Delivery Order GS35F4951H-DOCDG133E04NC0485

This federal contract award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aims to enhance the science value of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) sulfur dioxide (SO2) data product. The $732,900.50 grant-funded research will improve the OMI SO2 retrieval algorithm using principal component analysis, producing significantly better estimates of anthropogenic SO2 and volcanic SO2 cloud height. This will enable new air quality and...

This $277,499.12 federal grant award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) supports the development and production of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) data products from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument. The goal is to continue the critical Earth Observing System (EOS) data records for these key air quality and climate indicators that were previously provided by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)...

This federal contract award, with ID NNX15AQ93G, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Wisconsin System's University of Wisconsin - Madison division, operating as Research and Sponsored Programs. The $322,304.67 grant supports the development of a full retrieval framework using photon pathlength distributions, with the goal of improving carbon dioxide column mixing ratio (XCO2) retrieval accuracy from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2...

NASA awarded a $59,938 research grant to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY), operating through City College, for ozone LIDAR observations and air quality studies in the New York City area. The project, which commenced on January 1, 2023, and concludes on December 31, 2024, supports NASA's Atmospheric Tomography Mission (STAQS) and validates products from the Tropospheric Emissions: Monitoring of Pollution (TEMPO) instrument. LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging)...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $779,600 research grant by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) on June 1, 2023, to conduct research titled "Identifying Fingerprints of Changing Anthropogenic Sources and Natural Variability on Observed Regional and Seasonal Trends in Tropospheric Ozone and Precursors." The grant, issued under solicitation 22-ACMAP22-0020 with an ultimate completion date of May 31, 2026, will be performed in Cambridge,...

This is a $188,104.11 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to develop a global surface nitrogen dioxide (NO2) dataset using observations from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on the Aura satellite. The project aims to enhance the relevance of NASA satellite data to tropospheric composition, health, and air quality studies by improving methods to infer surface NO2...

This is a $89,161.72 federal contract awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York to conduct research on using satellite data to analyze the spatial and temporal variability of ground-level ozone formation and its sensitivity to precursor emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). The research aims to facilitate the application of satellite remote sensing to characterize the complexities of ozone chemistry...

This federal contract award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) provides $378,838 in funding to the University of Wisconsin - Madison to conduct research related to improving the accuracy of carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. The research aims to minimize systematic errors in OCO-2's CO2 retrievals caused by cloud contamination, by developing advanced radiative transfer modeling and analysis of actual OCO-2...

This $343,478 grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Wisconsin - Madison, operating under the University of Wisconsin System, to continue research to advance the capabilities of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite in cloudy scenes. The research aims to develop new techniques for partial column retrievals of carbon dioxide concentrations, as well as improved methods for retrieving cloud properties from OCO-2 data. This...

This is a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract awarded by the Goddard Space Flight Center, a civilian agency of the U.S. Government, to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) in Boulder, Colorado. The purpose of the contract is to ensure the continued processing and reprocessing of data from the Measurement of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT) instrument on the Terra satellite, as well as the delivery of standard data products to the user community, for up to two years beyond the...