Studies of Atmospheric Processes Using Imaging Science Techniques
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Michael Mendillo($1,067,833), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Highly, ITM, Imagers, Network, Upper.

MRI: Development of Monitors for Alaskan and Canadian Auroral Weather in Space (MACAWS)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Anthea J Coster($798,259), Northeast Radio Observatory Corp, Westford
Key terms: Alaska And Canada, Polar Cap Patches, Satellite Navigation, Sensor Web, Adaptable, Autonomous, Creation, Development, Dynamic, GNSS, Ground-based, Information, Ionization, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Irregularities, Network, North, Real-time, Receivers, Specific, TEC, Tongue.

Collaborative Research: The Thermosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Using the Low-latitude Ionospheric Sensor Network (LISN) Distributed Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Cesar E Valladares($286,140), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
2. Terence W Bullett($10,036), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Communication, LISN, Low-latitude, Navigation, Observatory, South.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Characterization of Ionospheric-Thermospheric Long-lasting SED (Storm Enhanced Density) Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Geoffrey Crowley($115,315), ATMOSPHERIC & SPACE TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, L.L.C., Louisville
2. Chigomezyo Ngwira($129,273), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Sed Plumes, Density, Enhanced, Llseds.

CEDAR: Critical Evaluation of the Hydroxyl Radical (OH) Meinel Band Einstein A Coefficients
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Daniel V Matsiev($209,007), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Emission Coefficients, Lower Thermosphere, Meinel Band, Has, Long-term, MLT, Mesospheric, Nightglow, OH, Principles, Temperature, Temperatures.

Long Wavelength Array (LWA) Observations of Meteor Trail Radio Emission: A Laboratory for Terrestrial Plasma Physics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Gregory B Taylor($276,127), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Radio And Video, Radio Wave Emission, Meteor Trails, Telescope Arrays, Emissions, Mechanism, Meteors, Time.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Comparative Investigation of Kilometer-scale Auroral E and F Region Irregularities with a Global Positioning System (GPS) Scintillation Array
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Donald L Hampton($48,707), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Seebany Datta-Barua($148,833), Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
3. Gary Bust($73,719), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
4. Kshitija B Deshpande($118,191), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Ionospheric Irregularities, E-, F-region, GPS, Horizontal, Radio, Scintillation, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Expanded Correlative Dynamics and Meteor Studies Using the Southern Argentina Agile MEteor Radar
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Steven M Smith($75,090), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Diego Janches($584,992), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Meteor Head Echoes, Dynamics Studies, Gw Sources, Large-scale Dynamics, Mean Winds, Momentum Fluxes, Rayleigh Lidar, Small-scale Gws, Addressing, Argentina, Combined, Correlative, Diverse, Especially, Global, Hotspot, Installed, Interactions, Large-scale, MLT, Microphysics, Models, Motions, Non-specular, PMSE, Pws, Quantification, Range, Region, SAAMER, Small-scale, Southern, Tdf, Tides, Trails, Various, Was.

CEDAR: Probing the Upper E-region and Lower F-region Neutral Winds Using Ionospheric Heating
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Donald L Hampton($288,509), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Altitude, Emissions, FPI, Facility, HAARP, Heating, Ionosphere, Range, Temporal, UAF, Wind, Winds.

CAREER: Exploiting the Low/Medium Frequency (LF/MF) Radio Band for Ionospheric Remote Sensing
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Morris B Cohen($585,722), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Electron Density, Lfmf Radio, Radio Waves, Conditions, Disturbances, Khz, Near, Quiescent, Receivers, Solar.

Simulations and Theory of Streamer Discharges in Transient Luminous Events
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Victor Pasko($361,270), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Sprite Streamer Initiation, Lower Thermosphere, Chemistry, Earth, Ionospheric, Phenomena, Streamers, Theoretical, Tles.

Collaborative Research: Synergistic Merging of Traditional Aeronomy with Targeted High-Frequency (HF) Heating Diagnostics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Frank T Djuth($100,000), Geospace Research Inc, El Segundo
2. Herbert C Carlson($50,000), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: AO, Coupling, Electron, Electrons, Geomagnetic, ISR, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Lines, Magnetosphere, Midlatitude, Plasma, Plasmasphere, Process, Suprathermal.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Measurements of O and N2 Ultraviolet (UV) Cross Sections by Particle Impact for Remote Sensing of Thermosphere O/N2 Variation
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Joseph S Evans($90,039), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
2. William E McClintock($363,065), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Richard Eastes($131,743), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
Key terms: Emission Cross Sections, On2 Density Ratio, Total Emission Cross, Cascade Cross, Remote Sensing, Thermosphere Composition, Absolute, Atom, Band, Dayglow, Direct, Emissions, LBH, Laboratory, Measure, Nm, OI, Observations, Qem, Student, UCF, UV.

CEDAR: Atmospheric Coupling via Energetic Electron Precipitation (EEP)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Cora E Randall($488,505), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Mesosphere And Lower, Electron Precipitation, Lower Thermosphere, Sun-earth Connections, Arctic, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Coupling, Does, EEP, Effects, Influx, MLT, Nitrogen, Nox, Polar, Processes, Reactive, Stratosphere, Sun-earth, WACCM.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Assimilative Analysis of Low- and Mid-latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Russell A Stoneback($34,991), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
2. Tomoko Matsuo($250,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Graduate Student, Longitudinal Dependence, Approach, Assimilation, Cu-boulder, Day-to-day, Earth, Equatorial, Fields, Geomagnetic, Training, UTD, Weather.

The United Nations/United States International Space Weather Initiative Workshop; Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; July 31 - August 4, 2017
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Patricia H Doherty($30,945), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Space Weather, Education, ISWI, International, Workshop.

Relative Contribution of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Radiation, Lower Atmosphere Waves, and Geomagnetic Activity on Thermosphere-ionosphere Spatial Structure and Temporal Variability
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Valery A Yudin($389,940), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Commercial And Military, Energy And Momentum, External Sources, Military Purposes, Upper Atmosphere, Forcing, GPS, HF, Improvement, Lower, Models, Neutral, Predictions, Propagation, Relative, Short, Solar, Space, T-I, Users, Various.

CEDAR: Winds Over Africa - Investigation of Thermospheric Dynamics via Multi-site, Multi-instrument Observations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jonathan J Makela($224,893), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Africa, Longitudinal, South, Thermosphere, Thermospheric, Wind, Winds.

CEDAR: Mesospheric Investigation of Gravity Wave and Mountain Wave Activities and Impacts in the Lee Side of the Southern Andes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Michael J Taylor($269,236), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: All-sky Imager, Meteor Radar, Mlt Region, Rayleigh Lidar, Rio Grande, Upper Atmosphere, AMTM, All-sky, Andes, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Compare, Complementary, DLR, GW, Gravity, Gws, Instruments, Intense, Momentum, Mws, Orographic, Period, Propagation, Sets, Site, South, Temperature, Wave, Waves, Winds.

CEDAR: Polar Summer Mesospheric Dynamics from Cloud Tracking with AIM CIPS (Aeronomy of Ice Cloud Imaging and Particle Size) Imagery
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ping-Ping Rong($298,811), Hampton University, Hampton
Key terms: Horizontal Winds, Polar Summer, Pw Activity, AIM, Applied, Cloud, Derived, GW, Mesospheric, Objective, PMC, Pws, Satellite, Structures, Tele-connection, Vortex.

CEDAR: High Speed Spectroscopic Studies of lightning bolts: Starters, Jets, and Gigantic Jets
Award Effective Date: 05/12/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ningyu Liu($298,371), University of New Hampshire, Durham
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: RAPID: Exocube 2 - A Cubesat to Measure In-situ the Global Distribution of Light Species Densities in the Exosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Lara S Waldrop($2,000), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Jordi Puig-Suari($100,000), California Polytechnic State University Foundation, San Luis Obispo
3. Robert B Kerr($17,279), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
4. Edwin J Mierkiewicz($3,123), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
5. Susan M Nossal($3,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Attitude Control, Mass Spectrometer, Satellite Mission, Antenna, Communication, Delivery, Deployment, EXOCUBE, Failed, Failure, Instrument, Spring, Telemetry, Time.

Collaborative Research: The Impact of Lower Atmosphere Waves on Ionospheric Irregularities
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

1. Timothy J Fuller-Rowell($40,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. John Retterer($60,000), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Ionospheric Irregularity Model, Atmosphere Model, Background Neutral, Ionospheric Irregularities, Neutral Atmosphere, Space Weather, BC, Based, Boston, Bubbles, CU, Combined, Critical, Day-to-day, Development, Expertise, F-region, Fields, Large-scale, Long-standing, Modeling, Navigation, Plasma, Radio, Signals, Simulation, Tropospheric, Valladares, Wave, Waves.

Establishing Links between Atmospheric Dynamics and Non-Gaussian Distributions and Quantifying Their Effects on Numerical Weather Prediction
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. John Forsythe($674,937), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric Dynamics, Detection Algorithm, Weather Forecasting, Assimilation, Conditional, Distributed, Educational, Errors, Fields, Gaussian, Growing, Hybrid, Model, Models, Non-gaussian, Observations, PDF, Retrieval.

Understanding and Modeling the Role of Horizontal Heterogeneity on the Dynamics of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Across Scales
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Jeremy Gibbs($724,164), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Surface Differences, Account, Engineering, Flux, Fluxes, Layer, Models, NBL, Parameterizations.

Identifying the Origins of Summertime Arctic Cloud Condensation Nuclei Using Online Fine Aerosol Composition Measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Eric S Saltzman($414,275), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Arctic Ocean, Aerosols, Ambient, Climate, Cloud, Critical, Ice, Measure, Origin, Particles, Relative, Sea, Size-resolved, Sources, World.

RAPID: Northern California Wildfire Emissions and their Atmospheric Chemical Transformations in a Highly Populated Urban Region
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Allen Goldstein($187,893), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Biomass Burning Emissions, Organic Aerosol, Aging, Collected, Commercial, Contribution, Expected, Fires, Pollution, Secondary, Wildfires.

Wildfire Impacts on Air Quality and Nighttime Brown Carbon Formation
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Robert J Yokelson($533,533), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Larger Field Campaign, Wildfire Plumes, Aerosols, Aircraft, Boise, Brc, Burning, Carbon, Chemistry, Collected, Effort, Emissions, Focused, Ground-based, Modeling, NASA, NOAA, Named, Nighttime, Smoke, Summer, WE-CAN.

RAPID: Ozone Loss Over the United States in Summer: Advancing Innovative Climate-Chemistry Research via In Situ Observations of ClO and BrO on Solar Powered Stratospheric Aircraft
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. James G Anderson($199,998), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Catalytic Loss Rates, Nitrogen Catalytic Cycles, Dominant Halogen, Ozone Loss, Temperature Structure, Amplification, Central, Convective, Hydrogen, Instrumentation, Observations, Radar, Spatial, Stratosphere, Summer.

Interfacial Fenton Chemistry on Aqueous Organic Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Michael R Hoffmann($643,604), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: Tropospheric Aerosols, Ions, Ligands, Nature, Organic, Presence, Reactions, Substrates.

Workshop on Long-Term Measurements of Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemical Interactions; Irvine, California; Two Days in October or November of 2017
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Alex Guenther($48,439), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Long-term Atmospheric Chemistry, Long-term Atmospheric, Trace Gases, Aerosol, Biosphere-atmosphere, Exchange, Leaders, Modeling, Recommendation, Report, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: ICARUS - Index of Chamber Atmospheric Research in the United States
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nga Lee Ng($71,235), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
2. Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz($73,190), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
3. John H Seinfeld($163,798), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
4. David Cocker III($184,588), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
5. Sergey Nizkorodov($44,360), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
6. Allen L Robinson($100,735), Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh
7. Tran B Nguyen($647,873), University of California-Davis, Davis
8. Jose L Jimenez($190,505), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Chamber, Describes, ICARUS, NCAR, Organic, Participating, Particle, Phase, Searchable, Vocs.

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Smoke Forecasting Support for the Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN) Field Intensive
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sherri Schranz($33,953), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Ravan Ahmadov($31,169), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Field Campaign, Forecasting Capabilities, Chemistry, Emissions, Evolution, Information, Plumes, Smoke, WE-CAN, Wildfire.

Snowpack Chlorine Chemistry in Wintertime Urban Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Kerri A Pratt($495,867), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Urban Snowpack, Atmospheric, Chloride, Clno, Road.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Aerosol Phase, Morphology, and Mixing State on Droplet Formation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Miriam Freedman($299,317), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Dabrina Dutcher($103,031), Bucknell University, Lewisburg
3. Akua A Asa-Awuku($343,556), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Ccn Activation, Cloud, Droplet, Formation, Hygroscopicity, Mixing, Morphology, Particle, Phase.

RAPID: Supporting Cloud Water Collection at Whiteface Mountain Research Observatory, Pilot Study to Assess Chemical Processing of Organics within Clouds
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sara Lance($24,930), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Cloud Droplets, Organic Aerosol, Aerosols, Chemical, Clouds, Lead, Mass, Reactions.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Ammonia on the Chemical and Physical Properties of Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Christopher Hennigan($363,345), University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore
2. Ann Marie G Carlton($357,192), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Quality And Climate, Air Quality, Brc Formation, Ammonia, Analysis, Aqsoa, Aqueous, Atmosphere, Characterize, Chemical, Effects, Emissions, NH, Organic, Processes, SOA, Sources, Spatial, Temporal.

Collaborative Research: Impact of Aerosol Viscosity, Phase Separation, and Internal Structure on Isoprene-Derived SOA (Secondary Organic Aerosol) Formation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jason D Surratt($290,000), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
2. Andrew Ault($261,204), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Physicochemical Properties, Reactive Uptake, Aerosol, Determination, Formation, IEPOX, Models, Morphologies, Organic, Particles, Products, SOA, Viscosity.

RAPID: Testing the Solar Occultation Flux Instrument on the Wyoming King Air
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rainer M Volkamer($199,973), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Emission Fluxes, Field Campaign, Nsfncar C130, Trace Gas, Aircraft, Instrument, Planned, Quantify, SOF, Source, Summer, Testing, Wildfire.

A Laboratory Study to Investigate Inorganic and Organic Sulfate Formation in Multiphase Processes Involving Mineral Dust and Other Metal-Containing Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Vicki H Grassian($482,391), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Laboratory Studies, Sulfate Formation, Chemistry, Cloud, Droplets, Dust, Enhanced, Investigate, Metal-containing, Mineral, Organic, Oxidation, Presence, Processes, Reactivity, Sulfur.

Collaborative Research: Refining and Testing Methods for Identifying and Quantifying Gaseous Oxidized Mercury in Air
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mae S Gustin($564,965), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
2. Seth Lyman($374,322), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Oxidized Mercury, Reactive Mercury, Atmospheric, Conditions, Deploy, Developed, Field, GEM, GOM, Gaseous, Globally, Has, Hg, Instruments, Monitor, NSF, Shown, Sites, Speciated, Tekran, Toxic.

CAREER: Interplay of Particle Phase State and Thermodynamic Mixing in Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Partitioning
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Manabu Shiraiwa($721,488), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Organic Gases, Anthropogenic, Chemical, Convective, Fine, Formation, Laboratory, Mechanism, Model, Particle, Particles, Phase, Predict, Properties, SOA, Secondary.

Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Mixed Phase Chemistry for Improved Climate Predictions: Field Measurements and Modeling of the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ann Marie G Carlton($50,052), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Secondary Organic Aerosol, Anthropogenic Emissions, Global Climate, Organic Compounds, Biogenic, Chemistry, Formation, Multiphase, Particle, SOA.

Collaborative Research: New Measurements to Understand Coastal Ozone Production During the 2017 Lake Michigan Ozone Study
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Charles O Stanier($138,483), University of Iowa, Iowa City
2. Timothy H Bertram($100,000), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Dylan B Millet($103,148), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Time-of-flight Mass Spectrometer, Atmospheric Chemistry, Coastal Ozone, Human Health, Lake Michigan, Time-of-flight Mass, Chemical, Concentrations, Current, Illinois, Regional, Site, Supported, VOC.

2017 Interdisciplinary Biomass Burning Initiative (IBBI) Workshop; Boulder, Colorado; July 10-12, 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Megan L Melamed($15,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Biomass Burning, Field Campaigns, Awareness, Effort, International, Wildfires, Workshop.

Volatile Product Formation and Atmospheric Lifetimes of Biogenic Organic Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Tran B Nguyen($404,600), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Organic Aerosol, Reactive Carbon, Affect, Aging, Atmosphere, Composition, Environmental, OA, OH, OVOC, Oxidation.

2017 Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Addressing the Complexity of Our Atmosphere Through Integration Across Scales; Newry, Maine; July 30 - August 3, 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

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

Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Chlorine Activation from Saline Playas
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Thomas E Gill($18,822), University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso
2. Cassandra Gaston($462,568), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Potent Atmospheric Oxidants, Regional Air Quality, Mass Spectrometry, Nitrogen Oxides, Salt Playas, Assessments, Atoms, Chlorine, Cl, Clno, Dust, Measure, Methane, Models, Ozone, Reactions, Reactor, Robust, Saline.

Phenol Reactions in Aqueous Particles as a Source of Secondary Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Cort Anastasio($800,903), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: Laboratory And Field, Biomass Burning, Fire Plumes, Human Exposure, Reactive Gases, Secondary Particle, Amounts, Emitted, Has, Indirect, Investigate, Particles, Phenols.

Collaborative Research: Improving our Understanding of Chinese Haze Events by Quantifying the Formation Mechanisms of Sulfate and Nitrate Aerosol in Beijing
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Yuxuan Wang($57,279), University of Houston, Houston
2. Becky Alexander($424,870), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Fine Particle Pollution, Chinese Haze, Current Models, Isotopic Composition, Urban Haze, Beijing, Chemical, Chemistry, China, Extreme, Isotope, Measured, Oxygen, Pacific, Transport, Transported.

CAREER: Air-Quality Effects of Atmospheric Chlorine Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lea Hildebrandt Ruiz($623,985), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Highly Oxidized Molecules, Chlorine Chemistry, Cl Versus, Laboratory Chamber, Particulate Matter, Air, Ambient, Chemical, Experiments, Formation, Formed, Gas, HOM, Investigate, Mass, Models, OH, Organic, Oxidation, Ozone, Plans, Precursors, Principal, Quantify, Secondary, Species.

CAREER: Improving Our Understanding of Nitrous Oxide Emissions to the Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Eric Kort($651,806), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: N2o Emissions, Modeling, Regional, Soils, Waterways.

Collaborative research: Linking gas phase precursors with aerosol size, number and composition in new particle formation
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Murray V Johnston($442,657), University of Delaware, Newark
2. Shan-Hu Lee($500,555), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Nucleation And Growth, Sulfuric Acid Nucleation, Growth Rates, Particle Formation, Atmosphere, Biogenic, Effects, Especially, Isoprene, NPF, Particles, RH, Species, Temperature.

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

1. Kathleen L Purvis-Roberts($142,537), Claremont McKenna College, Claremont
Key terms: Nitrogen And Sulfur, Aerosol Formation, Agricultural Emissions, Air Quality, Sulfur Compounds, Amines, Animal, Atmospheric, Developed, Environmental, Field, Laboratory, Modeling, Particles, Potential, Reduced, Sources.

Tropical-Extratropical Interactions in a Hierarchy of Model Complexity
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. James Benedict($606,891), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Mixed Layer, Model Versions, Ocean Surface, Tropical-extratropical Interactions, Aquaplanet, Ars, Atmospheric, CAM, CESM, Cold, Complex, Complexity, Configuration, Continent, Cooling, Dynamics, Extratropics, Has, Heat, Hierarchy, Lack, MJO, Meridional, Midlatitude, Midlatitudes, Models, Moisture, Physics, Pis, Produce, SST, Simple, Simpler, Simulation, Simulations, Ssts, Temperature, Tropical-extratropical, Tropics, Variety, Weather, Winds.

RAPID: Testing Storm Track Sensitivity to Resolution and Climate Change Using UPSCALE Global Model Output
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Gary M Lackmann($101,648), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Constitutes Adequate Resolution, Assessment Report, Energetic Cyclones, Extratropical Cyclones, Global Simulations, High-resolution Simulations, Storm Tracks, Access, Climate, Conditions, Critical, Has, High-resolution, Increases, Intense, Intensification, Issue, Models, PRACE, PRIMAVERA, Pis, Precipitation, Produce, Produced, Represent, Resolutions, Temperature, UK, UPSCALE, Warmer, Weather.

2017 Graduate Climate Conference; Woods Hole, Massachusetts; November 10-12, 2017
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Raffaele Ferrari($20,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Climate Conference, Graduate Students, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Dynamics, GCC, Interdisciplinary, Ocean, Range.

Travel Support for Early Career Scientists for the Chapman Conference on Non- Volcanic Stratospheric Aerosol; Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; March 18-23, 2018
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Terry L Deshler($29,977), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Aerosol And Gas, Controlling Stratospheric Aerosol, Gas Phase, Climatologies, Conference, Exchange, Meeting, Optical, Processes, Remote.

A Modeling Study of Easterly Waves and Their Intraseasonal Variability in the East Pacific
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Eric D Maloney($431,851), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: African Easterly Jet, Tropical Eastern Pacific, African Ews, Background Flow, Ew Activity, Intraseasonal Oscillations, Atlantic, Central, Disturbances, Focused, Found, Generation, Genesis, Has, Hurricane, Meteorology, Modulation, Originated, Performed, Propagate, Region, Topography, Waves.

NSFGEO-NERC: Equatorial Line Observations (ELO) Field Campaign during the International Years of Maritime Continent Program: Oceanography and Atmospheric Perspective
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Piotr Flatau($436,867), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Influence Mjo Propagation, Sumatra And Borneo, Atmospheric Disturbances, Equatorial Pacific, Indian Ocean, Karimata Strait, Maritime Continent, Oceanic Observations, West Coast, Affects, Britain, Building, CCKW, Campaign, Cckws, Challenge, Day, Diurnal, ELO, Eastward, Factors, Forecasting, Forecasts, Has, Indonesia, Interaction, International, Islands, MC, Models, Precipitation, Propagating, Region, Sea, Seas, Seeks, Shallow, Surface, Weather.

CAREER: Monsoon and the Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/02/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yutian Wu($776,640), Columbia University, New York
2. Yutian Wu($169,316), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Chemical Constituents, Educational Activities, Analytics, Classes, Climate, Dynamical, Extreme, Math, North, Objective, Observations, Real-world, School, Stratosphere, Students, Summer, Troposphere, UTLS, Undergraduate.

Assessing the Impacts of Arctic Amplification on the Midlatitude Circulation with a Hierarchy of Atmospheric General Circulation Models
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yutian Wu($206,329), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Streams And Storm, Summer Heat Waves, Tropical Upper Troposphere, Arctic Amplification, Atmospheric Circulation, Jet Streams, Northern Hemisphere, Storm Tracks, Blocking, Climate, Cold, Concern, Effect, Europe, Extreme, Fall, Has, Influence, Latitudes, Levels, Midlatitude, Models, Potential, Reductions, Simulations, Warming, Weather, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Role of Cloud Albedo and Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Continental Tropical Climates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Michael Pritchard($261,093), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Pierre Gentine($466,326), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Cloud Resolving Model, Climate Models, Cloud Cover, Diurnal Cycle, Infrared Radiation, Land Surface, Model Experiments, Modeling Strategies, Soil Moisture, Surface Cover, Amazon, Atmosphere, Cloudiness, Clouds, Conditions, Deforested, Differences, Drier, Effect, Effects, Evaporation, Extent, Feedback, Grid, Heat, Limited, Mechanisms, Parameterizations, Patches, Pis, Plays, Precipitation, Processes, Produce, Regions, Represent, Shading, Simulations, Studying, Sunlight, Temperature, Water.

Mechanisms of Mediterranean Region Hydroclimate Variability and Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yochanan Kushnir($922,707), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Climate Models, Future Drying, Jet Stream, Mediterranean Climate, Aridity, Atlantic, Context, Has, Hydroclimate, Lamont, Long-term, Mechanisms, Pis, Precipitation, Projections, Region, Syria.

Impact of Anthropogenic Air Pollution on Ice Clouds and Regional Radiative Forcing
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kuo-Nan Liou($279,999), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Anthropogenic Aerosols, Ice Cloud, Ice Clouds, Ice Nucleation, Radiative Forcing, Climate, Comprehensive, Pollution, Properties, Uncertainties.

Collaborative Research: Convection and Rainfall Enhancement over Mountainous Tropical Islands
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter H Molnar($59,373), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Timothy W Cronin($350,393), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: High-resolution Numerical Model, High-resolution Numerical, Island Environment, Island Rainfall, Nearby Ocean, Tropical Islands, Atmosphere, Available, Climate, Cut, Depends, Enhancement, Factors, Global, Graduate, Local, Multiple, Pacific, Regulate, Remains, Students, Studying, Temperature, Thunderstorms, Triggering, Weather, Winds.

Collaborative Research: Observed and Future Dynamically Downscaled Estimates of Precipitation Associated with Mesoscale Convective Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/25/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Vittorio A Gensini($49,537), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
2. Russ S Schumacher($86,467), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Walker S Ashley($321,074), Northern Illinois University, Dekalb
4. Vittorio A Gensini($49,537), Community College District 502, Glen Ellyn
Key terms: Tracking And Classification, Classification Schemes, Expert Judgement, Mcs Activity, Mcs Behavior, Algorithm, Atmospheric, CONUS, Climate, Conditions, Contribution, Developed, Floods, Future, Importance, Mcss, Model, Moisture, National, Nowrad, Precipitation, Radar, Rainfall, Regions, Simulations, Thunderstorms, Water, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Improving Constraints on Tropical Climate Feedbacks with Inverse Modeling of the Stable Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Water Vapor
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Joseph Galewsky($311,468), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Robert D Field($41,388), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ground-based Observations, Saturation Temperature, School Students, Subtropical Clouds, Water Vapor, Air, Climate, Condensation, Determined, Effort, Equator, Feedbacks, Found, Heavier, Inverse, Isotopes, Lead, Middle, Mixing, Model, Moisture, Oxygen, Pathways, Program, RH, Relative, Relatively, Replace, Set, Subsiding, Subtropics, Summer, Technique, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Origins of Hazardous Convective Weather Environments through Reduced-complexity Climate Modeling Experiments
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daniel R Chavas($513,999), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Kevin Reed($330,829), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Hazardous Convective Weather, Life And Property, Hcw Environments, Larger-scale Environments, Aims, Decade, Difficult, Hazards, Larger-scale, Models, Predict, Regions, Risk, Specific, Terrain.

Collaborative Research: Structure and Influence of Coherent Vertical Pulses of Wave Activity Flux in Observations and Models, from Daily to Seasonal Timescales
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Judah Cohen($239,833), Atmospheric and Environmental Research Inc, Lexington
2. Mathew Barlow($215,877), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
3. Jason C Furtado($231,521), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Winter Weather, Advance, Examining, Forecast, Influence, Interactions, Investigating, Models, Northern, Pulse, Pulses, Stratosphere, Structure, Surface, Troposphere, Weeks, Winds.

Collaborative Research: Cirrus Cloud Formation and Microphysical Properties from In-situ Observed Characteristics to Global Climate Impacts
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Minghui Diao($338,940), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
2. Xiaohong Liu($457,656), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Anthropogenic Aerosol Emissions, Cirrus Microphysical Properties, Formation And Evolution, Polluted And Pristine, Cirrus Cloud, Cirrus Clouds, Climate Model, Dynamical Conditions, Global Radiation, Pristine Regions, Radiative Forcing, Relative Humidity, San Jose, Various Geographical, CAM, Compare, Dataset, Estimation, Gcms, Ice, Impacts, In-situ, Issues, Mesoscale, Micro-, Observations, Observed, Parameterization, Perturbations, Simulations, Spatial, Students, Undergraduate.

Seasonality of East African Rainfall
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Edward K Vizy($683,578), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Climate Variables, East Africa, Overhead Passes, Rainy Seasons, Bimodal, Complete, Convection, Degrees, Directly, Equator, Ethiopia, Growing, High-resolution, Issues, Model, Models, Rainfall, Regions, Seasonality, Simulations, Southern, Sun, Trends, Vegetation, Water.

Analyses of Large-scale Climate Variability: Understanding Periodicity in the Extratropical Storm Tracks
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David W Thompson($697,861), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Kinetic Energy, Weather Activity, Baroclinicity, Density, EKE, Forecasting, Has, Hemisphere, Implications, Modes, Pressure, Referred, Southern, Structure, Students, Surfaces.

OTREC: Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David J Raymond($21,435), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Eastern Equatorial Pacific, Tropical East Pacific, Weather And Climate, Campaign Seeks, Easterly Waves, Formation Mechanisms, Southwest Caribbean, Tropical Convection, Wind Convergence, AGS-, Adjacent, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Central, Cloud, Contrast, Convective, Deep, Development, Disturbances, Effects, Factors, Field, GV, Heavy, Hurricanes, ITCZ, Mid-tropospheric, NSF, Near, OTREC, Plays, Precipitation, Produce, Region, Roughly, SST, Surface, Temperature, Theory.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms Governing Synoptic-scale, Rapid Cloud Dissipation in Subtropical Marine Low Clouds
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David B Mechem($407,304), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
2. Sandra E Yuter($460,187), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Thermal Radiative Energy, African Coast, Cloud Rollbacks, Low Clouds, Ocean Surface, Rollback Phenomenon, Solar Energy, Southeast Atlantic, Transition Line, Atmospheric, Climate, Cloudiness, Dissipate, Incoming, Marine, Observations, Persistent, Processes, Reflect, Roughly, Students, Sunlight.

Evaluating the Roles of the Ocean, the Atmosphere, and External Forcing in Atlantic Multi-Decadal Variability
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Amy C Clement($674,245), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Atlantic Basin, Atlantic Multidecadal, Climate Model, External Forcing, Hurricane Activity, Model Configurations, North Africa, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Model, Standard Climate, Surrounding Landmasses, AMO, AMOC, AMV, Aerosols, Amo-like, Available, Contributing, Designed, Driving, Equator, Experiments, Hierarchy, Increased, Models, Numerical, Pis, Processes, Produced, Represent, SST, Simulations, Slab, Ssts, Strength, Surface, Temperatures, Warmer, Warming, Winds.

CAREER: The Influence of Desert Heat Lows on Monsoon Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William R Boos($241,536), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Desert Heat Lows, Monsoon Forecasting Contest, Monsoon Precipitation, Monsoon Regions, Monsoon-desert Relationships, Onset Date, South Asia, West Africa, Adjacent, Australia, Basic, Climate, Component, Convection, Deserts, Education, Educational, Forecasters, Forecasts, Found, Model, Monsoon-desert, Monsoons, Outreach, Poleward, Program, SCHOLAR, Sahel, Shallow, Students, Weather, Website.

Spatiotemporal Inhomogeneity of Tropical Waves and Their Interactions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zhaohua Wu($540,812), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Equatorial Waves, Holo-spectral Analysis, Meemd Technique, Observed Waves, Tropical Waves, Characteristics, Depth, Frequencies, Generation, Has, Holo-spectral, Method, Methods, Shape, Tools, Tropics, Weather.

Zonal Asymmetries in the Low-Latitude Hydrological Cycle over a Broad Range of Climates
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. William R Boos($316,829), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Global Mean Climate, Mean Climate Warms, Sea Surface Temperature, Subsidence And Dry, Vertical Mass Flux, World's Population Inhabiting, Climate Model, Dry Conditions, Future Climate, Hydrological Contrasts, Hydrological Cycle, Model Projections, Monsoon Regions, Stationary Circulations, Substantial Portion, World's Population, Asymmetric, Atmospheric, Characterized, Development, Drylands, Examination, Idealized, Induce, Intensification, Land, Potential, Simulations, Strong, Subtropical, Subtropics, Water, Worlds.

Global Atmospheric Modeling Hierarchy Development
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Isaac M Held($368,228), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Kinetic Energy Generation, Atmospheric Circulation, Hs Model, Hydrological Cycle, Radiative Transfer, Temperature Contrast, Thermal Relaxation, Upper Bound, Water Vapor, Atmosphere, Climate, Clouds, Colder, Complexity, Constraints, Continent, Development, Does, Dynamics, Effect, Equator, Has, Heating, ITCZ, Latitudes, MEP, Models, Momentum, Phenomena, Precipitation, Processes, Representation, Sector, Simplified, Useful, Warmer, Wave.

Zonal Asymmetry of Moist Static Energy Tendency and Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Eastward Propagation in Climate Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Tim Li($407,622), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Atmospheric Low-frequency, Current State-of-the-art, Madden-julian Oscillation, Climate, Dynamics, Extended-range, Low-frequency, MJO, Madden-julian, Model, Models, Operational, Past, Prediction, Predictions, Processes, Representations, State-of-the-art, Weather.

The Dynamics and Predictability of Midlatitude Sub-monthly Retrograde Waves
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Huei-Ping Huang($310,313), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Jet Stream, Retrograde Waves, Surface Weather, Day-to-day, East, Explored, Forecasts, Generate, Influence, Long-range, Mechanisms, Poleward, Potential, Precipitation, Predictability, Propagate, Ridges, Slow, Troughs, Upper-level, West.

Climatological, Composite, and Case Study Analyses Linking Rossby Wave Breaking to Potential Vorticity Streamer and Cutoff Cyclone Formation in the Subtropical North Atlantic Basin
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lance F Bosart($398,517), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Candidate Extreme Weather, Cutoff Cyclones, Gridded Datasets, Western Caribbean, Air, Central, Disturbances, Flow, Fueling, Half, Heavy, Latitudes, Occurrence, Rainstorms, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Using SOCRATES Datasets to Improve Simulations of Clouds, Aerosols and their Climate Impacts
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Christopher S Bretherton($530,746), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Stephan A Fueglistaler($235,667), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: South Polar Front, Anthropogenic Aerosols, Broader Impacts, Cloud Behavior, Cloud Cover, Cloud Droplets, Global Models, Liquid Droplets, Meteorological Conditions, Model Simulations, Model Version, National Center, Nucleating Particles, Nudged Meteorology, Socrates Campaign, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Surface Observations, AM, Activities, Activity, Atmospheric, Climate, Clouds, Cold, Collected, Comparisons, Cooling, Counterparts, Deficiencies, Developed, Distribution, Effects, Errors, Excessive, GV, Has, Ice, Interactions, LES, Laboratory, Pis, Play, Processes, Reasons, Region, Representation, SLW, Simulated, Strategy, Sunlight, Traveling, Water, Weather.

SOCRATES: Microphysical Processes in Southern Ocean Clouds
Award Effective Date: 06/06/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Greg McFarquhar($821,509), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Greg McFarquhar($282,214), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Droplets And Ice, Radar And Lidar, South Polar Front, Broader Impacts, Cloud Cover, Global Climate, Ice Crystals, Ice Nucleating, Ice Nucleation, Ice Particles, Liquid Droplets, Meteorological Conditions, Pis Hypothesize, Pristine Conditions, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Wing-mounted Probes, Activities, Aerosols, Aircraft, Anthropogenic, Available, Campaign, Clouds, Condenses, Cooling, Deployment, Depth, Factors, GV, Has, Information, Inps, Instruments, Lack, Larger, Limited, Models, Observations, Onto, Outreach, Planned, Precipitation, Primary, Processes, Relative, SLW, SOCRATES, Secondary, Sensitivity, Strength, Sunlight, Surface, Traveling, Water, Weather, Wing-mounted.

CAREER: Understanding the Transport Circulation of the Troposphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gang Chen($613,044), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Atmospheric Dynamics, Atmospheric Model, Broader Impacts, Circulation Features, Education Component, Jet Streams, Longitudinally Averaged, Museum-based Outreach, Numerical Simulations, Polar Caps, Rotating Tank, Transport Circulation, Water Vapor, Atmosphere, Chemical, Climate, Consisting, Constituents, Demonstrations, Dynamical, Effective, Experiments, Extent, Flux, Global, Graduate, Hands-on, Has, Idealized, Investigate, Lab, Mean, Middle, Midlatitude, Models, Movement, Museum-based, Ozone, Performed, School, Stratosphere, Student, Students, Temperature, Tracers, Tropics, Video, Weather.

Understanding the Decrease of Precipitation Extremes at High Temperature and its Implications
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Guiling Wang($577,136), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Ambient Air Surrounding, Moisture Deficit Mechanism, Convective Clouds, Extreme Precipitation, Moisture Difference, Relative Humidity, Temperature Fluctuations, Threshold Value, Activities, Climate, Colder, Consequence, Considers, Day-to-day, Days, Development, EPI, Effect, Epi-temperature, Holds, Increase, Increases, Increasing, Intensity, Mixed, Suppressing, Temperatures, Trend, Warmer, Water.

Towards a Better Representation of Cloud-Aerosol Interactions in the Community Earth System Model: With Applications to Heterogeneous Nucleation of Cirrus, and Aerosol-Cloud Intera
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Owen B Toon($692,343), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Clouds And Aerosols, Ice Cloud Model, Climate Forcing, Climate Modeling, Cloud-aerosol Interactions, Global Models, Liquid Cloud, Particle Sizes, Aerosol-cloud, Apply, CESM, Cloud-aerosol, Computing, Current, Defined, Earth, Education, Involving, National, Parameters, Physics, Properties, Radiative, Reduced, Representation, Uncertainties.

Analysis of G-V Aircraft and Complementary SOCRATES Observations to Understand Clouds, Aerosols and their Interactions Over the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Roger Marchand($1,057,513), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Aerosol And Ccn, Radar And Lidar, South Polar Front, Boundary Layer, Broader Impacts, Ccn Concentrations, Cloud Cover, Droplet Concentrations, Global Climate, Increased Ccn, Meteorological Conditions, Precipitation Rates, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Activities, Aerosols, Air, Aircraft, Ambient, Atmospheric, Based, Campaign, Clouds, Colder, Cooling, Datasets, Droplets, Dropsondes, Factors, Flight, Found, Free, GV, Has, Inlets, Limited, Low, Meaning, Model, Multiple, North, Observations, Particles, Planned, Pristine, Processes, Region, Relatively, Removal, SOCRATES, Sensitivity, Space, Strength, Students, Suggest, Sunlight, Surface, Top, Traveling, Variety, Weather.

CAREER: Understanding the Source of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) Predictability and its Impact on the Mid-latitudes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Hyemi Kim($749,232), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Minority And Women, Educational Activities, Extreme Precipitation, Subseasonal Predictability, Subseasonal Time, Under-represented Minority, Women Students, Atmospheric, Climate, Convection, Diversity, Global, High-impact, Ii, Iii, Increase, Increasing, Investigate, MJO, Main, Objectives, Prediction, Programs, Propagation, Under-represented, Weather.

Hemispheric Energy Balance and Tropical Precipitation Shifts: The Impacts of Forcing Location
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dargan M Frierson($594,498), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Heating And Cooling, Inter-hemispheric Heat Transport, Colder Hemisphere, Inter-hemispheric Heat, Itcz Precipitation, North-south Shifts, Northern Hemisphere, Pis Perform, Radiative Forcing, Remote Radiative, Southern Hemisphere, Tropical Precipitation, Warmer Hemisphere, Atlantic, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Climate, Depends, Differences, Energy, Equator, Hadley, Has, Highly, Ice, Itczs, Models, Moisture, Near, North-south, Ocean, Partitioning, Population, Region, Regions, Theory, Transported, Was.

Non-Gaussian Temperature Distribution Tails in Observations and Models: Implications for Future Extreme Temperature Exceedances
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Paul C Loikith($415,660), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: 95th Percentile Temperature, Heat Wave Days, Heat Wave Occurrence, 95th Percentile, Five Percent, Heat Waves, Mean Warming, Model Simulations, Percentile Temperatures, Present-day Climate, Differences, Distribution, Exceedance, Exceedances, Extreme, Has, Increase, Increases, Median, Normal, Pis, Present-day, Processes, Region, Short, Spatial, Tails, Warmer, Warming-induced.

Collaborative Research: Dynamics of Unsaturated Downdrafts, Cold Pools, and Their Roles in Convective Initiation and Organization
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Pierre Gentine($189,688), Columbia University, New York
2. Zhiming Kuang($461,274), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Climate Models, Cold Pools, Convective Clouds, Moist Convections, Air, Characteristics, Contribute, Density, Development, Global, Modify, Numerical, Parameterizations, Play, Process-level, Processes, Statistically.

Aspects of the Dynamics of the Coupled Tropsphere-Stratosphere System
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Thomas Birner($637,741), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric Thermal Structure, Background Atmospheric Thermal, Earth's Surface, Tropopause Region, Wave Coupling, Circulation, Exchange, Large-scale, Lead, Near, Processes, Stratosphere, Troposphere, Waveguide, Weather.

Gordon Research Conferences (GRC) Radiation and Climate: Connecting Observations to Global Circulation Modeling Challenges; Lewiston, Maine; July 15-21, 2017
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David D Turner($19,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Global Circulation, Clouds, Conference, GRC, GRS, Gordon, Held, Invited, Maine, Models, Outstanding, Th.

Understanding the Role of the Low-Level Jet in Land-Atmosphere Interactions and Drought over the Southern Great Plains
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Craig R Ferguson($666,884), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Drought Evolution, Low-level Jet, Analyses, Climate, Conditions, Land-atmosphere, Local, Low-level, Mechanisms, Mesoscale, Models, Plains, Predictability, Southern.

Does Northern Hemisphere Snow Cover Influence Mid-latitude Cyclone Trajectories? Weather System Implications for a Changing Climate
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jonathan E Martin($539,093), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Mid-latitude Storm, Snow Cover, Snow Line, Advances, Climate, Forecasting, Mechanisms, Mid-latitude, Models, North, Storms, Tracks, Underlying, Weather.

Understanding Measurements of Climate Sensitivity
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Andrew E Dessler($427,747), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Incoming And Outgoing, Parameter Values Calculated, Carbon Dioxide, El Nino, Feedback Mechanisms, Feedback Parameter, Global Temperature, Mean Temperature, Model Simulations, Outgoing Energy, Radiative Fluxes, Temperature Anomalies, Agreement, Based, Climate, Difference, Differences, Effect, Estimate, Forced, Has, Increase, Increases, Internal, Level, Observations, Period, Produced, Produces, Sensitivity, Spatial, Warming.

Mechanisms for the Seasonal Transition of Precipitation Organization in the Southeastern United States: Current and Future Climate
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Rosana Nieto-Ferreira($446,104), East Carolina University, Greenville
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Ipf Onset, Mesoscale Convective, Meteorological Conditions, Precipitation Features, Precipitation Types, Seasonal Cycle, Seasonal Transition, Abrupt, Adjacent, Algorithm, Atlantic, Behavior, Classification, Contributions, Dataset, Developed, Earlier, Frontal, Ipfs, Model, Mpfs, NMQ, North, Pis, Region, Regional, Sensitivity, Simulate, Simulations, Spring, Thermodynamic, Warming.

Solar Influences on Tropical Deep Convection and the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO): Observational Analyses and Tests of a Proposed Mechanism
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lon L Hood($171,538), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Short-term Solar Ultraviolet, 27-day Solar, Short-term Solar, Short-time Climate, Explore, Forcing, Influence, Short-time, Student, Tropical, Troposphere.

Ice Nucleating Particle Influence on Southern Ocean Clouds: Measurements and Analyses for Southern Ocean Clouds, Radiation, Aerosol, Transport Experimental Study (SOCRATES)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sonia M Kreidenweis($770,583), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Droplets And Ice, South Polar Front, Boundary Layer, Broader Impacts, Cloud Cover, Global Climate, Ice Crystals, Ice Formation, Ice Particles, Liquid Droplets, Meteorological Conditions, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Abundance, Activity, Aerosols, Ambient, Australian, Campaign, Clouds, Collect, Collected, Composition, Concentrations, Cooling, Determining, Evidence, Extent, Free, GV, Has, INP, Inps, Laboratory, Long-range, Observations, Pis, Planned, Processes, Region, Relative, Relatively, SLW, SOCRATES, Sensitivity, Students, Sunlight, Surface, Traveling, Vessel, Water, Weather.

Effects of Saharan Dust on the African Easterly Jet-African Easterly Wave System
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Terrence R Nathan($598,580), University of California-Davis, Davis
Key terms: African Easterly Jet, African Easterly Jetand8210, African Easterly Wave, Saharan Dust Affects, Saharan Dust Storms, Easterly Waves, North Africa, Numerical Experiments, Theoretical Framework, Tropical Cyclones, Advance, Aid, Circulation, Developed, Development, Dust-modified, Effects, Influence, Jetandafrican, Objective, Observational, Processes, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Field Measurements of Clouds and Aerosol Particles over the Southern Ocean in SOCRATES
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lynn M Russell($225,626), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Darin W Toohey($81,206), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Cynthia Twohy($340,870), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Droplets And Ice, South Polar Front, Aerosol Particles, Boundary Layer, Broader Impacts, Cloud Cover, Cloud Droplets, Cloud Particles, Condensed Water, Global Climate, Ice Crystals, Ice Particles, Liquid Droplets, Meteorological Conditions, Nucleating Particles, Residual Particles, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Supercooled Liquid, Aerosols, Air, Analysis, Available, Basic, Biological, CCN, CVI, Campaign, Clouds, Collected, Content, Contribution, Cooling, Determining, Development, Free, Future, GV, Has, Inlet, Inlets, Inps, Laboratory, Meaning, Observations, Pis, Planned, Processes, Properties, Public, Region, Relative, SLW, SOCRATES, Sensitivity, Spectrometer, Student, Sunlight, Surface, Traveling, Vapor, Weather.

Dynamics of Sub-Seasonal Variability of Macro-Monsoon Circulations
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Peter J Webster($692,446), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Monsoon Regions, South Asia, Africa, Apply, Bi-weekly, Days, Dynamics, Examine, Increasing, Interaction, Prediction, Products, Rainfall, Societies.

Measurements of CCN on the NSF/NCAR HIAPER G-V to Study Aerosol-cloud Interactions as Part of the Southern Ocean Clouds Radiation Transport Aerosol Transport Experimental
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gregory C Roberts($507,637), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Aerosol And Ccn, Cloud Microphysical Properties, Droplets And Ice, South Polar Front, Aerosol Concentrations, Anthropogenic Aerosols, Boundary Layer, Broader Impacts, Ccn Concentration, Cloud Cover, Free Troposphere, Frontal Weather, Global Climate, Ice Particles, Liquid Droplets, Liquid Water, Meteorological Conditions, Southern Hemisphere, Southern Ocean, Abundance, Activity, Air, Aircraft, Balance, Campaign, Clouds, Continent, Cooling, Degrees, Determining, Downward, GV, Has, Instruments, Larger, Level, Local, Mccn, Mccns, Meaning, Observations, Operated, Pis, Processes, Relative, SLW, SOCRATES, Sampling, Sensitivity, Sunlight, Supersaturation, Surface, Traveling, Values.

General Circulation Studies
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. John M Wallace($61,199), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Rain Rate, Atmospheric, Based, Frequency, Graduate, Ii, Lightning, Preparing, Textbook, Tropical, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Tropical waves and their effects on circulation from 3D GPS radio occultation sampling from stratospheric balloons in Strateole-2
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jennifer S Haase($1,394,580), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. M Joan Alexander($507,067), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Wave Momentum Transport, Weather And Climate, Balloon-borne Instrument, Broader Impacts, Cirrus Clouds, Flight Level, Gnss Satellites, Relative Importance, Ttl Cirrus, Upper Troposphere, Water Vapor, Wave Motions, AGS-, Air, Amount, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Balloon-borne, Balloons, CNES, Campaign, Class, Days, Deployment, Effect, Formation, Gondola, Has, Ice, LMD, Laboratoire, Launched, Lower, Observations, Oscillation, Participation, Program, QBO, ROC, Rising, Signals, Space, Spatiales, Strateole-, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Students, TSEN, Temperature, Tropical, UA, Undergraduate, Validation, Variety, Vertical, Wavelengths, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Investigating Thermal Structure, Dynamics, and Dehydration in the Tropical Tropopause Layer with Fiber Optic Temperature Profiling from Strateole-2 Balloons
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. M Joan Alexander($164,017), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Lars E Kalnajs($1,017,187), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Fiber Optic Cable, Stratospheric Water Vapor, Balloon Gondola, Cirrus Clouds, Cpt Temperature, Gravity Waves, Momentum Flux, Relative Humidity, Temperature Depression, AGS-, Amount, Atmospheric, Campaign, Cold, Deployment, Developing, Dry, Entering, FLOATS, Has, Layer, Light, Measure, Objective, Observations, Ozone, Participation, Pis, Play, Profiler, QBO, Space, Strateole-, Stratosphere, TTL, Tropopause, Troposphere, Validation, Value, Vertical, Wave-induced, Weather.

Water Vapor, Clouds, and Aerosol in the Tropical Tropopause Layer with in situ and Profiling Measurements from Long Duration Strateole-2 Balloons
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Sean M Davis($1,478,406), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Ice Particle Concentrations, Relative Humidity, Water Vapor, AGS-, Aerosol, Aerosols, Amount, Balloon, Balloons, Campaign, Clouds, Convective, Deployment, Developed, Developing, Distribution, Dry, Entering, Exceed, Formation, Has, Instrument, Instruments, Issue, LASP, LMD, LPC, Layer, Level, Low, Observations, Optical, Ozone, Package, Participation, Particles, Pis, Play, Processes, Rachuts, Reeled, Space, Strateole-, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Supersaturation, TTL, Temperature, Top, Tropopause, Troposphere, Validation.

CAREER: Impacts of Amazon Deforestation on Earth's Climate, Water, and Ecosystems: The Ebb of the Green Ocean?
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. David M Medvigy($160,852), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Middle School, Atmosphere, Climate, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Framework, Global, Hydrology, Local, Students.

EAGER: Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity and Equity Network (GOLDEN)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Kristen Luna Aponte($171,468), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Gold Projects, Website Portal, Create, Customized, Development, Diversity, Pis, Practice.

REU Site: Program in Climate and Space Science Observation (PICASSO) at the University of Michigan
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Frank Marsik($341,830), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Atmospheric And Space, Stem Fields, Adaptation, Climate, Design, Development, Disciplines, Graduate, Interactions, Models, Observations, Overall, Processes, Protect, Quality, REU, Seek, Site, Space-based, Students, Summer.

REU Site: Weather, Climate and Society: An Interdisciplinary Approach Integrating Physical and Social Sciences
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Jennifer M Collins($447,490), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Reu Program, Aspects, Designed, Development, Disciplines, Draws, Florida, Graduate, Interdisciplinary, Issues, Mentored, Participants, STEM, Social, Students, Ugs, WCS.

REU Site: Solar and Space Physics with the Boulder Solar Alliance
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Daniel N Baker($550,019), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Atmospheric And Space, Boulder Solar Alliance, National Solar Observatory, Solar Alliance, Space Physics, Space Weather, Associates, Authentic, Center, Experience, Institute, Mentors, Prepare, Program, School, Site, Society, Students, Summer, Sun-earth, Training.

CEDAR: Establishing a Meteor Radar at Poker Flat Research Range to Understand the Wind-Driven Circulation and Coupling of the Arctic Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Denise Thorsen($850,476), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Flat Rocket Range, Poker Flat Rocket, Lower Atmosphere, Meteorological Re-analyses, Mlt Region, Waves Generated, Activity, Alaska, Altitudes, Arctic, Characterization, Circulation, Continually, Height, Integrated, Lidar, Mesosphere, Observations, Planetary, Profile, Radar, Re-analyses, Resolution, Satellite, Stratosphere, Synoptic, Temperature, Thermosphere, Tides, Variety, Wave-driven, Wind, Winds, Yield.

Coupled Model Biases in the Sea Surface Temperature (SST) Distribution of the Global Tropics and their Influence on Climate Change Projections
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Nicolas Vigaud($738,757), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Climate Projection Uncertainties, Increasing Greenhouse Gas, Regional Climate Projection, Regional Climate Projections, Sea Surface Temperatures, Tropical Sea Surface, Atmosphere-only Model, Coupled Climate, Coupled Model, Hybrid Model, Model Simulations, Regional Climates, Atmosphere-only, Collaborators, Current, Distribution, Future, Globe, Influence, Maine, Models, Organizations, Overall, Pis, Teachers.

EarthCube Integration: CyberWay--Integrated Capabilities of EarthCube Building Blocks for Facilitating Cyber-based Innovative Way of Interdisciplinary Geoscience Studies
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: EarthCube

1. James Kinter($1,100,000), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Earthcube Building Blocks, Existing Earthcube Building, Access, Bcube, CHORDS, Capabilities, Cyberconnector, Cyberway, Discovery, Geoscience, Geows, Interfaces, Interoperability.

Collaborative Research: EarthCube Integration--Brokered Alignment of Long-Tail Observations (BALTO)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: EarthCube

1. James Gallagher($326,435), Open Source Project for Network Data Access Protocols, Providence
2. Scott D Peckham($501,223), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Daniel Fuka($572,342), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Brokered Alignment, Long-tail Observations, Access, BALTO, Brokering, Capability, Core, EC, Earthcube, Long-tail, ODSIP, Open-source, Seeks, Via.

DYNAmics of the Madden-Julian Oscillation (DYNAMO) Legacy Data Products
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: EarthCube

1. Shuyi S Chen($295,956), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Indian Ocean, Madden-julian Oscillation, Campaign, Climate, Collected, Convection, Convective, DYNAMO, Dataset, Facilitate, Field, Level, MJO, Models, Observing, Occurred, Processed, Products, Sounding, Success, Was, Weather.

Construction of Mobile C-band, Narrow-Beam, Dual-Frequency, Dual-Polarization, High-Power Radar
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Karen A Kosiba($367,764), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: C-band Radar, Cm Wavelength, Innovative Design, Intense Precipitation, Radar Antenna, Severe Weather, Allow, C-band, CROW, Capability, Deployable, Educational, Existing, Facilities, Frequencies, Has, Independent, Mobile, Permit, Phenomena, Quickly, Radars, Resolution, Scanning, Students, Wheels.

Collaborative Research: Using RELAMPAGO Observations to Understand the Thermodynamic, Kinematic, and Dynamic Processes Leading to Heavy Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Stephen W Nesbitt($686,801), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Russ S Schumacher($552,534), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Adaptive Ground Observations, Argentinean Convective Storms, Education And Outreach, Environment And Internal, Field Campaign Operations, Fixed And Mobile, Generate Intense Convection, Operations And Forecast, Andes Mountains, Forecast Models, Forecast Planning, Heavy Rainfall, Heavy-rain-producing Storms, Internal Structure, Modeling Activities, Outreach Activities, Poorly Observed, Relampago Education, Remote Sensing, Value-added Products, Vulnerable Region, Water Vapor, Analyses, Argentina, Characterize, Concert, Contributions, December, Designed, Developing, Electrification, External, Frequent, Heavy-rain-producing, Kinematic, Lee, Lightning, Mesoscalemicroscale, Microphysical, NCAR, Near, Network, November, Precipitation, Precursors, Prediction, Processes, Produce, Profiling, Radars, Severe, Soundings, Surface, Thermodynamic, Value-added, Weather.

Multispectral Airglow Observations of Gravity Waves during the August 2017 Total Solar Eclipse
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Geospace Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Supriya Chakrabarti($68,622), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Solar Eclipse, Airglow, Atmosphere, Propagate, Shadow, Total.

RAPID: Coordinated Rainfall Analysis of Hurricane Harvey
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Brent McRoberts($99,557), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Analysis Techniques, Extreme Precipitation, Rainfall Analysis, Analyses, Collect, Create, Establish, Estimates, Flooding, Metadata, Network, Product, Uncertainty.

RAPID: Collection and Analysis of Data in Major Landfalling Hurricanes (2017)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Joshua M Wurman($184,777), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
Key terms: Rolls And Streaks, Eyewall Circulations, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Irma, Tornado-scale Circulations, Features, HBL, Hurricanes, Intense, Landfall, Mesovortices, NSF, Radar, Structures, Tornado-scale, Wind.

RAPID: Study of Landfalling Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Michael I Biggerstaff($60,910), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Harvey And Irma, Collect Observations, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Landfall, Quality Control, Vortex Rossby, Additional, Analysis, Hurricanes, Landfalling, NSF, Radar, Rainbands, Rainfall.

RAPID: Tipping the Greenhouse C Balance: Hurricane Irma's Role in Increasing the Global Warming Potential in Everglades Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Steven F Oberbauer($197,375), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
Key terms: Anoxic Conditions, Carbon, Dead, Effort, Everglades, Extensive, Hurricanes, Levels, Mats, Reductions, Release, Water, Wetland.

RELAMPAGO Hydrometeorology Component: Land Surface Controls on Heavy Precipitation and Flooding in the Carcarana River Basin, Argentina
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Hydrologic Sciences

1. Francina Dominguez($476,244), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Campaign And Coupled, Carcarañá River Basin, Initiation And Growth, Mountain Range East, Observational And Modeling, Precipitation And Flooding, Warm Season Convection, Convective Precipitation, Coupled Modeling, Field Campaign, Land Cover, Land Surface, Organized Convection, Sierras De, Soil Moisture, Affected, Andes, Argentina, Focused, Fully-coupled, Hydrometeorological, Hydrometeorology, Importance, Intense, Investigates, Land-atmosphere, Local, Mcss, Modulating, Observed, Overarching, Perform, Perspective, Plains, Probability, Rainfall, Region, Severe, Storms, Streamflow, Weather, Wrfwrf-hydro.

MRI: Acquisition of a Multi-purpose Cloud Radar
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Neil P Lareau($684,462), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Cloud And Precipitation, Coastal And Mountainous, Plume Dynamics, Clouds, Fire, Formation, Orographic, Processes, Radar, Wildfire, Wildfires.

Pre-Ignition Biomass Emissions: Causes and Characterization
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Tami C Bond($653,916), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Biomass Burning, Pre-ignition Emissions, Solid Fuels, Communicate, Factors, Low-, Pre-ignition, Videos.

Collaborative Research: Western wildfire Experiment for Cloud chemistry, Aerosol absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN)
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Jeffrey L Collett($1,902,145), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Shane Murphy($379,604), University of Wyoming, Laramie
3. Joel A Thornton($598,951), University of Washington, Seattle
4. Darin W Toohey($416,406), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
5. Lu Hu($466,611), University of Montana, Missoula
Key terms: Cloud Chemistry, Wildfire Plumes, Absorption, Campaign, Campaigns, Emissions, Nitrogen, Occurring, Western.

Conference on Fundamental Physical Processes in Solar-Terrestrial Research and Their Relevance to Planetary Physics; Kona, Hawaii; January 7-13, 2018
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hui Zhang($30,096), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Space Plasma, Space Weather, Environment, Meeting, Students.

GEM: Experimental Identification of Plasma Wave Modes in Vicinity of Kelvin-Helmholtz (KH) Vortices and in Plasma 'Mixing' Regions in Low Latitude Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Katariina Nykyri($309,761), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Ambient Plasma Properties, Ion And Electron, Electron Heating, Electron Scales, Female, Field, Frequency, Global, KH, Kinetic, LLBL, MHD, Magnetospheric, Particles, Physics, Solar, Space, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Energetic Particle Precipitation Mechanisms in the Inner Magnetosphere: Van Allen Probes and Incoherent Scatter Radar Coordinated Measurements
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Stephen Kaeppler($355,916), SRI International, Menlo Park
2. Robert A Marshall($120,791), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Jacob Bortnik($121,418), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radar, Van Allen Probes', Candidate Waves, Ionization Profiles, Loss Cone, Pitch-angle Scattering, Atmosphere, Calculated, Charged, Distribution, Distributions, Field, Has, Ionosphere, Magnetic, Magnetosphere, Mechanisms, Near, PFISR, Particle, Particles, Pitch-angle, Precipitation, Produced, Space.

GEM: Simulation Studies of Plasma Redistribution in the Ionosphere and Plasma Supply to the Magnetosphere in Geomagnetic Active Periods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jiannan Tu($279,038), University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell
Key terms: Ion Outflow, Outer Space, Plasma Flowing, Plasma Redistribution, Polar Cap, Space Weather, Atmosphere, Density, Enhanced, Global, Investigation, Lead, Model, Multiple, Numerical, Upper.

GEM: Multi-scale Empirical Geomagnetic Field Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Mikhail Sitnov($335,193), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Empirical Model, Geomagnetic Field, Solar Cycle, Time Scales, Approach, Current, Magnetosphere, Models, Physics-based, Quantified, Shorter, Structure, Substorm, Upgrade.

Collaborative Research: GEM--The Excitation and Propagation of Fast Magnetosonic Waves and Their Effect on Radiation Belt Electrons
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kyungguk Min($297,357), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
2. Richard E Denton($58,733), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Excitation And Propagation, Fast Magnetosonic Waves, Radiation Belt Electrons, Magnetic Field, Observed Wave, Plasma Waves, Collisionless, Complex, Dispersion, Energies, Energy, Generated, Generation, Inner, Kinetic, Magnetosphere, Near, PIC, Particles, Portion, Quasi-linear, Region, Satellites, Scattering, Theory.

GEM: Construction of a Storm-Time Plasma Sheet Model Including Effects of Bubble Injections
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Frank R Toffoletto($269,454), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: Bursty Bulk Flows, Near-earth Plasma Sheet, Plasma And Electric, Seed And Source, Background Distribution, Bubblebbf Injections, Electric Field, Flow Bursts, Geomagnetic Storms, Inner Magnetosphere, Lower Entropy, Near-earth Plasma, Source Populations, Bubbles, Distributions, Earthward, Empirical, Large-scale, Model, Nearth, Observations, Plasma-sheet, Radiation, Simulations, Statistical, Students, Transport, View.

Collaborative Research: GEM--The Effect of Magnetosonic Waves on Energetic Electrons in the Earth's Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Seth G Claudepierre($75,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
2. Lunjin Chen($203,068), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Electron Pitch Angle, Electron Transport Coefficients, Pitch Angle Distribution, Van Allen Probes, Bounce Resonance, Electron Butterfly, Equatorially Mirroring, Inner Magnetosphere, Ms Waves, Radiation Belt, Distributions, Dynamics, Effects, Electrons, Hazards, High-resolution, Incorporated, Magnetosonic, Modeling, Models, Observations, Particle, Potential, Space, Via.

Space Environment Effects and Science Applications Workshop; Boulder, Colorado; September 5-8, 2017
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hanne Mauriello($12,416), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Environment, Space Weather, Effects, Operations, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: GEM--Comparing Simulations of Electron Acceleration in Kinetic Alfven Waves with Observations from the Van Allen Probes in the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Christopher Chaston($96,231), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Jay R Johnson($1,241), Department of Energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton
Key terms: Van Allen Probes, Alfven Waves, Energy Flux, Inner Magnetosphere, Space Weather, Upper Atmosphere, Additional, Electrical, Electrons, Extent, Ionosphere, Kaws, Observations, Penetration, Scattering, Simulation, Undergraduate.

GEM: Assessing the Relative Importance of Convection and Induced Electric Fields for Particle Transport and Energization in the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James L Roeder($342,000), Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo
Key terms: Convection Electric Field, Induction Electric Fields, Ions And Electrons, Magnetospheric Electric Field, Corotation Field, Fields Produce, Inner Magnetosphere, Magnetic Field, Magnetotail Fields, Plasma Sheet, Ring Current, Compared, Dominates, Dynamics, Earth, Fluxes, Importance, Ionospheric, Outer, Plasmapause, Plasmasphere, Play, Primary, RCM-E, Reconfigurations, Region, Relative, Storm, Substorm, Torus.

GEM: Global versus Local Control of Solar Wind-Magnetospheric Coupling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Colin M Komar($268,660), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Dayside Magnetic Reconnection, Magnetic Field Lines, Local Plasma, Local Reconnection, Reconnection Rate, Solar Wind, Conditions, Controlled, Earth, Energy, Global, IMF, Magnetosphere, Magnetospheric, Physics, Resistivity, Simulations, Space.

Collaborative Research: Studies of Magnetospheric and Ionospheric Dynamics Using the Magnetometer Array for Cusp and Cleft Studies (MACCS)
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. David L Murr($512,043), Augsburg University, Minneapolis
2. Mark B Moldwin($231,053), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Ulf Waves, Analysis, Array, Canadian, Continue, Field, Ground-based, Has, Ionospheric, Latitude, MACCS, Magnetic, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Network, Radar, Stations, Storms, View.

Collaborative Research: GEM--Global Propagation Characteristics of Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron Waves
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hyomin Kim($63,163), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
2. Eun-Hwa Kim($285,534), Department of Energy, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton
Key terms: Emic Wave Propagation, Emic Waves, Radiation Belts, Van Allen, Wave Dynamics, Full-wave, Ground, Modeling, Observations, Parameters, Plan, Plasma, Satellites, Space.

GEM: The Dynamics of a Substorm: Auroral Streamers, Plasmasheet Flows, and Substorm Onset
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Kyle R Murphy($274,913), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Auroral And Geomagnetic, Auroral Beads, Auroral Streamers, Ballooning Instability, Bursty Flows, Geomagnetic Disturbances, Substorm Onsets, Direction, Dynamics, Energy, Explosive, Has, Investigate, Leading, Magnetotail, Motion, Plasma, Release, Structures, Substorms, Towards.

GEM: Quantifying the Effects of Inductive Electric Fields in the Terrestrial Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Raluca Ilie($256,003), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Inductive Electric Field, Magnetic Field, Solar Wind, Acceleration, Applied, Compared, Convection, Dynamics, Energies, Fields, Knowledge, Magnetosphere, Magnitude, Model, Particles, Path, Physics, Plasma, Potential, Process, Processes, Relative.

GEM: A Statistical Study of the Substorm Sequence and Phenomena Associated with Expansion Onset
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Robert L McPherron($539,003), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Observational Signatures, Relative Timing, Substorm Theory, Auroral, Bay, Currents, Disturbances, Etc, Flows, Has, Ionosphere, Lists, Magnetotail, Poleward, Space, Statistical, Substorms, Theories.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on Dayside Magnetosphere Interactions; Chengdu, China; July 10-14, 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Pranoti Asher($30,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Space Weather Disturbances, Earth's Magnetosphere, Solar Wind, Atmosphere, Chapman, Development, Environment, Expected, Focused, Geophysical, International, Manner, Mechanisms, Participants, Penetration, Responsible, Students, Workshop.

SCOSTEP: U.S. Participation in International Council for Science (ICSU)'s Scientific Committee on Solar-Terrestrial Physics
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Katherine E Bailey($144,159), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Solar-terrestrial Physics, Programs, SCOSTEP, STP.

The Thirteenth International Conference on Substorms (ICS13); Portsmouth, New Hampshire; September 24-29, 2017
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joachim Raeder($29,419), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Explosive Energy Releases, International Conference, Assets, Atmosphere, Creating, Effects, Environment, Focus, Geospace, Half, ICS, Orbit, Participants, Potential, Progress, Students, Substorm, Towards, Travel, Underlying.

Collaborative Research: GEM: Modulation of Plasma Waves by Thermal Plasma Density Variation in the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Wen Li($54,608), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Thermal Plasma Density, Early-career, GEM, Geospace, Intensity, Investigation, Magnetosphere, Modulation, Specific, Wave, Waves.

Properties of Meso-scale Polar Cap Structures and their Coupling to Nightside Auroral Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Yukitoshi Nishimura($445,863), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Patches And Arcs, Polar Cap Patches, Polar Cap Structures, Nightside Ionosphere, Space Weather, Auroral, Coupling, Determined, Determining, Disturbances, Effort, Establishing, Flow, Forecast, Fraction, Ionospheric, Magnetosphere, Pbis, Properties.

Quantifying Energetic Electron Precipitation Driven By Magnetospheric Waves
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Wen Li($511,518), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
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.

CAREER: Toward an Understanding of Secondary Aerosol Formation, Particle Ageing in Droplets, and Cloud Processing
Award Effective Date: 01/03/2017; Program: Other Global Learning & Trng

1. Akua A Asa-Awuku($308,113), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Secondary Aerosol Formation, Air Quality, Cloud Droplets, Cloud Processing, Activated, Aerosols, Backgrounds, Based, CCN, California, Capability, Chamber, Chemical, Climate, Composition, Current, Economically, Field, K-, Laboratory, Particle, Processes, Properties, Students, Undergraduate, Underrepresented, Via.

EAGER: Exploration of the Denali Basal Ice Core Archive
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2018; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Karl J Kreutz($95,794), University of Maine, Orono
Key terms: Cosmogenic Isotope Analysis, Denali Ice Core, Ice Core Archive, Basal Ice, Central Alaska, Isotope Analyses, North Pacific, Summer Temperature, Approach, Climate, Contained, EAGER, Evaluation, Explore, Has, Holocene, Hunter, Hydroclimate, Information, Mt, Paleoclimate, Portion, Potential, Regional, Stratigraphic, Time.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Testing the Tropical Storm and Tropical Cyclone Masking Hypotheses: Advancing Speleothem Reconstruction of Paleotempestology and Paleohydrology
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Brian Frappier($703,487), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
2. Martin Medina-Elizalde($144,821), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: 18-oxygen Isotope Precipitation, 18-oxygen Isotope Values, Available Stalagmite Delta, 18-oxygen Isotope, Amount Effect, Delta 18-oxygen, Tc Masking, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Storm, Approach, Based, Climate, Female, Hispanic, Lead, Quantitative, Spanning, Students, Tcs.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Madagascar Caves and Paleoclimate (MADCAP), Investigating Climate Variability in the Southern Hemisphere of the Western Indian Ocean
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Stephen J Burns($491,563), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. William D McGee($135,540), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Decadal-scale Climate, Indian Ocean, Landscape Evolution, Speleothem Delta, Aims, Decadal-scale, Experiences, Hemisphere, History, Holocene, Inter-annual, Investigate, Late, Madagascar, Monsoon, Past, Precipitation, Reconstruct, Stalagmites, Time.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Cave Climate Histories of East/Central Asia: Deeper in Time, Wider Geographically, New Analytical Approaches, and New Tests of Climate Interpretations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Ian J Orland($59,990), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
2. Richard L Edwards($402,508), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Oxygen Isotopic Composition, Asian Monsoon, Cave Calcite, Aim, Climate, Involve, Obtaining, Responds, Timescales.

P2C2: Orbital Forcing of South Indian Hydroclimate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Judson W Partin($483,256), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Climate, Global, ISM, India, Indian, Monsoon.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--ICECAP (Ice Age Chemistry and Proxies) Phase 3: Investigating Fire Activity and its Implications for Climate Across Multiple Timescales
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Joseph McConnell($264,845), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. Loretta Mickley($447,557), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Past Fire Activity, Regional And Global, Glacial Period, Global Climate, Ice Cores, Ocean Fertilization, Radiative Forcing, Wildfire Activity, Albedo, BC, Carbon, D-O, Effects, Fires, Main, Model, NSF, Phase, Potential, Processes, RET, Size, Subsequent, Timescales, Transport, Trends, Wildfires.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Drivers for Past Variability in Tropospheric Reactive Halogens: Implications for Climate and Evaluation of Ice Core Proxies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Lee T Murray($201,549), University of Rochester, Rochester
2. Becky Alexander($364,209), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Climate Forcing Agents, Outreach And Education, Atmospheric Chemistry, Reactive Halogens, Abundance, Atmosphere, Capacity, Examine, Global, Model, Potential, Troposphere.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Inferring Spatio-Temporal Variations in the Risk of Extreme Precipitation in the Western United States from Tree Ring Chronologies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Scott Steinschneider($320,527), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Edward R Cook($248,208), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Extreme Precipitation, Storm Tracks, Tree-ring Chronologies, Application, Climate, Coast, Potential, Risk, Tree-ring.

P2C2: Evaluating the Causes and Consequences of Extreme Holocene Paleo-Droughts in North America
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Amy C Clement($332,863), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: North Atlantic, Climate, Drought, Dust, Feedbacks, Female, Has, Holocene, Local, Model, Severe, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Calibrating South East Asian Proxies: Speleothems and Tree-Rings
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Kathleen R Johnson($329,476), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Brendan M Buckley($267,428), Columbia University, New York
3. Nicole K Davi($233,684), William Paterson University, Wayne
Key terms: Speleothems And Tree, Climate Proxies, Climate Signals, Dominant Controls, Stable Isotope, Tree Rings, Aims, Archives, Instrumental, Laos, Organizes, Precipitation, Principal, Specific, Students, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Expansion/Contraction of the Intertropical Convergence Zone; An Emerging Mechanism of Tropical Precipitation Changes for Reinterpreting Paleoclimate
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Alyssa Atwood($105,561), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
2. Aaron Donohoe($269,534), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Past And Future, Ci Mode, Tropical Precipitation, Climate, Constrain, Employed, Forcing, ITCZ, Mechanisms, Paleoclimate, Shift, Spatial.

Collaborative Resesarch: P2C2--The Flavors of Southwest Hydroclimatic Extremes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Timothy Shanahan($360,594), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Connie A Woodhouse($559,474), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Colorado River, Temperature Anomalies, Water Managers, Aims, Climate, Drivers, Drought, Extremes, Feedbacks, Hydroclimatic, Integrating, Investigate, Modeling, Moisture, Monsoon, Outreach, Proxies, Proxy, Public, Regional, SW, Tree-ring, Via.

P2C2: Decomposition and Reconstruction of Drought Variability Across the Continental United States and Northern Mexico
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Edward R Cook($501,014), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: East-west Dipole, Northern Mexico, Past Millennium, Water Resources, Anthropogenic, Decades, Drought, Droughts, East-west, Experienced, Hydroclimate, Mode, Multi-decade, Observed, Prolonged, Range, Reconstruct, Reconstructions, Trends, Warming.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Multi-proxy Reconstructions of North Pacific Decadal Variability from Bivalve Mollusks and Trees
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Alan D Wanamaker($108,551), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Daniel Griffin($41,660), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
3. Bryan A Black($435,387), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: North Pacific Decadal, 20th Century, Existing Tree-ring, Chronologies, Climate, Dynamics, Environmental, Fisheries, Geoduck, Growth, Has, Insights, Integrated, Involve, Linkages, Long-term, Marine, Oscillation, Reconstructions, Risk, Sea, Surface, Tree-ring.

EAGER: Improving our Understanding of Supercell Storms through Data Science
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2018; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Cameron R Homeyer($168,517), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: 4d Weather Radar, 4d Weather, Severe Storms, Advance, Apply, Datasets, Dynamics, Enable, Four-dimensional, Identifying, Knowledge, Models, Prediction, Seeks, Spatiotemporal, Techniques, Time, Tornadoes, Tornadogenesis.

Lake-effect Snow: Understanding Predictability and Dynamics through Ensemble-Based Convective-Permitting Data Assimilation, Modeling, and Sensitivity Analysis
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Steven J Greybush($493,141), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Synoptic And Mesoscale, Assimilation Techniques, Collaborators Investigating, Four-dimensional Ensemble, Lake-effect Snow, Accumulations, Cold, Effective, Evaluation, Forecast, Four-dimensional, Hybrid, Lake-effect, Model, Predictability, Prediction, Rich, Snowfall, Strong, Weather.

Support for the Workshop on Meteorological Sensitivity Analysis and Data Assimilation; Aveiro, Portugal; July 2-6, 2018
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Nikki Prive($10,000), Morgan State University, Baltimore
Key terms: Sensitivity Analysis, Weather Forecasting, Accuracy, Assimilation, Heart, Held, Lies, Uncertainties, Workshop.

RAPID: Impacts of Post-Hurricane Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Convective and Precipitation Processes in the Caribbean Region
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jorge E Gonzalez($183,895), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: Development And Intensification, Energy And Water, Initiation And Invigoration, Energy Balance, Land Surface, Puerto Rico, Storm Development, Storm Initiation, Surface Energy, Water Budgets, Caribbean, Existing, Extreme, Flooding, Funding, Hurricane, Land-atmosphere, Landscape, Local, Maria, Model, Modified, Plans, Rainfall, Was.

RAPID: The Diablo Wind and Extreme Fire Behavior during the 2017 Wine Country Fires
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Neil P Lareau($121,906), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Critical Fire Weather, Diablo Wind Workshop, Fire Weather Conditions, Wine Country Fires, Fire Behavior, Fire Spread, Tubbs Fire, Analysis, Climatological, Climatology, Development, Ember, Extreme, Lead, Modeling, RAPID, Reconstruction, Stakeholders, Synoptic, Transport, WRF-SFIRE.

Collaborative Research: Polarimetric Tornado Precursor Signatures
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephen J Frasier($311,963), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
2. Robin L Tanamachi($692,700), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Tornado Warning Times, Conceptual Models, Differential Reflectivity, Rapid-scanning Dual-polarized, Dual-polarized, Observations, Prior, Radar, Rapid-scanning, Signals, Signatures, Supercells, Tornadogenesis, Zdr.

EAGER: A New Method for Sampling Sea-Salt Aerosols
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alison D Nugent($135,961), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Air, Aircraft, Cloud, Clouds, D-printed, Development, Droplets, Flown, GCCN, Giant, Instrument, Kites, Low-cost, Mini-gni, Multiple, Precipitation, Raspberry, Testing.

Mechanisms for Hurricane Motion and Intensity Change
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hugh E Willoughby($335,055), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Convectively Forced, Tropical Cyclone, Tropical Cyclones, Basic, Hurricane, Inner, Intensity, Knowledge, Model, Modeling, Motion, Rain, Track, Vorticity, Vrws, Wavenumber-n, Waves.

Collaborative Research: Balloon Campaign to Quantify Thunderstorm Effects on the Global Electric Circuit
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael P McCarthy($605,209), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Natalia Solorzano($351,648), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Fair Weather Electric, Global Electric Circuit, Global Thunderstorm Activity, Vertical Current Density, Weather Electric Field, Global Circuit, Balloons, Development, Driver, Effort, Has, Insights, Obtained, Progress, Solar, Stratospheric, Supported, Thunderstorms, Time.

Forced and Natural Turbulence Allowing Studies of Turbulent anIsotropic Conditions (FaNTASTIC- 1)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Eugene S Takle($690,206), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Stably Stratified Conditions, Boundary Layer, Coherent Eddies, Coherent Eddy, Local Turbulence, Natural Turbulence, Wind Energy, ABL, Atmospheric, Disciplinary, EET, Experience, Forced, Frequency, Has, High-resolution, ISU, Influences, K-, Landscape, Level, Levels, Mesoscale, Methods, Objective, Partner, Set, Simulations, Stable, Stratification, Structures, Student, Students, Surface, TPE, Turbines, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: SAVANT--Stable Atmospheric Variability ANd Transport
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. April Hiscox($432,844), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
2. Junming Wang($592,240), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Andor Gravity Waves, Forced Oscillations Andor, Gravity Waves Generated, Internal Gravity Waves, Oscillations Andor Gravity, Threshold Wind Speed, Turbulence Forced Oscillations, Aerosol Transport, Background Flow, Broader Impacts, Cloud Cover, Converging Flows, Downslope Winds, Rich Dataset, Stability Regime, Stable Boundary, Air, Atmospheric, Component, Convergence, Current, Dispersion, Drainage, Effects, Empirical, Enquiry, Focus, IGW, Knowledge, Low, Microscale, Missing, Parameterizations, Public, SBL, Shallow, Spatial, Specific, Theory, Topographic, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: The Great Plains Irrigation Experiment (GRAINEX) for Understanding the Influence of Irrigation on the Planetary Boundary Layer and Weather Events
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Udaysankar S Nair($253,477), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
2. Eric Rappin($240,552), Western Kentucky University Research Foundation, Bowling Green
3. Roger A Pielke($111,096), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Boundary Layer Atmosphere, Soil Moisture, Southeastern Nebraska, Affecting, Application, Atmospheric, Coupling, Experience, Field, Gain, Interactions, Investigate, Irrigation, Land-atmosphere, Land-atmospheric, Local, Model, Precipitation, Processes, Region, Students.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating the Influences of Aerosols on Low-level Cloud-precipitation Properties over Land and Ocean using Ground-based Observations and WRF Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Xiquan Dong($395,393), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Yuk L Yung($90,000), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
3. Timothy Logan($85,163), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Aerosol And Cloud, Cloud Microphysical Properties, Similarities And Differences, Aerosol-cloud-precipitation Interactions, Available Water, Indirect Effects, Aerosol-cloud, Aerosol-cloud-precipitation, Aid, Clouds, Conditions, Continent, Distribution, Far-reaching, Investigate, Long-term, Maritime, Modeling, Processes, Regions, SQ, Seasonal, Society.

Quantifying Entrainment and its Effects in Isolated, Sheared Cumuli and Thunderstorms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sonia G Lasher-Trapp($549,738), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Entrainment And Dilution, Vertical Wind Shear, Cloud Updraft, Cumulus Entrainment, Rotating Updraft, Clouds, Decreases, Precipitation, Stage, Storms, Thermal-like.

Radiative Transfer through the Black Carbon-Snow System: Fundamentals and Applications
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kuo-Nan Liou($600,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Land Surface Models, Snow Albedo Reduction, Bc Particles, Black Carbon, Optical Properties, Radiative Transfer, Snow Grains, Approach, Approximation, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Bc-snow, Bc-snow-radiation, Core-shell, Deposition, Micron, Mixing, Parameterization, Shapes, Sizes, Spectral, Uncertainty.

Collaborative Research: Large Hail Accumulations in Thunderstorms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Rebecca Haacker-Santos($43,988), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Katja Friedrich($426,187), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Hail Accumulation, Hail Accumulations, Intellectual Merit, Regional Climate, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Conditions, Deep, Determining, Forecasting, Future, Observations, Program, Property, Severe, Simulations, Storm, Students, Thunderstorms, Weather.

The Spectrum of Gravity Waves Radiating from Tropical Cyclones with Observations, Simulations, and Theoretical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David S Nolan($547,809), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Frequencies And Amplitudes, Radiating Gravity Waves, Numerical Simulations, Observations Hundreds, Radiating Waves, Tc Intensity, Tc Motion, Tropical Cyclones, Vortex Dynamics, Aircraft, Broader, Convection, Differences, Energy, Explore, Eyewall, Field, Instruments, Model, Observable, Output, Pressure, Processes, Properties, Seen, Storm, Surface, Tcs, Vertical, Wind.

The Origin of Rotation in Tornadoes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Johannes Dahl($241,336), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Vorticity Decomposition Technique, Numerical Simulations, Formation, Friction, Idealized, Investigate, Lead, Rotation, Severe, Surface, Tornadoes.

Infrared and Visible-Range Optical Observations of Lightning at LOG (Lightning Observatory at Gainesville) and Associated Modeling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Vladimir A Rakov($827,861), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Lightning Attachment, Lightning Channel, Lightning Hazards, Allow, Camera, Electric, Field, Florida, Has, IR, Object, Optical, Physics, Plasma, Process, Processes, Protection, Temperature, Testing, Time, Typically.

Collaborative Research: Unfolding the Link between Forest Canopy Structure and Flow Morphology: A Physics-based Representation for Numerical Weather Prediction Simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Marc Calaf($228,528), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
2. Raul Cal($343,552), Portland State University, Portland
3. Chad W Higgins($84,604), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Numerical Weather Prediction, Weather Prediction Models, Canopy Heterogeneities, Canopy-atmosphere Interactions, Near-surface Region, Weather Forecasts, Canopies, Canopy-atmosphere, Conditions, Involves, Nsurface, Representation, Students, Underrepresented, Vegetated, Wind.

Collaborative Research: An Integrated Understanding of the Initiation and Subsequent Dynamical and Microphysical Characteristics of Deep Convective Storms during RELAMPAGO
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. James W Wilson($101,504), The Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder
2. James Marquis($694,277), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
3. Matthew R Kumjian($367,691), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
4. Deanna A Hence($636,947), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Generate Severe Weather, Life And Property, West Central Argentina, Cutting Edge, Extreme Thunderstorms, Field Program, Generate Severe, Mobile Doppler, Contribute, Convective, Dec, Environment, Environments, Forecasters, Future, Generation, Ground-based, Hail, Intense, Mechanisms, Nov, Observations, RELAMPAGO, Region, Storms, Tornadoes, World.

Collaborative Research: Parameterization of the Land-Surface Thermal and Moisture Heterogeneities
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Marcus Hultmark($299,999), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Marc Calaf($661,021), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Temperature And Moisture, Field Experiment, Flat Terrain, Surface Temperature, Collected, Differences, LES, Model, Models, Parameterizations, Relatively, Seeks, Simulations, Soil, Spatial, Structure, Tested, Uniform.

Diagnosis of Simulated Deep Convective Upscale Growth Errors and Their Causes
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Adam Varble($498,894), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Adaptive Ground Observations, Carefully Designed Model, Complex Terrain Interactions, Deep Convective Cells, Deep Convective Upscale, Designed Model Simulations, Frequent Upscale Growth, Larger And Longer-lived, Relampago And Cacti, Upscale Growth Biases, Central Argentina, Cold Pools, Field Campaign, Field Campaigns, Life Cycle, Organized Convective, Remote Sensing, Aerosol, Capable, Cloud, Conditions, Development, Electrification, Ensemble, Environmental, Established, Evolution, Focused, Initiation, Kinematic, Lightning, Mesoscale, Mesoscalemicroscale, Microphysical, Microphysics, Models, Observed, Prediction, Probability, Rainfall, Storm, Storms, Thermodynamic, Timing, Weather, World.

Collaborative Research: Kinematic, Microphysical and Electrical Processes Leading to Extreme Lightning Flash Rates over Argentina Using RELAMPAGO Observations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Robert A Marshall($550,643), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Lawrence D Carey($579,822), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Adaptive Ground Observations, Control Storm Electrification, Cu And Uah, Electrification And Lead, Extreme Lightning Flash, Kinematic And Microphysical, Lightning Flash Rates, Andes Mountains, Charge Region, Convective Storms, Environmental Conditions, Field Campaign, Lightning Characteristics, Remote Sensing, Severe Storms, West-central Argentina, Advance, Atmospheric, CUUAH, Development, Differences, Environments, Mesoscalemicroscale, Planned, Processes, RELAMPAGO, Regions, Towards, Weather, West-central.

Dual Polarization Radar Observations, Analysis and Retrievals of Convective Lifecycle during RELAMPAGO
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ve Chandrasekar($399,067), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Dual-polarization Radar Observations, Convective Storms, Dual-polarization Radar, Intense Convective, Radar Techniques, Advanced, Developing, Experiment, Frequency, Has, Intensity, RELAMPAGO, Radars, Region, Retrieval, Severe, Terrain, World.

West Coast Precipitation Processes as Modulated by Storm Structure and Terrain
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Angela K Rowe($619,785), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Campaign, Mid-latitude, Mountain, Mountains, OLYMPEX, Olympic, Precipitation, Processes, Terrain.

Collaborative Research: Radar Observations of Convective Lifecycle near Argentina's Sierras de Cordoba
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kristen L Rasmussen($382,845), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Adaptive Ground Observations, Sierras De Cordoba, Intense Storms, Mountainous Regions, Remote Sensing, Severe Storms, Severe Weather, Upscale Growth, Argentina, Atmospheric, Compare, Convective, Electrification, Environmental, Field, Focused, Initiation, Lifecycle, Lightning, Mesoscalemicroscale, Models, Near, Network, Prediction, Processes, RELAMPAGO, Radar, SDC, Satellites, World.

Lightning and Thunderstorm Studies
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ronald J Thomas($1,129,309), New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro
Key terms: Electric Field, Fast Positive, Gamma Ray, Glm Validation, Lightning Discharges, Lightning Mapping, Aimed, Analysis, Array, Breakdown, Broadband, Current, Flashes, Focus, Has, IC, Initial, Initiation, Interferometer, KSC, LMA, Nbes, Negative, Observations, Obtained, Ongoing, Particular, Processes, Storms, Tgfs, Utilizing.

EAGER: Cloud Microphysics Measurements Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Matthew Van Den Broeke($51,466), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Cloud And Precipitation, Drop Size Distribution, Cloud Properties, Radar Observations, Unmanned Aircraft, Condensation, Development, Instruments, Liquid, Methods, Models, Sensor, Testing, Weather.

Collaborative Research: Basic Studies in Three-dimensional Tropical Cyclone Intensification
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Blake Rutherford($83,115), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
2. Michael T Montgomery($637,724), Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey
Key terms: Lagrangian Coherent Structures, Axial Symmetric, Hurricane Structure, Tropical Storms, Analyses, Computer, Destructive, Dynamics, Eddies, Eddy, Flow, Hurricanes, Intensification, Organization, Processes, Regions, Resolve, Useful, Wind.

CAREER: Wideband, Integrated Instrumentation to Investigate the Electrical Properties of Lightning
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Phillip M Bitzer($705,332), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Evolution And Lightning, Charge Neutralized, Electric Field, Electrical Environment, Lightning Activity, Lightning Leader, Quality Lightning, Return Strokes, Severe Weather, Storm Evolution, Applications, Atmospheric, Attributes, Basic, Current, Development, Direct, Discharge, Enabled, Energetics, Experimental, Indirect, Instrument, Instrumentation, Investigate, Investigations, Leaders, Modeling, Physics, Relating, Rely, STEM, Theoretical, Thunderstorm.

EAGER: Deploying the Colorado State University (CSU) SEA-POL Radar to SPURS-2
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Steven A Rutledge($150,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Field Campaign, Tropical Convection, Cloud, Clouds, Deep, Deployment, Doppler, ITCZ, Microphysical, Ocean, Platform, Polarimetric, Previously, Processes, Radar, SEA-POL, SPURS-, Sea, Ship, Vessel.

Experiments in X-band Phased-Array Weather Radar Polarimetry
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephen J Frasier($650,000), University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst
Key terms: Phased-array Radar, Capabilities, Experiments, Has, LPR, Phased-array, Polarimetric, Polarization, Precipitation, Technology, Weather.

Studies of Light Scattering by Particles of Arbitrary Shape
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Amitabha Chakrabarti($466,670), Kansas State University, Manhattan
Key terms: Atmospheric Particles, Light Scattering, Aerosols, Components, Description, Experimental, Has, Shape, Soot, Theoretical.

Applying Statistical State Dynamics to Explain Spontaneous Shear/Buoyancy Layering in Stratified Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brian F Farrell($506,652), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Coherent Layered Structures, Shear And Buoyancy, Broader Impacts, Buoyancy Fields, Coherent Structures, Direct Solution, Individual Turbulent, Produce Emergent, Ssd Equations, Stratified Turbulence, Allows, Analytic, Applicable, Approach, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Based, Boundary, Components, Constitutes, Cooperative, Directly, Dynamical, Dynamics, Eddy, Equilibria, Exploration, Flow, Flows, Fluxes, Formation, Incoherent, Instabilities, Instability, Interact, Interaction, Layering, Mean, Mechanism, Mechanisms, Methods, Obtained, Phenomena, Phenomenon, Planetary, Realizations, Small-scale, Statistical, Theory, Underlying.

Collaborative Research: Ultra Fine Particle Deposition onto Vegetated Surfaces Situated on Complex Topography: From Leaf to Landscape
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Gabriel G Katul($219,817), Duke University, Durham
2. Marcelo Chamecki($302,750), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Atmosphere, Canopy, Climate, Complex, Does, Effects, Fluxes, Particles, Produce, Topography, UFP, Vegetation.

EAGER: Exploratory Studies of Wildfire Plume Dynamics and Microphysics
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David E Kingsmill($105,481), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Dynamics And Microphysics, Wyoming King Air, Plume Dynamics, Wildfire Plumes, Aircraft, Analysis, Boise, Campaign, Characteristics, Fire, Idaho, NSF, Was, Wildfires.

Tropical Cyclone Operations and Research Forum/Interdepartmental Hurricane Conference; March 14-16, 2017; Miami, Florida
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Hanne Mauriello($20,000), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone, Academic, Brings, Federal, Forecasting, Hurricane, Observing, Season, Warning.

Ice in Clouds Monograph
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Darrel Baumgardner($15,000), Droplet Measurement Technologies, Boulder
Key terms: Formation And Evolution, Ice Crystals, Ice Evolution, Ice Formation, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Current, Future, Monograph, Properties, Weather.

Correlated Random Processes in Physical and Radar Meteorology
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Alexander B Kostinski($560,532), Michigan Technological University, Houghton
Key terms: Radar Meteorology, Radiative Transfer, Supercooled Water, Cloud, Fluctuations, Physics, Precipitation, Radiation, Raindrops, Terminal, Topics.

RAPID: Cold Air Pool Exchange Processes during the Utah Wintertime Fine Particulate Study
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Sebastian Hoch($45,000), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Accumulate And Affect, Cold Air Pools, Particulate Pollutants Accumulate, Salt Lake City, Air Quality, Basin Sidewalls, Persistent Cold-air, Vertical Mixing, Airmass, Basins, Campaign, Chemical, Cold-air, Meteorological, Processes, Utah, Wintertime.

Lightning Initiation and Propagation with an Advanced Computer Model and Code
Award Effective Date: 11/14/2016; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Ningyu Liu($294,869), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Advanced Computer Model, Initiation And Propagation, Model And Code, Stems And Space, Atmospheric Electricity, Broader Impacts, Intellectual Merit, Lightning Initiation, Negative Leader, Negative Leaders, Space Leaders, Space Stems, Streamer Propagation, Streamers Originating, Thundercloud Hydrometeors, Activities, Air, Channels, Current, Developed, Developing, Development, Experiments, Field, Fields, Formation, Front, Has, Investigating, Investigation, Knowledge, Observations, Plasma, Processes, Stepping, Steps, Subject, Transition.

AGS-PRF: Antecedent Remote and Local Synoptic Environments Most Conducive to North American Polar/Subtropical Jet Superpositions
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Andrew C Winters($172,000), Winters Andrew C, Albany
Key terms: Pv Anomaly Interaction, High-impact Weather, Jet Stream, Jet Streams, Jet Superposition, Polar Jet, Subtropical Jet, Atmospheric, Does, Forecast, High-impact, Interactions, Main, North, Plans, Public, Tropical.

AGS-PRF: Changing Sources of Sea-salt Aerosol in Polar Regions: Climate Change Feedbacks and Implications for Atmospheric Oxidative Capacity in a Future, Warmer World
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Hannah M Horowitz($172,000), Horowitz Hannah M, Somerville
Key terms: Sea Salt Aerosols, Atmospheric Chemistry, Climate Assessments, Future Climate, Polar Regions, Sea Ice, Alter, Complex, Coupled, Degree, Examine, Feedbacks, IPCC, Model, Models, Processes.

AGS-PRF: Experimentally Determined Volatility of Secondary Organic Aerosol Formed Through Aqueous Oxidation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Sarah S Petters($172,000), Petters Sarah S, Raleigh
Key terms: Aqueous Soa, Climate Models, Organic Gases, Aerosol, Aqsoa, Assessments, Effect, Elucidate, Laboratory, Oxidation, Particles, Processes, Produce, Produced, Properties, Quantify, Volatility.

AGS-PRF: Inferring Predictability and Dynamics of Atlantic Multidecadal Climate Variability from Marine and Terrestrial Paleoclimate Records
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Daniel E Amrhein($172,000), Amrhein Daniel E, Cambridge
Key terms: Far-reaching And Overarching, Marine And Terrestrial, North Atlantic Multidecadal, Sea Surface Temperatures, Amv Dynamics, Coupled Atmosphere-ocean, Modern Climate, Time Scales, Analyses, Anthropogenic, Atmosphere-ocean, Derived, Dynamical, Guided, Lims, Mechanisms, Models, Paleoclimate, Predictability, Proxy, Proxy-derived, Ssts, Strategy.

AGS-PRF: Atmospheric Blocking Variability Associated with the Madden-Julian Oscillation in Present and Future Climates
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Stephanie A Henderson($172,000), Henderson, Stephanie A, Fort Collins
Key terms: Blocking Flows, Westerly Jet, MJO, Tropical.

AGS-PRF: Reconciling Atmospheric Temperature Observations and Understanding Climate Feedbacks
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Stephen Po-Chedley($86,000), Po-Chedley Stephen, Seattle
Key terms: Climate Feedbacks, Climate Models, Challenging, Global, Mean, Observation, Observations, Orbital, Satellite, Satellites, Sensors, Uncertainties.

Workshop: Roadmap for Reliable Ensemble Forecasting of the Sun-Earth System; NJIT, March, 2018
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Dale E Gary($49,976), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Reliable Ensemble Forecasting, Activities, Advancing, Aiming, Analysis, Approaches, Challenges, Computer, Directly, Knowledge, Modeling, Roadmap, Solar, Sun-earth, Transdisciplinary, Workshop.

Third Workshop on New Opportunities in the AMS Era: Solar Energetic Particles, Solar Modulation, and Space Radiation; Washington, District of Columbia; June 25-28, 2018
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Alexis Popkow($13,416), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Solar Energetic Particles, Space Radiation, Workshop.

SHINE: Exploring Time-Dependent Ionization in Magnetic Reconnection During Solar Eruptions
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Chengcai Shen($359,537), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Ionization Equilibrium, Magnetic Reconnection, Mhd Simulations, Space Weather, Capability, Eruption, Evolution, Governs, Has, History, Models, Plasma, Process, Solar, Thermodynamic.

SHINE: Physics of the Interplanetary Electric Potential and Modifications to Exosphere Models of the Solar Wind
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stephen P Gary($360,000), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Protons And Heavy, Double Layers, Exosphere Models, Heavy Ions, Shine Investigation, Solar Wind, Stellar Winds, Exobase, Function, Improvements, Interplanetary, Issues, Multiple, Physics, Plasma, Potential, Properties.

Long-Term Solar Variability Studies with a Unique Solar Synoptic Archive
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. David F Webb($411,124), Boston College, Chestnut Hill
Key terms: Kodaikonal Solar Observatory, Solar Magnetic Features, Mcintosh Maps, Solar Cycle, Synoptic Charts, Archive, Archiving, Cycles, Digitized, Information, Noaas.

SHINE: A Vlasov-Maxwell Study of Solar Wind Turbulence Heating and Distribution Function Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 08/19/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Jason M TenBarge($212,003), Princeton University, Princeton
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.

Collaborative Research: SHINE--Magnetic Energy Release During Solar Eruptions - From Large to Small Scales
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bin Chen($110,880), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
2. Chengcai Shen($215,114), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Current Sheet Region, Small-scale Energy Release, 3-d Simulation, Small-scale Energy, Solar Eruptions, Space Weather, Compared, Detailed, Evolution, Flare, Knowledge, Large-scale, Modeling, Outflows, Outputs, Processes, Program, Reconnection, SHINE, Structure, Students, Variety.

Why Do Active Regions Erupt? Modeling of Active Region from Pre-Eruptive to Eruptive Processes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Shi T Wu($385,866), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Mhd-dare Model, Numerical Simulations, Solar Corona, Solar Eruption, Solar Eruptions, Space Weather, AR, Aimed, Configuration, Data-driven, Development, Electric, Energy, Evolution, Fields, Flux, Has, Ii, MHD-DARE, Mechanisms, Photospheric, Plasma, Sun, Topology, Triggering, Underlying.

Improving MAGagnetogram (MAG4) Forecasting of Severe Space Weather Drivers by Measuring Magnetic Nonpotentiality of Active Regions Using HMI/SDO Vector Magnetograms
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Sanjiv K Tiwari($349,199), Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Moffett Field
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.

CAREER: Probing Energy Release in Solar Explosive Events with New Generation Radio Telescopes
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bin Chen($717,365), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Education And Hands-on, Solar And Space, Collage Program, Hands-on Training, Solar Physics, Solar Radio, Space Weather, Array, Developing, Development, Dynamic, Enabled, Energy, Explosive, Field, Gained, Hale, Knowledge, Levels, Methods, Observations, Processes, SRL, Students, Teaching, Technique, Topics.

A Helioseismic Study of Active Region Flows and their Contribution to Global Dynamics
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Douglas C Braun($367,028), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Meridional And Zonal, Numerical Mhd Simulations, Active Regions, Inverse Modeling, Magnetic Fields, Near-surface Flows, Solar Dynamo, Subsurface Flows, Zonal Flow, Achieved, Active-region, Allow, Circulation, Contribution, Dependence, Depth, Expected, Global, Helioseismic, Improvements, Knowledge, Main, Methods, Models, Nsurface, Objective, Physics, Predictions, Program, Properties, Structures, Sun, Suns, Survey, Time, Validate, Waves.

SHINE: Instabilities Driven by Anisotropic Ion and Electron Beams in the Solar Wind: Analytical Theory, Numerical Simulations, and In-Situ Observations
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2015; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Kai Germaschewski($357,000), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Ions And Electrons, Anisotropic Ion, Distribution Functions, Electron Beams, Instabilities Driven, Nonlinear Evolution, Solar Wind, Analytical, Investigate, Multidisciplinary, Numerical, Observations, Plasma, Program, SHINE, Students, Theory, Thresholds.

RAPID: ANDESITE Cubesat
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Brian M Walsh($124,478), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Space Weather Monitoring, ANDESITE, Constellation, Constellations, Critical, Cubesat, Demonstrate, Fly, Ionosphere, Launch, Mission, Orbit, Separations, Spacecraft.

Space Weather Workshop; Broomfield, Colorado; May 1-5, 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Hanne Mauriello($24,999), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Space Weather Workshop, Steering Committee, Based, Currents, Industries, Industry, Power, Representatives, Satellite, Sessions.

SuperDARN in Ireland: A Mid-Latitude Geospace Facility to Study Electrodynamic Coupling in the European and Scandinavian Sectors
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Simon G Shepherd($443,097), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Electric Field, Superdarn Radars, Calibration, Environment, Field-of-view, Geomagnetic, Hours, Increase, Installation, Interferometer, Ionospheric, Ireland, LT, Mid-latitudes, North, Progress, Range, Real-time, Region, SAPS, Space, Testing.

Applied Space Environments Conference 2017; Huntsville, Alabama; May 15-19, 2017
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Linda Neergaard Parker($20,071), Universities Space Research Association, Washington
Key terms: Space Weather, Environments.

RAPID: Novel Experimental Quantification of Energetic Electron Properties During Ionospheric Modification
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Lara S Waldrop($25,861), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Nm Emission Line, Unprecedented Empirical Constraints, Arecibo Observatory, Electron Acceleration, Energetic Electron, Ionospheric Modification, Plasma Physics, Thermospheric Oxygen, Advancing, Calibrated, Calibration, Effort, Energy, Experimental, Facility, HF, Heating, ISR, Intended, Investigations, Means, Optical, Passive, Past, RAPID.

CEDAR: The Role of Neutral Winds in the Day-to-day Variability of the Ionospheric Mid-Latitude Evening Anomalies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Ludger Scherliess($162,395), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Weddell Sea, Assimilation, Atmosphere, Coupled, Ionospheric, Modeling, Regions, Thermospheric, WSA, Winds.

Fundamental Coupling Processes in the Mesosphere, Lower Thermosphere (MLT) Using Enhanced Na Wind-temperature Lidar Measurements at the Atmospheric Lidar Observatory
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Vincent B Wickwar($176,065), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Energy And Momentum, Lower Thermosphere, Rayleigh Lidar, Dynamics, GW, Interactions, Logan, MLT, Neutral, Profile, Range, Region, Sodium, Temperature, Transports, Vertical, Wave, Waves, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Turbulence and Wave Dynamics from the Mesosphere to the Lower Thermosphere above the Andes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Gary R Swenson($147,265), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Alan Liu($49,962), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Gravity Waves, Ion-neutral Coupling, Lower Thermosphere, ALO, Altitude, Atmosphere, Dynamics, Heat, Ion-neutral, Lidar, MLT, Na, Planetary, Processes, Temperature, Turbulence, Vertical, Wind.

Collaborative Research: Coordinated Resonance and Rayleigh Lidar Studies of the Arctic Atmosphere and Geospace Environment
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Richard L Collins($200,000), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
2. Bifford P Williams($100,000), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Energy And Momentum, Mesosphere And Lower, Ion-neutral Coupling, Lower Thermosphere, Pfrr Lidar, Poker Flat, Benefit, Capabilities, Correlative, Dynamics, Facility, GW, Instrument, Ion-neutral, Layer, MLT, Na, Pending, Region, Resonance, Sodium, Temperature, Transports, Wave, Wind.

Solar Eclipse Observations with a Dense Network of Single-frequency Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Receivers
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Joshua Semeter($83,851), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Frequency Receivers, Signal Scintillation, Single Frequency, August, Drifts, Eclipse, Effects, Estimation, GNSS, Ionospheric, Monitoring, Network, Opportunity, Phd, Single-frequency, Solar, TEC, Total, Tracking.

Coordination and Student Travel for the 2017 National Radio Frequency (RF) Ionospheric Effects Workshop; Denver, Colorado; May 14-17, 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. William A Bristow($15,660), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms:

Advanced Modular Incoherent Scatter Radar (AMISR) Operations and Maintenance: Looking Forward to a More Active Sun -- BOA (Basic Ordering Agreement)
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2012; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Roger H Varney($0), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Earth's Upper Atmosphere, Earth's Upper, Incoherent Scatter, Phased Array, Student Advisors, AMISR, Access, Assisting, Distributed, Facilities, Facility, Ionosphere, Isrs, Operate, Operations, Processed, Radars, Range, Steering, Students, Training, User.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2017

Studies of Atmospheric Processes Using Imaging Science Techniques Award Effective Date: 12/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

MRI: Development of Monitors for Alaskan and Canadian Auroral Weather in Space (MACAWS) Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: The Thermosphere-Ionosphere Coupling Using the Low-latitude Ionospheric Sensor Network (LISN) Distributed Observatory Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Characterization of Ionospheric-Thermospheric Long-lasting SED (Storm Enhanced Density) Dynamics Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Critical Evaluation of the Hydroxyl Radical (OH) Meinel Band Einstein A Coefficients Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Long Wavelength Array (LWA) Observations of Meteor Trail Radio Emission: A Laboratory for Terrestrial Plasma Physics Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Comparative Investigation of Kilometer-scale Auroral E and F Region Irregularities with a Global Positioning System (GPS) Scintillation Array Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Expanded Correlative Dynamics and Meteor Studies Using the Southern Argentina Agile MEteor Radar Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Probing the Upper E-region and Lower F-region Neutral Winds Using Ionospheric Heating Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: Exploiting the Low/Medium Frequency (LF/MF) Radio Band for Ionospheric Remote Sensing Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Simulations and Theory of Streamer Discharges in Transient Luminous Events Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Synergistic Merging of Traditional Aeronomy with Targeted High-Frequency (HF) Heating Diagnostics Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Laboratory Measurements of O and N2 Ultraviolet (UV) Cross Sections by Particle Impact for Remote Sensing of Thermosphere O/N2 Variation Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Atmospheric Coupling via Energetic Electron Precipitation (EEP) Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Assimilative Analysis of Low- and Mid-latitude Ionospheric Electrodynamics Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: AERONOMY

The United Nations/United States International Space Weather Initiative Workshop; Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts; July 31 - August 4, 2017 Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Relative Contribution of Extreme Ultraviolet (EUV) Radiation, Lower Atmosphere Waves, and Geomagnetic Activity on Thermosphere-ionosphere Spatial Structure and Temporal Variability Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Winds Over Africa - Investigation of Thermospheric Dynamics via Multi-site, Multi-instrument Observations Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Mesospheric Investigation of Gravity Wave and Mountain Wave Activities and Impacts in the Lee Side of the Southern Andes Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Polar Summer Mesospheric Dynamics from Cloud Tracking with AIM CIPS (Aeronomy of Ice Cloud Imaging and Particle Size) Imagery Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: High Speed Spectroscopic Studies of lightning bolts: Starters, Jets, and Gigantic Jets Award Effective Date: 05/12/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: RAPID: Exocube 2 - A Cubesat to Measure In-situ the Global Distribution of Light Species Densities in the Exosphere Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: The Impact of Lower Atmosphere Waves on Ionospheric Irregularities Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: AERONOMY

Establishing Links between Atmospheric Dynamics and Non-Gaussian Distributions and Quantifying Their Effects on Numerical Weather Prediction Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Understanding and Modeling the Role of Horizontal Heterogeneity on the Dynamics of the Nocturnal Boundary Layer Across Scales Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Identifying the Origins of Summertime Arctic Cloud Condensation Nuclei Using Online Fine Aerosol Composition Measurements Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

RAPID: Northern California Wildfire Emissions and their Atmospheric Chemical Transformations in a Highly Populated Urban Region Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Wildfire Impacts on Air Quality and Nighttime Brown Carbon Formation Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Ozone Loss Over the United States in Summer: Advancing Innovative Climate-Chemistry Research via In Situ Observations of ClO and BrO on Solar Powered Stratospheric Aircraft Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Interfacial Fenton Chemistry on Aqueous Organic Aerosols Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Workshop on Long-Term Measurements of Biosphere-Atmosphere Chemical Interactions; Irvine, California; Two Days in October or November of 2017 Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: ICARUS - Index of Chamber Atmospheric Research in the United States Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Smoke Forecasting Support for the Western Wildfire Experiment for Cloud Chemistry, Aerosol absorption and Nitrogen (WE-CAN) Field Intensive Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Snowpack Chlorine Chemistry in Wintertime Urban Boundary Layer Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Effects of Aerosol Phase, Morphology, and Mixing State on Droplet Formation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Supporting Cloud Water Collection at Whiteface Mountain Research Observatory, Pilot Study to Assess Chemical Processing of Organics within Clouds Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Effects of Ammonia on the Chemical and Physical Properties of Atmospheric Secondary Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Impact of Aerosol Viscosity, Phase Separation, and Internal Structure on Isoprene-Derived SOA (Secondary Organic Aerosol) Formation Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Testing the Solar Occultation Flux Instrument on the Wyoming King Air Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

A Laboratory Study to Investigate Inorganic and Organic Sulfate Formation in Multiphase Processes Involving Mineral Dust and Other Metal-Containing Aerosols Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Refining and Testing Methods for Identifying and Quantifying Gaseous Oxidized Mercury in Air Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Interplay of Particle Phase State and Thermodynamic Mixing in Secondary Organic Aerosol Formation and Partitioning Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Atmospheric Mixed Phase Chemistry for Improved Climate Predictions: Field Measurements and Modeling of the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: New Measurements to Understand Coastal Ozone Production During the 2017 Lake Michigan Ozone Study Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2017 Interdisciplinary Biomass Burning Initiative (IBBI) Workshop; Boulder, Colorado; July 10-12, 2017 Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Volatile Product Formation and Atmospheric Lifetimes of Biogenic Organic Aerosols Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

2017 Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Addressing the Complexity of Our Atmosphere Through Integration Across Scales; Newry, Maine; July 30 - August 3, 2017 Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Heterogeneous Chlorine Activation from Saline Playas Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Phenol Reactions in Aqueous Particles as a Source of Secondary Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Improving our Understanding of Chinese Haze Events by Quantifying the Formation Mechanisms of Sulfate and Nitrate Aerosol in Beijing Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Air-Quality Effects of Atmospheric Chlorine Chemistry Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Improving Our Understanding of Nitrous Oxide Emissions to the Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative research: Linking gas phase precursors with aerosol size, number and composition in new particle formation Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

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

Tropical-Extratropical Interactions in a Hierarchy of Model Complexity Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: CR, Earth System Models

RAPID: Testing Storm Track Sensitivity to Resolution and Climate Change Using UPSCALE Global Model Output Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: CR, Earth System Models

2017 Graduate Climate Conference; Woods Hole, Massachusetts; November 10-12, 2017 Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Travel Support for Early Career Scientists for the Chapman Conference on Non- Volcanic Stratospheric Aerosol; Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; March 18-23, 2018 Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

A Modeling Study of Easterly Waves and Their Intraseasonal Variability in the East Pacific Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

NSFGEO-NERC: Equatorial Line Observations (ELO) Field Campaign during the International Years of Maritime Continent Program: Oceanography and Atmospheric Perspective Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

CAREER: Monsoon and the Upper Troposphere Lower Stratosphere Award Effective Date: 09/02/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Assessing the Impacts of Arctic Amplification on the Midlatitude Circulation with a Hierarchy of Atmospheric General Circulation Models Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Role of Cloud Albedo and Land-Atmosphere Interactions on Continental Tropical Climates Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Mechanisms of Mediterranean Region Hydroclimate Variability and Change Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Impact of Anthropogenic Air Pollution on Ice Clouds and Regional Radiative Forcing Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Convection and Rainfall Enhancement over Mountainous Tropical Islands Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Observed and Future Dynamically Downscaled Estimates of Precipitation Associated with Mesoscale Convective Systems Award Effective Date: 08/25/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Improving Constraints on Tropical Climate Feedbacks with Inverse Modeling of the Stable Isotopic Composition of Atmospheric Water Vapor Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Origins of Hazardous Convective Weather Environments through Reduced-complexity Climate Modeling Experiments Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Structure and Influence of Coherent Vertical Pulses of Wave Activity Flux in Observations and Models, from Daily to Seasonal Timescales Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Cirrus Cloud Formation and Microphysical Properties from In-situ Observed Characteristics to Global Climate Impacts Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Seasonality of East African Rainfall Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Analyses of Large-scale Climate Variability: Understanding Periodicity in the Extratropical Storm Tracks Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

OTREC: Organization of Tropical East Pacific Convection Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms Governing Synoptic-scale, Rapid Cloud Dissipation in Subtropical Marine Low Clouds Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Evaluating the Roles of the Ocean, the Atmosphere, and External Forcing in Atlantic Multi-Decadal Variability Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

CAREER: The Influence of Desert Heat Lows on Monsoon Precipitation Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Spatiotemporal Inhomogeneity of Tropical Waves and Their Interactions Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Zonal Asymmetries in the Low-Latitude Hydrological Cycle over a Broad Range of Climates Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics