CEDAR: Characterization of Upper Atmospheric Effects of Hurricanes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Erdal Yigit($425,403), George Mason University, Fairfax
Key terms: Graduate Student, Gravity Wave, Gravity Waves, Satellite Observations, Upper Atmosphere, Activities, Activity, Atmospheric, Characterize, GW, Hurricane, Hurricane-induced, Hurricanes, Lower, Observational, Temperature, Thermosphere, Winds.

CEDAR: Modeling of Initial Temperature Relaxation and Expansion of Meteor Trails
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

1. Victor Pasko($389,521), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Meteor Trails, Temperature Relaxation, Transient Luminous, Atmosphere, Diffusion, Earth’s, Electron, Has, Involved, Knowledge, Modeling, Particles, Plasma, Processes, Program, Rates, Temperatures, Thousands, Upper.

CEDAR: Evaluating Ion Temperature Anisotropy in the Weakly Collisional F-region Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Lindsay V Goodwin($399,262), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Incoherent Scatter Radars, Ion Velocity Distributions, Collision Cross-section, Collision Frequency, Ion Temperature, Ion Temperatures, Ion-neutral Collision, Accurate, Altitudes, Collisions, Cross-section, Development, F-region, Ion-neutral, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Ions, Maxwellian, Neutrals, O-O, Parameter, RCE, Seeks, Strong, Upper.

CEDAR: Observational and Modeling Studies of Thermosphere-Ionosphere Metal (TIMt) Layers over Boulder
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Chihoko Cullens($600,124), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Regional Timt Model, Electric Fields, Field Trips, Ion Transport, Lidar Observations, Meteor Ablation, Neutral Winds, Northern Midlatitudes, Pre-dawn Tina, Regular Occurrence, Tidal Winds, Timt Layers, Tina Layers, Youtube Videos, Activities, Antarctica, Atoms, Boulder, CTMT, Chemistry, Formation, ICON, Input, Ions, Metal, Modeling, Models, Nearly, Outreach, Pre-dawn, Provided, Thermospheric, Undergraduate, Various, Via.

The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) Workshop; Cleveland, Ohio; March 22-23, 2024
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Nathaniel A Frissell($49,998), University of Scranton, Scranton
Key terms: Amateur Radio, Ham Radio, Hamsci Workshop, Solar Eclipse, Space Weather, Aims, Citizen, Fields, Ionospheric, Meeting, Physics, Presentations, Upcoming, Youtube.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Higher-Order Concentric Gravity Waves in the Northern Winter Thermosphere and Ionosphere
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Sebastijan Mrak($188,835), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Erich J Becker($719,982), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
3. Sebastijan Mrak($188,835), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Conus And Europe, Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances, 100-200 Miles, Concentric Tids, Earth’s Surface, Gravity Wave, Mountain Waves, Orographic Forcing, Space Weather, Winter Conus, Breaking, Characteristics, Coupling, Creates, Detailed, Earth’s, GPS, GPSTEC, GW, Gws, HIAMCM, Higher-order, Large-scale, Model, Observed, Processes, Quiettime, SQ, Sources, Thermosphere, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Swarm over Poker 2023--An Auroral System-Science Campaign Exemplar of Archiving and Aharing Heterogeneously-Derived Data Products
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Kristina A Lynch($433,534), Dartmouth College, Hanover
2. Leslie J Lamarche($430,427), SRI International, Menlo Park
3. Donald L Hampton($315,225), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Coupling Auroral Studies, Cross-region Coupling Auroral, Cross-scale Cross-region Coupling, Regional Auroral Environment, Cross-region Coupling, Cross-scale Cross-region, Poker Flat, Activity, Alaska, Arc-scale, Campaign, Cedar-science, Create, Current, Derived, Distributed, Enable, Flow, Heterogeneous, Infrastructure, Ionospheric, Multipoint, PFRR, Powerful, Products, Set, Sharing, Situ, Students, Swarm, Swarm-over-poker, System-science, Tools.

Travel Grant: Inaugural Data, Analysis and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) Conference; Laurel, Maryland; October 11-13, 2023
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Julie Barnum($50,000), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Dash Conference, Discuss Challenges, Increase Attendance, Analysis, Attendees, Attending, Held, Heliophysics, IHDEA, Meeting, Software, Travel.

Collaborative Research: Laboratory and Modeling Studies to Resolve a Grand Challenge for Upper Atmospheric Science
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Alexander Kutepov($398,012), Catholic University of America, Washington
2. Konstantinos Kalogerakis($559,349), SRI International, Menlo Park
Key terms: Co2 15-um Emission, 15-um Emission, Atmospheric Modeling, Co2 15-um, Co2 Collisions, Laser-based Laboratory, Planetary Atmospheres, Advance, Analysis, Atoms, Balance, Chemical, Collaborative, Dependence, Energy, Excitation, Ground-, Interaction, Knowledge, Laser-based, MLT, Observation, Observations, Process, Processes, Radiative, Relaxation, Space, Space-based, Temperature, Thermal, Vibrational.

CEDAR: Data-driven Modeling of the Global Equatorial Electrojet Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Tomoko Matsuo($407,336), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Data-driven Modeling Approach, Data-driven Modeling, Magnetic Fields, Neutral Winds, Plasma Drifts, Currents, Day-to-day, EEJ, Earth, Electrojet, Ensemble, Equatorial, Ground-based, ICON, Ionospheric, LEO, Longitudinal, Low-, Mid-latitude, Observational, Observed, Phenomena, Space, Variational, •.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--A Whole-Atmospheric Perspective on Connections between Intra-Seasonal Variations in the Troposphere and Thermosphere
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Astrid Maute($19,998), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Tropical Troposphere, Tropospheric Convection, Caused, Coupling, Demonstrated, Interactions, Intra-seasonal, MJO, Oscillation, Propagating, Thermosphere, Thermospheric, Was, Wave, Waves, Winds.

Collaborative Research: A Simulation and Theoretical Analysis of Meteor Evolution over Scales Ranging from Sub-microseconds to Minutes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Sigrid Elschot($327,000), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Meers Oppenheim($387,032), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Meteor Plasma, Meteor Plasmas, Upper Atmosphere, Ablation, Accurate, Apply, Atmospheric, Dynamics, Evolution, Knowledge, Meteoroid, Meteoroids, Models, Observations, Particles, Physics, Radar, Radio, Scattering, Waves.

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Searching for the Strongest Thermospheric Wind and Highest Temperature inside Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancements
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ying Zou($301,569), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Shapes And Colors, Substorm Negative Phase, Earth’s Atmosphere, Ion Drift, Real Time, Sky Camera, Space Weather, Sub-auroral Region, Thermospheric Wind, Typical Auroras, Wind Observations, Athabasca, Conditions, Earth’s, Effect, Effects, Emission, FPI, Future, Heat, Images, Interaction, Interactions, Ionosphere, Ionospheric, Latitude, Latitudes, Monitor, Narrow, Neutral, Observed, Particles, Public, STEM, STEVE, Solar, Strong, Sub-auroral, Swarm, Temperature, Tracked, Winds.

Characterizing Mesoscale Thermospheric F-region Winds Associated with Quasi-steady and Transient Nightside Auroral Arcs
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ying Zou($138,036), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: Auroral, Efforts, Mesoscale, Transport, Wind, Winds.

Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Sprite Streamers
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Ningyu Liu($478,358), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: High-performance Plasma Discharge, Plasma Discharge Fluid, Sprite Streamer Dynamics, High-performance Plasma, High-speed Images, Neutral Density, Recently Developed, Sprite Dynamics, Streamer Heads, Upper Atmosphere, Advance, Ambient, Code, Collisions, Dependence, Development, Discharges, Effects, Electrical, Environment, Has, High-speed, Investigate, Ionosphere, Knowledge, Lightning, Physics, Powerful, Processes, Simulation, Sprites, Streamers, Tles, Was.

Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Workshop, 2023-2024
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

1. Liying Qian($764,423), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Student Poster Competition, Annual Workshop, Cedar Website, Cedar Workshop, Plenary Session, Plenary Sessions, Student Day, Attend, Available, Based, CSSC, Channel, DEI, Discussion, Distinguished, Diversity, Educational, Equity, Fostering, Health, Inclusion, Individual, Lecture, Lectures, Organized, Presentations, Prize, Profession, Progress, Recordings, Students, Tutorials.

CAREER: Atmospheric Electricity on Earth and Mars
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2022; Program: AERONOMY

1. Jeremy A Riousset($375,841), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Spherical Electrode, Summer Camp, Academic, Assess, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Charges, Create, Cylindrical, Discharges, Dust, Electric, Electrical, Electricity, Electrification, Extraterrestrial, Hot, Initiation, Instruments, Lightning, Lightnings, Mars, Martian, Non-conventional, Objects, Observed, Occurring, Particular, Physics, Surface, Talks, Tribocharging.

RAPID: Characterizing and Understanding Smoke Transport in 2023 Hawaii Wildfire Event Using Geostationary Satellite Observations and Numerical Modeling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Yun Lin($150,000), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Plume Vertical Distributions, Smoke Transport Simulations, Wildfire Plume Vertical, Geostationary Satellite, Maui Wildfires, Model Simulations, Smoke Movement, Wildfire Smoke, Advance, Analysis, Characterize, Climate, Modeling, Observations, Temporal.

RAPID: Drivers and Improving Forecasts of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Wildfire Potential in Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Giuseppe Torri($168,845), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Emergency, Fire, Forecasts, Hawaii, Long-term, Multiple, Natural, Planning, SS, Weather, Wildfire, Wildfires.

RAPID: Meteorology and Predictability of the August 2023 Maui Wildfires
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2023; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Clifford F Mass($159,998), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Climatological Conditions, Maui Wildfires, Weather Features, Controlling, Decision-making, Decisions, Examine, Insights, Meteorological, Meteorology, Models, Population, Predictability, Required, Warning.

Collaborative Research: EUREC4A-iso--Constraining the Interplay between Clouds, Convection, and Circulation with Stable Isotopologues of Water Vapor
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2019; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

1. Simon P de Szoeke($453,602), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Moistening And Drying, Represent Low Clouds, Cloud Cover, Cloud Sensitivity, Fine-scale Models, Heavier Isotopes, Heavy Isotopes, Humidity Level, Tropical Oceans, Water Molecules, Air, Atoms, Barbados, Campaign, Climate, Concentrations, EURECA, Estimates, Field, Fine-scale, Gcms, HO, Has, Isotopic, Mixing, Observations, Oxygen-, Processes, Simulations, Sunlight, Surface, Th, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Aerosol Properties and Autoconversion during Cold-Air outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region (CAESAR)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Markus D Petters($278,596), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Jefferson R Snider($90,754), University of Wyoming, Laramie
3. Markus D Petters($186,954), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Cloud Condensation Nuclei, Arctic Climate, Boundary Layer, Cold-air Outbreak, Aerosol, CAESAR, CCN, Clouds, Cold-air, Contribute, Deployment, Effort, Funding, Ice, Modeling, Observational, Ocean, Particle, Program, Projections, Warm.

CAESAR: Characterizing and Understanding Atmospheric Boundary Layer Fluxes, Structure and Cloud Property Evolution in Arctic Cold Air Outbreaks
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Zhien Wang($599,999), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Arctic Climate, Boundary Layer, Cloud Properties, Cold-air Outbreak, Cold-air Outbreaks, ADL, Airborne, Atmospheric, CAESAR, Caos, Clouds, Cold-air, Evolution, Field, Fluxes, Funding, Lidar, MBL, Marli, Observational, Observations, Ocean, Program, Projections, Structure, Structures, Students, Top, Vertical, Warm.

Cloud-Aerosol-Dynamic Interactions in Cold Air Outbreaks over the Arctic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Greg McFarquhar($461,287), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Arctic Climate, Cloud Properties, Cold-air Outbreak, Primary Ice, Secondary Ice, Turbulent Mixing, Aerosol, CAESAR, Clouds, Cold-air, Convective, Correlated, DC, DS, Effort, Fetch, Funding, HVPS, INP, Observational, Ocean, Outbreaks, Program, Projections, SLW, Students, Warm.

Mesoscale Dynamics and Mixed-phase Microphysics in Arctic Cold Air Outbreaks
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Bart Geerts($545,521), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Cloud And Precipitation, Arctic Climate, Cold-air Outbreak, Cold-air Outbreaks, Water Content, Atmospheric, CAESAR, Clouds, Cold-air, Dataset, Developing, Doppler, Effort, Elucidate, Funding, Ice, KPR, Observational, Ocean, Primary, Processes, Program, Projections, Radar, Velocity, Vertical, WCR, Warm.

Aerosol Influences on Ice Formation in Arctic Cold Air Outbreak Clouds during Cold-Air outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region (CAESAR)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Russell J Perkins($446,961), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Arctic Climate, Cold-air Outbreak, CAESAR, CSU, Cloud, Clouds, Cold-air, Collected, Concentrations, Early-career, Effort, Funding, INP, Ice, Observational, Ocean, Primary, Program, Projections, Warm.

Arctic Cold-Air Outbreak Mixed-Phase Cloud Characteristics, Processes and Impacts in Observations and Models
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Paquita Zuidema($520,064), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Arctic Climate, Caesar Campaign, Cold-air Outbreak, Broader, Cloud, Clouds, Cold-air, Effort, Funding, Ice, Liquid, Observational, Observations, Ocean, Partitioning, Precipitation, Primary, Program, Projections, Warm.

Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Role of Natural Aerosols in Modulating Boundary Layer Clouds and Precipitation in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Jessie M Creamean($488,002), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Anna Gannet Hallar($569,631), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Aerosol And Cloud, Southern Ocean, Aerosols, Antarctica, Australian, Climate, Clouds, Derived, Documentation, Ice, Inps, Latitudinal, Nd, Observational, Particles, Precipitation, Properties, Region, Sources.

Molecular-level Understanding Of Atmospheric Aerosols (MUOAA 2024); Corsica, France; April 1-5, 2024
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Sergey Nizkorodov($14,224), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Aerosol, Aerosols, Archived, Conference, Meeting, Particles, Properties, Website.

Non-tailpipe Emissions: The Next Frontier in Vehicle Contributions to Air Quality and Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Barbara J Finlayson-Pitts($1,998,834), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Air Pollutant Burden, Brake And Tire-wear, Brakes And Tires, Chemical Ionization Mass, Ionization Mass Spectrometry, Field Studies, Non-exhaust Emissions, Particle Emissions, Particle Sizer, Brake-, Collaboration, Contribution, Driving, Gas, Local, Measure, Measured, Non-exhaust, Organization, Quantify, Tracers.

Toward Improved Understanding of Fundamental Processes Controlling the Size-Resolved Properties of Particles in the Stratosphere
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Fangqun Yu($599,298), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Particle Formation, Stratospheric Aerosol, Captured, Control, Existing, Gaps, Lead, Model, Models, Observed, Processes, Stratosphere, Via, Volcanic.

Origin and Influence of Background Ozone in the Western United States (U.S.) from Observations at the Mount Bachelor Observatory
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Lynne E Gratz($663,919), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Bachelor Observatory, Smoke Plumes, Atmospheric, Background, Carbon, Continued, Downwind, MBO, Methods, Mt, Ozone, Reed, Satellite, Station, Statisticalmachine, Surface, Undergraduate.

Field Measurements for Understanding Atmospheric Oxidation Generated by Electrical Discharges
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William H Brune($651,324), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Hydrogen Oxide Radicals, Atmospheric Oxidation, Electrical Discharges, Nm Band, Uv Radiation, Anvils, Camera, Corona, Emissions, Field, Gases, Hox, Solar-blind, Temperature, Thunderstorms.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Dual-Reagent Chemical Ion Mass Spectrometer for Direct and Detailed Measurements of Atmospheric Chemical Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jannell V Bazurto($1,161,665), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Air Quality, Broad Range, Plant-microbe Interactions, Volatile Organic, Atmosphere, CI-TOF, Chemical, Compounds, Cycling, Enable, Fluxes, Indoor, Instrument, Ionization, Minnesota, Nitrogen, Plant-microbe, Urban.

Laboratory Studies Investigating the Influence of Particle Diameter on Viscosity
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Markus D Petters($228,070), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Climate And Human, Graduate And Undergraduate, Human Health, Particle Size, School Students, Solid-liquid Phase, Undergraduate Students, Atmospheric, Nanoparticles, Nm, Organic, Particles, Properties, Solid-liquid, Viscosity.

Collaborative Research: Coastal Cloud Chemistry during the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE-CCC)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Markus D Petters($189,884), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
Key terms: Advanced Chemical, Chemical Composition, Cloud Droplets, Oh Burst, Single-particle Mass, Supersaturation Required, Activation, Characterization, Climate, EPCAPE, Effort, Expected, Instrument, Larger, Lower, Particles, Single-particle, Species.

Collaborative Research: Verification of Atmospheric Mercury Redox Rates
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jaron C Hansen($178,063), Brigham Young University, Provo
2. Jessica H Haskell($227,159), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
3. Seth Lyman($584,512), Utah State University, Logan
4. Mae S Gustin($235,435), Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno, Reno
Key terms: Divalent Mercury, Mercury Chemistry, Model-measurement Discrepancies, Atmosphere, Chemical, Compounds, Elemental, FAM, Has, Low, Minimize, Model-measurement, Oxidants, Oxidation, Pertaining, Plans, Previous, Quantitatively, Rates, Reactions, Species.

Seasonal Measurements of Hydrogen Oxide Radical (HOx) Chemistry in Forests
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Philip S Stevens($872,179), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Radical And Peroxy, Sources And Sinks, Atmospheric Chemistry, Forest Canopy, Forest Environments, Hydroxyl Radical, Peroxy Radicals, Atmosphere, Below, Control, Emissions, Environmental, Indiana, OH, Students.

Collaborative Research: Chemistry-Informed Ice Nucleation and Growth--Integrated Laboratory and Modeling Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jerry Harrington($884,875), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Nicole Riemer($295,852), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Combine Laboratory Experiments, Ice Nucleating Particles, Local Public Television, Public Television Stations, Crystal Growth, Educational Videos, Ice Growth, Ice Nucleation, Characterization, Chemistry, Development, Droplets, Existing, Gaps, Modeling, Models, Parameterizations, Produced, Weather.

Conference: Conduct a Workshop to Develop a Proposal Addressing African Air Quality
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. William G Vizuete($30,000), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: African Megacities, Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Unique, Workshop.

Toward an Improved Understanding of Particle Dry Deposition Velocity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nicholas Meskhidze($432,369), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Dry Deposition Velocity, Refractory Black Carbon, Air Quality, Filter Deposition, Aerosol, Ambient, Chamber, Fluxes, Models, Parameters, Particles, Process, Size, Techniques, Towards, Uncertainty.

RAPID: Characterizing the Sources and Chemistry of Nitrogen Oxides, Nitrous Acid, and Particulate Nitrate during the AEROMMA Campaign
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jiajue Chai($199,997), SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse
Key terms: Stable Isotopic Composition, Isotopic Signatures, Nitrogen Oxides, Nitrous Acid, Urban Site, Concentration, HONO, Marine, Nox, Pollution, Sources.

CAREER: Advancing Modeling of Wildfire Smoke
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Pablo E Saide($365,188), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Wildfire Smoke Forecasters, Wildfire Smoke Forecasting, Wildfire Smoke Models, Smoke Forecasters, Affected, Developing, Enhance, Knowledge, Observations, Operational, Potential, Routine, Training, Users, Via.

A Global Survey of Helium in the Troposphere: Advancing the Application of Helium as a Tracer of Natural Gas Usage and Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Benjamin Birner($578,671), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Northern And Southern, Atmospheric Transport, Southern Hemispheres, Collected, Developed, Flask, Gas, Gases, Helium, Hen, Noble, Previous, Processes, Scripps, Sources, Technique.

Advancing the Understanding of Wildfire Impacts on Stratospheric Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Susan Solomon($599,872), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Brbrthis Effort, Chemical Impacts, Long-term Decay, Stratospheric Chemistry, Wildfire Aerosols, Wildfire Smoke, Long-term, Modeling, Organic, Stratosphere, Student, Wildfires.

Collaborative Research: Sulfur Oxide Chemistry in Aqueous Aerosols--Mechanisms and Kinetics of Inorganic Sulfate and Organosulfur Compound Formation in the Atmosphere
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Vicki H Grassian($596,127), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
2. V Faye McNeill($365,898), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Ionic Strength Conditions, Aqueous Aerosols, Atmospheric Chemistry, Sulfur Dioxide, Chemical, Formation, Investigation, Models, Multiphase, Outreach, Pathways, Ph, Range, Sulfate, Via.

RAPID: Impact of Sargassum Decomposition on Air Quality in South Florida
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Helena M Solo-Gabriele($209,530), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Sargassum Strandings, Accumulation, Air, Assess, Bioaerosols, Bloom, Coastal, Coastlines, Dimethyl, Emitted, Environmental, Exceptionally, Expected, Field, Laboratory, Local, Plume, Potential, Quantify, Sulfide, Via.

Aqueous Aerosol Chemistry: Elucidating the Mechanisms Causing Mismatch between Field and Laboratory Chemical Composition of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosol
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Allen Goldstein($799,556), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Field Speciated Organic, Laboratory And Field, Speciated Organic Aerosol, Biomass Burning, Atmosphere, Compounds, Emissions, Formation, Mechanisms, Observed, Processes, Resulting, SOA, Secondary, Simulations.

Early-Generation Photochemical Oxidation Products of Isoprene Under Low-NO Conditions:Aerosol Formation Potential and Structural Assignments by Ion Mobility Mass Spectral Analysis
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Zhenfa Zhang($667,687), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Gas-phase Oxidation Products, Secondary Organic Aerosol, Undergraduate And Graduate, Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Gas-phase Oxidation, Graduate Students, Advance, Chemical, Early-generation, Isoprene, Models, Seeks, Subsequently.

Atmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT) Workshop; Atlanta, Georgia; May 25-26, 2023
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Nga Lee Ng($29,557), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Health And Climate, Aerosol Sources, Ascent Network, Chemical Evolution, Human Health, Subsequent Impacts, Academia, Advance, Collaborations, Discussions, Format, Government, Networks, Participants, Workshop.

Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Fundamental Chemistry and Societal Changes; Sunday River, Maine; July 30-August 4, 2023
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Ann Marie G Carlton($30,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Atmospheric Chemistry, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Broad, Chemical, Conference, Exchange, Field, Gordon, Intellectual, Leaders, Models, Properties, Sources, Symposium, Topics.

EAGER: Initial Phase of Development of a Molecular Isomer Resolving Aerosol Collector and Analyzer (MIRACA)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Andrey Y Khlystov($297,176), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Aerosol Collector, Ambient Organic, Time Resolution, ACES, Aerosols, Analysis, Chemical, Developed, EAGER, Instrument, Liquid, MIRACA, Mass, Tested.

Collaborative Research: Understanding Emission Sources and Sinks of Nitrous Acid in North American Forests
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jonathan Raff($892,601), Indiana University, Bloomington
2. Jeffrey Geddes($55,555), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Forested Regions, Nitrogen Oxides, Soil Emissions, Analytical, Atmosphere, Cycling, Field, Fluxes, Forests, HONO, Hox, Interactions, Modeling, Models, Noy, SHONO, SNO, Students, Surfaces, Uptake.

Global Impacts of Phase State on Secondary Organic Aerosol Partitioning
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Jeffrey R Pierce($570,934), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Gas-particle Partitioning, Geos-chem Model, Global Atmosphere, Aerosol, Atmospheric, Effects, Gas-particle, Geos-chem, Kinetic, Phase, Predict, Processes, Public, SOA.

Constraining the Mechanistic Effects of Spatial Resolution on Global Air Quality Modeling
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Randall V Martin($499,732), Washington University, Saint Louis
Key terms: Quantify And Interpret, Air Quality, Atmospheric Chemistry, Chemical Transport, Mechanistic Resolution-dependence, Model Simulations, Resolution Simulations, Spatial Resolution, Arise, Coarse, Errors, Focus, Geos-chem, Models, Resolution-dependence.

CAREER: Constraining Land Carbon Uptake on Regional and Global Scales by Enabling the Interpretation of Two Decades of Trace Gas Measurements
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Mary E Whelan($213,348), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Cos Fluxes, Gas Exchange, School Teacher, Activity, Additionally, Litter, Local, Seeks, Students.

CAREER: Impacts of the Chemical and Physical Properties of Surfactants on the Hygroscopic Growth of Atmospheric Aerosol Particles
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Amanda A Frossard($281,417), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Particle Hygroscopic Growth, Surfactant Molecular Composition, Aerosol Particles, Atmospheric Aerosol, Interfacial Properties, Laboratory Experiments, Particle Size, Air, Chemistry, Course, Effects, Influence, Plan, Structure, Students, Surfactants.

CAREER: Multi-Generational Aging of Atmospheric Organic Mixtures
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2022; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

1. Rachel E O'Brien($263,142), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Cooking Organic Aerosol, Food Cooking Organic, Surface Films, Aging, Air, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Carbon, Investigate, Mixtures, Reactions.

The Role of the Mean-State Atmospheric Circulation in Future Projections of Regional Hydroclimate and Cloud Feedbacks
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

1. Kevin M Grise($466,782), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Circulation Features, Climate Models, Climate Risk, Future Projections, Model Simulations, Present-day Simulations, Atmospheric, Consistent, Instance, Less, Precipitation, Present-day, Produce, Range, Regional, Southwest, Student, Summer, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Links between Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Circulation under Climate Change through Idealized Coupled Climate Modeling
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Gan Zhang($332,982), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
2. Levi G Silvers($677,761), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Cold Tongue, Destructive Power, Greenhouse Warming, Hadley Cell, Tc Behavior, Tc Frequency, Walker Cell, Warm Pool, Aquaplanet, Atlantic, CESM, Configuration, Configurations, Contrast, Cooler, Features, Heat, Model, North-south, Ocean, Oriented, Overturning, Pacific, Ridge, SST, Simulations, Ssts, Strength, Subsidence, Surface, Tcs, Tropical.

RAPID: Measuring the Isotopic Fingerprint of the South American Summer Monsoon during a Strong El Nino, 2023-2024
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lisa Welp($138,645), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Collection Sites, El Nino, Heavier Isotopes, Isotopic Composition, Peruvian Andes, Water Molecules, Western Slopes, Conditions, East, Enable, Extent, Moisture, Oxygen-, Pacific, Pathways, Rainwater, Region, Sampling.

The Origin and Structure of the Monsoon Onset Vortex
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Anantha Aiyyer($587,816), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: Mini Warm Pool, Monsoon Onset, Somali Jet, Account, Analysis, Arabian, Coast, Formation, Generate, India, Influence, MOV, Sea, Ssts, Students, Summer, Taking, Vortex.

The Seventeenth (17th) Graduate Climate Conference (GCC); Woods Hole, Massachusetts; November 2-4, 2023
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Susan Solomon($50,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Climate Conference, Graduate Students, Woods Hole, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Dynamics, GCC, Interdisciplinary, Ocean.

How Do Energy Fluxes Link Precipitation Variability across the Tropical Weather-Climate Continuum?
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Spencer A Hill($399,465), CUNY City College, New York
Key terms: North-south Energy Transports, Climate Models, North-south Energy, Tropical Disturbances, Billions, CCNY, Collaboration, Concepts, People, Rainband, Rainfall, Theory, Time, Traveling, Weather.

Conference: Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and their Impacts
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Steven J Stichter($99,999), National Academy of Sciences, Washington
Key terms: Consensus Report, Extreme Weather, National Academies, Assess, Attribution, Broadly, Capabilities, Climate, Committee, Consequences, Current, Guidance, Inform, Information, Legal, Priorities, Stakeholders.

Collaborative Research: Mesoscale Predictability Across Climate Regimes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Yonggang Wang($183,248), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
2. Aaron Hill($381,865), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
3. Brian C Ancell($380,904), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Key terms: Atmospheric And Geospace, Graduate And Undergraduate, Severe Storm, Severe Storms, Allowing, Applications, Atmosphere, Benefit, Beyond, Century, Climate, Climates, Conditions, Creation, Division, Flooding, Forecasts, Instead, Less, Likelihood, Predictable, Prediction, Society, Students, Water, Weather, Wide.

Quantifying Agriculture as a Driver of Regional Climate Extremes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Ethan D Coffel($582,713), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Humid Heat Waves, Agricultural Land, Climate Extremes, Crop Yields, Flash Drought, Land Cover, Liquid Water, Soil Moisture, Water Vapor, Accompanied, Agriculture, Amount, Analysis, Atmospheric, CLM, Croplands, Datasets, Dry, Effects, Energy, Examine, Factor, Fixed, Global, Has, Humidity, Increased, Increases, Irrigation, LUMIP, Leaves, Model, Particular, Pis, Plant, Region, Regions, Released, Risk, Simulations, Temperature, Vegetation, Version.

Insolation Gradients and Eastern Mediterranean Aridity: Impacts on Winter Storms and Implications for Climate Projections
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Patrick M Alexander($831,032), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Greenhouse Gas Increases, Dry Periods, Fall Insolation, Future Drying, Mediterranean Basin, North Atlantic, Northward Shift, Orbital Cycles, Projected Future, Temperature Contrast, African, Aridity, Century, Climate, Dynamics, EM, Effort, Forcing, Ice, Issue, Kya, Latitudinal, Leads, Model, Paleoclimate, Performed, Pis, Precipitation, Proxy, Rainfall, Region, Simulations, Societal, Stronger, Warming, Weather, Winter.

Strateole-2: Atmospheric Wave Influences on Cirrus, Water Vapor, and Global Circulation Near the Tropical Tropopause
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Martina Bramberger($768,924), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Cirrus Clouds, Energy Balance, Horizontal Wavelengths, Momentum Transport, Water Vapor, Wave Momentum, AGS-, Campaign, Centre, Convective, Deployments, Developed, Difficulty, Effect, Effects, Flights, Force, Formation, Generated, Generation, Gravity, Has, Infrared, Instruments, Latitude, Layer, Motions, Occurring, Performed, Primary, Promoting, QBO, Representing, Strateole-, Stratosphere, TTL, Temperature, Tropical, Vertical, Waves, Weather, Winds.

Assessing and Understanding Oceanic Climate Forcing on Decadal Climate Variability from Surface Heat Flux
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Zhengyu Liu($652,363), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Atmospheric And Oceanic, Heat Flux Anomaly, Surface Heat Flux, Heat Exchange, Low-frequency Sst, North Atlantic, North Pacific, Oceanic Forcing, Sst Anomaly, Sst Prediction, AMO, Anomalies, Caused, Driven, Evaporation, Has, Instance, Low-frequency, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Noise, Phase, Produce, Roughly, Slow, Warm, Weather.

Understanding the Critical Role of Seasonality for El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Variability, Using Empirical Stochastic-Dynamic Models and Physics-Based Coupled Models
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Daniel Vimont($717,604), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Individual El Niño, El Niño’s, Empirical Models, Seasonal Evolution, Societal Impacts, Advance, Analysis, Application, Applied, Climate, Developing, Development, Evolve, Niño’s, Predict, Processes, Specific, Tools.

Understanding the Effects of Land Hydrology, Water Volatility, and Rotation Rate on Clouds, Climate, and Circulation in a Hierarchy of Models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Jonathan L Mitchell($654,531), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Planetary Rotation Rate, Hydrological Cycle, Surface Evaporation, Water Volatility, Atmospheric, Behavior, Circulation, Climate, Clouds, Development, Earth, Earth-like, Has, Increasing, Land, Latitudes, Low, Methane, Model, Parameter, Parameters, Produced, Rain, Slower, Temperature, Theory, Titan, Titan-like, Treated, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the impact of Arctic sea ice loss on summertime climate change
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lantao Sun($158,059), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Tiffany A Shaw($596,537), University of Chicago, Chicago
Key terms: Arctic Sea Ice, Sea Ice Decline, Sea Ice Loss, Atmospheric Circulation, Heat Waves, Ice Cover, Jet Stream, Model Intercomparison, Simulations Created, Summer Circulation, Analysis, Anticyclones, Atmosphere, Climate, Consequences, Cyclones, Direct, Does, Effect, Effects, Greenhouse, Has, Influence, Million, Ocean, Separate, Student, Warming, Weakening, Weather.

Collaborative Research: The Relationship between the Trade Wind Inversion Layer and the Seasonal Development of the Southeast Pacific Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Charlotte A Demott($254,826), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Alex O Gonzalez($650,456), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Boundary Layer, Climate Model, Cloud Cover, Cold Ssts, Double Itcz, Eastern Pacific, Hemisphere Itcz, Itcz Formation, Rainfall Contrast, Secondary Itcz, Southeast Pacific, Southern Hemisphere, Surface Wind, Wind Convergence, Analysis, Atmospheric, Conditions, Convection, Convective, Equator, Factors, February, Genesis, Moist, Momentum, North, Particular, Promotes, Simulations, Stability, TWI, Transport, Warmer.

Using Emergent Constraints to Reduce Uncertainty in Regional Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Chad W Thackeray($899,544), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Climate Model, Climate Models, Future Climate, Societal Relevance, Water Cycle, Apply, Knowledge, Management, Projections, Range, Regions, Risks, Simulations, Uncertainty, Western.

Collaborative Research: Cloud-Radiative Feedback as the Coupling Mechanism of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Kuniaki Inoue($117,062), Columbia University, New York
2. Angel F Adames-Corraliza($336,926), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
3. Naoko Sakaeda($308,680), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Cirrus Clouds, Colder Temperatures, Alternation, Easterly, Has, Influence, MJO, Model, Oscillation, Phase, Pis, Predictable, Prior, Promote, QBO, Simulations, Stratosphere, Variety, Winds.

Addressing Problems in Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics Using Idealized Global Climate Models
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Timothy M Merlis($399,999), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Climate Models, Climate Theory, Spatial Scales, Tropical Rainfall, Approach, Complexity, Differing, Features, Fluxes, Heat, Hierarchy, Incorporate, Motions, Simulations, Strategy, Vertical, Water.

Workshop on Atmospheric and Urban Digital Twins (AUDT); Austin, Texas
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Lai-Yung Ruby Leung($49,999), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Atmospheric And Urban, Urban Digital Twins, Combining Atmospheric, Potential Applications, Urban Environments, Virtual Representations, White Paper, AUDT, Adts, Development, Meetings, Social, Udts, Workshop.

Assessing Atmospheric Impacts of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption and Using It as a Natural Experiment to Evaluate an Earth System Model
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Mark Flanner($518,808), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Stratospheric Water Vapor, Climate Impacts, Earth’s Atmosphere, Volcanic Eruptions, Amount, Antarctica, Assess, Atmospheric, Earth’s, Energy, Global, Mechanisms, Model, Observations, Observed, Roughly, Space, Stratosphere, Sulfur, Sunlight, Surface, Tonga.

Collaborative Research: El Nino/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Predictability--Initial Condition Signal versus Uncoupled Atmospheric Noise
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Benjamin P Kirtman($708,450), University of Miami, Coral Gables
2. Sarah M Larson($480,580), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
Key terms: El Nino, Enso Prediction, Enso Predictions, Equatorial Pacific, CESM, Developed, Forecast, Global, Meaning, Mixed, Model, Nina, Onset, Perturbations, Pis, Preconditioning, Simulations, Skill, Skillful, Ssts, Weather.

Conference: 2023 Radiation and Climate Gordon Research Conference and Seminar; Lewiston, Maine; July 22-28, 2023
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Patrick C Taylor($25,800), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Grc And Grs, Early-career Scientists, Climate, Constraints, Early-career, Gordon, Meeting, Radiative.

Collaborative Research: Dynamical Mechanisms for Midlatitude-Arctic Interactions and Associated Weather Extremes in a Warming Climate
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Pengfei Zhang($142,876), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
2. Gang Chen($707,741), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Intense Moisture Transport, North And South, Observations And Climate, Arctic Warming, Atmospheric Rivers, Climate Models, Cold Spells, Jet Streams, Midlatitude Cyclones, Weather Extremes, Analysis, Examine, Idealized, Linkage, Rapid, Speed, Stratosphere, Stratospheric, Surface, Task, Temperature, UCLA, Winter.

CAREER: Using Tracer Interrelationships to Understand Large-Scale Geophysical Flows and their Changes
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Marianna Linz($897,379), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Stratosphere And Currents, Winds And Currents, Deep Ocean, Ozone Layer, Salt Content, Carbon, Climate, Components, Examine, Flow, Fluid, Follows, Global, Has, History, Radiation, Recovery, Smoke, Storage, Temperature, Tracer, Tracers.

Understanding the Role of Mesoscale Atmosphere-Ocean Interactions in Seasonal-to-Decadal Climate Prediction
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Dan Fu($952,692), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Broader Impacts, El Nino, Gulf Stream, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Capture, Climate, Coupling, Degree, Engage, Ensemble, Extent, Kuroshio, Mechanisms, Model, Motions, Ocean, Pis, Potential, Predictability, Predictable, Predictions, Program, Simulations, Small-scale, Spacing, Surface, Tremendous, Value, Water.

The Evolving Role of the Ocean and the Atmosphere in Decadal to Multidecadal Modes of Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Amy C Clement($1,185,628), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Aerosol Emissions, Climate Modes, External Forcing, Externally Forced, Natural Internal, Regional Climate, AGS-, AMO, Activities, Atlantic, Atmosphere, CESM, Coupling, Developed, Effects, Has, Les, Miami, Ocean, Pis, Radiative, Simulations, Th, Uncertainty.

Workshop on Future Storm-Resolving Configurations of Community Earth System Model (CESM); Fort Collins, Colorado; Two days in April 2023
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. James W Hurrell($20,843), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Atmospheric, CESM, Climate, Configurations, Convection, Convective, Developers, Global, Grid, Ice, Mcss, Models, Motions, Simulate, Users, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Interhemispheric and Zonal Asymmetries of the ITCZ
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Honghai Zhang($172,774), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Atmospheric Circulation, Itcz Latitude, Model Configurations, Ocean Model, Band, Basin, Climate, Deep, Equator, Found, Has, Importance, Oceans, Pacific, Rainfall, Simulations, Slab, Surface, Tested, Tropical, Water, Winds.

Collaborative Research: Evolving Hemispheric Albedo Asymmetry
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

1. Maria Rugenstein($642,756), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Daniel T McCoy($22,243), University of Wyoming, Laramie
Key terms: Albedo Ocean Surface, Northern And Southern, Adjustment Mechanism, Albedo Symmetry, Component Model, Northern Hemisphere, Planetary Albedo, Southern Hemispheres, Albedos, CAM, CESM, Clouds, Complexity, Created, Datseris, Difference, Future, GHG, Ice, Land, Reflected, Simulations, Space, Square, Stevens, Students, Sunlight, Surfaces, Theory, Warming, Watts.

Travel Grant: Workshop on Impacts of Unusual Weather Events and Climate Anomalies on a Tropical Rainforest
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Cross-Directorate Activities

1. Jose D Fuentes($50,000), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Amazon Rainforest, Extreme Climate, Future, Global, Meeting, Methods, Region, Regional, Weather, Workshop.

SHINE: Faster Boundary-Conforming Simulations of Solar Convection on Unstructured Grids
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE

1. Chunlei Liang($399,374), Clarkson University, Potsdam
Key terms: Local Time Stepping, Chorus Code, Convection Zone, Solar Convection, Space Weather, Thermal Convection, Accuracy, Capabilities, Capture, Computational, Density, Driven, Dynamical, Efficiency, Mapping, Model, Nature, Parallel, Require, Resolution, Turbulent.

REU Site: Atmospheric Research and Engineering Solutions for Climate Change and Environmental Challenges
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2023; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Md Aynul Bari($392,819), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Environmental And Public, Environmental And Sustainable, Environmental Challenges, Public Health, Reu Site, Sustainable Engineering, Undergraduate Students, Atmospheric, Awareness, Climate, Department, Diverse, Energy, Enhance, Experiences, Interactions, Knowledge, Management, Mentoring, Opportunity, Program, STEM, Solutions, Underrepresented.

Collaborative Research: Enhancing Radar Meteorology Instruction with an Open, Flexible, Online Course
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Eric Palmer($430,031), Purdue University, West Lafayette
2. Andrea Smith($326,956), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Radar Meteorology Education, Diverse Users, Radar Products, Weather Radar, Weather Radars, Access, Additionally, Applications, Approach, Assets, Atmospheric, COMET, Capabilities, Course, Created, Decision, Design, Free, Gallery, Incorporate, Instructional, Interactive, Learners, Lessons, Levels, Limitations, Meted, Multimedia, National, Online, Partners, Polarimetric, Public, Purdue, Quality, Students, Topics, Variables.

REU Site: Space Physics and Solar Astrophysics Program at Montana State University
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Jiong Qiu($488,953), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Academic Knowledge, Space Physics, Strengthen Practical, Undergraduate Students, Coronal, Development, Experience, Faculty, Fields, Graduate, Ground-based, Participation, Presentations, Program, STEM, Skills, Solar.

REU Site: An Inclusive Research Experience in ALpine Meteorology (REALM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Anna Gannet Hallar($337,617), University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Key terms: Oral And Written, Weather And Climate, Air Quality, Reu Programs, Undergraduate Students, Written Communication, Applications, Campus, Challenges, Cohort, Complete, Developed, Development, Environment, Experience, Faculty, Has, Inclusive, Mentor, Mentoring, Opportunities, REALM, STEM, Skills, Successful, Summer, Supportive, Utah, Visits, Water.

REU Site: Solar Physics at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Katharine K Reeves($599,498), Smithsonian Institution Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge
Key terms: Numerical Modeling, Solar Physics, Traditionally Underrepresented, Academic, Activities, Analysis, Engineering, Experience, Program, STEM, Students, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Student Training in Oceanography, Remote Sensing, and Meteorology (STORM)
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2023; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Hannah Zanowski($400,676), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Interpersonal Skills, Remote Sensing, Reu Site, Undergraduate Students, Aims, Center, Climate, Collaborative, Critical, Development, Discussing, Diverse, Empowerment, Experience, Exposure, Institute, Leaders, Paths, STEM, STORM, Set, Summer, Variety, Water, Weather.

REU Site: Climate Change Science, Impacts, and Resilience
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Melinda R Grosser($457,020), University of North Carolina at Asheville, Asheville
Key terms: Underrepresented Students, Asheville, Bring, Climate, Connections, Experience, Global, Mentors, Organizations, Program, REU, Site, Traditionally, Undergraduate.

REU Site: Interdisciplinary Climate Science Research at The Pennsylvania State University
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2019; Program: EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES

1. Natasha Miles($1,015,245), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Climate, Faculty, Graduate, Health, Interdisciplinary, Peer-reviewed, Program, REU, Students, Targeting, Topics, Underrepresented.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Ka-band Polarization Radar for Atmospheric Process Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sean W Freeman($779,640), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Cloud Radar, Cloud Water, Acquisition, Available, Clouds, Convective, Has, Instrumentation, Kapr, Mapnet, Profiling, Program, Radars, Range.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Photoionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometer (PI-TOFMS) to Advance Environmental Research in Water, Soil, and Air
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Judith C Chow($780,823), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Undergraduate Students, Wildfire Emissions, Air, Enhanced, Environment, Existing, Graduate, Instrument, Ionization, Microplastics, Mode, Observations, PI-TOFMS, Program, Range, Training.

MCA: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Improve Understanding of Biogenic Volatile Organic Compound Emissions and Chemistry over Heterogeneous Forest Landscapes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Karena A McKinney($259,518), Colby College, Waterville
Key terms: Bvoc Concentrations, AI, Atmospheric, Bvocs, Chemistry, Emission, Emissions, Environmental, Extent, Forest, Heterogeneous, Imaging, Methods, Sampling, Sensing, Summer, Undergraduate.

Understanding the Formation and Impacts of Warm-Season Trans-Atlantic African Dust Extremes
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2023; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Qinjian Jin($360,739), University of Kansas Center for Research Inc, Lawrence
Key terms: African Dust Plumes, Extreme Trans-atlantic African, Extreme Trans-atlantic Dust, Kansas Natural History, Natural History Museum, Tropical North Atlantic, Undergraduate And Graduate, Westward Transport Pathway, Air Quality, Dust Emissions, Extreme Trans-atlantic, Land Surface, North Africa, Trans-atlantic African, Trans-atlantic Dust, Tropical Atlantic, Undergraduate Students, Activities, Aerosols, Atmospheric, Climate, Clouds, Dry, Findings, Future, Held, Observations, Outreach, Processes.

Collaborative Research: Multiparametric Analyses of Volcanic Aerosols and the Effects on Lightning Generation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2022; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Kelley M Murphy($300,675), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Explosive Eruption, Explosive Eruptions, Goes Field, Lightning Occurrence, Model Simulations, Satellite Retrievals, Volcanic Lightning, Alabama, Ash, Characteristics, Following, Fuego, GLM, Geostationary, Laboratory, Museum, Observations, Particles, Produce, Size, Steps, View, Volcanoes.

Estimating the Earth's Dayside Exospheric Neutral Density Using XMM-Newton Soft X-ray Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2019; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Dogacan S Ozturk($486,287), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Solar Wind Conditions, Mhd Model, Re Subsolar, Solar Activity, Solar Maximum, Solar Minimum, Space Weather, Strong Swcx, Dataset, Density, Does, Exosphere, Exospheric, Investigate, Magnetosheath, National, Observations, Xmm-newton.

CAREER: Land-Atmosphere Coupling and Feedback in the Context of Climate Change
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Ecosystem Science

1. Darren Drewry($219,543), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Analytical Approaches, Cloud Formation, Coming Decades, Land Surface, Land-atmosphere Interactions, Modeling Tools, Advance, Atmospheric, Carbon, Climate, Development, Energy, Feedback, Field, Fluxes, Function, Information, Land-atmosphere, Level, Processes, Quantify, Resolution, Simulation, Simulations, Structure, Terrestrial, Vegetation, Water.

Critical Aspects of Sustainability (CAS)-Climate: Actionable Heat and Carbon Mitigation by Urban Greening--Integrating Physical Modeling and Machine Learning for Decision Support
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Bo Yang($746,097), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Climate Modeling, Machine Learning-based, Nature-based Solutions, Policy Makers, Urban Sustainability, Actionable, Activities, Anthropogenic, Carbon, Cities, Decision-making, Development, Dynamics, Global, Learning-based, Local, Nature-based, Platform, Processes, Stakeholders, Sustainable.

CAS-Climate: National Science Foundation (NSF) Confluence Workshop on Climate Science to Climate Action Across Global Cities; San Francisco, California; December 2023
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: EnvS-Environmtl Sustainability

1. Ashish Sharma($49,998), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Urban Sustainability Solutions, Climate Action, Global Cities, Urban Climate, Applied, Gaps, Ii, Implementing, Lack, Workshop.

AGS FIRP Track 2: Boundary-layer Evolution and Structure of Tornadoes (BEST)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: FARE-Facil for Atmos Res & Ed

1. Karen A Kosiba($1,165,754), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: Structure And Evolution, Near Tornadoes, Tornado Pods, Tornado Structure, Vector Wind, Analysis, Balloons, Collected, Critical, DOW, Dual-doppler, Ground, Intense, Intensity, Mapping, Mobile, Observations, Radars, Rare, Resolving, Strong, Swarmsonde, Thermodynamic, Unique, Winds.

Closing the energy balance gap at scale
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: GEO CI - GEO Cyberinfrastrctre

1. Ankur R Desai($841,228), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Eddy Covariance Tower, Energy Balance Closure, Surface And Atmosphere, Land Surface, Scaling Approach, Surface-atmosphere Fluxes, Applied, Approaches, Atmospheric, Climate, Compared, Conditions, Heat, LES, Set, Soil, Surface-atmosphere, Water.

CAREER: Artificial Intelligence for Polarimetric Radar Remote Sensing of Precipitation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: GEO CI - GEO Cyberinfrastrctre

1. Haonan Chen($242,089), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Educational Activities, Polarimetric Radar, Remote Sensing, AI, Deep, Developing, Extract, Field, Information, Investigating, Observations, Precipitation, Radars, Severe, Students, Weather.

Collaborative Research: RUI--Applying Measurements, Models, and Machine Learning to Improve Parameterization of Aerosol Water Uptake and Cloud Condensation Nuclei
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: GEO CI - GEO Cyberinfrastrctre

1. James P Sherman($473,741), Appalachian State University, Boone
2. Pengfei Liu($358,461), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Aerosol Optical Properties, Alwc And Ccn, Changing Aerosol Composition, Appalachian St, Ccn Spectra, Cloud Droplets, Aerosols, Base, Climate, Hygroscopic, Hygroscopicity, Leading, Measured, Models, Particle, Particles, Site, Size, Undergraduate.

SHINE: Analysis of Ion Kinetic Instabilities in the Solar Wind Observed Near the Sun with Hybrid Modeling and Machine Learning
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2023; Program: GEO CI - GEO Cyberinfrastrctre

1. Scott A Boardsen($598,925), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Proton And Alpha, Alpha Particle, Ion Kinetic, Kinetic Instabilities, Nonlinear Evolution, Solar Wind, AIML, Anisotropic, Beams, Drift, Energy, Expanding, Fields, Heating, Labeled, Machine, Magnetic, Methods, Models, Observations, PSPSPAN-I, Particles, Physics, Plasma, Processes, Relative, Spectra, Temperature, Unstable, Vdfs, Wave.

Planning: FIRE-PLAN: Planning Megafire Research Across Scales and Disciplines
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: HDBE-Humans, Disasters, and th

1. Adam Kochanski($198,171), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: National Model Prediction, Extreme Fire, Human Health, Bring, Developing, Megafires, Requirements, Resilience, Safety, Time, Wildfire, Workshops.

CAREER: Evolution of Stream Interaction Regions from 1 to 5.4 AU and the Implications for Geomagnetically Induced Currents
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Rachael J Filwett($322,272), Montana State University, Bozeman
Key terms: Geomagnetic Induced Currents, Compression Ratios, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Au, CCMC, Co-located, Compressional, Gics, Link, Near, Particle, Radial, Sirs, Spacecraft.

CAREER: Understanding Radiation Belt Electron Fast, Deep Injections in the Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hong Zhao($149,131), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: 6-12th Grade Students, Interactive And Adaptive, Kev Electron Fast, Quasi-static Electric Fields, Space Radiation Environment, Deep Injections, Historically Underrepresented, Quasi-static Electric, Radiation Belt, Space Physics, Stem Pipeline, Activities, Characteristics, Course, Dynamics, Education, Electrons, Energetic, Event-specific, Evidence-based, Experiences, Female, Graduate, Inner, Inspiring, Integrated, Large-scale, Modeling, Module, Multispacecraft, Objectives, Observations, Outreach, Positively, Programs, Strategies, Teaching, Undergraduate, Various.

Collaborative Research: GEM--The Upper Limit of the Earth's Outer Radiation Belt Electron Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xiangning Chu($44,460), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Man Hua($125,955), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Belt Electron Fluxes, Critical Geomagnetic Conditions, Earth’s Outer Radiation, Flux Upper Limits, Observed Flux Upper, Radiation Belt Electron, Whistler-mode Chorus Waves, Belt Electrons, Earth’s Outer, Radial Diffusion, Whistler-mode Chorus, Acceleration, Analysis, Analytical, Approach, Forecasting, Machine, Maximum, Mechanisms, Models, Parameters, Produce, Quasi-linear, Satellite, Space, Statistical, Storm.

GEM: Energy Conversion Associated with Non-equilibrium Velocity Distribution Functions in Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Haoming Liang($554,951), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection, Dayside Magnetopause Reconnection, Energy Conversion, Non-equilibrium Vdfs, Wave-particle Interactions, Differences, Distributions, Measured, Moments, Non-equilibrium, Non-maxwellian, Occurring, Plasma, Presence, Processes, Wave-particle, Waves.

GEM: Fundamental Properties of Dawnside Auroral Polarization Streams and Their Role in Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Instabilities and Dramatic Events
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jiang Liu($523,629), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Dawnside Auroral Polarization, Near-earth Space Environment, Strong Electric Field, Energy Circulation, Instabilities Responsible, Low-altitude Spacecraft, Near-earth Space, Significantly Modify, Convection, DAPS, DAPS’, Dramatic, Early-career, Flow, Information, Ionosphere, Low-altitude, M-I, Methods, Modeling, Nearth, Public, Students.

Collaborative Research: GEM--How Upstream Solar Wind Conditions Determine the Properties of the Foreshock Backstreaming Ions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Zixu Liu($229,577), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Kun Zhang($271,096), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
3. XUEYI WANG($82,799), Auburn University, Auburn
Key terms: Freshly Reflected Ions, Solar Wind Conditions, Upstream Solar Wind, Bow Shock, Magnetic Field, Space Weather, Acceleration, Counter-streaming, Distributions, Early-career, Earth, Etc, Foreshock, Incident, Model, Properties, Reflection, Simulations.

Collaborative Research: GEM--Towards Developing Physics-informed Subgrid Models for Geospace MagnetoHydroDynamics (MHD) Simulations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Dmitri A Kondrashov($348,127), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
2. Anthony Sciola($249,589), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Key terms: 2d Simulation, Global Magnetosphere, Large-scale Fields, Physics-informed Machine, Stochastic Modeling, Developed, Dynamical, Flows, Forcing, GAMERA, Induced, Large-scale, MHD, Models, Multiscale, Numerical, Parameterizations, Physics-informed, Reference, Simulations, Subgrid-scale, Systematically.

Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Magnetosonic Wave Emission Along Bursty Bulk Flow Channel Boudaries: Impacts on Near-Earth Plasma Sheet Dynamics During Substorms
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Hava Turkakin($202,312), Utica College, Utica
Key terms: Mhd Wave Emission, Khi Evolution, Mhd Waves, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Substorm Dynamics, Applications, Bbfs, Characteristics, Conditions, Contribute, Ground-based, Instabilities, Magnetotail, Nsfs, Observations, Students, Substorms, Undergraduate, Utica.

Controlled Whistler Mode Wave Injection Experiments with the High Altitude Auroral Research Program (HAARP) Facility
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Vijay Harid($378,011), University of Colorado at Denver, Aurora
Key terms: Magnetospheric Wave Injection, Nonlinear Whistler Mode, Whistler Mode Waves, Haarp Facility, Radiation Belt, Space Weather, Alaska, Available, Dynamics, ELFVLF, Experiments, Has, Interactions, Magnetosphere, Perform, Phenomena, Seeks, Students, Unique.

GEM: Sources of Electron Populations in the Plasma Sheet
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Natalia Ganjushkina($487,142), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Electron Population Characteristics, Multiple Electron Populations, Near-earth Plasma Sheet, Data-based Model, Empirical Relations, Near-earth Plasma, Particles Entering, Solar Wind, Data-based, Detailed, Forming, Investigation, Ionosphere, Nearth, Parameters, Sources, THEMIS.

MagStar Phase-II: Supporting Cost-Effective, Long-Term Access to Scientific Data
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jennifer Gannon($399,930), Computational Physics Inc, Springfield
Key terms: Magnetic Field, Activity, Array, Contiguous, Magnetometer, Magstar, Power, Real-time, Solar, Transfer.

Collaborative Research: Energy Conversion Beyond the First Law of Thermodynamics in Non-Equilibrium Plasmas
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Matthew Argall($256,012), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Reconnection And Turbulence, Weakly Collisional Plasmas, Energy Conversion, Magnetic Reconnection, Physics Program, Random Motion, Thermal Energy, Collaborative, Division, Fusion, Hot, Magnetospheric, Non-lte, Particles, Simulations, Solar, Space, Two-dimensional.

Mercury's Nightside Magnetosphere Response to Southward IMF and ICMEs: MESSENGER Investigation and Comparisons With Earth’s Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Weijie Sun($600,821), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Solar Wind-magnetosphere Coupling, Earth’s Magnetosphere, Interplanetary Magnetic, Magnetospheric Modes, Mercury’s Magnetosphere, Solar Wind-magnetosphere, Space Weather, Wind-magnetosphere Coupling, Closure, Compare, Comparison, Comprehensive, Current, Earth’s, Field-aligned, IMF, Magnetospheres, Mercury’s, Processes, Properties, Similar.

Is the Solar Wind Electron Strahl a Seed Population for the Earth's Electron Radiation Belt?
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Joseph Borovsky($682,313), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
Key terms: Earth's Electron Radiation, Earth's Magnetotail Plasma, Electron Radiation Belt, Magnetotail Plasma Sheet, Magnetotail Suprathermal Electrons, Strahl Electron Population, Controlling Factors, Earth's Electron, Earth's Magnetotail, Electron Strahl, Energetic Electrons, Seed Population, Solar Wind, Source Population, Analysis, Dipole, Discern, Injected, Injections, Particles, Substorm, Substorms.

GEM: The Sources and Pathways of Ions in the Warm Plasma Cloak
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Jing Liao($196,303), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Plasma Cloak Population, Warm Plasma Cloak, Characteristic Distributions, Inner Magnetosphere, Field, Heating, Ions, Mid-career, Observed, Path, Pathways, Populations, Source, Transport.

CAREER: A Laboratory Test of Radiation Belt Electron Acceleration and Diffusion by Whistler Chorus
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. James Schroeder($126,830), Wheaton College, Wheaton
Key terms: Space Plasma Physics, Whistler-mode Wave-electron Interactions, Antenna Array, Laboratory Experiments, Magnetic Field, Outer Belt, Radiation Belt, Radiation Belts, Wave Crests, Wave-electron Interactions, Wave-normal Angle, Wave-particle Interactions, Whistler-mode Wave-electron, Whistler-mode Waves, Amplitude, Conditions, Critical, Diffusion, Earth, Electrons, High-velocity, Objectives, Particles, Produce, Rapid, Seminar, Sometimes, Students, Velocities, Wave-normal, Wave-particle.

Collaborative Research: Dipole Tilt Effect on Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability and Its Associated Ionospheric and Geomagnetic Signatures
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Michael Hartinger($73,065), SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE, Boulder
2. Xueling Shi($75,000), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
3. Shiva Kavosi($451,683), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Dipole Tilt Effects, Geomagnetic Perturbations, Solar Wind, Coupling, Earth’s, Ground, KHI, Magnetopause, Plasma.

GEM: Responses of Waves, Particles, and Precipitation to Solar Wind Dynamic Pressure Impulsive Changes
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Murong Qin($688,588), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Electromagnetic Ion Cyclotron, Energetic Particle Precipitation, Negative Pressure Pulses, Positive And Negative, Ppp And Npp, Solar Wind Dynamic, Various L-mlt Regions, Wind Dynamic Pressure, Electron Precipitation, L-mlt Regions, Magnetospheric Waves, Plasma Waves, Various L-mlt, Chorus, Hiss, Quantify, Respond, Step-like, Time.

Collaborative Research: GEM--Quantifying the Contribution of Off-Equatorial Ultra-Low Frequency (ULF) Waves on Radial Diffusion in the Radiation Belts
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Theodore E Sarris($432,033), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
2. Hong Zhao($89,980), Auburn University, Auburn
3. Weichao Tu($118,893), West Virginia University Research Corporation, Morgantown
Key terms: Diffusion And Transport, Off-equatorial Ulf Waves, Outer Radiation Belt, Radial Diffusion Rates, Radiation Belt Electrons, Ulf Wave Fluctuations, Van Allen Probes, Diffusion Coefficient, Energetic Electrons, Global Dynamics, Global Models, Off-equatorial Ulf, Pitch-angle-dependent Radial, Radial Transport, Radiation Belts, Relativistic Electrons, Ultra-low Frequency, Arase, Contribution, Derived, Effect, Electric, Expressions, Field, Frequencies, Implications, Leading, Magnetic, Particle, Pitch-angle-dependent, Power, Quantify, Range, Simulations.

GEM: The Competition Between Waves and Field Line Scattering in Driving Relativistic Electron Precipitation and the Resulting Atmospheric Effects
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Luisa Capannolo($600,036), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Relativistic Electron Precipitation, Css-driven Rep, Earth’s Atmosphere, Ozone Depletion, Relativistic Electrons, Wave-driven Rep, Atmospheric, Contribution, Css-driven, Earth’s, Effects, Estimate, Female, Field, Models, Radiation, SQ, Scattering, Typically, WACCM, Wave-driven, Waves.

Combined Effects of ElectroMagnetic Ion Cyclotron (EMIC) and Whistler Mode Waves on Relativistic Electron Scattering in the Earth's Inner Magnetosphere
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Xiaojia Zhang($216,586), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Emic And Whistler, Inner Magnetosphere, Scattering Rates, Whistler Wave, Dynamics, Effects, Electron, Interactions, Investigate, Observations, Relativistic, Space.

GEM: Resolving the Unique Characteristics of Substorms that Precede Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancement (STEVE) Events
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2022; Program: MAGNETOSPHERIC PHYSICS

1. Lindsay V Goodwin($392,140), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Emission Velocity Enhancement, Strong Thermal Emission, Thermal Emission Velocity, All-sky Imagers, Magnetic Field, Optical Emissions, Substorm Onset, All-sky, Atmosphere, Auroral, Citizen, Collaborations, Conditions, Correlated, Has, ISR, Importantly, Magnetometers, Magnetosphere-ionosphere, Midnight, Radars, STEVE, Spacecraft, Steves, Strengthen, Substorms, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Reducing Model Uncertainty by Improving Understanding of Pacific Meridional Climate Structure during Past Warm Intervals
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Tripti Bhattacharya($300,857), Syracuse University, Syracuse
2. Ran Feng($304,573), University of Connecticut, Storrs
3. Jiang Zhu($170,080), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Sea Surface Temperature, Future Climate, Moist Convection, Advance, Cloud, Gradients, Models, Past.

Collaborative Research: Ultra-High Resolution Paleostreamflow in Southeast Asia--Proxy/Model Comparison
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Boniface O Fosu($146,700), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
2. Hung T Nguyen($385,896), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Southeast Asia, Create, Estimates, Paleo-streamflow, Reconstruction, Streamflow.

Collaborative Research: Diagnosing Global Climatic Responses to Large Volcanic Eruptions in Climate Reconstructions and Model Simulations
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Mathias Vuille($282,980), SUNY at Albany, Albany
2. Jason E Smerdon($493,422), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Volcanic Eruptions, Assimilation, Characterize, Climate, Estimates, Global, Hydroclimate, Paleoclimate, Products, Proxy-based, Temperature.

A Model-Data Approach to Better Understand Paleoclimate Records of Stable Water Isotopes in High-Elevation, Lower-Latitude Glaciers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Zhengyu Liu($892,703), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Core Delta Oxygen-18, Ice Core Delta, Low-latitude And Tropical, Vapor Delta Oxygen-18, Ice Cores, Interpret Climate, Model Topography, Tibetan Plateau, Tropical Andes, Tropical Glaciers, Atmospheric, Mid-latitude, Precipitation, Proxy, Regions, Temperature.

The Distance Effect Annual Cycle in Earth's Climate
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. John Chiang($556,334), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: El Nino-southern Oscillation, Pacific Cold Tongue, Pacific Warm Pool, Distance Effect, Earth’s Orbit, El Nino-southern, Nino-southern Oscillation, Tropical Pacific, “distance” Effect, “tilt” Effect, Annual, Circulation, Climate, Cycles, Driven, Earth’s, Evolution, Has, Investigate, Seasonal, Seasonality, “distance”, “tilt”.

Common Era Reconstructions of African Dust Transport to the Western North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Christopher T Hayes($306,686), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: African Dust Activity, North African Dust, North Atlantic, Surface Temperatures, Climate, Development, Effects, ITCZ, Mississippi, Movement, Past, School, Teachers, Teaching, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: P4Climate--Testing Hypotheses of Mesoamerican Hydroclimate over the Last Several Glacial Cycles
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Matthew S Lachniet($474,797), University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas
2. Victor J Polyak($148,836), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
Key terms: Speleothem Oxygen Isotope, Monsoon Strength, Ocean Circulation, Orbital Insolation, Orbital Monsoon, Sistema Huatla, Smooth Sinusoidal, Abrupt, BP, Cave, Central, Climate, Forcing, Future, Heinrich, MIS, Mexico, Notably, Paleoclimate, Past, Potential, Regional, Students, Summer, Time, Tropical, Warm.

DeepGreen: A Deep Learning Based Tree-Ring Width Data Model for Paleoclimatic Data Assimilation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Michael N Evans($494,591), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Detection And Attribution, Validate And Interpret, Extant Trw, Tree Rings, Tree-ring Width, Accelerate, Assimilation, Build, Climate, Datasets, Decades, Deep, Deepgreen, Efforts, Existing, Framework, Information, Machine, Modeling, Models, Observational, Observations, Paleoclimate, Sufficiently, Timescales, Tree-ring.

Collaborative Research: High-Resolution, Multi-Species Reconstructions of Greater Yellowstone Region Paleoclimates Using Tree-Ring Anatomy
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Maegen L Rochner($417,494), University of Louisville Research Foundation Inc, Louisville
2. Grant Harley($156,022), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
3. Matthew Bekker($52,384), Brigham Young University, Provo
Key terms: Ecological Disturbance, Sub-annual Temperature, Yellowstone Ecoregion, Aid, Broadly, Climate, Contextualize, Education, Future, GYE, K-, Metrics, Millennial-length, Outreach, Programs, QWA, Sub-annual, Western.

Collaborative Research: Millennial-Length Histories of Northeastern Pacific Climate Variability from Bivalve Mollusks and Trees
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Suzanne M Ankerstjerne($144,969), Iowa State University, Ames
2. Marcus Lofverstrom($639,466), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Northeast Pacific Ocean, Northeastern Pacific, Climate, Coral, Development, Growth, Marine, Observations, Paleoclimate, Potential, Reconstructions, Region, Terrestrial, Tree-ring, Tropical, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Characterizing Northern Hemisphere Atmospheric Variability from Central American Wind Gap-Induced Upwelling
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Jane W Baldwin($520,179), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. SARA SANCHEZ($175,314), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Sierra Madre Mountains, Tehuantepec Gap Winds, Atmospheric Dynamics, Hispanic Serving, Atlantic, Atlantic-pacific, Characterize, Climate, Constraint, Driving, Examinations, Gulf, Inter-basin, Isthmus, Mexico, Model, North, Pacific, Past, Preliminary, Pressure, Processes, Radiocarbon, Sediment, Students, Upwelling, ‘upstream’.

Intra-Annual Radiocarbon (14C) Offsets, Chronology and Paleoclimate
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: P4CLIMATE

1. Brita E Lorentzen($499,986), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Calibration Curve, Analytical, Carbon-, Cycle, Differences, East, Fields, Georgia, Outreach, Paleoclimate, Plants, Potential, Radiocarbon, Seasonal, Times, USA.

Conference on Science and Law of Sea Level Rise: Reducing Legal Obstacles to Managing Rising Seas; Fort Lauderdale, Florida; Spring 2024
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Jay Austin($96,700), Environmental Law Institute, Washington
Key terms: Sea Level Rise, Interdisciplinary Symposium, Coastal, Increasing, Law, Legal, Policy, Public, Resilience.

Collaborative Research: RAPID--Characterizing the Water Isotope Signature of an El Nino Event for Paleoclimate and Hydroclimate Studies
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2023; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Daniel E Ibarra($28,589), Brown University, Providence
2. Jeremy K Rugenstein($33,420), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Meteoric Water Delta, Precipitation And Stream, Water Delta Oxygen-18, Delta Oxygen-17, Strong Enso, Climate, Constrain, Future, Hydroclimate, Isotope, Isotopes, Links, Longitudinal, Moisture, Paleoclimate, Past, Program, Proxy, RAPID, Source, Southwestern, Warming, Western, Wintertime.

Acquisition of Helium Recovery Equipment: Orbitrap Fourier Transform Isotope Ratio Mass Spectrometer for Environmental and Climate Research.
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Becky Alexander($1,236,369), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Isotope Ratio Mass, Low Molecular Weight, Molecular Weight Gas, Ice Cores, Orbitrap Irms, Paleo Atmospheric, Stable Isotope, Applications, Co-evolution, Convert, Gas-source, Instrumentation, Laboratory, Life, Opportunities, Oxygen, Reconstruction, Species, Specific, Students, Technology, UW, Variety.

CAREER: The State Dependency of Climate Sensitivity during Cenozoic Warm Intervals
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Ran Feng($269,982), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Climate Background, Future Climate, Past Climate, Warm Intervals, Academia, Activities, Bayesian, Combining, Dependency, Developing, ECS, Education, Feedbacks, Framework, Ma, Model, Non-co, Proxy, Public, Simulations, State-dependency.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Extending Tree-Ring Based Reconstructions of Atlantic Gulf Basin Hydroclimate over the Common Era Using Old-Growth Sinker Wood
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2022; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Bryan A Black($400,335), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Cypress And Longleaf, Old-growth Bald Cypress, 20th Century, Agb Hydroclimate, Common Era, Longleaf Pine, Old-growth Bald, Sub-seasonal Resolution, AMV, Atlantic, Ca, Chronologies, Climate, Existing, Extension, Forests, Long-lived, Past, Potential, Reconstruction, Reconstructions, Regional, Source, Southeastern, Spatiotemporal, Stands, Sub-seasonal, Summer, Tree-ring, Trees.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Evaluating the Origins of Multidecadal Variability in Late Holocene Indian Summer Monsoon Rainfall in Nepal
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2021; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Suzanne M Ankerstjerne($85,724), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: North Atlantic, Climate, Has, ISM, Monsoon, Multidecadal, Rainfall, South.

Collaborative Research: Greater New York (NY) Oxidant, Trace gas, Halogen, and Aerosol Airborne Mission (GOTHAAM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2020; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Christine Gilbert($739,296), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Air Quality, Aerosol, Aircraft, Campaign, Chemical, Chemistry, Formation, Mega, NYC, Ocean, Organic, PM, Pollution, Region, SOA, Summer, Vocs, Volatile.

Collaborative Research: P2C2--Bridging the Gap from Northern Iberia to Northwest Africa to Reconstruct Atmospheric Dynamics and Hydroclimate for the Last 2,500 Years
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2018; Program: Paleoclimate

1. Suzanne M Ankerstjerne($300,251), Iowa State University, Ames
Key terms: Central And Southern, Spatial And Temporal, Cave Sites, North Atlantic, Northwest Africa, Southern Portugal, Allow, Atmospheric, Azores, Bridge, Climate, Drivers, Dynamics, Future, High-resolution, Hydroclimate, Iberia, Iberian, Involve, Iowa, Laminae, Morocco, NAO, Nature, Northern, Potential, Region, Regional, Spain, Stalagmite, Strongly, Time, Uraniumthorium.

Education and Outreach using the MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidars (MPD) and NYSM Profiler Network before, during, and after the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Junhong Wang($99,997), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Total Solar Eclipse, Weather Balloon Launches, Profiling Instruments, Undergraduate Students, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Campaign, Eclipses, Field, Measure, Mpds, Path, Public, Temperature, Totality.

Collaborative Research: Cloud Top Discharges and their Parent Storms
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Timothy Logan($65,205), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Morris B Cohen($1,190,626), Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Cloud Top Discharges, Charge Structures, Electrical Discharges, Low Frequency, Thunderstorm Charge, Thunderstorms Produce, Available, Blue, Ctds, Jets, Light, Lightning, Lmas, Meteorological, Observational, Pixies, Prior, Sprites, Storm, •.

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Influence of Turbulent Processes on the Spatiotemporal Variability of Downslope Winds in Coastal Environments
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephan F De Wekker($388,636), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: 50m Grid Spacing, Representing Lee Slope, Slope Wind Structure, 50m Grid, Downslope Windstorms, Numerical Simulations, Santa Barbara, Sundowner Winds, California, Coastal, Conditions, Experiment, LES, Mechanisms, Model, Observations, Processes, SWEX, Terrain, Weather, Wrf-km.

Collaborative Research: Convective Processes in the Tropics Across Scales
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Simone Marras($297,316), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
2. Shukai Du($471,155), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Benefit Society, Small-sized Details, Tropical Rainfall, Undergraduate Students, Clouds, Conducting, Convective, Difficult, Grids, Influence, Interaction, Large-sized, Modeling, Processes, Range, STEM, Simulate, Simulations, Small-sized, Training, Tropics.

The Twelfth (12th) Workshop on Meteorological Sensitivity Analysis and Data Assimilation; Lake George, New York; May 19-24, 2024
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kayo Ide($16,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Sensitivity Analysis, Weather Forecasting, Weather Forecasts, Assimilation, Atmosphere, Current, Development, Discussion, Estimation, Machine, Observations, Starting, Techniques, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: Aeolian Grain Entrainment Over Flexible Vegetation Canopies: Theoretical Models, Laboratory Experiments and Fieldwork
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Eden Furtak-Cole($178,326), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
2. Yaqing Jin($335,876), University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson
Key terms: Developed And Validated, Experiments And Field, Flexible Vegetation, Grain Entrainment, Laboratory Experiments, Particle Entrainment, Predictive Models, Underlying Physics, Vegetation Covers, Vertical Profiles, Wind Erosion, Activities, Aeolian, Canopies, Canopy, Dust, Elucidate, Flux, Interactions, Particles, Sand, Transport.

Collaborative Research: Examining Cloud-Radiation Feedback at Convective Scales in Tropical Cyclones
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Rosimar Rios-Berrios($300,275), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
2. Yunji Zhang($46,283), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
Key terms: Life And Property, Convective Scales, Deep Convection, Model Experiments, Tc Genesis, Tropical Cyclones, Accelerating, Approach, CRF, Clouds, Cloud–radiation, Development, Examine, Expected, Feedback, Forcing, Forecasting, Formation, Gaps, Interaction, Leading, Losses, Numerical, Populations, Radiative, Range, Stratiform, Time.

CAREER: A Comprehensive Assessment of Over-Ocean Tropical Cyclone Weakening
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Kimberly M Wood($529,671), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Kimberly M Wood($529,671), Mississippi State University, Mississippi State
Key terms: Tropical Cyclone Weakening, Over-ocean Weakening, Tropical Basins, Characteristics, Convection, Developed, Environment, Environmental, Has, Hurricane, Hurricanes, Investigated, Land, Moisture, Nstorm, Over-ocean, Programming, Relative, Shear, Spatial, Storms, Tools.

Third International Workshop on Waves, Storm Surges, and Coastal Hazards, Incorporating the Seventeenth (17th) International Waves Workshop; Notre Dame, Indiana; October 1-6, 2023
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Joannes J Westerink($19,575), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Global And Regional, Coastal Hazards, Coastal Ocean, Storm Surge, Wave Generation, Analysis, Applications, Arena, Assimilation, Atmospheric, Climate, Climatology, Complex, Currents, Effects, Exchanges, Flooding, Floodplain, Forecasting, Future, Interaction, Inundation, Larger, Models, Navigation, Offshore, Operational, Physics, Populations, Prediction, Process, Rainfall, Storms, Topics, Water, Waves, Wind.

Stratocumulus As a Gravity Wave Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Brian E Mapes($717,310), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Cloud Features, Individual Cloud, Satellite Imagery, Advective, Algorithms, Archives, Brightness, Clouds, Cover, Crest, Effects, Especially, Field, Identification, Internal, Measure, Motion, Nature, PIV, Periodic, Propagation, Properties, Sky, Source, Sources, Statistics, Stratocumulus, Stripes, Time, Track, Velocity, Wave, Waves, Waviness, Wind.

MCA: Urban-resolving Modeling System - Urban Heat Island, Urban Hydrology, Air Pollution, and Aerosol-Cloud Interaction Nexus
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. John F Mejia($291,216), Nevada System of Higher Education, Desert Research Institute, Reno
Key terms: Weather And Urban, Urban Modeling, Cities, Climate, Complete, Convection, Environment, Factors, Heat, Houston, Interactions, Meteorology, Pollution, Processes, Synoptic, Urbanization.

Collaborative Research: Process Mechanics of Cloudiness Transitions in Subtropical Marine Boundary Layers
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jui-Yuan C Chiu($532,712), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
2. Mark A Miller($509,769), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Marine Stratocumulus Transitions, Ocean Surface, Amount, Arctic, Causal, Climate, Cloud, Clouds, Coverage, Cumulus, ENA, Energy, Framework, Importance, Interactions, Models, Patches, Processes, Referred, Region, Sensitive, Stages, Structural, Sunlight, Variables.

Microfronts and Other Nocturnal Submeso Motions over Microtopography
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Larry Mahrt($473,044), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Low Wind Speeds, Nocturnal Boundary Layers, Stable Nocturnal Boundary, Horizontal Gradients, Strong Cooling, Submeso Motions, Surface Cooling, Vertical Mixing, Analyses, Analysis, Microfronts, Pollutants, Skies, Spatial, Stage, Subclasses, Weak, Winds.

Influences of Coherent Structures on Validity of the Constant Flux Layer Assumptions in the Unstable Atmospheric Surface Layer
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Heping Liu($440,764), Washington State University, Pullman
Key terms: Atmospheric Surface Layer, Constant Flux Layer, Flux Layer Assumption, Measured And Modeled, Eddy Covariance, Field Experiment, Scalar Fluxes, Turbulent Eddies, Unique Dataset, Wide Range, Analysis, Applications, Attributes, Budget, Contributing, Contributions, Failure, Height, Lead, Mechanisms, Quantify, Scalars, Transform, Water.

EAGER: A New Aerial Platform for Turbulence Measurements in the Atmospheric Surface Layer
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Stephan F De Wekker($126,139), University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville
Key terms: Wind Forecasting Models, Difficult Terrain, Drone Technology, Multirotor Drones, Access, Accuracy, Achieve, Approach, Behavior, Benefit, COTS, Collection, Emergency, Local, Minimize, Public, Situations, Turbulence, Weaknesses, Winds.

EAGER: A Technology Demonstrator for a mmWave Rapid Scan Image Phased Array Radar for Cloud Research
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Jay W McDaniel($174,988), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Cloud Radar, Demonstrator Unit, Millimeter Wavelength, Phased Array, Phased-array Radar, Rapid Scan, Rapidly Scan, Antenna, Beam, Db, Designed, Feasibility, Ground-based, Has, Particles, Phased-array, Precipitation, Processes, Radars, Sector, Technology, Testing, Wavelengths, Weather.

Travel Grant: The 2023 International Society for Atmospheric Research using Remotely piloted Aircraft (ISARRA) Meeting; Bergen, Norway; August 1-4, 2023
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Gijs de Boer($30,102), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Weather And Climate, Uncrewed Aircraft, Ability, Additionally, Advancement, Advancing, Aerosol, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Boundary, Conference, Development, Discussion, Discussions, Drones, Gas, Has, ISARRA, Industry, Meeting, Meetings, Sensor, Sensors, Society, Towards, Variety, Wind.

Environmental controls over tropical cyclone formation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Chanh Kieu($357,059), Indiana University, Bloomington
Key terms: Current Tc, Environmental Factors, Ocean Basins, Tc Formation, Tropical Atmosphere, Tropical Cyclogenesis, Approach, Conditions, Constraints, Development, Global, Machine, Mechanisms, Methods, Processes, Risk, Simulations, Studying, Tcs.

Unraveling the Impacts of Ocean Surface Current Gradients and Ocean Surface Waves on Atmospheric Boundary Layer Physical Processes over the Gulf Stream Using COAWST Model
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Mark A Bourassa($575,150), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Currents And Waves, Heat And Moisture, Ocean And Atmosphere, Surface Stress Parameterization, Coupled Model, Gulf Stream, Ocean Surface, Two-way Coupled, Vertical Motion, ABL, Atmospheric, Coupling, Differences, Enhanced, Horizontal, Increased, Influences, Interaction, Models, Modifies, Obtained, Processes, Run, Sensitivity, Storms, Transport, Twin, Two-way, Weather, Winds.

Understanding the Internal Structure and Near-Storm Environments of Supercells via Innovative Analysis of Targeted Observation by Radars and UAS of Supercells (TORUS) Observations
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael Coniglio($678,911), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Near-storm Environmental Conditions, Near-storm Environmental, Analysis, Boundaries, Campaign, Collected, Has, Inflow, Nstorm, Observational, Properties, Rotation, Supercell, Supercells, TORUS, Tornadoes.

SHINE: Understanding the Impact of Solar Energetic Particles and Forbush Decreases on the Global Electric Circuit
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Phillip M Bitzer($353,707), University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville
Key terms: Fair Weather Conditions, Global Electric Circuit, Seps And Fds, Pg Increases, Space Weather, Atmospheric, Characteristics, Climate, Coupling, Earth’s, Forbush, GEC, Ionization, Lightning, Particles, Physics, Requires, Responds, Thorough.

CAESAR: Characterization of Boundary-Layer Convective Precipitation in Arctic Cold Air Outbreaks
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Yonggang Wang($234,022), SUNY College at Oswego, Oswego
Key terms: Arctic Climate, Blc Precipitation, Cold-air Outbreak, Public Outreach, Activities, CAESAR, CAO, Characteristics, Clouds, Cold-air, Collected, Document, LES, Mesoscale, Observational, Ocean, Opportunities, Outbreaks, Perform, Primary, Projections, Students, Warm.

Collaborative Research: Supercell Left Flank Boundaries and Coherent Structures--Targeted Observations by Radars and UAS of Supercells Left-flank-Intensive Experiment (TORUS-LItE)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher C Weiss($233,425), Texas Tech University, Lubbock
2. Adam L Houston($385,103), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
3. Brian M Argrow($325,913), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Boundaries And Coherent, Coherent Structures, Field Campaign, Left Flank, Supercell Thunderstorms, Attendant, Characteristics, Currents, Evolution, Radar, Relate, Storms, Supercells, Svcs, Tornadoes, Tornadogenesis, UAS, Vorticity.

A Doppler Radar Climatology of Updraft Proxy Characteristics in Supercells
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Michael French($440,962), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Dual-pol Radar Signature, Size And Tilt, Dual-pol Radar, Hail Occurrence, Storm Updraft, Storm Updrafts, Updraft Size, Alignment, Characteristics, Estimate, Feature, Hazard, Ii, Larger, Linked, Nstorm, Produce, Produces, Proxy, Storms, Supercell, Tornado, Tornadoes, Weather.

A Comprehensive Observational Examination of the Physical Processes that Link Tropical Cyclone Vortex Alignment to Future Intensity Change
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. George R Alvey($595,824), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Vertical Wind Shear, Weak Tropical Cyclones, Alignment Pathway, Idealized Modeling, Rapid Intensification, Surrounding Environment, Vortex Alignment, Centers, Challenges, Circulation, Comprehensive, Database, Environmental, Hurricanes, Initially, Misaligned, Observational, Pathways, Precipitation, Previous, Processes, Radar, Rapidly, Storm, Storms, Strength, Structure, Transition, Uncertainty.

EAGER: North American Monsoon Prediction Using Causality Informed Machine Learning
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Christopher C Hennon($162,492), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
Key terms: Convective Initiation, Rain Rates, Approach, Cell, Evolution, Field, Forecasters, Forecasts, Innovative, Machine, Model, Phase, Precipitation, Predict, Prediction, Predictors, Southwest, Targets, Thunderstorm, Tool, Training.

Collaborative Research: Diagnosing the Impacts of Blowing Snow in the Northern Great Plains Using Novel Instrumentation and Coupled Models
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David H Bromwich($400,000), Ohio State University, Columbus
2. Aaron D Kennedy($400,000), University of North Dakota Main Campus, Grand Forks
Key terms: Blowing Snow, Innovative Observations, Conditions, Efforts, Forecasting, Hazard, Imagers, Microphysical, Model, Northern, Plains, Process, Students, Weather.

Travel Grant: The Twenty-first (21st) International Conference on Nucleation and Atmospheric Aerosols (ICNAA); Brisbane, Australia; June 26-30, 2023
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Paul J DeMott($20,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: 21st International Conference, Nucleation And Atmospheric, 21st International, Atmospheric Aerosols, Australia, June, Meeting, Student, Travel.

Collaborative Research: Quantifying the Global Electric Circuit by Data Mining of Electric Field and Radar Observations from Ground Based, Airborne and Satellite Platforms
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Wiebke K Deierling($139,000), Colorado State University, Fort Collins
Key terms: Downward Fair-weather Current, Electric Field Observations, Global Electric Circuit, Downward Fair-weather, Electrified Clouds, Fair-weather Current, Microwave Radiometers, Northern Alaska, Upward Current, Atmosphere, Based, Contributions, Diurnal, Escs, GEC, Local, Radar, Satellite-based, Thunderstorms, Uncertainties, •.

CAREER: A Unified Multiscale Modeling Approach for Processes in the Atmospheric Boundary Layer
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Paola Crippa($263,975), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
Key terms: Existing Weather Models, Unified Multi-scale, Atmospheric, Challenging, Critical, Designed, Drivers, Education, Explore, Fine, Flows, Framework, Graduate, Local, Modeling, Multi-scale, Physics-based, Processes, Properties, Regional, Resolution, Risks, Simulations, Specifically, Undergraduate.

Global Exploration of the Conditions of Downward Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF) Production
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2023; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. David M Smith($810,271), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Negative Cloud-to-ground Lightning, Cloud-to-ground Lightning, Negative Cloud-to-ground, Produces Tgfs, Close, Deployed, Detector, Detectors, Dont, Environments, Flashes, Has, Japan, Mt, Positive, Radiation, Range, Sferics, Sites, Strong, Thunderstorms, Upward, Versus, Winter.

Collaborative Research: Experiment of Sea Breeze Convection, Aerosols, Precipitation and Environment (ESCAPE)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2022; Program: Physical & Dynamic Meteorology

1. Zachary J Lebo($256,968), University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman
Key terms: Clouds And Precipitation, Cold Pool, Sea Breeze, Aerosol, Aerosols, Aircraft, Atmospheric, Characterize, Coastal, Convective, Coordinate, ESCAPE, Effects, Environment, Environmental, Ground, High-resolution, Houston, Initiation, Isolated, Kinematic, Lifecycle, Microphysical, Models, Observational, Processes, Properties, Quantify, Radars, Region, Simulations, Size, Updraft, Wide.

AGS-PRF: Understanding Historical Trends in Tropical Pacific Sea Surface Temperature Patterns
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Allison Hogikyan($202,000), Hogikyan, Allison, Princeton
Key terms: Regional Climate Impacts, Full-complexity Climate, Greenhouse Gas, Pacific Warming, Sst Trend, Cold, Eastern, El, Expected, Full-complexity, Has, Involves, Mechanisms, Model, Observations, Produce, Simulated, Simulations, Tropical, ZC.

AGS-PRF: Characterizing the Physicochemical Properties of Primary and Secondary Ultrafine Particles from Brake Emissions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Madeline E Cooke($100,000), Cooke, Madeline E, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Aerosol Emissions, Brake Wear, Laboratory Experiments, Santa Ana, Ultrafine Particles, Air, California, Collaborate, Formation, Non-exhaust, Oxidation, Properties, Secondary, Via.

AGS-PRF: Novel Detection of Accelerated Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides Following High Latitude Peat Fires
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Alan Gorchov Negron($202,000), Gorchov Negron, Alan, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Fires And Soils, High-latitude Soils, Nitrogen Emissions, Nitrogen Oxides, Peatland Fires, Remote Sensing, Soil Nitrogen, Compare, Experiments, Gases, High-latitude, Laboratory, Nearby, Satellite, Substantial.

AGS-PRF: Elucidating the Channels of Energy Transport and Particle Energization in Collisionless Plasmas
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Sarah A Conley($202,000), Conley, Sarah A, Iowa City
Key terms: Collisionless Energy Transport, Collisionless Plasma Turbulence, Fluid And Kinetic, Particle Energization, Channels, Critical, Diagnostics, FPC, Flow, Global, Heliosphere, Local, Methods, Model, Models, Pi-d, Technique, Techniques, Theory.

AGS-PRF: The Physiological and Volatile Emission Stress Response of Leaves during and after Repeated Whole-Plant Ozone Exposure
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2023; Program: Postdoctoral Fellowships

1. Mary J Riches($202,000), Riches, Mary Jean, Fort Collins
Key terms: Biogenic Volatile Organic, Atmospheric Ozone, Bvoc Emissions, O3 Exposure, Plant Physiology, Ability, Library, Plants, Pollution, Quantify.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on The Triennial Earth-Sun Summit (TESS); Dallas, Texas; April 7-12, 2024
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Billy M Williams($50,000), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Earth-sun Summit, Space Physics, AGU, April, Bring, Earth-sun, Eclipse, Held, Lead, Meeting, Meetings, Opportunity, Purpose, Separate, Solar, TESS, Travel.

CAREER: Understanding Collisionless Magnetic Reconnection as a Fundamental Heliospheric Process
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Colby C Haggerty($80,728), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Collisionless Physics Modifies, Magnetic Reconnection, Non-thermal Electrons, Energy, Heliosphere, Kinetic, Non-thermal, Process, Seeks, Shear, Solar, Students, Velocity.

RAPID: Refurbishing and Integrating the Relativistic Electron and Proton Telescope integrated little experiment-2 (REPTile-2) into Emirates Mission to the Asteroid Belt (EMA)
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Xinlin Li($247,988), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Arab Emirates, Asteroid Belt, Cosmic Ray, Emirates Mission, Energetic Particles, Galactic Cosmic, Interplanetary Space, Originally Developed, Space Weather, Building, Colorado, Cubesat, EMA, Energy, Instrument, Integration, Mev, NSF, Protons, Reptile-, Seps, Spacecraft, Unique.

MRI RI-Track 2: Development of the Expanded Owens Valley Solar Array (EOVSA)-15--Major Upgrade of a Community Facility for Solar and Space Weather Physics
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Dale E Gary($1,879,490), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Coronal Magnetic Field, Solar Active Regions, Broadband Imaging, Image Quality, Solar Flares, Solar Phenomena, Space Weather, Analysis, Antennas, Array, Basic, Capabilities, Coverage, Direction, EOVSA, Emission, Enable, Eruption, Existing, Frequencies, Geospace, Ghz, Images, Increase, Instrument, Knowledge, Polarization, Products, Radio, Range, Rapid, Spectra, Upgrade.

CAREER: Uncovering Solar Wind Composition, Acceleration, and Origin through Observations, Modeling, and Machine Learning Methods
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Liang Zhao($223,509), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Solar Wind Composition, Heavy Ions, Ion Composition, Magnetic Field, Heliosphere, Heliospheric, ML, Missions, Multiple, NASA, Sources, Space, Sun, Techniques, Ulysses.

Electron-only Magnetic Reconnection and Role of Reconnection in Kinetic Plasma Turbulence
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Tak Chu Li($637,638), Dartmouth College, Hanover
Key terms: Electron-only And Standard, Electron-only Reconnection, Energy Dissipation, Solar Wind, Standard Reconnection, Has, Increasing, Interconnection, Kinetic, Magnetic, Magnetosheath, Objective, Physics, Plasma, Process, Simulations, Students, Turbulence, Turbulent.

Collaborative Research: SHINE--Exploring Reconnection-Driven Solar Explosive Events in Different Regimes through Modeling and Observation
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Liang Wang($362,861), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Chuanfei Dong($203,122), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Coronal Mass Ejections, Onset And Saturation, Current Sheet, Current Sheets, Dynamical Behaviors, Fast Reconnection, Magnetic Reconnection, Numerical Simulations, Parameter Regimes, Plasmoid Instability, Energy, Explosions, Explosive, Kinetic, MHD, Physics, Plasma, Plasmoid-mediated, Solar, Space, Ultraviolet, Various.

Unraveling Solar Wind Variations in the Last Solar Cycle Using Global Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Simulations
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Zhenguang Huang($660,242), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Alfven Wave, Solar Cycle, Solar Wind, Space Weather, Awsom, In-situ, Investigate, Model, Observations, Physics, Simulated, Various.

Multispacecraft Study of the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Solar Energetic Particles (SEP) Profiles in the Inner Heliosphere
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Bala Poduval($558,790), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Solar Energetic Particles, Inner Heliosphere, Ai-ready, Characteristics, EPREM, Flux, Intensity, Model, Obj, SEP, Seps, Spatio-temporal, Sun.

SHINE: A Numerical Investigation into Coronal Mass Ejections (CME-CME) Interaction Events
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Erika Palmerio($545,775), Predictive Science Incorporated, San Diego
Key terms: Cme–cme Interaction, Analyses, CME–CME, Cmes, Coronal, In-situ, MHD, Magnetic, Properties, Simulations, Space, Structures.

Collaborative Research: SHINE--Using Photospheric Imprints of Coronal Currents to Understand Coronal Magnetic Structure
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Stuart A Gilchrist($107,634), Planetary Science Institute, Tucson
2. Brian T Welsch($144,535), University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, Green Bay
Key terms: Coronal Currents, Currents Evolve, Magnetic Energy, Magnetic Field, Photospheric Field, Photospheric Imprints, Ars, Cmes, EUV, Fields, Flares, Gauss’s, Images, Method, NLFFF, Release, Solar, —.

High Resolution Observations and Studies of Solar Eruptions Using the 1.6-meter Telescope in Big Bear
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Satoshi Inoue($1,739,871), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Gst Observing Time, Excellent Seeing, High-resolution Observations, High-resolution Solar, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Eruptions, Solar Observatory, Solar Physics, Solar Telescope, Space Weather, BBSO, Bear, Continue, DKIST, Development, Facility, Flare, Graduate, Ground-based, Has, High-resolution, Instrument, Instrumentation, Magnetic, Nsf’s, Operating, Operations, Users.

SHINE: Understanding the Relationships of Photospheric Vector Magnetic Field Parameters in Solar Flare Occurrences using Graph-based Machine Learning Models
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Shah Muhammad Hamdi($437,703), Utah State University, Logan
Key terms: Magnetic Field Parameters, Active Region, Flare Prediction, Mvts Dataset, Node Pairs, Parameter Graphs, Solar Flares, Temporal Segments, Denote, Edges, Features, Model, Nodes, Similarities, Students, Task, Time, USU.

Harnessing the Unique Science, Education and Outreach Opportunities of the 8 April 2024 Great American Total Solar Eclipse
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Colby C Haggerty($821,311), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Multiple Observing Sites, Total Solar Eclipse, Coronal Emission, Coronal Plasmas, Solar Eclipses, Broadband, Imaging, NIR, Observations, Outreach, Processes, Responsible, Spectroscopic, Surface, TSE, Temperature, Tses, VIS, Visible.

Conference: Funding for Student and Young Scientist Attendance at the 16th International Solar Wind Conference Series
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Juan Carlos Martinez Oliveros($36,657), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: International Solar Wind, Solar Wind Conference, Solar Wind Physics, Selected Topics, Space Physics, Wide Range, Advancements, Attend, Brings, Cover, Disciplines, Discuss, Experts, Field, Has, Opportunity, Planetary, Sessions, Students, Various.

SHINE: Testing Theories of Coronal Heating and Solar Wind Acceleration with Multi-Messenger Data and Four-Dimension (4D) Forward Modeling
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Steven R Cranmer($413,817), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Heating And Solar, Solar Wind Acceleration, Coronal Heating, Magnetic Field, Solar Corona, Field-line, Investigation, Models, Processes, Responsible, Simulations, Space.

Solar Heliospheric and INterplanetary Environment (SHINE) Workshop, 2023-2027
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Nada Al-Haddad($625,963), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Fields And Particles, Shine Workshops, Solar Wind, Annually, Collaborations, Heliosphere, Heliospheric, Interplanetary, Phenomena, Processes, Students, Sun.

SHINE: Understanding the Three-Part Structure of Coronal Mass Ejections Combining Data Analyses and Numerical Simulations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Noe Lugaz($337,583), University of New Hampshire, Durham
Key terms: Cme Trailing Edge, White-light Coronagraphic Images, Bright Core, Cme Structure, Cme Substructures, Numerical Simulations, White-light Coronagraphic, Analysis, Cmes, Consistent, Filament, In-situ, MFR, Observations, Observed, Public, Remote, Space.

Collaborative Research: SHINE: Where Are Particles Accelerated in Coronal Jets?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Spiro Antiochos($122,759), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Active-region Periphery Jets, Impulsive Solar Energetic, Active-region Periphery, Coronal Jets, Energetic Particle, Accelerated, Electrons, Escape, Evolve, Heliosphere, Magnetic, Particles, Simulations, Space.

American Geophysical Union (AGU) Chapman Conference on Advances in Understanding Alfven Waves in the Sun and the Heliosphere; Berlin, Germany; May 28-June 2, 2023
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2023; Program: SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL

1. Billy M Williams($49,960), American Geophysical Union, Washington
Key terms: Alfven Waves, Planetary Magnetospheres, Solar Atmosphere, Solar Wind, Space Plasmas, Chapman, Conference, Focused, Interdisciplinary, Jupiter.

Workshop on Geomagnetically Induced Currents; College Park, Maryland; Four Days in October 2023
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Space Weather Research

1. A Surjalal Sharma($100,000), University of Maryland, College Park, College Park
Key terms: Geomagnetically Induced Currents, Managing Potential Consequences, Modeling And Prediction, Operators And Government, Severe Space Weather, Supported And Sustained, Critical Infrastructure, Define Pathways, Electric Power, Technological Infrastructure, Uncertainty Quantification, Activities, Applications, Approaches, Centered, Contribute, Developing, Ecosystem, Education, Engage, Engaged, Funding, Hazardous, Industry, Integration, Meeting, Nucleate, Objective, Operation, Participants, Regulation, Resilience, Resilient, Societal, Stakeholders, Workshop, Workshops.

Travel Grant for U.S. Scientist to the African Geophysical Society Conference and International Space Weather Initiative (ISWI) School; Lusaka, Zambia; September 26-October 4, 2023
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Chigomezyo Ngwira($47,706), Catholic University of America, Washington
Key terms: Conference And Iswi, International Space Weather, Ags Conference, International Conference, Iswi School, Primary Objective, Africa, African, Collaborations, Connections, Enhance, Geospace, Held, NSF, Postdocs, Students, Th, Travel.

REU Site: Astronomy and Geoscience at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Haystack Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Philip J Erickson($404,911), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Development, Haystack, Instrumentation, Participants, Program, REU, Rewarding, Student, Students, Topics.

SHINE: Prediction of Coronal Mass Ejections and Interplanetary Magnetic Fields Using Advanced Artificial Intelligence Techniques
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Yao Ma($573,200), New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark
Key terms: Aiml Advancement, Space Weather, AU, Advanced, Based, Cmes, Co-funded, Coronal, Directorate, Field, Forecast, Geosciences, Gnns, Mass, Mcs, National, Near, Predict, Solar, Time.

The Mechanism of the Solar Dynamo Governing Space Climate and Space Weather
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2023; Program: Space Weather Research

1. Fadil Inceoglu($150,674), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Grand Minima, Magnetic Activity, Solar Activity, Solar Dynamo, Space Climate, Space Weather, Annual, Characteristics, Constraints, Decipher, Isotope, Machine, Numerical, Past, Periods, Sun, Sunspot, Techniques, Underlying.

Collaborative Research: Observations and Modeling of Primary and Secondary Gravity Waves at all Altitudes over the Andes
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Wenjun Dong($716,747), Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach
2. Thomas S Lund($359,645), GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC TECHNOLOGIES AND SCIENCES, INC., Newport News
Key terms: Primary And Secondary, Secondary Gravity Waves, Secondary Gravity, Advance, Aims, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Dynamics, GW, Generation, Gws, Instability, Investigation, Machine, Models, Observations, Planned, Processes, SGW, Satellite, Turbulence, Weather.

Travel Grant: For Faculty from Under-Resourced Institutions to the American Meteorological Society (AMS) Community Meetings in 2024
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Stephanie Armstrong($99,999), American Meteorological Society, Boston
Key terms: AMS, Conferences, Eris, Faculty, Msis, Program, Teaching, Travel, Under-resourced.

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of an Aerosol Chemical Speciation System to Elucidate Sources, Formation Processes, and Environmental Impacts at ASU's AppalAIR Observatory
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Christopher S Thaxton($531,902), Appalachian State University, Boone
Key terms: Appalachian Mountain Region, Southern Appalachian Mountain, Aerosol Chemical, Chemical Composition, ACSS, Aerosols, Appalair, Atmospheric, Chemistry, Detailed, Facility, Interactions, NASA, Program, Site, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Uncovering the Role of Land-Atmosphere Feedbacks on Flash Drought Intensification, Severity, and Expansion
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Tobias Gerken($142,090), James Madison University, Harrisonburg
2. Jason A Otkin($262,898), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Land And Atmosphere, Flash Drought, Flash Droughts, Undergraduate Students, Analysis, Conditions, Development, Environmental, Increase, Rapid, Wide.

Collaborative Research: Identifying Model Biases in Poleward Heat Transport--Atmosphere-Ocean Partitioning, Trends over the Historical Period and Sub-Seasonal Variability
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: Special Initiatives

1. Nicole Feldl($71,477), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
2. Aaron Donohoe($608,923), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Climate Models Adequately, Identifying Model Biases, Models Adequately Represent, Poleward Heat Transport, Undergraduate And Graduate, Graduate Students, Heat Waves, Observable Timescales, Training Undergraduate, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Compared, Future, Long-term, Ocean, Outreach, Predictions, Processes, Responsible, Substantial, Temperature.

The Incoherent Scatter Radar Summer School
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2020; Program: Upper Atmospheric Facilities

1. Andrey Krywonos($583,262), The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees, Orlando
Key terms: Isr Summer School, Incoherent Scatter, Isr Facilities, Atmosphere, Communications, Future, Has, Radar, Satellite, Students, Theory, Training, Upper, Weather, Workforce.

REU Site: Advancing Space Sciences through Undergraduate Research Experiences (ASSURE)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: nan

1. Matthew Fillingim($472,652), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Assure Program, Communication, Engineering, Experience, Geospace, Increase, Missions, National, Opportunity, Physics, Range, SSL, Skills, Space, Students, Undergraduate.

NSF-GEO-AGS Awards for 2023

CEDAR: Characterization of Upper Atmospheric Effects of Hurricanes Award Effective Date: 02/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Modeling of Initial Temperature Relaxation and Expansion of Meteor Trails Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Evaluating Ion Temperature Anisotropy in the Weakly Collisional F-region Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 12/15/2023; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Observational and Modeling Studies of Thermosphere-Ionosphere Metal (TIMt) Layers over Boulder Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

The Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) Workshop; Cleveland, Ohio; March 22-23, 2024 Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Higher-Order Concentric Gravity Waves in the Northern Winter Thermosphere and Ionosphere Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Swarm over Poker 2023--An Auroral System-Science Campaign Exemplar of Archiving and Aharing Heterogeneously-Derived Data Products Award Effective Date: 11/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Travel Grant: Inaugural Data, Analysis and Software in Heliophysics (DASH) Conference; Laurel, Maryland; October 11-13, 2023 Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: Laboratory and Modeling Studies to Resolve a Grand Challenge for Upper Atmospheric Science Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

CEDAR: Data-driven Modeling of the Global Equatorial Electrojet Variability Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR--A Whole-Atmospheric Perspective on Connections between Intra-Seasonal Variations in the Troposphere and Thermosphere Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: A Simulation and Theoretical Analysis of Meteor Evolution over Scales Ranging from Sub-microseconds to Minutes Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Collaborative Research: CEDAR: Searching for the Strongest Thermospheric Wind and Highest Temperature inside Strong Thermal Emission Velocity Enhancements Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Characterizing Mesoscale Thermospheric F-region Winds Associated with Quasi-steady and Transient Nightside Auroral Arcs Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Three-Dimensional Numerical Modeling of Sprite Streamers Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

Coupling, Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) Workshop, 2023-2024 Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: AERONOMY

CAREER: Atmospheric Electricity on Earth and Mars Award Effective Date: 10/01/2022; Program: AERONOMY

RAPID: Characterizing and Understanding Smoke Transport in 2023 Hawaii Wildfire Event Using Geostationary Satellite Observations and Numerical Modeling Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

RAPID: Drivers and Improving Forecasts of Subseasonal-to-Seasonal Wildfire Potential in Hawaii Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

RAPID: Meteorology and Predictability of the August 2023 Maui Wildfires Award Effective Date: 09/15/2023; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Collaborative Research: EUREC4A-iso--Constraining the Interplay between Clouds, Convection, and Circulation with Stable Isotopologues of Water Vapor Award Effective Date: 11/15/2019; Program: AGS-ATM & Geospace Sciences

Collaborative Research: Aerosol Properties and Autoconversion during Cold-Air outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region (CAESAR) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

CAESAR: Characterizing and Understanding Atmospheric Boundary Layer Fluxes, Structure and Cloud Property Evolution in Arctic Cold Air Outbreaks Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Cloud-Aerosol-Dynamic Interactions in Cold Air Outbreaks over the Arctic Ocean Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Mesoscale Dynamics and Mixed-phase Microphysics in Arctic Cold Air Outbreaks Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Aerosol Influences on Ice Formation in Arctic Cold Air Outbreak Clouds during Cold-Air outbreak Experiment in the Sub-Arctic Region (CAESAR) Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Arctic Cold-Air Outbreak Mixed-Phase Cloud Characteristics, Processes and Impacts in Observations and Models Award Effective Date: 05/01/2023; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Collaborative Research: Elucidating the Role of Natural Aerosols in Modulating Boundary Layer Clouds and Precipitation in the Southern Ocean Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

Molecular-level Understanding Of Atmospheric Aerosols (MUOAA 2024); Corsica, France; April 1-5, 2024 Award Effective Date: 01/01/2024; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Non-tailpipe Emissions: The Next Frontier in Vehicle Contributions to Air Quality and Climate Change Award Effective Date: 12/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Toward Improved Understanding of Fundamental Processes Controlling the Size-Resolved Properties of Particles in the Stratosphere Award Effective Date: 12/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Origin and Influence of Background Ozone in the Western United States (U.S.) from Observations at the Mount Bachelor Observatory Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Field Measurements for Understanding Atmospheric Oxidation Generated by Electrical Discharges Award Effective Date: 12/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

MRI Track 1: Acquisition of a Dual-Reagent Chemical Ion Mass Spectrometer for Direct and Detailed Measurements of Atmospheric Chemical Fluxes Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Laboratory Studies Investigating the Influence of Particle Diameter on Viscosity Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Coastal Cloud Chemistry during the Eastern Pacific Cloud Aerosol Precipitation Experiment (EPCAPE-CCC) Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Verification of Atmospheric Mercury Redox Rates Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Seasonal Measurements of Hydrogen Oxide Radical (HOx) Chemistry in Forests Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Chemistry-Informed Ice Nucleation and Growth--Integrated Laboratory and Modeling Studies Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Conference: Conduct a Workshop to Develop a Proposal Addressing African Air Quality Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Toward an Improved Understanding of Particle Dry Deposition Velocity Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Characterizing the Sources and Chemistry of Nitrogen Oxides, Nitrous Acid, and Particulate Nitrate during the AEROMMA Campaign Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Advancing Modeling of Wildfire Smoke Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

A Global Survey of Helium in the Troposphere: Advancing the Application of Helium as a Tracer of Natural Gas Usage and Stratosphere-Troposphere Exchange Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Advancing the Understanding of Wildfire Impacts on Stratospheric Chemistry Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Sulfur Oxide Chemistry in Aqueous Aerosols--Mechanisms and Kinetics of Inorganic Sulfate and Organosulfur Compound Formation in the Atmosphere Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

RAPID: Impact of Sargassum Decomposition on Air Quality in South Florida Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Aqueous Aerosol Chemistry: Elucidating the Mechanisms Causing Mismatch between Field and Laboratory Chemical Composition of Biomass Burning Organic Aerosol Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Early-Generation Photochemical Oxidation Products of Isoprene Under Low-NO Conditions:Aerosol Formation Potential and Structural Assignments by Ion Mobility Mass Spectral Analysis Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric Science and Chemistry mEasurement NeTwork (ASCENT) Workshop; Atlanta, Georgia; May 25-26, 2023 Award Effective Date: 05/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Fundamental Chemistry and Societal Changes; Sunday River, Maine; July 30-August 4, 2023 Award Effective Date: 05/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

EAGER: Initial Phase of Development of a Molecular Isomer Resolving Aerosol Collector and Analyzer (MIRACA) Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Collaborative Research: Understanding Emission Sources and Sinks of Nitrous Acid in North American Forests Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Global Impacts of Phase State on Secondary Organic Aerosol Partitioning Award Effective Date: 04/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

Constraining the Mechanistic Effects of Spatial Resolution on Global Air Quality Modeling Award Effective Date: 03/15/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Constraining Land Carbon Uptake on Regional and Global Scales by Enabling the Interpretation of Two Decades of Trace Gas Measurements Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Impacts of the Chemical and Physical Properties of Surfactants on the Hygroscopic Growth of Atmospheric Aerosol Particles Award Effective Date: 03/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

CAREER: Multi-Generational Aging of Atmospheric Organic Mixtures Award Effective Date: 11/15/2022; Program: Atmospheric Chemistry

The Role of the Mean-State Atmospheric Circulation in Future Projections of Regional Hydroclimate and Cloud Feedbacks Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Atmospheric Sci Cluster Prgrm

Collaborative Research: Understanding the Links between Tropical Cyclones and Tropical Circulation under Climate Change through Idealized Coupled Climate Modeling Award Effective Date: 11/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

RAPID: Measuring the Isotopic Fingerprint of the South American Summer Monsoon during a Strong El Nino, 2023-2024 Award Effective Date: 11/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Origin and Structure of the Monsoon Onset Vortex Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

The Seventeenth (17th) Graduate Climate Conference (GCC); Woods Hole, Massachusetts; November 2-4, 2023 Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

How Do Energy Fluxes Link Precipitation Variability across the Tropical Weather-Climate Continuum? Award Effective Date: 10/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Conference: Attribution of Extreme Weather and Climate Events and their Impacts Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Mesoscale Predictability Across Climate Regimes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Quantifying Agriculture as a Driver of Regional Climate Extremes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Insolation Gradients and Eastern Mediterranean Aridity: Impacts on Winter Storms and Implications for Climate Projections Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Strateole-2: Atmospheric Wave Influences on Cirrus, Water Vapor, and Global Circulation Near the Tropical Tropopause Award Effective Date: 09/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Assessing and Understanding Oceanic Climate Forcing on Decadal Climate Variability from Surface Heat Flux Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Understanding the Critical Role of Seasonality for El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) Variability, Using Empirical Stochastic-Dynamic Models and Physics-Based Coupled Models Award Effective Date: 08/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Understanding the Effects of Land Hydrology, Water Volatility, and Rotation Rate on Clouds, Climate, and Circulation in a Hierarchy of Models Award Effective Date: 08/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Understanding the impact of Arctic sea ice loss on summertime climate change Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: The Relationship between the Trade Wind Inversion Layer and the Seasonal Development of the Southeast Pacific Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Using Emergent Constraints to Reduce Uncertainty in Regional Climate Change Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Collaborative Research: Cloud-Radiative Feedback as the Coupling Mechanism of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Addressing Problems in Tropical Atmospheric Dynamics Using Idealized Global Climate Models Award Effective Date: 07/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Workshop on Atmospheric and Urban Digital Twins (AUDT); Austin, Texas Award Effective Date: 06/15/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics

Assessing Atmospheric Impacts of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai Volcanic Eruption and Using It as a Natural Experiment to Evaluate an Earth System Model Award Effective Date: 06/01/2023; Program: Climate & Large-Scale Dynamics