CEDAR Science Steering Committee 2012-2014
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. David L Hysell($92,960), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Cedar Program, Cedar Workshop, Steering Committee, Has, Meeting, NSF, Participation.

Collaborative Research: PFISR Ion-Neutral Observations in the Thermosphere (PINOT)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Joshua Semeter($94,398), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Sharon L Vadas($75,000), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
3. Marilia Samara($169,701), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
4. David L Hysell($75,046), Cornell University, Ithaca
5. Michael J Nicolls($76,306), SRI International, Menlo Park
6. Yukitoshi Nishimura($138,309), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
7. Aaron J Ridley($75,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
8. Miguel F Larsen($75,000), Clemson University, Clemson
9. Mark Conde($764,469), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Incoherent-scatter Radar, Atmosphere, Campaign, Coupled, Coupling, GITM, Incoherent-scatter, Interactions, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Observations, Optical, PFISR, Processes, Thermosphere, VHF, View.

Micrometeoroid Mass Flux Influences on Space Weather and Middle Atmosphere Aeronomy Studied Using the Six NSF Radars and Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. John D Mathews($559,998), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Meteoroid Mass Flux, Geomagnetic Field, Headtrail-echo Scattering, Meteoroid Flux, Meteoroid Interaction, Plasma Physics, Radar Meteor, Radar Scattering, Space Weather, Aeronomic, Aeronomy, Atmosphere, Details, Electrodynamics, Evolves, Explore, Fragmentation, Generated, Headtrail-echo, Heating, Ionospheric, Issues, Layers, Lower, MLT, Metal, Observations, PMSE, Processes, Required, Sporadic-e, Sputtering, Unrecognized.

Conference Support for the International AGU Chapman Conference on Longitude and Hemispheric Dependence of Space Weather; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; November 12-16, 2012
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Endawoke Yizengaw($45,413), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Longitude And Hemispheric, Hemispheric Dependence, Conference, Future, Instrument, International, Students.

Ionospheric Disturbances Related to the Stratospheric Sudden Warmings
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Larisa P Goncharenko($205,490), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ionosphere And Thermosphere, Sudden Stratospheric Warmings, Gravity Waves, Planetary Waves, Atmosphere, Atmosphere-ionosphere, Atmospheric, Coupling, Experimental, Focus, Ionospheric, Layers, Lower, Program, SSW, Tides.

Feasibility Study to Develop a Large Aperture Lidar/Optical Facility for Observations of the Upper Atmosphere from 30-1000km
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Chester S Gardner($148,099), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Design And Operational, Middle And Upper, Space-atmosphere Interaction Region, Lidaroptical Facility, Observational Capabilities, Operational Requirements, Space-atmosphere Interaction, Upper Atmosphere, Addressing, Aperture, Centerpiece, Challenging, Correlative, Coupling, Facilitate, Ionosphere, Neutral, Objectives, Observatory, Plasma, Progress, Telescope, Thermosphere.

CAREER: Modeling the Observable Effects of Gravity Waves in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan B Snively($478,720), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Atmospheric And Space, Infrared Airglow Imager, Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Student, Gravity Waves, Mlt Region, Observable Effects, Curriculum, Development, Dynamics, ERAU, Educational, Enhance, Model, Objectives, Outreach, Principal, Processes, Public, Teaching, Website.

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment (DICE) Operations and Data Processing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Charles Swenson($24,792), Utah State University Research Foundation, North Logan
2. Marcin D Pilinski($56,558), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Dynamic Ionosphere Cubesat, Ionosphere Cubesat Experiment, Software Modules, Space Weather, Attitude, Cubesats, DICE, Densities, E-field, ERAU, Effort, Electron, Enable, Less, Mission, NSF, Operational, Satellite, Satellites, Tasks, USU.

EAGER: High Speed Tomographic Imaging Facility for Studies of Auroral Fine Structure
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Joshua Semeter($261,258), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Auroral Forms, Approach, Energy, Imaging, Model, Observed, Particle, Primary, Space, Spectrum.

CEDAR Data Base
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Stanley C Solomon($55,508), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms:

Climate Change in the Upper Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Shun-Rong Zhang($229,259), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Millstone Hill, Upper Atmosphere, Climate, Ionosphere, Region, Temperature, Ti, Trend.

CEDAR: On the Spectrum and Variability of Large-scale Equatorial Spread-F Structures
Award Effective Date: 08/12/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Fabiano Rodrigues($133,894), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Large-scale Esf Structures, Geophysical Conditions, Large-scale Esf, Density, Dominant, Function, Occurrence, PLP, Spectrum.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--The Space-time Properties of High Latitude Ionospheric Irregularities by a Two-dimensional Array of GPS Scintillation Receivers
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Seebany Datta-Barua($105,204), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
2. Gary Bust($33,907), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
3. Seebany Datta-Barua($49,077), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Gps Scintillation Receivers, Array, Deployment, Observations, Scintillations, Structuring, Techniques.

Collaborative Research: Sprites Using High Temporal and Spatial Optical Imaging
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Hans C Nielsen($336,442), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Field, Observations, Sprite, Sprites.

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: 07/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. David C Fritts($117,803), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
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.

CEDAR: Numerical Investigation of Observed Multiscale Dynamics in the Middle Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Brian Laughman($244,022), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Wave And Instability, Gravity Waves, Realistic Flows, Atmospheric, Dynamics, Effort, Instabilities, MLT, Models, Numerical, Processes, Simulations, Transport, Vital.

Numerical Simulations of Gravity Wave Instabilities, Wave-Wave and Wave Mean Flow Interactions, Momentum Transport, and Spectral Evolution in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. David C Fritts($222,942), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Gw Momentum Fluxes, Instability And Interaction, Gw Instability, Instability Dynamics, Interaction Dynamics, Momentum Deposition, Spectral Evolution, Circulation, Climate, Critical, Energy, Environments, Importance, Influences, Interactions, Large-scale, Larger-scale, Latitudes, MLT, Mean, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Parameterizations, Quantify, Simulations, Transport, Variable, Various, Wave-wave, Weather.

CEDAR: Studies with Compact Echelle Spectrograph for Aeronomical Research (CESAR)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Elizabeth A Kendall($164,996), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Aeronomic Investigations, Poker Flat, CESAR, Spectral.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Observational and Numerical Studies of Tide-planetary Wave Coupling
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ruth Lieberman($260,491), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Global Tidal Winds, Planetary Waves, Atmospheric, Interaction, Model, Radars, Temperature, Tides.

Collaborative Research: RAPID--To Conduct Ionospheric Irregularity and Scintillation Experiments Using the Radio Aurora Explorer II
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. James W Cutler($50,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Hasan Bahcivan($40,450), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Artificial Ionospheric Irregularities, Incoherent Scatter Radar, Uhf Incoherent Scatter, Adverse Effect, Artificially Generated, Coherent Scatter, Naturally Occurring, Plasma Turbulence, Rax Ii, Rax Mission, Rax Uhf, Uhf Signals, Backscatter, Experiments, Facilities, Field, HF, Heater, Heating, Measure, Opportunity, Receiver, Satellite, Spacecraft, Was.

A Study of the Long-term Trends in the US Mid-latitude Ionosphere from 1936-2009 by Extending the US Ionospheric Database Two Decades Prior to the 1957 IGY
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert J Redmon($90,644), Space Environment Corporation, Logan
Key terms: Near Washington, DC, Developed, Existing, Ionosonde, Ionospheric, Long-term, Obtained, Parameters.

Imaging Science Investigations of Atmsopheric Processes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Michael Mendillo($2,017,349), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Controlled, Create, Eight, Geomagnetic, Latitude, Processes, Solar.

CEDAR: The Role of Gravity Waves in Coupling Longitudinal Variations in the Troposphere to the Thermosphere and Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

1. Thomas J Immel($276,834), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Circulation, Dynamics, Effects, Effort, Global, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Modeling, Models, Source, Tidal.

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

1. Lara S Waldrop($200,480), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Atomic Oxygen, Charge Exchange, Forward Model, AO, Accurate, Chemical, Constrained, Current, Density, Emission, Energy, Has, Ion, Ionosphere, Mid-latitude, Neutral, Observatory, Optical, Photometer, Program, Radar, Rates, Regard, Strong, Student, Technique, Thermosphere, Thermospheric, Transport, Undergraduate.

The Mechanisms for the Maintenance of Nocturnal Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Howard B Bluestein($599,951), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Low-level Jet, Nocturnal Convection, Nocturnal Weather, Undular Bores, Convective, Detection, Effort, Energy, Instability, Low-level, Maintenance, Maximum, Mechanisms, Numerical, Plains, Positive, Radar, Situations, Thunderstorm, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Improved Understanding of Convective-Storm Predictability and Environment Feedbacks from Observations during the Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Michael E Baldwin($440,200), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Convectively Disturbed Atmospheres, Ensemble Kalman Filter, Numerical Weather Prediction, Convective Regions, Convective Storm-environmental, Deep Convection, Model Simulations, Mpex Observations, Numerical Model, Upscale Feedbacks, Broad, Capability, Careful, Convection-allowing, Documented, Dropsonde, Has, Insight, Jet, Mass, Models, Nearby, Organized, Participation, Predictability, Storm-environmental, Surrounding, Teaching, Time.

Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM) Space Weather Summer School
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Michael J Wiltberger($405,138), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Model Output, Space Weather, Attend, Broad, Center, Effects, Experts, HAO, Lectures, Practices, SWSS, School, Students.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Controls on Water Isotope Variability in the Tropical Pacific: A Strategy to Improve Paleoclimate Interpretations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Jessica L Conroy($226,388), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. David C Noone($109,838), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Paleoclimate Proxies, Stable Isotope, Tropical Pacific, Access, CU, Climate, Hydrogen, Interannual, Interpreting, Isotopes, Oxygen, Past, Pis, Precipitation, Rainfall, Reconstructions, Sampling, Tech, Water.

Participation in Flame-IV: Understanding Aerosol Absorption in Biomass Burning Plumes Through Measurements of Single-Particle SSA, Coatings, and Brown Carbon
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Shane Murphy($239,038), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Biomass Burning Emissions, Absorption, Aerosol, Atmosphere, BC, Carbon, Climate, Fire, Lab, Missoula, Particles, Properties, Radiative, SSA, Scattering, Single, Spectrometer, Students, Sunlight.

Accuracy Improvement and Uncertainty Reduction of Spectroscopic Parameters of Water Vapor Lines in the HITRAN Database
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Qiancheng Ma($235,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Vapor Spectroscopic Parameters, Water Vapor Spectroscopic, Line Shifts, Robert-bonamy Formalism, Approach, Atmospheres, Band, Broadened, Calculations, Computational, Convergence, HITRAN, Hilbert, Lines, Model, Modeling, Numerical, Principal, Pure, Reliable, Robert-bonamy, Space, Temperature, Theoretical, Updating.

RAPID: Fast Mobility Particle Size Measurements during the 4th Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME IV) Study
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Christian Carrico($27,624), AECOM Technical Services, Inc., Los Angeles
Key terms: Regional Air Quality, Smoke Aerosols, Biomass, Burn, Burns, Capable, Collaborations, Experiments, FLAME, Fast, Has, Measuring, Minutes, Principal, Size, Students.

Travel Support for the 2013 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Robert A. Duce Symposium; Austin, Texas; January 6-10, 2013
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Renyi Zhang($10,000), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, AMS, Atmosphere, Climate, Cycles, Deposition, Effects, Gases, Global, Interactions, Marine, Ocean, Symposium, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Mercury in the Atmosphere Over the Eastern United States
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lyatt Jaegle($984,559), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Christopher A Cantrell($512,333), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Noelle E Selin($38,755), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Chemical Transformations, Source-receptor Relationships, Aircraft, C-, Eastern, Gaseous, Global, Mercury, Models, National, North, Observations, Significance, Source-receptor, Sources, Students.

RAPID: Online Single-particle Measurements of the Chemical Composition, Mixing State, and Ice Nuclei Residues During the FLAME IV Biomass Burning Experiment
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Allen L Robinson($24,934), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Composition And Mixing, Biomass Smoke, Chemical Composition, Flame Iv, Mass Spectrometer, Single-particle Mass, Wide Range, Aerosol, Aged, Atmospheric, CMU, Chamber, Chambers, Chemistry, Collaborative, Combustion, Evolves, Experiments, Fuels, Gas, LAAP-TOF, Opportunity, Participants, Photochemistry, SP-MS, Simulated, Single-particle, Time-of-flight, Twin, Unique.

MRI: Acquisition of a Soot-Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for the Measurement of Submicron Particulate Chemical Composition
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Michael S Waring($467,925), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Aerosol Mass Spectrometer, Public Health, Aerodyne, Chemistry, Drexel, Instrument, Particle, Quality, SP-AMS, Soot.

Collaborative Research: Particulate Nitrate Photolysis as a Daytime Nitrous Acid Source and a Reactive Nitrogen Recycling Pathway in the Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jochen P Stutz($276,640), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Xianliang Zhou($598,009), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
Key terms: Atmospheric Oxidation Capacity, Aerosol Particles, Laboratory Experiments, Nitric Acidnitrate, Nitrogen Dioxide, Nitrogen Oxides, Particulate Nitrate, Photochemically Reactive, Pno3 Photolysis, Reactive Nitrogen, Air, C-, Chemistry, Daytime, Establish, Field, Global, HONO, Information, Investigate, OH, Organic, Ozone, Parameters, Pathway, Surface, Troposphere, Tropospheric.

Time-Resolved Electrospray Mass Spectrometric Studies of Atmospheric Gas-liquid Reactions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Michael R Hoffmann($674,297), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Biogenic Gases, Organic Gases, Volatile Organic, Absence, Approach, Chemical, Current, Detection, ES-MS, Environmental, Global, Interfacial, Investigate, Reactions, Realistic, Resolve, Secondary, Students, Surfaces, Technique, Water.

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Measurements of Speciated Volatile and Semi-volatile Organic Compounds During the Fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-IV)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Donald R Blake($16,995), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Elliot Atlas($16,616), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Semi-volatile Organic Compounds, Mass Spectrometer, Semi-volatile Organic, Air, Analysis, Biomass, Clouds, Emission, Emissions, Fuels, Gas, Globally, Measure, Miami, Missoula, Resolution, Secondary, Smoke, Trace, Vocs.

Collaborative Research: Scientific Program Overview--Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ross J Salawitch($9,726), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Laura Pan($18,736), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Airborne Studies, Deep Convection, Lower Stratosphere, Tropical Tropopause, Western Pacific, Ability, Activities, Atmospheric, CONTRAST, Chemical, Chemistry, Chemistry-climate, Composition, Convective, Coordinated, GV, Gases, Measured, NASA, OH, Processes, Reactive, Region, TTL, Transport.

Impacts of the Biosphere on Global Tropospheric Chemistry and Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Colette L Heald($468,868), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric Aging, Biogenic, Biosphere-atmosphere, Composition, Effort, Emissions, Factors, Field, Focus, Future, Land, Model, Organic, Public, SOA, Scheme, Tropospheric, Vegetation.

Theoretical Analysis of Atmospheric Reactions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John R Barker($751,224), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ab Initio Rate, Initio Rate Constants, Atmospheric Reactions, Chemical Kinetics, Chemical Reactions, Master Equation, Predict Rate, Agreement, Amines, Emissions, Existing, Experimental, Experiments, Gas, Industrial, Kies, Methods, Models, Nitrogen-containing, SCTST, Task, Treatment.

Cloud Forming Potential of Marine Biogenic Aerosols and Their Physiochemical Properties
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Knopf($661,683), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Scanning Electron Microscopy, Ice Nucleation, Act, Aerosol, Allow, Analysis, Analytical, Climate, Conditions, Cycle, Efficient, Experimental, Fine, Formation, Hydrological, Marine, Models, Organic, POA, Particles, Significantly, Specific, Students.

International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) International Project Office
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Megan L Melamed($294,336), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Composition, Chemistry Program, Developing Countries, Collaboration, Conferences, Costs, Global, IGAC, IPO, Igacs, International, Newsletter, Priorities, SSC, Travel, Workshops.

Photochemistry in Organic Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sergey Nizkorodov($563,433), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Simulated Solar Radiation, Organic Matter, Photochemical Reactions, Air, Aqueous, Contribute, Dissolved, Educational, Inside, Investigate, Involving, Laboratory, Occurring, Photochemistry, Photodegradation, Photodissociation, Photolysis, Presentations, Processes, Public, RH, SOA, Water.

EAGER: Characterization of Surface Tension During the Western Atlantic Climate Study (WACS)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel J Jacob($13,722), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Surface Ocean, Surface Tension, Surfactant Characteristics, Water Column, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Bubble, Bubbles, Capillary, Climate, Cruise, Interactions, Interface, Layer, MBP, Marine, Method, Models, OM, Observed, Oceanographers, Pressure, Processes, Rate, Reflected, Surfactants, Variable, Wave.

Integrated Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Chemistry of Organic Aerosol Formation from the Atmospheric Oxidation of Hydrocarbons
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul J Ziemann($301,795), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Kinetics And Equilibria, Phase And Heterogeneousmultiphase, Environmental Chamber, Gas Phase, Gas-particle-wall Partitioning, Heterogeneousmultiphase Reactions, Radical-initiated Reactions, Reaction Pathways, Reaction Products, Wide Range, Aerosol, Air, Atmospheric, Chemical, Chemistry, Compounds, Comprehensive, Conditions, Effects, Formation, Functional, Gas-particle-wall, Mass, Mechanisms, Models, OH, Organic, Potential, Radical-initiated, Regional, SOA, Serve, Students, Teflon.

Particle Growth Mechanisms During Ambient New Particle Formation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Murray V Johnston($190,689), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Gas Phase, Growth Rates, Particle Growth, Ambient, Based, Broader, Chemical, Composition, Concentrations, Hygroscopicityvolatility, Inorganic, Measure, NAMS, NPF, Species.

Line Shape Parameters in Support of Remote Sensing of Earth's and Planetary Atmospheres
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert Gamache($434,197), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Line Shape Parameters, Greenhouse Gases, Radiative Forcing, Remote Sensing, Temperature Dependence, Theoretical Model, Undergraduate Students, Balance, Basis, Calculate, Determination, Energies, Half-widths, Improvement, Models, Reducing, School, Spectral, Transitions, Wavefunctions.

Development of Critical Data for Predicting Growth of Secondary Organic Aerosols in Air
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Barbara J Finlayson-Pitts($734,977), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Nitrates And Svoc, Semi-volatile Organic Compounds, Kinetically Limited, Organic Nitrates, Secondary Organic, Semi-volatile Organic, Soa Growth, Uptake Coefficients, Activities, Aerosol, Equilibrium, Flow, Formed, Oxidation, Partitioning, Phase, Precursors, Spectrometry, Students, Undergraduate.

Theory of Trace Gas Distributions in the Lower Stratosphere and Near the Tropopause
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. R. Alan Plumb($384,659), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Trace Gas Transport, Existing Theory, Global Trace, Theoretical Development, Tracer-tracer Relationships, Distributions, Has, Near, Render, Shape, Stratosphere, Tracer-tracer, Training, Tropopause.

Travel Support for Graduate Students Attending the 22nd International Symposium on Gas Kinetics; Boulder, CO; June 18-22, 2012
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Veronica Vaida($9,975), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemical, Meeting, Symposium.

CAREER: Air-sea Exchange of Volatile Organic Compounds--Impacts on Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy H Bertram($525,540), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: 7-9th Grade Students, Isoprene And Total, Marine Bvoc Emissions, 7-9th Grade, Carbon Dioxide, Hands-on Experiment, Oxidant Loadings, Total Monoterpene, Chemistry, Designed, Educational, Graduate, Hands-on, Has, Highly, MBL, Ocean, Oceans, Organic, Organisms, Photosynthetic, SIO, SOA, Sensors, Terrestrial.

REU Site: Regional Atmospheric Chemistry: State-of-the-art Measurement and Modeling in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Shane A Brown($309,324), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Individual Projects, Targeting Underrepresented, Broader, Climate, Focus, Graduate, LAR, Northwest, Participants, Program, Programs, REU, Renewal, Students, Summer, Undergraduate, WSU, Workshops.

Workshop on Production Mechanism, Number Concentration, Size Distribution, Chemical Composition, and Optical Properties of Sea Spray Aerosols; Raleigh, NC; June 4-6, 2012
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Konstantinos Tsigaridis($12,000), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Aerosol-radiation-climate Interactions, Sea Spray, Aerosol-radiation-climate, Atmospheric, Information, Marine, Phd, Workshop.

Investigation of Emissions and Ozone Photochemistry over China and Their Environmental Impacts
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Yuhang Wang($353,192), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Analysis, Aromatics, Chemical, China, Current, Economic, Effort, Emissions, Environmental, Has, Implications, Models, Photochemistry, Transport.

Aerosol and Atmospheric Optics: Visibility and Air Pollution Conference; Whitefish, MT; September 24-28, 2012
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Delbert Eatough($10,000), Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Aerosol, Aerosols, Air, Atmospheric, Climate, Conference, Forum, Haze, Visibility.

CAREER: Organic Aerosol Volatility, Phase and Partitioning
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Christopher D Cappa($668,682), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Absorptive Partitioning Theory, Experiments And Analysis, Organic Aerosol Formation, Aerosol Particles, Atmospheric Aerosols, Graduate Students, Organic Aerosols, Air, Climate, Composition, Determined, Does, Exists, Extent, Geoscience, Global, Influence, Laboratory, Modeled, Module, Opportunities, Phase, Properties, Remains, Teaching, Volatility.

A Model Study of the Chemistry of Biomass Burning Smoke Plumes Constrained by Aircraft Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Matthew J Alvarado($303,969), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Biomass Burning Smoke, Burning Smoke Plumes, Chemical Evolution, Dispersion Model, Modeling Framework, Trace Gases, ASP, Aerosol, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Developed, Development, Formation, Lagrangian, Lead, Mexico, Models, OH, Observations, Observed, Ozone, Photochemistry, SOA, Specializing, Version, WRF.

Gordon Research Conference 2012 Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere; Lewiston, Maine; June 24-29, 2012
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nancy R Gray($25,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Biogenic Hydrocarbons, Junior Scientists, Atmospheric, Conference.

Impact of Atmospheric Trace Elements on the "Third Pole" Glaciers
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paolo Gabrielli($588,746), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Atmospheric Trace, Byrd Polar, Ice Cores, Outreach Program, Third Pole, Tibetan Plateau, Center, Central, Components, Deposition, Developed, Fluxes, Framework, Glaciers, Himalaya, Himalayan, Ohio, Resulting, Sources.

Reactivity of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions and Their Attribution to Identified Chemical Species
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Detlev Helmig($599,573), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Bvoc Emissions, Forest Atmosphere, Missing Reactivity, Ozone Reactivity, Vegetation Types, Air, Approach, Boulder, Chemistry, Experiments, Has, Interactions, Species.

CAREER: Budget and Impacts of Atmospheric Organic Acids from Ground and Space-based Observations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Dylan B Millet($727,436), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Formic And Acetic, Acetic Acids, Organic Acid, Organic Acids, Satellite Retrievals, Acidity, Air, Aqueous, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemical, Chemistry, Global, Model, Precipitation, Public, Secondary, Sources.

RAPID: Measurements of Aerosol Chemistry During Wintertime High-Ozone Events
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Shane Murphy($29,098), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Utah And Wyoming, Aerosol Particles, Eande Ubwos, AMS, Chemistry, Chloride, Department, Formation, Formed, Gas-phase, Graduate, High-ozone, Mass, Nitrogen, Organic, Ozone, Particle-phase.

RAPID: Chemistry and Vertical Transport of Hox Radical Precursors During the Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study in Utah
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jochen P Stutz($49,941), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Gas Drilling Activities, Hono And Hcho, Natural Gas Drilling, Air Quality, Concentrating Pollutants, Mixing Ratios, Ozone Formation, Ozone Levels, Ozone Pollution, Shallow Surface, Solar Irradiance, Surface Inversions, Uintah Basin, Wintertime Ozone, Accelerate, Benefit, Chemistry, Division, Environmental, Factor, Found, HOX, Has, Hypothesized, Lead, Nitrogen, Opportunity, Performed, Profile, Similar, Snow, Utah, Vertical, Wyoming.

How Cloud Processes Alter the Effects of Midlatitude Cyclones on the Atmospheric General Circulation
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. George Tselioudis($666,309), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Radiative And Latent, Cloud Heating, Cloud Radiative, Extratropical Cyclones, Latent Heating, Conclusions, Datasets, Development, Weather.

Mechanisms and Effects of Tropical Indian Ocean Variability
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Shang-Ping Xie($683,600), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Capacitor Effect, El Nino, Northwest Pacific, Tio Warming, Climate, Climatic, ENSO, Effects, Experiments, Indian, Mechanisms, Model, Teleconnection.

Interactions of Aerosols, Marine Boundary Layer Clouds, and Precipitation During the VOCALS-Regional Experiment: Observations, Modeling, and Large-scale Model Assessment
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert Wood($531,944), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cover And Cloud, Hooks And Pocs, Aerosol-cloud Interactions, Cloud Cover, Cloud Droplet, Aerosol-cloud, Aerosols, CCN, Climate, Clouds, Coastal, Concentrations, Deck, Effect, Global, Has, Offshore, Pollution, Precipitation, Region, Rex, SEP, Stratocumulus, VOCALS, Vocals-rex.

Impacts of Enhanced Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) on the Organization of Convection for Monsoon Depressions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. T. N Krishnamurti($325,341), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Aerosol Pollution, Indian Sector, Latent Heat, Monsoon Depressions, Mutual Interaction, Vertical Structure, Accompanying, Aerosols, Based, Cloud, Condensation, Cubic, Dramatically, Formation, Has, Instability, Occurrence, Organization, Precipitation, Produce, Rainfall, Reduction, Suppression.

Large Scale Dynamics and Statistics of California Extreme Weather in the Atmosphere and in Global Models
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard Grotjahn($603,845), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Extreme Weather, Historical Climate, Large-scale Meteorological, Agricultural, California, Diagnostic, Future, Large-scale, Model, Models, Public.

Understanding the Central-Pacific El Nino-Southern Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jin-Yi Yu($642,609), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Cp And Ep, Cp Enso, Ep Enso, Equatorial Pacific, Northern Hemisphere, Sea Surface, Temperature Anomalies, Based, Considers, Dynamics, Extratropical, Global, Has, Models, Note, Produce, Propagation, SST, South, Subsurface, Tongue.

Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions: The Past, The Present and the Future: A Symposium Honoring George Philander and His Work; Princeton, New Jersey; September 6-7, 2012
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jorge L Sarmiento($20,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Climate Models, Recurrent Ice, Conditions, Symposium.

REU Site: Atmospheric Science in the Gulf Coast Region at Texas A&M University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Don Conlee($297,589), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Reu Program, Texas Aandm, AM, Atmospheric, Climate, Conducting, Department, Focus, Gulf, Involves, Minority-serving, Region, Students, Summer, Variety.

From Flood to Famine: The Rainfall Regime in East Africa, Its Interannual Variability, and Large-Scale Teleconnections
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sharon E Nicholson($601,553), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperature, East Africa, Rainy Seasons, Short Rains, Turkana Jet, Connections, Considered, Determining, Extending, Has, ITCZ, Indian, Interannual, Ocean, Precipitation, Rainfall, Region, Seasonality.

Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of Regional Climate Due to Land-cover Changes in the Eastern United States Since 1650
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Roger A Pielke($144,624), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Lixin Lu($390,639), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Historical Land Cover, Land Cover Dataset, Climate, Climatic, Conditions, Cropland, Eastern, Model, Rainfall, Reduction, Societal, Surface, Temperature.

Understanding the Role of Convective Momentum Transport for the Madden-Julian Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Xianan Jiang($495,830), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Convective Clouds, CMT, Circulation, Climate, Development, Effects, Envelope, Heat, Intraseasonal, MJO, Momentum, Ocean, Onset, Transport, Tropical, Weather.

Extratropical Cyclone Hydrometeor Vertical and Horizontal Spatial Correlation Structure
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Roger Marchand($201,634), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Correlation Lengths, Analysis, Cloud, Hemisphere, Horizontal, Hydrometeor, Occurrence, Precipitation, Satellite, Structure, Vertical.

Diabatic Processes of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO): Enabling and Analyzing THORPEX MJO Task Force and GEWEX Atmospheric System Study Global Model Evaluation Project
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Xianan Jiang($497,408), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Climatological Component, Vertical Structure, Activity, Diabatic, Experiment, GASS, Has, Heating, MJO, MJOTF, Model, Objectives, Phenomena, Processes, Program, World.

The Effect of Model Uncertainty and Error on the Forecast Uncertainty
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Istvan Szunyogh($363,677), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Ensemble Prediction, Forecast Errors, Forecast Uncertainty, Forecasts Produced, Model Errors, Model Formulation, Perfect Model, Real-world Observations, Upscale Propagation, Weather Forecasts, Climate, Conditions, Consists, Developing, Experiments, Initial, Models, Pis, Real-world, Set, Sources, TIGGE, True, Truncation, Variety.

Dynamical Influences on Stratocumulus-Aerosol Interactions in the Southern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paquita Zuidema($456,008), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Aerosol-cloud Interactions, Southeast Atlantic, Aerosol-cloud, Datasets, Examined, Has, VOCALS.

Role of Low-Level Clouds in the Accelerated Warming of the Great Lakes - A Dual Observational and Regional Modeling Assessment
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Stephen J Vavrus($680,937), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Fog And Low, Water-surface Temperature Increases, Ice Cover, Lake Temperatures, Low Cloud, Surface Temperatures, Temperature Trends, Water-surface Temperature, Consequences, Evaporation, Excess, Future, Has, Identification, Increased, Lakes, Mechanisms, Observed, Period, Reduced, Regional, Summer, WICCI, Warming.

Variability of Tropical Elongated Convergence Zones
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gudrun Magnusdottir($539,798), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Atmospheric Rivers, Easterly Waves, Extratropical Disturbances, Mrf Model, Behavior, Climate, Convergence, Education, Elongated, Enhanced, Equator, ITCZ, Itczs, MJO, Pacific, Pixels, Precipitation, Program, Statistical, Students, Surface.

Indo-US Advanced Workshop and Colloquium on Modeling and Data Assimilation for Tropical Cyclone Predictions; Odisha, India; July 9-14, 2012
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dev Niyogi($17,500), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Students And Early-career, Early-career Scientists, Active, Advance, Assimilation, Forecasters, Has, Indian, International, Modeling, Operational, Societal, TC, Technology, Workforce, Workshop.

CAREER: Quantifying Inadvertent Weather Modification and Education through Museum Programs
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Brian C Ancell($721,883), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Adjoint Sensitivity Analysis, Inadvertent Weather Modification, Anthropogenic Forcing, Human Activities, Human-induced Perturbations, Local Climate, Affect, Aspects, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Coming, Downstream, Education, Educational, Effects, Environment, Expected, Has, High-impact, Human-induced, Museum, Potential, Shown, Society, Unique, Variety.

Chapman Conference on Volcanism and the Atmosphere; Selfoss, Iceland; June 11-15, 2012
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Brenda L Weaver($40,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Global And Regional, Chapman Conference, Earth's Atmosphere, Regional Climate, Volcanic Eruptions, Aerosols, Anthropogenic, Aviation, Climatic, Effects, Geoengineering, Natural, Stratospheric, Volcanism.

Water Vapor Isotopic Measurements on the Chajnantor Plateau, Chile and Implications for Subtropical Humidity Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Joseph Galewsky($400,698), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Tropical Upper Troposphere, Isotope Ratios, Relative Humidity, Stratospheric Air, Water Vapor, Atmosphere, Descend, Minimum, Ozone, Pathways, Processes, Site, Specific, Student, Substantial, Subtropical.

Atmospheric Teleconnection Dynamics of North Atlantic Cooling to the Tropical Climate
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John Chiang($129,361), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: North Atlantic Cooling, Monsoon Regions, Climate, Model, Monsoons, Ocean, Teleconnection, Weakening.

Improved Understanding of Moist Atmospheric Circulations Through an Effective Static Stability Framework
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul A O'Gorman($323,043), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Effective Stability Parameter, Latent Heat Release, Atmospheric Circulation, Account, Atmosphere, Climate, Control, Developed, Dry, Moist, Size, Theories, Undergraduate, Warming, Water.

CAREER: Impacts of Amazon Deforestation on Earth's Climate, Water, and Ecosystems: The Ebb of the Green Ocean?
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David M Medvigy($555,824), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Middle School, Atmosphere, Climate, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Framework, Global, Hydrology, Local, Students.

Collaborative Research: Tropical Waves and Intertropical Convergence Zones in Simulations with Explicit Convection
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Stefan N Tulich($179,964), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. David S Nolan($269,465), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atmospheric, Broader, Cloud-resolving, Convection, Horizontal, ITCZ, Model, Models, Superparameterization, Tropical, WRF, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Long-Term Variability in the North Atlantic Subtropical High Driven by Evolving Tropical and Subtropical Large-Scale Heating
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yi Deng($228,301), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Wenhong Li($298,298), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Model Simulations, North Atlantic, Climate, Has, Heating, Interannual, Interdecadal, NASH, Past, Period, Precipitation, SE, Shifts.

CAREER: Multiscale Dynamics of the Tropical Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Thomas Birner($702,252), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Ozone Hole, Water Vapor, Approach, Atmospheric, Cloud, Cold, Component, Convective, Discovery, Has, Historical, Mb, Mechanisms, Model, Particular, Physics, Program, Stratosphere, TTL, Tales, Teach, Temperature, Tropopause, Troposphere.

Finite-amplitude Eddy-mean Flow Interaction in the Extratropical Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noboru Nakamura($567,828), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Eddy-mean Flow, Jet Streams, Mean Flow, Wave Breaking, Activity, Applied, Baroclinic, Criterion, Derived, Eddies, Eddy-mean, Flows, Generalize, Graduate, Interaction, Midlatitude, Reference, Theory, Varying, Zonal-mean.

Collaborative Research: Tropical Variability in a New Generation of Coupled Climate Simulations with Explicitly Resolved Convection
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2011; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Cristiana Stan($299,794), George Mason University, Fairfax
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.

Ion Heating in the Magnetotail: Understanding Geomagnetic Storms
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. EARL E SCIME($418,555), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Geomagnetic Storms, Ion Heating, Ring Current, Solar Wind, Ability, Accurately, Driven, Dynamics, Earth, Effects, Magnetosphere, Space, Temperature, Varying.

Shaping the Development of EarthCube to Enable Advances in Data Assimilation and Ensemble Prediction Workshop; Boulder, Colorado; December 17-18, 2012
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2012; Program: EarthCube

1. Mohan K Ramamurthy($41,225), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Assimilation And Ensemble, Ensemble Prediction, Mesoscale Modeling, Probabilistic Forecasting, Cyberinfrastructure, Development, Discovery, Earthcube, Educating, Education, Generation, Knowledge, Percent, Planned, Real-time, Students, Technology, Weather, Workshop.

Impacts of Geoengineering Using Stratospheric Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Alan Robock($568,933), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Stratospheric Geoengineering Affect, Climate Models, Long-term Climate, Monsoon Rainfall, Previous Nsf, Aerosols, Avoiding, Clouds, Cooling, Crop, Effect, Effects, Effort, Experiments, Food, Geomip, Global, Greenhouse, In-house, Injection, Long-term, Marine, Modeling, Ocean, Output, Planets, Potential, Precipitation, Produce, Reduction, Reductions, Reflecting, Regions, SRM, Schemes, Stratosphere, Summer, Sunlight, Warming.

RUI: Gas and Aerosol Phase Chemistry of Multi-Generation Isoprene Oxidation Products
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Environmental Chemical Science

1. Matthew J Elrod($355,090), Oberlin College, Oberlin
Key terms: Kinetics And Products, Oh Radical-initiated Reactions, Pollution And Climate, Secondary Organic Aerosol, Air Pollution, Oh Isoprene, Oh Radical-initiated, Radical-initiated Reactions, Acid, Atmospheric, Characterized, Chemical, Chemistry, Contribute, Environments, Experiments, Formed, Human, Multi-generation, Nox, Oxidation, Ozone, Particulate-phase, SOA, Students, Uncertain, Undergraduate, Utilize.

The Weather Ready Nation Conference: Imperatives for Severe Weather Research; Birmingham, AL; April 23-27, 2012
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: HDBE-Humans, Disasters, and th

1. Karyn Sawyer($18,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Identifying Advancements, Conference, False, Forecasts, Links, Preparedness, Severe, Social, Tornado, Warnings.

INSPIRE: Statistical State Dynamics of Turbulent Systems
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: INSPIRE

1. Brian F Farrell($600,912), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Coherent Structures, Magnetic Fields, Nsf Directorate, Plasma Physics, Applied, Atmospheric, Disciplines, Division, Dynamics, Equations, Formation, Framework, Has, INSPIRE, Jet, Mean, Planetary, Program, SSST, Structural, Theory, Turbulence, Unifying.

INSPIRE: Understanding Spatiotemporal Extent and Structure of Large Wind Farm Footprint on Weather and Climate by Combining Observational Analysis with Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: INSPIRE

1. Liming Zhou($500,000), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Atmospheric And Geospace, Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Radar And Remote, Wind Turbine Parameterizations, Assessing Potential, Environmental Sustainability, Wf Impacts, Wind Farm, Wind Farms, Capacity, Climate, Directorate, Division, Energy, Environments, Future, Geosciences, Growth, Has, Interactions, Knowledge, Land, Mesoscale, Meteorological, Modeling, Nsurface, Observational, Operational, Power, Program, Rapid, Resolution, Weather, Wfs, Wtps.

Collaborative Research: Investigating the Characteristics of Lower Tropospheric Airborne GPS Radio Occultation Observations and Their Impact in Hurricane Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/28/2012; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Feiqin Xie($223,246), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Hurricane Genesis Process, Tropical Cyclone Genesis, Gps Ro, Radio Occultation, Space Borne, Vertical Resolution, Activity, Airborne, Assimilation, Female, Has, Horizontal, Led, Minimal, Models, Moistening, Moisture, Observations, Operational, PREDICT, Promote, Serve, Students.

Collaborative Research: The Low-latitude Ionosphere and the Development of Forecasting Techniques Using the Low-latitude Ionosphere Sensor Network (LISN) Distributed Observatory
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: International Research Collab

1. Cesar E Valladares($1,050,557), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
2. Terence W Bullett($122,843), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Low-latitude Ionosphere, LISN, South.

Scientific, Educational and Logistical Preparation for Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) Relocation to Argentina
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2009; Program: International Research Collab

1. Joan M Oltman-Shay($400,000), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Nsf Upper Atmosphere, Amisr Instrument, Southern Latitudes, AIM, Approach, Argentina, Atmospheric, Evaluation, Field, Global, Interactions, International, Ionospheric, Operate, Prepare, Radar, Site, Students, Suitable, Teaching, UAF.

GEM: Dipolarization and Particle Acceleration at Substorm Onset
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joachim Birn($320,000), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Magnetic Reconnection, Dipolarization, Energy, Field, Onset, Particle, Particles, Simulations, Space, Substorm, Sudden.

GEM: Investigation of Plasmasphere-Magnetosphere Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joseph Borovsky($200,093), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Cold Plasma, Gem Program, Magnetospheric Dynamics, Affect, Effects, Effort, Focus, Lead, Magnetosphere, Plasmasphere, Radiation.

Key Parameter for the Mass and Energy Transfer at the Magnetopause Determined from Cusp Structures
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Karlheinz J Trattner($306,432), Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto
Key terms: Mass And Energy, Reconnection Versus Component, Versus Component Reconnection, Component Reconnection, Magnetic Reconnection, Relative Occurrence, Solar Wind, Conditions, Examine, Function, Involved, Magnetopause, Parameters.

Particle Acceleration during Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Michael M Swisdak($390,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Electron And Ion, Heating And Acceleration, Abundance Enhancements, Current Layer, Energetic Electrons, Energetic Ions, Impulsive Flares, Ion Acceleration, Ion Heating, Magnetic Energy, Magnetic Reconnection, Broad, Compared, Development, Experiments, Field, Has, Laboratory, Mechanisms, Model, Nature, Observations, Particle, Particles, Program, Source, Spectra, Students, Suggest.

Collaborative Research: Dayside Field-Aligned Current (FAC) Source Regions of Extreme Poynting Flux Events and the Response of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Delores J Knipp($345,186), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Joachim Raeder($175,135), University of New Hampshire, Durham
3. Geoffrey Crowley($227,943), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Energy Input, Field-aligned Currents, Non-southward Imf, Poynting Flux, Bz, Considered, Dayside, Field-aligned, Global, Localized, Magnetopause, Neutral, Non-southward, Observations, Region, Regions, Satellites, Space, Thermospheric.

Collaborative Research: Magnetospheric Mass Density
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Richard E Denton($172,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Kazue Takahashi($140,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Density Models, Mass Density, Solar Wind, Approach, Magnetosphere, Wave.

GEM: Generation of Very Low Frequency (VLF) Whistler Waves and Resulting Wave-Particle Interactions in the Radiation Belt
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David Schriver($400,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Radiation Belt Region, Whistler Waves, Approach, Bursty, Characteristics, Chorus, Effects, Electrons, Energization, Formation, Interactions, Observed, Particle, Play, Simulation, Simulations, Structured, Variety, Wave-particle.

GEM: The Excitation of Magnetospheric Ultra-low Frequency Waves via Solar Wind Magnetic Field Fluctuations
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Seth G Claudepierre($240,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Electron Flux Enhancements, Magnetospheric Ulf Pulsations, Solar Wind Parameters, Imf Fluctuations, Numerical Experiments, Radiation Belt, Radiation Belts, Component, Development, Driven, Established, Generation, Geospace, Has, Idealized, Investigate, Link, MHD, Magnetosphere, Model, Play, Real, Responsible, Simulations, Synthetic.

Collaborative Research: Remote Sensing of Electron Density Using Auroral Radio Emissions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James W LaBelle($288,739), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Peter H Yoon($40,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Hiss And Medium, Medium Frequency Bursts, Theoretical And Numerical, Auroral Hiss, Frequency Bursts, Analysis, Coupling, Dartmouth, Examine, Instruments, Ionosphere, MFB, Magnetic, Multiple, Onset, Plasma, Radio, Substorm, Wave, Waves.

EAGER: Direct Assimilation of Low-altitude Magnetic Perturbations in a Global Magnetosphere Model
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Viacheslav G Merkin($178,350), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Assimilation Methods, Global Magnetospheric, Global Mhd, Mhd Simulations, Space Weather, Coverage, Development, Models, Utilize.

Structure and Dynamics of the Diffusion Region During Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Amitava Bhattacharjee($525,735), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Asymmetric Reconnection, Diffusion Region, Graduate Students, Laboratory Experiments, Magnetic Reconnection, Plasma Physics, Collisionless, Courses, Knowledge, Observations, Plasmas, Simulations, Space.

GEM: Development and Application of Thin Filament Techniques for Magnetospheric Physics
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Richard A Wolf($280,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Bursty Bulk Flows, Ballooning Instability, Computer Code, Differential Equations, Accuracy, Codes, Dynamics, Magnetic, Magnetotail, Oscillations, Physics, Plasma, Solve, Substorms.

GEM: Validating Self-Consistent Inner Magnetospheric Models: Assessing Effects of Uncertainties in Plasma Sheet and Electric Field Boundary Conditions on Simulating Storms
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. PAUL OBRIEN($340,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Ground Magnetic Perturbations, Inner Magnetospheric Models, Monte Carlo Scenarios, Perturbations And Magnetic, Plasma Sheet Parameters, Boundary Condition, Boundary Conditions, Electric Field, Geosynchronous Orbit, Magnetic Field, Plasma Parameters, Reference Models, Ring Current, CPCP, Distribution, Dst, Examine, Focus, In-situ, RCM-E, Self-consistent, Simulation, Spatial, Statistical, Storms, Uncertainties.

GEM: Modeling Dynamics of the Radiation Belts Using Scattering Rates Computed in a Realistic Magnetic Field and Accounting for Adiabatic Effects
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yuri Shprits($282,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Magnetic Local Time, Geomagnetic Activity, Magnetic Field, Magnetospheric Waves, Radiation Belt, Radiation Belts, Space Weather, Acceleration, Adiabatic, Affect, Does, Effects, Energy, Interactions, Loss, MLT, Mechanisms, Missions, Model, Non-dipolar, Particles, Radial, Relevance, Responsible, Scattering, Upcoming.

GEM: Comprehensive Assessment of the Space Weather Modeling Framework for Magnetic Field Mapping
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mark B Moldwin($320,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Inner Magnetosphere Models, Anisotropic Pressure, Global Mhd, Mhd Models, Space Weather, BATSRUS, Boundary, Compare, Features, Ionosphere, Magnetic, Mapping, Observations, Physics, Various.

Collaborative Research: GEM: The Ionospheric Source of Magnetospheric Plasma-- Measuring, Modeling and Merging into the GEM Geospace General Circulation Model (GGCM)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert W Schunk($266,660), Utah State University, Logan
2. Daniel Welling($133,340), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ionospheric Outflow, Mhd Model, Activity, Advance, Climatological, Code, Compared, Coupled, Dynamics, Environment, GPW, Level, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Models, Plasma, Season, Set, Simulations.

Understanding Conjugacy and Non-conjugacy of the Auroral Electrojet System
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jesper W Gjerloev($284,949), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Auroral Electrojet, Magnetic Field, Non-conjugate Behavior, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Conditions, Currents, Differences, Examine, Hemispheres, IMF, Non-conjugate, Observations, Reasons.

GEM: Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves in a Coupled System of the Earth's Magnetospheric Ring Current, Plasmasphere, and Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Konstantin V Gamayunov($300,000), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Emic Waves, Radiation Belt, Ring Current, Space Weather, Electrons, Global, Ions, Magnetospheric, Model, Observational, PSD, Self-consistent.

Grad Student Support for Hybrid Code Simulation of Whistler Chorus in Dipole Coordinates
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Richard E Denton($186,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Whistler Chorus Waves, Magnetic Field, Oblique Whistler, Radiation Belts, Affect, Distribution, Electrons, Frequency, Generation, Propagation, Simulations, Space, Treated.

Solar Wind-Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling During Northward Interplanetary Magnetic Field: How do Transpolar Arcs Affect the Global Ionospheric Electrodynamics and vice versa?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Judy A Cumnock($63,787), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Solar Wind, Transpolar Arcs, Coupling, Examine, IMF, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Northward, Plasma, Precipitating, Regions, Satellite.

Spatiotemporal Development and Forecasting of Space Storms
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James Wanliss($217,194), Presbyterian College, Clinton
Key terms: Transitions And Extreme, Magnetic Fluctuations, Magnetic Storms, Space Storms, Sudden Transitions, Approaches, Based, Behavior, Complex, Ground, Local, Magnetosphere, Predict, Risk, Statistical, Statistics, Technologies, Tools.

CAREER: Inter-Hemispheric Magnetic Conjugacy of Ionospheric Convection
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joseph B Baker($488,201), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Inter-hemispheric Space Weather, Northern And Southern, Space Weather Connections, Summer Camp Activities, Graduate Student, Inter-hemispheric Conjugacy, Inter-hemispheric Space, Subauroral Ionosphere, Undergraduate Students, Virginia Tech, Auroral, Collaboration, Convection, Degree, Effort, Integrated, Ionospheric, Magnetic, Radars, Radio, Receiver, Superdarn.

Kinetic Study of Flux Transfer Events Enabled by Petascale Computing
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Homayoun Karimabadi($100,446), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Hybrid Simulations, Solar Wind, Compared, Computer, FTE, Global, Kinetic, Realistic, State-of-the-art, Students, Transfer.

Understanding of Magnetopause Reconnection Through Recent Advances in Observations and Simulations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jack D Scudder($481,652), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Electron Diffusion Region, Kinetic Simulations, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Reconnection, Polar Spacecraft, Collisionless, Critical, Database, Earth, Energy, Examine, Leads, Plays, Process.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Power, Tunable Diode Laser to Upgrade the Na Lidar System at the Andes Lidar Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Alan Liu($295,383), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Master Oscillator, Upper Atmosphere, Wide Range, ALO, Andes, Collected, Enhance, Instruments, Lidar, Lower, Operate, Opportunities, Sodium, Waves.

MRI: Development of New Particle Size Spectrometer for Rugged Deployments from the Surface to the Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Shane Murphy($274,866), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Balloon Platforms, Particle Size, Aerosol, Anticipate, Autonomous, Chemistry, Climate, Future, Graduate, Instrument, Lagrangian, Particles, Stratospheric, Students.

NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center (NWSC) Project Office (NPO)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2009; Program: NCAR-Nat Center Atmosph Resear

1. Maura Hagan($2,500,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric, Center, Computing, Cyberinfrastructure, Design, Engineering, Ensure, Facility, HPC, Has, Increasingly, Local, Models, NCAR, NPO, NWSC, Ncars, Partnership, Petascale, Resources, Supercomputing, Tools, Wyoming.

Management and Operation of National Center for Atmospheric Research, 2008-2018, and Supporting Activities
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2008; Program: NCAR-Nat Center Atmosph Resear

1. Thomas J Bogdan($0), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: National And International, Computational Facilities, Activities, Advance, Atmospheric, Center, Challenges, Climate, Components, Continue, Developing, Diverse, Education, Educational, Enable, Enabling, Environment, Future, Global, Increasingly, Interdisciplinary, Manage, Management, NCAR, Natural, Observational, Operation, Opportunities, Partners, Partnerships, Policy, Resources, Respond, Students, Training, UCAR, Ucars, Weather, Workforce.

NWSC Construction
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2010; Program: NCAR-WY Supercomputer Center

1. Maura Hagan($48,075,144), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: High-performance Ci, Regional Climate, Available, Computing, Cyberinfrastructure, Education, Enable, Facilities, Facility, High-performance, Investigate, NCAR, NWSC, National, Nsfs, Petascale, Processes, Simulations, Training, Wyoming.

CAREER: Toward an Understanding of Secondary Aerosol Formation, Particle Ageing in Droplets, and Cloud Processing
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Akua A Asa-Awuku($645,899), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Secondary Aerosol Formation, Air Quality, Cloud Droplets, Cloud Processing, Activated, Aerosols, Backgrounds, Based, CCN, California, Capability, Chamber, Chemical, Climate, Composition, Current, Economically, Field, K-, Laboratory, Particle, Processes, Properties, Students, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Via.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Quantifying Climate Thresholds for High Elevation Pines Using Landscape Heterogeneity to Improve Climate Reconstructions from Tree Rings
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Andrew G Bunn($178,987), Western Washington University, Bellingham
2. Malcolm K Hughes($300,029), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Tree Ring Growth, Pine Trees, Climate, Effects, Elevation, Microclimate, Mountain, Reconstructions, Region, Set, Thresholds, Western.

EAGER: Intra-seasonal Wood Anatomy to Assess Millennia-long Regional Climate Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Franco Biondi($171,628), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Bristlecone Pine, Remote Sensing, Tree Ring, Climate, Field, Formation, Growth, Nevada, Paleoclimate, Vegetation.

RAPID: Securing the Climate, Limnological and Sediment Data Needed to Understand and Calibrate Multi-millennial Records of ENSO in the Eastern Pacific
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jonathan T Overpeck($35,255), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: El Nino, Sediment Traps, Arizona, Conditions, Loggers, Nina, Region, Replaced, Transition.

AMS Summer Policy Colloquium 2012-2014
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. William H Hooke($495,155), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Graduate Students, Policy Colloquium, Workshop Participants, Experience, Individuals, Knowledge, Leadership, National, Program.

P2C2: Geothermal Research into Paleoclimate
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Shaopeng Huang($250,006), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Borehole Reconstructions, Borehole Temperatures, Surface Temperature, Climate, Compare, Database.

P2C2: Constraining Mechanisms of Tropical Climate Change Using Simulations and Proxies of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Axel Timmermann($328,863), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Sunda Shelf, Tropical Pacific, Walker Circulation, Climate, Exposure, LGM, Mechanisms, Models, Past, Sea, Simulations, Time, Was.

P2C2: Estimating Climate Sensitivity from Temperature Reconstructions of the Last Glacial Maximum
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Andreas Schmittner($345,345), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Equilibrium Climate Sensitivity, Climate Model, Paleoclimate Reconstructions, Analysis, CMIPPMIP, Doubling, Error, Geological, Issues, LGM, Models, Output, Published, Range, Was.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Reconstructing Changes in Asian Monsoon Circulation during the Last Millennium from Stable Isotopes in Tropical Tree Rings
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Caroline C Ummenhofer($87,416), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Brendan M Buckley($688,279), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Asian Monsoon, Monsoon Circulation, Isotope, Isotopes, Region, Stable.

2012 Graduate Climate Conference; Eatonville, Washington; October 26-28, 2012
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. LuAnne Thompson($10,065), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Graduate Climate Conference, Students.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Tree-Ring Reconstructions of Western North Pacific Climate Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Gregory C Wiles($134,351), College of Wooster, Wooster
2. Rosanne D D'Arrigo($686,982), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: North Pacific, Pacific Climate, Centuries, PDV, Past, Robust.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Reconstructing Central Alaskan Precipitation Variability and Atmospheric Circulation during the Past Millennium
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Erich Osterberg($298,112), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Karl J Kreutz($364,771), University of Maine, Orono
3. Cameron P Wake($207,061), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Denali National Park, Atmospheric Circulation, Ice Cores, Spatial Array, Affect, Ago, Alaska, Climate, History, Precipitation, Region, Thousand, Varied.

Workshop on Synthesis of Transient Climate Evolution of the last 21-kyr (SynTraCE-21); Providence, Rhode Island; October 2012
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. James M Russell($35,000), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Synthesis And Model, Critical Themes, Model Comparison, Addressing, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--The Oligocene-Miocene Boundary: Carbon-Dioxide (CO2) Sensitivity and Ice Sheet Hysteresis
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Mark Pagani($267,593), Yale University, New Haven
2. David Pollard($98,309), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Robert M DeConto($603,737), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Climate History, Co2 Levels, Ice Sheet, Past Climate, Atmospheric, Benthic, Deltao, Magnitude, Oscillation, Proxy, Terrestrial.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Tracking Long-Term Glacial-Interglacial Wind Pattern Variability in Central Asia Using Geochemical Analysis of Aerosol Derived Detritus
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Alexander T Pullen($189,582), University of Rochester, Rochester
2. George E Gehrels($200,976), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Ablation Mass Spectrometry, Laser Ablation Mass, Source Regions, Approach, Chemical, Chemistry, Dust, Grains, Strong.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Implications of the Early Anthropogenic Hypothesis
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. John E Kutzbach($445,063), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. William F Ruddiman($132,987), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Co2 And Methane, Atmospheric Co2, Greenhouse Gases, Anthropogenic, Decline, Has, Holocene, Increase, Natural.

A Workshop on Using Paleo-climate Model/Data Comparisons to Constrain Future Projections and Sensitivities; Honolulu, Hawaii; March 1-3, 2012
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Axel Timmermann($15,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Activities, Modelingdata, Paleoclimate, Workshop.

P2C2: Insolation Control on Ice Sheet Mass Balance in the 41-Kyr World: A Test of Multiple Hypotheses
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2011; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Maureen E Raymo($86,739), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Glacial Cycles, Ice Sheet, Ice Volume, Late Pliocene, Ablationmeltwater, Climate, Insolation, Laurentide, Milankovitch, Models, NH, Obliquity, Paced, Pleistocene, Portion, Precession, Predicts, Signal, Strong.

Collaborative Research: Profiling of Winter Storms
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2013; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David Leon($91,793), University of Wyoming, Laramie
2. Kevin R Knupp($402,307), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
3. Greg McFarquhar($942,593), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Cloud Top, Generating Cells, Ice Particle, Precipitation Substructures, Remote Sensing, Supercooled Water, Winter Storms, Winter Weather, Bands, C-, Carried, Cyclones, Determination, Effects, Elevated, Extensive, Field, High-resolution, Instability, Microphysical, Nature, Observed, Origins, PLOWS, Particles, Plumes, Potential, Processes, Radars, Sector, Structures, Surfaces, Synoptic-scale.

Collaborative Research: The COnvective Precipitation Experiment- Microphysical and Entrainment Dependencies (COPE-MED)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sonia G Lasher-Trapp($476,602), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Alexei V Korolev($672,672), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Warm Rain Process, Broader Impacts, Cloud Physics, Convective Precipitation, Convective Rainfall, Field Campaign, Initial Stages, Numerical Simulations, Aerosol, Aircraft, Analysis, Analyzed, Andor, COPE, COPE-MED, Capabilities, Clouds, Collect, Collected, Designed, Development, Effects, Entrainment, Features, Hallet-mossop, High-resolution, In-situ, Information, Instrumentation, Maximize, Microphysical, Models, Processes, Progression, Representation, Set, Strength, UK, Unique, Wyoming.

A Numerical Study of the Growth of Large Ice Hydrometeors
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Pao-Kuan Wang($380,029), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Ice Particles, Applicable, Cloud, Clouds, Convective, Graupel, Growth, Hail, Interactions, Models, Processes, Rate, Variety.

RUI: A Wide-Area Array of Detectors to Measure the Energy Spectrum of Lightning-Generated X-Rays and the Atmospheric Conditions that Support Them
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher G Fasano($228,497), Monmouth College, Monmouth
Key terms: Lightning Generated X-rays, Electric Field, Energy Spectrum, Generated X-rays, Natural Lightning, X-ray Spectra, Active, Array, Atmospheric, Measure, Mechanisms, Meteorological, Outreach, Periods, Produce, Recording, Storms, Students, Time.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Observations of High Ice Water Contents in Convective Cloud Systems over Tropical Oceans
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Edward Zipser($431,326), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Greg McFarquhar($476,245), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Ice Water Content, Commercial Aircraft, Hallett-mossop Process, Ice Crystals, Model Simulations, Remote Sensing, Water Contents, Access, Allow, Analysis, Andor, Anvils, Based, Cloud, Clouds, Concentrations, Conditions, Convective, Cores, Cubic, Darwin, Dataset, Degc, Development, Effort, Experienced, Field, Focus, Freezes, Grams, HIWC, Hallett-mossop, Hazards, IWC, In-situ, Involved, Iwcs, Levels, Lofted, Mechanisms, Models, NSF, Oceanic, Operate, Organizers, Original, Parameterizations, Particles, Planned, Presence, Primary, Probes, Rain, Regions, Specific, Strong, Subsequently, Supercooled, Tropical, Unique, Updrafts, Validity, Values, Via, Weak.

A New Approach to Electromagnetic Scattering from Ice Crystal Aggregates for Improving Quantitative Radar Measurements of Clouds and Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Johannes Verlinde($496,167), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Clouds And Precipitation, Electromagnetic Scattering Characteristics, Ice Crystal Aggregates, Millimeter Wave Radar, Qualitative And Quantitative, Radar Cross Sections, Wave Radar Observations, Pristine Crystals, Accurately, Algorithms, Approach, Composition, Computational, Constructed, Hydrometeors, Modeling, Particles, Shaped, Shapes.

High Plains Convection: Diurnally Varying Mesoscale-Synoptic Scale Interactions over Complex Terrain during the Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lance F Bosart($443,252), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Atmospheric Predictability Studies, Convective Weather Phenomena, Atmospheric Structures, Complex Terrain, Convective Storm, Mesoscale Analyses, Assess, Boundary, Datasets, Deep, Features, Forecast, Limit, Low-level, MPEX, Moisture, Rates, Rockies, Targeted, Uncertainty.

Continued Analysis of Convective System Evolution Using Convection-permitting Grid Spacing Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Simulations
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William A Gallus($591,797), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Low-level Jet, Mcs Evolution, Convective, Forecasts, LLJ, Low-level, Mcss, Model, Output, PBL, Precipitation, Prediction, Rainfall, Simulations, WRF, Warm-season, Weather.

Sources and Growth of Initial Condition Errors in Convection-resolving Forecasts in the Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ryan D Torn($326,288), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Convective Initiation, Error Growth, Initial Conditions, Midtropospheric Moisture, Time Scales, Applied, Assimilated, Characterized, Compared, Control, Convection, Dynamics, Ensemble, Errors, Features, Forecasts, Models, Numerical, Observations, Particular, Predictability, Prior, Sensitive, Sensitivities, Sensitivity.

MRI: Development of a Mobile Thermodynamic and Dynamic Profiling Facility for the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David D Turner($663,268), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Cloud Base, Capabilities, Contributions, Deployment, Development, Education, Effort, Existing, Improvements, Lidar, Meteorological, Microwave, Mobile, Observations, Observing, Platform, Potential, Students, Unique, Via.

Collaborative Research: Integrating Models and Observations to Assess Effects of Turbulence on Warm Rain Initiation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lian-Ping Wang($264,908), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Patrick Y Chuang($360,551), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Accurate, Approach, Assessment, Cloud, Clouds, Collection, Collision-coalescence, Computational, Conditions, Development, Effects, Growth, Incorporate, LES, Microphysics, Model, Numerical, Parameterization, Play, Predictions, Process, Quantitative, Rain, Real, Realistic, Representation, Simulation, Stratocumulus, Theory, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: Characterization of the Two-dimensional/Temporal Mosaic of Drop Size Distributions and Spatial Variability (Structure) in Rain
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Arthur R Jameson($465,734), RJH Scientific Incorporated, El Cajon
2. Michael L Larsen($325,402), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: 2-d Video Disdrometer, Drop Size Distributions, 2-d Video, Disdrometers, Flood, Horizontal, Larger, Observations, Precipitation, Processes, Rain, Structures, Translation.

Two-component Winds from Eye-safe Elastic LIDAR and Optical Flow above the Reach of Most Towers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Shane D Mayor($798,696), Chico State Enterprises, Chico
Key terms: Elastic Backscatter Lidar, Boundary Layer, Elastic Lidar, Flow Fields, Advance, Airflow, Estimation, Eye-safe, Numerical, Observations, Periods, Structure, Techniques, Via, Wind.

MRI: Acquisition of a Portable Compact Doppler Wind and Aerosol Lidar for Research Enhancements in Boundary Layer Meteorology, Air Quality, and Cloud Physics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sundar Christopher($237,128), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Air Quality, Boundary Layer, Ozone Dial, ABL, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, CWAL, Capabilities, Capability, Convective, Cyclones, Enhance, Equipment, Existing, Experience, Instruments, Layers, Lidar, Lower, MIPS, Mobile, Precipitation, Processes, Profiling, Students, Top, Transport, UAH, Van, Wind.

Critical Raindrop Characteristics: Fall Speed, Shape, and Size Distributions
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Firat Y Testik($504,150), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Raindrop Fall Characteristics, Raindrop Fall Velocity, Chord Ratio, Chord Ratios, Predictive Capability, Rainfall Rates, Size Distribution, Size Distributions, Actual, Assumption, Conditions, Development, Deviations, Drop, Effort, Equilibrium, Field, Lead, Precipitation, Radar, Raindrops, Serve, Students, Terminal, Uncover, Velocities.

Analyzing the Impacts of Non-Gaussian Errors in Gaussian Data Assimilation Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John Forsythe($596,054), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Da Schemes, Gaussian Assumption, Lognormal Distribution, Mixed Distribution, Moisture Variable, Ability, Analysis, Approach, Approaches, Approximation, Assimilation, Assumed, Distributed, Effort, Fields, Finding, Humidity, Larger, Methods, Mode, Model, Non-gaussian, Numerical, Operational, Positive-definite, Prediction, Quantities, Random, Retrieval, Retrieved, Stage, Variables, Weather.

Development, Deployment, and Validation of a Differential Abospbtion Lidar for Water Vapor Profiling in the Lower Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kevin Repasky($268,776), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Water Vapor Profiling, Dial Instrument, Collection, Cost-effective, Deployed, Developed, Development, Diode-laser-based, Effort, Field, Forecasting, Has, Instruments, Potential, Semiconductor, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Observing and Modeling Downslope-windstorm-type Flow in a Small-scale Crater Induced by Larger-scale Katabatic Winds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald J Calhoun($154,594), Arizona State University, Tempe
2. Charles D Whiteman($1,051,928), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Detection And Ranging, Atmospheric Dwfs, Crater's Rim, Analyses, Conditions, Craters, Development, Downslope, Effort, Expected, Field, Flow, Flows, Forecasting, Investigate, LES, Modeling, Produced, Program, Short, Simulations, Suited.

A Multi-platform Kinematic and Thermodynamic Study of Tornado Genesis, Structure, and Evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Karen A Kosiba($1,421,820), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: Correlation, Description, Development, Effort, Intensity, Multiple, Tornadic, Tornado, Tornadoes, VORTEX.

Using the Second Verification of the Origins of Rotation in Tornadoes Experiment (VORTEX2) Observations and Idealized Simulations to Understand the Lifecycle of Tornadoes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yvette P Richardson($1,076,764), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Analysis, Demise, Development, Effort, Evolution, Field, Genesis, Interactions, Investigate, Maintenance, Mergers, Objectives, Potential, Processes, Specific, Storm, Thermodynamic, Thunderstorms, Tornado, Tornadoes, Vorticity.

Synthesis of Vortex Rossby Wave Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hugh E Willoughby($185,875), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Inward Eddy Fluxes, Vortex Rossby Waves, Angular Momentum, Gravity Waves, Numerical Solutions, Unstable Profiles, Vortex Motion, Accessible, Analysis, Approach, Conceptually, Coupled, Flow, Forced, Forcing, Fourier, Frequency, Has, Idealized, Instability, Mean, Perturbations, Phenomena, Propagation, Relative, Resonant, Simulated, Simulations, Time, Upstream, VRW, Vrws.

Lightning and Thunderstorm Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald J Thomas($745,198), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Inside Storms, Lightning Discharges, Lightning Mapping, Storm Electrification, Advance, Atmospheric, Collected, Colorado, DC, Determining, Dual-polarization, Effects, Electric, Energetic, Flashes, Investigations, LMA, May-june, Observations, Operated, Particular, Radar, Structures, Technology, Various.

The Interaction Among Mesoscale Dynamics, Microphysical Properties and Radiative Effects of Mid-latitude Cirrus Clouds
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Thomas P Ackerman($546,061), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cirrus Cloud Properties, Cloud-resolving Regional Model, Detailed And Process-based, Dynamical And Thermodynamical, Mesoscale Dynamical Forcing, Microphysical And Macrophysical, Mid-latitude Cirrus Clouds, Cirrus Microphysical, Classification Technique, Cloud-resolving Regional, Dynamical Mechanisms, Life Cycle, Macrophysical Properties, Microphysical Parameterizations, Mid-latitude Cirrus, Model Simulations, Radiative Properties, Affect, Atmospheric, Conditions, Controls, Evolution, International, Models, Numerical, Observations, Participation, Physically, Representation, Statistically, Students, Various.

CAREER: An Observational and Numerical Study of Multi-scale Transport and Mixing Processes in the Convective Boundary Layer over Mountains
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephan F De Wekker($630,457), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Boundary Layer Structure, Convective Boundary Layer, National And International, Regional And Global, Complex Terrain, International Collaboration, Lower Atmosphere, Mountainous Terrain, Online Modules, Aerosol, Allow, Atmospheric, Behavior, Climate, Comprehensive, Development, Distributions, Effort, Experiences, Field, Hands-on, Inquiry, Numerical, Processes, Students, Undergraduate, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Airborne Detector for Energetic Lightning Emissions (ADELE) Operations on the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph R Dwyer($479,889), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Steven A Cummer($75,000), Duke University, Durham
3. Joseph R Dwyer($40,000), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Jets And Elves, Tgfs And Glows, Electric Field, Electric Fields, Gigantic Jets, Global Hawk, ADELE, Aircraft, Conductivity, Dose, Emission, Flashes, Flight, Flights, Gamma-ray, Gamma-rays, HS, High-energy, Instrument, Intensity, Lightning, Nasas, Observed, Phenomena, Program, Radiation, Represent, Scientists, Set, Spectrum, Storm, Storms, Time, Upper, Was.

Winter Precipitation Microphysics with Polarimetric Radar and Explicit Modeling
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew R Kumjian($370,256), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Electromagnetic Scattering Calculations, Bulk Microphysics, Dual-polarization Radar, Microphysics Models, Polarimetric Radar, Radars Operating, Remote Sensing, Winter Precipitation, Winter Storm, Winter Storms, Winter Weather, Additionally, Aggregation, Available, Bin, Contribute, Diagnosis, Dual-polarization, Effort, Forecasts, Ground-based, Growth, Ice, In-turn, Interpret, Lead, Melting, Microphysical, Noaas, Numerical, Observations, Observed, Oklahoma, Output, Processes, Quantify, Refreezing, Riming, Signatures, Surface, Thermodynamic, Variables, Via, WSR-D, Wavelengths, X-band.

Science Program Overview (SPO): Southern Andes - ANtarctic GRavity wave InitiAtive (SAANGRIA)
Award Effective Date: 05/09/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David C Fritts($22,689), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Aircraft, Antarctic, Atmospheric, Coordination, Field, GW, Generation, Gravity, Gws, Momentum, Ozone, SAANGRIA, Supported, Turbulence, Vertical.

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: 05/09/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David C Fritts($284,997), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
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.

CAREER: Towards a Better Understanding of Wildfire-Atmosphere Interactions-Integrating Fire Weather Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Craig B Clements($900,337), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Fire Danger Awareness, Fire Safety Education, Fire Weather Content, Teacher Training Workshop, Education Program, Fire Behavior, Fire-induced Winds, Thermodynamic Structure, Aimed, Component, Comprehensive, Coupled, Courses, Critical, Developed, Development, Dynamics, Extreme, Fire-atmosphere, Fire-induced, Interactions, Modeling, Observations, Outreach, Processes, Responsible, Student, Wildfire, Wildfire-atmosphere.

Fundamental Lower Tropospheric Processes in Observed and Simulated Supercells
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew D Parker($484,935), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Vertical Wind Shear, Knowledge Base, Lower Tropospheric, Surface Vorticity, Application, Courses, Gaps, Low-level, Maintenance, Non-tornadic, Numerical, Operational, Outflow, Processes, Produce, Public, Routine, Stability, Storm-environment, Storms, Students, Supercell, Supercells, Tornado, Tornadogenesis, VORTEX.

Optical Tomography of the Atmospheric Surface Layer
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Andreas Muschinski($594,122), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Atmospheric Surface Layer, Heat And Momentum, Horizontal And Vertical, Optical Aoa, Path Averages, Propagation Path, Velocity Components, Wind Velocity, ASL, Climate, Derived, Effort, Explored, Fields, Fluctuations, Flux, In-situ, Lead, Light, Means, Micrometeorological, Observables, Obtain, Quantities, Retrieved, Technology, Telescopes, Temperature, Tomography, Transverse, Turbulence.

EAGER: Collaborative Analysis of Doppler Lidar Data from Canopy Horizontal Array Turbulence Study (CHATS)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald J Calhoun($31,501), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Coherent Structures, Plant Canopies, Analysis, Approach, Atmospheric, CHATS, Effort, Lidar, Means, Previously, Sources, Turbulence.

Studies of Coastal Orographic Precipitation Processes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David E Kingsmill($454,889), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Coastal Orographic Feeder, Coastal Orographic Precipitation, Orographic Feeder Clouds, Broader Impacts, Coastal Orography, Doppler Radar, Forcing Factors, Airflow, Barrier, Barriers, CALJET, California, Clarify, Complexities, Development, Distribution, Experiments, Half-widths, Has, Heights, Influence, Intensity, Jets, Lead, Microphysics, Objectives, PACJET, Processes, Relatively, Specific, Terrain, Upstream, Water.

Aerosol Pollution Impacts on Wintertime Orographic Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William R Cotton($525,133), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aerosol Pollution, Cloud Base, Rams Model, Sierra Nevada, Colorado, Enhancement, Estimates, Increase, Potential, Precipitation, Prior, Range, Regions, Suppression, Water, Western.

Laboratory Study of the Influence of Nucleation and Chemistry on Ice Particle Habit and Growth Rates
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brian D Swanson($118,358), Laucks Foundation, Seattle
Key terms: Crystal Growth, Nucleation Mode, Allow, Chamber, Chambers, Cirrus, Clouds, Conditions, Deposition, Development, Formation, Initial, Methods, Precise, Sublimation.

Orographic Effects on Precipitating Cloud Systems
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert A Houze($560,999), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Convective Storms, Mesoscale Convective, Model Simulations, Mountain Ranges, Sierra Nevada, Storm Types, Tropical Cyclones, Alps, Andes, Canadian, Caused, Coast, Convection, Datasets, Decoupled, Development, Enhanced, Enhancement, Examination, Examine, Examined, Existing, Field, Flooding, Flows, Frontal, Fronts, Himalayas, Jet, Layers, Low-level, Moist, Mts, Near, Orographic, Orographically, Passing, Precipitation, Processes, Radar, Rain, Severe, Taiwan, Triggering, Was.

Characeristics of Island-scale Airflow and Climate over the Hawaiian Islands
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yi-Leng Chen($402,329), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Hawaiian Archipelago, Conditions, El, Flow, High-resolution, Model, Processes, Trade-wind, Variety, Zone.

EAGER: Monitoring the Global Electric Circuit from Ocean Straits
Award Effective Date: 05/30/2011; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert H Tyler($53,385), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Earth's Electrodynamics, Gc Currents, Atmosphere, Century, Charge, Circuit, Climate, Component, Continuous, Downward, Electric, Fairweather, Global, Has, Models, Monitoring, Ocean, Oceans, Processes, Theory.

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

1. Fernando Camelli($255,719), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Concentration Statistics, Density Stratification, Stably Stratified, Water Tunnel, Atmospheric, Chemical, Conditions, Development, Dispersion, Environments, Experimental, Experiments, Flow, GMU, Ii, Iii, Lagrangian, Numerical, Parameterizations, Performance, Predict, Students, Theory, Time, Urban.

AGS-PRF: Extreme Near-Surface Wind Speeds Associated with Coherent Small-Scale Vortices within the Boundary Layer of Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Daniel P Stern($172,000), Stern Daniel P, State College
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Tropical Cyclones, Bryan, Extreme, Features, Found, Has, Highly, Hurricanes, Intense, Model, Strongest, Structure, Surface, Updrafts, Vortices, Wind, Winds.

AGS-PRF: Aerosol Impacts on Cumulus Detrainment in the Troposphere--An Investigation Using Large-eddy Simulations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Robert B Seigel($172,000), Seigel Robert B, Fort Collins
Key terms: Strongest Greenhouse Gas, Thermodynamics And Cloud, Aerosol Forcing, Broader Impacts, Cumulus Detrainment, Environmental Thermodynamics, Global Climate, Global Cloud, Vertical Distribution, Water Vapor, Act, Aerosols, Assess, Assist, Atmosphere, Budget, Clouds, DYNAMO, Development, Direct, Field, Future, Highly, Indirect, LES, Microphysics, Modeling, Models, Parameterizations, Precipitation, Processes, Quarter, Radiation, Regimes.

AGS-PRF: Seasonal-resolution Examination of Asian Monsoon Dynamics as Recorded in Chinese Speleothems
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Ian J Orland($172,000), Orland Ian J, Madison
Key terms: Summer And Winter, Cave Deposits, Isotopic Composition, Annual, Chinese, Climate, Monsoon, Oxygen, Paleoclimate, Rainfall, Ratio, Speleothem.

AGS-PRF: Space-Based Imaging of Mesospheric Gravity Waves
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Justin N Carstens($172,000), Carstens Justin N, Blackburg
Key terms: Gravity Waves, AIM, AIRS, CIPS, Dataset, Development, Mentorship, Ozone, Produce, Satellite, Set, Strong.

AGS-PRF: Improved Model Representations of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosol Formation for Prediction of its Impacts on Air Quality and Climate
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Lindsay Hatch($172,000), Hatch Lindsay, La Jolla
Key terms: Formation And Transport, Soa Model Framework, Air Quality, Flame-iv Campaign, Organic Aerosol, Smoke Plume, Analyses, BB, Broader, CMAQ, Complementary, Education, Emissions, FLAME-IV, Fire, Integrated, Opportunities, Outreach, PSU, Predictions.

AGS-PRF: Statistical Analysis of Electromagnetic Energy Transfer via Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) Waves
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Michael Hartinger($172,000), Hartinger Michael, Los Angeles
Key terms: Energy Transfer Via, Transfer Via Ulf, Via Ulf Waves, Radiation Belt, Modes, Outreach, Simulations.

AGS-PRF: Improved In Situ Thermodynamic Sampling of Severe Storms with Unmanned Aircraft Systems Through Improved Wind Estimation and Energy Harvesting
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jack S Elston($172,000), Elston Jack S, Boulder
Key terms: Complex Atmospheric Phenomena, Accurately Measure, Rear Flank, Severe Storms, Thermodynamic Properties, Unmanned Aircraft, Ability, Available, Combined, Current, Efforts, Energy, Estimation, Extend, Hybrid, In-situ, Sampling, Soaring, Supercell, Targeted, UAS, Wind.

AGS-PRF: Development of a Data Assimilation Model for the Plasmasphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Romina Nikoukar($172,000), Nikoukar, Romina, Laurel
Key terms: Plasmasphere Dynamics, Space Weather, Assimilation, Augsburg, Maps, Produce, Technique.

AGS-PRF: Hygroscopicity of Secondary Organic Aerosols Formed via Aqueous Reactions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Shunsuke Nakao($172,000), Nakao, Shunsuke, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aqueous Reactions, Ccn Activity, Component Polarity, Organic Aerosol, Organic Aerosols, Aqsoa, Atmospheric, CSU, Climatic, Cloud, Composition, Concentrations, Formation, Highly, Hygroscopicity, Mass, Particles, Principal, SOA, Via.

AGS-PRF: The Large Scale Impact of Wind Shear on Convection
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Aaron D Kennedy($93,167), Kennedy Aaron D, Grand Forks
Key terms: Convective Parameterizations, Wind Shear, Climate, Convection, Derived, Earth, Future, GCM, Gcms, Increased, Knowledge, Model, National, Provided, Resolution, Severe, Simulations, Statistics, Thermodynamic, Uncertainties, Unknown.

Community Workshop on Radar Technology; Boulder, Colorado; November 27-29, 2012
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2012; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Karyn Sawyer($63,135), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Emerging Radar Technologies, Atmospheric, Meeting.

2012 Unidata Users Workshop: Navigating Earth System Science Data; Boulder, CO; July 9-13, 2012
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Mohan K Ramamurthy($96,638), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Hands-on, Sessions, Workshop.

Workshop on Source Term Estimation (STE) Methods for Estimating the Atmospheric Radiation Release From the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Paul E Bieringer($50,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Fukushima, Workshop.

SEES Fellows: Atmospheric Water Transport from Mexico to the U.S. - A Holistic, Binational Approach to Reducing Vulnerability to the North American Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: SEES Fellows

1. Theodore J Bohn($490,147), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Moisture Recycling, Northwestern Mexico, Border, Decisions, Enable, Experiments, Fellows, Influence, International, Land, Management, Model, Monsoon, Precipitation, Resources, Sustainability, Sustainable, Tool, Water.

Study of Solar Energetic Electrons
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Peter H Yoon($300,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Solar Wind, Acceleration, Dynamics, Electrons, Local, Pis, Self-generated.

Travel Support for the "50 Years of the Seismology of the Sun and Stars" Workshop; Sunspot, New Mexico; May 6-10, 2013
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Sushanta Tripathy($10,000), Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Tucson
Key terms: Future, Helioseismology, Historical, Invited, NSO, Organizers, Plan, Planning, Proceedings, Solar, Talks, Workshop.

RAPID: The Eclipse Megamovie Project
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Scott W McIntosh($182,829), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Total Solar Eclipse, Eclipse Megamovie, Emp Effort, Emp Team's, K-12 Students, Amateur, Astronomy, Australia, Continent, Education, Educational, Internet, Observing, Opportunity, Potential, Public, Reach, Sites, Totality, Unique.

3D Kinetic Simulations of Whistler Turbulence on a Parallel Supercomputer
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stephen P Gary($425,993), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Plasma Physics, Whistler Turbulence, Computational, Contribute, Energy, Processes, Transport, USC.

SHINE: Remote Observations of Accelerated Particles Interacting at the Sun
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gerald Share($235,641), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Fermi Spacecraft, Inner Heliosphere, Analysis, Cosmic-ray, Electrons, Energetic, Eruption, Fluxes, Following, Gamma-ray, Information, Near, Particle, Particles, Properties, Solar, Students, Sun, Various.

Magnetic Reconnection near the Dreicer Limit
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Vadim Roytershteyn($190,000), SciberQuest, Del Mar
Key terms: Coulomb Collisions, Physics, Plasma, Program, REHS, Reconnection.

SHINE: Observations and Analysis of Kinetic Dissipation Processes in the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. John J Podesta($200,061), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Brbrthe Pi's, Kaw Spectrum, Plasma Turbulence, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Compare, Heating, Kinetic, Pis, Predictions, Processes, Protons, Simulations, Spacecraft.

SHINE: The Magnetic Topology of Linked Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Viacheslav Titov($265,676), Predictive Science Incorporated, San Diego
Key terms: Cme Eruptions, Magnetic Field, Multiple Cme, Separatrix Surfaces, Background, Cmes, Components, Configurations, Coronal, Description, Features, Global, MHD, PFSS, Predetermine, Qsls, Solar, Structural.

Exploring Large-Scale Current Sheets Associated with Coronal Mass Ejections
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($168,277), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Current Sheets, Magnetic Reconnection, Plasma Sheets, Space Weather, CME, Cmes, EUV, Energy, Physics, Process, Seen, Solar, Spacecraft.

SHINE: Systematic Evaluation of the Coronal and Heliospheric Models Installed at the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC)
Award Effective Date: 05/04/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Lan Jian($205,443), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
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.

EAGER: A First Principles Test of the Current Sheet Heating Hypothesis for the Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Michael L Goodman($74,981), West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation, Fairmont
Key terms: Current Sheet Solutions, Solar Coronal Heating, Anisotropic Transport, Current Sheets, Magnetic Reconnection, Evidence, Existence, MHD, Model, Phenomenon, Physics, Radiation, Space, Sub-resolution, Theoretical.

SHINE: Injection, Acceleration and Transport of Solar Energetic Particles Produced by the Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Shock
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Pingbing Zuo($362,407), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Injection And Acceleration, Sep Source, Shock Waves, Astrophysics, Calculate, Intensity, Model, Particle, Solar, Space, Three-dimensional, Transport.

SHINE: Plasma Heating During Coronal Mass Ejections
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. John C Raymond($463,848), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Current Sheet, Energetic Particles, Flux Rope, Magnetic Reconnection, Perform Simulations, Plasma Heating, Solar Physics, Space Weather, AIA, Analysis, CME, Cmes, Density, Expanding, Relaxation, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Solar Physics Program at Montana State University
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jiong Qiu($758,548), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Faculty Mentor, Highly Successful, Solar Physics, Student Projects, Component, Continue, Environment, Frequently, Future, Graduate, Has, MSU, Montana, Pis, Program, REU, Space, Students, Summer, Training, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: SHINE--Observations and Modeling of the Longitudinal Extent and Variation of Multi-Spacecraft Solar Energetic Particle (SEP) Events
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Joe Giacalone($94,061), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Glenn M Mason($108,544), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
3. Christina Cohen($180,871), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Particle Transport, Shock Acceleration, Source Region, Accurate, Composition, Extent, Flare, Longitudinal, Relative, SEP, Solar, Spacecraft.

REU Site: Solar and Heliospheric Physics at University of Alabama in Huntsville and Marshall Space Flight Center
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jacob Heerikhuisen($353,355), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Solar And Heliospheric, Heliospheric Physics, Non-research Universities, Alabama, Freshman, Huntsville, Involve, Modeling, Modern, Non-research, Numerical, Pis, Program, REU, Recruitment, STEM, Simulations, Student, Students, Sun, Theoretical.

The Thirteenth International Solar Wind Conference; Big Island, Hawaii; June 17-22, 2012
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gary P Zank($25,000), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Solar And Space, Solar Wind, Space Physics, Center, Meetings.

REU Site: An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Research Experience in Solar and Space Physics
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Daniel N Baker($499,160), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Solar And Space, Week Summer School, Colorado Reu, Reu Program, Space Physics, Academic, Center, Continue, Covering, Curriculum, Field, Graduate, Has, Pis, Pursue, Students, Successful, Topics, Undergraduate, Undergraduates.

Collaborative Research: Numerical Investigation of CME-CME Interaction and Associated Effects from the Low Corona to 1 AU
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Noe Lugaz($248,416), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Solar Wind, CME, Center, Cmes, Complex, Effort, Existing, Hampshire, Hawaii, Lead, Models, Observations, Prior, Simulations.

SHINE: The Non-Ideal Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections: Numerical Studies
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Noe Lugaz($252,145), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Noe Lugaz($85,237), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Cme Evolution, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, Cmes, Corona, Coronal, Distance, Hawaii, Pis, Propagation, Quantities, SWMF, Simulations, Solar, Spacecraft, Students.

SHINE: Eulerian Decorrelation Functions Derived from Multispacecraft Observations of Interplanetary Magnetic Field Fluctuations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. James M Weygand($288,831), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Interplanetary Magnetic Field, Magnetic Field Fluctuations, Ecf Varies, Solar Wind, Decorrelation, Estimates, Findings, Observations, Particle, Physics, Space, Spacecraft, Temporal, Theory, Transport, Turbulence.

SHINE: Coronal and Interplanetary Magnetic Field: Structure, Topology, Flux Tubes, Transport, and Application to Energetic Particles
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. William H Matthaeus($382,341), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Magnetic Field Models, Field Line, Flux Tube, Flux Tubes, Space Weather, Apply, Coherent, Examine, Extend, Fields, Investigate, Limitations, MHD, Particle, Physics, Pis, Ranging, Reduced, Seps, Solar, Transport.

SHINE: Differential Emission Measure Determination in Three-Dimension (3D) Using Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) Data
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Richard Frazin($308,240), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Global Solar Corona, Solar Wind, AIA, Analysis, DEMT, Issues, Models, Performance, Spectroscopic.

SHINE: Study the Evolution of Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun to the Earth
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jie Zhang($338,656), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Space Weather, Arrival, CME, Cmes, Evolution, Graduate, Model, Observations, Solar, Students, Theoretical.

Analyses of Active Region Characteristics Responsible for Solar Eruptive Events on the Basis of Observations with the Aid of Three-Dimensional Magnetohydrodynamic Simulation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. David Falconer($338,979), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Active Region Evolution, Solar Active Region, Boundary Conditions, Graduate Students, Solar Eruptive, Space Weather, Vector Magnetogram, AAMU, Data-driven, Eruption, MHD, Model, Pis, Surface.

Measuring the Mass Flux and Magnetic Evolution of Jets in the Solar Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Peter Young($419,808), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Coronal Hole Jets, Lower Solar Atmosphere, Mass And Energy, Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Chjs, Comprehensive, Ees, Evolution, Flux, Measure.

Observations and Analysis of White-light Flares With High Resolution
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($181,987), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Lower Solar Atmosphere, Adaptive-optics-equipped Facilities, Canary Islands, Solar Telescope, Space Weather, Adaptive-optics-equipped, Existing, Flares, Heating, Models, Observations, Physics.

Collaborative Research: Exploring the Thermodynamics of the Corona With Total Solar Eclipse Observations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Shadia R Habbal($516,432), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Martina B Arndt($59,783), BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY, Bridgewater
Key terms: Brbrthe Pis, Emission Lines, Magnetic Field, Charge, Corona, Coronal, Eclipse, Graduate, Ion, Observations, Plan, Plasma, Properties, Seen, Solar, Spectral, Students, Transition, Undergraduate.

Searching for Photospheric Causes of Small-Scale Chromospheric Activity
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Vasyl Yurchyshyn($397,757), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Analysis, BBSO, Chromospheric, Coronal, Dynamics, Jets, Magnetic, NST, Observations, Solar, Spacecraft.

The Millstone Hill Geospace Facility
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2012; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Anthea J Coster($11,196,662), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Plasmasphere Boundary Layer, Millstone Hill, Operations Plan, Activities, Capabilities, Continue, Coupling, Development, Education, Efforts, Enabling, Facility, Geospace, Graduate, International, Investigations, Massachusetts, Outreach, Participation, Program, Radar, Radio, Space, Staff, Students, Technical, Workshops.

Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) Operations and Maintenance: Looking Forward to a More Active Sun
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Craig Heinselman($21,726,125), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Earth's Upper Atmosphere, Earth's Upper, Incoherent Scatter, Phased Array, Student Advisors, AMISR, Access, Assisting, Distributed, Facilities, Facility, Ionosphere, Isrs, Operate, Operations, Processed, Radars, Range, Steering, Students, Training, User.

MRI: Development of Radio Array of Portable Interferometric Detectors (RAPID)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Colin J Lonsdale($2,104,842), Northeast Radio Observatory Corp, Westford
Key terms: Galactic Synchrotron Background, Radio Signals, Antennas, Array, Broadband, Capabilities, Capability, Cosmic, Emission, Existing, Field, Frequency, Imaging, Investigations, Ionospheric, Phenomena, Powerful, RAPID, Radar, Resolution, Scatter, Solar, Unique, Via.

NSWP: Coherent Backscatter Radar Imaging Studies of Equatorial Spread F with the Sao Luis Radar in Brazil
Award Effective Date: 09/25/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Fabiano Rodrigues($155,999), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Scattering Structures, Spatial Distribution, ESF, F-region, Interferometric, Irregularities, Plasma, Radar, Sizes.

RAPID: FireStation--Understanding Earth's Most Powerful Natural Particle Accelerator
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Allan T Weatherwax($57,971), Siena College, Loudonville
Key terms: Energetic Radiation, Firefly Cubesat, Accurate, Based, Electron, Electrons, Energized, Firestation, Gamma, ISS, Information, Instrument, Lightning, Miniaturized, Multi-wavelength, Observed, Radio, Siena, Space, Students, Tgfs.

Collaborative Research: Development of Airborne Lidar and Temperature Mapper "Facility" Instruments for the NSF GV and Measurements during SAANGRIA
Award Effective Date: 05/09/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. David C Fritts($180,308), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Ngv Instruments, Southern Andes, Aircraft, Altitudes, Atmospheric, Circulation, Climate, Effects, Flight, GW, Gws, Lower, Measure, SAANGRIA, Stratospheric, Thermosphere.

Space Weather Workshop 2012; Boulder, CO; April 24-27, 2012
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Meg Austin($24,273), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather Workshop, Conference, Fosters, Identifying, Operational, Operations, Service, Services.

Workshop to Explore the Utility of Cubesat Projects for Scientific Research and Technology Advances, and STEM Education and Workforce Development; Arlington, Virginia; May 24, 2012
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Aaron J Ridley($24,389), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Cubesat Projects, Stem Education, Communication, Current, Engineering, Interdisciplinary, Meeting, NSF, Physics, Purpose, Space.

Collaborative Research: A Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh Lidars
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Jeffrey Thayer($1,456,582), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Gary R Swenson($1,302,990), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
3. Michael J Taylor($1,389,675), Utah State University, Logan
4. Bifford P Williams($1,337,825), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
5. David A Krueger($159,248), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
6. Alan Liu($81,790), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Ctc Technology Developments, Middle And Upper, Upper Atmosphere Lidar, Lidar Observatory, Na Lidars, Na Wt, Ability, Activities, Advance, Advances, Anticipated, Applications, Benefit, CRRL, Collaboration, Colorado, Comprehensive, Coordinated, Correlative, Education, Efficient, Ensure, Future, Guest, Instruments, MLT, Means, Operates, Outside, Programs, Spatial, Temperature, Temporal, Training, Utah.

Space Weather Enterprise Forum 2012; Washington, DC; June 5, 2012
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Meg Austin($47,432), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather, Information, Serve, Services, User.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere over the Andes Lidar Observatory
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Lynette J Gelinas($300,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
2. Alan Liu($233,856), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
3. Michael J Taylor($200,000), Utah State University, Logan
4. Gary R Swenson($300,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Waves And Wave, Gravity Waves, Planetary Waves, Southern Hemisphere, Wave Phenomena, Wide Range, ALO, Andes, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Chile, Effects, Instabilities, Interactions, MLT, Phenomenology, Region, Terrain, Tides.

RAPID: A High Speed Software Defined Radio Ground Station for CubeSat Space Research and Operational Missions
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Charles Swenson($109,863), Utah State University Research Foundation, North Logan
Key terms: Dynamic Ionosphere Cubesat, Ionosphere Cubesat Experiment, Uhf And S-band, Cubesat Missions, Space Weather, Code, Cubesats, DICE, Densities, Effort, Gt, Has, Less, NSF, Perform, Radio, SDRGS, SRI, Sites, Students, Wallops.

Ground Based Optical Remote Sensing of Cross-scale Coupling Processes Occurring in Earth's Auroral Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: nan

1. Mark Conde($612,932), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Wind And Temperature, Thermospheric Wind, Wind Field, Doppler, Extended, Imaging, Spatial, Thermosphere.

The Continued Operation of COSMIC in Support of Operational and Research Applications for Years 2012-2015
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: nan

1. William S Schreiner($25,819,518), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Global Positioning, Gps Ro, Intellectual Merit, Radio Occultation, Activities, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, CDAAC, COSMIC, Centers, Continue, Earth, Education, Has, International, Ionospheric, Launch, NOAA, Neutral, Observations, Operation, Operational, Operations, Processing, Products, Profiles, Quality, Quantity, Resolution, Software, Space, Unaffected, Vertical, Weather.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Development and Application of a Multi-site Observing Network to Study Mid-latitude Thermospheric Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: nan

1. Jonathan J Makela($352,260), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Aaron J Ridley($173,666), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Auroral, Available, Disturbances, Dynamics, Global, Network, Operate, Propagation, Stations, Thermosphere, Thermospheric.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2012

CEDAR Science Steering Committee 2012-2014 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: PFISR Ion-Neutral Observations in the Thermosphere (PINOT) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Micrometeoroid Mass Flux Influences on Space Weather and Middle Atmosphere Aeronomy Studied Using the Six NSF Radars and Modeling Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Conference Support for the International AGU Chapman Conference on Longitude and Hemispheric Dependence of Space Weather; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; November 12-16, 2012 Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Ionospheric Disturbances Related to the Stratospheric Sudden Warmings Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Feasibility Study to Develop a Large Aperture Lidar/Optical Facility for Observations of the Upper Atmosphere from 30-1000km Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: Modeling the Observable Effects of Gravity Waves in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Dynamic Ionosphere CubeSat Experiment (DICE) Operations and Data Processing Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

EAGER: High Speed Tomographic Imaging Facility for Studies of Auroral Fine Structure Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR Data Base Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Climate Change in the Upper Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: On the Spectrum and Variability of Large-scale Equatorial Spread-F Structures Award Effective Date: 08/12/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--The Space-time Properties of High Latitude Ionospheric Irregularities by a Two-dimensional Array of GPS Scintillation Receivers Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Sprites Using High Temporal and Spatial Optical Imaging Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

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: 07/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Numerical Investigation of Observed Multiscale Dynamics in the Middle Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Numerical Simulations of Gravity Wave Instabilities, Wave-Wave and Wave Mean Flow Interactions, Momentum Transport, and Spectral Evolution in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Studies with Compact Echelle Spectrograph for Aeronomical Research (CESAR) Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Observational and Numerical Studies of Tide-planetary Wave Coupling Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: RAPID--To Conduct Ionospheric Irregularity and Scintillation Experiments Using the Radio Aurora Explorer II Award Effective Date: 05/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

A Study of the Long-term Trends in the US Mid-latitude Ionosphere from 1936-2009 by Extending the US Ionospheric Database Two Decades Prior to the 1957 IGY Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

Imaging Science Investigations of Atmsopheric Processes Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: The Role of Gravity Waves in Coupling Longitudinal Variations in the Troposphere to the Thermosphere and Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: AERONOMY

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

The Mechanisms for the Maintenance of Nocturnal Convective Systems Award Effective Date: 01/01/2013; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Collaborative Research: Improved Understanding of Convective-Storm Predictability and Environment Feedbacks from Observations during the Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM) Space Weather Summer School Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Controls on Water Isotope Variability in the Tropical Pacific: A Strategy to Improve Paleoclimate Interpretations Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Participation in Flame-IV: Understanding Aerosol Absorption in Biomass Burning Plumes Through Measurements of Single-Particle SSA, Coatings, and Brown Carbon Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Accuracy Improvement and Uncertainty Reduction of Spectroscopic Parameters of Water Vapor Lines in the HITRAN Database Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Fast Mobility Particle Size Measurements during the 4th Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME IV) Study Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Travel Support for the 2013 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Robert A. Duce Symposium; Austin, Texas; January 6-10, 2013 Award Effective Date: 10/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Mercury in the Atmosphere Over the Eastern United States Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Online Single-particle Measurements of the Chemical Composition, Mixing State, and Ice Nuclei Residues During the FLAME IV Biomass Burning Experiment Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Acquisition of a Soot-Particle Aerosol Mass Spectrometer for the Measurement of Submicron Particulate Chemical Composition Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Particulate Nitrate Photolysis as a Daytime Nitrous Acid Source and a Reactive Nitrogen Recycling Pathway in the Troposphere Award Effective Date: 09/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Time-Resolved Electrospray Mass Spectrometric Studies of Atmospheric Gas-liquid Reactions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Measurements of Speciated Volatile and Semi-volatile Organic Compounds During the Fourth Fire Lab at Missoula Experiment (FLAME-IV) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Scientific Program Overview--Convective Transport of Active Species in the Tropics (CONTRAST) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Impacts of the Biosphere on Global Tropospheric Chemistry and Climate Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Theoretical Analysis of Atmospheric Reactions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Cloud Forming Potential of Marine Biogenic Aerosols and Their Physiochemical Properties Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) International Project Office Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Photochemistry in Organic Aerosols Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Characterization of Surface Tension During the Western Atlantic Climate Study (WACS) Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Integrated Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Chemistry of Organic Aerosol Formation from the Atmospheric Oxidation of Hydrocarbons Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Particle Growth Mechanisms During Ambient New Particle Formation Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Line Shape Parameters in Support of Remote Sensing of Earth's and Planetary Atmospheres Award Effective Date: 07/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Development of Critical Data for Predicting Growth of Secondary Organic Aerosols in Air Award Effective Date: 06/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Theory of Trace Gas Distributions in the Lower Stratosphere and Near the Tropopause Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Travel Support for Graduate Students Attending the 22nd International Symposium on Gas Kinetics; Boulder, CO; June 18-22, 2012 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Air-sea Exchange of Volatile Organic Compounds--Impacts on Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry Award Effective Date: 06/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

REU Site: Regional Atmospheric Chemistry: State-of-the-art Measurement and Modeling in the Pacific Northwest Award Effective Date: 05/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Workshop on Production Mechanism, Number Concentration, Size Distribution, Chemical Composition, and Optical Properties of Sea Spray Aerosols; Raleigh, NC; June 4-6, 2012 Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Investigation of Emissions and Ozone Photochemistry over China and Their Environmental Impacts Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Aerosol and Atmospheric Optics: Visibility and Air Pollution Conference; Whitefish, MT; September 24-28, 2012 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Organic Aerosol Volatility, Phase and Partitioning Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

A Model Study of the Chemistry of Biomass Burning Smoke Plumes Constrained by Aircraft Data Award Effective Date: 04/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Gordon Research Conference 2012 Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere; Lewiston, Maine; June 24-29, 2012 Award Effective Date: 03/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Impact of Atmospheric Trace Elements on the "Third Pole" Glaciers Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Reactivity of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions and Their Attribution to Identified Chemical Species Award Effective Date: 02/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Budget and Impacts of Atmospheric Organic Acids from Ground and Space-based Observations Award Effective Date: 02/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Measurements of Aerosol Chemistry During Wintertime High-Ozone Events Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Chemistry and Vertical Transport of Hox Radical Precursors During the Uintah Basin Winter Ozone Study in Utah Award Effective Date: 01/01/2012; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

How Cloud Processes Alter the Effects of Midlatitude Cyclones on the Atmospheric General Circulation Award Effective Date: 12/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Mechanisms and Effects of Tropical Indian Ocean Variability Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Interactions of Aerosols, Marine Boundary Layer Clouds, and Precipitation During the VOCALS-Regional Experiment: Observations, Modeling, and Large-scale Model Assessment Award Effective Date: 11/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Impacts of Enhanced Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) on the Organization of Convection for Monsoon Depressions Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Large Scale Dynamics and Statistics of California Extreme Weather in the Atmosphere and in Global Models Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Understanding the Central-Pacific El Nino-Southern Oscillation Award Effective Date: 10/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Tropical Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions: The Past, The Present and the Future: A Symposium Honoring George Philander and His Work; Princeton, New Jersey; September 6-7, 2012 Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

REU Site: Atmospheric Science in the Gulf Coast Region at Texas A&M University Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

From Flood to Famine: The Rainfall Regime in East Africa, Its Interannual Variability, and Large-Scale Teleconnections Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Sensitivity of Regional Climate Due to Land-cover Changes in the Eastern United States Since 1650 Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Understanding the Role of Convective Momentum Transport for the Madden-Julian Oscillation Award Effective Date: 08/15/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Extratropical Cyclone Hydrometeor Vertical and Horizontal Spatial Correlation Structure Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Diabatic Processes of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO): Enabling and Analyzing THORPEX MJO Task Force and GEWEX Atmospheric System Study Global Model Evaluation Project Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Effect of Model Uncertainty and Error on the Forecast Uncertainty Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Dynamical Influences on Stratocumulus-Aerosol Interactions in the Southern Hemisphere Award Effective Date: 08/01/2012; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics