CEDAR: Exploration of Lower-atmosphere Wave Forcing, Vertical Wave Coupling and Their Impacts on the Ionosphere and Thermosphere Variability Using WAM, Lidar and ISR
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Xian Lu($53,844), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Lower Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Coupling, Ionosphere, Observations, Sources.

Collaborative Research: Causes and Consequences of the Gradients in the Vertical Plasma Drift in the Equatorial Plasma Drift Vortex
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. J. Vincent Eccles($169,200), Space Environment Corporation, Logan
2. Cesar E Valladares($157,482), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Equatorial Plasma, F-region Plasma, Negative Impacts, Plasma Bubble, Plasma Density, Vertical Drift, Accomplish, Below, Bubbles, Day-to-day, Evening, F-region, Fluid, Gradient, Gradients, LISN, Peak, Period, Structures, Technologies.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Midnight Temperature Maximum and Its Impact on the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Carlos Martinis($58,881), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Valery A Yudin($225,296), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Thermosphere And Ionosphere, Upper Atmosphere, Analysis, Climatology, Gain, MTM, Model, Nighttime, Observations, Phenomena, Temperature, WAM.

CEDAR: Secondary Gravity Wave Coupling Dynamics Between the Mid-Latitude Mesosphere and Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Steven M Smith($98,329), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Mesosphere And Thermosphere, Secondary Gravity Wave, Gravity Waves, Altitude, Breaking, Coupling, Observations, Processes, Region, Upper, Zealand.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--A Long-term Investigation of Auroral and Tidal Forcing of E-region Thermospheric Winds at High Latitudes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Miguel F Larsen($141,644), Clemson University, Clemson
2. Stephen Kaeppler($136,085), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Lower Thermospheric Winds, Momentum Transfer, Auroral, Energy, Forcing, Investigate, Long-term.

RUI: Exploiting Innovative Radio Techniques for the Study of Plasma Turbulence and Structure
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Brett C Isham($599,058), Inter American University of Puerto Rico San Juan, San Juan
Key terms: Arecibo Observatory, Heated Region, Puerto Rico, Radio Array, Radio Wave, Application, Aquadilla, Communications, Development, Generated, Graduate, Heater, Imaging, Observing, Radar, Shortwave, Space, Students, Techniques, Technologies.

CEDAR: Conjugate Studies of Low and Midlatitude Ionospheric Processes
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Carlos Martinis($306,990), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: All-sky Imagers, All-sky, Conjugate, Ionospheric, Mstids, Processes, Satellite.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Modeling and Observation of Secondary Gravity Waves in the Thermosphere and Ionosphere Generated from Deep Convection
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Sharon L Vadas($355,367), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Irfan Azeem($156,781), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Circular Tid, Gravity Wave, Ionospheric Plasma, Secondary Gws, Wave Structures, Achieved, Deep, Dissipation, Enhance, Formation, Has, Modeling, Objective, Observed, Primary, Processes, Region, Seen, TEC, Waves.

CEDAR: Impacts of Lower Atmosphere Forcing on the Mesosphere-lower Thermosphere and Ionosphere During September Equinox Transition
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Anne K Smith($310,395), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Upper Atmosphere Dynamics, Atmosphere Model, Atmosphere Region, Lower Atmosphere, Numerical Simulations, Oxygen Composition, Plasma Densities, September Equinox, Stratospheric Winds, Assimilation, Based, Capability, Coupling, Direction, Equinoctial, Investigation, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Modeling, Observed, Overall, Period, Processes, SOARS, Satellite, Short-term, Student, TEC, Thermosphere, Transmission, WACCMX, Waves.

The International Beacon Satellite Symposium 2016; Trieste, Italy; June 27 - July 1, 2016
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Patricia H Doherty($24,764), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Beacon Satellite Symposium, Scientists And Students, Space Weather, Unique Opportunity, Collaborations, Effects, Focused, International, Ionospheric, Meeting, Opportunities, Radio, Sensing, Share.

Wave-Wave Interactions and Upper Atmosphere Variability
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jeffrey M Forbes($595,096), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Lower Atmosphere, Secondary Waves, Upper Atmosphere, GSWM, Interactions, Model, Non-linear, Primary, Region, Students, Transmitted.

CEDAR: Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling as Revealed in Global Magnetic Field Perturbations
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jeffrey M Forbes($343,509), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Generate Electric Fields, Tides And Pw, Atmospheric Regions, Causal Relationships, Dynamo Region, Global Magnetometer, Large-scale Waves, Lower Atmosphere, Magnetic Field, Neutral Winds, Space Weather, Activity, Altitudes, Analysis, Application, Caused, Coupling, Earth, Factors, Generated, Ground, Has, Influences, Ionized, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Large-scale, Magnetometers, Map, Motivation, Processes, Program, Solar, Standard, Supported, Tidal, Upper, Upward.

CEDAR: Lower-Upper Atmosphere Coupling via Acoustic Wave Energy
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan M Lees($176,302), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Acoustic Wave Structures, Air Conditioning, Anthropogenic Sources, Atmospheric Regions, Energy Transfer, Lower Atmosphere, Lower Thermosphere, Mlt Region, Activity, Aimed, Balloon, Campaigns, Generated, Heating, Measure, Mesosphere, Near, Obtained, Phenomena, Produce, Program, Sound, Violent.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Quantifying Ion Drifts in the Mid-latitude Ionosphere and Their Coupling to the Neutral Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Naomi Maruyama($78,449), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Marc R Hairston($255,224), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
3. J Michael Ruohoniemi($99,638), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Polar And Equatorial, Quiet Time Model, Atmospheric Regions, Baseline Model, Electric Fields, Empirical Model, Equatorial Regions, Mid-latitude Ionosphere, Aimed, Atmosphere, Based, Behavior, CEDAR, Coupling, DMSP, Dynamics, EUV, Global, Interaction, Ionized, Ionospheric, Mid-latitude, Neutral, Program, Quantify, Quiet-time, Relative, Solar, Spacecraft, Upper.

CAREER: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Electrodynamics and Structuring of the Low-latitude Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Fabiano Rodrigues($534,621), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Dynamical Behavior, Atmosphere, Combine, Environment, Fields, Geospace, Ionosphere, Miles, Plan, Processes, Public, Solar, Space, Technological, Time, Various.

Aeronomy: The Relationship Between Mass, Luminosity and Radar Scattering Cross-section for Small-mass Meteors and their Effects on the Mesosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Robert G Michell($248,291), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Optical And Radar, Mass Distribution, Mass Input, Meteor Mass, Meteoric Mass, Meteoroid Mass, Atmosphere, Current, Enable, Estimate, Flux, Mesosphere, Meteors, Observations, Process, Radars, Range, Techniques, Total.

CEDAR: Understanding Day-to-Day Tidal Variability
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Scott E Palo($381,663), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Migrating Diurnal Tide, Mlt Region, Short-term Tidal, Space Weather, Tidal Wave, Wavelength Waves, Boulder, Colorado, Combined, Day-to-day, Gravity, Has, Ionosphere, Mechanisms, Plan, Short-term, Students, Under-represented.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Life Cycle of the Quasi Two-Day Wave in the Southern Hemisphere
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Dennis Riggin($159,907), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
2. David A Ortland($74,874), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Atmospheric Regions, Lower Atmosphere, Wave Structure, Allow, Coupling, Dynamical, Energized, Energy, Extent, Instability, Investigated, Phenomenon, Program, QTDW, Solar, Spatial, Stratospheric, Upper.

CEDAR: Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Irradiance Effects on the Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Phillip C Anderson($201,919), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Atmospheric Regions, Upper Atmosphere, CEDAR, EUV, Extreme, Ionized, Ionospheric, Irradiance, Models, Processes, Program, Radiation, Relative, Solar, Space, Spacecraft, Upward.

CEDAR: High Speed Spectroscopic Studies of lightning bolts: Starters, Jets, and Gigantic Jets
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ningyu Liu($366,997), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Lower Ionosphere Region, Atmospheric Regions, Electrical Discharges, Gigantic Jets, Ionized Layer, Lightning Bolt, Lower Atmosphere, Strong Potential, Temperature Profile, Behavior, Complex, Coupling, Dynamics, Energetics, Examine, Has, High-speed, Information, Layers, Observational, Particular, Path, Phenomena, Physics, Plasma, Program, Public, Spectra, Spectral, Speed, Starters, Suddenly, Thunderstorm, Thunderstorms, Transformative, Transient, Underlying, Upper, Upward, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: CubeSat: A U.S. CubeSat
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

1. Landis A David($83,616), Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc, Cambridge
Key terms: Composition Package, International Qb50, Lower Thermosphere, Neutral Package, Plasma Package, Atmospheric, Atomic, Based, Consortium, Constitutes, Cubesat, Cubesats, Density, Design, Determination, EU, Entire, Experience, Ground, Has, INMS, In-situ, Instrument, Instruments, Joint, Laboratory, Minority, Molecular, Months, National, Network, On-board, Opportunity, Orbit, Participating, Participation, Partners, Program, QBUS, Satellite, Sensor, Temporal, Tremendous.

Coordination and Student Support for the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) Workshop; Fairbanks, Alaska; May 29-June 3, 2016
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

1. Roman Makarevich($30,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms:

The Eighth International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC8); Cambridge, Massachusetts; May 1-4, 2017
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel J Jacob($25,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry Models, Create, Experimentalists, Modelers, Senior.

Developing the Molecular Underpinnings for Mechanisms of Growth of Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Particles in Air
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Barbara J Finlayson-Pitts($881,096), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Formed, Measure, Particles, Processes, SOA, Tracers, Various.

Atmospheric Biogenic Organic Emissions: Missing Compounds and Unrepresented Processes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Saewung Kim($615,358), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Quality And Climate, Air Quality, Bvoc Emissions, Missing Bvoc, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Compounds, Influence, Microbes, Ozone, Predictions.

A Comprehensive Coupled Model for Tropospheric Halogen Chemistry: Evaluation of Impacts on Tropospheric Ozone, Hydroxyl Radical (OH), and Mercury
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Daniel J Jacob($585,000), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Lived Greenhouse Gas, Short Lived Greenhouse, Halogen Radicals, Hydroxyl Radical, Oxidative Capacity, Predict Future, Toxic Pollutant, Ability, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Enable, Lifetime, Mercury, Methane, Model, Observations, Oxidant, Oxidants, Ozone, Quantify, Tropospheric.

Closing the Regional Ammonia and Nitrous Oxide Budgets of an Intensive Agricultural Region
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Timothy J Griffis($499,000), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Ammonia Fluxes, Atmospheric, Continent, Deposition, Exchange, Global, High-resolution, Model, Modeling, Models, Regional.

Symposium on Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOC) Oxidation and Organic Aerosol Formation; Portland, Oregon; October 17-21, 2016
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nga Lee Ng($10,000), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Aerosol Formation, BVOC, Held, Organic, Participation, Symposium.

Development and Deployment of a Novel Peroxy Radical Detector
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ezra Wood($205,759), Drexel University, Philadelphia
Key terms: Chemical Amplification, Peroxy Radical, Peroxy Radicals, Air, Amherst, Atmosphere, Calibration, Concentrations, Differences, Factor, HO, Instrument, Measuring, Method, Nitrate, Nitrogen, Organic, Oxide, Tested.

Dynamic Exchange and Reactivity in Secondary Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Scot T Martin($543,454), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric Aerosol, Organic Species, Particle Phase, Diffusivity, Exchange.

Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Characterization of Atmospheric Organic Carbon over Multiple Generations of Oxidation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jesse Kroll($541,983), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Manjula Canagaratna($224,832), Aerodyne Research Inc, Billerica
Key terms: Atmospheric Aging, Organic Carbon, Organic Compounds, Approaches, Atmosphere, Evolution, Laboratory, Species.

2016 Atmospheric Optics: Aerosols, Visibility, and the Radiative Balance Conference; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; September 27-30, 2016
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Delbert J Eatough($25,000), Air & Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh
Key terms: Climate, Effects, Haze, Nitrogen, Particles, Sessions, Submissions, Workshop.

Impacts of the Biosphere on Global Tropospheric Chemistry and Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Colette L Heald($499,248), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric Composition, Chemical, Exchange, Geos-chem, Model, Processes, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Kinetics and Mechanism of Restructuring of Atmospheric Soot and Associated Impact on Light Absorption
Award Effective Date: 08/22/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Chong Qiu($63,689), University of New Haven, West Haven
Key terms: Optical Properties, Soot Particles, Aerosol, Aggregates, Carbon, Carbonaceous, Determined, Mixing, Morphology, Radiative.

Line Shape for Collision Systems Important in Earth's, Planetary, and Exoplanet Atmospheres
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert Gamache($290,304), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Chemistry And Climate, Line Shape Parameters, Remote Sensing Retrievals, Accurate Line, Atmospheric Chemistry, Radiative Forcing, Trace Gases, Absorbed, Advance, Atmosphere, Half-widths, Radiation, Species, Spectral, Temperature, Velocity.

Next Generation In Situ Measurements of Stratospheric Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lars E Kalnajs($365,759), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Balloon Borne, Stratospheric Aerosols, Affect, Boulder, Build, Climate, Commercial, Has, Instrument, Laramie, Leadership, Long-term, Mentoring, Particle, Particles, Profile, Satellite, Size, Transition, Validation, WY.

The Impact of Environmental Perturbations on Biogenic Monoterpene Emissions and Their Implications to Secondary Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Delphine Farmer($166,082), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Co2 And Temperature, Fast Growing, Plant Chambers, Voc Emissions, Abiotic, Climate, Combined, Conditions, Elevated, Identical, Investigate, Non-linear, Organic, Plants, SOA, Soas.

Collaborative Research: Measuring Carbon and Climate Tracers on the Atom Airborne Campaigns
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Britton Stephens($399,141), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Ralph F Keeling($450,640), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Climate Forcing Agents, Short-lived Climate Forcing, Atmospheric O2, Instrument Packages, Short-lived Climate, Atom, Campaign, Carbon, Distribution, Distributions, Ocean, Seasonal, Tomographic.

Improving Characterization of Aerosol Optical Properties: Combined Measurements of Angle-resolved Scattering and Ultraviolet-visible Absorption
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Geoffrey D Smith($489,811), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Black And Brown, Atmospheric Aerosol, Brown Carbon, Light Scattering, Optical Properties, Absorption, Aerosols, Measure, Measuring, PAS, Particles, Soot.

RAPID: Nanoparticle Growth from Anthropogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (AVOC) during CLOUD11
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rainer M Volkamer($100,489), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cloud11 Field Campaign, Volatile Organic Compounds, Nucleation Experiments, AVOC, BVOC, Conditions, Facility, Growth, Oxidation, RH, Salting-in, Unique.

Chemical Coupling of Halogens and Oxygenated VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds): Observations, Experiments and Modeling
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rainer M Volkamer($843,898), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Hemisphere Tropical, Laboratory Experiments, Tropospheric Ozone, Aliphatic, Assess, Atmospheric, Bromine, Field, Halogen, Halogens, Investigate, Lifetime, Methane, Modeling, OVOC, Ocean, Radicals.

CAREER: Understanding Multiphase Atmospheric Aerosol Particle Thermodynamics using Models, Mimics, and Microfluidics
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Cari S Dutcher($477,561), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ability, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Liquid, Model, Models, Particles, Predictive, Water.

RAPID: Formaldehyde Measurements as Tracer of Local Processing of Reactive Volatile Organic Carbon During the Atmospheric Measurements of Oxidants in Summer Study
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Frank Keutsch($118,754), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Volatile Organic Compounds, Field Campaign, Human Health, Atmosphere, Emissions, Environment, Formaldehyde, Missing, Oxidation, Sources.

Improving Nitrogen Predictions by Updating Tropospheric Kinetics (INPUT-K)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Barron H Henderson($163,219), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Nitrogen Chemistry, Rate Coefficients, Reactive Nitrogen, Campaign, Climate, Estimates, Laboratory, Mechanistic, Model, Modeling, Observational, Observations, Reaction, Stochastic, Transport.

Measurements of Hydroxyl (OH), Hydroperoxy (HO2), and Other Photo-Oxidants and Products During 2016 PROPHET (Program on Oxidants Photochemistry Emissions and Transport)
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. John Nowak($487,044), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Forest Environments, Reactive Chemistry, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Field, Measured, Organic, PROPHET, Radical, Secondary, Summer.

RUI: Epoxides from Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds: Gas Phase Formation and Aerosol Phase Reactions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Matthew J Elrod($177,987), Oberlin College, Oberlin
Key terms: Biogenic Volatile Organic, Volatile Organic Compounds, Undergraduate Students, Atmospheric, Bvocs, Carbon, Epoxide, Formation, Phase, Pis, RUI, Teragrams.

Assessment of The Impacts of Black Carbon Emissions On Urban and Regional Air Quality and Climate: Mexico Case Study
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Luisa T Molina($832,276), Molina Center for Strategic Studies in Energy & the Environment, La Jolla
Key terms: Modeling Studies, Assess, BC, Chemical, Climate, MCMA, Radiative, Regional.

Activation and Growth of Newly Formed Atmospheric Particles
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Richard C Flagan($634,599), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Low Volatility Organic, Measure And Model, Volatility Organic Compounds, Particle Formation, Activation, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chamber, Growth, Kelvin, Particles, Regime, Size.

The 2016 ACS (American Chemical Society) Renyi Zhang Symposium; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August 21-25, 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alexei Khalizov($10,000), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Atmospheric Aerosols, Chemical Properties, Renyi Zhang, Formation, Growth, Investigation, Students, Symposium, Zhangs.

Mountain Top Cloud Sampling: Experimental Design for Coordinated Study of Multiphase Chemical Mechanisms; March 1, 2016 to February 28, 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ann Marie G Carlton($20,000), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Cloud Chemistry, Coordinated Field, Clouds, Laboratory, Modeling, Plan, Representation, Senior, Strategy, Workshop.

CAREER: Molecular Mechanism of Atmospheric Mercury through Speciation-Resolved Experiments
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alexei Khalizov($711,534), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Gas-phase Products, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Chemical, GEM, GOM, Gas-phase, Gaseous, Hgbr, Investigate, Kinetics, Mercury, Particle-bound, Reactions.

Leaf-level to Canopy NOx and Ozone Exchanges at University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) during PHotochemistry, Emissions, and Transport (PROPHET) 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Detlev Helmig($370,630), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Leaf-level Gas Exchanges, Leaf-level Gas, Reactive Chemistry, Atmosphere, Dependency, Forest, Future, Nitrogen, Nox, Organic, Ozone, Temperature, UMBS.

2016 Gordon Research Conference on Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere: Diversity of Sources, Sinks, and Impacts of Atmospheric Organics in Spain; June 26-July 1, 2016
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nadine Unger($28,075), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Biogenic Hydrocarbons, Conference, Formation.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Metals on Photochemical Aging of Water Soluble Organic Carbon in Atmospheric Particulate Matter: A Combined Lab and Field Study
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Fernando Rosario-Ortiz($254,219), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Brian J Majestic($191,269), University of Denver, Denver
Key terms: Atmospheric Particulate Matter, Chemical Speciation, Organic Compounds, Aging, Atmosphere, Fe, Field, Health, Information, Iron, Oxidation, Particles, Processing, Useful.

Air chemistry Research In Asia (ARIAs): Aerosol and Trace Gas Emissions and Transformations over the North China Plain
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Xinrong Ren($579,432), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Trace Gases, Aerosols, Asia, Environments, Properties, Students.

Collaborative Research: Sizing Up the Smoke--Evaluating and Improving Our Ability to Predict Aged Wildfire Aerosol Size Distributions
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Chantelle Lonsdale($227,825), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
2. Jeffrey R Pierce($372,115), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aged Biomass-burning Aerosol, Biomass-burning Aerosol Size, Aged Biomass-burning, Biomass-burning Aerosol, Aging, Combustion, Emissions, Experiments, Field, Processes, Properties.

CAREER: Quantifying the Formation and Persistence of Brown Carbon Compounds Through Observational and Laboratory Studies
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lelia N Hawkins($636,101), Harvey Mudd College, Claremont
Key terms: Brown Carbon, Los Angeles, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Brc, Contribution, Fate.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Effects of Increased Freshwater Inputs and Salt Water Intrusion on the Current and Future Greenhouse Carbon Balance of Everglade Wetlands
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Steven F Oberbauer($407,424), Florida International University, Miami
2. Christina L Staudhammer($491,963), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Carbon Balance, National Park, Ecological, Everglades, Florida, Marsh, Sites.

MRI: Acquisition of a Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) for Citizen- and Student-Driven Inquiry in Urban District of Columbia
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Patrice E Moss($106,500), Trinity College, Washington
Key terms: Trinity Washington, DC, Environmental, Health, MRI, Neighborhoods, Quality, STEM, Students, Urban, Vocs.

Studies of Optical and Chemical Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Solomon Bililign($488,281), North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University, Greensboro
Key terms: Atmospheric Aging, Optical Properties, Aerosol, Aerosols, Biomass, Burning, Chamber, Common, Composition, Function.

Collaborative Research: Formation of Organic Nitrogen and Secondary Organic Aerosol Related to Nitrate Radical Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. James Flynn($248,314), University of Houston, Houston
2. Robert J Griffin($238,544), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Anthropogenic, Below, Canopy, Carbon, Contrast, Emissions, Forests, Formation, Influence, Investigate, Nitrogen, Nox, Organic, Oxidation, PM, PON, Particulate, Remote, SOA, Submicron, Transport, Urban.

Development, Validation, and Application of Multicomponent Atmospheric New Particle Formation Schemes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Fangqun Yu($545,882), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Nucleation Schemes, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Clusters, Implications, Involving, Models, Ternary.

EAGER: Development of a Novel Double-resonance Fiber-laser-induced Fluorescence Instrument for Long-term, High-sensitivity, Interference-free Measurements of Hydroxyl Radical (OH)
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Frank Keutsch($43,026), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Hydroxyl Radical, Air, Atmosphere, Chemical, Development, Field, Gases, Highly, LIF, Laser, Method, OH, Oxidizing, Species.

CAREER: Integrated Laboratory and Field Studies of Organic Nitrates from BVOC + NO3: Formation, Processing, and Fates
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nga Lee Ng($738,503), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Nitrogen Compounds, Aging, Atmosphere, Biogenic, Formation, Organic, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: Spray-Mediated Gas Fluxes across the Air-Sea Interface
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Penny Vlahos($134,623), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Air-sea Gas Exchange, Air-sea Gas, Sea Spray, Spray Droplets, Bubbles, Gases, Global, Interface, Ocean, Surface.

Anthropogenic Influence on Oxidative Capacity and BVOC Oxidation During GoAmazon 2014
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Frank Keutsch($245,256), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Bvoc Oxidation, Aerosol, Amazon, Anthropogenic, Brazil, Concentrations, Dry, Emissions, Expected, Formation, Manaus, Mechanisms, Organic, Processes, Season, Site, Tropical, Wet.

Field and Laboratory Study of Rural Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Oxidation and Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Formation Utilizing Measurements of Formaldehyde and Glyoxal
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Frank Keutsch($88,997), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Oxidation And Resulting, Human Health, Soa Formation, Voc Oxidation, Aerosol, Anthropogenic, Climate, Current, Effects, Emissions, Environment, Especially, Isoprene, Laboratory, Mechanisms, OH, Organic, Particular, Pis, Represent, Rural, Secondary.

Collaborative Research: The Effect of Variations in Cloud Versus CO2 Radiative Forcing on Tropical SST Gradients, Atmospheric Circulation and Rainfall Patterns
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Natalie Burls($267,302), George Mason University, Fairfax
2. Alexey Fedorov($265,429), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Equatorial Pacific Sst, Greenhouse Warming Simulations, Cold Tongue, Extratropical Clouds, Heat Transport, Sst Contrast, Sst Gradient, Tropical Climate, Warm Pool, Albedo, Aspects, Broader, East-west, Effects, Future, Has, Model, Ocean, Oceanic, Parcel, Pis, Requires, Surface, Temperature, Tropics, Water.

EAGER: A Novel Theoretical Study of Mid-latitude Atmospheric Predictability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Richard Kleeman($222,018), New York University, New York
Key terms: Atmospheric Predictability, Statistical Predictability, Developed, Forecast, Insights, Nature, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation in Clouds: A Synergistic Experimental and Simulation Approach
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: CSD-Chem Strcture and Dynamics

1. Will Cantrell($263,283), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
2. Sapna Sarupria($287,769), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation, Atmospheric Chemistry, Frozen Water, Molecular Behavior, Accurately, Basis, Developed, Essential, Experimental, Future, Industry, Kinetics, Models, Planet, Predicting, Simulation, Simulations, Students, Surface, Surfaces, Thermodynamics, Tools, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Using a Hierarchy of Models to Constrain the Temperature Dependence of Climate Sensitivity
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Timothy W Cronin($269,038), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Eli Tziperman($104,651), Harvard University, Cambridge
3. Dorian S Abbot($269,131), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Climate Sensitivity, Co2 Doublings, Global Temperature, Greenhouse Gas, Parameter Values, Temperature Dependence, Anthropogenic, Cloud, Consequences, Convection, Emissions, Has, Increase, Level, Model, Perturbed, Risk, Simulations, Societal, Version, Warming.

Extreme Weather Events in Mid-latitudes: The Role of Arctic Sea Ice, SST due to AMV and Siberian Snow Cover Through Teleconnections Involving the Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gudrun Magnusdottir($700,985), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Continental Mid-latitude Regions, Sea Surface Temperature, Boundary Conditions, Cold Spells, Continental Mid-latitude, Mid-latitude Regions, Snow Cover, Surface Anomalies, Andor, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Circulation, Climate, Connections, Eastern, Examine, Extreme, Focus, Has, Modeling, Models, North, Observations, Predictability, Signal, Snowfall, Source, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Students, Teleconnections, Time, Troposphere, Widely, Winter, Wintertime.

Roles of Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling and Remote Forcing in Northwest Pacific Monsoon Variability
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Shang-Ping Xie($614,219), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Northwest Pacific Convection, Tropical Northwest Pacific, Abrupt Onset, Rain Band, AAC, Affects, Climate, Correlation, ENSO, East, Has, International, Investigate, Rainfall, Regions, SST, Summer.

Scientific Program Overview (SPO): Southern Ocean Clouds, Radiation, Aerosol, Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Christopher S Bretherton($52,541), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Droplets And Ice, Boundary Layer, Degrees South, Global Climate, Ice Particles, Polar Front, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Activities, Aerosols, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Campaign, Cloud, Clouds, Concentrations, Conditions, Cooling, Determining, Field, Fieldwork, Free, GV, Has, Inps, NSF, Observations, Outreach, Pis, Planned, Processes, Properties, Relative, SLW, SOCRATES, Students, Surface.

Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation in the Northeast United States in Observations and Models
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. JianHua Qian($453,807), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Forecasts And Projections, Extreme Precipitation, Storm Types, Climate, Current, Examined, Factors, Influence, Model, Modeled, Models, Northeast, Processes, Reproduce, Storms, Strength.

Sea Surface Temperature-Forced Monsoon Evolution and Variability in West Africa
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dong Eun Lee($590,414), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate And Society, Sea Surface Temperatures, Surface Temperature Fluctuations, Climate Prediction, Monsoon Rainfall, Monsoon Rains, Monsoon Season, Rains Tend, Summer Monsoon, Tropical Pacific, West African, Basins, Contribute, Global, Information, International, Observations, Ocean, Region, Relatively, Remote, Sahel, Seasonal, Sometimes.

Improving Estimates of Anthropogenic Aerosol Cooling and Climate Sensitivity
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Timothy Delsole($448,195), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: 20th Century Climate, 20th Century, Aerosol Cooling, Climate Model, Surface Temperature, Aerosols, Effect, Estimates, Extent, Forcings, Greenhouse, Has, Insolation, Observational, Observations, Offset, Precipitation, Simulations, Variables, Warming.

Understanding Forced Asian Monsoon Changes in Observations and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - Phase 5 (CMIP5) Models
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daniel M Westervelt($712,034), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Asian Monsoon, Model Simulations, Monsoon Rainfall, Aerosols, Anthropogenic, Effect, Factors, Greenhouse, Human, LULC, Land, Region, Seeks.

Mechanisms for El Nino and La Nina Evolution Asymmetry and Formation of Super El Ninos
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tim Li($496,497), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Layer Heat Budget, Mixed Layer Heat, Amplitude Differences, El Nino, El Ninos, Enso Amplitude, Equatorial Pacific, Super El, Central, Climate, Combination, Development, Feedback, Has, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Nina, Ninas, Ocean, Phases, Preliminary, Simulations, Societal, Ssts, Strength, Substantial, Surface, Uncoupled, Warm, Worldwide.

The Essential Dynamics of Tropical Rain Belts: Monsoons and Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) in a Multi-model Ensemble of Idealized Simulations
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Aiko Voigt($711,360), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Oceanic Rain, Activities, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Climate, Design, Dynamics, Effort, Energy, Ensemble, Model, Models, Monsoons, Rainfall, Simulations, Tropical, Tropics.

Collaborative Research: Extratropical Triggering of El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Events Through the Trade-Wind Charging Mechanism
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Bruce Anderson($306,670), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Benjamin S Giese($87,931), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Boreal Winter Enso, Cold Boreal Winter, Positive And Negative, Warm And Cold, Climate Model, Component Model, Enso Prediction, Equatorial Pacific, Generating Warm, North Pacific, Surface Wind, Twc Enhances, Atmospheric, Central, Charging, Conditions, Coupled, Development, Efficacy, El, Experiments, Heat, Integrated, Involves, Mechanism, Months, NPO, Nina, Ocean, Opposite, Oscillation, Phase, Pis, Sea, Southward, Subsurface, Transport.

The Dynamical and Chemical Basis for the Future of Pollution Extremes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gennady Samorodnitsky($587,563), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Air Pollution, Extreme Pollution, Wave Activity, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Circulation, Climate, Deaths, Dynamical, Meteorological, Relation.

CAREER: Drought Predictability and the Role of Land-Atmosphere Interactions in the U.S. Great Plains
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven M Quiring($29,515), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Land Surface Models, Moisture Influences Climate, Soil Moisture Influences, Spatial And Temporal, Land-atmosphere Coupling, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Undergraduate Students, Drought, Interannual, Land-atmosphere, Plains, Seasonal, Strength, Time.

CAREER: Going Global - The Influence of Southern Ocean Albedo on Large-scale Climate Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jennifer Kay($843,867), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Southern Ocean Clouds, Educational Partners, Polar Hook, CESM, Circulation, Climate, Colorado, Coupling, Curriculum, Global, Implement, Influence, Observations, Students, Under-represented.

Extratropical Persistent Anomalies on a Warmer Earth: Connections to Extratropical Storms and Storm Tracks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gary M Lackmann($1,165,132), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Climate Models, Condensational Heating, High-impact Weather, Mesoscale Features, Pa Behavior, Pa Formation, Persistent Anomalies, Ability, Air, Allows, Association, Atmospheric, Blocking, Dynamics, Future, Global, Greenhouse, High-impact, Initiation, Intensity, Jet, Latitudes, Low, Maintenance, Modified, Pas, Performed, Pis, Produce, Representation, Resolution, Simulations, Synoptic, Undergraduate, Warming.

CAREER: The Size of the Global Dust Cycle and its Radiative Impact on Climate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jasper F Kok($601,670), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Assistant Program, Climate Impacts, Desert Dust, Atmosphere, Enhance, Future, Research-enhanced.

Understanding Two-way Coupling Between Cloud Radiative Effects and the Large-Scale Extratropical Atmospheric Circulation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David W Thompson($635,603), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric Cloud Radiative, Cloud Radiative Effects, Large-scale Extratropical, Analyses, Circulation, Climate, Clouds, Component, Large-scale, Model, Numerical, Output, Products, Run, Structure.

Entrainment, Decoupling, and Vertical Transport in the Marine Stratocumulus Cloud Deck
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Simon P de Szoeke($552,138), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Marine Stratocumulus Clouds, Climate Models, Cloud Top, Cumulus Updrafts, Low Clouds, Buoyancy, Decoupling, Diurnal, Downdrafts, Drizzle, Entrainment, Observed, Phenomena, Processes, Strength, Structure, Turbulence, Vertical, Weather.

Collaborative Research: The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation and Internal Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Martha W Buckley($451,075), George Mason University, Fairfax
2. Benjamin P Kirtman($355,479), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Intertropical Convergence Zone, Atmospheric Model, Ensemble Mean, Noise Forcing, North Atlantic, North-south Shifts, Surface Climate, Weather Noise, AMOC, Additional, Affect, Assess, Atmosphere, CESM, Circulation, Developed, Drought, Effect, Effects, Fluxes, IE-CESM, ITCZ, Impulsive, Models, North-south, Ocean, Particular, Pis, Regions, Remote, SST, Sea, Simulations, Single, Water.

The Impact of Fire on Entrainment and Precipitation Efficiency Derived from Isotope Ratios
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David C Noone($635,235), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Model Simulations, Stratocumulus Clouds, Characteristics, Climate, Droplets, Evaporation, Experiment, Isotopic, Knowledge, Layers, Leads, Methods, Modeling, Models, Near, Smoke, Southern, Synthesis.

Convection and Balanced Tropical Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David J Raymond($521,733), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Bottom-heavy Mass Flux, Mass Flux Profile, Bottom-heavy Mass, Convecting Region, Convective Precipitation, Cumulus Clouds, Instability Leads, Mid-level Vorticity, Aews, Atlantic, Chain, Circulation, Convection, Cyclonic, Development, Energy, Field, Focuses, Horizontal, Hurricanes, Mid-level, Mid-tropospheric, Moisture, Motions, Overturning, Performed, Reduction, Suggesting, Temperatures, Tropical, Vigorous, Waves.

Mechanisms of Climate Variability and Change
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dennis L Hartmann($1,095,460), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Cloud Radiative Effects, Cloud Radiative Heating, Atmospheric Circulation, Energy Export, Equatorial Pacific, Global Warming, Model Simulations, Sea Ice, Climate, Clouds, Confining, Considers, Expansion, Feedback, Greenhouse, ITCZ, Issue, Latitudes, Mechanisms, Models, Positive, Produce, Vapor, Variety.

Intraseasonal Extratropical Precursors to the Indian Ocean Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Proximate to Africa
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul E Roundy($486,419), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Equatorial Pacific, Indian Ocean, Precursor Waves, Rossby Waves, Secondary Mjo, Wave Disturbances, Africa, African, Eastward, Formation, Has, Induce, Propagate, Slowly, Variety, Weather.

Wave Activity Budget and the Variabilities of the Extratropical Climate
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noboru Nakamura($706,534), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Wave-mean Flow Interaction, Atmospheric Dynamics, Jet Streams, Summer School, Wave-mean Flow, AGS-, Amplitude, Climate, Combination, Developed, Framework, Graduate, Has, Model, Oscillation, Surface, Theory, Topic, Topics, Waves, Weather.

2016 Graduate Climate Conference; Seattle, Washington; October 28-30, 2016
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. LuAnne Thompson($16,000), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Graduate Students, Climate, Conference, GCC, Processes.

Implementation and evaluation of the unified parameterization in NCAR Community Atmospheric Model
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Minoru Chikira($449,437), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Climate Models, Coarser Resolutions, Gray Zone, Grid Cell, Represented Indirectly, Unified Parameterization, Atmospheric, Behavior, CAM, Center, Cloud, Clouds, Coarse-scale, Convective, Cumulus, Explicitly, Fine, Gcms, Has, Motions, Performed, Portion, Scheme, Simulation, Simulations, Value.

A Climatological and Forecast Perspective on the Lower Stratospheric Environment During Synoptic Waveguide Perturbation Events
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Andrea A Lang($361,907), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Blocking Anticyclones, Broader Impacts, Explosive Cyclogenesis, Jet Streams, Stratospheric Circulation, Synoptic Disturbances, Tropospheric Weather, Affect, Conditions, Forecast, Has, Influence, Interaction, Medium-range, Real-time, SNAP, Severe, Slowly, Stratosphere, Stratosphere-troposphere, Student, Troposphere, Waves, Webpage.

Improved Understanding of the Response of Mean and Extreme Precipitation to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul A O'Gorman($420,185), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Extreme Precipitation, Extreme Snowfall, Mean Precipitation, Argument, Climate, Convergence, Dry, Effects, Experiments, Extremes, Global, Increase, Increases, Intensity, Land, Mechanisms, Mode, Model, Models, Moisture, Potential, Previous, Regions, Relative, SST, Simulations, Spatial, Ssts, Student, Surface, Temperature, Tropical, Vertical, Warmer, Warming, Water, Weather, Wetter.

P2C2: Reconstruction and Dynamics of Interhemispheric Hydroclimate Variability between the Americas
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Alton P Williams($626,108), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Drought Atlas, Climate, Climatic, Dynamic, Dynamics, Extreme, Future, Hydroclimate, Large-scale, Last-millennium, Millennium, Pan-pacific, Past, Regimes.

Intensity and Amplification of Tropical Deep Convection
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Larissa E Back($522,055), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Bottom Heavy, Broader Impacts, Convective Clouds, Convective Precipitation, Deep Convection, Flash Rate, Aggregates, Aggregation, CAPE, Condensation, Difference, EYH, Examination, Has, Intense, Intensity, Issue, Land, Level, Middle, Model, Ocean, Organization, Organized, Region, Regions, Structure, Surface, Tropical, Tropics, Values, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Lagrangian Simulations of the Madden Julian Oscillation over Warming Oceans
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sharon L Sessions($118,630), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
2. Patrick Haertel($313,384), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Storms And Hurricanes, Oceans Warm, Tropical Storms, Weather Model, Affect, Atmospheric, Circulations, Climate, Frequent, Future, Lagrangian, MJO, Models, Period, Rainfall, Students, World.

Collaborative Research: Assessing and Understanding Climate Change in South America
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Carlos R Mechoso($470,096), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Paul C Loikith($269,989), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Naturally Occurring Climate, Climate Variables, Natural Climate, Features, Information, Methods, Observed, Precipitation, Regions, South, Task, Temperature, Trends, Via.

Collaborative Research: A Global View of Topographically Bound Low Level Jets
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Wayne H Schubert($296,913), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Scott R Fulton($326,601), Clarkson University, Potsdam
Key terms: Atmospheric Dynamics, Elevated Terrain, Low-level Jet, Low-level Jets, Andes, Antarctica, Atmosphere, Climate, Computational, Computed, Developed, Developing, Eastern, Indian, Low-level, Mountains, Persistent, Shape, Solutions, Theory, Training, Two-dimensional, Winds.

2016 Summer School and Dynamical Core Model Intercomparison Project; Boulder, Colorado; June 6-17, 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul A Ullrich($20,000), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: School And Model, Dynamical Core, Global Atmospheric, Model Intercomparison, Summer School, Advance, Arise, Coupling, Differences, Future, Modeling, Opportunity, Parameterizations, Simulations, Specific, Students, Unique, Variable-resolution, Workshop.

Seasonal Sensitivity of the Midlatitude Circulation to Future Climate Warming
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Elizabeth A Barnes($599,693), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Global Warming, Greenhouse Warming, Jet Shifts, Jet Streams, Middle Latitudes, Southern Hemisphere, Analysis, August, Averaged, Climate, December, Determined, Fall, February, Followed, Future, Has, Induced, June, Largest, Leading, Levels, March, Model, North, Northward, November, Polar, Poles, Poleward, Seasonality, September, Simulations, Spring, Students, Summer, Theories, Topic, Varying, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Stratospheric Age in a Changing Climate: Connecting Theory, Models, and Observations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. R. Alan Plumb($388,860), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Vapor And Ozone, Anthropogenic Forcing, Atmospheric Circulation, Brewer-dobson Circulation, Stratospheric Transport, Trace Gases, Water Vapor, Age, Brewer-dobson, Climate, Detect, Directly, Establish, Mass, Model, Models, Observations, Stratosphere, Surface, Theory, Time.

Understanding Large-scale Zonal Jet Variability and Change
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David J Lorenz($538,652), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Background Westerly Flow, Increasing Greenhouse Gases, Strength And Position, Westerly Wind Belt, Background Flow, Climate Model, Climate Models, Ideally Suited, Latitudinal Shifts, Mid-latitude Jet, Model Spread, Total Flow, Westerly Jet, Circulation, Credible, Defined, Equatorward, Has, Improvements, Information, Mechanisms, Methodology, Mid-latitude, Mid-latitudes, Natural, Observations, Pis, Reasons, Separate, Simulations, Waves, Westerlies.

The Madden Julian Oscillation and the Maritime Continent
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Shuguang Wang($757,467), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Maritime Continent, Weather Disturbances, Forecast, Forecasts, Islands, MJO, Motion, Mountain, Public, Removed.

Atmospheric Blocking: Dynamics and Responses to Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zhiming Kuang($540,436), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Atmospheric Blocking, Circulation Models, Climate, Component, Dynamical, Employ, Experiments, Full-physics, Idealized, Investigate, Mechanism, Quantitative, Reanalysis, Weather.

Evaluating Convective Parameterization Schemes and Their Scale-awareness Using Simulated Convection in a Hierarchy of Models
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Guang J Zhang($626,629), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Global Climate Models, Representing Atmospheric Convection, Closure Assumptions, Grid Spacing, Numerical Models, Representing Convection, Algorithms, Amount, Analysis, Contribute, Criteria, Current, Decreases, Future, Investigate, Less, Onset, Representation, Representations, Simulation, Simulations, Strengths.

Modeling and Observational Studies of Inertial Instability Near the Tropopause
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Matthew H Hitchman($606,068), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Stratosphere Troposphere Exchange, Inertial Instability, Tropical Cyclones, Air, Convective, Distribution, Enhance, Jet, Midlatitude, Near, Occurrence, Pathways, Plays, Poleward, STE, Stratospheric, UTLS, Weather.

Dynamics and Kinematics of the Monsoon Anticyclones
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kenneth P Bowman($291,049), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Asian, Atmosphere, Circulation, Climate, Composition, Earth, Economic, Effects, Globe, Monsoon, Monsoons, North, People, Pollutants, Processes, Responsible, Social, Storms, Transport, Water.

Reducing Uncertainty Surrounding Climate Change Using Emergent Constraints
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Alexander D Hall($999,473), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Global Hydrological Cycle, Greenhouse Gas Increases, Sky Shortwave Absorption, Albedo Feedback, Atmospheric Energy, Climate Models, Emergent Constraints, Feedback Strength, Future Climate, Model Development, Pis Seek, Policy Makers, Present-day Simulations, Saf Derived, Saf Strength, Sea Ice, Seasonal Cycle, Acceleration, Aspects, Available, Compared, Consider, Correlated, Cover, Effort, Ensemble, Evaporation, Feedbacks, Forcing, GCM, Gcms, Ground, Guidance, Highly, Information, Means, Modeling, Observations, Outreach, Parameterizations, Particular, Precipitation, Present-day, Projections, Public, Reductions, Representation, Responds, Robust, Sensitivity, Sessions, Snow, Sos, Sources, Stakeholders, Surface, TPW, Uncertainties, Uncertainty, Validation, Warming, Website.

Extratropical Transition and Recurvature of Tropical Cyclones in a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gary M Lackmann($610,874), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Tropical Cyclones, Category, Climate, Frequency, Has, Increase, Influence, Intensity, Mid-latitude, Models, Poleward, Remain, Subset, Tropics, Upper, Warming.

"Rossbypalooza", A Student-led Workshop at the Interface of Climate Dynamics and Statistics; Chicago, Illinois; July 25-29, 2016
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Noboru Nakamura($27,660), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Climate Dynamics, Analysis, Has, Observed, Phenomena, Potential, Theory, Workshop.

Development and Testing of a Global Quasi-3-D Multi-scale Modeling Framework
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. JOON-HEE JUNG($656,746), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Periodic Boundary Conditions, Zonal And Meridional, Atmospheric Model, Crm Channels, Future Climate, Global Atmospheric, Grid Column, Multiscale Modeling, Q3d Mmf, Sp Version, Accessibility, Broader, CAM, CMMAP, Cells, Center, Circulation, Cloud, Clouds, Component, Concerned, Crms, Decision, Development, Direction, Domain, Extension, GCM, Gcms, Has, Large-scale, Models, Oriented, Parameterizations, Processes, Projections, QD, SP-CAM, Topography, Typically, Weather, X-.

Drying Versus Wettening of the East African Climate
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Bradfield Lyon($120,655), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Climate Model, East Africa, Model Projections, Short Rains, CMIP, Century, Decline, Experiments, Features, Has, Identifying, Interannual, Linked, Observed, Precipitation, Processes, Rainfall, SST, Season, Simulations, Stronger, Trend.

Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Initiation-DYNAMO (DYNAmics of the Madden-julian Oscillation) and Beyond
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Shuyi S Chen($512,220), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Central Equatorial Pacific, Weather And Climate, Convective Precipitation, Eastward Propagation, Hurricane Genesis, Indian Ocean, Madden-julian Oscillation, Accompanying, Atmospheric, Campaign, DYNAMO, Enhanced, Global, Has, Initiation, MJO, Models, Propagates, Region, Seeks, Stage, Tropical, Widespread.

Collaborative Research: Synergistic Environments in Graduate and Undergraduate Education in Atmospheric Instrumentation and Measurement Training (SEGUE)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Alison Rockwell($380,150), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Richard D Clark($289,013), Millersville University, Millersville
Key terms: Education And Training, Subject Matter Experts, Graduate Students, Instructional Design, Atmospheric, Collaborative, Development, Enhance, Instrumentation, Instruments, Interactive, Literacy, Meteorological, Modules, Multimedia, National, Observational, Observing, Resources, Robust, SEGUE, Tools.

NSF GOLD (National Science Foundation GEO Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity) Projects Launch Workshop; Washington, District of Columbia; Fall 2016
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Hanne Mauriello($99,256), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Diversity And Inclusion, Inclusion Focused, Leadership Development, Leading Diversity, Champions, Complex, GOLD, Geoscience, Geosciences, Issues, Synergy, Widespread, Workshop.

REU Site: Atmospheric Science in the Gulf Coast Region at Texas A&M University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Don Conlee($356,693), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Gulf Coast, Texas Aandm, Atmospheric, Campus, Department, Experience, Faculty, Graduate, Individual, Opportunities, Participants, Program, REU, Recruit, Site, Specific, Students, Topics.

REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at NOAA-CREST: Expanded Opportunities
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Reginald A Blake($642,400), CUNY New York City College of Technology, Brooklyn
Key terms: Remote Sensing, Reu Site, Undergraduate Students, Academic, Activities, Allow, CUNY, City, Courses, Create, Development, Diverse, Mathematics, Mentoring, Opportunity, Participants, Particular, Receive, STEM, School, York.

REU Site: Climate Science Research at The Pennsylvania State University
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Raymond G Najjar($362,034), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Climate, Graduate, Students.

REU Site: Real-World Research Experiences at the National Weather Center
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Daphne S LaDue($899,591), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Written And Oral, National Weather, Oral Formats, Reu Site, Additional, Broader, Build, Center, Experience, Graduate, Individual, Knowledge, Lectures, Level, Local, Management, Methods, NWC, Participants, Program, Renewal, Skills, Students, Undergraduate, Variety, Workshops.

REU Site: Computing and Geoscience in the Coastal Carolina Region
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sathish Kumar($324,783), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Coastal Zones, Underrepresented Students, Activities, Broad, Climate, Computer, Computing, Disciplines, Diversity, Geoscience, Has, Historically, Increase, Opportunities, REU, Solutions.

CAREER: In Situ Study of Aerosols in the Coarse Mode With Digital Holography
Award Effective Date: 08/16/2016; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Matthew J Berg($767,980), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Size And Shape, Digital Holographic, Optical Observables, Particle Size, Aerosols, Apply, Cmas, Developed, Measured, Planned, Scattering, Seeks.

Workshop: Modeling Research in the Cloud; Boulder Colorado; Spring 2017
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: EarthCube

1. Wei Wang($49,824), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Prediction Studies, Weather And Climate, Climate Prediction, Cloud Computing, Computing Resources, Democratizing Access, Paradigm Shift, Performance Computing, Advancing, Approaches, Beyond, Development, Discuss, Educators, Enabling, Facilities, Has, Modeling, Opportunities, Participants, Potential, Process, Services, Students, Workshop.

CAREER: Ecosystem-driven Accelerations and Oscillations in the Coupled Earth System
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Abigail L Swann($685,218), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Local Environment, Plants Grow, Alter, Aspects, Climate, Directly, Ecosystems, Effects, Future, Global, Has, Influence, Models, Modify, Play, Teaching.

Impacts of Climate Engineering Using Stratospheric Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Alan Robock($718,276), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Crop Model Intercomparison, Aerosol Injection, Climate Models, Negative Impacts, Southern Hemisphere, Volcanic Eruptions, Aerosols, Agricultural, Agriculture, Artificially, CESM, Clm-crop, Consequences, Crops, Effect, Effort, Geoengineering, Geomip, Monsoon, Ocean, Potential, Preferentially, Previous, Rainfall, Reducing, Reduction, Simulations, Stratospheric, Sulfate, Sunlight, Surface, UV, Vegetation.

Pathways to Coronal Magnetic Energy Storage and Release
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Graham K Barnes($511,619), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Active Region, Active Regions, Coronal Magnetic, Energy Release, Free Energy, Photospheric Proxies, Amount, Analysis, Computed, Configuration, Energetic, Field, Flare, Flares, Forecasting, Global, Pathways, Phenomena, Potential, Produce, Released, Size, Solar, Statistics, Stored, Sub-areas.

CEDAR: Effects of the 2017 Total Solar Eclipse on the Earth's Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Gregory D Earle($402,898), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Amateur Radio, Constrain Models, Eclipse, Effects, Information, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Plasma.

SHINE Workshop Coordination: 2016-2020
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Noe Lugaz($718,244), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Students And Postdocs, Solar Wind, Active, Annual, Heliosphere, Heliospheric, Interplanetary, Particles, Phenomena, Population, Processes, Program, SHINE, Sun, Workshop, Workshops.

Theoretical Study of Auroral Radio Waves
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2016; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Peter H Yoon($330,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Electric And Magnetic, Auroral Region, Auroral Roar, Earth's Ionosphere, Generation Mechanisms, Magnetic Forces, Plasma Waves, Wave Environment, Wave-particle Interactions, Complex, Conditions, Decay, Frequency, Generated, Nonlinear, Observed, Plasmas, Radio, Source, Theory, Wave-particle.

CEDAR: The First All-Sky Airglow Imaging Studies at Geomagnetic Conjugate Sites in Europe and Africa
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: International Research Collab

1. Jeffrey Baumgardner($489,115), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Diurnal And Seasonal, Hemispheric Asymmetries, Lower Atmosphere, Space Weather, Upper Atmospheric, Africa, All-sky, Boston, Conjugate, Coordinate, Coupling, Dynamics, Expertise, Geomagnetic, Has, Imager, Imagers, Inputs, International, Italy, Longitude, Organizes, Padua, Phenomena, Potential, SANSA, Separate, South.

RAPID: Improving DMSP SSIES-3 data to level-2 quality
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Marc R Hairston($119,551), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Ionospheric And Magnetospheric, Ion Composition, Level-2 Quality, Apply, Available, DMSP, Database, Density, Effort, Expected, Flow, Initial, Instruments, Modeling, Multiple, Physics, Pis, Plasma, RAPID, Routines, SSIES-, Satellites, Space, Starting, Temperature, Three-dimensional.

Kinetic Characterization of Three-Dimensional (3D) Magnetic Reconnection: A Transformative Step
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Li-Jen Chen($300,001), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Energy Conversion Process, Explosive Energy Release, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Reconnection, Plasma Simulations, Satellite Observations, Space Weather, Electric, Investigation, Knowledge, MMS, Regions, Satellites, Structures.

GEM: The Role of O+ on Onset and Energy Release in the Earth's Magnetotail
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Christopher Mouikis($429,569), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Magnetic Field Lines, Space Weather Disturbances, Magnetic Reconnection, Near-earth Space, Oxygen Ions, Solar Wind, Space Environment, Contributes, Dynamics, Effects, Energy, Essential, Explosive, Interaction, Magnetosphere, Mass, Models, Nearth, Plasma, Presence, Release.

GEM: What Determines the Magnetosphere Plasma Entropy Distribution
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joachim Raeder($366,646), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Energetics And Dynamics, Earth's Magnetosphere, Plasma Sheet, Space Weather, Specific Entropy, Adiabatic, Disturbances, Energy, Feed, Heated, Heating, Lost, Magnetic, Maps, Parcel, Particles, Processes, Raise, Reconnection, Region, Regions, Sources, Value.

GEM: Relative Locations of Auroral Breakups to Large-scale Field-aligned Currents
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Haje Korth($312,806), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Substorm Current Wedge, Auroral Breakup, Auroral Oval, Electric Current, Field Disturbances, Field-aligned Currents, Geomagnetic Field, Global Maps, Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Stretching Increases, Auroras, Energy, Existing, Explosive, Field-aligned, Ground-based, Interaction, Ionosphere, Large-scale, Magnetometers, Magnetotail, Observations, Phase, Polar, Region, Supermag, Time.

GEM: Onset and Consequences of Reconnection in the Magnetotail
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joachim Birn($508,611), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Explosive Energy Release, Severe Space Weather, Charged Particles, Diffusion Region, Kinetic Particle-in-cell, Magnetic Reconnection, Petascale Computers, Pic Models, Storm Development, Evolution, Follow, Has, Knowledge, Magnetotail, Onset, Particle-in-cell, State-of-the-art, Time, Triggers.

Solar Wind Control of Alfven Wave Power in the Polar Region
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Andreas Keiling($382,882), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Alfven Wave Power, Magnetic Field Lines, Alfven Waves, Energy Transport, Polar Ionosphere, Solar Wind, Statistical Maps, Activity, Auroral, Conditions, Dynamics, Generation, Geomagnetic, Has, MHD, Magnetosphere, Magnetotail, Observed, Plasma, Quantify, Storm, Substorm, Traveling.

RUI: The Role of the Ionosphere in Determining Magnetospheric Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Anna D DeJong($149,417), Christopher Newport University, Newport News
Key terms: Space Weather, Auroral, Investigate, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Magnetosphere, Modes, Parameters, Transport.

Mapping the Polar Ionospheric Conductivities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Daniel Weimer($453,936), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Curl-free Current, Currents Obtained, Empirical Model, Height-integrated Electrical, Ionospheric Conductivity, Magnetic Field, Polar Region, Behavior, Coupling, Curl-free, Direct, Divergence-free, Essentially, Field-aligned, Geospace, Global, Ground, Ground-based, Height-integrated, Knowledge, Observations, Satellite, Signature, Solar.

The Differences in Onset Times of Hemispherically Conjugate Auroral Stations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L McPherron($145,505), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Earth's Magnetotail, Field Lines, Individual Substorms, Magnetic Field, Substorm Onset, Timing Differences, Additional, Auroral, Currents, Geospace, Information, Intensification, Magnetometer, Observed, Pilot, Process, Reward, Risk, Sources, Space, View.

Collaborative Research: Impacts of Ion-Neutral Coupling on Ion Upflow and Outflow in the Polar Cusp
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Binzheng Zhang($42,141), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Roger H Varney($239,594), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Upflow And Outflow, Magnetosphere Ionosphere, Numerical Experiments, Numerical Models, Solar Wind, Affect, Allow, CMIT, Combination, Dynamics, Features, Geospace, Global-scale, IPWM, Interaction, Investigation, Ions, Processes, Thermosphere.

GEM: The Generation of Falling-Tone Chorus and Scattering of Particles by Chirped Waves
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Angel R Soto Chavez($369,996), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Rising And Falling, Falling Tone, Falling Tones, Generate Chorus, Radiation Belts, Rising Tones, Tone Chorus, Acoustic, Chirping, Code, Electron, Electrons, Field, Generation, Inhomogeneity, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Physics, Plasma, Resonances, Runs, Scattering, Suggested, Waves.

Theory of Kinetic Alfven Waves and Auroral Particle Acceleration
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L Lysak($543,865), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Electrons And Ions, Kinetic Alfven Waves, Magnetic Field Lines, Electric Field, Potential Drops, Voltage Drop, Accelerated, Acceleration, Auroral, Broad, Developed, Disturbances, Effects, Energy, Feedbacks, Formation, Has, Ionospheric, Model, Parallel, Physics, Plasma, Processes, Quasi-steady, Range, Space, Theory, Transition.

Turbulent Ion Heating in the Magnetosheath
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Christopher Chaston($426,050), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Heating Process, Magnetic Field, Magnetosheath Ions, Solar Wind, Development, Energy, Magnetosphere, Plasma, Potential, Region, Shock, Student, Treatment, Turbulence.

GEM: Response of Global Ionospheric Currents to Substorms: Implication for the Electric Field Penetration to the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Shinichi Ohtani($298,215), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Magnetic Field Lines, Auroral Electrojet, Dip Equator, Equatorial Electrojet, Polar Latitudes, AEJ, Activity, Connected, Current, Currents, Dayside, EEJ, Electric, Flowing, Ground, Ionospheric, Meridional, Nightside, Penetration, Region, Solar, Stations, Strong, Substorms, Time, Unique.

Ground-Based Magnetometer Array Planning Workshop; Greenbelt, Maryland; May 5-6, 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mark J Engebretson($47,116), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
Key terms: Ground-based Magnetometer Arrays, Global Dynamics, Ground-based Magnetometer, Shared Framework, Currents, Development, Earth, Earth-space, Efficiencies, Environment, Explore, Funding, High-level, Individual, Information, Long-term, Maintenance, Observations, Products, Signatures, Synthesizing.

Quantifying Energetic Electron Precipitation Driven By Magnetospheric Waves
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Wen Li($141,352), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Charged Particles, Electron Precipitation, Local Time, Plasma Waves, Radial Distance, Space Environment, Upper Atmosphere, Collisions, Contribution, Energy, Has, Interactions, Mechanisms, Moving, Observations, Plasmas, Radiation, Theoretical.

GEM Systems Science: Creating and Analyzing an Earth Index Collection
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Michael H Denton($360,000), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Secondary Coupling Functions, Global Modes, Index Collection, Multivariable Solar-wind, Primary Mode, Secondary Modes, Solar Wind, Time-dependent Indices, Analysis, Cataloged, Correlation, Correlations, Created, Defined, Driving, Earth, Explore, GEM, Geospace, Investigation, Magnetosphere, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Morphology, Reaction, Sectors, Set, Solar-wind, Time-dependent, Via.

Travel Support for U.S. Participants in the VarSITI Symposia/Meetings during 2016-2018
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Seiji Yashiro($49,890), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Meetings, Solar-terrestrial, Three-year, Varsiti.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on Currents in Geospace and Beyond; Dubrovnik, Croatia; May 22-27, 2016
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Pranoti Asher($30,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Chapman Conference, Global Models, AGU, Currents, Discussion, Field, Has, International, Meetings, Observations, Planets, Space, Students, Sun, Topic.

Collaborative Research: GEM: System Study of the Plasmasphere in Solar Wind-Magnetosphere Coupling
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Daniel Welling($149,893), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
2. Brian M Walsh($124,062), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Coupling, Development, Dynamics, GEM, Geospace, Global, Magnetosphere, Model, Physics, Plasmasphere, Reconnection, Solar.

GEM: Magnetotail Reconnection Signatures at Lunar Orbit
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Andrei Runov($292,698), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Charged Particles, Distant Tail, Lunar Orbit, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Reconnection, Near-earth Reconnection, Plasma Flows, Reconnection Sites, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Conditions, Energy, Enhancements, High-energy, Magnetosphere, Magnetotail, Mid-tail, Nearth, Plasmas, Radii, Satellites, Suggested, Sun, Tailward.

CEDAR: Characterizing Electron Loss to the Atmosphere Using Multi-point Measurements From Riometers and Spacecraft
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Adam C Kellerman($320,165), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Size And Shape, Terrestrial And Space, Absorption Signature, Atmospheric Regions, Central Canada, Particle Precipitation, Precipitating Electrons, Riometer Absorption, Space Weather, Atmosphere, Calibration, Collected, Development, Earth, Energetic, Energy, Field, Ionized, Loss, Lower, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Measure, Measured, Network, Observed, Particles, Positions, Process, Program, Radiowave, Range, Riometers, Satellite, Satellites, Signatures, Spatial, Time, Trapped, Upper.

GEM: The Role of Heavy Ion Outflow in Driving Sawtooth Oscillations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Lynn M Kistler($139,311), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Superposed Epoch Analysis, Atmosphere, FAST, GEM, Geospace, Magnetosphere, Nightside, Observed, Oscillations, Outflow, Sawtooth, Specific, Tooth.

GEM: Study the Precipitation of Radiation Belt Electrons during the Rapid Dropout Events
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Weichao Tu($152,286), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Van Allen Probes, Detailed Calibration, Electron Dynamics, Local Time, Radiation Belt, Satellite Observations, Space Weather, Candidates, Electrons, Loss, Losses, Magnetic, Magnetopause, POES, Precipitation, Simulation, Societally.

GEM: Exploring the Relative Influence of Different Classes of Ion Outflow on the Coupled Dynamics of the Magnetosphere-Ionosphere-Thermosphere System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Roger H Varney($222,962), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Ion Outflow, Polar Wind, Solar Wind, Configuration, Coupled, Dynamics, Effects, Hemispheric, Ionosphere, MIT, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Model, Modeling, Module, Physics, Plasma, Simulation, Sources.

MRI: Development of a Micro-Pulse DIAL (MPD) Testbed for Sensing Lower Tropospheric Water Vapor Profiles
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Scott Spuler($1,112,052), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Micro-pulse Dial, Water Vapor, Advance, Available, Development, Distribution, Field, Instrumentation, Instruments, MPD, Measuring, Seeks.

MRI: Development of a Water Vapor and Temperature Mapping System to Study Cloud-turbulence Interactions in the Michigan Technological University (MTU) Pi-Chamber
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. David Ciochetto($400,321), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Aerosols And Clouds, Cloud Droplet Growth, Growth And Size, Saturation Ratio Field, Spatial And Temporal, Vapor And Liquid, Cloud Chamber, Michigan Technological, Shared Facility, Size Distribution, Spatial Segregation, Turbulent Conditions, Water Vapor, Activation, Air, Analytical, Complex, Development, Distributions, Enabled, Evolution, Fluctuations, Formation, Imaging, Instrument, Interactions, Mixing, Processes, Students, Temperature, Turbulence.

MRI: Development of a Redeployable Spread Spectrum Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) Meteor Radar
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Juha Vierinen($295,496), Northeast Radio Observatory Corp, Westford
Key terms: External Radio Interference, Ionospheric Irregularities, Meteor Radar, Radar Network, Transmitter Antennas, Achieve, Allow, Application, Design, Existing, Features, Fields, Instrument, MSMR, Mesospheric, Power, Primary, Pseudorandom, Pulsed, Software, Transmission.

MRI: Acquisition of a Computing Cluster for Atmospheric and Geophysical Research
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Michael A Murphy($108,524), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
Key terms: Wave Orbital Motions, Cluster Computer, Vertical Propagation, Affect, Atmospheric, Disturbances, Education, Interactions, Ionosphere, Issue, MRI, Mechanisms, Model, Modes, Ocean, Oceanic, POD, Program, Represent, SSW, Ssws, Stratospheric, Tides, Turbulence, Waves.

Heinrich Event Iceberg Flux, Melting, and Ocean Circulation in the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerry F McManus($512,115), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Broader Impacts, North Atlantic, Circulation, Climate, Cryosphere, Glaciation, Heinrich, Hemisphere, Iceberg, Interactions, Involve, Ocean, Subpolar.

P2C2: Testing the Timing of the Devils Hole Climate Record
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Richard L Edwards($408,273), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Anomalous Ages, Devils Hole, Orbital Forcing, Water Table, Anomalies, Climate, Collected, Cores, Critical, Debate.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Derivation of Ensemble and Joint-Variable Climate Field Reconstructions of the Common Era Using New Random Field Methods
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jason E Smerdon($157,085), Columbia University, New York
2. Bo Li($290,044), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Climate Field, Account, Advancement, Assessment, CFR, Cfrs, Developed, Fields, Integrate, Jointly, Methodology, Models, Moments, Potential, Reconstruction, Reconstructions, Single, Spatial, Spatio-temporal, Statistical, Widely.

P2C2: Synthesis of Holocene Proxy Climate Records from Western North America
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Darrell S Kaufman($522,048), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff
Key terms: Past Climate, Proxy Climate, Proxy Types, Assembled, Available, Database, Evidence, Features, Holocene, Investigate, North, Pacific, Paleoclimate, Prominent, Requires, Spatial-temporal, Terrestrial, Time, Variety, Wider.

CAREER: California Megadroughts in Context: Integrating High Resolution Speleothem Records with Isotope-enabled Climate Models and Translating Climate Data for the K-12 Classroom
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jessica L Oster($595,334), Vanderbilt University, Nashville
Key terms: Deglaciation And Holocene, Initial Uranium Isotope, Isotope-enabled Reactive Transport, Speleothem Initial Uranium, Uranium Isotope Ratios, Driving Mechanisms, Isotope-enabled Reactive, School Students, West Coast, California, Cave, Classrooms, Climate, Developed, Development, Drought, Educational, Environmental, Evaluation, High-resolution, Isotopes, Maps, Models, Monitoring, Multiple, Online, Paleoclimate, Precipitation, Proxies, Proxy, Regional, Source, Tennessee, Time, Tool.

Collaborative Research: Assessing climate-biosphere linkages using Late Holocene records of climate variability and vegetation dynamics from the Brazilian Amazon and Savanna
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Lucas Silva($92,395), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Corinne I Wong($383,822), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
3. Lucas Silva($92,395), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Amazon And Cerrado, Delta 18-oxygen Values, Intensity And Local, Local Moisture Conditions, Speleothem Delta 18-oxygen, 18-oxygen Values, Biome Shifts, Delta 18-oxygen, Late Holocene, Sasm Intensity, Speleothem Trace, Brazilian, Cave, Corresponding, Existing, Monitoring, Monsoon, Proxy, Region, Soil, Strontium.

P2C2: Seasonal Dynamics of the Indo-Asian Monsoon during Deglaciations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Feng He($225,733), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Climate Transitions, Ice Ages, Model Version, Monsoon Rainfall, Past Rainfall, Asia, Atmospheric, China, Component, Delta-oxygen, Impacts, Israel, Periods, Seasonal, Speleothem, Speleothems, Yemen.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Reconstructing Changes in Asian Monsoon Circulation during the Last Millennium from Stable Isotopes in Tropical Tree Rings
Award Effective Date: 07/06/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Brendan M Buckley($302,789), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Asian Monsoon, Monsoon Circulation, Isotope, Region, Stable, Ä-o.

P2C2: Extratropical Mechanisms, Land-Surface Properties, and Seasonal Precipitation Processes on Saharan Rainfall and Simulation of the African Humid Period
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Christopher J Poulsen($330,950), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Northern Africa, Summer Experience, Tropical Plumes, AHP, African, Aims, Camp, Climate, Component, Contribution, Desert, Development, Global, Has, Influence, Insights, Participation, Present-day, Processes, Rainfall, Sahara, Students, U-M, URM.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Quantifying the Risk of Widespread Megadrought in North America
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Toby R Ault($316,648), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Scott StGeorge($241,292), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Amplitude And Spatial, Climate Models, Spatial Structure, Tree-ring Network, Argues, Dec-cen, Effects, Origins, Proxies, Risk, Simulations, Temporal, Timescales, Tree-ring.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Paleoclimate Reanalysis: A New View of Past Climates
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jessica E Tierney($345,605), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Gregory Hakim($384,138), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Paleoclimate Reanalysis, Climate, Gridded, Millennial-scale, Origin, School, Tropical.

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: 07/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Martin Medina-Elizalde($102,612), Auburn University, Auburn
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.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Reconstructing Spatiotemporal Climatic Patterns for Northeastern Canada
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Rosanne D D'Arrigo($575,951), Columbia University, New York
2. Caroline C Ummenhofer($115,540), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Blue Intensity, Atlantic, Cell, Centuries, Climate, Climatic, Labrador, Latitudinal, Nain, Newfoundland, North, Past, Region, Sites, Spatial, Transect, Tree-ring.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Ultra-High-Resolution Investigation of High Andean Snow and Ice Chemistry to Improve Paleoclimatic Reconstruction and Enhance Climate Prediction
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Paul A Mayewski($725,107), University of Maine, Orono
2. Anton Seimon($348,814), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Ice Core, Ice Cores, Water Resources, Analysis, Andean, Climate, Cyberinfrastructure, Day, ENSO, Future, Glaciers, Nsf-supported, Reconstructions, Regional, Sampling, Season, South, Tools.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Late Holocene Climate: Natural or Anthropogenic?
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Feng He($444,971), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. William F Ruddiman($117,881), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Global Climate, Human Influence, Land Clearance, Late Holocene, Agriculture, CESM, Carbon, Climatic, Concentrations, Declines, Drivers, Evolution, Experiment, GHG, Hypothesized, Natural.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Reconstructing Holocene Dynamics of the Indo-Pacific Tropical Rain Belt using Australian Stalagmites and Coupled Climate Models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Caroline C Ummenhofer($93,216), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Alan D Wanamaker($62,409), Iowa State University, Ames
3. Yemane Asmerom($98,707), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
4. Rhawn F Denniston($104,085), Cornell College, Mount Vernon
Key terms: Northern And Southern, Cave Kni-51, Late Holocene, Monsoon Rainfall, Southern Margins, Trb Dynamics, Tropical Methane, Atmospheric, Circulation, Contraction, ENSO, Hydroclimate, IASM, Indo-pacific, Integrated, Intercomparison, LIA, Nature, Phase, Reduced, Simulations, Stalagmite, Summer, Time.

P2C2: Synthesis Study of the Tropical Rain Belt Through the Holocene
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. David C Noone($636,422), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Aims, CESM, Climate, Experiments, Feedbacks, Forced, Holocene, Interactions, Isotope-enabled, Isotopic, Model, Network, Proxy, Seasonal, TRB, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--The Role of El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Nonlinearities and Asymmetries in Modulating Tropical Pacific Climate
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Christina Karamperidou($430,283), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Jessica L Conroy($133,347), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Zonal Sst Gradient, Future Climate, Tropical Pacific, Activity, Decadal, ENSO, El, Increased, Models, Multi-decadal, Past, Potential, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--A 5-million-year Record of Western Mediterranean Sea Level Variability
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Bogdan P Onac($297,491), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Victor J Polyak($317,363), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Western Mediterranean Basin, Littoral Caves, Sea Level, Establish, GIA, Mallorca, Overgrowths, POS, Past, Sea-level, Time.

EAGER: Development of a Forensic Pollen Database and Climate Modeling Platform
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Mark B Bush($90,000), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Allow, Database, Pollen, Tool.

The Ethics of Communicating Scientific Uncertainty: Understanding How Scientists, Environmental Lawyers, and Reporters Treat Uncertainty Workshops; Fall 2015 and Spring 2016
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2015; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jay Austin($188,037), Environmental Law Institute, Washington
Key terms: Approaches, Communicating, Deepening, Ethical, Ethically, Lawyers, Media, Norms, Public, Uncertainty, Workshops.

Improving Vertical Velocity Retrievals from Doppler Radar Observations of Convection
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alan M Shapiro($599,408), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Dual-doppler Wind Analysis, Variational Dual-doppler Wind, Dual-doppler Wind, Severe Weather, Variational Dual-doppler, Vertical Winds, Wind Field, Errors, Investigating, Meteorology, Radar, Techniques, Variety.

The Twentieth (20th) International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA); Helsinki, Finland; June 25-30, 2017
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Paul J DeMott($17,500), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Nucleation And Atmospheric, Atmospheric Aerosols, International Conference, Cloud, Held, Particles.

Student Support at the 2017 American Meteorological Society (AMS) Annual Meeting; Seattle, Washington; January 22-26, 2017
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Frederick H Carr($25,000), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: Annual Meeting, AMS, Attending, Committee, Discuss, Observations, Sessions, Students.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Convectively-Generated Gravity Waves on Mesoscale Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Russ S Schumacher($294,608), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Rebecca Adams-Selin($311,849), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
Key terms: Gravity Wave, Gravity Waves, Internal Circulation, Mcs Development, Microphysical Perturbations, Severe Weather, Convection, Environment, Generated, Influence, Lead, Mcss, Prediction, Process, Storm, Surrounding.

Storm Morphology and the Influence of Orography on Lake-Effect Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. W. James Steenburgh($473,056), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Tug Hill Plateau, Affects Lake-effect, Honshu Island, Lake-effect Precipitation, Lake-effect Snow, Lake-effect Storms, Orographic Ratio, Amounts, Analysis, Distribution, Does, Has, Hills, Japan, Lake-effect, Mechanisms, Modeling, Mountain, Ontario, Processes, Regions, Snowfall, Topographic, Topography, Upland, Weather, York.

Frequent Weak-wind Boundary Layers Using New Analysis Techniques in the Space-time Domain
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Larry Mahrt($603,142), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Weak-wind Boundary Layers, Detailed Spatial-temporal, Weak-wind Boundary, Flow, Formation, Seeks, Spatial-temporal, Structures, Turbulence.

Balloon Observations of Gamma-ray Glows from Thunderstorms
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph R Dwyer($500,489), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Electric Fields, Gamma-ray Glows, Gamma-ray, Initiation, Lightning, Observations, Regions, Source, Thunderstorms.

Assessments of the Impact of Tropospheric Aerosols on Actinic Fluxes, Photosynthetically Available Radiation (PAR), and Radiative Forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Viatcheslav Tatarskii($578,404), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Actinic Flux, Actinic Fluxes, Climate Models, Solar Radiation, Aerosol, Aerosols, Analysis, Atmosphere, CAFS, Database, Decades, Interact, Interactions, Modeling, Particles, Past, Perform.

Collaborative Research: Instabilities, Dynamics, and Energetics accompanying Atmospheric Layering (IDEAL)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ling Wang($477,495), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
2. Dale A Lawrence($497,736), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Transport And Mixing, Free Atmosphere, Sandl Dynamics, Stratified Atmosphere, Accompanying, Altitudes, Atmospheric, Computational, Conditions, Gws, High-resolution, IDEAL, Implications, In-situ, Instabilities, Instability, Larger-scale, Momentum, SL, Stable, Statistics, Structure, Structures, Turbulence, Underlying.

Collaborative Research: Systematic Evaluation and Further Improvement of Present Broadband Radiative Transfer Modeling Capabilities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Eli J Mlawer($88,871), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
2. Ping Yang($509,434), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Atmospheric Radiative Transfer, Current Radiative Transfer, Radiative Transfer Models, Transfer Modeling Capabilities, Climate Models, Light Scattering, Optical Properties, Absorption, Aerosols, Affect, Aforesaid, Atmosphere, Atmosphere-ocean, Clouds, Coupled, Developing, Dust, Educational, Effort, Furthermore, Heating, Ice, Implementation, Knowledge, Oceanic, Potential, Progress, Radiation, Schemes, Solar, Teaching, Thermal, Training, Various, Water.

Hydrodynamic Behavior and Growth Processes of Large Ice Particles in Clouds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Pao-Kuan Wang($400,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Falling Ice Particle, Weather And Climate, Climate Predictions, Cloud Physics, Cloud Resolving, Collision Growth, Fall Behavior, Growth Rates, Ice Particles, Snow Aggregates, Supercooled Droplets, Clouds, Convective, Crystals, Developed, Diffusion, Equation, Graupel, Hail, Information, Knowledge, Larger, Models, Numerical, Parameterizations, Perform, Processes, Shapes, Solved, Storms, Weatherclimate.

Collaborative Research: SNOWIE: Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime clouds: the Idaho Experiment
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert M Rauber($504,711), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Bart Geerts($796,895), University of Wyoming, Laramie
3. Katja Friedrich($560,351), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Cloud Seeding, Orographic Winter, Payette Mountains, Remote Sensing, Seeding Operations, Winter Storms, Agi, Aircraft, Amount, Campaign, Distribution, Field, Ground, Growth, Has, Idaho, In-situ, Involved, Modeling, Natural, Observational, Observations, Precipitation, Processes, Snow, Western.

CAREER: Impacts of Convective and Stratiform Processes on Tropical Cyclone Intensity Change
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael M Bell($479,962), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Convective And Stratiform, Doppler Radar, Mesoscale Observations, Radar Meteorology, Stratiform Precipitation, Tc Intensity, Ability, Aircraft, Analysis, Circulation, Convergence, Digital, Education, Efficiently, Intensification, Maximum, Numerical, Principal, Processes, RMW, SAMURAI, Suggested, Textbook, Thermodynamic.

Improved Understanding of Nocturnal Mesoscale Convective System Evolution
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. William A Gallus($511,991), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Field, Forecasting, Models, Nighttime, Nocturnal, Observations, Operational, PECAN, Plains, Processes, Rainfall, Summer, Thunderstorms.

Developing a Climatology of Horizontal Convective Rolls over Oklahoma: Combining Observational Data Sets to Increase Understanding
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew R Kumjian($484,146), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Aspect Ratios, Boundary Layer, Graduate Student, Graduate Students', Hcr Formation, K-12 Teachers', Pbl Structure, Warm Season, Activities, Ancillary, Calculate, Climatology, Common, Convection-allowing, Frequency, Hcrs, Implementation, Inquiry-based, KTLX, Models, Observations, Occurrence, Oklahoma, Onset, Orientation, Radar, Rapid, Set, Surface, Time, Undergraduate, WSR-D.

United States (U.S.)-Taiwan Extreme Weather Workshop; Honolulu, Hawaii; September 6-8, 2016
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hanne Mauriello($19,295), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Property Damage, Societal Effects, Ability, Bilateral, Dynamics, Enhanced, Extreme, Flash, Flooding, Forecasting, Lives, Local, Meeting, Meteorology, NSF, Precipitation, Taiwan, Workshop.

Scientific Program Overview (SPO): Remote sensing of Electrification, Lighting, And Mesoscale/microscale Processes with Adaptive Ground Observations (RELAMPAGO)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephen W Nesbitt($23,940), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Complex Terrain, Convective Storms, Field Campaign, Remote Sensing, Severe Weather, Americas, Argentina, Atmospheric, Characterize, Connections, Convection, Development, Environmental, Extensive, Extreme, Hazards, Initiation, Intense, Kinematic, Lightning, Mobile, Network, Observation, Observations, Observed, Organization, Planning, Precipitation, Prediction, Processes, Properties, RELAMPAGO, Radars, Region, South, Surface, Unique.

EAGER: Adjustment to Balance in the Shallow Water Adjoint System
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael C Morgan($113,817), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Adjustment Process, Unbalanced Components, Adjoint, EAGER, Evidence, Ii, Iii, Model, Models, Seen, Sensitivities, Weather.

Investigating the Correlation Between Lightning and High-Energy Particles in the Earth's Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Gordon Thomson($471,167), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Cosmic Ray Air, Lightning Mapping Array, Ray Air Showers, Dielectric Breakdown, Ideal Instrument, Lightning Strike, Lightning Strikes, Particle Astrophysics, Accuracy, Atmosphere, Create, Detector, Detectors, Energetic, Gamma, Has, LMA, Merger, Mysteries, Observatory, Observed, Particles, Phenomenon, Profound, Radiation, Reconstructed, SD, Search, Seeding, Site, Society, Speculative, Square, Synergy, TA, TALMA.

Collaborative Research: Perdigao--The Stable Boundary Layer over Complex Terrain
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Fotini K Chow($368,827), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Julie Lundquist($359,056), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Air Movement, Boundary Layer, Complex Terrain, Stable Boundary, Wind Energy, Campaign, Component, Contribute, Does, Effort, Field, Intermittency, Intermittent, Mechanisms, Model, Modeling, Models, Nocturnal, Numerical, Observational, Perdigao, Simulations, Stability, Turbulence, Valley.

CAREER: BREEZE: Boundary-layer REsearch and Education ZonE
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Julie Lundquist($549,439), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Finer Resolution, Locally Balanced, Air, Assumed, Assumption, Dissipation, Focus, Forecasting, Lidar, Models, Numerical, Observations, Quantify, Specific, Turbulence, Weather, Wind.

Effects of Turbulent Dissipation and Pressure Perturbations on Clouds
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Vincent E Larson($354,628), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
Key terms: Forecast And Climate, Becoming Available, Climate Models, Cloud Fields, Influence Large-scale, Total Water, Turbulent Dissipation, Weather Forecast, Budgets, Content, Diagnostics, Effects, Entrainment, Has, Implemented, Internships, LES, Large-scale, Motion, Parameterizations, Pressure, Processes, Scalar, Software, Student, Students, Undergraduates, Useful.

Collaborative Research: From Turbulence to Weather and Climate: Unraveling the Multi-scale Nature of Dust and Sand Transport in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 06/14/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Marcelo Chamecki($156,022), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Atmospheric Turbulence, Climate Models, Graduate Students, Dust, Intermittency, Modeling, Particles, Process, Saltation, Sand, School, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Determination of the Optical and Reactive Properties of Water Vapor of Relevance to Atmospheric Radiation, Cloud Physics and Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Lei Zhu($588,381), Health Research Incorporated/New York State Department of Health, Menands
2. Qilong Min($404,701), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Near Uv Absorption, Vapor Near Uv, Water Vapor Absorption, Water Vapor Near, Satellitesurface Ozone, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Circulation, Field, Laboratory, Radiation, Solar, Spectral.

Studies of Tornadoes and Severe Convective Storms
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Boonleng Cheong($860,027), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Severe Convective Storms, Storms And Tornadoes, Boundary Layer, Near Tornadoes, Wind Field, Analyzing, Available, Basic, Collected, Conducting, Continue, Doppler, Generation, Has, Increase, Instruments, Knowledge, Potential, Radars, Seeks, Structure.

Multi-Point Monin-Obukhov Similarity and Spectral Dynamics in the Convective Atmospheric Surface Layer
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Chenning Tong($437,485), Clemson University, Clemson
Key terms: Surface Layer Turbulence, Boundary Layers, Broader Impacts, Horizontal Velocity, Monin-obukhov Similarity, ABL, Atmospheric, Dynamics, Framework, Has, Large-scale, MMO, Modeling, Monin-obukhov, Spectra, Spectral, Statistics, Strong.

Improved Understanding of Vertical Mixing in the Lower Atmospheric Boundary Layer in the Presence of Wind Turbines via Numerical Simulations and Measurements
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Cristina L Archer($401,776), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Enhanced Vertical Mixing, Lower Boundary Layer, Atmospheric Stability, Kinetic Energy, Momentum Fluxes, Near-surface Properties, Vertical Momentum, Wind Energy, Wind Shear, Wind Turbine, Wind Turbines, Cooling, Day, Directly, Does, Downwind, Effects, Findings, Flow, Ground, Has, Heat, Increased, Measured, Mechanism, Night, Nsurface, Numerical, Observational, Reduced, Rotor, Simulations, TKE, Temperature, Towers, Turbulence, Turbulent, Undisturbed, VERTEX, Via, Wake, Warming.

Travel Support for the 12th International Conference on Light and Color in Nature; Granada, Spain; May 31 - June 3, 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph A Shaw($15,960), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Light And Color, Optical Society, Atmospheric, Books, Clouds, Colors, Coronas, Halo, Ice, Iridescence, Meeting, Meetings, Nature, Optics, Papers, Phenomena, Published, Rainbows, Water.

Collaborative Research: Observations of High-energy Radiation Associated with Thunderstorms
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joseph R Dwyer($60,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. David M Smith($465,276), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
3. Steven A Cummer($74,278), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Downward Tgfs, Lightning Leaders, Altitude, Charge, Field, Fields, Gamma-ray, Glows, Ground, Phenomena, Produce, Program, Radiation, Represent, Sensors, Sites, Thunderstorms, X-rays.

Dynamics of Tropical Cyclones and the InterTropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Wayne H Schubert($564,216), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Intertropical Convergence Zone, Boundary Layer, Ekman Pumping, Tropical Cyclones, Tropical Storms, Atmosphere, Band, Developing, Dynamics, Hurricanes, ITCZ, Knowledge, Lower, Models, Seeks, Simplified, Tcs.

Collaborative Research: Perdigao: Multiscale Flow Interactions in Complex Terrain
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Harindra J Fernando($531,260), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
2. Rebecca J Barthelmie($366,920), Cornell University, Ithaca
3. David D Turner($397,851), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Field Campaign, Wind Energy, Air, Boundary, Effort, Flows, Opportunity.

Analysis of Northern New England Cold-Air Damming Events
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jason Cordeira($317,398), Plymouth State University, Plymouth
Key terms: Cold Air Damming, CAD, Climatology, England, Evolution, Forecasts, Formation, Northern, Numerical, Precipitation, Simulations, Winter.

Interdepartmental Hurricane Operations/Research Forum; Miami, Florida; March 15-17, 2016
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Meg Austin($20,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Hurricane Operationsresearch Forum, Interdepartmental Hurricane Operationsresearch, Tropical Cyclone, Academic, Atmospheric, Federal, Forecasting, Industry, Observing, Office, Operational, Priorities, Progress, Review, Season, Warning.

EAGER: Identifying the Limitations of the Contemporary Planetary Boundary Layer Schemes Using an Extended Self-Similarity-based Framework
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sukanta Basu($63,189), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Classical Turbulence, Mesoscale Models, Pbl Schemes, Wind Fields, ABL, Capture, EAGER, ESS, Framework, Literature, Processes, Transport.

EAGER: Exploring Aerosol Indirect Effects in a Laboratory Cloud Chamber
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Will Cantrell($243,869), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Aerosol Properties, Ability, Chamber, Cloud, Conditions, Facility.

RAPID: The Mechanisms Driving Extreme Precipitation in Atmospheric Rivers with an Integrated Stable Isotope and Aerosol Chemistry Approach
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hari Mix($109,982), Santa Clara University, Santa Clara
Key terms: Extreme Precipitation, Stable Isotopes, Water Vapor, Additional, Analysis, Atmospheric, Collection, Complement, Moisture, Phase, RAPID, Rainfall, Sources, Storms.

Collaborative Research: Towards Further Understanding of Aerosol Pollution Impacts on Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert Walko($173,104), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. William R Cotton($575,488), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Aerosols Entering, Anthropogenic Aerosols, Pollution Aerosols, Rainband Region, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Cyclones, Atmospheric, Contribute, Contributing, Depends, Enhanced, Hurricane, Intensification, Intensity, Particles, Storm, Storms, Weakening.

Passive Optical Remote Sensing of Wind Velocities and Turbulence by Spatiotemporal Analysis of Image Distortions of Random Scenes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Andreas Muschinski($599,958), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Monitoring And Forecasting, Atmospheric Turbulence, Boundary Layer, Image Sequences, Apply, Cross-wind, Engineering, Light, Methodologies, Optical, Random, Ranges, Sensing.

AGS-PRF: Improving Space Weather and Space Climate Predictions by Investigating and Modeling Surface Flux Transport on the Sun
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Lisa A Upton($172,000), Upton Lisa A, Westminster
Key terms: Active Region, Flux Transport, Forecasting Capabilities, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, AFT, Atmospheric, Center, Climate, Cycle, Dynamics, Dynamo, Flows, Maps, Model, Models, National, Prediction, Predictive, Solar, Source, Suns, Surface.

AGS-PRF: Instability of Sheetlike Structures in Alfvenic Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alfred Mallet($172,000), Mallet Alfred, Durham
Key terms: Intermittent Structures, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Turbulent Plasma, Background, Dissipation, Instabilities, Meeting, Model, Plasmas, Predict, Properties, Turbulence.

AGS-PRF: Sensitivity Analysis of Carbonaceous Aerosol Mixing State and Morphology on Spectral Optical Properties
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. William R Heinson($172,000), Heinson William R, Saint Louis
Key terms: Aerosol Morphology, Black Carbon, External Mixing, Optical Properties, Organic Carbon, Aerosols, Bare, Climate, Composition, Interaction, Main, Non-spherical, Particles, Plans, Radiation, Sensitivity, Spectral, Students, Various.

AGS-PRF: Constraining Ammonia Emission Sources in Urban Areas Utilizing Nitrogen Stable Isotopes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Wendell W Walters($172,000), Walters Wendell W, Lafayette
Key terms: Catalytic Nox Scrubber, Nox Scrubber Technologies, Ammonia Sources, Field Studies, Fossil Fuel, Rhode Island, Affecting, Agricultural, Indianapolis, NN, Pollution, Urban.

AGS-PRF: Wave-mean Flow Interactions in a Moist and Warmer Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Ray A Yamada($172,000), Yamada Ray, New York
Key terms: Global Warming Projection, Latent Heat Release, Mean Latitudinal Position, Mid-latitude Westerly Jet, Moist Wave-mean Flow, Position And Span, Time Mean Intensity, Warming Projection Uncertainties, Wave-mean Flow Interactions, Hydrological Cycle, Jet Stream, Jet Streams, Mid-latitude Westerly, Moist Wave-mean, Wave-mean Flow, Atmospheric, Considering, Cyclones, Developed, Future, Individual, Pressure, Rainfall, Tool, Via, Warmer.

AGS-PRF: Advancing Understanding of Monsoons by Bridging Gaps among Disparate Theoretical Perspectives
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Spencer A Hill($172,000), Hill Spencer A, Princeton
Key terms: Break, Existing, Has, Monsoon, Theoretical, Theories.

AGS-PRF: The Diurnal Cycle, Cloud-Radiative Feedbacks, and Large-scale Tropical Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. James H Ruppert($192,000), Ruppert James H, Fort Collins
Key terms: Convection And Rainfall, Weather And Climate, Active Phase, Computer Simulations, Diurnal Cycle, Suppressed Phase, Atmosphere, Cloudiness, Clouds, Expected, Has, Importance, Influence, MJO, MPI-M, Model, Moistening, Onset, Promoting, SST, Surface, Worldwide.

AGS-PRF The Effect of Particle Viscosity in the Reactive Uptake of Isoprene-derived Epoxides to Submicron Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Yue Zhang($172,000), Zhang Yue, Newton
Key terms: Aerosol, Atmosphere, Climate, Environmental, Epoxide, Formation, Health, Isoprene, Mass, Particles, Public, Species, Uptake, Viscosity.

AGS-PRF: To what Extent are Jupiter's Magnetosphere and Aurora Influenced by the Solar Wind?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Marissa F Vogt($172,000), Vogt Marissa F, Brookline
Key terms: Solar Wind Conditions, Solar Wind Disturbances, Jupiter's Magnetosphere, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Fields, Arrival, Aurora, Boston, Controlled, Does, Effects, Importance, Interaction, Interactions, Jupiters, Lack, Model, Near, Observed, Particles, Particular, Public, Space, Uncertainties.

AGS-PRF: The Role of Electric Fields in Plasma Structuring and Transport in the Mid- to High-Latitude Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Evan G Thomas($172,000), Thomas Evan G, Blacksburg
Key terms: Magnetic Field Lines, High-latitude Convection, Ionospheric Plasma, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Earth, Expanded, High-latitude, Ionosphere, Latitudes, Magnetosphere, Mid-latitude, Observations, Previously, Radars, Set, Superdarn.

AGS-PRF: Modeling Ice Crystal Habit Evolution from Vapor Growth and Riming--Investigating How Evolving Ice Particle Properties Impacts Clouds, Precipitation, and Phase Partitioning
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Anders A Jensen($172,000), Jensen Anders, State College
Key terms: Crystal Habit Evolution, Crystal Shape Evolution, Evolving Ice Crystal, Habit Evolution Impacts, Ice Crystal Fall, Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts, Cirrus Cloud, Fall Speed, Mixed-phase Clouds, Modeling Framework, Affects, Climate, Dynamics, Effects, Has, Influences, Lifetime, Microphysics, Mixed-phase, Models, Properties, Rates, Riming, Traditional, Vapor.

AGS-PRF: Probing the Relationship Between Radiation Belt Electron Precipitation and Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) Waves
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Lauren W Blum($86,000), Blum Lauren W, San Francisco
Key terms: Charged Particle, Closed Drift, Electron Precipitation, Emic Waves, Plasma Waves, Radiation Belts, Waves Exist, Atmosphere, Consistent, Debate, Electrons, Energy, Fields, Global, Lost, Maps, Ocean, Particles, Plasmas, Population, Regions, Space.

AGS-PRF: Gravity Wave Multi-Scale Interactions and Measurements
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Katrina Bossert($172,000), Bossert Katrina, Boulder
Key terms: Large-scale Models, Additionally, Atmosphere, Dynamics, Efforts, Fluxes, GW, Gws, Influences, Large-scale, MLT, Multi-scale, Observatory, Play, Quantify, Radars, Students.

EAGER: Predicting Electricity Demand and Indoor Air Quality During Heat Waves
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: S&CC: Smart & Connected Commun

1. Enrique N Curchitser($250,000), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Quality And Power, Air Quality, Heat Waves, Human Health, Modeling Framework, Power Usage, Climate, Households, Multi-level, Predict, Segments, Urban.

The University of California at San Diego (UCSD) Worldwide Interplanetary Scintillation Stations (WIPSS) Workshop; San Diego, California; December 18-19, 2016
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bernard V Jackson($15,000), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Space Weather, Disturbances, International, Interplanetary.

Improving MAGagnetogram (MAG4) Forecasting of Severe Space Weather Drivers by Measuring Magnetic Nonpotentiality of Active Regions Using HMI/SDO Vector Magnetograms
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Sanjiv K Tiwari($125,114), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Flares And Cmes, Active Region, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Parameters, Solar Flares, Space Weather, Vector Magnetograms, Ars, Coronal, Drivers, Energy, Explosive, Forecasting, Nonpotentiality, Satellites, Source, Various.

SHINE: Prediction of Solar Activity Using Non-linear Dynamo Models and Data Assimilation Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Irina N Kitiashvili($343,501), Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field
Key terms: 3-year Shine, Assimilation Techniques, Dynamo Models, Solar Activity, Solar Cycle, Current, Knowledge, Long-term, Modeling, Observational, Predictions, Procedures, Space, Synoptic, Uncertainties, Various.

SHINE: Characterizing the Coronal Origins of Slow Solar Wind using Heavy Ion Composition and Spectroscopic Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Liang Zhao($370,563), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: 3-year Shine, Plasma Properties, Solar Wind, Source Regions, Aimed, Characterizing, Completely, Coronal, Education, Graduate, In-situ, Knowledge, Observations, Origin, Program, Remote-sensing, SSW, Serve, Spectral, Techniques.

Embedding Force-Free Flux Ropes in Potential Magnetic Fields
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Tibor Torok($341,593), Predictive Science Incorporated, San Diego
Key terms: Force-free Flux Rope, Solar Eruptive Phenomena, Flux Distribution, Force-free Flux, Mhd Simulations, Pre-eruptive Configurations, Allow, Approximate, CME, Cmes, Developed, Directly, Efficient, Energy, Equilibrium, Eruption, Expected, Field, Flux-rope, Highly, Investigation, Lead, Magnetic, Method, Model, Models, Numerical, Observed, Pre-eruptive, Resulting, Space-weather.

SHINE: Connecting Electron Thermodynamics and Microphysical Processes: A Puzzle for the Evolution of the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Chadi S Salem($360,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: 3-year Shine, Mission Solar, Solar Corona, Solar Wind, Uc Berkeley, Wind Electron, Acceleration, Analysis, Based, Drifts, Electrons, Evolution, Focus, Foster, Has, Heliophysics, Heliosphere, In-situ, Lead, Micro-instabilities, Microphysical, Models, Observations, Physics, Plasma, Processes, Propagation, Space, Theoretical, Time, Topic.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Characteristics of Solar Energetic Particle Events Resulting from Filament Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Neeharika Thakur($91,857), Catholic University of America, Washington
2. George Ho($73,197), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
3. Christina Cohen($252,481), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Ace And Stereo, 3-year Shine, Filament Eruptions, Space Weather, Acceleration, Accurate, Analysis, Characteristics, Composition, Critical, Function, Knowledge, Particle, Potential, Prediction, SEP, Sensitive, Seps, Solar, Spectral, Task.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: What is Causing the Deficit of High-Energy Solar Particles in Cycle 24?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Gang Li($155,971), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
2. Christina Cohen($245,538), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Acceleration And Transport, Magnetic Field, Seed Population, Shock Acceleration, Solar Cycle, Solar Cycles, Suprathermal Seed, Turbulence Level, Aims, Densities, Energy, Forecasting, Has, Knowledge, Maximum, Model, Modeling, PATH, Particle, Particles, Reduced, SEP, SHINE, Seps, Spectra, Strength.

SHINE: Using the Solar Wind as a Turbulence Laboratory to Investigate the Role of Intermittency and Shear
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Charles W Smith($370,649), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: 3-year Shine, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Third-moment Theory, Wind Tunnel, Interplanetary, Knowledge, MHD, Main, Plasmas, Spectrum, Third-moment, Turbulence.

RUI: Optical and Radio Studies of Coronal Plasma at the 2017 Eclipse
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jay M Pasachoff($262,508), Williams College, Williamstown
Key terms: Total Solar Eclipse, Active Regions, Space Weather, August, Contrast, Corona, Coronal, Cycle, Eclipses, Enable, Especially, Fe, Observations, Observe, Opportunity, Past, Public, Radio, Students, Training, Unique, Williams.

SHINE: Multi-Spacecraft Observational Study and Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Modeling of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections (ICMEs) Observed in Conjunction
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Reka Winslow($357,841), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Coronal Mass Ejections, Flux Rope Orientation, Interplanetary Coronal Mass, Undergraduate And Graduate, Critical Factors, Graduate Classes, Magnetic Field, Shock Structure, Solar Wind, AU, Affect, Cmes, Direction, Distances, Ejecta, Evolution, Evolve, Global, Has, Highly, ICME, Icmes, Inside, MESSENGER, MHD, Main, Mercury, Models, Observations, Potential, Propagation, Properties, SHINE, Space, Speed, Strength.

Collaborative Research: RAPID--EclipseMob - Crowdsourcing a Spatial Temporal Study of Low Frequency Propagation Effects Due to a Total Solar Eclipse
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Laura Lukes($64,748), George Mason University, Fairfax
2. Kiersten Kerby-Patel($46,559), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Radio Waves, Amplitude, Atmosphere, Collect, Collected, Continent, Eclipse, Frequencies, Institute, Ionosphere, LF, Low, Phase, Public, Relative, School, Students, Technology.

The Role of Flux Emergence in Coronal Mass Ejections
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Brian T Welsch($51,461), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay
Key terms: Flux Emergence, CME, Cmes.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Study of Long-Term Variability of Solar Chromospheric Activity in Multiple Solar Cycles
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Alexei A Pevtsov($107,674), Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., Tucson
2. Haimin Wang($353,842), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
3. Debi Prasad Choudhary($118,809), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Rotation And Meridional, 3-year Shine, Differential Rotation, H-alpha Images, Meridional Flows, Solar Activity, Solar Cycles, Space Weather, Statistical Properties, Database, Education, Environment, Features, Filaments, Global, H-alpha, Helicity, Investigate, Knowledge, Long-term, Low, Magnetic, Main, Signature, Strong, Task, Track.

SHINE: Using Two-Ribbon Flare Observations and Magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) Simulations to Study Eruptive Flares and Their Relationship to Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs)
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Maria D Kazachenko($373,401), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Large-scale Cme Properties, Flare Ribbons, Large-scale Cme, Solar Eruptions, Solar Flares, Two-ribbon Flares, Ability, Aims, Cmes, Context, Database, Flux, Investigate, MHD, Magnetic, Observations, Observed, Reconnection, Relate, SHINE, Simulations, Theoretical, Two-ribbon.

SHINE: A Vlasov-Maxwell Study of Solar Wind Turbulence Heating and Distribution Function Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jason M TenBarge($222,063), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Distribution Function Dynamics, 3-year Shine, Weakly Collisional, Additionally, Aid, Available, Continuum, Development, Directly, Energy, Graduate, Heating, Knowledge, Large-scale, Magnetized, Maryland, Modeling, Nature, Objective, Phenomena, Plasma, Plasmas, Program, Proton, Scripts, Simulation, Simulations, Solar, Space, Spacecraft, Students, Turbulence, Workshops.

Study of the Emission Heights of White-Light Solar Flares and their Hard X-Ray Sources
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros($390,000), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Lower Solar Atmosphere, Flare Generation, Flaring Stars, Generation Mechanisms, Hard X-ray, Solar Flare, Solar Flares, Stellar Flares, White Light, Wl Continuum, Wl Flare, Accelerated, Acceleration, Chromosphere, Detected, Effort, Electrons, Emission, Emissions, Energetics, Energy, HXR, Heights, Information, Instruments, Investigation, Layers, Model, Modeling, Observed, Originate, Particles, Penetrate, Phase, Radiation, Radiative, Sources, Spacecraft, Viewing, White-light, X-ray.

Observations, Theory, and Simulations of the Sun-Earth System International Symposium; Golden Sands, Varna, Bulgaria; September 12-16, 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Michael H Denton($29,060), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Registration Expenses, Modeling, Observations, Space, Sun-earth, Symposium, Theory, Workshop.

Studies of White-Light and Black-Light Flares Using the 1.6 m New Solar Telescope (NST) at Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO)
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Yan Xu($328,630), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Energy Release, Numerical Simulations, Solar Flare, Solar Flares, Space Weather, BBSO, Has, NST, Observations, Phenomena, Student, Sun, Taking.

Constraining the Structure and Dynamics of the Upper Layers of the Convective Zone Using Accurate High Spatial Degree Modes Derived from GONG Observations
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Sylvain G Korzennik($383,598), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Solar Interior, Activities, Characterization, Degrees, Dynamics, Flows, GONG, Has, Magnetic, Precise, Society, Structure, Sun.

First International Workshop on Small Satellites for Space Weather Research and Forecasting; Washington, District of Columbia; August 1-4, 2017
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Teresa Nieves-Chinchilla($46,174), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Satellite Missions, Space Weather, Meeting, Opportunities, Workshop.

GEM: Extending the Capabilities of CubeSats for Measuring Radiation Belt Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Sigrid Elschot($270,000), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Cubesat Missions, Firebird-ii Mission, Lessons Learned, Radiation Belt, Vlf Receivers, Combined, Contribute, Cubesats, Developed, Development, Electron, Electrons, FIREBIRD-II, Instruments, Lightning, Lower, NSF, Networks, Objectives, Observations, Observe, Precipitation, Program, Radars, Space, Spatial, Upcoming.

PREEVENTS: Workshop on Integrated Framework for Modeling and Prediction of Extreme Events; College Park, Maryland; Summer 2016
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Space Weather Research

1. A Surjalal Sharma($49,996), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Extreme Space Weather, Modeling And Prediction, Space Weather Forecasting, Forecasting Extreme, Uncertainty Quantification, Weather Forecasting, Accelerate, Approaches, Comprehensive, Conditions, Critical, Development, Essential, Framework, Future, Geospace, Identification, Processes, Rare, Step, Underlying, Workshop.

Space Weather Workshop 2016; Broomfield, Colorado; April 25-29, 2016
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Meg Austin($30,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather, Discuss, Operations, Students, Technology, Workshop.

RAPID: The Double-probe Instrumentation for Measuring Electric-fields (DIME) CubeSat
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Geoffrey Crowley($199,541), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
Key terms: Air Force, Dime Cubesat, Electric Field, Electric Fields, Functional Testing, Latitude Forcing, Space Weather, Upper Atmosphere, Available, Behavior, Calibration, Capable, Collaboration, Complete, Completion, DICE, Development, Effort, Generation, Global, Has, Improvements, Instruments, Ionosphere, Launched, Less, Low, Missions, Nsf-funded, Orbit, Parameter, Parameters, Platforms, Potential, Satellite, Sensor-sat, Solar, Spacecraft, Spin, Unique, Was.

The International Space Science Institute (ISSI) Workshop - The Scientific Foundations of Space Weather; Bern, Switzerland; June 27 - July 1, 2016
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Daniel N Baker($30,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: ISSI, Participants, Space, Travel, Workshop.

Faculty Development in Space Physics at the University of Minnesota
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Lindsay Glesener($1,497,250), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Physics And Astronomy, Solar And Space, Space Environment, Space Physics, Tenure-track Faculty, Astrophysics, Building, Designed, Development, Disciplines, Encouraged, Engineering, Ensure, Expertise, Field, Graduate, Hire, History, Involve, Partnerships, Program, Programs, School, Strengthen, Students, Successful, Teaching, Technical, Tenure-track, Training.

RAPID: Spatiotemporal Evolution of Radio-induced Aurora at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Observatory
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2016; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Christopher Fallen($60,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Hf Radio Propagation, Ionosphere Radio Modification, Radio Propagation Paths, Experiment Objectives, Experimental Objective, Haarp Facility, Modification Experiments, Temporal Resolution, Active, Alaska, Arctic, Artificial, Aurora, Campaign, February, Measure, Morphology, Participation, Planned, Primary, Processes, RAPID, Schedule, Secondary, Space, UAF, White-light.

Collaborative Research: Combining Heating And Radio Diagnostics On Natural AeronomY (CHARDONAY)
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. David L Hysell($75,000), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. William A Bristow($375,286), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
3. Wayne A Scales($75,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Ionospheric Modification, HAARP, Ionosphere, MTI, Radiation, Solar, Technique.

CEDAR: Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances (TIDs) Excited by Tropospheric Phenomena and their Effect on Plasma Instabilities
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Cesar E Valladares($374,080), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Gps Receivers, Tec Depletions, Collected, Conditions, Conjugate, Ground-based, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Latitudinal, Mstids, Network, Observations, Plasma, Storms, Tids.

REU Site: Solar Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: nan

1. Katharine K Reeves($430,273), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Solar Physics, Student Projects, Cfa, Contacts, Continue, Has, Minority, Program, REU, STEM, Space, Students, Supported, Undergraduates.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2016

CEDAR: Exploration of Lower-atmosphere Wave Forcing, Vertical Wave Coupling and Their Impacts on the Ionosphere and Thermosphere Variability Using WAM, Lidar and ISR Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Causes and Consequences of the Gradients in the Vertical Plasma Drift in the Equatorial Plasma Drift Vortex Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Midnight Temperature Maximum and Its Impact on the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Secondary Gravity Wave Coupling Dynamics Between the Mid-Latitude Mesosphere and Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--A Long-term Investigation of Auroral and Tidal Forcing of E-region Thermospheric Winds at High Latitudes Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

RUI: Exploiting Innovative Radio Techniques for the Study of Plasma Turbulence and Structure Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Conjugate Studies of Low and Midlatitude Ionospheric Processes Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Modeling and Observation of Secondary Gravity Waves in the Thermosphere and Ionosphere Generated from Deep Convection Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Impacts of Lower Atmosphere Forcing on the Mesosphere-lower Thermosphere and Ionosphere During September Equinox Transition Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

The International Beacon Satellite Symposium 2016; Trieste, Italy; June 27 - July 1, 2016 Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Wave-Wave Interactions and Upper Atmosphere Variability Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Atmosphere-Ionosphere Coupling as Revealed in Global Magnetic Field Perturbations Award Effective Date: 05/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Lower-Upper Atmosphere Coupling via Acoustic Wave Energy Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Quantifying Ion Drifts in the Mid-latitude Ionosphere and Their Coupling to the Neutral Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: Experimental and Theoretical Investigation of the Electrodynamics and Structuring of the Low-latitude Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Aeronomy: The Relationship Between Mass, Luminosity and Radar Scattering Cross-section for Small-mass Meteors and their Effects on the Mesosphere Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Understanding Day-to-Day Tidal Variability Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Life Cycle of the Quasi Two-Day Wave in the Southern Hemisphere Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Solar Extreme Ultraviolet Irradiance Effects on the Coupled Ionosphere-Thermosphere System Award Effective Date: 03/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: High Speed Spectroscopic Studies of lightning bolts: Starters, Jets, and Gigantic Jets Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CubeSat: A U.S. CubeSat Award Effective Date: 05/01/2014; Program: AERONOMY

Coordination and Student Support for the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN) Workshop; Fairbanks, Alaska; May 29-June 3, 2016 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: ANT Astrophys & Geospace Sci

The Eighth International GEOS-Chem Meeting (IGC8); Cambridge, Massachusetts; May 1-4, 2017 Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Developing the Molecular Underpinnings for Mechanisms of Growth of Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Particles in Air Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric Biogenic Organic Emissions: Missing Compounds and Unrepresented Processes Award Effective Date: 12/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

A Comprehensive Coupled Model for Tropospheric Halogen Chemistry: Evaluation of Impacts on Tropospheric Ozone, Hydroxyl Radical (OH), and Mercury Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Closing the Regional Ammonia and Nitrous Oxide Budgets of an Intensive Agricultural Region Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Symposium on Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (BVOC) Oxidation and Organic Aerosol Formation; Portland, Oregon; October 17-21, 2016 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Development and Deployment of a Novel Peroxy Radical Detector Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Dynamic Exchange and Reactivity in Secondary Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Comprehensive Characterization of Atmospheric Organic Carbon over Multiple Generations of Oxidation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2016 Atmospheric Optics: Aerosols, Visibility, and the Radiative Balance Conference; Jackson Hole, Wyoming; September 27-30, 2016 Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Impacts of the Biosphere on Global Tropospheric Chemistry and Climate Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Kinetics and Mechanism of Restructuring of Atmospheric Soot and Associated Impact on Light Absorption Award Effective Date: 08/22/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Line Shape for Collision Systems Important in Earth's, Planetary, and Exoplanet Atmospheres Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Next Generation In Situ Measurements of Stratospheric Aerosol Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Impact of Environmental Perturbations on Biogenic Monoterpene Emissions and Their Implications to Secondary Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Measuring Carbon and Climate Tracers on the Atom Airborne Campaigns Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Improving Characterization of Aerosol Optical Properties: Combined Measurements of Angle-resolved Scattering and Ultraviolet-visible Absorption Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Nanoparticle Growth from Anthropogenic Volatile Organic Compounds (AVOC) during CLOUD11 Award Effective Date: 08/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Chemical Coupling of Halogens and Oxygenated VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds): Observations, Experiments and Modeling Award Effective Date: 07/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Understanding Multiphase Atmospheric Aerosol Particle Thermodynamics using Models, Mimics, and Microfluidics Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Formaldehyde Measurements as Tracer of Local Processing of Reactive Volatile Organic Carbon During the Atmospheric Measurements of Oxidants in Summer Study Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Improving Nitrogen Predictions by Updating Tropospheric Kinetics (INPUT-K) Award Effective Date: 06/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Measurements of Hydroxyl (OH), Hydroperoxy (HO2), and Other Photo-Oxidants and Products During 2016 PROPHET (Program on Oxidants Photochemistry Emissions and Transport) Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RUI: Epoxides from Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds: Gas Phase Formation and Aerosol Phase Reactions Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Assessment of The Impacts of Black Carbon Emissions On Urban and Regional Air Quality and Climate: Mexico Case Study Award Effective Date: 06/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Activation and Growth of Newly Formed Atmospheric Particles Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The 2016 ACS (American Chemical Society) Renyi Zhang Symposium; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; August 21-25, 2016 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Mountain Top Cloud Sampling: Experimental Design for Coordinated Study of Multiphase Chemical Mechanisms; March 1, 2016 to February 28, 2017 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Molecular Mechanism of Atmospheric Mercury through Speciation-Resolved Experiments Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Leaf-level to Canopy NOx and Ozone Exchanges at University of Michigan Biological Station (UMBS) during PHotochemistry, Emissions, and Transport (PROPHET) 2016 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2016 Gordon Research Conference on Biogenic Hydrocarbons and the Atmosphere: Diversity of Sources, Sinks, and Impacts of Atmospheric Organics in Spain; June 26-July 1, 2016 Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Impact of Metals on Photochemical Aging of Water Soluble Organic Carbon in Atmospheric Particulate Matter: A Combined Lab and Field Study Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Air chemistry Research In Asia (ARIAs): Aerosol and Trace Gas Emissions and Transformations over the North China Plain Award Effective Date: 04/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Sizing Up the Smoke--Evaluating and Improving Our Ability to Predict Aged Wildfire Aerosol Size Distributions Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Quantifying the Formation and Persistence of Brown Carbon Compounds Through Observational and Laboratory Studies Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Effects of Increased Freshwater Inputs and Salt Water Intrusion on the Current and Future Greenhouse Carbon Balance of Everglade Wetlands Award Effective Date: 04/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI: Acquisition of a Gas Chromatograph-Mass Spectrometer (GCMS) for Citizen- and Student-Driven Inquiry in Urban District of Columbia Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Studies of Optical and Chemical Properties of Biomass Burning Aerosols Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Formation of Organic Nitrogen and Secondary Organic Aerosol Related to Nitrate Radical Oxidation of Volatile Organic Compounds Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Development, Validation, and Application of Multicomponent Atmospheric New Particle Formation Schemes Award Effective Date: 02/15/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Development of a Novel Double-resonance Fiber-laser-induced Fluorescence Instrument for Long-term, High-sensitivity, Interference-free Measurements of Hydroxyl Radical (OH) Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Integrated Laboratory and Field Studies of Organic Nitrates from BVOC + NO3: Formation, Processing, and Fates Award Effective Date: 02/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Spray-Mediated Gas Fluxes across the Air-Sea Interface Award Effective Date: 01/01/2016; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Anthropogenic Influence on Oxidative Capacity and BVOC Oxidation During GoAmazon 2014 Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Field and Laboratory Study of Rural Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) Oxidation and Secondary Organic Aerosol (SOA) Formation Utilizing Measurements of Formaldehyde and Glyoxal Award Effective Date: 07/01/2015; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: The Effect of Variations in Cloud Versus CO2 Radiative Forcing on Tropical SST Gradients, Atmospheric Circulation and Rainfall Patterns Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: CR, Earth System Models

EAGER: A Novel Theoretical Study of Mid-latitude Atmospheric Predictability Award Effective Date: 08/15/2016; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Ice Nucleation in Clouds: A Synergistic Experimental and Simulation Approach Award Effective Date: 03/15/2016; Program: CSD-Chem Strcture and Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Using a Hierarchy of Models to Constrain the Temperature Dependence of Climate Sensitivity Award Effective Date: 11/15/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Extreme Weather Events in Mid-latitudes: The Role of Arctic Sea Ice, SST due to AMV and Siberian Snow Cover Through Teleconnections Involving the Stratosphere Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Roles of Regional Ocean-Atmosphere Coupling and Remote Forcing in Northwest Pacific Monsoon Variability Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Scientific Program Overview (SPO): Southern Ocean Clouds, Radiation, Aerosol, Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES) Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Dynamics of Extreme Precipitation in the Northeast United States in Observations and Models Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Sea Surface Temperature-Forced Monsoon Evolution and Variability in West Africa Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Improving Estimates of Anthropogenic Aerosol Cooling and Climate Sensitivity Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Understanding Forced Asian Monsoon Changes in Observations and Coupled Model Intercomparison Project - Phase 5 (CMIP5) Models Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Mechanisms for El Nino and La Nina Evolution Asymmetry and Formation of Super El Ninos Award Effective Date: 11/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics