Collaborative Research: Maintenance, Operations and Data Analysis of Arecibo and Millstone Hill Interferometers
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert B Kerr($261,659), Scientific Solutions Incorporated, North Chelmsford
2. Irfan Azeem($40,003), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Educational Opportunities, Millstone Hill, Vertical Winds, Allow, Arecibo, Compared, Earth, Measured, Observatory, Operation, Technique, Techniques, Thermosphere.

CAREER: An Initiative to Investigate the Near Space Interaction Region (INSpIRe)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Edwin J Mierkiewicz($476,415), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Atomic Hydrogen, External Forcing, Initiative Inspire, Upper Atmosphere, Aeronomy, Atmospheric, Avenues, Capable, Contributing, Coupling, Distribution, Encourage, Exosphere, Fabry-perot, Facility, Flux, Generation, Geocoronal, Interplanetary, Neutral, Observations, Parameters, Platform, Processes, Region, Terrestrial, Undergraduate, Vertical.

CEDAR: Multi-spectral Imaging Investigation of the Auroral Fine Structures Associated with Naturally Enhanced Ion Acoustic Lines
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert G Michell($87,440), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Ion Acoustic, Auroral, Energy, Imagers, Neials, Observations, Waves.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Understanding the High-to-Mid Latitude Ionospheric Response to Stratospheric Warmings
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Larisa P Goncharenko($258,395), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Lynn Harvey($338,331), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Sudden Stratospheric Warmings, Geomagnetic Drivers, Mid-latitude Ionosphere, Planetary Waves, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Fluxes, Forcing, Investigate, Lower, MIT, Magnetospheric, Mid-latitude, Middle, Solar, Specify, Students.

Collaborative Research: Finite Amplitude Gravity Wave Trains in the Upper Mesosphere - Lower Thermosphere Duct System: Build Up and Leakage of Energy from Local and Distant Sources
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan B Snively($99,607), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
2. Lynette J Gelinas($165,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Prolific Wave Sources, Ducted Waves, Transfer Energy, Wave Energy, Amplitudes, Atmosphere, Conditions, Confined, Distances, Ducting, Ducts, Extensive, Horizontally, Lower, MLT, Mechanism, Modeling, Propagation, Redistribution, Regions, Simultaneously, Travel.

CAREER: Coherent Structures in Ionospheric-Thermospheric Flows
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Seebany Datta-Barua($507,599), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Key terms: Lcs Analysis, Unsteady Flow, Upper Atmosphere, Activities, Development, Dynamics, Education, Equatorial, Graduate, Has, IIT, Mentoring, Mixing, Motion, Regions, Scintillation, Space, Structures, Time, Undergraduate, Via.

CEDAR: Auroral Electrojet Waves and Wave Heating
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. David L Hysell($361,565), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Waves And Turbulence, Farley-buneman Waves, Alaska, Auroral, Background, Broader, Component, Cornell, Effects, Experimental, Farley-buneman, Forcing, Geospace, Has, Investigation, Involves, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Mechanics, Model, Outside, Radar, Theoretical.

CEDAR: Dynamics of SAPS (SubAuroral Polarization Streams) during Geomagnetic Disturbances and Their Effects on the Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Mark B Moldwin($346,941), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Saps Intensification, Substorm Onset, Wave Activity, Distribution, Dynamics, Effects, GITM, Geomagnetic, Investigate, Mechanisms, Radar, Times.

CEDAR: Exploration of Lower-atmosphere Wave Forcing, Vertical Wave Coupling and Their Impacts on the Ionosphere and Thermosphere Variability Using WAM, Lidar and ISR
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Xian Lu($311,418), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Lower Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Coupling, Ionosphere, Observations, Sources.

CEDAR: Investigations of Gravity Wave Coupling Between the Mesosphere and Thermosphere in the Southern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Steven M Smith($33,905), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Mesospheric And Thermospheric, Mount John, Co-located, DEEPWAVE, Field, Gravity, Imager, Obtained, Profiles, Zealand.

DEEPWAVE: Spatial and Fourier Ray Modeling of Mountain Waves
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jun Ma($183,217), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
Key terms: Fourier-space Ray-tracing, Geometrical Spreading, Gravity Wave, Gravity Waves, Spatial Ray-tracing, Altitude, Analysis, DEEPWAVE, Fourier-space, International, Mainly, Mountain, Propagation, Ray-tracing, Region, Varying, Weather.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Controls on Water Isotope Variability in the Tropical Pacific: A Strategy to Improve Paleoclimate Interpretations
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. David C Noone($71,255), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Paleoclimate Proxies, Stable Isotope, Tropical Pacific, Access, CU, Climate, Hydrogen, Interannual, Interpreting, Isotopes, Oxygen, Past, Pis, Precipitation, Rainfall, Reconstructions, Sampling, Tech, Water.

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 Coniglio($413,155), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
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.

EAGER: Towards a Paleoproxy of Stratospheric Chemistry Using Meteorite Fusion Crusts
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Ryan Ogliore($74,670), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Earth's Surface, Fusion Crust, Reconstructing Past, Upper Atmosphere, Climate, Composition, Conditions, Has, Isotopic, Meteorites, Proxy.

RUI Ramifications of Ethanol Usage as a Biofuel: Quantifying Sources and Impacts on the Light Absorbing Properties of Rainwater
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ralph N Mead($313,872), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: CDOM, Concentration, Concentrations, Ethanol, Precipitation, Rainwater, Seeks.

Ambient and Source Characterization of Aerosol Size and Composition in Nepal and Bhutan using High-Resolution Aerosol Mass Spectrometry
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Peter F DeCarlo($562,180), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Mini-aerosol Mass Spectrometer, Emission Factors, Fixed Site, Mini-aerosol Mass, Organic Aerosol, Soot-particle Aerosol, AMS, Ambient, Asia, Formation, Instruments, Nepal, Region, Secondary, Source, Sources, Under-sampled.

Travel Support for Young Scientists to Attend the 7th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC7) held at Harvard University; Cambridge, MA; May 4-7, 2015
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel J Jacob($20,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric Composition, Geos-chem, Global, International, Model, Modeling, Private.

Collaborative Research: Reactive Chlorine Cycling in Marine Air
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Saewung Kim($345,041), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Darin W Toohey($170,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Reactive Cl Cycling, Chlorine Chemistry, Climate-active Gases, Marine Air, Reactive Chlorine, Tropospheric Chlorine, Analytical, Assess, Atom, Climate-active, Compounds, Development, Field, Instrumentation, Levels, Lifetime, Measuring, Methane, Observations, Pollutants, Reaction, Reactivity.

EAGER: Quantifying Reversible and Irreversible Aqueous Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Formation in the Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Christopher Hennigan($99,426), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Particle Mass, Soa Formation, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Composition, Constitutes, Fine, Fraction, Models, Organic, Pmum, Soluble, Source.

International Workshop on Comparing Ice Nucleation Measuring Systems 2014 (ICIS 2014)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel J Cziczo($49,915), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Aida Chamber, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Climate, Clouds, Conducting, Facility, Ice, Instrument, Instruments, Performance, Size, State-of-the-art, Workshop.

Probing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation and Growth: A Combined Experimental, Theoretical and Modeling Approach
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Barbara J Finlayson-Pitts($873,026), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Air Quality, Organic Compounds, Particle Formation, Water Vapor, Amines, Atmospheric, Growth, MSA, Modeling, NPFG, Parameterization, Particles, Presence, Reactions, Regional, Representative, Species.

HOx Radical Chemistry in Forest Environments: Measurements and Characterization of Instrument Interferences
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Philip S Stevens($718,562), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Air Quality, Climate, Compounds, Concentrations, Disagreements, Environments, Forest, HO, Instrument, Models, OH, Predict, Site, Variety.

Development and Deployment of a Novel Peroxy Radical Detector
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ezra Wood($481,101), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Chemical Amplification, Peroxy Radical, Peroxy Radicals, Air, Amherst, Atmosphere, Calibration, Concentrations, Differences, Factor, HO, Instrument, Measuring, Method, Nitrate, Nitrogen, Organic, Oxide, Tested.

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (PTR-TOF-MS) for Research in Land And Atmospheric Science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kurt A Spokas($642,537), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Organic Carbon, Organic Compounds, Biogeochemistry, Instrument, Land-atmosphere, Minnesota, Program, UMN.

EAGER: Nanoparticle Growth from Salting-in and Mobile Infrared Column Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rainer M Volkamer($310,551), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Formation And Growth, Secondary Organic Aerosol, Cloud Chamber, Fast Formation, Relative Humidity, Air, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Clusters, Composition, Development, Experiments, Facility, Glyoxal, Has, Instrument, Lead, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Mobile, Molecules, Nanoclusters, RH, SOA, Salting-in.

Collaborative Research: Development of a Digital Microfluidic Impactor for One Minute Measurements of Main Inorganic Aerosol Species
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Richard B Fair($428,537), Duke University, Durham
2. Andrey Y Khlystov($212,521), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Nitrate And Ammonium, Atmospheric Composition, Particle Collection, Time Resolution, Aircraft, Assay, Colorimetric, Detection, Developed, Device, Digital, Enable, Existing, Extraction, Method, Sulfate.

Spectral Analysis of Brown Carbon Secondary Organic Aerosol from the IR to the UV
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul D Kleiber($410,999), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Brown Carbon, Optical Properties, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Brc, Capabilities, Climate, Laboratory, Measure, Organic, Photochemical, Processing, Radiative.

Ozone Photochemistry in China: Field Measurements and Modeling Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lewis G Huey($684,590), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Acid, Analyzed, China, Effort, Model, Ozone, Photochemical, Photochemistry, Species.

Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Amanda Staudt($648,383), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Ad Hoc Committee, Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate, Current, Cycles, Federal, Knowledge, NAS, National, Office, Public, Report.

MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Real-Time Molecular Level Measurement of Atmospheric Gas- and Particle-Phase Compounds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Armistead G Russell($482,297), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Air Quality, Georgia Tech, Atmospheric, Chemical, Compounds, Instrument, Mass, Techniques.

MRI: Acquisition of High Precision Laser-based CO2 Isotope Analysis System for Atmospheric and Seawater Applications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Andreas Andersson($175,671), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Isotopic Composition, Applications, Capabilities, Del, Multi-pass, QCLS, Traditional.

Photochemical Aging of Asian Particulate Matter: Formation of Oxygenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Staci Simonich($339,353), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Asian Particulate Matter, Asian Transport, Gas Chromatography, Mass Spectrometry, Oxygenated Pah, Previously Acquired, Compounds, Distances, Formation, Fraction, Measuring, Methods, Pahs, Photochemical, Potential, Reactions, Sources, Transported.

Source Apportionment of Anthropogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Elizabeth A Stone($349,999), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Secondary Organic Aerosols, Fine Particles, Organic Compounds, Particulate Matter, Ambient, Anthropogenic, Approach, Aromatic, Biogenic, Levels, PM, SOA, Source, Sources, Urban, VOC, Volatile.

Investigations of the Photochemical HONO Formation Reactions of Atmospheric Importance
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lei Zhu($709,932), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
Key terms: Absorption Cross Sections, Gas Phase, Hono Yields, Hydroxyl Radical, Nitrogen Dioxide, Nitrous Acid, Quantify Photochemical, Adsorbed, Air, Atmosphere, Cavity, Nitrophenols, OH, Ozone, Photolysis, Pollutant, Sources, Spectroscopy, Surface-adsorbed, Surfaces.

RAPID: Measurements of Coarse Aerosol During WINTER
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jack E Dibb($163,339), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Chemical Analysis, Winter Campaign, Aerosol, Air, Atmosphere, Chloride, Combined, Emissions, Influence, Particles, Processes.

Collaborative Research: Measurements of Selected Combustion Emissions in Nepal and Bhutan Integrated with Source Apportionment and Chemical Transport Modeling for South Asia
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert J Yokelson($498,050), University of Montana, Missoula
2. Arnico K Panday($107,991), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
3. Elizabeth A Stone($258,970), University of Iowa, Iowa City
4. Eri Saikawa($157,412), Emory University, Atlanta
Key terms: Air Quality, Combustion Sources, South Asia, Trace Gases, Aerosol, Bhutan, Carbon, Climate, Effort, Emissions, Global, Nepal, Organic, Regional.

RUI: Reactive Uptake and Heterogeneous Chemistry of Biogenic VOCs on Mineral Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ryan Z Hinrichs($285,568), Drew University, Madison
Key terms: Aerosol, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Bvocs, Mineral, Particles, Properties, Quantify, Students, Undergraduate, Uptake.

MRI: Development of the Trace Organic Gas Analyzer - Time of Flight Mass spectrometer (TOGA-TOF)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Eric C Apel($546,767), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Atmosphere, Development, Gas, Instrument, Involves, Organic, TOF, TOGA-TOF, Trace, Volatile.

The Atmospheric N Cycle: Biospheric Emissions and Chemical Transformations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ronald C Cohen($546,994), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Secondary Organic Aerosol, Biogenic Emissions, Nitrogen Compounds, Nitrogen Species, Chemical, Laboratory, Models, Oxidation, Oxidized.

Collaborative Research: Wintertime INvestigation of Transport, Emissions, and Reactivity (WINTER)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jose L Jimenez($534,729), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Ronald C Cohen($450,054), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
3. Joel A Thornton($885,422), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Rodney J Weber($388,058), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Water Vapor, Activities, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Chemical, Colder, Distribution, Dominant, Formation, Inorganic, Media, Nitrogen, OH, Observations, Organic, Oxidation, Pollutants, Pollution, Processes, Resulting, Season, Species, Students, Summer, Sunlight, Temperatures, Vocs, Winter, Wintertime.

Improving Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Models by Comparison to Chamber and Ambient Data and by Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William H Brune($361,790), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Aerosol Mass, Air Quality, Soa Formation, Ambient, Analysis, Atmospheric, Climate, Comparisons, Gas-phase, Laboratory, Model, Models, Particles, Reactions.

The Formation of Atmospheric Soluble Iron: Atmospheric Processing and Direct Emissions by Gasoline and Diesel Powered Vehicles
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Brian J Majestic($329,549), University of Denver, Denver
Key terms: Soluble Fe, Atmospheric, Combustion, Fesol, Fuel, Fuels, Nutrient, Speciation, Vehicle.

CAREER: Toward an Improved Understanding of the Sinks and Photochemical Sources of Nitrous Acid on Boundary Layer Surfaces
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jonathan Raff($727,622), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Nitrous Acid, Asphalt, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Cement, Formation, HONO, Models, Serve, Sinks, Soil, Sources, Surfaces, Uptake.

Collaborative Research: Spray-Mediated Gas Fluxes across the Air-Sea Interface
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Edgar L Andreas($199,253), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Penny Vlahos($149,042), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Air-sea Gas, Sea Spray, Spray Droplets, Bubbles, Gases, Global, Interface, Ocean, Surface.

CAREER: Quantifying the Isotopic Signature of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Sources
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Meredith Hastings($764,095), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Nitrogen Oxides, Atmosphere, Developed, Emissions, Enable, Fraction, Has, Isotopic, Method, Nox, Solution, Sources.

EAGER: Polarimetric-Raman Lidar for Tropospheric Ice and Liquid Water Fractions
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Gilberto J Fochesatto($60,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Raman Spectroscopy, EAGER, FTS, Light, Phases, Water.

Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere: Interactions in a Changing World; Girona - Costa Brava, Spain; June 29-July 4, 2014
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Allison Steiner($30,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Biogenic Hydrocarbons, Graduate Students, Atmosphere, Conference, Discuss, Gordon, Private, Scholars, Senior, Topic.

The Influence of Halogen-Containing Oxidants in Sulfate Aerosol Formation in the Marine Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Becky Alexander($448,302), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Marine Boundary Layer, Relative Importance, Sulfate Formation, Aerosol, Collected, Deltaoxygen, Filter, Hobr, Isotopic, Oxidation, Oxygen.

RAPID: Measurements of Hydroxyl Radicals, Sulfuric Acid, sCIs, Hydroperoxy Radicals and Organic Peroxy Radicals on the C-130 during FRAPPE
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Christopher A Cantrell($197,695), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Colorado Northern Front, Front Range Metropolitan, Northern Front Range, Air Quality, Sulfuric Acid, Urban Environment, Campaign, Chemical, Effort, FRAPPE, Formation, Hydroperoxy, Hydroxyl, Lead, OH, Oxidant, Ozone, Radical, Radicals, Scis.

EAGER: Development of a Novel Double-resonance Fiber-laser-induced Fluorescence Instrument for Long-term, High-sensitivity, Interference-free Measurements of Hydroxyl Radical (OH)
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Frank Keutsch($265,738), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Hydroxyl Radical, Air, Atmosphere, Chemical, Development, Field, Gases, Highly, LIF, Laser, Method, OH, Oxidizing, Species.

Integrated Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Chemistry of Organic Aerosol Formation from the Atmospheric Oxidation of Hydrocarbons
Award Effective Date: 12/31/2013; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul J Ziemann($295,377), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
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.

Collaborative Research: Measurement and Analysis of Nocturnal Mesoscale Convective Systems and Their Stable Boundary Layer Environment During PECAN
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Matthew D Parker($293,124), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Russ S Schumacher($343,620), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Terry J Schuur($977,650), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Internal Mcs Dynamics, Mcss And Convection, Nocturnal Mcs Evolution, Stable Boundary Layer, Cloud-resolving Models, Dual-polarimetric Radars, Internal Structure, Mobile Ground-based, Mobile Sounding, Nocturnal Mcss, Sbl Environments, Aircraft, Assimilation, Cloud-resolving, Cold, Collected, Conditions, Convective, Detailed, Dual-polarimetric, Elevated, Environmental, Essential, Field, Graduate, Ground-based, Heavy, Integrated, Interactions, Low-level, Mesonets, Microphysical, Observations, Observing, PECAN, Precipitation, Predictions, Profiles, Shear, Situ, Stability, Surface, Surface-based, Syntheses, Vertical, Wind.

Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) Activities in Support of NSF's Missions
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Amanda Staudt($808,983), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Assess, Atmospheric, BASC, Climate, Discussion, Government, Independent, Issues, Opportunities, Program, Programs.

Collaborative Research: EaSM3 Integration of Decision-Making with Predictive Capacity for Decadal Climate Impacts
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Erwann Michel-Kerjan($75,000), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2. Jennifer A Hoeting($259,999), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Debasish Pai Mazumder($1,185,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Climate Impacts, Integrate Predictive, Predictive Capacity, Predictive Information, Combined, Decadal, Decision-making, Development, Future, Methods, Models, Multiple, Planning, Prediction, Predictions, Societal, Timescales.

EaSM-3: Land Use Change and Land Atmosphere Feedback Processes as Regulators of Regional Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Paul A Dirmeyer($779,965), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Frequency And Severity, Coming Decades, Land Cover, Practices Implemented, Climate, Extremes, Land-atmosphere, Model, Models, Observational, Predictability, Rate, Regional, Warming.

Ea SM-3: Collaborative Res: Surface-induced Forcing and Decadal Variability and Change of the East Asian Climate, Surface Hydrology & Agriculture-A Modeling and Data Approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Thomas W Gillespie($1,850,932), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Samuel S Shen($125,255), San Diego State University Foundation, San Diego
Key terms: Ea Climate, Regional Climate, Tibetan Plateau, Activities, Applied, Asian, Contribute, Ecosystem, Effects, Examine, Interactions, Land, Model, Predictions, Processes, TP.

Revisiting Coupled Instability Theory and the Initiation of ENSO (El Nino/Southern Oscillation)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Benjamin P Kirtman($177,632), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation Anomalies, Central-eastern Equatorial Pacific, Precursors And Triggers, Central-eastern Equatorial, Developed Strong, Enso Initiation, Slp Anomalies, Atmosphere-ocean, Cold, Conditions, Does, Experiments, Initial, Instability, Model, Models, Performed, SST, Sea, Simulations, Surface, Warm.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Climate Processes with Causal Discovery and Graphs of Information Flow in the Coupled Atmosphere-Land-Ocean System
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Imme R Ebert-Uphoff($299,062), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Yi Deng($322,463), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Causal Discovery, Climate Dynamics, Global Warming, Influences Component, Modeling Technique, Annual, Apply, Atmospheric, Available, Coupling, Days, Developed, EPO, Economics, Flow, Graphical, Has, Information, Method, Models, Monsoon, NAM, NAO, Node, Northern, Onset, PNA, Pacific, Pis, Representing, Subseasonal, Topics.

Assessing the Impacts of Arctic Amplification on the Midlatitude Circulation with a Hierarchy of Atmospheric General Circulation Models
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yutian Wu($349,959), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Streams And Storm, Summer Heat Waves, Tropical Upper Troposphere, Arctic Amplification, Atmospheric Circulation, Jet Streams, Northern Hemisphere, Storm Tracks, Blocking, Climate, Cold, Concern, Effect, Europe, Extreme, Fall, Has, Influence, Latitudes, Levels, Midlatitude, Models, Potential, Reductions, Simulations, Warming, Weather, Winter.

Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in Models and Observations
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric D Maloney($493,011), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Column-integrated Mse Budget, Column-integrated Mse, Radiative Feedbacks, Advection, Climate, Destabilization, Diagnostics, Dynamics, Eastward, Flow, MJO, Mean, Model, Partitioning, Propagation, Relate, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Self-Aggregation of Moist Convection, Radiative-Convective Instability, and the Regulation of Tropical Climate
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Marat Khairoutdinov($334,645), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
2. Kerry A Emanuel($314,878), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperatures, Climate Sensitivity, Tropical Climate, Tropical Convection, Aggregation, Atmosphere, Clouds, Drier, Model, Radiation, Self-aggregation, Solar, Thunderstorms, Wind.

RAPID: The GNSS Instrument System for Multistatic and Occultation Sensing (GISMOS) for Future Application to Precipitation Processes in Atmospheric River Events
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jennifer S Haase($85,515), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Gps Radio Occultation, Atmospheric Rivers, Gismos Instrument, Heavy Precipitation, Rhcp Signals, Vertical Distribution, Airborne, California, Climate, Existing, Flux, Instrumentation, LHCP, Moisture, NSF, Presence, Processes, Sensing.

2014 Graduate Climate Conference; Eatonville, Washington; October 31-November 2, 2014
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. LuAnne Thompson($15,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Graduate Students, Climate, Conference, GCC, Interdisciplinary.

Statistical and Dynamical Exploration of Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in Two Contrasting Monsoon Regions: China and Northern Australia
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael Notaro($231,216), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Local Land Surface, Local Land-atmosphere Interactions, Ssts And Local, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Local Land-atmosphere, Monsoon Precipitation, Monsoon Regions, Northern Australia, Regional Climate, Remote Ssts, Statistical Analysis, Atmospheric, China, Conditions, Cover, Experiments, Human, Lead, Linked, Model, Modeling, Processes, Rainfall, Reduction, Vegetation.

Decadal Prediction Following Volcanic Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Alan Robock($758,937), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Climate Simulations, El Nino, Model Intercomparison, Volcanic Eruptions, Aerosols, CMIP, Climatic, Decades, Effects, Effort, Fluctuations, Following, Latitude, Ocean, PMIP, Performed, Predictable, Produce, Stratospheric, Sulfate, Time, Versions.

Studies of Dynamics for El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diversity and Complexity
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Fei-Fei Jin($599,778), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperature, Annual Cycle, El Nino, Enso Behavior, Enso Diversity, Enso Prediction, Equatorial Pacific, Southern Oscillation, Sst Anomalies, Basin, Conventional, Distinct, Dynamical, Eastern, Effects, Factor, Forcing, Frequency, Has, Interaction, Mechanisms, Noise, Phenomenon, Pressure, Referred, Single, Stochastic, Worldwide.

Origin, Storm Track Dynamics and Convective Feedback of African Easterly Waves
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Anantha Aiyyer($481,728), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: African Easterly Jet, Origin And Evolution, Upstream And Downstream, Aew Activity, Aew Genesis, Aew Stormtrack, Atlantic Hurricanes, Convective Instability, Downstream Energy, Energy Propagation, Field Campaign, Full-physics Version, Monsoon Rains, Unstable Region, Wave Packet, Wave Packets, Absolute, Aews, Atmosphere, Consequences, Convection, Dispersion, Dynamics, Examine, Extent, Full-physics, Intermittency, Mb, Model, Observed, Propagate, Sahel, Simulations, Structure, Velocity, Weather, Westward.

Variability of Midlatitude Transport and Mixing In a Warmer World
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Elizabeth A Barnes($349,939), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Greenhouse Gas Concentrations, Air Quality, Pollutant Transport, Tropospheric Transport, Atmospheric, Circulation, Drive, Dynamical, Emissions, Synoptic.

Linkages of Changes in Ozone to Arctic Climate Change in the Stratosphere and Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Susan Solomon($592,472), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Antarctic Ozone Hole, Arctic Ozone Depletion, Atmospheric Circulation, Lower Stratosphere, Ozone Chemistry, Ozone Concentrations, Ozone Loss, Radiative Heating, Radiative Transfer, Stratospheric Ozone, Upper Stratosphere, Affect, Below, Climate, Datasets, Differences, Ecosystems, Extends, Extent, Has, Human, Mb, Model, Partly, Produced, Roughly, Satellite, Substantial, Troposphere, WACCM.

Collaborative Research: Timescales for Large-Scale Tropospheric Transport - Inversions of Trace-Gas Measurements and Connections with Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Darryn W Waugh($525,016), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Lorenzo M Polvani($312,712), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Seasonal And Interannual, Air Quality, Model Simulations, Northern Hemisphere, Stratospheric Ozone, Trace Gas, Tropospheric Transport, Climate, Combination, Data-constrained, Distribution, JHU, Regions, Training, Ttds.

Decadal Variability of Interacting Climate Subsystems in the Northern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Anastasios A Tsonis($433,031), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Decadal Climate Shifts, Climate Subsystems, Northern Hemisphere, Time Scales, Dynamics, Mechanism, Operating, Simulated, Simulations, Synchronized.

P2C2: Role of Westerly Jet Transitions in East Asian Paleoclimate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John Chiang($464,138), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: East Asian Climate, Past Climate Scenarios, Abrupt, China, Earth, High-resolution, Jet, Meiyu, Model, Modern, North, Oscillations, Particular, Plateau, Position, Rainfall, Simulations, Speleothem, Spring, Summer, Tested.

CAREER: The Role of Mineral Dust in Atmospheric Ice Formation, and its Impacts on Past, Present and Future Climate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Trude Storelvmo($663,463), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Aerosols And Clouds, Cloud Ice Particles, Liquid Water Droplets, Supercooled Liquid Water, Atmospheric Dust, Climatic Consequences, Dust Particles, Dust Perturbations, Ice Nucleation, Ice-containing Clouds, Mineral Dust, Scholar Program, Agcms, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere, Climate, Climates, Component, Concentration, Current, Effect, Effects, Expense, Fields, Ice-containing, Models, Module, Motions, Parameterization, Process, Radiative, SPL, Small-scale, Students, Summer, Via.

Quantifying the Relative Roles of Progressive Land Use Change, Irrigation, and Remote Forcing in Southern Great Plains Precipitation Variability
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Matthew Van Den Broeke($446,697), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Dust Bowl, Intermediate Land, Land Cover, Land Surface, Native Plants, Soil Moisture, Agricultural, Conditions, Configured, Crops, Drought, Dry, Earlier, Economic, Evaporation, Has, Increase, Irrigation, Model, Modern, Performed, Precipitation, Rainfall, Region, Represent, SGP, Season, Simulations, Societal, Source, Transpiration, Vegetation, WRF, Water.

Support for a Symposium Honoring Mark Cane's Contribution to Climate Science; Palisades, NY; October 20-21, 2014
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard Seager($20,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate Dynamics, Dynamical Model, Global Climate, Tropical Climate, Advances, Applications, Broad, Decades, ENSO, El, Evolution, Field, Focus, Future, Has, Invited, Led, Paleoclimate, Past, Postdocs, Predictions, Society, Students, Symposium, Tropics, Was.

Large-scale Atmospheric Circulation and Multidecadal Variability of the North Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gudrun Magnusdottir($680,173), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Atmospheric Circulation, Model Simulations, North Atlantic, Warm Phase, AMO, Affects, Analysis, Cold, Drought, Europe, Influence, Level, Linked, NAO, Oscillation, Overturning, Period, Possibility, Precipitation, Program, SST, Sea, Ssts, Surface, Winter.

Natural Variations and Forced Changes in Historical and Future Precipitation and Drought
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Aiguo Dai($499,886), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Detection And Attribution, Ensemble Mean, Forced Climate, Analysis, Component, Drought, Estimate, Factored, Internal, Model, Modes, Natural, Observed, Oscillation, Potential, Seeks, Separation, Signal, Skill, Students, Surface, Temperature, Value, Variety.

Spring Soil Temperature Anomalies in the Western United States and Summer Droughts in the Southern Plains
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yongkang Xue($615,459), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Southern Plains Precipitation, Subsurface Soil Temperature, Frozen Soil, Land Surface, Sea Surface, Surface Temperature, Conditions, Drought, Droughts, Economic, Effect, Experiments, Extent, GFS, Global, Has, Influence, Model, Produce, Rainfall, Simulated, Simulation, WRF, Warm, West, Western.

CAREER: Understanding the Transport Circulation of the Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gang Chen($755,801), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Dynamics, Atmospheric Model, Broader Impacts, Circulation Features, Education Component, Jet Streams, Longitudinally Averaged, Museum-based Outreach, Numerical Simulations, Polar Caps, Rotating Tank, Transport Circulation, Water Vapor, Atmosphere, Chemical, Climate, Consisting, Constituents, Demonstrations, Dynamical, Effective, Experiments, Extent, Flux, Global, Graduate, Hands-on, Has, Idealized, Investigate, Lab, Mean, Middle, Midlatitude, Models, Movement, Museum-based, Ozone, Performed, School, Stratosphere, Student, Students, Temperature, Tracers, Tropics, Video, Weather.

The Impact of Tropical/Extratropical Interaction on Atmospheric Teleconnections
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven Feldstein($656,721), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Tropicalextratropical Interaction, Weather Forecasts, Active, Has, MJO, North, Numerical, Oscillation, Phases, Teleconnection, Weeks.

Moisture Budget and Air-Sea Interaction Associated with Atmospheric Rivers in the Northeast Pacific: Observations and Climate Model Simulations
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Toshiaki Shinoda($513,479), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Air-sea Fluxes, Global Climate, Sea Surface, AR, Air-sea, Ars, Atmospheric, Coupled, Double, Experiments, ITCZ, Model, Moisture, Ocean, Oscillation, Precipitation, Processes, SST, Simulations.

CAREER: Temporal Clustering of Hydrometeorological Extremes
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gabriele Villarini($508,405), University of Iowa, Iowa City
Key terms: Exhibit Temporal Clustering, Extreme Hydrometeorological, Behavior, Climate, Examine, Has, Hazards, Main, Processes, Time.

Phenomenological Studies of Cool-Season Extreme Weather Events over Central and Eastern North America on Intraseasonal Time Scales
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daniel Keyser($729,846), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Amplification And Blocking, Amplification And Breaking, Central And Eastern, Cool-season Ewes Occurring, Cyclogenesis And Anticyclogenesis, Downstream Ridge Amplification, Eastern North Pacific, Establish Synoptic-scale Environments, Pacific And North, Planetary-scale Wave Amplification, Aforementioned Class, Cool-season Ewes, Establish Synoptic-scale, High-impact Weather, Multiscale Investigations, Planetary-scale Wave, Synoptic-scale Environments, Global, High-impact, Ii, Modulate, NPJ, Occurrence, Subsequent, Tcs, Tropical.

The Madden Julian Oscillation, Tropical Cyclones, and Extratropical Circulation Responses
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul E Roundy($396,969), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Northwest Pacific Tcs, Extratropical Outcomes, Geographical Regions, Tropical Cyclones, Activity, Initial, MJO, Particular, Predictability.

Studies of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Initiation Using Atmospheric Sounding Data
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Richard H Johnson($755,986), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Indian Ocean, Madden-julian Oscillation, Sea Surface, Campaign, Clouds, Cycles, DYNAMO, Enhance, Field, Has, Initiation, Intraseasonal, Layer, Leading, MJO, Madden-julian, Moisture, Onset, Organized, Pacific, Prediction, Processing, Radiosonde, Sounding, Tropical, Weather.

Local and Remote Influences on the Intertropical Convergence Zone in a Hierarchy of Models
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dargan M Frierson($369,056), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Itcz Shifts, Anomalies, Branch, Circulation, Extratropical, Has, Heat, Heating, Hemisphere, Influences, Line, Local, Precipitation, Radiation, Tropical, Tropics, Via, Warmed.

The Structure, Origin, and Long-Term Trends of the West Coast Thermal Trough
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Clifford F Mass($638,887), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Detailed Structural Evolution, Frequency And Intensity, Thermal Trough Development, Thermal Trough Frequency, Air Quality, Global Warming, Renewable Energy, Thermal Troughs, Western North, Anthropogenic, Climate, Expected, High-resolution, Lead, Long-term, Mechanisms, Model, Pacific, Potential, Pressure, Regional, Season, Societal, Substantial, Temperature, Trends, WCTT, Weather, Wildfire, Wind.

Regional Climate Resilience and Sensitivity in the Tropics and Subtropics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Edward K Vizy($709,113), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Sensitivity And Resilience, Tropical And Subtropical, Regional Climate, Analysis, Focus, Forcing, Observations, Processes, Regions, Satellite, Tropicalsubtropical.

EAGER: Fiber-Optic Temperature Profiler for Long Duration Ballooning - Proof of Concept
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lars E Kalnajs($118,819), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Gps Receiver, Tropical Tropopause, Applications, Balloon, Components, Consisting, Fiber, Gondola, Height, Laser, Length, Position, Stratosphere, TTL, Technology, Temperature, Vertically.

Decadal Variability in the North Atlantic Extra-Tropics: The Role of Coupling Between Atmospheric Blocking and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Terrence M Joyce($500,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atmosphere And Decadal, Atmospheric Blocking, North Atlantic, AMO, Atmosphere-ocean, Circulation, Multi-decadal, Ocean, Origin, Timescales.

Review of the National Science Foundation's Division of Atmospheric and Geospace Sciences Draft Science Goals and Objectives; Washington, DC; March 31 - April 1, 2014
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Amanda Staudt($91,445), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: AGS, Appropriate, Draft, Missing, Multiple, National, Objectives, Participants, Workshop.

CAREER: The Mesoscale Climate Dynamics of Rocky Mountain Snowpack Depletion
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Justin R Minder($621,956), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Large-scale Circulations, Radiative Perturbations, Rcm Output, Rcm Simulations, Snow Cover, Advection, Albedo, Analysis, Atmospheric, Camps, Climate, Detailed, Feedback, Field, Global, High-resolution, Large-scale, Level, Local, Mechanisms, Mesoscale, Model, Models, Mountain, Regional, Regional-scale, SAF, STEM, Serve, Simulated, Sources, Students, Via.

Analyses of Large-scale Extratropical Climate Variability and Change
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David W Thompson($738,632), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Eddy Potential Energy, Zonal-mean Kinetic Energy, Atmospheric Circulation, Eddy Fluxes, Extratropical Circulation, Southern Hemisphere, Storm Tracks, Zonal-mean Kinetic, Component, Conversion, Dominate, Dynamics, Has, Heat, Jet, North-south, Ozone, Shift, Variance, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Deep Propagating Gravity Wave (DEEPWAVE)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David C Fritts($1,502,502), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
2. Ronald B Smith($1,003,000), Yale University, New Haven
3. Michael J Taylor($454,613), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Remote Sensing Instruments, Situ Instruments, Altitudes, Atmosphere, Breakdown, Closely, DEEPWAVE, Dynamics, GV, GW, Generation, Gravity, Gws, Has, Lower, MLT, Observed, Propagation, Strong, Supported, Zealand.

The Impact of Canonical and Non-canonical El Nino and the Atlantic Meridional Mode on Atlantic Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ramalingam Saravanan($220,314), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Atlantic Tc Activity, Cp And Ep, Ep El Nino, Atlantic Tcs, Sst Anomalies, AMM, Equator, Has, Hurricanes, Influence, Interference, Meridional, Modulates, Nina, Pacific, Tropical, Warming.

REU Site: The City University of New York / Goddard Institute for Space Studies Center for Global Climate Research Phase II
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Leon P Johnson($385,512), CUNY Medgar Evers College, Brooklyn
Key terms: Cuny Faculty, Global Climate, Nasa Scientists, Nyc Region, Stem Pathway, Activities, CUNYGISS, City, Collaboration, Continue, Existing, Experience, Five, GISS, Graduate, Has, Impacts, Involved, NOAA, REU, Site, Student, Students, Under-represented, Undergraduate, Unique, Urban, York.

REU Site: The Space Physics Research Laboratory, University of Michigan
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2014; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Michael R Combi($152,366), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Intellectual Merit, Undergraduate Students, Atmospheric, Experience, Faculty, Graduate, Has, Physics, Planetary, Program, REU, Report, Space, Staff, Summer.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Pleistocene/Holocene Climate Reconstruction from a Pamir High Resolution Deep Ice-Core
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Vladimir B Aizen($890,877), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
2. Paul A Mayewski($590,831), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Central Asia, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Climate, Division, Glacier, International, Recover, Region, Regions, Tajikistan, Water.

CAREER: Research on Weather and Climate Impacts of Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) Change--Supporting Technology-Driven Science Inquiry as Pedagogy
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Udaysankar S Nair($748,271), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Atmospheric Dynamics, Island Settings, Maritime Continent, Tropical Climate, Activities, Caused, Conceptual, Context, Convection, Deforestation, Depending, Developed, Educational, Especially, Field, Framework, Graduate, Inductive, Influence, Integration, LULC, Lacking, Land, Lead, Method, NME, Pedagogy, Potential, Rainfall, Students, Teaching, Terrain, Transition.

MRI: Acquisition of New Generation of Aerosol, Trace Gas, and Water Isotope Instruments for Storm Peak Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2011; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Anna Gannet Hallar($217,880), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Trace Gas Analyzers, Undergraduate And Graduate, Aerosol Nucleation, Aerosol Size, Carbon Monoxide, Graduate Students, Sulfur Dioxide, Air, Anthropogenic, Atmospheric, Cloud, Experiences, Field, Formation, Instrument, Local, Mercury, National, Nox, SPL, Sources, Water.

EarthCube Domain End-User Workshop: Science-Driven Cyberinfrastructure Needs in Solar-Terrestrial Research; Newark, New Jersey; Spring 2014
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: EarthCube

1. Alexander G Kosovichev($99,979), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Activities, Analysis, Challenges, Computing, Cyberinfrastructure, Data-driven, Earthcube, Framework, Modeling, Observations, Solar-terrestrial, Visualization, Workshop.

RUI: Investigation of the Solubilities and Glass Formation Properties of Carboxylate Salts Important in the Upper Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Environmental Chemical Science

1. Keith D Beyer($396,045), University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, La Crosse
Key terms: Climate Models, Glassy Organic, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Behavior, Chemical, Ice, Particles, Program, Properties, Sulfate.

Wyoming King Air as a National Facility
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Zhien Wang($11,073,310), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: King Air Aircraft, Lower Atmosphere Observing, Wcr And Wcl, Atmosphere Observing, Cloud Lidar, Cloud Radar, Wyoming Cloud, Atmospheric, Available, Clouds, Evolution, Facilitate, Facilities, Instrumentation, Instruments, Maintain, Opportunities, Students, UWKA, Unique, Weather.

Collaborative Research: CubeSat: A U.S. CubeSat Constellation for the QB50 Mission (QBUS)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Scott E Palo($223,279), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Hien B Vo($79,062), Universidad Del Turabo, Gurabo
3. Sigrid Elschot($211,370), Stanford University, Stanford
4. Aaron J Ridley($289,227), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Composition Package, International Qb50, Lower Thermosphere, Neutral Package, Plasma Package, Atmospheric, Atomic, Based, Consortium, Constitutes, Cubesat, Cubesats, Density, Design, Determination, EU, Entire, Experience, Ground, Has, In-situ, Instrument, Instruments, Joint, Laboratory, Minority, Molecular, Months, National, Network, On-board, Opportunity, Orbit, Participating, Participation, Partners, Program, QBUS, Satellite, Sensor, Temporal, Tremendous.

AGS-PRF: Investigation into the Nature of Critical Behavior in Tropical Deep Convection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: IRFP-Inter Res Fellowship Prog

1. Matthew Igel($172,000), Igel Matthew, Fort Collins
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Self-critical Behavior, Cloud, Clouds, Individual, Level, Model, Moisture, Postdoctoral, Process, Processes, Rainfall, Value, Whereby.

CAREER: Highly Resolved, Process-Driven Fossil Fuel Carbon Dioxide Inventory to Advance Carbon Science, Climate Science and 21st Century Decisionmaking and Public Engagement
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2009; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Kevin R Gurney($647,073), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Fossil Fuel Co2, Global Fossil Fuel, Carbon Management, Long-term Vision, National Priorities, Build, Climate, Collaborate, Collaborative, Emissions, Energy, Environment, Flux, Fluxes, Geographic, Has, Information, Instructors, Interactive, Inventory, Inverse, Knowledge, Long-term, Mitigation, Network, North, Public, Spacetime, Students, Virtual, Visual, Vulcan.

CAREER: Multiscale Investigations of Tropical Andean Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: International Research Collab

1. Lester B Perry($494,296), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Promote Collaborative Interdisciplinary, Southern Appalachian Mountains, Tropical Andes Mountains, Undergraduate And Graduate, Cordillera Vilcanota, De San, Educational Activities, Glacier Behavior, Graduate Students, Multiscale Atmospheric, North Carolina, Outreach Activities, Partner Organizations, Precipitation Delivery, Precipitation Phase, Vertical Structure, Bolivia, Broader, Citizen, Climate, Field, Following, Heights, Influencing, Layer, Local, Moisture, Observations, Peru, Phases, Processes, Reconstructions, Regional, Regions, Rural, Timing, Universidad, Variety.

GEM: The Role of Magnetized Electrons in Geospace Magnetic Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jan Egedal($188,512), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Wide Range, Code, Diffusion, Electron, Electrons, GEM, Geospace, Guide, Layers, Magnetized, Magnetosphere, Mass, PIC, Physics, Process, Program, Purpose, Reconnection, Regime, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: GEM: Modulation of Plasma Waves by Thermal Plasma Density Variation in the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Wen Li($84,270), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Lunjin Chen($265,515), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Thermal Plasma Density, Early-career, GEM, Geospace, Intensity, Investigation, Magnetosphere, Modulation, Specific, Wave, Waves.

Understanding Storm-Time Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) Wave Occurrences and Their Relationship to Ground Signatures
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Calvin Robert Clauer($72,123), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Emic Waves, Heavy Ions, Radiation Belt, Dynamics, Ground, Has, Investigate, Magnetic, Observations, Observed, Particles, Propagation, Space, Storm, THEMIS.

Communications coordination for the Geospace Environment Modeling Program
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Peter J Chi($300,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Communications Coordinator, Activities, Following, GEM, Geospace, Information, Magnetosphere, Program, Reports, Students, Tasks.

GEM: Exploring the Relative Influence of Different Classes of Ion Outflow on the Coupled Dynamics of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Michael J Wiltberger($202,121), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Ion Outflow, Polar Wind, Solar Wind, Configuration, Coupled, Dynamics, Effects, Hemispheric, Ionosphere, MIT, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Model, Modeling, Module, Physics, Plasma, Simulation, Sources.

GEM: Modeling Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) Waves in the Near-Earth Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L Lysak($455,559), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ulf Waves, Wave Model, Coupling, Dynamics, Global, MHD, Magnetosphere, Propagation.

GEM: Dipolarization Fronts and Reconnection Onset in Realistic Models of the Magnetotail
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Viacheslav G Merkin($329,834), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Dipolarization Fronts, Magnetic Field, Magnetospheric Substorms, Current, Dfs, Global, Investigate, Kinetic, Models, PIC, Plasma, Realistic, Reconnection, Sheet, Simulations, Tail.

Collaborative Research: A Comprehensive Data Base of Global Reconnection Measurement
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Ennio R Sanchez($354,847), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. Robin J Barnes($249,996), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Amie Technique, Polar Cap, Reconnection Rates, Solar Wind, Boundary, Calculations, Conditions, Convection, Magnetic, Magnetospheric, Observations, Range.

Space Weather Workshop; Boulder, Colorado; April 8-11, 2014
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Meg Austin($25,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather, Discuss, Operations, Students, Technology, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: GEM: Global Simulations of Non-Ideal Transport in the Magnetotail
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Viacheslav G Merkin($124,158), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. John G Lyon($210,000), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Inner Magnetosphere, Mhd Models, Space Weather, Coupled, Current, Drifts, Physics, Pressure, Studying, Tail, Transport.

GEM: Study the Precipitation of Radiation Belt Electrons during the Rapid Dropout Events
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yue Chen($217,703), New Mexico Consortium, Los Alamos
Key terms: Van Allen Probes, Detailed Calibration, Electron Dynamics, Local Time, Radiation Belt, Satellite Observations, Space Weather, CSSWE, Candidates, Electrons, Loss, Losses, Magnetic, Magnetopause, POES, Precipitation, Simulation, Societally.

GEM: Mode Conversion and Kinetic Alfven Waves at the Magnetopause and Their Effects in the Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jay R Johnson($460,367), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Mode Conversion, Solar Wind, Field, Investigate, Involved, Ionosphere, Kaws, Kinetic, Magnetopause, Magnetosphere, Mechanism, Observations, Physics, Processes, Transport, Waves.

Solar Cycle, Solar Wind, and Ultraviolet (UV) Control of Substorm Frequency and Magnitude
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Patrick T Newell($305,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Solar Wind Velocity, Dayside Magnetopause, Ionospheric Conductivity, Magnetospheric Physics, Substorm Dynamics, Time Scales, Uv Insolation, Activity, Effects, Energy, Has, Influence, Investigate, Magnetosphere, Preconditioning, Reconnection, Substorms.

Collaborative Research: Studies of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling and Space Weather Using the Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies (MACCS)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mark B Moldwin($55,189), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. David L Murr($428,949), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
Key terms: Gps Tec, Radiation Belt, Ulf Waves, AMPERE, Global, High-latitude, MACCS, Magnetic, Satellites, Theoretical, Transient.

Collaborative Research: Inferring High Latitude Convection Patterns Using SuperDARN, DMSP and ACE
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Russell A Stoneback($314,609), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
2. Joseph B Baker($150,262), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Basis Functions, Solar Wind, Approach, Convection, Dineofs, Ionospheric, Model, Set, Technique.

Simulation Studies of Plasmaspheric Plume Density Structure/Ion Composition and Plume Plasma Transport to Dayside Magnetopause and Polar Cap
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jiannan Tu($310,419), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Based Model, Density Distributions, Formulas, Magnetospheric, Plasma, Plasmaspheric, Plume, Plumes.

Simulating Magnetohydrodynamic Turbulence in the Plasma Sheet and its Role in Transport
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mostafa El-Alaoui($372,844), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Solar Wind, MHD, Magnetosphere, Observations, Perform, Processes, Simulations, Turbulence.

Development and Evolution of Kelvin-Helmholtz Waves in Earth's Magnetopause and Their Effects on Earth's Magnetosphere: In-situ Observations with MHD Simulations
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kyoung-Joo Hwang($328,558), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Generation And Evolution, Solar Wind Conditions, Spatial And Temporal, Direct Spatial, Inner Magnetosphere, Plasma Transport, Temporal Observations, Based, Earth, Global, KHW, Magnetopause, Physics, Simulations, Spacecraft, Waves.

MRI: Acquisition of Multi-Constellation Multi-Frequency Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) Data Collection Arrays for Low Latitude Ionospheric Effects Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Yu T Morton($176,604), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Radio Wave, Satellite Navigation, Space Environment, Atmospheric, Development, Effects, Equipment, GNSS, Global, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Observatory, Passive, Phenomena, Receiver, Sensing, Signal, Signals, TEC.

MRI: Development of a Field-deployable Low-pressure Gas Chromatograph with Chemical Ionization Detection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Paul O Wennberg($518,211), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Chemists, Compounds, Gas, Instrument, Involves, Mass, Organic, Training.

MRI: Development of a High Resolution Radio Imaging System for the Study of Ionospheric Radio Emissions and Structure
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Brett C Isham($430,203), Inter American University of Puerto Rico San Juan, San Juan
Key terms: Radio Emission Observations, Temporary Field Sites, Arecibo Observatory, Hf Radar, Puerto Rico, Radio Emissions, Spectral Features, Aguadilla, Array, Atmospheric, Beam, Campaigns, Cayey, Development, High-frequency, Imaging, Interaction, Interamerican, Ionospheric, Plasmas, Polarization, Space, Spacings, Transmitter.

CAREER: Tree-Ring Based Reconstruction of Northern Hemisphere Jetstream Variability
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Valerie Trouet($635,268), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Jet Stream Trends, Northern Hemisphere, Arizona, California, Climate, Combine, Current, Future, Latitudes, Reconstruct, Summer, Tree-ring, Winter.

Workshop - Past as Prologue: Holocene Climate as Context for Future Climate Change; Mount Hood, Oregon; October 14-16, 2014
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Shaun A Marcott($49,993), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Bring, Climate, Future, Holocene, Human, Interval, Past, Time, Warming, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--isotope-enabled TRAnsient Climate Evolution of the last 21,000 years (iTRACE21)----Understanding Deglacial Climate/Isotope Changes Using iCESM
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Zhengyu Liu($304,937), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Bette L Otto-Bliesner($219,847), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Peter U Clark($85,216), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Continental Ice Sheets, Water Isotope Tracers, Atmospheric Greenhouse, Model-data Comparison, Ago, Atmosphere, Climate, Comparisons, Deglaciation, Degrees, Direct, ESM, Forcings, Future, Insolation, Isotopes, Meltwater, Model-data, Models, Ocean, Paleoclimate, Run, Simulation, Simulations, Time, Transient.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Recent Northeastern United States Temperature Records in the Context of the Late Holocene
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Neil Pederson($147,677), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Time Scales, Climate, Decadal, Forcing, Northeastern, Public, Reconstructions, Region, Regional, Temperature, Temperatures, Trends.

P2C2: Western Pacific Warm Pool Hydroclimate during the Last Glacial Maximum and the Deglaciation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Judson W Partin($530,005), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Past Abrupt Climate, Additional Experiments, Climate Models, Future Climate, Past Climate, Wpwp Rainfall, Ago, Cave, Deglaciation, Global, Holocene, Issues, LGM, Mean, Philippines, Program, Proxy, Range, Sites, Spatial, Temporal, Tropics, Vanuatu.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Reconstructing Deglacial and Holocene Climate Variability in Southeast Asia Using Speleothems and Isotope-Enabled Model Simulations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Kathleen R Johnson($444,917), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Michael L Griffiths($59,496), William Paterson University, Wayne
Key terms: Southeast Asian Monsoon, Spatial And Temporal, Climate Model, Orbital Timescales, California, Indian, Interannual, Irvine, Laos, Latitudes, Mechanisms, Oxygen, Paleoclimate, Past, Speleothem, Strength, Summer, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Multi-Site Paleo-Reconstruction of Missouri River Streamflows from Tree Ring Data
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Erika K Wise($149,172), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Connie A Woodhouse($166,666), University of Arizona, Tucson
3. Naresh Devineni($117,120), CUNY City College, New York
4. Scott StGeorge($19,093), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
5. Edward R Cook($268,050), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Missouri River Basin, Water Resources, Water Supplies, Allocate, Based, Basins, Centuries, Climate, Corps, Critical, Drought, Flow, Future, Headwaters, Management, Past, Period, Reconstructions, Region, Streamflow, Time, Tree.

P2C2: Continental Scale Droughts in North America: Their Frequency, Character and Causes Over the Past Millennium and Near Term Future
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Dong Eun Lee($776,807), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Pan-continental Drought, Pan-continental Droughts, Past Millennium, Climate, Coupled, Current, Decades, Examined, Instrumental, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Modes, North, Pan-continental, Seasonal, Severe, Timescales, Tree-ring.

Collaborative Research: Testing the hypothesis of an orbital forcing of southwestern North America climate over the past 500,000 years
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Victor J Polyak($161,494), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Matthew S Lachniet($334,529), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Hemisphere Summer Insolation, Northern Hemisphere Summer, Basin Climate, Devils Hole, Oxygen Isotope, Pacific Ocean, Analyses, Cave, Caves, Control, Earth, Nevada, Orbital, Region, Southwestern, Stalagmites, Students, Was.

P2C2: Past Extension of the North American Monsoon System (NAMS) into the Great Basin Reconstructed from Cell-to-Ecosystem Dendrochronology
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Franco Biondi($453,519), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Stable Isotopic Analyses, Ponderosa Pine, Warm-season Moisture, Water Supply, Wood Formation, Anatomical, Atmospheric, Basin, Centuries, Chronologies, Climatic, Extension, False-ring, Future, Graduate, Mechanisms, NAMS, Nevada, North, Oxygen, Past, Precipitation, Reconstruct, Region, Reno, Southern, Student, Summertime, Tree, Tree-ring, Warm-season.

EAGER: Development of a Multivariate Biomarker Analysis Technique for Paleoclimate Reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jessica E Tierney($75,894), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Environmental Conditions, Archives, Array, Biomarker, Paleoclimate, Past, Proxies, Temperature.

P2C2: Understanding Mean Patterns, Gradients, Variability and Mechanisms of Early Pliocene Warmth: The Role of Cloud Albedo
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Alexey Fedorov($368,100), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Climate Models, Albedo, Close, Cloud, El, Experiments, Future, Mean, Modeling, Observational, Past, Pliocene, Present-day, Simulations, Temperature, Tropics, Warm.

RUI: High-Resolution Lacustrine Records of Precipitation Variability in the Northeastern United States during the Last Millennium
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jay C Stager($296,621), Paul Smith's College of Arts and Sciences, Paul Smiths
Key terms: Archived, Clarify, Climate, NAO, Precipitation, Region, Regional, Sediment, Students, York.

P2C2: Testing for the Physical Origin of Tree-Ring Divergence
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Alexander Stine($284,737), San Francisco State University, San Francisco
Key terms: Tree-ring Based Climate, Climate Influences, Climate Reconstructions, Tree-ring Based, Tree-ring Growth, Chronologies, Detrending, High-latitude, Light, Methodological.

P2C2: Megadrought--Local versus Remote Causal Factors for Medieval North America
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Song Feng($184,138), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Medieval Drought, Sst Anomalies, CAM, Devegetation, Investigate, Model, North, Occurred, UNL, WRF.

Collaborative Research: EAGER--Evaluating Fluid Inclusion Geochemistry of U-Th Dated Speleothems as a Tool for Resolving Paleoclimate Controversies in the American Southwest
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Isabel P Montañez($114,212), University of California-Davis, Davis
2. Sujoy Mukhopadhyay($15,439), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Noble Gas, California, Climate, Composition, Dating, Development, Hydroclimate, Paleoclimate, Precipitation, Proxy, Reconstructions, Region, Reorganization, Southwest.

The ethics of communicating scientific uncertainty: Understanding how scientists, environmental lawyers, and reporters treat uncertainty
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Donald B Myers($89,749), Environmental Law Institute, Washington
Key terms: Environmental Issues, Ethical Standards, Public Policy, Approaches, Decisions, ELI, Information, Lawyers, Legal, Media, Participants, Particular, Peers, Significance, Transparent, Uncertainty, Workshop.

Advanced Comprehensive Analysis of Rain Drop Shapes, Oscillation Modes, and Fall Velocities Using High-Resolution Surface Disdrometers, Polarimetric Radar, and Numerical Models
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Branislav M Notaros($530,342), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Combine, Drop, Drop-by-drop, Droplets, Drops, Fall, Modeling, Numerical, Observational, Observations, Radar, Radars, Rain, Scattering, Size.

Mechanisms for Severe Wind Production in Nocturnal and Transitioning Convection
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joshua M Wurman($497,192), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: Severe Surface Winds, Severe-wind Producing Mcss, Elevated Convection, Local Environment, Severe Winds, Severe-wind Producing, Analyses, Analysis, Convective, Depth, Downdrafts, Evolution, Factors, Field, Forecasting, Influenced, Kinematic, Kinematics, Leading, Mesoscale, Microphysical, Microphysics, NSBL, Nocturnal, Observational, Occurrence, Organization, PECAN, Processes, Quantify, Radar, Subsequent, Thermodynamic, Transition.

Airborne Measurements of the Nocturnal Low-level Jet and Wave Disturbances in the Stable Boundary Layer in PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection At Night)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Zhien Wang($749,999), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Nocturnal Convection Initiation, Mesoscale Convective, Thunderstorm Complexes, Aircraft, Campaign, Evolution, Field, Multiple, PECAN, Plains, Topics, UWKA.

Elevated Nocturnal Convection - The Role of Microphysical Processes
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Greg McFarquhar($752,507), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Nocturnal Convection Initiation, Airborne Radar, Elevated Convection, Mesoscale Convective, Aircraft, Campaign, Cloud, Evolution, Field, Focus, Future, Main, Microphysical, Multiple, Overnight, P-, PECAN, Plains, Variety.

Turbulent Flows and Scalar Transport in the Forest-Atmosphere Interface over a Complex Terrain
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brian K Lamb($449,942), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Multi-layer Canopy Module, Spatial And Temporal, Carbon Budget, Co2 Fluxes, Complex Terrain, Eddy Covariance, Eger Experiment, Forest Canopies, Main Features, Meanturbulent Flows, Mountainous Regions, Multi-layer Canopy, Turbulence Structures, Turbulent Flows, Wind Energy, Alter, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Beneficial, Compared, Conditions, Cycle, Dynamic, Exchange, FLUXNET, Fire, Heat, Identifying, LES, Lead, Lee, Mechanisms, Momentum, Pressure, Quantify, Scalars, Simultaneous, Site, Stability, Statistics, TKE, Tower, WRF-LES, WSU, Wake, Water.

Workshop on Meteorological Sensitivity Analysis and Data Assimilation; Roanoke, West Virginia; June 1-5, 2015
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nikki Prive($10,000), Morgan State University, Baltimore
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Intellectual Merit, Model Tuning, Sensitivity Analysis, Spatial Verification, Forecasts, Framework, Inexact, Method, Numerical, Participants, Student, Students, Techniques.

The Multi-Scale Dynamics of Sundowner Wind Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael L Kaplan($600,327), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Low-level Coastal Jet, Boundary Layer, Coastal Mountains, Emergency Responders, Low-level Coastal, Marine Layer, Numerical Modeling, Santa Ynez, Southern California, Sundowner Wind, Sundowner Winds, Surface Wind, Thermal Gradient, Accompanying, Activity, Air, Analyses, Cold, Component, Conditions, Derived, Difficult, Employed, Extreme, Fine, Forecasters, Forecasting, Heating, IGW, Inland, Involve, Involving, Larger, Mechanisms, Meso-gamma, Mesoscale, Mixing, NWS, Near, Pressure, Region, Rotor, Shallow, Simulate, Strong, Terrain, Upstream, Wake, Warm, Warming, Wave, Weather.

Understanding the Predictability of Initiation and Morphological Evolution of PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night) Nocturnal Mesoscale Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William A Gallus($91,537), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Nocturnal Convection Initiation, Field Campaign, Mesoscale Convective, Difficult, Elevated, Evolution, Features, Forecasting, Lead, Mcss, Mobile, PECAN, Plains, Safety, Students.

Collaborative Research: Low-level Jets in the Nocturnal Stable Boundary Layer: Structure, Evolution, and Interactions with Mesoscale Atmospheric Disturbances
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David D Turner($984,474), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Wayne F Feltz($391,092), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Convective Initiation, Developing Nocturnal, Mesoscale Disturbances, Night-time Convection, Terrain Slope, Analyses, Atmospheric, Development, Evolution, Integrated, Interactions, Interacts, Investigated, Lead, Mechanisms, Mixing, Mobile, Model, NLLJ, Night-time, Nlljs, Numerical, Observational, Observations, PECAN, Plains, Remain, SBL, Storms, Strong, Structure, Sunset, Surface, Thermodynamic, Turbulence, Wind, Winds.

Collaborative Research: The Influence of Tropical Convection on the Evolution and Transport of the Saharan Air Layer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Tristan S LEcuyer($256,335), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Susan C van den Heever($339,983), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Cynthia Twohy($329,971), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Clouds And Precipitation, Saharan Air Layer, Convective Storms, Ocean Fertilization, Atmosphere, Climate, Dust, Effects, Existing, Removal, Sets.

Collaborative Research: Cloud System Evolution in the Trades
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert Wood($482,163), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Edwin W Eloranta($799,734), University of Miami, Coral Gables
3. Virendra P Ghate($416,142), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Upstream And Downstream, Boundary Layer, Transition Zone, Aerosol, Analysis, Characteristics, Cloud, Clouds, Critical, Cu, Designed, Detailed, Developed, Evaluating, Evolution, Facilitate, Flight, Flights, Graduate, HCR, HIAPER, HSRL, LES, Lagrangian, Model, Models, Observations, Observing, Operations, Pacific, Precipitation, Processes, Properties, Regimes, Region, Remote, Sc, Simulations, Situ, Subsequent, Subtropical, Techniques, Thermodynamic, Trajectories, Transitions, Turbulence, Undergraduate.

Combined Laboratory and Modeling Studies of Ice Vapor Growth at Low Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jerry Harrington($655,917), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Ice Vapor Growth, Cirrus Clouds, Deposition Coefficient, Growth Rates, Ice Crystals, Ice Growth, Ice-containing Clouds, Vapor Phase, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Conditions, Exist, Laboratory, Liquid, Methods, Modeling, Models, Parameterizations, Simulations, Students, Supersaturation, Uncertainties.

Further Studies of Lightning Initiation, Propagation, and Evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Maribeth Stolzenburg($779,045), University of Mississippi, University
Key terms: Lightning Flashes, Lightning Initiation, Prior Nsf, Space Center, Advance, Aims, Air, Allow, Analysis, Charge, Cloud, Computer, Dataset, Day, Development, Electric, Evolution, Existing, Ground, Information, KSC, Kennedy, Launch, Main, Mechanisms, Miles, NASA, Parameters, Propagation, Provided, Radar, Rockets, Sensor, Space-bound, Spark, Strike, Students, Techniques, Thunderstorm, Tools, Training, Written.

RAPID: Support for Multi-sUAS Evaluation of Techniques for Measurement of Atmospheric Properties (MET MAP)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brian M Argrow($18,519), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Allow, Atmospheric, BAO, Colorado, Compare, Development, Fly, Opportunity, Radar, Thunderstorm, Uass.

Lagrangian Flow Boundaries, Transport, and Vortex Cores in Pre-genesis Disturbances
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Blake Rutherford($589,806), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Lagrangian Coherent, Storm Environment, Storm Spin-up, Air, Alignment, Analysis, Boundaries, Cyclogenesis, Development, Dynamics, Flow-following, Flows, Hurricanes, Kinematic, Methods, Moisture, Pre-genesis, Protected, Spin-up, Tropical, Typically, Vortex.

An Investigation of the Dynamic and Thermodynamic Processes that Lead to Distinctly Different Pathways to Tropical Cyclogenesis
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Melville E Nicholls($366,549), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Surface Concentrated Vortex, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Center, Characterized, Disturbance, Formation, Mid-level, Numerical, Pathway, Processes, Storms.

Collaborative Research: Stable Boundary Layer Processes and Their Interaction with Nocturnal Convection over the Great Plains in the Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Richard D Clark($289,976), Millersville University, Millersville
2. Qing Wang($273,996), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Nocturnal Convection Initiation, Mesoscale Convective, Undergraduate Students, Broader, Campaign, Critical, Disturbances, Evolution, Field, Flux, Focus, Forecasts, Mobile, NSBL, PECAN, Pecans, Plains, Planned, Unique.

The Origin and Evolution of Waves and Bores within the Great Plains Nocturnal Boundary Layer and their Interaction with Mesoscale Convective Systems (MCSs)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kevin R Knupp($754,394), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Bores And Waves, Ground-based Remote Sensing, Pecan Field Campaign, Air Quality, Boundary Layer, Deep Convection, Doppler Radars, Ground-based Remote, Severe Weather, Societal Benefits, Stable Nbl, ABIDE, Accuracy, Actively, Analysis, CBZ, CI, Cbzs, Comprehensive, Conducting, Contribute, Convective, Environment, Evolution, Facilities, Forecasting, Fronts, Gained, Graduate, Has, Importance, Instrumentation, Level, Lightning, MAX, MCS, MIPS, Maintenance, Mcss, Mesoscale, Mobile, Nocturnal, Particular, Past, Phenomena, Physics, Plains, Platforms, Profilers, Profiling, Students, Tornadoes, UAH.

Analysis of Cirrus Clouds and Atmospheric Humidity with Cloud Resolving Numerical Model Calculations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephan A Fueglistaler($443,075), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Cirrus Clouds, Climate Predictions, Cloud Field, Cloud Formation, Microphysical Properties, Water Vapor, Conditions, Distribution, Domain-wide, Dynamical, Environment, Focus, Global, Ii, Importance, Interaction, Model, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Objectives, Processes, Radiative, Simulations, Students, TTL, Uncertainties.

Studies of Convection, Microphysics and Lightning in the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry Experiment (DC3)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Steven A Rutledge($675,256), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Ice Particle Types, Radar And Lightning, Cloud Dynamics, Cloud-chemistry Models, Deep Convection, Electrical Structure, Lightning Flash, Lightning Mapping, Lightning-generated Nox, Amount, Anvil, Charge, Cloud-chemistry, Collaborations, Collected, Colorado, Comprehensive, Contribute, DC, Expected, Hence, Inverted, Lightning-generated, Lnox, Microphysics, Mid-levels, Observations, Parameterizations, Processes, Produced, Released, Resides, So-called, Storm, Storms, Upper, Utilize.

Modeling Thermal Flows and Cold-air Pools in a Small Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Manuela Lehner($138,421), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Flows And Cold-air, Thermally Driven Flows, Cold-air Pools, Cross-basin Flows, Gruenloch Basin, Mountainous Terrain, Surrounding Topography, Advance, Aspects, Complex, Cross-basin, Formation, Inflows, Influence, Interact, Larger-scale, Outflows, Poorly, Propagation, Saddles, Strong.

CAREER: Impacts of Convective and Stratiform Processes on Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael M Bell($461,658), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Convective And Stratiform, Doppler Radar, Mesoscale Observations, Radar Meteorology, Stratiform Precipitation, Tc Intensity, Ability, Aircraft, Analysis, Circulation, Convergence, Digital, Education, Efficiently, Intensification, Maximum, Numerical, Principal, Processes, RMW, SAMURAI, Suggested, Textbook, Thermodynamic.

Collaborative Research: From Turbulence to Weather and Climate: Unraveling the Multi-scale Nature of Dust and Sand Transport in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jasper F Kok($354,644), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Marcelo Chamecki($291,644), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Atmospheric Turbulence, Climate Models, Graduate Students, Dust, Intermittency, Modeling, Particles, Process, Saltation, Sand, School, Wind.

Variance-based Sensitivity Analysis of the Relationship between Model Parameters and Spatial Features of Forecasts
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Scott Sandgathe($503,135), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Forecast Features, Intellectual Merit, Model Parameters, Model Tuning, Sensitivity Analysis, Spatial Features, Spatial Verification, Development, Effect, Errors, Forecasts, Framework, Inexact, Knowledge, Method, Methods, Models, Multiple, Numerical, Objects, Pis, Precipitation, Processes, Variance-based, Weather.

Numerical Assessment of the Practical and Intrinsic Predictability of Warm-Season Convection Initiation Using Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX) Data
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Paul J Roebber($456,206), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Convection-permitting Real-data Numerical, Property And Life, Real-data Numerical Simulations, Convection Initiation, Convection-permitting Real-data, Intensively-sampled Representation, Intrinsic Predictability, Moist Convection, Pre-convective Environment, Real-data Numerical, Ability, Advances, Atmospheric, Controls, Deep, Development, Initial, Insight, Intensively-sampled, MPEX, Meso-alpha-scale, Mitigate, Observations, Perfect, Poses, Practical, Pre-convective, Synoptic-, Timing, Uncertainty, Utilizing.

CAREER: Thunderstorm Electrical Energy Structure, Dissipation, and Visualization
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Eric C Bruning($738,575), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Rate And Extent, Electrical Energy, Electrical Potential, Energy Spectrum, Field Campaign, Flash Rate, Storm's Flow, Weather Radars, Character, Charge, Controls, Convective, Distribution, Exhibit, Expected, High-resolution, LMA, Lightning, Measure, Quantitative, Regions, Rich, Shared, Sizes, Storms, Students, Theory, Thunderstorm, Thunderstorms, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Workshop on Data Analysis and Presentation Of Cloud Microphysical Measurements; Boston, Massachusetts; July 5-6, 2014
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Andrew J Heymsfield($15,950), Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder
Key terms: Inherent Uncertainties, Workshop Participants, Algorithms, Atmospheric, Diverse, Methods, Microphysical, Processing, Students.

Improving the Understanding and Prediction of Nocturnal Convection through Advance Data Assimilation and Ensemble Simulations for Plains Elevated Convection At Night (PECAN)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Xuguang Wang($602,144), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Special Pecan Observations, Advanced Da, Elevated Nocturnal, Ensemble Analyses, Ensemble Modeling, Field Experiment, Nocturnal Convection, Nocturnal Convective, Observational Analysis, Ability, Based, Center, Component, Comprehensively, Control, Convection-permitting, Effort, Environmental, Established, Evolution, Findings, Forecast, Forecasts, Generation, Maintenance, National, Next-generation, Pis, Plains, Play, Prediction, Processes, Real-time, Simulations, Storm, Strategies, Structure, Weather.

S-PolKa Radar Observations of the Cloud Population in DYNAMO (DYNAmics of the Madden-julian Oscillation (MJO))
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert A Houze($661,374), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Mjo Cloud Population, Cold Pools, Convective Population, Indian Ocean, Mesoscale Convective, Model Output, Nonprecipitating Clouds, Precipitating Convection, S-polka Radar, Stratiform Precipitation, Suppressed Conditions, Active, Analysis, Behavior, Characteristics, Co-located, Comparison, Cycle, DYNAMO, Deep, Development, Document, Dual-polarization, Equatorial, Evolution, Information, Intermediate-scale, Kinematic, Lines, Mcss, Microphysical, Multiscale, Observations, Organization, Period, Primary, Provided, Radars, S-polka, Shallow, Structure, Was, Weather.

The Effects of Cloud Development and Structure on the Generation of Deep Vertically Propagating Mountain Waves
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brian Billings($52,106), St. Cloud State University, Saint Cloud
Key terms: Mountain Wave Activity, Wave Activity Relative, Activity Relative, Cloud Observations, Deepwave Experiment, Numerical Simulations, Verification Dataset, Actual, Amplitude, Behavior, Collected, Complete, Considered, Dry, Effects, Factors, Focus, Formation, Gravity, HIAPER, Has, Human, Modeling, Moisture, Observed, Photogrammetry, Physics, Processes, Profiles, Underlying, Upstream, Waves.

Assimilation of Doppler Radar Data with an Ensemble-based Variational Method for Storm-scale Numerical Weather Prediction
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Xuguang Wang($480,941), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Doppler Radar, Radial Velocity, Weather Phenomena, Assimilation, Available, Convective, Convective-scale, DA, Flows, Information, Initial, Models, NWP, Network, Observations, Operational, Prediction, Reflectivity, Storm-scale, Three-dimensional, WSR-D.

Collaborative Research: Observations and Modeling of Mesoscale Precipitation Banding in Cool-season Storms
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sandra E Yuter($462,319), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Brian A Colle($350,466), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Banded Precipitation, Comma Head, Extratropical Cyclones, Ice Microphysics, Mid-latitude Cyclone, Precipitation Features, Stony Brook, Winter Storms, Bands, Cells, Characterize, Documented, Evolution, Focusing, Genesis, Growth, Has, Mesoscale, Microphysical, Mid-latitude, Model, Modeling, Models, Multi-banded, Northeast, Observations, Parameterization, QPF, Radar, Spectrum, Weather.

Lightning Initiation and Propagation with an Advanced Computer Model and Code
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph R Dwyer($566,732), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Advanced Computer Model, Initiation And Propagation, Model And Code, Stems And Space, Atmospheric Electricity, Broader Impacts, Intellectual Merit, Lightning Initiation, Negative Leader, Negative Leaders, Space Leaders, Space Stems, Streamer Propagation, Streamers Originating, Thundercloud Hydrometeors, Activities, Air, Channels, Current, Developed, Developing, Development, Experiments, Field, Fields, Formation, Front, Has, Investigating, Investigation, Knowledge, Observations, Plasma, Processes, Stepping, Steps, Subject, Transition.

Laboratory and Surface-based Studies of Atmospherically-relevant Ice Nucleating Particle Sources, Concentrations and Compositions
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Paul J DeMott($911,313), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric And Biological, Ice Nucleating Particles, Nucleating Particle Types, Numerical Modeling Studies, Soil And Plant, Biological Particles, Collected Soil, Ice Nucleation, Organic Particles, Aerosol, Application, Applied, Atmosphere, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Emissions, Formation, Global, Mass, Methods, Natural, Processes, Quantification, Regional, Regions, Specific, Surface, Surfaces, Thermal, Tools, Via.

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

1. Dale A Lawrence($299,090), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
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.

Impact of Assimilating Satellite Microwave Radiance on Tropical Cyclone Rapid Intensification Forecasting
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2010; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Guosheng Liu($400,919), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Satellite Microwave Observations, Cloud Ice, Cloud Liquid, Hurricane Intensity, Observation Operators, Activity, Analysis, Distributions, Effective, Forecasts, Frequencies, Models, Prediction, Raindrops, Sensitive, Snow, TC, Tcs, Tropical.

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

1. Anna Gannet Hallar($179,889), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Vertical And Horizontal, Atmospheric Radiation, Climate Models, Cloud Properties, Horizontal Structure, Mixed-phase Clouds, Aircraft, Andor, Assess, CAMPS, Colorado, Exercises, Ice, Information, Liquid, Mixed-phase, Particle, Remote, Representation, Sensors, Situ, Steamboat, Water.

AGS-PRF: Laboratory Studies of the Heterogeneous Oxidation of Organic Compounds Found in Biomass Burning Aerosols by Hydroxyl Radicals
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Nicole K Richards($172,000), Richards Nicole K, Davis
Key terms: Heterogeneous Oxidation, Oxidation Mechanisms, Aerosol, Aerosols, Air, Atmosphere, BBA, Climate, Effect, Mixtures, OH, Organic, Reactions, Single.

AGS-PRF: Soil Exchange of Carbonyl Sulfide (COS): Towards an Independent Proxy for Terrestrial Gross Primary Production (GPP)
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Mary E Whelan($172,000), Whelan Mary E, San Francisco
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Cos Exchange, Environmental Variables, Gross Primary, Laboratory Experiments, California, Consumption, Ecosystem, Eddy, FLUXNET, Parameter, Site, Soil, Soils, Terrestrial, Uptake.

AGS-PRF: Aerosols in Shallow Tropical Convection: Impact on Cloud Microphysics and Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alison D Nugent($172,000), Nugent Alison D, New Haven
Key terms: Clouds And Precipitation, Aircraft Observations, Numerical Model, Aerosol, Aerosols, Climate, Field, Microphysical, Theoretical, WRF.

AGS-PRF: Quantifying the Sources of Atmospheric Ice Nuclei from Biomass Burning and Fossil Fuel Combustion Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Gregory P Schill($172,000), Schill Gregory, Boulder
Key terms: Combustion Sources, Ice Crystals, Ice Nuclei, Atmospheric, Biological, CFDC, Cloud, Clouds, Colorado, Field, Global, Laboratory, Main, Models, Particles, SP, Sampling, Wildfires.

AGS-PRF: Radical Precursor Chemistry in the Northeast United States
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Dorothy L Fibiger($172,000), Fibiger Dorothy L, Providence
Key terms: Chemical Transformations, Aerosol, Campaign, Compounds, Instruments, Multiphase, Nitrogen, Pollutants, Spectrometer, WINTER, Wintertime.

AGS-PRF: Organization of Tropical Convection in Numerical Model Simulations: Self-Aggregation and Tropical Cyclogenesis
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Allison A Wing($172,000), Wing Allison A, Cambridge
Key terms: Climate Models, Feedback Analysis, Tropical Convection, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Tropical Cyclones, Clusters, Compare, Convective, Forcing, Formation, Genesis, Main, Plan, Processes, Public, Realistic, Self-aggregation, Simulations, Spontaneous, Step.

AGS-PRF: Building a Microfluidic Platform to Study Atmospheric Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Andrew R Metcalf($172,000), Metcalf Andrew R, Saint Paul
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Applications, Droplets, Microfluidics.

AGS-PRF: Exploring the Equatorial Solar Wind from Photosphere to Heliosphere Along Solar Cycles
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Liang Zhao($172,000), Zhao Liang, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Heating And Acceleration, Solar Wind Heating, Solar Wind Source, Empirical Models, Solar Cycle, Analysis, Atmospheric, Graduate, In-situ, Michigan, Observations, Space, Strength, Techniques.

AGS-PRF: The Influence of Particle Phase Morphology on the Hygroscopic Behavior of Atmospheric Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Natasha Hodas($172,000), Hodas Natasha, Pasadena
Key terms: Thermodynamic And Kinetic, Kinetic Models, Particle Phase, Atmosphere, Complex, Factors, Growth, Influence, Laboratory, Uptake, Water.

AGS-PRF: Indo-Pacific Hydrology in a Warming World: Modeled and Observed Responses to Climate Forcings from the Little Ice Age to Present
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Bronwen Konecky($172,000), Konecky Bronwen, Atlanta
Key terms: Indo-pacific Hydrological Cycle, Climate Forcings, Indo-pacific Hydrological, Water Isotopic, Anthropogenic, Atmospheric, CE, Future, GHG, Ghgs, Global, Isotope-equipped, LIA, Model, Modeling, Paleoclimate, Past, Precipitation, Proxy, Robust, Simulations, Solar, Synthesis, Tropical.

AGS-PRF: Understanding the Nature of Turbulent Fluctuations in the Near Sun Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Kristopher G Klein($172,000), Klein Kristopher G, Iowa City
Key terms: Coronal Heating, Solar Wind, Acceleration, Alfven, Critical, Graduate, Magnetospheres, Measured, Method, Near, Physics, Plasma, Plasmas, Situ, Synthetic, Turbulence, Various.

AGS/EAR-PRF: Confronting Multi-scale Complexity in the Dynamics of Regional U.S. Land-atmosphere Coupling Energetics and Their Links to Climate Variability and Change
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Gabriel J Kooperman($174,000), Kooperman Gabriel J, La Jolla
Key terms: Famiglietti And Pritchard, Irrigation And Climate, Land Surface Coupling, Energy Exchange, Land-atmosphere Coupling, Mesoscale Convection, Policy Makers, Activities, Atmospheric, Author, California, Central, Co-mentoring, Convective, Critical, Experience, Feedbacks, Frontier, Global, Graduate, Hydro-climate, Hydrologic, Hydrology, Individual, Interactions, Interface, Irvine, Land-atmosphere, Land-surface, Mechanisms, Mediating, Multi-scale, Nonlinear, Precipitation, Public, Strategy.

Doppler On Wheels National Mobile Doppler Radar Facility
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Karen A Kosiba($9,264,985), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: Atmosphere Observing Facility, Lower Atmosphere Observing, Cswr Staff, Severe Weather, X-band Radars, Continue, Doppler, Dows, Mobile, Outreach, Public, Requested, Tornado, X-band.

Unidata 2018: Transforming Geoscience through Innovative Data Services
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Mohan K Ramamurthy($20,735,002), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Complexity, Environments, Geoscience, Issues, Reducing, Unidata.

South Asian Summer Monsoon Rainfall: Origin of Multidecadal Variability/Trends and Investigation of Seasonal Predictability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SEES Hazards

1. Sumant Nigam($844,427), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Monsoon Rainfall, South Asia, Summer Rainfall, Analysis, Decline, Has, Hydroclimate, Model, Modeling, Multidecadal, Natural, Nature, Plain, Predictability, Seasonal.

Data Reduction and Inversion for the Imaging Vector Magnetograph Archive Database
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. KD Leka($30,899), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Solar Cycles, Solar Flares, Archive, Behavior, Codes, Consistently, Contribute, IVM, Magnetic, Main, Sun.

SHINE: Exploring a New Technique for Measuring the Vector Magnetic Field in the Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jeffrey R Kuhn($347,075), Predictive Science Incorporated, San Diego
Key terms: Coronal Magnetic Field, Hanle Effect, Magnetic Fields, Magnetic Vector, Permitted Lines, Solar Corona, Solar Telescope, Solar Wind, Space Weather, AWI, CME, Cmes, Developed, Enable, Furthermore, Geo-effective, Hands-on, Measuring, NSF, Nm, Observations, Observatory, Physics, STEM, Simultaneously, Student, Technique, Technology.

High Resolution Observations of Evolution of Magnetic Fields and Flows Associated with Solar Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($396,398), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Flow Motions, Magnetic Fields, Solar Eruptions, Analysis, Evolution, Female, Has, Main, Photospheric, Tools.

MRI: Development of a Solar Photometric Instrument: Cartesian Full Disk Telescope-3 (SOPHI - CFDT3)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Debi Prasad Choudhary($538,852), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Irradiance Monitors, Multiple Wavelengths, Photometry Program, San Fernando, Solar Images, Solar Irradiance, Space-based Irradiance, CFDT, CSUN, California, Information, Northridge, Photometric, Radiative, SFO, Serving, Sources, Space-based, Suns, Tool, Yield.

Travel Support for the Solar Information Processing Workshop; La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium; August 18-21, 2014
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Farzad Kamalabadi($20,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Physics And Information, Information Processing, Solar Physics, Space Physics, Analysis, Conference, Ensure, Fields, Participation.

Collaborative Research: Large Scale Structures and Solar Wind Origin from Eclipse Observations of Coronal Lines
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Enrico Landi($134,963), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Enrico Landi($248,322), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Heating And Acceleration, Solar Wind Continues, Solar Wind Heating, Total Solar Eclipse, Eclipse Observations, Plasma Parameters, Remote Sensing, Solar Corona, Solar Radii, Wind Plasma, Accelerate, Build, Charge, Compared, Existing, In-situ, Iron, Obtain, Peoples, Processes, Public, Region, Regions, Space, Student, Undergraduate, Unique.

International Travel Support for The Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics 13th Quadrennial Solar-Terrestrial Physics Symposium; October 12-17, 2014
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. David F Webb($19,960), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Solar-terrestrial Physics, Attend, CAWSES, Current, Extending, Has, II, Meeting, Proceedings, Program, Programs, Publications, SCOSTEP, STP, Solar-terrestrial, Sponsored, Sun, Symposium, Varsiti.

SHINE: Impact of Large-Scale Magnetic Topology on Dynamics of Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Graham K Barnes($343,105), Lockheed-Martin Advanced Technology Center, Palo Alto
Key terms: Topological Analysis Codes, Separatrix Surfaces, Corona, Existing, Field, HEK, Implemented, Magnetic, Main, Methods, Null, Objects, PFSS, SHINE, Solar, Statistical, Sun.

SHINE: Investigating the Dynamics of Coronal Mass Ejections from the Sun using Advanced Image Processing and Stereoscopy Techniques
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Shadia R Habbal($305,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Developed Elliptical Tie-pointing, Elliptical Tie-pointing Technique, Recently Developed Elliptical, Structure And Evolution, 3d Reconstructions, Elliptical Tie-pointing, Image Processing, Stereo Mission, Tie-pointing Technique, CME, CORIMP, Cmes, Combined, Dynamic, Dynamics, Images, Methods, Observations, Propagation, SOHO, Space, Specifically, Sun, Techniques.

SHINE: A Time-Dependent Solar Wind 3D-MHD Model Interface Using Interplanetary Scintillation (IPS) Observations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bernard V Jackson($343,400), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: 3d Mhd, Mhd Modeling, Remote Sensing, Remote-sensing Observations, Agenda, Analyses, Analysis, Boundary, Differences, Heliospheric, IPS, Inputs, Interplanetary, Kinematic, Main, Models, Near, Parameters, Perform, Propagation, Remote-sensing, SHINE, Solar, Structures, Tomographic.

SHINE: Solar Wind with a Time-dependent, MHD, Interplanetary Scintillation Tomography
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bernard V Jackson($343,400), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Plasma Physics, Solar Wind, Alabama, Background, Cmes, Development, Distances, Geo-effective, Heliospheric, Interplanetary, Investigate, Main, Particular, Propagation, SHINE, SW, Space, Sun, Turbulent.

SHINE: Theoretical Investigation of Small Scale Structure in Solar Flare Current Sheets
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Chengcai Shen($342,578), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Reconnection And Particle, Magnetic Reconnection, Particle Acceleration, Solar Eruptions, Time Scales, Density, Dynamics, Energy, Festival, Instabilities, Ionization, Observational, Observations, Outreach, Plasma, Predictions, Process, Public, Simulations, Small-scale, Space, Structure, Temperature.

RAPID: Re-Deployment of the Mount Washington Neutron Monitor
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. James M Ryan($24,030), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Effort, MW, NM, Re-deployment, School, Students, Washington.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Laboratory, Observational, and Modeling Investigations of the Torus Instability and Associated Solar Corona Eruptive Phenomena
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Haimin Wang($204,006), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
2. Tibor Torok($91,456), Predictive Science Incorporated, San Diego
3. Paul M Bellan($343,400), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: 3-year Collaborative Shine, Actual Solar Eruptions, 3-year Collaborative, Decay Index, Laboratory Experiments, Laboratory Plasmas, Magnetic Field, Numerical Modeling, Solar Corona, Strapping Field, Analysis, Approaches, CME, MHD, Models, Morphology, Observations, Particles, Phenomena, Physics, Profile, Radio, Similar, Spacecraft.

SHINE: Estimating Source Locations of Interplanetary Type II Radio Bursts with Direction Finding Technique
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Pertti Makela($193,977), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Ii Radio Bursts, Public, SHINE.

SHINE: Self-Consistent Resonant-Cyclotron Heating of Protons and Alpha Particles in the Solar Wind and Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Philip A Isenberg($343,400), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: In-situ Solar Wind, Protons And Alpha, 3-year Shine, Alpha Particles, In-situ Solar, Self-consistent Wave, Wave Properties, Agenda, Allows, Collisionless, Distributions, Heating, ICW, Plasma, Self-consistent, Technique, Yield.

SHINE: Statistical Analysis of Magnetic Helicity of the Solar Wind Turbulence at Kinetic Scales
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bernard J Vasquez($329,573), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Magnetic Helicity, Solar Wind, Agenda, Fluctuations, Interplanetary, Kinetic, Properties, SHINE, Spacecraft, Statistical, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Probing Solar Flares Using Radio Imaging Spectroscopy and Advanced Modeling
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gelu M Nita($513,305), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Forward Fitting, Solar Flares, Advance, CSTR, Discovery, Magnetic, Physics, Radio, Tools.

New Techniques for Interpreting Physical Structures and Turbulence in the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stanislav A Boldyrev($750,000), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Solar Wind, Space Weather, Properties, Structures, Techniques, Turbulent.

CAREER: New Constraints on the Solar Dynamo Using Helioseismology
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jason Jackiewicz($593,521), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
Key terms: Flows, Ii, Iii, Objective, Solar, Sun.

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. Guillermo Stenborg($121,956), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Particle Transport, Shock Acceleration, Source Region, Accurate, Composition, Extent, Flare, Longitudinal, Relative, SEP, Solar, Spacecraft.

AMPERE-II: Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment-II
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Viacheslav G Merkin($5,100,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetosphere And Ionosphere, Electric Currents, Geomagnetic Storms, Magnetic Field, Magnetosphere Responds, Near-earth Space, Power Grid, Solar Storms, Solar Wind, Space Weather, AMPERE, AMPERE-II, Advances, Constellation, Continuous, Critical, Discussion, Dynamics, Effects, Electrodynamic, Electrodynamics, Global, Hazard, High-altitude, Iridium, M-I, Measures, Nearth, Observations, Potential, Products, Radiation, Region, Satellites, Sector, Transformers, Users, Vulnerable, Weeks.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Study of Storm-time Large Scale Structures in the Subauroral Ionosphere with Coupled First-principles Model and Multi-instrument Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Anthea J Coster($168,643), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Stanislav Sazykin($356,672), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Mit Haystack Observatory, Inner Magnetosphere, Comprehensive, Coupling, Density, Development, Ionosphere, Ionosphere-thermosphere-magnetosphere, Model, Modeling, Multi-instrument, RCM, SAMI, Student.

Collaborative Research: Physics Based Modeling of Blue Jets
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Gennady M Milikh($163,094), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
2. Mikhail Shneider($90,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Blue Jets, Current Contraction, Electric Field, Propagation Velocity, Streamer Zone, BJ, Bjs, Collaboration, Experiments, Formation, Formed, Gas, Governs, Ionosphere, Laboratory, Leader, Leaders, Maryland, Mechanism, Model, Models, Physics, Plasma, Propagate, Quantitative, Theoretical, Top, Upward.

Magnetosphere - Ionosphere Coupling During Periods of Extreme Solar Wind Driving
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Calvin Robert Clauer($301,668), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Solar Wind Conditions, Wind Electric Field, CPCP, Conductance, Currents, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Observations, Saturation, Set.

Multipoint Observations of Compressional Pulsations: Testing Possible Generation Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Michael A Coplan($300,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Compressional Pulsations, Mechanism Generates, Drift, Energy, Frequency, Instabilities, Magnetosphere, Mechanisms, Observations, Origin, Pc, Plasma, Waves.

Synoptic Investigation of Extreme Events: Sun to the Upper Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Michael W Liemohn($100,916), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Diverse, Geospace, Has, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Models, Observations, Picture, Solar, Synoptic.

RAPID: Optical Tracking and Spectral Characterization of CubeSats for Operational Missions (OSCOM)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Ted von Hippel($65,015), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Cubesat Missions, Mission Operations, Characteristics, Cubesats, Design, Developed, Development, Engineering, Geospace, Optical, Orbit, Public, Satellite, Scheduled, Space, Spectral, Survivability, Telescopes, Tracking, Unique.

Predicting the Heliosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. LENNARD A FISK($227,828), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Pump Acceleration Mechanism, Solar And Heliospheric, Heliospheric Physics, Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Developed, Has, Model, Program, Properties, Space, Spectral, Suprathermal, Theoretical.

SHINE: Reconstructing Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection Evolution Using In-Situ Filament Plasma
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Susan Lepri($343,400), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Eruption Process, Low Charge, Analysis, CME, Cold, Comprehensive, Evolution, Filament, ICME, Icmes, Ii, Ions, Main, Michigan, Objectives, Plasma, SHINE.

CubeSat: Electron Losses and Fields INvestigation (ELFIN)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Vassilis Angelopoulos($650,823), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Electron Losses, Loss Cone, Radiation Belt, Aerospace, Aims, Cubesat, Designed, ELFIN, EMIC, Electrons, Energy, Environment, Instruments, Mechanisms, Mission, Missions, Named, On-going, Physics, Pitch-angle, Precipitation, Processes, Program, Receiving, Scattering, Space, Waves.

Planning Workshop for Observations and Outreach Activities During the Total Solar Eclipse of 21 August 2017
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Shadia R Habbal($27,911), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Shadow Band, Total Solar, Ages, Allow, Astronomical, August, Beauty, Bring, Discoveries, Eclipse, Educators, Experiments, Held, Minutes, Observations, Opportunities, Outreach, Plan, Planning, Plans, Public, Unique, Was, Workshop.

RAPID: Establishing International Collaboration for a CubeSat-Borne Magnetometer
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Hyomin Kim($19,079), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Cubesat, Demonstration, Developed, Effort, KHU, Korea, Magnetometer, Mission, SIGMA.

Collaborative Research: Integration of Extended Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and Kinetic Effects in Global Magnetosphere Models
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2013; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Amitava Bhattacharjee($108,342), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Global Magnetosphere Code, Global Magnetosphere Model, Current Sheets, Kinetic Effects, Magnetic Reconnection, Space Weather, Center, Enhanced, Framework, Has, Instabilities, MHD, Modeling, Multiple, Partnership, Physics, Species, Theoretical, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research EaSM-3: Local and Remote Regional Climate Responses to Regional Forcings from Short-Lived Climate Forcers
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Sustainability Resrch Networks

1. J. F Lamarque($1,132,174), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Shindell Drew($870,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate Forcers, Climate Impacts, Regional Climate, Regional Perturbations, Slcf Emissions, Statistical Emulators, Assessment, Control, Future, Significance, Slcfs, Tropospheric.

Collaborative Research: EaSM-3: Understanding the Development of Precipitation Biases in CESM and the Superparameterized CESM on Seasonal to Decadal Timescales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Sustainability Resrch Networks

1. Christopher S Bretherton($480,000), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Michael Pritchard($468,305), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Midlatitude Low Cloud, Tropical Precipitation Biases, Cumulus Parameterization, Ocean Coupling, Affect, CESM, Climate, Decadal, Development, Errors, Initial, Models, Parameterizations, Remote, SP-CESM, SST, Simulations.

CEDAR: Solar Cyclic and Climatic Influences on Upper Atmospheric Hydrogen Distributions
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Susan M Nossal($328,013), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Cyclic And Climatic, Upper Atmospheric Hydrogen, Climatic Influences, Hydrogenous Species, Solar Cyclic, Balmer-alpha, Distributions, Emission, Emissions, Greenhouse, Increases, Model, Northern, Observations, Set, Updated.

NCAR Activities supported by the Naval Research Laboratory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: nan

1. James W Hurrell($271,954), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Gw Propagation, Deep, Propagating.

National Center for Atmospheric Research Activities funded by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: nan

1. James W Hurrell($315,436), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Observation Nudging, ARW, Laboratory, NCAR, Written.

Collaborative Research: PFISR Ion-Neutral Observations in the Thermosphere (PINOT)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: nan

1. Robert G Michell($120,857), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Incoherent-scatter Radar, Atmosphere, Campaign, Coupled, Coupling, GITM, Incoherent-scatter, Interactions, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, Observations, Optical, PFISR, Processes, Thermosphere, VHF, View.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2014

Collaborative Research: Maintenance, Operations and Data Analysis of Arecibo and Millstone Hill Interferometers Award Effective Date: 09/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: An Initiative to Investigate the Near Space Interaction Region (INSpIRe) Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Multi-spectral Imaging Investigation of the Auroral Fine Structures Associated with Naturally Enhanced Ion Acoustic Lines Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Understanding the High-to-Mid Latitude Ionospheric Response to Stratospheric Warmings Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Finite Amplitude Gravity Wave Trains in the Upper Mesosphere - Lower Thermosphere Duct System: Build Up and Leakage of Energy from Local and Distant Sources Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: Coherent Structures in Ionospheric-Thermospheric Flows Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Auroral Electrojet Waves and Wave Heating Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Dynamics of SAPS (SubAuroral Polarization Streams) during Geomagnetic Disturbances and Their Effects on the Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere System Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Exploration of Lower-atmosphere Wave Forcing, Vertical Wave Coupling and Their Impacts on the Ionosphere and Thermosphere Variability Using WAM, Lidar and ISR Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Investigations of Gravity Wave Coupling Between the Mesosphere and Thermosphere in the Southern Hemisphere Award Effective Date: 03/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

DEEPWAVE: Spatial and Fourier Ray Modeling of Mountain Waves Award Effective Date: 02/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Controls on Water Isotope Variability in the Tropical Pacific: A Strategy to Improve Paleoclimate Interpretations Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; 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

EAGER: Towards a Paleoproxy of Stratospheric Chemistry Using Meteorite Fusion Crusts Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

RUI Ramifications of Ethanol Usage as a Biofuel: Quantifying Sources and Impacts on the Light Absorbing Properties of Rainwater Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Ambient and Source Characterization of Aerosol Size and Composition in Nepal and Bhutan using High-Resolution Aerosol Mass Spectrometry Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Travel Support for Young Scientists to Attend the 7th International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC7) held at Harvard University; Cambridge, MA; May 4-7, 2015 Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Reactive Chlorine Cycling in Marine Air Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Quantifying Reversible and Irreversible Aqueous Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Formation in the Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

International Workshop on Comparing Ice Nucleation Measuring Systems 2014 (ICIS 2014) Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Probing Mechanisms of New Particle Formation and Growth: A Combined Experimental, Theoretical and Modeling Approach Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

HOx Radical Chemistry in Forest Environments: Measurements and Characterization of Instrument Interferences Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Development and Deployment of a Novel Peroxy Radical Detector Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Acquisition of a High Resolution Proton-Transfer-Reaction Time-Of-Flight Mass Spectrometer (PTR-TOF-MS) for Research in Land And Atmospheric Science Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Nanoparticle Growth from Salting-in and Mobile Infrared Column Observations Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Development of a Digital Microfluidic Impactor for One Minute Measurements of Main Inorganic Aerosol Species Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Spectral Analysis of Brown Carbon Secondary Organic Aerosol from the IR to the UV Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Ozone Photochemistry in China: Field Measurements and Modeling Analysis Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Future of Atmospheric Chemistry Research Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Acquisition of Instrumentation for Real-Time Molecular Level Measurement of Atmospheric Gas- and Particle-Phase Compounds Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Acquisition of High Precision Laser-based CO2 Isotope Analysis System for Atmospheric and Seawater Applications Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Photochemical Aging of Asian Particulate Matter: Formation of Oxygenated Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Source Apportionment of Anthropogenic Secondary Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Investigations of the Photochemical HONO Formation Reactions of Atmospheric Importance Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Measurements of Coarse Aerosol During WINTER Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Measurements of Selected Combustion Emissions in Nepal and Bhutan Integrated with Source Apportionment and Chemical Transport Modeling for South Asia Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Reactive Uptake and Heterogeneous Chemistry of Biogenic VOCs on Mineral Aerosol Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Development of the Trace Organic Gas Analyzer - Time of Flight Mass spectrometer (TOGA-TOF) Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Atmospheric N Cycle: Biospheric Emissions and Chemical Transformations Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Wintertime INvestigation of Transport, Emissions, and Reactivity (WINTER) Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Improving Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Models by Comparison to Chamber and Ambient Data and by Uncertainty and Sensitivity Analysis Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Formation of Atmospheric Soluble Iron: Atmospheric Processing and Direct Emissions by Gasoline and Diesel Powered Vehicles Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Toward an Improved Understanding of the Sinks and Photochemical Sources of Nitrous Acid on Boundary Layer Surfaces Award Effective Date: 06/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Spray-Mediated Gas Fluxes across the Air-Sea Interface Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Quantifying the Isotopic Signature of Nitrogen Oxides Emissions Sources Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Polarimetric-Raman Lidar for Tropospheric Ice and Liquid Water Fractions Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Gordon Research Conference (GRC) Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere: Interactions in a Changing World; Girona - Costa Brava, Spain; June 29-July 4, 2014 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Influence of Halogen-Containing Oxidants in Sulfate Aerosol Formation in the Marine Boundary Layer Award Effective Date: 04/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Measurements of Hydroxyl Radicals, Sulfuric Acid, sCIs, Hydroperoxy Radicals and Organic Peroxy Radicals on the C-130 during FRAPPE Award Effective Date: 03/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Development of a Novel Double-resonance Fiber-laser-induced Fluorescence Instrument for Long-term, High-sensitivity, Interference-free Measurements of Hydroxyl Radical (OH) Award Effective Date: 02/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Integrated Experimental and Modeling Studies of the Chemistry of Organic Aerosol Formation from the Atmospheric Oxidation of Hydrocarbons Award Effective Date: 12/31/2013; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Measurement and Analysis of Nocturnal Mesoscale Convective Systems and Their Stable Boundary Layer Environment During PECAN Award Effective Date: 05/15/2014; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (BASC) Activities in Support of NSF's Missions Award Effective Date: 04/15/2012; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

Collaborative Research: EaSM3 Integration of Decision-Making with Predictive Capacity for Decadal Climate Impacts Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

EaSM-3: Land Use Change and Land Atmosphere Feedback Processes as Regulators of Regional Climate Change Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Ea SM-3: Collaborative Res: Surface-induced Forcing and Decadal Variability and Change of the East Asian Climate, Surface Hydrology & Agriculture-A Modeling and Data Approach Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Revisiting Coupled Instability Theory and the Initiation of ENSO (El Nino/Southern Oscillation) Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Understanding Climate Processes with Causal Discovery and Graphs of Information Flow in the Coupled Atmosphere-Land-Ocean System Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Assessing the Impacts of Arctic Amplification on the Midlatitude Circulation with a Hierarchy of Atmospheric General Circulation Models Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Tropical Intraseasonal Variability in Models and Observations Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Self-Aggregation of Moist Convection, Radiative-Convective Instability, and the Regulation of Tropical Climate Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

RAPID: The GNSS Instrument System for Multistatic and Occultation Sensing (GISMOS) for Future Application to Precipitation Processes in Atmospheric River Events Award Effective Date: 11/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

2014 Graduate Climate Conference; Eatonville, Washington; October 31-November 2, 2014 Award Effective Date: 10/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Statistical and Dynamical Exploration of Land-Ocean-Atmosphere Interactions in Two Contrasting Monsoon Regions: China and Northern Australia Award Effective Date: 10/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Decadal Prediction Following Volcanic Eruptions Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Studies of Dynamics for El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Diversity and Complexity Award Effective Date: 08/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Origin, Storm Track Dynamics and Convective Feedback of African Easterly Waves Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Variability of Midlatitude Transport and Mixing In a Warmer World Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Linkages of Changes in Ozone to Arctic Climate Change in the Stratosphere and Troposphere Award Effective Date: 07/15/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Timescales for Large-Scale Tropospheric Transport - Inversions of Trace-Gas Measurements and Connections with Dynamics Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Decadal Variability of Interacting Climate Subsystems in the Northern Hemisphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

P2C2: Role of Westerly Jet Transitions in East Asian Paleoclimate Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

CAREER: The Role of Mineral Dust in Atmospheric Ice Formation, and its Impacts on Past, Present and Future Climate Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Quantifying the Relative Roles of Progressive Land Use Change, Irrigation, and Remote Forcing in Southern Great Plains Precipitation Variability Award Effective Date: 07/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Support for a Symposium Honoring Mark Cane's Contribution to Climate Science; Palisades, NY; October 20-21, 2014 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Large-scale Atmospheric Circulation and Multidecadal Variability of the North Atlantic Ocean Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Natural Variations and Forced Changes in Historical and Future Precipitation and Drought Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Spring Soil Temperature Anomalies in the Western United States and Summer Droughts in the Southern Plains Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

CAREER: Understanding the Transport Circulation of the Troposphere Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics