, Biological, Crops, Experiments, Facility, Field, Generated, Interactions, Laboratory, Models, Numerical, Particles, Prediction, Processes, Transport, Turbulent.

High-Speed Video and Electrical Study of Upward Lightning Triggered by Towers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John H Helsdon($586,486), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City
Key terms: Upward Leader Initiation, Tall Objects, Tall Structures, Upward Leaders, Upward Lightning, Buildings, Conditions, Field, Flash, Flashes, Literature, Meteorological, Multiple, Observations, Sensors, South, Strikes, Towers, Triggering, Video.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying KHI, Turbulence Processes and Radar Biases Using Radar Observations and In Situ Measurements at JRO and Very-High-Resolution DNS
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David C Fritts($94,999), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Lower Atmosphere, Radar Wind, Vhf Radar, Applications, Capability, Dynamics, Errors, High-resolution, JRO, KHI, MLT, Motions, Numerical, Observations, Provided, Quantitative, Resolution, SOUSY, Sensitivity, Small-scale, Wave.

Science Program Overview (SPO): Southern Andes - ANtarctic GRavity wave InitiAtive (SAANGRIA)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald B Smith($22,689), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Aircraft, Antarctic, Atmospheric, Coordination, Field, GW, Generation, Gravity, Gws, Momentum, Ozone, SAANGRIA, Supported, Turbulence, Vertical.

MRI: Development of a Real-Time Instrument for Measurement of Aerosol Hygroscopicity Growth Factors from Aircraft Platforms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Suresh Dhaniyala($523,400), Clarkson University, Potsdam
Key terms: Differential Mobility, Hygroscopic Growth, Mobility Spectrometer, Aboard, Aerosol, Aerosols, Aircraft, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Global, High-resolution, Infrared, Instrument, Interactions, Particle, Radiation, Range, Sizes.

Collaborative Research: The Wasatch Hydrometeor Aggregation and Riming Experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Timothy J Garrett($448,091), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Sandra E Yuter($129,546), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Aggregation And Riming, Mass And Fallspeed, Hydrometeor Habit, Bmps, Broad, Canyon, Detailed, Developed, Field, Future, Has, Ice, Instrument, Local, Meteorological, Methods, Models, Particle, Precipitation, Prior, Processes, Public, Size, Ski, Storm, Unprecedented, Wasatch, Weather.

ICE-T: In-Cloud Measurements of Black Carbon, Dust, CCN, Cloud Droplet Size and Ice Particle Shapes Over the Caribbean Sea
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Darrel Baumgardner($196,814), Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder
Key terms: Aerosol, Cloud, Clouds, Developing, Effort, Ice, Instrument, Obtained, Particles, Relatively, Serve, Soot, Spectrometer.

Translation and Dissemination Via a Digital Archive/E-Book of the Writings of Heinz Kasemir on Atmospheric Electricity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Colleen Matan($33,130), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Body, Development, Kasemir, Lighting, Lightning, Papers, Physics, Was.

Simulation of Microphysical Properties, Mesoscale Organization and Variability of Stratocumulus Clouds During the VOCALS Regional Experiment (REx)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert Wood($399,907), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Boundary Layer Clouds, Marine Boundary Layer, Microphysical And Dynamical, Microphysical And Macrophysical, Aerosol-cloud Interactions, Macrophysical Properties, Mbl Clouds, Model Simulations, Observed Mesoscale, Regional Model, Sc Clouds, Southeast Pacific, Aerosol-cloud, Aerosols, Climate, Global, Mechanisms, Models, Observations, SEP, VOCALS.

Reconstruction of Near-Surface Tornado Wind Fields from Forest Damage Patterns in Complex Terrain
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher M Godfrey($99,575), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Tornadic Wind Field, Heavily Forested, Long-track Tornadoes, National Forest, Near-surface Wind, Retrospectively Characterize, Tornado Outbreak, Wind Fields, Characteristics, Complex, Damage, EF-, Effort, Engineering, Influence, Information, Landscapes, Long-track, Low-level, Mountain, Mountainous, Nsurface, Objectives, Opportunity, Passed, Pis, Portion, Public, Rare, Rated, Reveal, Strong, Students, Surroundings, Surveys, Terrain, Topographic, Topography, Tree, Trees.

Atmospheric Boundary Identification and Delineation Experiment III (ABIDE-3)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kevin R Knupp($732,107), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Dual Doppler Network, Ground-based Remote Sensing, Multiple Doppler Radar, Arm Sgp, Boundary Layer, Gravity Waves, Ground-based Remote, Mobile Platforms, Modeling Activities, AET, CBZ, CI, Cbzs, Compared, Comprehensive, Convective, Datasets, Evening, Field, Fixed, Graduate, Has, Huntsville, Low, MAX, MIPS, Mid-afternoon, Neutral, Nocturnal, OK, Observations, Physics, Profilers, Profiling, Radars, Severe, Site, Stable, Structure, Students, UAH, Utilized.

The Cloud Microphysical Effects of Ground-based Glaciogenic Seeding of Orographic Clouds: New Observational and Modeling Tools to Study an Old Problem
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Daniel Breed($569,097), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Glaciogenic Cloud Seeding, Ground-based Glaciogenic Seeding, Properties And Surface, Radar And Lidar, Cloud Properties, Enhancing Precipitation, Ground-based Glaciogenic, Ice Nuclei, Orographic Clouds, Precipitation Enhancement, Precipitation Remains, Surface Precipitation, ASCII, Aerosol, Affects, Airborne, Compared, Complex, Field, Hand, Has, Injection, Means, Natural, Particular, Processes, Proven, Simulations, Tools.

Multi-Frequency Studies of Lightning Initiation and Propagation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Maribeth Stolzenburg($710,646), University of Mississippi, University
Key terms: Initiation And Lightning, Cloud-to-ground Lightning, Electric Field, High-speed Video, Lightning Flash, Lightning Initiation, Lightning Propagation, Nine Sensors, Air, Antennas, Array, Channel, Completed, Computer, EAGER, Electromagnetic, Especially, Fast, Graduate, Hazard, High-speed, KSC, NSF, Network, People, Property, Sensitive, Spark, Students, Techniques, Training.

Aerosols-Climate Interactions: Characterization of Saltation, Dust Lifting, and Dust Electrification in Important Dust Source Regions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nilton D Renno($738,730), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Mineral Dust Aerosols, Owens Dry Lake, Aerosols-climate Interactions, Climate Forcing, Convective Plumes, Dust Devils, Dust Lifting, Dust Storms, Wind-blown Dust, Aerosols-climate, Budget, Global, Has, Large-scale, Models, Nevada, Processes, Saltation, Small-scale, Studying, Surface, Vortices, Weather, Website, Wind-blown.

RAPID: Preliminary Scientific and Sociological Assessment of the Southeastern U.S. Tornado Outbreak of 27 April 2011
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kevin R Knupp($149,961), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Historic Outbreak, April, Atmospheric, Attention, Characteristics, Damage, Effort, Identification, Influences, Intensity, Life, Loss, Meteorological, Radar, Responsible, Severe, Signatures, Southeastern, Spatial, Storm, Timely, Topography, Tornado, Tornadoes, Variety, Via.

Converting AOT to CCN for Studying the Impact of Aerosol on Cloud and Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Zhanqing Li($450,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Aot And Ccn, Cloud And Precipitation, Particle Size Distribution, Aerosol Properties, Hygroscopic Properties, Meteorological Conditions, AERONET, AOT-CCN, Aerosols, Ambient, Analysis, Climate, Concentration, Factors, Field, Global, Ground-based, Investigate, Investigation, Optical, Products, Quantities, Robust, Satellite, Studying, Widely.

Advanced Study of Precipitation Microphysics with Multi-Frequency Polarimetric Radar Observations and Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Boonleng Cheong($637,728), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Accurate, Available, Capabilities, Dual-polarization, High-resolution, Microphysical, Models, NWP, Network, Observations, Operational, Precipitation, QPF, Quantitative, WSR-D, Weather.

Precision Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (PREAMBLE)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David A Rahn($362,257), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: California Coasts, Catalina Eddy, Field Experiment, Horizontal Pressure, Wind Reversal, Airborne, Allow, Atmospheric, Cloud, Coastal, Collected, Conception, Dynamics, Efforts, Enable, Fine-scale, Flight, Focus, Forcing, Graduate, Has, Height, Host, Instrumentation, Interactions, June, MABL, Microphysical, Northerly, Observational, Opportunity, Previous, Region, Simulate, UWKA, Wyoming.

Learjet Investigations of the Microphysics of Maritime Tropical Cumulus Clouds in the Ice Crystal Experiment - Tropical (ICE-T)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Bradley A Baker($450,738), STRATTON PARK ENGINEERING CO., INC., Boulder
Key terms: Aircraft, Allow, C-, Cloud, Detection, Effort, Field, ICE-T, Ice, Initiation, Nuclei, Particle, Potential, Processes, Rapid, Region, SPEC, Students, Supported, V-CPI, Zone.

Bioaerosols in the Earth System: A Symposium at IUGG 2011 in Melbourne, Australia
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Cindy Morris($16,564), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Biological, Growing, Held, IUGG, Processes, Students, Symposium.

Impact of Marine and Dust Aerosols on Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Development
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Irina N Sokolik($349,903), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Intensity And Structure, Marine And Dust, Aerosol Properties, Atlantic Tc, Dust Aerosols, Environmental Conditions, Marine Aerosols, Natural Aerosols, Numerical Simulations, Relative Importance, Tc Evolution, Tc Intensity, Tropical Cyclone, Accounting, Activation, CCN, Characteristics, Cloud, Development, Distribution, Examine, Large-scale, Model, Processes, Scheme, Schemes, Wrf-chem.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the National Weather Center
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kevin A Kloesel($822,581), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Undergraduate Students, Academic, Build, Competitive, Has, Knowledge, Participants, Past, Percent, Private, Program, Public, REU, Report, Skills, Workforce.

Collaborative Research: Dual-Polarimetric Radar Data Assimilation Research for Enhanced Initialization of Moist Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Derek Posselt($109,609), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. John R Mecikalski($444,076), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Doppler Radar Observations, Dual-polarimetric Radar Observations, Assimilation Techniques, Convective Storms, Dual-polarimetric Doppler, Dual-polarimetric Radar, Forward Model, Ice-phase Microphysical, Numerical Models, ARMOR, Activities, Developed, Educational, Evolution, Forecasts, High-resolution, Ice-phase, Instruments, NSSTC, Operational, Particular, Precipitation, Prediction, Processes, Uncertainty, WRF.

Tropical Storms: A Bridge Between Formation and Intensification
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Gary M Barnes($474,455), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Tropical Storms, Ts Formation, Accurate, Airborne, Atmospheric, Core, Datasets, Developing, Development, Fields, GPS, Global, Hawaii, Hurricane, Inflow, Layer, Mechanisms, NOAA, Observations, Radar, Represent, Structures, Subsequent, USAF, Viz, Warnings, Wind.

Laboratory Studies of Ice Nucleation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Margaret A Tolbert($544,306), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation, Influence Ice Nucleation, Cirrus Clouds, Microphysical Properties, Organic Compounds, Raman Microscopy, Ability, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Climate, Coatings, Composed, Dust, Experience, Gain, Opportunity, Particles, Students, Surface, TTL, Teaching, Water.

Challenges in Understanding Tornadogenesis and Related Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Katharine M Kanak($778,720), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Forces And Thermodynamic, Temporal And Spatial, Dynamic Forces, Rear Flank, Spatial Evolution, Tornado Cyclones, Vortex Lines, Buoyancy, Co-pis, Counter-rotating, Differences, Directly, Doppler, Dynamical, Examine, Female, Genesis, Governing, Has, Horizontal, Knowledge, Life, Model, Numerical, Observational, Origins, Polarimetric, Precipitation, Process, Processes, RFD, Radar, Radars, Reflectivity, Rfds, Seminars, Supercell, Supercells, TC, Tcs, Tornadoes, Tornadogenesis, Updraft, Upgrades, Various, Vorticity.

Optimal Design of Multi-scale Ensemble Systems for Convective-Scale Probabilistic Forecasting
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ming Xue($395,770), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Convective-scale Probabilistic Forecasting, Convective Scales, Convective-scale Ensemble, Convective-scale Probabilistic, Ensemble Forecast, Ensemble Forecasting, Ensemble Perturbations, Hazardous Weather, Land Surface, Lateral Boundary, Model Error, Multi-scale Scenario, Optimal Design, Perturbations Interact, Relative Importance, Atmospheric, Center, Condition, Conditions, Domain, Effective, Errors, Findings, Forecasts, Has, Initial, Interaction, Issue, Knowledge, Lives, Loss, Mesoscale, Methods, Models, Multi-scale, National, Next-generation, Physics, Resolution, Sampling, Testbed, Verification.

EAGER: Accurate Aerosol Sampling and Size Distribution Measurements Inside and Outside Cloud Systems During ICE-T
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Suresh Dhaniyala($81,138), Clarkson University, Potsdam
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Aerosol-cloud Sampler, Field Campaign, Graduate Students, Intellectual Merit, Mobility Spectrometer, Particle Size, Size Distribution, Size-classified Ccn, Aerosol-cloud, Atmospheric, Clarkson, Clouds, Critical, Developed, Development, Fast, Formation, Ice, Inside, Instrument, Nuclei, Outside, Participating, Performance, Size-classified.

New Studies Linking Ice Nucleation and Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Markus D Petters($282,302), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Ice Nucleation, Individual Rain, Rain Rate, Relative Importance, Analyzed, Cloud, Cold, Constrain, Drizzle, Drops, Evolution, Formation, Freezing, Larger, Microphysical, Precipitation, Processes, Raindrop, Secondary, Storms, Susceptibility, Temperature.

Taming Complexity of Mesoscale Dynamics with Low-Order Models
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alexander Gluhovsky($429,712), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Atmospheric, Cells, Commonly, Convective, Dynamics, Enhance, Equations, Fluid, Loms, Mbls, Mechanisms, Models, Nonlinear, Phenomena, Sound, Time, Vertical.

CAREER: Towards Better Representations of the Nocturnal Low-Level Jets in New Generation Large-Eddy and Mesoscale Models
Award Effective Date: 11/10/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sukanta Basu($298,800), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Particular Attention, Renewable Energy, Texas Tech, Wind Turbines, Accurate, Approach, Classroom, Conditions, Controls, Development, Effort, Field, Generation, LLJ, Level, Momentum, Nighttime, Nsurface, Numerical, Observational, Primary, Secondary, Simulations, Structure, Students, Surface, Tandem, Via, Winds.

Observations and Modeling of the Characteristics of Falling and Accumulating Snow
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2007; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert Wood($665,002), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Equivalent Precipitation Rate, Falling And Accumulating, Habit Prediction Model, Liquid Equivalent Precipitation, Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts, Snow Habit Prediction, Accumulating Snow, Fall Speeds, Habit Composition, Particle Habit, Snow Accumulation, Snow Depth, Snow Particles, Benefit, Bulk, Development, Direct, Distribution, Forecasting, Gather, Ground, Habits, Has, Hydrometeor, Influence, Information, Interaction, Lead, Measuring, Microphysical, Modeling, Models, Observational, Observations, Parameters, Pis, Potential, Processes, Properties, Ratio, Realistic, Set, Snowfall.

AGS-PRF: A 1500 Year Paleoprecipitation Reconstruction From Lake Sediments for Improved Earth System Modeling of Aridity Patterns in Western North America
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Byron A Steinman($172,000), Steinman Byron A, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Atlantic Meridional Overturning, El Nino-southern Oscillation, Meridional Overturning Circulation, El Nino-southern, Nino-southern Oscillation, Western North, AMOC, ENSO, Future, Isotope, Precipitation, Reconstructions.

AGS-PRF: Towards a Dynamical Understanding of Climate Induced Disaster in Mongolian: Identifying Mechanisms, Change and Vulnerability
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Nicole K Davi($172,000), Davi Nicole K, Palisades
Key terms: Aims, Climate, Drought, Dynamics, Dzud, Extreme, Landscape, Spatial, Temporal.

AGS-PRF: Dayside Field Aligned Currents and Energy Deposition: The Effect of Magnetospheric Structure and Ionospheric Conductivity
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Frederick D Wilder($172,000), Wilder Frederick D, Virginia Beach
Key terms: Ionospheric Joule Heating, Ecliptic Plane, Magnetic Field, Poynting Flux, Conditions, Current, Currents, Dayside, Effects, Examine, Facs, Field-aligned, Intense, Leads, Magnetosphere, Magnitude, Particular, Plasma, Strong, Thermospheric, Topology, Upwelling.

AGS-PRF: The Exit of Energetic Particles from the Earth's Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Brian M Walsh($172,000), Walsh Brian M, Boston
Key terms: Energetic Particles, Radiation Belt, Earth, Lead, Loss, Magnetic, Magnetopause, Magnetosphere, Model, Observations, Plasma, Similar, Spacecraft.

AGS-PRF: Impacts of Microphysics and Cold Pool Thermodynamics on Supercell Tornadogenesis: Comparisons of Numerical Simulations with VORTEX2 Observations
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Daniel T Dawson($172,000), Dawson Daniel T, Norman
Key terms: Temperature And Moisture, Cold Pool, Cold Pools, Polarimetric Radar, Surface Temperature, Thermodynamic Properties, Characteristics, Comparison, Direct, Disdrometer, Empirical, Expected, Field, Mechanisms, Microphysical, Model, Observations, Parameterizations, Primary, Processes, Rich, Situ, Storm, Supercell, Tornado, Tornadoes.

AGS-PRF: Estimating the Dust Climate Feedback by Developing and Using an Improved Parameterization of Dust Aerosol Emission
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jasper F Kok($172,000), Kok Jasper F, Boulder
Key terms: Climate And Weather, Dust Emission Parameterization, Emission Parameterization, Atmospheric, Day, Feedback, Fellowship, Future, Mentorship, Models, Plays, Postdoctoral, Representation, Soil.

AGS-PRF: Modeling Water Content and Solute Activities of Atmospheric Aerosols at Extremely Low Relative Humidities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Cari S Dutcher($172,000), Dutcher Cari S, Woodland
Key terms: Air Quality, Conditions Found, Upper Troposphere, Activities, Aerosols, Arid, Climate, Low, Particles, Properties, Thermodynamic, UCD.

AGS-PRF: Identifying the Origin of Plasmaspheric Hiss and the Impact of Magnetospheric Chorus on Radiation Belt Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Daniel Golden($73,167), Golden Daniel, Palo Alto
Key terms: Magnetospheric Chorus, Plasmaspheric Hiss, Radiation Belts, Benefits, Examine, Extent, Has, Lightning, Spacecraft, Waves.

AGS-PRF: Understanding the Early Growth of Atmospheric Nanoparticles
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz($86,000), Hildebrandt Lea, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Atmospheric Particles, Growth Rates, Organic Acids, Particle Formation, Affect, Boulder, Chemical, Development, Effects, Health, Nanometers, Nanoparticles, Processes, Salts, Size.

The CSU-CHILL National Facility
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2011; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Viswanathan N Bringi($2,874,286), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Chill Radar, Site Visit, Activities, CSU, Continue, Dual, Facility, NSF, National, Operate, Radars, Third, Workshop.

A Planning Workshop for Observations and Outreach Activities During the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August 2017; Boulder, Colorado; April 9-11, 2012
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Shadia R Habbal($17,256), American Astronomical Society, Washington
Key terms: Allow, Eclipse, Experiments, Minutes, Observations, Outreach, Planning, Public, Solar, Workshop.

AGU Chapman Conference on the Causes and Consequences of the Extended Solar Minimum Between Solar Cycles 23 and 24 (4CESM); Telluride, Colorado; Summer 2012
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Eduardo A Araujo-Pradere($24,900), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Agu Publication, Chapman Conference, Solar Minimum, Space Physics, Activity, CESM, Geophysical, Interdisciplinary, Meeting, Unusual.

The Quiet Sun Dynamo: Shallow versus Deep
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Robert F Stein($230,181), Michigan State University, East Lansing
Key terms: Vertical And Horizontal, Convection Zone, Dynamo Action, Horizontal Magnetic, Internal Energy, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Fields, Solar Surface, Michigan, Observations, Pis, Quiet, Simulation, Simulations, Sun.

Collaborative Research: Numerical Investigation of CME-CME Interaction and Associated Effects from the Low Corona to 1 AU
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Charles J Farrugia($81,657), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Charles J Farrugia($58,834), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Solar Wind, CME, Center, Cmes, Complex, Effort, Existing, Hampshire, Hawaii, Lead, Models, Observations, Prior, Simulations.

Helioseismic Analyses of Subsurface Flows Associated with Flaring and Quiescent Active Regions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Ashley D Crouch($638,351), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Solar Active Regions, Mass Flows, Subsurface Flows, Assess, Cmes, Eruption, Flare, Flares, Forecasting, Lead, Magnetic, Observed, Pis.

EAGER: Long-Term Solar Wind Trends and the Implications for Current and Future Solar Activity
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Ramon E Lopez($30,864), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
Key terms: Solar Wind Trends, Helium Abundance, Solar Activity, Space Weather, Effects, Has, IMF.

SHINE: Understanding the Impact of Non-MHD Effects on the Coronal Mass Ejection Dynamics in the Inner Heliosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Merav Opher($329,629), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Space Weather Modeling, Weather Modeling Framework, Magnetic Reconnection, Reconnection Sites, CME, Center, Code, Developed, Dissipation, Dynamics, Effects, Female, Global, Heliosphere, Heliospheric, MHD, Michigan, Non-gyrotropic, Processes, Simulations.

SHINE: Observationally Constraining the Physical Processes that Generate the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Daniel Wolf Savin($575,454), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Alfven Waves, Solar Wind, York City, Acceleration, Middle, Outreach, Program, Proposers, School, Students, Teachers.

Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence, Charged Particle Transport, and Turbulence in the Corona and Interplanetary Medium
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. William H Matthaeus($615,779), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Solar Wind, Analysis, Effects, Energetic, Fields, Galactic, Heating, MHD, Particle, Physics, Plasma, Techniques, Theories, Transport, Turbulence.

SHINE: Helicity Transport from the Solar Interior to the Corona and its Role in Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gordon Petrie($328,655), Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Tucson
Key terms: Active Regions, Kinetic Helicity, Solar Flares, Solar Interior, CME, Corona, Coronal, Investigate, Photosphere.

SHINE: Identifying the Acceleration Processes of High-Energy Solar Particles with Payload for Antimatter Matter Exploration and Light-nuclei Astrophysics (PAMELA) Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Eric R Christian($538,004), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Energy, European, Gles, Ground-based, Instrument, Observations, PAMELA, Russian, Seps, Spacecraft.

SHINE: Systematic Evaluation of the Coronal and Heliospheric Models Installed at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Lan Jian($283,040), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Corona And Solar, Coronal Model, Model Output, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Space Weather, CCMC, Caused, Center, Effort, Evaluation, Modeling, Models, Participation, Physics, Spacecraft.

SHINE: Determining the Role of Ideal Instabilities in the Initiation of Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) Through Multiwavelength Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. David Alexander($430,038), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Filament Eruptions, Solar Observatory, Writhing Motions, Evolution, Initiation, MLSO, Opportunities, Program, Proposing, Rices, Scholars, Student, Undergraduate.

SHINE: Improving Understanding of Solar Corona Dynamics Using Laboratory Simulations of Coronal Loops
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Paul M Bellan($371,572), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Boundary Conditions, Create Plasma, Magnetic Field, Solar Coronal, Chamber, Experiments, Flux, Loops, Phenomena, Physics, Single, Sun.

SHINE: Analysis of Solar Active Region Energetics Based on Non-Force-Free Coronal Magnetic Field Extrapolation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Brahmananda Dasgupta($368,081), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Solar Active Regions, Coronal Loop, Non-force-free Magnetic, Vector Magnetograms, Alabama, CSPAR, Capabilities, Center, Dynamics, Enhance, Huntsville, Mass, Non-force-free, Observed, Space.

Multi-ion Dynamics of the Slow Solar Wind in Coronal Streamers
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Leon Ofman($481,461), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Coronal Streamers, Multi-fluid Models, Solar Wind, Solar Wind's, Acceleration, Available, Codes, Computational, Expected, Heating, Ions, Multi-fluid, Multi-ion, Multidimensional, Numerical, Perform, Pis, Plasma, Plasmas, UV, Winds.

The Physics of Active Region Decay
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. William P Abbett($459,339), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Active Region, Active Regions, Cmes, Coronal, Cycle, Decay, Effort, Global, MHD, Magnetic, Numerical, Phenomena, Proposing, Solar, X-ray.

IPS and SMEI Analyses Using Tomographic 3-D Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bernard V Jackson($567,057), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Tomographic Analysis Technique, Heliospheric Plasma, Plasma Density, Plasma Structures, Solar Wind, Interplanetary, Observations, Radio, Reconstruct, Space, Velocity.

CAREER: Turbulent Dissipation and Plasma Heating in the Near-Earth Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gregory G Howes($1,079,578), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Solar Wind Turbulence, Performance Computing, Energy, HPC, Mechanisms, Numerical, Physics, Pis, Plasma, Program, Resources, Responsible, Turbulent, Workforce.

Optical and Radio Uniquely High-Resolution Eclipse Coronal Studies
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jay M Pasachoff($162,234), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Processed Images, Solar Corona, Solar Eclipse, Australia, Coronal, Eclipses, Observations, Plans, Public, Radio, USA, Wavelengths.

CubeSat: Cubesat investigating Atmospheric Density Response to Extreme driving (CADRE)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Aaron J Ridley($838,668), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Neutral Winds, CADRE, Collaboration, Composition, Comprehensive, Coupling, Cubesat, Density, Design, Ground-based, In-situ, Instrument, Laboratory, Michigan, Modeling, NASA, Naval, Observational, Payload, Phd, Planned, Potential, Program, Provided, Radar, Satellite, Space, Student, Students, Temperature, Thermosphere, Unique.

InFO: The Integrated Facilities Office
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Anthony van Eyken($1,253,590), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Distributed Skills, Technical Activities, Antarctic, Coordination, Experience, Facilities, Facility, Info, Isrs, NSF, Office, Radars, SRI, Sites, Summer.

Collaborative Reasearch: CEDAR--Gravity Wave Momentum Fluxes and Instability Studies Using Coupled Lidar, Temperature Mapper and Modeling Studies at ALOMAR and Cerra Pachon
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Michael J Taylor($250,795), Utah State University, Logan
2. Bifford P Williams($145,000), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Mean And Variable, Instability Dynamics, Momentum Fluxes, Variable Forcing, Amplitudes, Climate, Complete, Comprehensive, Effects, Employ, Energy, GW, Gws, Instrument, Instrumentation, MLT, Modeling, Models, Parameterization, Quantify, Transport, Wave.

RAPID: Organizational Support and Planning for QB50
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Lars P Dyrud($50,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Qb50 Program, Cubesats, Effort, Participation, Plan, Satellite.

2011 Space Weather Workshop; Boulder, Colorado
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Meg Austin($23,445), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather Workshop, Conference, Fosters, Identifying, Operational, Operations, Service, Services.

Space Weather Enterprise Forum
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Meg Austin($20,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather, Information, Serve, Services, User.

The Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar in Ethiopia Workshop to Identify Science Rationale; Chestnut Hill, MA; September 2011
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Endawoke Yizengaw($39,972), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, African Sector, Geodetic Equator, Geomagnetic Equator, Ground-based Instruments, Development, Equatorial, Fairly, Ground-based, ISR, Ionosphere, Jicamarca, Observations, Space, Workshop.

EAGER: Collaboration for the Development of an Advanced Geospace Radar
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Frank D Lind($174,553), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Eiscat 3d Technical, Technical Advisory Committee, 3d Technical, Advanced Radar, Eiscat 3d, Incoherent Scatter, AMISR, Art, Design, Developed, Development, Enable, Geospace, Space, Technology.

CEDAR-GEM Postdoc: High Resolution Measurements and Modeling of Auroral Small-scale Processes
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Joshua Semeter($200,000), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter, Aurora, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Observations, Optical, Processes, Spectral, Structuring.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Large Amplitude Variations & Instabilities due to Strong Interactions between Tides & Planetary Waves in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Geoffrey Crowley($90,000), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Upper Mesosphere, Airglow, Instability, Model, Nonlinear, Subharmonic, Tide, Tides.

EAGER: Thermospheric High Power Rayleigh Lidar
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Chester S Gardner($250,882), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Integration Times, Altitude, Beams, Developed, Instrument, Involved, Khz, Laser, Lasers, Lidar, Pulsed, Rayleigh, YAG.

EAGER: Adapting the New Arecibo On-Dish High Frequency (HF) Transmitter System to Radar Mode
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Akshay Malhotra($145,203), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: D-region Ionization, Off-dish Interferometric, Allow, Arecibo, Capabilities, D-region, Enable, Explore, HF, Heating, Instrument, Meteor, Meteors, Mhz, Mode, Off-dish, Quasi-periodic, Radar, Receive, Receiver, Solar, Structures, Students.

CAREER: A Cognitive VHF Radar System Approach to Study Ionospheric Irregularities
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Julio Urbina($567,879), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Upper Atmospheric, Cognitive, Equatorial, Graduate, Huancayo, Observatory, Operating, Peru, Plasma, Radar, Sensing, Undergraduate.

RAPID: Workshop and Planning Report for GEOScan: a Geosciences Facility from Space
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Lars P Dyrud($81,165), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Additional Sensor, Communication Satellites, Iridium Satellites, Commercial, Constellation, Design, Disciplines, Generation, Geoscan, Hosted, Industry, Objectives, Payloads, Program, Range, Real-time, Sensorpod, Sensors, Unique.

Collaborative Research: A Next-Generation Model of the Corona and Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2011; Program: nan

1. Jon Linker($31,277), Predictive Science Incorporated, San Diego
Key terms: Mas And Enlil, Boundary Conditions, Photospheric Magnetic, Solar Wind, Center, Code, Flux, GUI, Model, Modeling, Models, Output, Physics, Proposers, Time-dependent.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2011

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--The Sources of Gravity Waves Observed in the Thermosphere at the Arecibo Observatory Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Multi-spectral Imaging Investigation of the Auroral Fine Structures Associated with Naturally Enhanced Ion Acoustic Lines Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Numerical Investigation of Observed Multiscale Dynamics in the Middle Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Observational and Numerical Studies of Tide-planetary Wave Coupling Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

RAPID: Limb-imaging Ionospheric and Thermospheric EUV Spectrograph (LITES) Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: On the Spectrum and Variability of Large-scale Equatorial Spread-F Structures Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Ionospheric Storm Transition Region Properties Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: A Novel Atomic Edge Filter Enabling Na Doppler Lidar for Simultaneous Wind and Temperature Measurements from Troposphere to Lower Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Observations and Analysis of Wave-Induced Constituent Transport in the Mesopause Region above Cerro Pachon, Chile and Table Mountain, Colorado Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Mesospheric Aeronomy Using Incoherent Scattering Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Radar Studies of Short-Term Variability in the Electrodynamics of the Low Latitude Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Alfvenic Aurora: Characteristic and Extreme Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Colorado State University (CSU) Lidar Data Reanalysis for Gravity Wave and Long-term Studies Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Ionospheric Contribution to Geomagnetic Storms Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Trough Signatures in Poker Flat (Alaska) Incoherent Scatter Radar (PFISR) Data Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Dynamics of the Neutral Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Electron Thermal Balance and Tests of Long Term Thermospheric Cooling at Arecibo Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Annual Summer CEDAR Workshop Award Effective Date: 08/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

RAPID: The First Ever Demographic Study of Solar Physics, Space Physics, and Upper Atmospheric Physics Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Support for Student Travel to the AGU Chapman Conference on Modeling the Ionosphere/Thermosphere System Award Effective Date: 07/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Transition of the CEDAR Database to Madrigal Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Large Amplitude Variations & Instabilities due to Strong Interactions between Tides & Planetary Waves in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Therm Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Postdoc: Antarctic Mesospheric Gravity Waves Utilizing a High Altitude Numerical Weather Prediction System Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Planetary Scale Waves in the Ionosphere Using Arecibo and COSMIC Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: An Investigation of the Anomalous Pedersen Current Driven by the E Region Plasma Turbulence Award Effective Date: 02/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR/GEM Postdoc: Fully Electrodynamic 3D Time-Domain Model of Lightning-Ionosphere Interactions Award Effective Date: 02/01/2011; Program: AERONOMY

Support for the CEDAR Science Steering Committee 2010-2012 Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Postdoc: Study of the Effects of Coulomb Collisions on H+ (Hydrogen) and He+ (Helium) Plasmas for Topside Incoherent Scatter Radar Applications at Jicamarca Award Effective Date: 01/15/2011; 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: 11/01/2010; Program: AERONOMY

Mesoscale Airflow over Mountains: Wave Drag and Orographic Precipitation Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Collaborative Research: CubeSat--Composition Variations in the Exosphere, Thermosphere, and Topside Ionosphere (EXOCUBE) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

CAREER: Meteor and Meteoroid Characterization Using High-Power Large-Aperture Radar Data Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

The First All-Sky Airglow Imaging Experiments Over Western Europe Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Projects in Climate Dynamics II Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Collaborative Research: Quantifying Feedbacks Affecting High Altitude Climate Change Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

CAREER: Understanding Changing Seasonality, Variability and Extremes in the Northeast U.S. Climate Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Collaborative Research: Investigating Decadal Climate Predictability and Climate Impacts (IDCPI) on the Western United States Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Satellite Detection of Effects of Absorbing Aerosols on Clouds over Urban Areas Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Abundance and Group Reactivity of Intermediate Volatility Organic Compounds (IVOCs) in Urban Air Measured by TD-PTR-MS Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Characterization of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol through Integrated Analysis and Modeling of MILAGRO-2006 Multi-platform Measurements Award Effective Date: 12/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Reactivity Associated with Ambient Particles: Hydrogen Peroxide, Quinones, Transition Metals and Hydroxyl Radical Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Laboratory Studies of Multicomponent Aerosol Nucleation Involving Organic Amine Compounds Award Effective Date: 11/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Processing of Iron--Does Particle Size Influence Iron Solubility? Award Effective Date: 10/24/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Chemistry and Sources of Carbon Monoxide in Present and Past Atmospheres Award Effective Date: 10/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Feasibility of Shipboard Eddy Covariance Measurements Using PTR-TOFMS Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Secondary Organic Aerosol and Brown Carbon Formation from Aldehydes, Ammonium Salts, and Amines Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Fog Drop Reactions of Green Leaf Volatiles as a Source of Secondary Organic Aerosols Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Chemical, Physical, and Radiative Properties of North Atlantic Free Tropospheric Aerosol after Long-range Transport Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: TORERO - Tropical Ocean tRoposphere Exchange of Reactive Halogen Species and Oxygenated VOC Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Nitrogen Oxide Chemistry: Connecting Ambient Concentrations to Mechanisms of Emission, Oxidaton and Aerosol Formation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measurements of HOx Radical Chemistry in a Changing Forest Environment Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Symposium on Aerosols and Precipitation; Orlando, Florida; October 4-7, 2011 Award Effective Date: 09/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds and their Impacts in a Changing Temperate Forest Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2011 International Year of Chemistry (IYC) Symposium on Stratospheric Ozone and Climate Change; Washington, DC; November 7-10, 2011 Award Effective Date: 07/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Up-scaling from Leaf to Canopy the Aerosol-sized Particle Collection Mechanism Within a Non-uniform Canopy Medium Award Effective Date: 06/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: TAG-AMS Measurements of Organic Aerosol during the BEACHON-RoMBAS 2011 Field Campaign Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2011 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Atmospheric Chemistry; Mount Snow, Vermont; July 24-29, 2011 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Mercury Cycling in the Marine Environment Award Effective Date: 05/27/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Influence of Free Tropospheric Ozone and Particulate Matter (PM) on Surface Air Quality across the West Coast of the United States Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Reno Atmospheric Mercury Inter-comparison Experiment Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Workshop on Measuring and Modeling at the Interface of Air Quality and Climate to Understand Biosphere-Atmosphere Interactions Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Towards a Molecular Understanding of Atmospheric Nucleation: Reactions of Amines with Sulfuric Acid Clusters Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Environmental Conditions and Characteristics of Ice Supersaturated Regions in Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measurements of Oxygenated Volatile Organic Compounds, Non-Methane Hydrocarbons, and Halocarbons aboard the NSF-GV Aircraft during DC3 Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Airborne Measurements of Inorganic Acids during the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Experiment Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Production of Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) by Lightning during the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) Experiment Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: A New Technique for Vertical Profiling of Volatile Organic Compounds Within and Above the Convective Boundary Layer Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Secondary Organic Aerosol Production in Real Atmospheric Waters Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Lake Sediments as Records of Atmospheric Elemental Carbon, ~1900 to 2014 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Photochemical Aging of Atmospheric Organic Aerosol: Chamber Studies of the Chemical Evolution of Oxidized Organic Species Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Understanding Chemistry, Transport and Fate of Mercury and Persistent Organic Pollutants through Global Atmospheric Modeling Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Effect of Water and Acidity on Formation of Secondary Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 03/01/2011; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: DC3--Integrating Probabilistic Forecasting and Optimization to Provide Decision Support to Meteorological Field Campaigns Award Effective Date: 09/15/2011; Program: CI REUSE

Collaborative Research: EaSM Type I--Assessing High-Impact Weather Response to Climate Variability and Change Utilizing Extreme Value Theory Award Effective Date: 03/15/2011; Program: COFFES

Collaborative Research: Developing a Next-Generation Approach to Regional Climate Prediction at High Resolution Award Effective Date: 05/15/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Collaborative Research:Integration of Decadal Climate Predictions, Ecological and Human Decision-Making Models to Support Climate-Resilient Agriculture in the Argentine Pampas Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Collaborative Research: A Pilot Project on Interactive Land Use and Climate Predictions Award Effective Date: 05/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Multiscale Modeling of Aerosol Indirect Effects on Decadal Timescales Award Effective Date: 04/15/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Climate Mitigation and Earth System Management from Local to Global Scale: Modeling Technology-Driven Futures Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: CR, Earth System Models