Delivery Order EPW07071-EP0003

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $173,768 grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), operating as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to develop an integrated terrestrial modeling and data assimilation framework. This framework will support the integration of data from current and planned NASA Earth observing satellite missions into operational weather and hydrologic prediction models, as well as research models for...

This is a $154,216.19 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to deploy the Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System (AVAPS), also known as a dropsonde, on the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Olympic Mountain Ground Validation Experiment (OLYMPEX) field campaign from November 10 to December 22, 2015. The...

This is a $4,403,363 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center, a civilian federal agency, to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a for-profit company that is a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The grant is for research and development to build a prototype ultra-compact infrared sensor to measure temperature and water vapor in the atmospheric boundary layer. No set-aside designations were used. The work includes developing metamaterial filters, building and testing a benchtop...

The University of Rochester has been awarded a $151,879 cooperative agreement by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. This agreement supports the NASA Atmospheric Tomography (ATOM) Mission, which deploys an extensive gas and aerosol payload on the NASA DC-8 aircraft to conduct systematic, global-scale sampling of the atmosphere from 0.2 to 12 km altitudes. The data collected will be used to improve the representation of chemically reactive gases and...

This federal contract award of $679,871.00 was granted to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc., by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The objective of this grant is to develop enhancements to the RRTMGP radiation code, which is used in the GEOS-5 climate model, to support key priorities of NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office (GMAO). The enhancements will improve the code's accuracy and...

This $387,889 firm fixed-price delivery order contract was awarded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), a bureau within the Department of Commerce, to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to provide AVAPS (Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System) software-defined radio-based telemetry receiver. As the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), UCAR manages research facilities and infrastructure to support the academic community and...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $599k grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, operating as the National Center for Atmospheric Research, to conduct several observational studies of atmospheric circulation and variability based on long-term stratospheric water vapor and temperature measurements from the Aura Microwave Limb Sounder satellite instrument. The studies will analyze MLS data to provide new estimates of...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center has awarded a $136,644 grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research's National Center for Atmospheric Research to characterize the relationship between water vapor and cold point tropopause temperature using in situ measurements from the DCOTSS and ACCLIP field campaigns conducted during the 2021 and 2022 boreal summers. The research project does not have a set-aside designation. Under the grant, the...

This federal grant, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota, Office of Sponsored Projects Administration, supports research on data assimilation techniques to enhance the predictability of extreme weather events and soil moisture dynamics. The $299,467 grant aims to develop new variational data assimilation methods that can better account for non-Gaussian errors, observational outliers, and systematic biases in weather and...

This is a $860,630.59 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The grant supports research to develop a prototype methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) system for the Boston and San Francisco Bay Area regions, in collaboration with local air quality management districts. The research aims to advance...