This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for an "Airborne Seasonal Survey of CO2 and CH4 Across Above Domain". The objective is to improve understanding and predictive capabilities for modeling the land-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) in the Arctic Boreal Ecosystems to...
This is a cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Montana for a project titled "Satellite Data Driven Model Assessment of Landscape Variability and Environmental Controls on the Arctic-Boreal Carbon Budget." The $699,995.51 contract aims to apply a satellite data-driven carbon model framework to improve the understanding and quantification of carbon (CO2 and CH4) fluxes and environmental...
This federal contract award is a $417,795.50 grant to the University of Colorado, a public research university, to continue its activities as part of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Flux Inversion Theme Group's global carbon dioxide (CO2) flux inversion model intercomparison project (MIP) for an additional three years. The project aims to help interpret new updates to the OCO-2, Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), and OCO-3 CO2 data products, specifically by assimilating...
This is a $563,954.55 grant award from the Shared Services Center of NASA to Colorado State University (CSU) for a project entitled "Inverse Modeling of Carbon Fluxes by Assimilation of XCO2 and Fluorescence from OCO-2". The goal is to perform inverse modeling of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to obtain monthly maps of carbon sources and sinks globally. CSU will use its Sim-ple Biosphere Model version 4 (SIB4) to simulate global CO2 levels, constrained...
This is a $206,697.88 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to quantify global carbon cycle flux responses to climate variation and trends over the course of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission and earlier Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) record. The project combines expertise in atmospheric,...
This is a $267,065 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Woodwell Climate Research Center, a non-profit organization, to apply an innovative satellite data-driven model framework to improve understanding of carbon (CO2 and CH4) dynamics and environmental controls on northern ecosystem carbon budgets in Alaska and northwest Canada. The study will leverage a suite of ground-based and remote sensing observations to enhance a Terrestrial Carbon Flux (TCF) model for the...
This federal contract award to Colorado State University, a public land-grant research university, was issued by the Shared Services Center on behalf of NASA. The $682,223.64 grant is for a project titled "Tackling Aerosol-Induced CO2 Uncertainties Through the Synergistic Use of MODIS and OCO-2 Observations." The objective is to explore the benefits of combining data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors to...
This is a $440,227.28 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado (CU) to support research related to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite mission. The grant will fund a multi-year effort to utilize high-altitude aircore measurements and aircraft data to improve the bias corrections and scaling of OCO-2 total column carbon dioxide (XCO2) retrievals, and to evaluate the accuracy of flux estimates from OCO-2 data in climate...
The University of Colorado, through its Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), was awarded a $1,734,905.37 grant by NASA to support the "Atmospheric Carbon and Transport - America" research project. The grant tasks include air sampling, data quality assurance, inventory analysis, flight planning assistance, scientific analysis, and carbon-tracker modeling. This work is in support of the project led by Kenneth J. Davis. The award was made on April 20, 2015...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration awarded a $38,399.97 cooperative agreement to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The agreement supports research to improve understanding of the feedbacks associated with climate change in northern boreal forests. Specifically, the university will establish a quantitative framework linking surface measurements of solar induced fluorescence and vegetation reflectance to estimates of gross primary productivity at...
This is a $544,306.45 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the University of Colorado to study the dramatic increase in the amplitude of the CO2 seasonal cycle observed in northern high latitudes since the 1960s. The project will develop a high-resolution regional inverse modeling system, CarbonTracker-ABOVE, that integrates satellite and in-situ trace gas measurements, as well as satellite-based land products, to quantify the contributions of various processes responsible for this change. It will also use the improved Polar-VPRM model to extrapolate measurement-constrained estimates of net ecosystem exchange and gross primary production across the pan-Arctic over the last two decades. The results aim to provide insights into future changes in Arctic-boreal carbon fluxes in response to climate change. This agreement does not have a set-aside designation.