Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Micrometeoroid Ablation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Zoltan Sternovsky($30,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Nimalan Swarnalingam($75,000), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Interplanetary Dust Particles, Ionization Efficiency, Metal Atoms, Upper Atmosphere, Ablation, Colorado, Earth, Input, Interpret, Laboratory, Mass, Meteor, NSF, Radar, Total.

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Analysis of Lightning's Multifaced Impact on the Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Morris B Cohen($374,698), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Mark Golkowski($245,024), University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora
Key terms: Amplitude And Phase, Vlf Remote Sensing, Ionospheric Disturbance, Lightning Discharges, Lower Ionosphere, Vlf Signal, Communication, Direct, Disturbances, EF, Electron, LEP, Lightning-induced, Observations, Perturbations, Physics, Powerful, Propagation, Radiation.

Collaborative Research: MSTIDs: Multi-Site Tomography of Ionospheric Disturbances
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan T Fentzke($114,384), Scientific Solutions Incorporated, North Chelmsford
2. Joseph Comberiate($204,000), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Field-line Integrated, Conductivity, Electrodynamics, Field-line, Ionospheric, MSTID, Mstids, Structure, Tomographic.

Collaborative Research: Quantification of Gravity Wave Momentum Fluxes and Instability Events in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region at High- and Mid- Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. David C Fritts($40,000), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
2. Michael J Taylor($196,103), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Instability Dynamics, ALOMAR, AMTM, Capabilities, Correlative, Effects, Excellent, Fluxes, Forcing, GW, Lidar, MLT, Measure, Momentum, Observatory, Potential, Quantify, Region, Sets, Temperature.

CEDAR: Investigating Helium Behavior and Its Role in the Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jeffrey Thayer($499,803), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Total Mass Density, Satellite Drag, Behavior, Constituent, Describe, Dynamical, Helium, Models, NCAR, Observations, Processes, Scheme, Solar, Structure, Thermosphere, Transport.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Causal Relationships of Ion-neutral Coupling Processes at Mid-latitudes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ethan S Miller($173,030), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Aaron J Ridley($206,897), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Jonathan J Makela($360,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Electron Densities, Electron Density, High-latitude Forcing, Neutral Winds, Coupling, Drivers, Education, High-latitude, Ionospheric, Mid-latitude, Mid-latitudes, Model, Models, Observed, Physics, Spatialtemporal, Storm, Thermospheric.

CEDAR: High-resolution Multistatic Mapping of Small-Scale Flow Structures in Earth's Auroral Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Donald L Hampton($312,892), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Eddies And Waves, Auroral Thermosphere, Small-scale Eddies, Alaska, Based, Earth, Horizontal, Less, Occurrence, Simultaneously, Small-scale, Spatial, Temperatures, Wind, Winds.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: High-Resolution Imaging of Instability Dynamics and Breakdown
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Lynette J Gelinas($240,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
2. David C Fritts($240,000), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Aerospace Corporation, Turbulent Viscosity, AIC, ALO, Airglow, Breakdown, Camera, High-resolution, Image, Instabilities, Measure, Numerical, Parameter, Region, Turbulence.

CEDAR: Analysis of High Resolution Stratospheric Observations of Polar Mesospheric Clouds
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Amber D Miller($237,746), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Optical Images, Analysis, Dynamics, Enable, Features, GW, High-resolution, Identification, Instability, MLT, Morphological, Pmcs, Set, Unique.

CEDAR: Simultaneous Fe and Na Doppler Lidar Measurements of Heat and Constituent Fluxes in the Mesopause Region and Neutral Metal Layers, Winds and Temperatures in the Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Chester S Gardner($500,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cosmic Dust Velocity, Coupling And Transport, Differential Meteoric Ablation, Dust Velocity Distribution, Fe And Na, Mesosphere And Thermosphere, Winds And Temperatures, Doppler Lidar, Metal Layers, Na Layers, Neutral Winds, Table Mountain, Thermosphere Fe, Thermospheric Metal, Atmosphere, Characterize, Chemical, Estimates, Fluxes, Global, Model, Models, Processes, Region, Simulations, Simultaneous, Validate, Vertical, WAM.

CEDAR: Characterizing the Polar Cap Topside Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Roger H Varney($358,992), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Cap Topside Ionosphere, Incoherent Scatter Radars, Polar Cap Topside, Transition Region, Experiments, Geospace, Observations, Plasma, Transported.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Identifying Sources of Mid-latitude Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Sharon L Vadas($64,169), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Asti Bhatt($318,231), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Lower Atmospheric Sources, Momentum Deposition, Optical Signatures, Secondary Gws, Accelerations, Ionospheric, Students.

Laboratory Studies of Oxygen Atom Recombination in Nitrogen at Mesospheric Temperatures
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Konstantinos Kalogerakis($397,876), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Energy Flow Pathways, Excited O2, Airglow, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Dynamics, Modeling, Molecular, O-atom, Oxygen, Rate, Recombination, Yields.

CAREER: Physical Causes of Multi-Scale Temporal Variability in Atmospheric Tides from the Troposphere to the Dynamo Region
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jian Du-Caines($500,000), University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc, Louisville
Key terms: Atmospheric Tides, Lower Atmosphere, Upper Atmosphere, Coupling, Ionospheric, Model, Oscillation, Processes, Students.

CEDAR: Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System by Gravity Waves
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Erdal Yigit($271,041), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Ionospheric Electron Density, Gravity Waves, Atmosphere, Atmosphere-ionosphere, Atmospheric, Composition, Distribution, Dynamical, Effects, GW, Geomagnetic, Gws, Influence, Ionosphere, Lower, Processes, Propagation, Thermal, Thermosphere.

Continuing Theoretical Studies of Dynamical Processes in the Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert W Schunk($300,000), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Upper Atmosphere, Adverse, Atmospheric, Disturbances, Effects, Ionosphere, Long-term, Models, Plasma, Processes, Radar, Satellite, Satellites.

Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Investigation of Midlatitude Ionospheric Irregularities
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Miguel F Larsen($196,572), Clemson University, Clemson
2. David L Hysell($300,001), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Midlatitude Ionosphere, Scatter Radar, Arecibo, Caribbean, Coupled, Coupling, Experimental, Investigation, Ionospheric, Irregularities, Mstids, Neutral, Plasma, Region, Sources, Structuring, Theoretical, Turbulence.

CEDAR: Plasma Altitude Distributions Associated with Storm Enhanced Densities (SEDs) Caused by Competing Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. Naomi Maruyama($219,758), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ionosphere And Plasmasphere, Plasma Height Distributions, Height Distributions, Atmosphere, Coupling, Determining, Models, Neutral, Relative, Seds, Time.

Coordination and Student Travel for the 2015 National Ionospheric Effects Workshop; Alexandria, VA; May 12-14, 2015
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

1. William A Bristow($20,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Annual, IES, Ionospheric, Meeting, Phenomena, RF, RFII, Waves.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--A Focused Study of Sustained Upward Vertical Winds in the Auroral Zone
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: AERONOMY

1. Mark D Leising($51,774), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Sustained Upward Vertical, Poker Flat, Vertical Winds, AK, Auroral, FPI, Instruments, Mass, Observing, Set, Speeds, Thermosphere, Thermospheric, Zenith.

Collaborative Research: Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) to Study Ion-neutral Coupling near the Southern Crest of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly in the American Sector
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: AERONOMY

1. Mark D Leising($75,186), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Winds And Temperatures, Neutral Winds, Upper Atmosphere, Comparison, Fpis, Instrumentation, Observatory, Obtained, Parameters, Processes, Zonal.

EAGER: Towards a Paleoproxy of Stratospheric Chemistry Using Meteorite Fusion Crusts
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

1. Ryan Ogliore($57,716), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Earth's Surface, Fusion Crust, Reconstructing Past, Upper Atmosphere, Climate, Composition, Conditions, Has, Isotopic, Meteorites, Proxy.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Chlorine Activation in Biomass Burning Plumes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ryan C Sullivan($399,501), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
2. Joel A Thornton($378,726), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Biomass Burning, Particulate Chloride, Atmospheric, Chamber, Clno, Combustion, Effort, Emissions, Formation, Investigate, Laboratory, Models, Organic, Ozone, Parameters.

Spatial Variability in Organic Aerosol: Relationships between Sources, Processing, and Composition
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Albert A Presto($599,859), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Spatial And Temporal, Chemical Processing, Aerosol, Ambient, Analysis, Atmosphere, Background, Composition, Contributions, Emissions, Fine, OA, Sampling, Sources, Spatial-temporal, Specific, Subsequent.

Modeling Aqueous Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. V Faye McNeill($415,385), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry Models, Air Quality, Cloud Droplets, Formation Schemes, Soa Formation, Aerosol, Applied, Aqsoa, Aqueous, Atmosphere, Field, IEPOX, Isoprene, Particles, Processing, Simplegamma.

Detailed Analysis of Brown Carbon Constituents in Biomass Burning Emissions
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Andrey Y Khlystov($471,584), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Forest And Peat, Biomass Burning, Brown Carbon, Light Absorption, Optical Properties, Tropical Forest, Atmosphere, Chemical, Emissions, Five, Fuels, Knowledge, Land, Speciation, Techniques, USA.

2016 AMS Mario J. Molina Symposium; New Orleans, Louisiana; January 10-14, 2016
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Renyi Zhang($10,000), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Stratospheric Ozone, Undergraduate Students, AMS, Anthropogenic, Mario, Molina, Pioneering, Symposium, Was.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Flask and in Situ Measurements of Carbon and Climate Tracers on ATom-1
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Britton Stephens($90,666), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Ralph F Keeling($59,334), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Instrument Packages, Atmospheric, Atom, Carbon, Climate, Distribution, Instruments.

MRI: Acquisition of an Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometer for Interdisciplinary Research and Education
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daisuke Minakata($540,111), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Ultrahigh Mass Resolution, Atmospheric, Complex, Cycling, Mixtures, Organic.

Theoretical Studies of Spectroscopic Line Mixing in Remote Sensing Applications with Theoretical Support to Improve the Accuracy of the HITRAN H2O Database
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Qiancheng Ma($267,515), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: H2o Lineshapes, Hitran Database, Line Mixing, Accuracy, Continuing, HO, Molecular, Objective, Spectral, Spectroscopic, Studying, Theoretical, Transmission.

Distribution, Sources, and Air-Sea Fluxes of Short-Lived Organic Compounds During the O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean (ORCAS) Study
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Elliot Atlas($337,628), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Carbon And Oxygen, Reactive Trace Gas, Trace Gas Fluxes, Biogeochemical Cycles, Field Campaign, Southern Ocean, Atmospheric, Bromine, Chemistry, Emissions, Exchanges, Gases, Global, Processes, Region, Short-lived.

RAPID: Sea Spray Aerosol Production over the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy S Bates($192,072), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dissolved Organic Carbon, Freshly Emitted Ssa, Organic Enrichment, Phytoplankton Bloom, Plankton Ecosystems, Sea-surface Aerosol, Atmosphere, Clouds, Hypothesizes, Marine, NAAMES, Ocean, Properties, Reservoir, Responsible, Sea-surface, Seawater.

The Influence of Recent Volcanic Eruptions on Stratospheric Ozone Recovery: A Data Analysis and Modeling Study Including Estimated Uncertainties
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Susan Solomon($470,709), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ozone Recovery, Stratospheric Aerosol, Volcanic Eruptions, Aerosols, Affect, Date, Effects, Model, Observations, Occurred, Sensitivity, Time, Uncertainties, Was.

Cloud-resolved Chemistry Simulations of Selected DC3 Thunderstorms
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kenneth E Pickering($423,380), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Storms Observed, Campaign, Chemistry, Convective, DC, Lightning, Lnox, Observations, Transport, Upper.

Laboratory Studies of Contact Efflorescence
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Margaret A Tolbert($438,404), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Relative Humidity, Aerosol, Aqueous, Atmospheric, Contact, Droplet, Effects, Efflorescence, Immersion, Ionic, Particle, Phase, RH, Remain, Seed, Solution, Supersaturated.

CAREER: Air-sea Exchange of Volatile Organic Compounds--Impacts on Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy H Bertram($257,266), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: 7-9th Grade Students, Isoprene And Total, Marine Bvoc Emissions, 7-9th Grade, Carbon Dioxide, Hands-on Experiment, Oxidant Loadings, Total Monoterpene, Chemistry, Designed, Educational, Graduate, Hands-on, Has, Highly, MBL, Ocean, Oceans, Organic, Organisms, Photosynthetic, SIO, SOA, Sensors, Terrestrial.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Investigations of Particle-Organic Vapor Interactions: Effects on Particle Formation, Growth, and Properties
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Paul Davidovits($318,222), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
2. Jesse Kroll($119,945), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. Andrew Lambe($200,000), Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica
4. William H Brune($160,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Condensed-phase Organic Compounds, Condensed-phase Organic, Environmental Chambers, Flow Reactor, Hydroxyl Radical, Optical Properties, Oxidative Aging, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Atmospherically, Chemical, Climate, Conditions, Control, Days, Detailed, Effort, Formation, Function, Generated, Laboratory, Magnitude, Measure, Modeling, OH, Particle, Particles, Produce, Range, SOA.

Quantifying the Effect of Vapor Wall Deposition on Chamber-Derived Yields of Secondary Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John H Seinfeld($524,889), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Chamber Experiments, Environmental Chambers, Wall Deposition, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Effects, Gas, Individual, Model, Organic, Particles, Rates, SOA, Species, Vapor, Walls.

Collaborative Research: Nitrogen Partitioning and Evolution of Particulate Organic Nitrogen in Peat Fire Emissions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lynn R Mazzoleni($114,576), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
2. LaxmiNarasimha Yatavelli($294,994), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Nitrogen-containing Compounds, Peat Fires, Peat Fuel, Atmosphere, Combustion, Cycling, Emissions, Fraction, Gas, Global, Nitrogen-containing, PON, Partitioning.

Collaborative Research: Kinetics and Mechanism of Restructuring of Atmospheric Soot and Associated Impact on Light Absorption
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alexei Khalizov($415,540), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
2. Chong Qiu($82,927), University of North Alabama, Florence
Key terms: Optical Properties, Soot Particles, Aerosol, Aggregates, Carbon, Carbonaceous, Determined, Mixing, Morphology, Radiative.

The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) International Project Office (IPO)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Megan L Melamed($300,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: International Atmospheric Chemistry, Igac International, Foster, Global, IPO, Igacs, Office, Priorities, Responsibility, SSC, Sustainability, World.

RUI: Brown Carbon Aerosol Production in Polluted Environments: The Effects of Oxidants, SO2, and Sunlight on Aqueous-Phase Aldehyde Reactivity
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David O De Haan($366,635), University of San Diego, San Diego
Key terms: Aerosol Particles, Brown Carbon, Undergraduate Students, Aqueous-phase, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chamber, Diverse, Droplets, Formation, Oxidants.

Atmospheric Organic Aerosol-Water Interactions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Spyros N Pandis($434,986), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Oa Components, Organic Compounds, Aerosol, Chemical, Distribution, Effects, Mathematical, Modeling, Particulate, Properties, RH, Range, Representation, Semi-volatile, Via.

Collaborative Research: Aerosol Formation from Agricultural Volatile Organic Compounds
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. David Cocker III($452,393), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Nitrogen And Sulfur, Aerosol Formation, Agricultural Emissions, Air Quality, Sulfur Compounds, Amines, Animal, Atmospheric, Developed, Environmental, Field, Laboratory, Modeling, Particles, Potential, Reduced, Sources.

The Effect of Particle Phase State on Multiphase Hydroxyl Radical (OH) Oxidation Kinetics and Products of Biomass Burning Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Knopf($321,512), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Biomass Burning Aerosols, Chemical Aging, Chemical Transformations, Altered, Altering, Atmosphere, BBA, Conditions, Effects, Fraction, Global, Investigations, Oxidizing, Particles, Radiation, Responsible, Species, Trace.

Workshop on Nitrate Radicals and Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): Oxidation, Mechanisms and Organic Aerosol; Atlanta, GA; June 22-24, 2015
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nga Lee Ng($10,000), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Nitrate Radicals, Chemistry, Deeper, Etc, Formation, Future, Laboratory, List, Volatile, Workshop.

2015 Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; Waterville Valley, NH; August 2-7, 2015
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kimberly A Prather($25,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Exchange.

CAREER: Disentangling CO2 Fluxes in a Tropical Rainforest Using Carbonyl Sulfide
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ulrike Seibt($594,034), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Co2 Fluxes, Costa Rica, Ecosystem Respiration, Education, Field, Forest, GPP, Information, Obtain, Program, Rainforest, Site, Soil, Students, Temperature, Tropical, Uptake.

Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols at Pacifichem 2015 Congress Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii; December 15-20, 2015
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sergey Nizkorodov($20,300), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Atmospheric Aerosols, Chemical Society, Pacific Basin, Chemistry, Cloud, Congress, Countries, Environmental, Frontiers, Institute, Pacifichem, Poster, Presentations, Session, Sessions, Symposium.

Resolving Issues of Hydrogen Oxides Measurements: Laboratory Studies of HOx-NOx Chemistry and Measurement Intercomparisons
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William H Brune($379,727), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Air, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Climate, Environments, Focused, GTHOS, GTHOSFAGE, Greater-than-expected, HO, Instrument, OH, Species, Values.

The Role of Peroxy Radicals: Linking Gas-Phase Oxidation Chemistry to Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nga Lee Ng($238,782), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Middle School, Soa Formation, Aerosol, Conditions, Effects, Focuses, Lead, OH, Peroxy, Radicals, Reaction.

Southeast Atmosphere Studies Workshop: Intensive Observation Period Modeling to Improve Mechanistic Representation of Trends; Princeton, New Jersey; June 2015
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jingqiu Mao($20,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Biogenic, Campaign, Climate, Collected, Focus, Formation, Modeling, Models, Organic, Regional, SAS, SOA, Southeast, Species, Workshop.

CAREER: Researching Chemical and Optical Properties of Secondary Organic Aerosol and Effective Practices for Environmental Science Education
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Roya Bahreini($793,466), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Secondary Organic Aerosol, Optical Properties, Aerosols, Chamber, Characteristics, Chemical, Conditions, Education, Experiments, Focused, Influenced, Involve, Oxidation, SOA, STEM, School, Sources, Teachers.

Combined Lab, Field, and Modeling Studies Aimed to Improve our Understanding of Sources of Ice Nuclei and their Impact on Western US Precipitation Processes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Andrew C Martin($957,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Aerosol, Aerosols, California, Cloud, Clouds, Dust, Ground, Ice, Interaction, Interactions, Mass, Measured, Microphysics, Model, Numerical, Precipitation, Processes, Spectra.

Constraining the Role of Gas-Phase Organic Oxidation in New-Particle Formation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Neil M Donahue($470,302), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Particle Formation, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Climate, Condensation, Forcing, Growth, Interactions, Oxidation, Steps.

International Workshop on Comparing Ice Nucleation Measuring Systems 2014 (ICIS 2014) #3
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel J Cziczo($194,014), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Ice Forming Particles, Ice Particles, AIDA, Atmospheric, Clouds, Compared, Composition, Ice-nucleating, Instruments, Producing, Site, Workshop.

Influence of Free Tropospheric Ozone and Particulate Matter on Surface Air Quality in the Western U.S.
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel A Jaffe($923,449), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Controlling Factors, Particulate Matter, Wildfire Plumes, Acetonitrile, Aerosol, Asia, Atmospheric, Bachelor, Collection, Concentrations, Examine, Interannual, MBO, Mt, Ozone, PM, Particle, Pollutants, Site, Sources, Spring, Transport, Western.

SAVI: CLOUD Virtual Institute and Chemical Physics of Atmospheric New-Particle Formation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Neil M Donahue($889,312), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Training Network, Analysis, Based, CLOUD, CLOUD-TRAIN, CVI, Caltech, Campaigns, Consortium, Educators, Enable, European, Frankfurt, Institute, Interactions, NSF, National, Participation, Planning, SAVI, Students, Summer, Virtual.

Modeling Satellite Correlations of Aerosol Optical Depth Versus Cloud Optical Depth Over Megacities
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mark Z Jacobson($460,199), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Soot And Gases, Baseline Simulation, Cloud Absorption, Global Climate, Investigating Satellite, Optical Depth, AOD, Aerosol, Aerosols, Atmosphere, Boomerang, COD, Clouds, Computer, Decrease, Effect, Effects, Increase, Indirect, Megacities, Model, Models, Relative, Sensitivity, Thickness, Unequal.

Lake Sediments as Records of Atmospheric Elemental Carbon, ~1900 to 2014
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Liaquat Husain($151,330), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Atmospheric Ec, Ec Aerosols, Ec Concentration, Ec Concentrations, Lake Sediments, Whiteface Mt, Archived, Century, Cores, Determined, Filters, Fine.

Measuring Air-Sea Gas Exchange in High Winds for Improvement of Physics-Based Air-Sea Transfer Parameterizations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Byron W Blomquist($128,587), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Air-sea Gas, Hiwings Cruise, Wind Speeds, Analysis, Flux, Gases, Hours, Transfer.

Collaborative Research: Up-scaling from Leaf to Canopy the Aerosol-sized Particle Collection Mechanism Within a Non-uniform Canopy Medium
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sara C Pryor($54,170), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Fluxes And Mean, Concentration Profiles, Dry Deposition, Forested Sites, Particle Deposition, Particle Size, Aerosol, Aspects, Canopy, Collection, Concentrations, Descriptions, Experiments, Foliage, Leaf, Level, Models, Regional, Size-resolved, Surface, Turbulence, Uncertainties, Via.

MRI: Development: Development of a Ship-based C-Band Polarimetric Radar
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Ve Chandrasekar($917,836), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Field Studies, Knowledge Gained, Land Versus, Oceanic Weather, Vast Oceans, Capability, Exist, Gaps, Precipitation, Processes, Radar, Rainfall, Sea, Serve, Ship-based, Techniques, Various, World.

MRI: Development of C-band Mobile Polarimetric Imaging Radar
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Jorge L Salazar Cerreno($2,109,118), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Current Mobile, Weather Radar, Broader, Capable, Fast, PAIR, Phased-array, Scanning, Topics, °.

MRI: Acquisition of CI-API-TOFMS (Chemical Ionization Atmospheric Pressure Interface Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer) to Measure Condensible Vapors Associated with Fine Particles
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Ryan C Sullivan($439,950), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Organic Aerosol, CMU, Chemical, Compounds, Condensation, Factor, Instrument, OA, Particle.

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Summer Policy Colloquium 2015-2017; Washington, DC
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. William H Hooke($367,200), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Colloquium Participants, Attendees, Faculty, Information, Instruction, Leaders, Legislative, National, Policy, Policymakers, Provided, Public, Skills, Students.

RAPID: Developing a Community Aquaplanet Model
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: CI REUSE

1. Amy C Clement($232,271), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atmospheric, CAM, Development, Model, Version.

Studies in the Climate Dynamics of Moist Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. J David Neelin($1,043,639), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ambient Conditions, Convective Precipitation, Precipitation Onset, Rain Rate, Atmospheric, Behavior, CESM, CWV, Climate, Clouds, Column, Considered, Dependence, Development, Extreme, Fast, Frequency, Function, Large-scale, Magnitude, Model, Models, Moist, Moisture, Occurrence, Operate, Probability, Process, Processes, Rescaling, Sensitivity, Statistics, Stochastic, Temperature, Temperature-dependent, Total, Tropical, Value.

Role of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Atmosphere Feedback in North Pacific and Atlantic Climate Variability: A High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Study
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Ramalingam Saravanan($809,388), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Gulf Stream Fronts, Kuroshio And Gulf, Pacific And Atlantic, Climate Model, Modeling Analysis, North Pacific, Ocean Eddies, Coupled, Feedback, Field, OMEA, Remote, Resolution.

Understanding Essential Dynamics and Predictability of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO)
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Bin Wang($500,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Frictional Moisture Convergence, Moist Static Energy, Slow Eastward Propagation, Upscale Eddy Transport, Convective Interaction, Moisture Advection, Available, Coupled, Dynamical, Feedback, Flux, Generate, Heat, Instability, Intensification, Low, MJO, Mean, Mechanisms, Models, Momentum, Surface, Wave, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Congo Rainfall Variability and Trends
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sharon E Nicholson($259,553), Florida State University, Tallahassee
2. Liming Zhou($678,158), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Congo Basin, Drying Trend, Component, Decline, Drought, Economic, Examined, Forest, Forests, Global, Investigate, Modeling, Nature, Observational, Observations, Rainfall, Simulations.

Ice Nucleation in Cirrus Clouds: Anthropogenic Climate Forcing and Uncertainties
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Joyce E Penner($675,710), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Cirrus Clouds, Climate Forcing, Ice Formation, Model Predictions, Organic Aerosols, Soa Formation, Based, Differences, Effects, Inform, NHSO, Nucleation, Observations, Oxidation, Solid, Sulfate.

Studies of the Early-1990s Climate Shift in the Pacific and Its Linkage to the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jin-Yi Yu($849,543), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Pacific Climate Shift, Equatorial Pacific, Ocean-atmosphere Coupling, Sea Level, Subtropical Pacific, AMO, Atlantic, Central, Colder, Configurations, Consequences, ENSO, Eastern, Has, Intensification, Model, North, Occurred, Ocean-atmosphere, Oscillation, Region, Speed, Ssts, Surface, Warmer, Worldwide.

Exploring the Linkages among Mid-Latitude Dynamics, Clouds, and Climate Sensitivity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kevin M Grise($298,314), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Cloud Radiative Properties, Future Climate Projections, Clouds, Experiments, Mid-latitude, Model, Models, Observations, Southern, Versions.

The Precipitation Response to El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over Tropical South America: Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity and the Role of the Land Surface
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Benjamin R Lintner($459,601), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Large-scale Atmospheric Circulation, Boundary Layer, Broader Impacts, Land Surface, Land-atmosphere Coupling, Large-scale Atmospheric, Soil Moisture, Tropical South, Water Vapor, Analysis, Anomalies, CMIP, Conditions, Disruptions, ENSO, Expected, Factors, Heat, Land-atmosphere, Model, Models, Precipitation, Program, Rainfall, Reductions, Simulations, Statistical, Variable, Version.

Workshop on Storm Tracks, Jets, and their Modes of Variability in Switzerland; August 24-28, 2015
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tiffany A Shaw($15,000), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Moisture And Clouds, Tracks And Jets, Storm Tracks, Climate, Conditions, Coupling, Cryosphere, Dynamics, Extreme, Low-frequency, Model, Modes, Ocean, Regional, Shift, Stratosphere, Tropics, Workshop.

ONFIRE (ObservatioNs of Fire's Impact on the southeast atlantic REgion)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paquita Zuidema($17,837), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Aerosol Cloud, Biomass Burning, Boundary Layer, Southeast Atlantic, Campaign, Examined, Largest, Radiative.

Examining the Connections between Observed Atmospheric Gravity Waves and Convective Clouds for Improved Climate Simulations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Chuntao Liu($489,849), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Gravity Wave Activity, Gravity Wave Parameterizations, Weather And Climate, Climate Models, Gravity Waves, Mean Flow, Momentum Flux, Atmospheric, Circulation, Convection, Difficult, Estimate, Frontal, Generated, Generation, Large-scale, Propagation, Relatively, Satellite, Size, Sources, Strength, Tropical, Variety, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Observational and Modeling Studies of Overshooting Convection and Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Cameron R Homeyer($240,798), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Kenneth P Bowman($289,572), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Numerical Model Simulations, Spatial And Temporal, Atmospheric Chemistry, Geographic Distribution, Lower Stratosphere, Numerical Simulations, Overshooting Convection, Quantitative Estimates, Radar Observations, Satellite Ir, Stratosphere-troposphere Exchange, Temporal Resolution, Trace Gas, Based, Characteristics, Climate, Compared, Composited, Extend, Global, Investigate, Lead, Mechanisms, Ozone, Regional, Resolved, Stratosphere-troposphere, Transport, Tropopause.

Zonal Asymmetries in the Low-Latitude Hydrological Cycle over a Broad Range of Climates
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William R Boos($435,083), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Global Mean Climate, Mean Climate Warms, Sea Surface Temperature, Subsidence And Dry, Vertical Mass Flux, World's Population Inhabiting, Climate Model, Dry Conditions, Future Climate, Hydrological Contrasts, Hydrological Cycle, Model Projections, Monsoon Regions, Stationary Circulations, Substantial Portion, World's Population, Asymmetric, Atmospheric, Characterized, Development, Drylands, Examination, Idealized, Induce, Intensification, Land, Potential, Simulations, Strong, Subtropical, Subtropics, Water, Worlds.

Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate in Support of NSF's Missions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Amanda Staudt($740,000), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Activities, Administration, Atmospheric, BASC, Board, Climate, Committee, Core, Emerging, International, Issues, NRC, National, Oversight, Policy, Topics.

CAREER: Hydroclimatic Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Land Cover Change over South America: A Focus on the La Plata River Basin
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Francina Dominguez($574,123), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Land Surface Conditions, Recycling And Thermodynamicdynamic, Hydrology Courses, Land Cover, Lprb Precipitation, Moisture Recycling, Projected Future, Selected Students, Soil Moisture, Thermodynamicdynamic Effects, Water Vapor, Accompanied, Amazon, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Center, Continent, Deforestation, Developed, Effort, Evapotranspiration, Feedback, Feedbacks, Fieldwork, Has, Hydroclimatology, Hydrological, Influence, Land-atmosphere, Local, Model, Monsoon, Percent, Period, Processes, Reductions, Region, Regions, Relative, SAMS, Source, South, Statistical, Strength, Subsurface, Summer, Third, Transport, Version, WRF, Weather, Wrf-hydro.

Exploring the Causes for Indian Ocean Decadal Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Matthew E Newman($572,940), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Climate Model Experiments, Coupled Atmosphere-ocean Dynamics, Atmosphere-ocean Dynamics, Coupled Atmosphere-ocean, External Forcing, Indian Ocean, Io Sector, Io Ssts, Pacific Influence, Produce Decadal, Sst Anomalies, Aerosols, Affect, Basin, Climatic, Conditions, Continued, Extent, Frequency, Greenhouse, Hypothesizes, IOD, IPO, Increase, Influences, Internal, Linked, Mechanisms, Phase, Sea, Solar, Surface, Uniform, Variety, Warm, Warming, Worldwide.

Dynamics of Large-scale Monsoons and their Response to Climate Changes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Simona Bordoni($406,595), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Global Mean Temperature, Densely Populated, Model Simulations, Aquaplanet, Circulation, Climate, Continent, Convection, Future, Idealized, Large-scale, Models, Monsoon, Monsoons, Onset, Overturning, Premise, Projections, Regions, Zones.

2015 Graduate Climate Conference (GCC); Woods Hole, Massachusetts; November 6-8, 2015
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Raffaele Ferrari($20,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Graduate Climate, Graduate Students, Conference, Diverse.

The Dynamics of Jets and Waves in the Atmosphere and Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sukyoung Lee($500,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Southern Ocean, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Circulation, Climate, High-latitude, Jets, Knowledge, Processes, School, Surface, Tropical, Waves.

CAREER: Understanding the Role of Oceans in the Planetry Energy Budget
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Brian Rose($544,681), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Global Warming Simulations, Ice Albedo Feedback, Modeling And Analysis, Oht And Ohu, Regional Climate Feedbacks, Sea Ice Albedo, Climate Model, Climate Modeling, Climate Models, Heat Transport, Heat Uptake, Model Intercomparison, Ocean Heat, Python Language, Slab Ocean, Tropical Oceans, Amplifying, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Available, Choice, Codes, Cold, Commonly, Component, Computing, Consider, Contrast, Cooling, Developed, Development, Drying, Educational, Effect, Effects, Energy, Experiments, Explained, Extent, Forcing, Found, Ghg-induced, Has, Hiatus, Imposed, Interactive, Latitudes, MIP, Modules, Performed, Poles, Previous, Python-based, Refers, Regions, Simple, Simplified, Software, Students, Subtropical, Subtropics, Surface, Transfer, Transported, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: Observationally-Constrained Estimates of Effective Radiative Forcing from Aerosol Radiation Interactions
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Robert J Allen($325,735), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Chul Eddy Chung($178,322), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Aerosol Amounts, Aerosol Radiative, Anthropogenic Aerosols, Black Carbon, Climate Forcing, Cloud Radiative, Future Climate, Global Climate, Radiative Effects, Radiative Forcing, Solar Radiation, Clouds, Estimates, Fine-mode, Heating, Human, Lead, Local, Projections, Properties, Satellite, Student, Sulfate.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics and Predictability of East and Central Pacific El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Matthew E Newman($268,769), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Daniel Vimont($559,587), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Initial Structures, Stochastic Forcing, ENSO, Evolution, Pacific, Particular, Predictability.

Rectification of El Nino-Southern Oscillation as a Mechanism for the Tropical Pacific Decadal Variability: A Diabatic and Time-Dependent View
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. De-Zheng Sun($486,044), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Global Warming Hiatus, Component Model, Enso Activity, Ocean Temperature, Pacific Sst, Rectification Effect, Temperature Contrast, Tropical Pacific, Worldwide Impacts, Decadal, East-west, Favorable, Has, Imposed, Lead, Mechanism, Rearrangement, Region, Ssts, Stronger, Surface, TPDV, Weaker.

Trends and Variability of Temperatures near the Tropical Tropopause Layer and Implications for Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kerry A Emanuel($525,648), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Tropical Cyclones, Affect, Chemistry, Climate, Dynamics, Influence, Processes, Radiative, TTL.

Workshop: Decadal Climate Predictions: Improving Our Understanding of Processes and Mechanisms to Make Better Predictions; Aspen CO; June 7-12, 2015
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John Katzenberger($19,952), Aspen Global Change Institute, Basalt
Key terms: Decadal Climate Predictions, Formulate Productive Coordinated, Productive Coordinated Experiments, Bring, Compare, Coupled, Mechanisms, Processes, Workshop.

Impact of Total Column Water Vapor Measurements on Short- to Medium- Range Forecasts of North American Monsoon Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 05/11/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yolande L Serra($178,027), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Convective Initiation, Forecasting Model, Gps Receivers, Nam Precipitation, Ability, Forecasts, Ground-based, Mesoscale, Mexico, Network, Nonhydrostatic, Observations, Prediction, Region, Season, Southwest, Successful, TPW, Water, Weather.

2015 Gordon Research Conference on Radiation and Climate: Towards Understanding the Interactions between Radiation, Clouds, Aerosol, Precipitation and Climate in Maine; July 2015
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eugene Clothiaux($17,950), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Climate, Cloud, GRC, July, Radiation.

AGU Chapman Conference on The Width of the Tropics: Climate Variations and Their Impact; Santa Fe, New Mexico; July 26-31, 2015
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Pranoti Asher($20,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Tropical And Extratropical, Extratropical Zones, Tropical Belt, Tropical Widening, Tropical Width, Wide Range, Boundary, Climate, Future, Has, Past, Surface.

CAREER: Understanding Moisture Transport and Its Coupling to the Large-scale Energy and Momentum of the Northern Hemisphere Summer Circulation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tiffany A Shaw($734,610), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Nh Summer Circulation, Educational Activities, Moisture Transport, Secondary School, Climate, Columbia, Curriculum, Engage, Framework, Future, Teachers.

Workshop on Monsoons and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zones: The Annual Cycle in the Holocene and the Future
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michela Biasutti($20,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Annual Cycle, Climate, Future, ITCZ, Modeling, Past, Students, Workshop.

Hurricane and Climate Change in Chania, Greece; June 9-14, 2015
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jennifer M Collins($20,000), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Climate, Exchange, Future, Hurricane, International, Leading.

Coupled Processes that Determine the Basic States of Tropical Indian Ocean SeaSurface-Temperature (SST) and Asian Monsoon Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Julian P McCreary($500,028), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Eastern Indian Ocean, Southwestern Indian Ocean, Boreal Summer, Deep Convection, Indian-ocean Monsoon, Basic, CFES, Conditions, Coupled, Errors, Indian-ocean, Lead, Model, Precipitation, Processes, Sensitivity, Ssts, Temperature, Warm, Weak, Westerlies.

Multiscale Interaction between Deep Convection, African Easterly Waves, and Kelvin Waves over the Atlantic, Africa and the Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ademe Mekonnen($441,297), North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, Greensboro
Key terms: Deep Convection, Kelvin Wave, Kelvin Waves, Wave Activity, Aews, Africa, Convective, Does, Interaction, Ocean, Terrain, Transition.

Air-sea Interaction and Island Geography Impacts on Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Initiation and Propagation Through the MAritime Continent
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Charlotte A Demott($513,084), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Maritime Continent Geography, Mjo Convective Development, Air-sea Interaction, Mjo Convection, Air-sea, Coupled, Eastward, Gcms, Influences, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Propagate, Propagation, Simulate, Simulation, Struggle, Tropical, Weather.

A New Look At Sahel Rainfall Variability Over Two Centuries
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sharon E Nicholson($723,836), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Monsoon Rain Belt, 20th Century, Sahel Rainfall, AWJ, African, Drought, Half, Has, Jet, Late, Prolonged, Rains, Re-examination, Region, Societal, Strong, TEJ.

Collaborative Research: Sources of Black Carbon, Methane Sulfonic Acid, and Other Particulate Constituents over 45 Years in the Arctic
Award Effective Date: 01/03/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Liaquat Husain($43,292), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Arctic, BC, Climate, Concentrations, Contributions, Health, Kevo, PM, Particles, Sulfate, Trends.

CAREER: Water and Energy Cycle Research and Education from the Stable Water Isotope Budget Near a Tall Tower in the Colorado Front Range
Award Effective Date: 10/13/2014; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David C Noone($217,887), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Determining Isotopic Composition, Factors Determining Isotopic, Gas Exchange, Middle Schools, Useful Information, Water Vapor, Atmosphere, Carbon, Evaporation, Fluxes, Heat, Isotope, Land, Latent, Meteorological, Precipitation, Processes, Serve, Soil, Strength, Students, Surface, Tower.

PBO H2O: GPS Reflection-Based Climate Products for 2007-2017
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: DEEP EARTH PROCESSES SECTION

1. Kristine M Larson($511,798), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Vegetation Water Content, Existing Dataset, Gps Signals, Gps Stations, L2c Signals, L2p Signals, Sampling Rate, Snow Depth, Soil Moisture, Sub-daily Frequency, Surface Hydrology, Algorithms, Available, Decade-long, Developed, Difficult, GPS-IR, Hydrological, LC, LP, Network, PBO, Period, Pis, Produce, Receiver, Reflected, Satellite, Student, Sub-daily, Value, Variables.

CNH-S: RUI: Understanding the effective processes by which communities manage tropical forests
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Carrie L Woods($500,000), Colgate University, Hamilton
Key terms: Ecological Status, Manage Forests, Social Cohesion, Assess, Community-based, Contribute, Effective, Insights, Management.

CNH-S: The New 100th Meridian: Urban Water Resiliency in a Climatic and Demographic Hot Spot
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Kevin Wagner($499,923), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Future Water Resiliency, 100th Meridian, 21st Century, Central Texas, Climatic Boundary, Humid East, Water Scarcity, Activities, Changing, Climate, Development, Drought, Growth, Population, Projected, Region, Regional, Regions, West.

CNH-L: Linking Ecosystem Services and Governance of Water Resources in Urbanized Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Mitchell A Pavao Zuckerman($1,798,784), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Arid And Semiarid, Ecosystem Service Provision, Natural And Human, Policy And Governance, Built Environment, Ecosystem Services, Semiarid Cities, Water Resources, Action, Actions, Affect, Challenge, Conditions, Decision, Decision-making, Does, Eco-hydrologic, Focus, Growth, Influence, Information, Infrastructure, Integrate, Investigations, Knowledge, Lead, Municipal, Population, Processes, Require, Semi-arid, Social, Specifically, Urbanization, Urbanized.

CNH-L: Coastal Processes and Human Response to Shoreline Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Porter Hoagland($1,799,958), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Coastal Evolution, Coastal Protection, Developed Shoreline, Sea-level Rise, Climate, Description, Development, Dynamics, Economic, Effects, Framework, Geologic, Human, Integrated, Interactions, Legal, Models, Policy, Processes, Sea-level, Set, Settings, Storm.

CNH-L: The Coupled Dynamics of Human-Dryland River Systems: Linkages and Feedbacks Between Human and Environmental Drivers of Water Quality and Human Health
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: DYN COUPLED NATURAL-HUMAN

1. Adil N Godrej($1,834,999), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Microbial Water Quality, Coupled Dynamics, Coupled Natural, Diarrheal Disease, Dryland River, Public Health, River Floodplains, Description, Drylands, Examine, Fluvial, Forecasting, Human, Increased, Influence, Knowledge, Modeling, Multidisciplinary, Processes, Regions, Tools, Vulnerable.

REU Site: Regional Atmospheric Chemistry: State-of-the-art Measurement and Modeling in the Pacific Northwest
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Shelley Pressley($326,910), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Faculty And Graduate, Atmospheric Chemistry, Graduate School, Campus, Climate, Collaborative, Communication, Context, Developing, Engineering, Field, Modeling, Opportunities, Participants, Productive, Program, STEM, Student, Students, Underrepresented.

REU Site: Advancing Space Science through Undergraduate Research Experience (ASSURE) at University of California (UC) Berkeley
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Claire L Raftery($369,681), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Solar And Space, First-generation Students, Minority Students, Reu Site, Space Physics, Design, Experience, Field, First-generation, Has, Mentoring, Mentors, Opportunities, Outreach, Program, SSL, STEM, Serve, Summer.

REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Climate Science at Colorado State University
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. A S Denning($595,766), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Reu Participants, Experience, Mentors, Network, Presentation, Recruited, Students, Summer, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Atmospheric Science Experiences in Portland State University (PSU)'s Center for Climate and Aerosol Research
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Linda A George($408,229), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Climate And Aerosol, Air Quality, Reu Experience, Ten-week Summer, Analysis, Atmospheric, Communication, Development, Dynamic, Evaluation, Experiences, Innovative, Mentoring, Model, Modeling, Online, Pool, Program, Serve, Site, State-of-the-art, Students, Synoptic, Technical, Ten-week.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Snowfall Processes on Potential Vorticity Generation in High-Latitude Snow Events
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Timothy J Garrett($448,966), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Tristan S LEcuyer($366,877), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Norway And Sweden, Remote Sensing, Storm Evolution, Affect, Microphysical, Modeling, Models, Numerical, Observations, Precipitation, Processes, Profile, Profiles, Properties, Real-world, Representation, Site, Snowfall, Vertical, Weather.

Collaborative Research: CubeSat: Observing Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) Beams With A Pair Of CubeSats
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Michael S Briggs($457,629), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
2. Michael R Fogle($662,587), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Gamma Rays, Lightening Physics, Particle Acceleration, Tgf Observations, AU, Advance, Atmosphere, Auburn, Classes, Cubesat, Cubesats, Distinguish, Existing, Gamma-ray, Involved, Lightning, Mission, Models, Pair, Phenomenon, Process, Program, Purpose, Space, Student, Students, Summer, TRYAD, Tgfs.

CAREER: In Situ Study of Aerosols in the Coarse Mode With Digital Holography
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Matthew J Berg($522,706), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
Key terms: Size And Shape, Digital Holographic, Optical Observables, Particle Size, Aerosols, Apply, Cmas, Developed, Measured, Planned, Scattering, Seeks.

CAREER: Study of the Most Energetic SEPs from Space with the State-of-the-Art Experiment AMS-02
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Veronica Bindi($577,010), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: AMS-, Educational, Energy, Generate, Lead, Mechanisms, Outreach, Particles, Protons, SEP, Solar, Space, Spectrograms, Tools.

CAREER: From Cradle to Grave: Radiative Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Rajan K Chakrabarty($736,168), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Direct Radiative Forcing, Biomass-burning Aerosols, Modeling Efforts, Biomass-burning, Education, Effects, Experiments, K-, Laboratory, Lead, Processes, Properties, Shape.

Tropospheric Influences on Stratospheric Low-frequency Variability
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Thomas J Reichler($525,784), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Polar Vortex, Climate, Contribute, Decadal, Future, Graduate, Influence, Models, Predictions, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Troposphere.

Feedbacks between Vegetation, Aerosol and Cloud Processes Using Observations and a Unified Regional Climate Model
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: EarthCube

1. Stephen M Saleeby($648,866), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Cloud-aerosol Interactions, Aerosols, Allow, Cloud-aerosol, Clouds, Feedbacks, Induced, Modeling, VAC-RAMS, Water.

DYNAmics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Legacy Data Products
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: EarthCube

1. Robert A Houze($788,836), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Indian Ocean, Madden-julian Oscillation, Campaign, Climate, Collected, Convection, Convective, DYNAMO, Dataset, Facilitate, Field, Level, MJO, Models, Observing, Occurred, Processed, Products, Sounding, Success, Was, Weather.

The CSU-CHILL National Facility
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Steven A Rutledge($1,694,774), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Lower Atmosphere Observing, Csu-chill Staff, Weather Radar, CSU-CHILL, Colorado, Complete, Continue, Development, Dual-frequency, Operation, Precipitation, Program, REU, S-band, Storm, Winter.

CAREER: Quantification of Ionosphere/Thermosphere System Drivers, State Parameters, and Fundamental Coupling Mechanisms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Lara S Waldrop($499,996), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Ionosphere And Thermosphere, Charge Exchange, Density Distributions, Undergraduate Students, Via Parametric, Advances, Analysis, Balance, Coupled, Development, Enable, Energy, Hydrogen, ISR, Involve, Ionized, Momentum, Neutral, Obtain, Optical, Oxygen, Parameters, Quantification, Temperatures.

MRI: Development of An Airborne Infrared Spectrometer (AIR-Spec) for Coronal Emission Line Observation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Edward E DeLuca($1,200,591), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Coronal Emission Lines, Heating And Acceleration, Scientists And Engineers, Solar And Atmospheric, Coronal Hole, Coronal Magnetic, Image Stabilization, Magnetic Field, Plasma Diagnostics, Solar Corona, Solar Eclipse, Solar Wind, Total Solar, Air-spec, Analysis, Arcsec, August, Completion, Design, Eclipses, Expected, Experiments, Flight, Fly, Future, GV, Ground, HAO, Has, Imaging, Infrared, Instrument, Instrumentation, July, Measure, Multiple, Museum, NCAR, National, Observations, Observatory, Observed, Planned, Possibility, Potential, RMS, Range, Region, Resolution, SAO, Sec, South, Spectrometer, Spectroscopy, Unique, Waves.

Space Weather Workshop 2015; Boulder, CO; April 13-17, 2015
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

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

Collaborative Research: The Meteorological Variability of the Two Dimensional/Temporal Structures of Drop Size Distributions and Rain
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Arthur R Jameson($437,107), RJH Scientific Incorporated, El Cajon
2. Michael L Larsen($345,911), College of Charleston, Charleston
Key terms: Correlation Function, Meteorological Conditions, Spatial Correlation, Video Disdrometer, DVD, Disdrometers, Effect, Expand, Fall, Focus, Individual, Instruments, Observations, Optical, Radar, Rain, Raindrops, Rainfall, Sets, Size, Temporal, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Extreme Rainfall in Urban Environments
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. James A Smith($283,121), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Dev Niyogi($313,096), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Rainfall And Flooding, Urbanization And Extreme, Extreme Flooding, Extreme Rainfall, Urban Environment, Urban Environments, Urban Watersheds, Urbanization Alter, Urbanization Impacts, Climate, Curriculum, Distribution, Does, Engineering, Environmental, Focus, Following, Offices, Princeton, Purdue, Regional, Setting, Spatial, Storm, Students, Training, Undergraduate.

Summer School in Land-atmosphere Interactions
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Paul A Dirmeyer($49,770), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Land-atmosphere Interactions, Summer School, Land-atmosphere, Objective, Targeted, Training, Universities, Workshop.

International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy (ISEA); October 19-23, 2015; Bahir Dar, Ethiopia
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Philip J Erickson($25,152), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: African Sector, Space Weather, Aeronomy, Collection, ISEA, International, Opportunities.

2015 US-Taipei Severe Weather and Extreme Precipitation Workshop in Taiwan
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: International Research Collab

1. Karyn Sawyer($30,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Property Damage, Societal Effects, Ability, Dynamics, Enhanced, Extreme, Flash, Flooding, Forecasting, Lives, Local, Meteorology, NSF, Precipitation, Taiwan, Workshop.

EAGER: Transformative Modeling Studies of Magnetosphere-Ionosphere/Thermosphere System
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jiannan Tu($296,683), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Electric Currents, Electromagnetic Model, Ionosphereupper Atmosphere, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, Time Steps, Upper Atmosphere, Algorithms, Altitude, Coupled, Developing, Disturbances, Environment, Fields, Follow, Generation, Geospace, Global, Models, Nature, Numerical, Rapid, Rapidly, Run, Short, Surrounding, Trigger.

Collaborative Research: Inner-Magnetospheric Array for Geospace Science: iMAGS
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mark B Moldwin($412,566), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Endawoke Yizengaw($252,000), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Communications And Gps, Low And Equatorial, Structure And Dynamics, Teachers And Students, Equatorial Electrojet, Equatorial Latitudes, Magnetic Field, Radio Communications, Radio Scintillation, Radio-wave Scintillations, Ulf Waves, Wave Activity, Affect, Dayside, Density, Earth, Effects, Examine, Formation, Irregularities, Mass, PBL, Phenomenon, Plasma, Plasmapause, Plasmasphere, Propagate, Public, Resonant, Space, Strong.

Workshop on the Impacts of Space Weather on Economic Vitality and National Security; College Park, Maryland
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. A Surjalal Sharma($30,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Industry And Government, Space Weather, Academia, Close, Comprehensive, Critical, Development, Economic, Experts, Forum, Infrastructures, Maryland, Participants, Report, Sectors, Venue, Vulnerability, Workshop.

HyperOVATION: Continuous Global Auroral Imaging at High Cadence
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jesper W Gjerloev($355,790), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Auroral Precipitation, Global Information, Magnetic Field, Precipitation Models, Space Weather, Upper Atmosphere, Cadence, Coupling, Detailed, Development, Effects, Energy, Geomagnetic, Hyperovation, Local, Maps, OVATION-SM, Produce, Solar, Tool, Unlike.

GEM: Experimental Identification of Plasma Wave Modes in Vicinity of KH Vortices and in Plasma 'Mixing' Regions in Low Latitude Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Katariina Nykyri($179,670), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Kinetic Alfven Waves, Magnetic Field Lines, Dispersion Relation, Earth's Magnetic, Kelvin-helmholtz Waves, Low Frequency, Plasma Wave, Plasma Waves, Solar Wind, Space Storms, Commonly, Energy, Has, Introduces, Ions, Kelvin-helmholtz, Magnetopause, Magnetosphere, Medium, Mixed, Modes, Observed, Populations, Power, Process, Recently, Region, Shield, Spacecraft, Successful, Surface, Technique, Variety, Vicinity.

GEM: Subauroral Polarization Streams (SAPS): Stormtime Empirical Modeling, Database Generation and Comparison with Rice Convection Model-Equilibrium (RCM-E)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Phillip C Anderson($270,440), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Magnetic Field Lines, Space Weather Disturbances, Auroral Oval, Electric Fields, Empirical Model, Inner Magnetosphere, Ionospheric Conductance, Altitude, Aspect, Coupling, Distribution, Dusk, Effects, Electrons, Evolution, Explorer, Geophysical, Global, Ionosphere, Ions, Plasma, Produce, Producing, RCM, Resulting, SAPS, Satellites, Solar, Storm, Storms, Strong, Subauroral.

Dynamics of the Inner Radiation Belt Near the Trapping Limit
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mary K Hudson($374,999), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Inner Radiation Belt, Magnetic Field Lines, Van Allen Probes, Energetic Protons, Geomagnetic Cutoff, High-energy Protons, Inner Belt, Magnetic Bottle, Solar Protons, Solar Wind, Changing, Configuration, Earth, High-energy, Interplanetary, Interplay, Investigation, Magnetosphere, Models, Numerical, Observations, Penetrate, Region, Storms, Time, Trapped.

Acceleration of Electrons in a Reconnecting Magnetotail
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Maha Ashour-Abdalla($387,691), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Electric And Magnetic, Space Environment Near, Dipolarization Fronts, Graduate Student, Large-scale Kinetic, Magnetic Energy, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Fields, Multi-scale Approach, Neutral Line, Reconnection Site, Wide Range, Accelerated, Acceleration, Account, Broad, Compared, Configuration, Dynamics, Earth, Effects, Electrons, Energization, Global, Heating, Importance, Involved, Laboratory, Large-scale, MHD, Magnetospheric, Magnetotail, Multi-scale, Nightside, Particle, Physics, Plasma, Process, Processes, Quantitative, Region, Relative, Simulation, Simulations, Substorms, Taking, Various.

Wave-vector-resolved Study of Lightning Whistler Propagation and Energetics in the Low-latitude Plasmasphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Abram R Jacobson($446,261), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Electric Field Observations, Inner Radiation Belt, Wave Electric Field, Earth-ionosphere Wave-guide, Lightning Strikes, Low Latitudes, Lower Ionosphere, Magnetic Field, Moving Upward, Radiation Belts, Believed, Earth-ionosphere, Information, Low-latitude, Satellite, Trapped, Vectors, Wave-guide, Whistlers.

Properties of Meso-scale Polar Cap Structures and their Coupling to Nightside Auroral Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yukitoshi Nishimura($299,629), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Patches And Arcs, Polar Cap Patches, Polar Cap Structures, Nightside Ionosphere, Space Weather, Auroral, Coupling, Determined, Determining, Disturbances, Effort, Establishing, Flow, Forecast, Fraction, Ionospheric, Magnetosphere, Pbis, Properties.

Collaborative Research: Coordinated Radar and Optical Analysis of Flow Channel Disturbances within the Nightside Auroral Oval/Plasma Sheet
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yukitoshi Nishimura($528,674), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Shasha Zou($94,683), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Flow Channel, Flow Channels, Meso-scale Flow, Space Weather, Auroral, Coupling, Disturbances, Dynamics, Earth, Establishing, Forecast, Ionosphere, Large-scale, Meso-scale, Nightside, Observations, Relation.

CAREER: Kinetic Phenomena Upstream from the Earth's Bow Shock and Their Geomagnetic Effects
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hui Zhang($650,564), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Solar Wind Energy, Solar Wind-magnetosphere Interaction, Undisturbed Solar Wind, Bow Shock, Magnetic Field, Near-earth Space, Outreach Activities, Solar Wind-magnetosphere, Space Weather, Wind-magnetosphere Interaction, Actually, Conditions, Connected, Features, Mechanisms, Modify, Nearth, Observations, Plasma, Produce, Produced, Transients, Underlying, Upstream, Value, Various.

Understanding Storm-Time Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) Wave Occurrences and Their Relationship to Ground Signatures
Award Effective Date: 04/27/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hyomin Kim($252,667), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Emic Waves, Heavy Ions, Radiation Belt, Dynamics, Ground, Has, Investigate, Magnetic, Observations, Observed, Particles, Propagation, Space, Storm, THEMIS.

Measurement Techniques for Solar and Space Physics Conference; Boulder, CO; April 20-24, 2015
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Meg Austin($15,531), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Survey, Techniques, Workshop.

Structure and Dynamics of the Diffusion Region During Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 08/02/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Li-Jen Chen($268,506), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Asymmetric Reconnection, Diffusion Region, Graduate Students, Laboratory Experiments, Magnetic Reconnection, Plasma Physics, Collisionless, Courses, Knowledge, Observations, Plasmas, Simulations, Space.

AGU Chapman Conference Low-Frequency Waves in Space Plasmas; September 1-5, 2014
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Pranoti Asher($20,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: AGU, Chapman, Conference, Meetings, Waves.

AGU Chapman Conference on Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Solar System; Yosemite National Park, California; February 10-14, 2014
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2014; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Pranoti Asher($20,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Coupled, Ionosphere, Plasma.

MRI: Development of a Synchronous Direct Digital Receiver System for Geospace Imaging Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2012; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Michele W McColgan($564,807), Siena College, Loudonville
Key terms: Build, Design, Digital, Engineering, High-energy, Imaging, Nearth, Network.

P2C2: Collaborative Research: Dust Deposition, Paleo-Export Production, and Migration of the (ITCZ) Through the Last Glacial Cycle in the West-Central Pacific (Line Islands)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gisela Winckler($529,204), Columbia University, New York
2. Franco Marcantonio($235,122), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Dust Deposition, Carbon, Climate, Glacial, ITCZ, Interglacial, Ocean, Processes, Productivity, Removal, School.

RAPID: Characterizing the Chemical and Physical Signature of the 2015-16 El Nino in the Quelccaya Ice Cap Snow and Ice to Calibrate Past ENSO Reconstructions
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Emilie G Beaudon($96,299), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Past El Niño, Ice Cores, Chemical, Climate, Delta, ENSO, Facilitate, Features, Forcing, Frequencythe, Intensity, Markers, Melt, Pits, Potential, QIC, Snow, Southern, Species, Temperature.

RAPID: Capturing the Signature of a Strong El Nino Event in Galapagos Lake Sediment Records: the 2015/16 El Nino Opportunity
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Diane Thompson($68,758), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Genovesa And Bainbridge, Strong El Niño, Crater Lakes, Long-term Monitoring, Strong El, Archives, Climate, ENSO, Existing, Galápagos, Instruments, Limnology, Long-term, Past, Reconstructions, Sediment, Sedimentation.

P2C2: Geophysical Reconnaissance to Expand Ice Core Hydroclimate Reconstructions in the Northeast Pacific
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Seth Campbell($214,890), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Ice Core Sites, Accumulation Rate, Corrected Accumulation, Eclipse Icefield, Elias Range, Ice Cores, K-12 Teachers, King Col, Layer Thinning, Mca-lia Transition, Ne Pacific, Numerical Modeling, Past Millennium, Precipitation Anomaly, Spatial Precipitation, Advancing, Conditions, ENSO, Estimate, Geophysical, Hunter, Hydroclimate, Logan, MCA-LIA, Mt, NSF, Occurred, Outreach, Persistent, Program, Region, St, Students, Techniques.

P2C2: Collaborative Research: Past Ocean-Atmosphere Variability from Spatiotemporal Patterns of North Atlantic Climate During the Common Era
Award Effective Date: 10/20/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Kevin J Anchukaitis($93,491), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Rosanne D D'Arrigo($416,411), Columbia University, New York
3. Kevin J Anchukaitis($93,491), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: North Atlantic Basin, Singular Value Decomposition, Coupled Modes, Drought Atlas, Summer Hydro-climate, Domain, Europe, Fields, Forcings, Global, Hydro-climate, NADA, OWDA, Student, Temperature, Time, Version.

EAGER: Normalizing Paleoclimate Variables to Support Data Intensive Science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Carrie Morrill($208,409), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Datasets, EAGER, Field, Forward, NSF, Paleoclimate, Paleoclimatology, Proxy, Public, Standards, Transformative, Variables, Vocabularies, Wdc-paleo, Wider.

Support for the Participation of U.S. Scientists and Students in the International Conference on Global Positioning System (GPS) Radio Occultation; Taipei, Taiwan; March 9-11, 2016
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Nicholas Pedatella($48,988), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Gps Radio Occultation, Broader Impacts, Attend, COSMIC, COSMIC-, Conference, Development, Forecasts, GPSRO, Has, Meeting, Mission, Nsf-funded, Observations, Observing, Participants, Partnership, Satellites, Students, Taiwanese, Technique, Travel, Weather.

P2C2: Collaborative Research:Spatiotemporal Variability of Northwestern North American Temperatures in Response to Climatic Forcing
Award Effective Date: 08/24/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Kevin J Anchukaitis($105,155), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Kevin J Anchukaitis($105,155), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Gregory C Wiles($146,480), College of Wooster, Wooster
4. Rosanne D D'Arrigo($454,739), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate Forcing, Northwestern North, Past Millennium, Past Temperature, Alaska, Archives, Available, BI, Chronologies, Climatic, Climatically-sensitive, Compared, Decadal, Existing, Internal, MXD, Model, Modes, Native, Northern, Pacific, Program, Reconstructions, Regions, Resulting, Spatiotemporal, Students, Technique, Tree-ring, Undergraduate, Yield.

EAGER: Deglacial Chronology of Bermuda Rise
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Lloyd D Keigwin($97,781), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Northeast Bermuda Rise, Age, Chronology, Climate, Cores, Dating, Deep, EAGER, Future, Inconsistencies, Radiocarbon, Sediments.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Last Interglacial Earth System: Testing Transient Climate and Ice-sheet Simulations with a Proxy-data Network
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Feng He($100,007), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Peter U Clark($80,436), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Greenland Ice Sheet, Sea Level, Sheet Model, Celsius, Climate, Coupled, Feedbacks, High-resolution, Investigate, LIG, Ocean, Period, Simulations, Transient, Warming.

RUI: P2C2--Assessing the Influence of Extreme Rainfall Events on Australian Stalagmite Reconstructions of Tropical Cyclone Landfalls and the Indo-Australian Summer Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Rhawn F Denniston($149,601), Cornell College, Mount Vernon
Key terms: Extreme Rainfall, Tropical Cyclones, Cave, Conditions, Hydrologic, Isotopic, Meteorological, Temperature.

EAGER: Investigating Seasonal and Interannual Variability of Central Asia Paleo-Hydroclimate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Syee Weldeab($55,237), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Based Age Model, Drip Water Chemistry, Cave Drip, Activities, Delta, EAGER, Hydroclimate, Preliminary, Program, Timescales, Transformative.

P2C2: Amazonian Tree-Ring Chronologies for Climate and Streamflow Reconstruction
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Song Feng($418,656), University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
Key terms: Amazon Basin, Annual Rings, Ensemble Simulations, Ocean-atmospheric Forcing, Short Instrumental, Tree-ring Chronologies, Tropical Hardwoods, Amazonia, Bolivia, Brazil, CMIP, Century, Climate, Context, Dating, Discharge, Eastern, Exact, Exist, Forest, Forests, Has, Hydroclimatic, Hydrological, Model, Moisture, North, Ocean-atmospheric, Past, Precipitation, Proven, Reconstructions, Spatially, Species, Tree-ring.

P2C2:Collaborative Research: Data-Model Comparison of Holocene Pacific Hydroclimate Variability on the Hawaiian Islands Using Geochemical Records and SynTraCE-21 Simulations
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. David W Beilman($359,200), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Oliver Elison Timm($240,000), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Hawaiian Islands, North Pacific, Circulation, Climate, Insights, Paleoclimate, Storm.

P2C2: Signatures of the Toba Super-eruption in Borneo Stalagmites
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Ellery D Ingall($434,467), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Gunung Mulu, Radiative Effects, Volcanic Eruptions, Ash, Borneo, Climate, Compare, Delta-o, Exceptionally, Hydro-climate, Hydroclimate, Loading, Public, Reconstructions, Represent, Simulations, Size, Stalagmite, Stalagmites, Time, Toba, Well-dated.

P2C2: Climate and Environmental Variability over the Last Glacial Cycle from Ice Cores in the Western Kunlun Mountains (Tibetan Plateau)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Ellen Mosley-Thompson($1,374,171), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Guliya Ice Cap, Ice Cores, Tibetan Plateau, Assess, Atmospheric, Beyond, Climate, Climatic, Eemian, Environmental, Establish, GIC, Glacial, Holocene, International, Period, Polar, Regional, Site, Summit, Time.

P2C2:Collaborative Research: A Speleothem Study of the Paleoclimatology of the Yucatan Peninsula: Testing Modes and Causes of Variability in the North American Tropics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Stephen J Burns($148,124), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Martin Medina-Elizalde($162,805), Amherst College, Amherst
Key terms: Climate Regimes, Rio Secreto, Available, Cave, Driving, ENSO, Estimates, Holocene, Hydrological, ITCZ, MIS, Precipitation, Quantitative, Rainfall, Reconstruct, Region, Sensitivity, Shifts, Stalagmites, Tropical, YP.

P2C2: Relationships Between Regional Climatic Patterns, Wood Anatomy, and Hydraulic Architecture of Conifer Species in the Western US
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Emanuele Ziaco($461,883), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Wood Anatomical Features, Climatic Signals, Dendroclimatic Reconstructions, ENSO, El, Hydraulic, Inter-annual, Intra-annual, Main, PDO, Pseudotsuga, Size, Western.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Modalities and Time-scale of Climate Variability During the Late Holocene in Southwestern North America
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Victor J Polyak($422,718), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Matthew S Lachniet($185,684), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
Key terms: Climate Modulators, Hydrologic Cycles, Predictive Capability, AMO, Benefit, Chemical, Has, Isotopic, NAM, Oscillation, Proxies, Regional, Seasonal, Time-scales.

Workshop: Effectively Communicating Science; August 2015-2017
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Linda M Thorstad($581,806), Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Saint Paul
Key terms: Communicate And Teach, Communicating And Teaching, Complex Stem Concepts, Teach Complex Stem, Challenging Settings, Teaching Complex, Effectively, Expertise, Faculty, Non-scientists, Participants, Practice, Public, Range, Workshop, Workshops.

P2C2:Collaborative Research: Rocky Mountain Ecohydrology During the Eemian Interglacial
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Max B Berkelhammer($226,654), University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago
2. Nadja Insel($86,589), Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago
Key terms: Growing Season Temperatures, Denver Museum, Eemian Wood, Forest Health, Carbon, Century, Circulation, Climate, Collaboration, Coupled, Dominant, Ecosystem, Efficiency, Forests, Global, Hydrology, Isotope, Modern, Nature, Pco, Rocky, Snowmelt, Species, Summer, Tree, Warming, Water, Western.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Small-scale Lightning Discharges Associated with Explosive Volcanic Activity at Sakurajima Volcano
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Petrology and Geochemistry

1. Ronald J Thomas($187,553), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Stephen R McNutt($317,492), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Explosive Volcanic Eruption, Electric Field, Electrical Activity, Electrical Discharges, Explosive Eruption, High-speed Video, Length Scales, Lightning Mapping, Plume Development, Small-scale Discharges, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Lightning, Volcanic Vent, Concurrent, High-resolution, High-speed, Infrasound, Lighting, Minutes, Observations, Proximal, Proximally, Small-scale.

Mountain-Wave Evolution and Orographic Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Dale R Durran($733,495), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Mountain Ranges, Climate, Drag, Flow, Flows, Interactions, Large-scale, Mid-latitude, Precipitation, Theoretical, Weather.

Improving Understanding of Convection Initiation in Nocturnal Environments During PECAN (Plains Elevated Convection at Night) Using High-Resolution Ensemble Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. James Marquis($592,055), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Convective Initiation, Field Campaign, Convection, Employ, Ensemble, Experiments, Grid, Mesoscale, Modeling, Nested, Nocturnal, Plains, Processes, Thunderstorms.

Critical Raindrop Characteristics: Fall Speed, Shape, and Size Distributions
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Firat Y Testik($135,177), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
Key terms: Raindrop Fall Characteristics, Raindrop Fall Velocity, Chord Ratio, Chord Ratios, Predictive Capability, Rainfall Rates, Size Distribution, Size Distributions, Actual, Assumption, Conditions, Development, Deviations, Drop, Effort, Equilibrium, Field, Lead, Precipitation, Radar, Raindrops, Serve, Students, Terminal, Uncover, Velocities.

A Theoretical and Numerical Study of 2D and 3D Flow over Dynamically Tall Mountain Ranges
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kraig Winters($559,082), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: 3-dimensional Flow, Mountain Ranges, Dynamically, Flows, Separation, Theoretical.

Identification of Cloud-Nucleating and Ice-Nucleating Biological Aerosol Sources
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Daniel C Thornton($589,657), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Cloud Formation, Fractionation Experiments, Aerosol, Atmosphere, CCN, Effective, Field, Marine, Mesocosm, Nuclei, Organisms, Phytoplankton, Producers.

Interaction of Lightning Electromagnetic Pulse with the Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Vladimir A Rakov($266,212), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Ionospheric Reflection Height, Differences, Effect, Elves, Ground, Inferred, Ionosphere, Lightning, Lowering, Wave.

Using Improved Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) and Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) Relationship and Aerosol Composition to Study the Impact of Aerosol on Cloud Microphysics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Zhanqing Li($499,998), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Aerosol Indirect Effect, Aerosol Optical Depth, Aerosol Optical Quantities, Aerosol Size Distribution, Aod And Ccn, Climate Forcing Mechanisms, Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Cloud Microphysical Properties, Distribution And Chemical, Large-scale Continuous Observations, Measured Aerosol Optical, Properties And Ambient, Readily Measured Aerosol, Aci Studies, Ambient Meteorology, Chemical Composition, Cloud Properties, Large-scale Continuous, Largest Uncertainties, Properties Represent, Aerosol-cloud-interaction, Aerosols, Affected, Analysis, Aspects, Conditions, Degree, Determined, Effects, Estimate, Exploited, Focus, Hand, Has, Hygroscopicity, Impracticability, Influence, Influences, Knowledge, Linked, Modeling, NSF, Nutshell, Phase, Proxy, Widely.

Toward and Improved Understanding and Parameterization of the Stable Atomospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Zbigniew Sorbjan($159,470), Marquette University, Milwaukee
Key terms: Lowest Layers, Atmosphere, LES, Model, Models, Near, Schemes, Various.

Collaborative Research: Lightning Studies in a Polluted Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Earle R Williams($74,054), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Donald R MacGorman($159,898), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
3. Richard E Orville($569,447), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Supercooled Cloud Droplets, Central Oklahoma, Cloud Microstructure, Aerosol, Air, Charged, Clouds, Crystals, Effects, Electrification, Graupel, Houston, Ice, LMA, Lightning, Polarity, Pollution, Precipitation, Process, Properties, Retrieved, Separating, Similar, Sources, Students, Thermodynamic.

Collaborative Research: EAGER--Improved Detection and Quantification of Wind Gusts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Frank L Vernon($40,154), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Rebecca J Barthelmie($187,481), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Seismic Arrays, Weather Stations, Wind Gusts, Wind Speeds, Consistent, Degree, Intensity, Magnitude, Noise, Seismometers, Signal, Surface, Sustained, Useful, Winds.

Understanding the Contributions from Thunderstorms and Electrified Shower Clouds to the Global Electric Circuit
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Douglas M Mach($359,549), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Cloud Electrification, Electrified Cloud, Wilson Current, Electric, GEC, Global, Knowledge, Quantitative, Thunderstorms, Weather.

Atmospheric Turbulence - Detailed Modeling and Characterization from Radosonde Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ling Wang($302,025), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Atmospheric Turbulence, Radiosonde Analysis, Constituents, Influences, Transport.

Lightning Initiation Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Maribeth Stolzenburg($198,952), University of Mississippi, University
Key terms: Initial Breakdown Pulses, Electrical Sensors, Intracloud Flashes, Lightning Flash, Northern Mississippi, E-charge, IEC.

Characterizing Cumulus Cloud Cover with Transilient Matrices
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David Romps($321,455), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Shallow Cumulus Clouds, Weather And Climate, Climate Models, Cloud Cover, Lower Atmosphere, Mathematical Tool, Amount, Forecasts, Future, Representation, Schemes, Sensitivity, Timescale, Transilient.

Improving our Understanding of Tornadic Storms using VORTEX2 Observations and Idealized Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yvette P Richardson($931,728), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Development And Evolution, Angular Momentum, Environmental Heterogeneity, Low-level Rotation, Storm Interactions, Storm's Environment, Supercell Storms, Surface Friction, Briefing, Developing, Influence, Intensification, Low-level, Maintenance, NWS, National, Nsurface, Outflow, Pis, Precipitation, Supercells, Surges, Tornado, Tornadoes, Vertical, Warning.

Scientific Program Overview: The Perdigao Field Experiment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Harindra J Fernando($47,777), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Complex Terrain, Wind Energy, Campaign, European, Flow, Models, Planning, Portugal, Set.

Characterization of the Effects of a Severe Drought on Dust Lifting
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nilton D Renno($671,958), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Particle Size Distribution, Weather And Climate, Wind Shear Stress, Dust Lifting, Electric Fields, Owens Lake, Saltation Layer, Water Content, Weather Phenomena, Affect, Atmosphere, California, Depth, Effects, Increases, Intensity, Particles, Playa, Soil, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Subgrid-scale Models for Large-eddy Simulation of Cloud Formation and Evolution
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert L Street($132,651), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Fotini K Chow($399,999), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Broader Impacts, Climate Prediction, Cloud Formation, Equation Sets, Gray Zone, Numerical Simulations, Sgs Closures, Sgs Models, Terra Incognita, Aims, Assess, Atmosphere, Benefit, Berkeley, Boundary, Clouds, Codes, Collaboration, Convective, Cover, Cumulus, Energy, Etc, Expertise, Fields, Fluxes, Heat, Liquid, Microphysics, Modeled, Modeling, Momentum, NCAR, Partly, Performance, Postdoctoral, Precipitation, Realistic, Resolved, Stanford, TI, Validate, Vapor, Yield.

RUI: Cirrus Ice Crystal Surface Structure and Kinetics at the Nanoscale
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nathan Magee($197,700), The College of New Jersey, Ewing
Key terms: Cirrus Clouds, Cirrus Ice, Cirrus Particles, Firmly Establish, Ice Crystal, Ice Particles, Physics Department, Roughened Surfaces, Surface Roughness, Acquired, Analysis, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Character, Climate, Conditions, Crystals, Discovery, ESEM, Ewing, Growth, Has, Jersey, Laboratory, Microphysics, Modeling, Modern, Outstanding, Presence, Rates, School, Students, TCNJ, Tools, Uncertainties, Undergraduate, Vapor.

Toward a Further Understanding and Improved Forecasting of Coastal Quasi-linear Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kelly Lombardo($291,988), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Atmospheric Boundary Layer, Marine Atmospheric Boundary, Idealized Numerical, Sustain Themselves, Thunderstorm Complexes, Air, Coastal, Contribute, Convective, Has, Interact, Lead, MABL, Model, Offshore, QLCS, Regions, Shear, Storm, Thunderstorms.

An Analysis of the Evolution and Structure of Supercell Storms and Tornadoes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Curtis R Alexander($1,016,546), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: Tornadic Storms, Tornado Climatology, Tornado Evolution, Wind Field, Analysis, Documentation, Dynamics, Formation, Has, Involved, Knowledge, Observations, Previously, Processes, Set, Structure, Tornadoes, Tornadogenesis, Vortex, Weather.

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Integration of Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) into the Program for Research on Elevated Convection with Intense Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. George Limpert($129,389), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
2. Eric W Frew($54,555), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Uas Observations, Airmass, Campaign, Cold, Development, Field, Forecasting, Model, Thunderstorms.

Minimal Models for Investigating the Influence of Latent Heat Release on Midlatitude Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jonathan E Martin($750,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Eddies And Jets, Jet Superposition, Mathematical Modeling, Midlatitude Dynamics, Minimal Model, Precipitating Convection, Time Scales, Atmospheric, Essential, Evolution, Extreme, Insights, Isolate, Junior, Lead, Mathematicians, Mechanisms, Moist, Polar, Simplified, Subtropical, Weather.

Precipitation Mechanisms over Complex Terrain
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert A Houze($660,546), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Deep Convection, Heavy Precipitation, Sierra Madre, Tropical Cyclones, Atmospheric, Conditions, Contribute, Datasets, Enhancement, Examined, Field, Flooding, Identifying, Ingredients, Mexico, Mountain, Past, Precipitating, Regions, Storms, Synoptic, Waves.

Ground Level Measurements of Terrestrial Gamma Flashes
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael L Cherry($300,000), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Rico And Jamaica, Energy Range, Gamma Ray, Gamma Rays, Lightning Detectors, Low Frequency, Puerto Rico, Satellite Observations, Array, Associate, Connection, Construction, Deployed, Detailed, Expected, Experiment, Ground-level, Individual, Intended, Intensity, LSU, Louisiana, Mev, Nearby, Operated, Produced, Radar, Radiation, Shown, Sites, Southern, Statistics, Student, Students, TETRA, TETRA-II, Tgfs, Thunderstorms, Time, Univ, Xavier.

Tropical Cyclone Research Forum "Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research: Setting the Future Course"; Charleston, South Carolina
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Meg Austin($20,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Cyclone Model Development, Forecast And Warning, Tropical Cyclone Forecast, Tropical Cyclone Model, Observing Strategies, Technology Transfer, Warning Products, Academic, Aircraft, Federal, Forecasting, Forum, Hurricane, Improvements, Industry, Operations, Reconnaissance, Season, Workshop.

Dust Transport in Convectively Stratified Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William Anderson($224,461), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Erosion And Dust, Severe Wind Erosion, Aeolian Transport, Boundary Layer, Dust Storms, Atmospheric, Connect, Determining, Flow, LES, Potential, Region.

EAGER: Opportunistic Soundings to Advance the Understanding of High-Shear Low-CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy) Convective Environments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew D Parker($23,413), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Hslc Environments, Hslc Storms, Relatively Low, Severe Weather, Soundings Club, Available, Basic, Collected, Common, Concern, Convection, Convective, Day, Days, Launch, Launches, NCSU, Observations, Poorly, Potential, Students, Substantial, Target, Threat, Time, Typical.

The Role of Radiation in Tropical Cyclone Genesis and Early Intensification
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Melville E Nicholls($594,675), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Diurnal Cycle, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Cold, Convection, Explore, Genesis, Knowledge, Pathways, Radiation, Simulate, Vorticity.

Role of Mesoscale Convective Systems in Determining the Diurnal Cycle of Precipitation over Sub-Saharan Northern Africa
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Edward K Vizy($597,381), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Factors Controlling, Observational Analysis, Parameterization Schemes, Warm Season, Weather Model, Africa, Allow, Cycle, Development, High-resolution, Mcss, Modeling, Precipitation, Rainfall, Region, Spatial, Sub-saharan, Temporal.

Mechanisms of Intensity Change in Sheared Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John E Molinari($467,037), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Intensity, Vertical Wind Shear, Boundary Layer, Graduate Students, Low-level Pathway, Downdrafts, Education, Low-level, Numerous, Produced.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Chilean Coastal Orographic Precipitation Experiment pilot project (CCOPE-2015)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Justin R Minder($84,075), SUNY at Albany, Albany
2. Bart Geerts($60,983), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Coastal Orographic Precipitation, Existing Theories, Nahuelbuta Mountains, Southern Chile, Aerosol, California, Distributions, Field, Geographic, Motions.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Measuring Volcanic Ash Properties That Promote the Generation of Lightning in Eruptive Columns and Plumes
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephen R McNutt($63,301), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Kimberly D Genareau($137,946), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Ice Nucleation, Volcanic Lightning, Ash, Generation, Particles, Potential.

Collaborative Research: Ground-based Measurements to Constrain Aerosol-Cloud-Precipitation Interactions in West Coast United States Storms
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sonia M Kreidenweis($213,241), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Markus D Petters($180,185), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Aerosol Types, Field Campaign, Ice Nucleating, Sierra Mountains, Wintertime Precipitation, Aerosols, Airborne, Atmospheric, Biological, CCN, California, Instruments, Microscopy, Particles, Spring, Western.

Cloud Droplet Evolution and Thermal Radiation
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. M Q Brewster($368,287), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Cloud Droplet Evolution, Atmospheric Radiation, Broader Impacts, Condensation Growth, Earth's Primary, Global Climate, Missing Pieces, Thermal Radiation, Thermal Regulating, Water-vapor Continuum, Absorption, Anomalous, Atmosphere, Changing, Cloud-radiation, Clouds, Emission, Evaporation, Findings, Graduate, Greenhouse, Larger, Level, Oriented, Phase-transition, Physics, Process, Properties, Radiation-augmented, Radiative, Ranging, Society, Stability, Substance, Transfer, Uncertain, Validation, Water-vapor.

EAGER: A Stochastic Approach for Radiative Forcing Studies Involving Black Carbon Aging/Life Cycle and Mountain Snow
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kuo-Nan Liou($240,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Aggregates And Coated, Multiple Internal Mixing, Wet And Dry, Dry Depositions, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, BC, Based, Bc-snow, Climate, Cloud, Core-shell, Datasets, Models, Parameterization, Precipitation, Process, Processes, Snow, Snowflakes, Stochastic, Surface, Uncoated.

Collaborative Research: Lidar and Modeling Applications from the Precision Atmospheric Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (PreAMBLE) Dataset
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David Rahn($145,728), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. David Leon($165,376), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Atmospheric Marine Boundary, Marine Boundary Layer, Santa Barbara Channel, Conceptual Models, Critical Examination, Layer Structure, Numerical Simulations, Airborne, Aircraft, Applications, Assumptions, Based, California, Characteristics, Cloud, Collected, Complicated, Conception, Dynamics, Field, Fine-scale, Flights, Focus, Forcing, Graduate, Issues, June, Lidar, Ncoastal, Near, Offshore, Original, Performance, Preamble, Previous, Prompted, Unanticipated, Was, Wyoming.

Latent and Sensible Heat Flux at the Spray-Laden Air-Sea Interface
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David Richter($251,728), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Temperature And Moisture, Air-sea Interface, Sea Spray, Spray Droplets, Affect, Air-sea, Allowing, Atmospheric, Coupling, Developed, Direct, Distribution, Enhanced, Exchanges, Flow, Flux, Fluxes, Heat, Immediately, Individual, Latent, Layer, Momentum, Numerical, Ocean, Processes, Profiles, Sensible, Student, Thermodynamic, Two-way.

The Dynamical Influences of Low-Level Shear and Lifting Condensation Level on Supercell Tornadoes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher J Nowotarski($436,503), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Environmental Parameters, Spark Program, Supercell Thunderstorm, Atmospheric, Balance, Dynamics, Educational, Has, Inflow, Intensification, Mass, Model, NCAR, Organization, Outflow, Sources, UCAR, Vorticity.

PECAN: Ground Based Lidar and Micro Wave Radiometer and Radiosonde Profiling of the Thermodynamic and Dynamic Structure of the Nocturnal Boundary
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Belay B Demoz($309,631), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
Key terms: Nocturnal Convection Initiation, Elevated Convection, Mesoscale Convective, Campaign, Evolution, Field, Focus, Instrumentation, Lidar, PECAN, Plains, Sites, Wind.

Midlatitude Deep Convective Transport to the Upper-Troposphere and Lower-Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Gretchen L Mullendore($290,966), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Cloud-scale Convective Transport, Convective Mass Transport, Convective Transport Estimates, Deep Convective Mass, Dual-doppler Radar Coverage, Nexrad Radar Network, Chemical Makeup, Cloud-scale Convective, Deep Convection, Dual-doppler Radar, Radar-only Algorithm, Radiative Budget, Situ Chemical, Transport Models, Tropopause Structures, Utls Region, Utls Structure, Utls Structures, Allow, Campaign, Central, Constraining, DC, Developed, Dynamical, Idealized, Improvements, Objective, Observed, Poorly, Previously, Quantify, Radar-only, Storm, Storms, Unique, Utilize, Varied.

Support of the International Conference on Mesoscale Convective System
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Karyn Sawyer($13,540), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Graduate Students, Intellectual Merit, ICMCS-X, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Airborne Detector for Energetic Lightning Emissions (ADELE) Operations on the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph R Dwyer($36,122), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Jets And Elves, Tgfs And Glows, Electric Field, Electric Fields, Gigantic Jets, Global Hawk, ADELE, Aircraft, Conductivity, Dose, Emission, Flashes, Flight, Flights, Gamma-ray, Gamma-rays, HS, High-energy, Instrument, Intensity, Lightning, Nasas, Observed, Phenomena, Program, Radiation, Represent, Scientists, Set, Spectrum, Storm, Storms, Time, Upper, Was.

Collaborative Research: The COnvective Precipitation Experiment- Microphysical and Entrainment Dependencies (COPE-MED)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sonia G Lasher-Trapp($287,817), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Warm Rain Process, Broader Impacts, Cloud Physics, Convective Precipitation, Convective Rainfall, Field Campaign, Initial Stages, Numerical Simulations, Aerosol, Aircraft, Analysis, Analyzed, Andor, COPE, COPE-MED, Capabilities, Clouds, Collect, Collected, Designed, Development, Effects, Entrainment, Features, Hallet-mossop, High-resolution, In-situ, Information, Instrumentation, Maximize, Microphysical, Models, Processes, Progression, Representation, Set, Strength, UK, Unique, Wyoming.

Collaborative Research: Improved Understanding of Convective-Storm Predictability and Environment Feedbacks from Observations during the Mesoscale Predictability Experiment (MPEX)
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2014; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert J Trapp($275,116), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
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.

AGS-PRF Reconstruction of the Indian Summer Paleo Monsoon During the Past 8 ka
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Emily Gill($172,000), Gill Emily, Boulder
Key terms: Warmer And Wetter, Climate Fields, Monsoon-enso Teleconnections, Northern Hemisphere, Aims, Conditions, Enhanced, India, Insolation, Mechanisms, Mid-holocene, Monsoon-enso, Monsoonal, Period, Potential, Reconstruct, Summer, Temperature, Theory, Time.

AGS-PRF: Direct Radiative Effects of Saharan Dust on the Dynamics of the African Easterly Jet and African Easterly Waves
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Dustin F Grogan($172,000), Grogan Dustin F, Benicia
Key terms: Concentration And Distribution, Saharan Mineral Dust, African Easterly, Broader Impacts, Dust Concentration, Dust Plume, Dust Radiative, Intellectual Merit, Linear Growth, Spatial Gradients, Tropical Cyclogenesis, AEJ, AEJ-AEW, Advancing, Aews, Affect, Combinations, Development, Does, Dust-radiative, Effects, Energetics, Evolution, Following, Heating, Model, Nonlinear, Objective, Optimize, Particular, Spatial-temporal, Structure.

AGS-PRF: Photochemistry of Impurities in Nature-Identical Snow Crystals
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Ted Hullar($172,000), Hullar Ted, Oakland
Key terms: Snow And Ice, Crystal Habit, Ice Photochemistry, Liquid Nitrogen, Nature-identical Snow, Photochemical Reactions, Photolysis Rates, Snow Crystals, Synthetic Snow, Actinic, Chemical, Compare, Environment, Impurities, Impurity, Information, Natural, Nature-identical, Pahs, Sensitivity, Various.

AGS-PRF: Air-Sea Momentum flux at High Wind Speeds in the North Sea
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Marc P Buckley($192,000), Buckley Marc P, Lewes
Key terms: Air-sea Momentum Flux, Air-sea Momentum, North Sea, Wave Field, Wind Conditions, Atmosphere-ocean, Atmospheric, Direct, FINO, Interaction, Interface, Near, Ocean, PRF, Platform, Total.

AGS-PRF: Reconstructing Late Pleistocene East African Hydroclimate from Triple Oxygen Isotopes: A Novel Multi-Proxy Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jessica W Moerman($172,000), Moerman Jessica W, Atlanta
Key terms: East African Hydroclimate, Triple Oxygen Isotopes, Water Balance, Carbonate, Climate, Combining, Dynamics, Evaporation, Model, Outreach, Past, Proxies, STEM.

AGS-PRF A Population Synthesis Model for GBM Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Eric S Cramer($172,000), Cramer Eric S, Palm Bay
Key terms: Characteristics, Constraints, GBM, Lightning, Placed, Plans, Population, Properties, Radiation, Satellite, TGF, Tgfs, Thunderstorms, Versus.

AGS-PRF: Daytime to Nocturnal Convective Transition in the Central United States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. John M Peters($126,815), Peters John M, Ft. Collins
Key terms: Field Observations, Increasing Low-level, Low-level Jet, Nocturnal Transition, Numerical Experiments, Numerical Modeling, Analysis, Convection, Day, Ground, Low-level, MCS, Public, Thunderstorms.

AGS-PRF: Molecular Level Characterization of Amino Acids in Atmospheric Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Coty N Jen($172,000), Jen Coty N, Minneapolis
Key terms: Free Amino Acids, Atmospheric Particles, Field Campaigns, Particle Phase, Partitioning Coefficients, Phase Instrument, Cluster, Content, Gas, Nitrogen, SV-TAG, Targeted.

AGS-PRF: The Effect of Principal and Distant Rainbands on Tropical Cyclone Intensity and Structures
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Yumin Moon($172,000), Moon Yumin, Seattle
Key terms: Intensity And Structure, Principal And Distant, Tropical Cyclone Intensity, Vertical Wind Shear, Distant Rainbands, Numerical Simulations, Spiral Rainbands, Tropical Cyclones, Effects, Interact, Model, Modeling, Storm.

AGS-PRF: Study of Dayside Reconnection Through Cusp Ion Structures
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Hyunju K Connor($172,000), Connor HyunJu, Albuquerque
Key terms: Cusp Ion, Cusp Region, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Reconnection, Oppositely Directed, Solar Wind, Component, Dayside, Fields, IMF, Ions, Magnetopause, Magnetospheric, Signatures, Simulation, Spectrograms.

AGS-PRF Impacts of Large-Scale Dynamics on Regional Climate Sensitivity: Model-Paleodata Comparisons in Three Mid-Latitude Regions
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Juan M Lora($172,000), Lora Juan M, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dynamical Mechanisms, Hydrological Cycle, Outreach Activities, Past Climate, Regional Climates, Ability, Chapter, Dynamics, Fellow, Future, Investigate, Involved, LGM, Large-scale, Model, Models, Paleoclimatic, Paleodata, Phenomena, Proxies, Regions, SACNAS, Sensitivities, Serve, Temperatures.

AGS-PRF Coupling Between Regional Climate Feedbacks and Large-Scale Circulation in a Hierarchy of Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Nicole Feldl($86,000), Feldl Nicole, Pasadena
Key terms: Tropics And Subtropics, Climate Feedbacks, Climate Model, External Forcing, Greenhouse Gas, Hadley Cell, Model Simulations, Analysis, Atmospheric, Circulation, Diagnostic, Differences, Educational, Energy, Factors, Geographical, Global, Has, Increase, Regional, Sensitivity, Spatial, Strength, Substantial, Uniform.

AGS-PRF: High-Order Simulations of E-region Turbulence and Large Scale Structuring
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alex Fletcher($172,000), Fletcher Alexander, Menlo Park
Key terms: Drift Waves, Coupling, E-region, Mechanism, Processes, Radars, Region, Rockets, Simulation, Simulations, Turbulence, Turbulent.

AGS-PRF: A Global Survey of Atmospheric Hydroperoxides: HOx Cycling, Tropospheric Ozone and Chemistry-Climate Interactions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Michelle J Kim($172,000), Kim Michelle J, Los Angeles
Key terms: Isoprene Oxidation Products, Atmosphere, Concentrations, Conditions, Formation, Hydrogen, Organic, Oxide, Ozone, Processes, SOA.

AGS-PRF: Observing and Diagnosing Mechanisms of Energy Balance in Temperate Freshwater Systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. David E Reed($172,000), Reed David E, Madison
Key terms: Lake Energy, Benefit, Carbon, Complete, Cycling, Flux, Freshwater, Ice, Lakes, Processes, School, Wintertime.

AGS-PRF: The Response of African Monsoon Variability to Elevated CO2 and Implications for Future Atlantic Tropical Cyclone Activity
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Walter M Hannah($172,000), Hannah Walter M, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atlantic Tc Activity, Aews, Affect, African, Climate, Future.

AGS-PRF: Next Generation of Gamma-ray Detectors Designed to Study Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes, Gamma-ray Glows and X-ray Stepped Leaders
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Nicole Kelley($71,667), Kelley Nicole, San Francisco
Key terms: X-ray Stepped Leaders, Gamma-ray Glows, X-ray Stepped, Connection, Detectors, Gamma-ray, High-energy, Processes, Radiation, Tgfs, Thunderstorms.

AGS-PRF: Atmospheric Lifecycle of Organic Carbon Through Multiple Generations of Aging
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Gabriel A Isaacman-VanWertz($172,000), Isaacman-VanWertz, Gabriel A, New Haven
Key terms: Chemical Properties, Mass Spectrometer, Organic Aerosol, Reaction Chamber, Aging, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Carbon, Compounds, Days, Experiments, Formation, Oxidation.

AGS-PRF: Towards an Improved Understanding of the Dynamical Effects of Sea Ice Loss on the Extratropical Northern Hemisphere Circulation and Extreme Weather
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. John G Dwyer($172,000), Dwyer John G, New York
Key terms: Sea Ice Decline, Sea Ice Loss, Atmospheric Circulation, Extreme Weather, Climate, Considered, Northern, Waves.

AGS-PRF: Assessing Causes of the Divergence between Past and Projected Responses of Global Aridity to Greenhouse Warming
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Jacob Scheff($172,000), Scheff Jacob, Seattle
Key terms: Climate Simulations, Co2 Fertilization, Global Warming, Model Intercomparison, Model Simulations, Water Shortages, Ago, Based, Carbon, Climates, Continent, Discrepancy, Drying, Evidence, Examination, Future, Has, Hydroclimate, Ice, Increases, LGM, Mentorship, Models, Potential, Precipitation, Proxies, Proxy, Reduction, Suggest, Temperatures, Vegetation, Version, Wetter.

AGS-PRF: The Effects of Aerosols on Cloud Microphysics and Precipitation in the Caribbean
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2015; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Nathan A Hosannah($172,000), Hosannah Nathan A, New York
Key terms: Caribbean Water Cycle, Climate And Weather, Cloud Resolving Model, Saharan Dust, Tropical Coastal, AERONET, Aerosol, Aerosols, Analysis, Available, CCNY, Continent, Coupled, Effects, Effort, Forecasting, Ingested, Islands, Modeling, Modulating, Multiple, Observational, PSD, Play, Precipitation, Rainfall, Region, Serve, Unique, Variables.

2015 Unidata Users Workshop Data-Driven Geoscience: Applications, Opportunities, Trends and Challenges; June 22-25, 2015; UCAR Facilities in Boulder, CO
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Research Infra Cluster Prgrm

1. Mohan K Ramamurthy($99,979), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Geoscience, Hands-on, Sessions, Workshop.

Hazards SEES: Advanced Lagrangian Methods for Prediction, Mitigation and Response to Environmental Flow Hazards
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Shane D Ross($2,811,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Environmental Flow, Lagrangian Methods, Accurate, Air, Disaster, Dtime, Field, Four-dimensional, Hazardous, Hazards, Integrate, LCS, Predicting, Processes, Released, Transport.

Hazard SEES: An Integrated Approach to Risk Assessment and Management in Responding to Land Falling Hurricanes in a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: SEES Hazards

1. James A Smith($2,734,526), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Changing Climate, Hurricane Hazards, Hurricane Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Management, Analysis, Coastal, Developing, Engineering, Evolve, Framework, Hurricanes, Increasing, Joint, Models, Rainfall, Resiliency, Various, Vulnerability, Wind, World.

Global Transport of Magnetic Energy in Active Regions on the Sun
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. William P Abbett($430,804), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Active Region Magnetic, Interior And Atmosphere, Magnetic Flux Emergence, Region Magnetic Fields, Spatial And Temporal, Active Regions, Convection Zone-to-corona, Disparate Spatial, Newly Developed, Numerical Simulations, Solar Interior, Temporal Scales, Upper Convection, Conditions, Coupling, Critical, Development, Domain, Energy, Environment, Large-scale, Model, Objective, Perform, Performed, Range, Sets, Space, Spherical, Sun, Techniques, Transport, Zone-to-corona.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Data-constrained Simulations of Coronal Mass Ejection Initiation and Propagation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Katharine K Reeves($193,453), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
2. Bart van der Holst($54,901), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
3. Rebekah M Evans($162,528), George Mason University, Fairfax
4. Noe Lugaz($58,956), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Active Region, Cme Initiation, Flux Rope, Initial Conditions, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, Cmes, Constrained, Coronal, Data-constrained, Development, EUV, Eruption, MHD, Models, Morphology, Observations, Observed, Plasma, Propagate, Properties, Realistic, Simulations, Situ, Sun, X-ray.

Complex Coronal Mass Ejection Structures and Associated Geo-effectiveness
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Noe Lugaz($335,587), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: 3-d Numerical Simulations, 3-d Numerical, Cme-cme Interaction, Complex Ejecta, Interacting Cmes, Space Weather, Analysis, CME-CME, Characteristics, Effects, Geo-effective, In-situ, Large-scale, Observed, Predicting, Public, Resulting, So-called, Solar, Streams, Structures, Website.

RAPID: Preserving a Unique Archive for Long-Term Solar Variability Studies
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. David F Webb($109,507), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Solar Features, Assistants, Charts, Cycles, Defined, Digital, Digitized, Effort, Evolution, Has, Magnetic, Maps, Proportions, Resource, Set, Specific, Sun, Surface, Time, Useful.

Collaborative Research: Reconciliation Between In-situ and Remote Sensing Analyses
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Noe Lugaz($63,571), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Neel P Savani($36,506), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
3. Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla($253,055), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Coronal Mass Ejection, Coronal Mass Ejections, Goddard Space Flight, Nasa Goddard Space, Remote-sensing And In-situ, Space Flight Center, In-situ Instruments, Magnetic Fields, Solar Disturbances, Space Environment, Space Weather, Strong Magnetic, Characteristics, Clouds, Combining, Disrupt, Earth, Evidence, Heliosphere, Identification, Inferred, Mechanisms, Methodology, Observations, Propagation, Satellites, Simulations, Sources, Storms, Structure, Structures, Sun, Training, Transient.

SHINE: Connecting the Solar Wind From the Corona to the Heliosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Susan Lepri($357,000), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: In-situ And Remote, Graduate Student, Ion Composition, Solar Wind, Source Region, Source Regions, Wind Source, Acceleration, Charge, Completely, Density, Electron, Empirical, Evolution, Fast, High-resolution, MIC, Methodology, Michigan, Objectives, Observations, Onboard, Powerful, Quantitatively, SHINE, Slow, Temperature, Thermal, Uniquely, Velocity.

Travel Support for the VIIth Coronal Loops Workshop in Cambridge, UK; July 21-23, 2015
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stephen Bradshaw($10,000), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Students And Early-career, Coronal Loops, Early-career Scientists, Heating, Participation, Workshop.

SHINE: Observational Constraints on Wave Heating of the Corona
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Daniel Wolf Savin($357,000), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ion Heating, Ion Temperatures, Quiet Sun, Solar Corona, Wave Amplitudes, Wave Energy, Aims, Analysis, Columbia, Damping, Developed, Diverse, Existing, Expected, Has, Infer, Ions, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Plumes, Program, Rate, SHINE, Students, Teachers, Techniques, Theories, Transfer, Waves, York.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Origin and Acceleration of Suprathermal Ions Near Earth-orbit
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Harald A Kucharek($108,533), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Georgios Livadiotis($330,494), Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio
Key terms: Accelerated St Ions, Locally Accelerated St, Charged Particles, Inner Heliosphere, Ip Structures, Observational Constraints, Acceleration, Basic, Energetic, Expected, Main, Models, Nearths, Objective, Outcome, Physics, Properties, SHINE, Space, Student, Task.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Observational and Theoretical Investigation of Solar Flare Ribbon Elongation
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jiong Qiu($173,531), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Paul A Cassak($174,287), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Magnetic Reconnection Spreading, Collaborative Shine, Particle Acceleration, Applications, Continue, Estimate, Explore, Lead, Observations, Program, REU, Region, Solar, Students.

SHINE: Plasma Instabilities in Post-Eruption Solar Corona, Formation of Plasmoids and Supra-Arcade Downflows
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Amitava Bhattacharjee($357,000), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Coronal Mass, Current Sheets, Plasma Physics, Solar Corona, Solar Observations, Broadening, CME, Center, Collaborations, Formation, Instabilities, Interdisciplinary, Investigate, Numerical, Observed, Plasmoid, Princeton, Producing, Program, Reconnection, SHINE, Sads, Simulations.

CAREER: Exploring New Regimes of Physics to Constrain the Properties of Heating in the Solar Corona
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stephen Bradshaw($696,497), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Coronal Heating, Solar Atmosphere, Strong Constraints, Based, Considered, Emission, Energy, Global, Graduate, Learned, Physics, Plasma, Program, Properties, Regime, School, Structure, Students, Summer, Sun, Taught, Transport.

SHINE: Short-Wavelength Turbulence in the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Tulasi Parashar($297,971), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Solar Wind Plasma, Numerical Simulations, Energy, Expected, Fluctuations, Interplanetary, Physics, Processes, Short-wavelength, Space, Spacecraft, Theoretical, Turbulence.

Three Dimensional Thermal and Magnetic Structure of Sunspots
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Christian Beck($280,115), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Structure, Mass Motion, Space Weather, Stellar Astrophysics, Thermal Structure, Broader, Dimensional, Ii, Iii, Iv, Observations, Serving, Solar, Sunspots, Topics.

SHINE: Accelerating the Turbulent Solar Wind: One Flux Tube at a Time
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2014; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Steven R Cranmer($193,297), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Theoretical Models, MHD, Magnetic, Observations, Physics, Plasma.

The Community Coordinated Modeling Center: Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere Models, Applications and Services for Research, Forecasting and Analysis
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Maria M Kuznetsova($1,000,000), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Assimilation Models, Continue Leading, Electric Field, Itm Model, Itm Models, Model Validation, Runs-on-request Service, Space Weather, Activities, Analysis, Assessment, Available, CCMC, Capabilities, Collection, Community-wide, Development, Drivers, Ensemble, Expand, Expanding, ISR, Modeling, NSF, Radar, Simulations, State-of-the-art, Tool, Tools, Variety.

Collaborative Research: Cubesat--Ionospheric Scintillation Explorer (ISX)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Hasan Bahcivan($544,568), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. Jordi Puig-Suari($448,097), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
Key terms: Amplitude And Phase, Trans-ionospheric Radio Signals, Cal Poly, Experimental Geometries, Flux Tube, Ionospheric Irregularities, Ionospheric Scintillation, Magnetic Field, Short Time, Trans-ionospheric Radio, Carrier, Corresponding, Cubesat, DTV, Density, Design, Does, ESF, Effects, Effort, Explorer, Extensive, Fluctuations, Frequency, Has, ISX, Irregularity, Measure, Mission, Mitigation, Monitoring, Multiple, Observations, Opportunity, Path, Pilot, Prediction, Receiver, Region, Scintillation-scale, Scintillations, Simultaneously, Spacecraft, Structure, Structures, Student, Students, Turbulence, Unique, Worldwide.

Collaborative Research: CubeSat: Ionosphere Thermosphere Scanning Photometer for Ion-Neutral Studies (IT-SPINS)
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. David M Klumpar($600,403), Montana State University, Bozeman
2. Gary Bust($119,910), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
3. Richard A Doe($279,350), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Oxygen Ion Distributions, Altitude Profiles, Geomagnetic Activity, Local Time, Oxygen Ions, Degrees, Design, Does, Dominated, Engineering, Equatorial, Following, IT-SPINS, Inclination, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Magnetic, Mission, Navigation, Objective, Objectives, Orbit, Orbits, Physics, Plasma, Polar, Predict, Primary, Radiance, Range, Rotations, Satellite, Secondary, Solar, Structures, Students, TTR.

Analysis and Modeling of the Data from CubeSat: Colorado Student Space Weather Experiment (CSSWE)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Xinlin Li($345,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Radiation Belt Electrons, Van Allen Probes, Additional Energization, Electron Loss, Fast Loss, Loss Rate, Loss Rates, Precipitation Loss, Radiation Belts, Advanced, Analyzing, CSSWE, Carried, Colorado, Cubesat, Designed, Dynamics, Energetic, Environment, Episodes, Gains, Gradual, Has, Ionosphere, Mission, Modeling, Periods, Satellite, Space, Students, Was, Worth.

Simultaneous Measurements of Coronal Magnetic Field and Plasma Properties with Upgraded CoMP (UCoMP)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Ward B Manchester($1,061,494), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Mauna Loa, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Observatory, Solar Wind, Space Physics, Space Weather, Analysis, Cmes, Comp, Continuous, Corona, Coronal, Dynamics, Effort, Entire, Evolution, Existing, Field, HAO, Instrument, Integrated, Lines, MK, Michigan, Modeling, Observations, Observe, Plasma, Range, Students, Sun, Time, Tools, Twice, Ucomp, Undergraduate, Visible.

Student Funding to Attend the 12th International School/Symposium for Space Simulations (ISSS-12); Prague, Czech Republic; July 3-10, 2015
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. David Schriver($20,160), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Nsf Geospace, Plasma Physics, Codes, Cutting-edge, Czech, Experience, Future, GVF, Gain, ISSS-, International, Investment, Junior, OISE, Opportunity, School, Simulation, Strong, Students, Symposium.

Faculty and Curricular Development in Remote Sensing and Space Sciences (RSSS) at the University of Illinois
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. William H Sanders($1,331,036), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Sensing And Space, Solar And Space, Remote Sensing, Space Environment, Space Physics, Tenure-track Faculty, Development, Disciplines, Ensure, Existing, Global, Hire, Partnerships, Program, Programs, Teaching, Technology, Tenure-track, UI.

SuperMAG Enhanced Capabilities Enabling Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Research
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Jesper W Gjerloev($599,499), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Space Physics, Signatures, Supermag.

Collaborative Research: SuperDARN Space Weather Radar - Operations, Research, and Community Support
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. William A Bristow($1,366,551), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Simon G Shepherd($549,999), Dartmouth College, Hanover
3. J Michael Ruohoniemi($2,821,605), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: International Superdarn Collaboration, Ionospheric Plasma, Space Weather, Aspects, Broad, Convection, Coupling, Earth, Effects, Five, Global-scale, Has, Investigations, Ionosphere, Magnetic, Network, Operate, Operation, Radar, Radars, Range, Solar, Time, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Integration of Extended Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) and Kinetic Effects in Global Magnetosphere Models
Award Effective Date: 10/21/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Amitava Bhattacharjee($612,689), Princeton University, Princeton
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.

Geospace Environment Modeling Workshop Coordination and Management: 2015-2018
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2014; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Calvin Robert Clauer($617,847), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Magnetospheric Physics, Virginia Tech, GEM, Has, NSWP, Organization, Student, Students, Workshops.

Systems Science at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Donald T Farley($4,161,248), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Scientists And Students, Equatorial Ionosphere, Ionospheric Configuration, Radar Echoes, Upper Atmospheric, Communication, Cornell, Dynamics, Education, Effects, Energy, Function, Jicamarca, Meteor, Mission, Observations, Peru, Plasma, Pursued, Radio, Region, Space, Structures, Technological, Transport, Winds.

The Sondrestrom Facility - Enabling Fundamental Research of the Coupled Atmosphere-Ionosphere-Magnetosphere System
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2015; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Elizabeth A Kendall($7,496,800), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Facility Staff, Sondrestrom Geospace, Activities, Available, Ensure, Greenland, Has, Maintain, Management, Operations, Outreach, Radar, Supported.

National Center for Atmospheric Research Activities Funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: nan

1. James W Hurrell($602,228), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Degrees, Freedom, Model, Stratosphere.

Continued Operation of COSMIC GPS Radio Occultation Constellation in Support of Research Applications in Atmospheric Sciences
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: nan

1. Shu-Peng (Ben) Ho($10,850,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Education And Outreach, Gps Transmitters, Water Vapor, Account, Activities, Additional, Adoption, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, COSMIC, COSMIC-, Conducting, Datasets, Density, Development, GNSS, GNSSRO, GPSRO, Generating, Global, Has, Ionosphere, Item, Long-term, Methods, NSF, Payload, Pis, Processing, Profiles, Promote, Provided, Receiver, SI, Satellite, Satellites, Signals, Techniques, Temperature, Weather.

US CLIVAR Project Office
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: nan

1. Michael Patterson($4,470,671), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: CLIVAR, Climate, Development, Effectively, Efforts, Operational, Predictions, Simulations, USCPO.

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

1. Miguel F Larsen($197,721), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Auroral, Available, Disturbances, Dynamics, Global, Network, Operate, Propagation, Stations, Thermosphere, Thermospheric.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2015

Collaborative Research: Experimental Investigation of Micrometeoroid Ablation Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Quantitative Analysis of Lightning's Multifaced Impact on the Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: MSTIDs: Multi-Site Tomography of Ionospheric Disturbances Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Quantification of Gravity Wave Momentum Fluxes and Instability Events in the Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Region at High- and Mid- Latitudes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Investigating Helium Behavior and Its Role in the Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Causal Relationships of Ion-neutral Coupling Processes at Mid-latitudes Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: High-resolution Multistatic Mapping of Small-Scale Flow Structures in Earth's Auroral Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: High-Resolution Imaging of Instability Dynamics and Breakdown Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Analysis of High Resolution Stratospheric Observations of Polar Mesospheric Clouds Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Simultaneous Fe and Na Doppler Lidar Measurements of Heat and Constituent Fluxes in the Mesopause Region and Neutral Metal Layers, Winds and Temperatures in the Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Characterizing the Polar Cap Topside Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Identifying Sources of Mid-latitude Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Laboratory Studies of Oxygen Atom Recombination in Nitrogen at Mesospheric Temperatures Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: Physical Causes of Multi-Scale Temporal Variability in Atmospheric Tides from the Troposphere to the Dynamo Region Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Vertical Coupling in the Atmosphere-Ionosphere System by Gravity Waves Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Continuing Theoretical Studies of Dynamical Processes in the Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Investigation of Midlatitude Ionospheric Irregularities Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Plasma Altitude Distributions Associated with Storm Enhanced Densities (SEDs) Caused by Competing Mechanisms Award Effective Date: 05/15/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Coordination and Student Travel for the 2015 National Ionospheric Effects Workshop; Alexandria, VA; May 12-14, 2015 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--A Focused Study of Sustained Upward Vertical Winds in the Auroral Zone Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Fabry-Perot Interferometer (FPI) to Study Ion-neutral Coupling near the Southern Crest of the Equatorial Ionization Anomaly in the American Sector Award Effective Date: 05/01/2013; Program: AERONOMY

EAGER: Towards a Paleoproxy of Stratospheric Chemistry Using Meteorite Fusion Crusts Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: ANT Earth Sciences

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Chlorine Activation in Biomass Burning Plumes Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Spatial Variability in Organic Aerosol: Relationships between Sources, Processing, and Composition Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Modeling Aqueous Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Detailed Analysis of Brown Carbon Constituents in Biomass Burning Emissions Award Effective Date: 12/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2016 AMS Mario J. Molina Symposium; New Orleans, Louisiana; January 10-14, 2016 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Flask and in Situ Measurements of Carbon and Climate Tracers on ATom-1 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Acquisition of an Ultrahigh Resolution Mass Spectrometer for Interdisciplinary Research and Education Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Theoretical Studies of Spectroscopic Line Mixing in Remote Sensing Applications with Theoretical Support to Improve the Accuracy of the HITRAN H2O Database Award Effective Date: 09/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Distribution, Sources, and Air-Sea Fluxes of Short-Lived Organic Compounds During the O2/N2 Ratio and CO2 Airborne Southern Ocean (ORCAS) Study Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Sea Spray Aerosol Production over the North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Influence of Recent Volcanic Eruptions on Stratospheric Ozone Recovery: A Data Analysis and Modeling Study Including Estimated Uncertainties Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Cloud-resolved Chemistry Simulations of Selected DC3 Thunderstorms Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Laboratory Studies of Contact Efflorescence Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Air-sea Exchange of Volatile Organic Compounds--Impacts on Climate and Atmospheric Chemistry Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Investigations of Particle-Organic Vapor Interactions: Effects on Particle Formation, Growth, and Properties Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Quantifying the Effect of Vapor Wall Deposition on Chamber-Derived Yields of Secondary Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Nitrogen Partitioning and Evolution of Particulate Organic Nitrogen in Peat Fire Emissions Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Kinetics and Mechanism of Restructuring of Atmospheric Soot and Associated Impact on Light Absorption Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) International Project Office (IPO) Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Brown Carbon Aerosol Production in Polluted Environments: The Effects of Oxidants, SO2, and Sunlight on Aqueous-Phase Aldehyde Reactivity Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric Organic Aerosol-Water Interactions Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Aerosol Formation from Agricultural Volatile Organic Compounds Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Effect of Particle Phase State on Multiphase Hydroxyl Radical (OH) Oxidation Kinetics and Products of Biomass Burning Aerosol Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Workshop on Nitrate Radicals and Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs): Oxidation, Mechanisms and Organic Aerosol; Atlanta, GA; June 22-24, 2015 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2015 Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference on Atmospheric Chemistry; Waterville Valley, NH; August 2-7, 2015 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Disentangling CO2 Fluxes in a Tropical Rainforest Using Carbonyl Sulfide Award Effective Date: 05/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Chemistry of Atmospheric Aerosols at Pacifichem 2015 Congress Conference in Honolulu, Hawaii; December 15-20, 2015 Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Resolving Issues of Hydrogen Oxides Measurements: Laboratory Studies of HOx-NOx Chemistry and Measurement Intercomparisons Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Role of Peroxy Radicals: Linking Gas-Phase Oxidation Chemistry to Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation Award Effective Date: 04/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Southeast Atmosphere Studies Workshop: Intensive Observation Period Modeling to Improve Mechanistic Representation of Trends; Princeton, New Jersey; June 2015 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Researching Chemical and Optical Properties of Secondary Organic Aerosol and Effective Practices for Environmental Science Education Award Effective Date: 04/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Combined Lab, Field, and Modeling Studies Aimed to Improve our Understanding of Sources of Ice Nuclei and their Impact on Western US Precipitation Processes Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Constraining the Role of Gas-Phase Organic Oxidation in New-Particle Formation Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

International Workshop on Comparing Ice Nucleation Measuring Systems 2014 (ICIS 2014) #3 Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Influence of Free Tropospheric Ozone and Particulate Matter on Surface Air Quality in the Western U.S. Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

SAVI: CLOUD Virtual Institute and Chemical Physics of Atmospheric New-Particle Formation Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Modeling Satellite Correlations of Aerosol Optical Depth Versus Cloud Optical Depth Over Megacities Award Effective Date: 03/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Lake Sediments as Records of Atmospheric Elemental Carbon, ~1900 to 2014 Award Effective Date: 02/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measuring Air-Sea Gas Exchange in High Winds for Improvement of Physics-Based Air-Sea Transfer Parameterizations Award Effective Date: 02/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Up-scaling from Leaf to Canopy the Aerosol-sized Particle Collection Mechanism Within a Non-uniform Canopy Medium Award Effective Date: 12/01/2014; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Development: Development of a Ship-based C-Band Polarimetric Radar Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

MRI: Development of C-band Mobile Polarimetric Imaging Radar Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

MRI: Acquisition of CI-API-TOFMS (Chemical Ionization Atmospheric Pressure Interface Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometer) to Measure Condensible Vapors Associated with Fine Particles Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

The American Meteorological Society (AMS) Summer Policy Colloquium 2015-2017; Washington, DC Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

RAPID: Developing a Community Aquaplanet Model Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: CI REUSE

Studies in the Climate Dynamics of Moist Processes Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Role of Ocean Mesoscale Eddy Atmosphere Feedback in North Pacific and Atlantic Climate Variability: A High-Resolution Regional Climate Model Study Award Effective Date: 03/15/2015; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Understanding Essential Dynamics and Predictability of Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Understanding Congo Rainfall Variability and Trends Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Ice Nucleation in Cirrus Clouds: Anthropogenic Climate Forcing and Uncertainties Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Studies of the Early-1990s Climate Shift in the Pacific and Its Linkage to the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Exploring the Linkages among Mid-Latitude Dynamics, Clouds, and Climate Sensitivity Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Precipitation Response to El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) over Tropical South America: Spatial and Temporal Heterogeneity and the Role of the Land Surface Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Workshop on Storm Tracks, Jets, and their Modes of Variability in Switzerland; August 24-28, 2015 Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

ONFIRE (ObservatioNs of Fire's Impact on the southeast atlantic REgion) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Examining the Connections between Observed Atmospheric Gravity Waves and Convective Clouds for Improved Climate Simulations Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Observational and Modeling Studies of Overshooting Convection and Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Award Effective Date: 07/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics