Grant For Research 80NSSC18K1237
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- This is a $457,530.39 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the non-profit research institute SRI International. The grant funds a project to conduct laboratory measurements of the rate constants for the removal and relaxation of vibrationally excited hydroxyl (OH) radicals in the mesosphere. The goal is to improve the scientific analysis and modeling of the OH nightglow data collected by the Sounding of the Atmosphere...
- This is a $558,091.41 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the non-profit research institute SRI International. The grant is for a research project to investigate the vibrational relaxation kinetics of hydroxyl radicals (OH(v)) in the atmospheres of Mars and Venus. The goal is to improve the understanding of OH(v) emissions, which can serve as an indicator of atmospheric composition, variability, circulation, and temperature on these planets. The...
- This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SRI International, a non-profit research institute. The $601,843 grant is for research on nitric oxide (NO), a key minor species in the Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere, and its role in upper atmospheric energy balance. The research will focus on the 5.3-micrometer band emission of NO. The grant has a period of performance from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2025. SRI International has a history of...
- This is a $109,452.95 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is for research to better understand the processes controlling the variability of enhanced water vapor in the upper troposphere/lower stratosphere (UTLS) region over the North American Monsoon region, which is observed by the Aura...
- This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to SRI International, a nonprofit research and development institute, to conduct laboratory measurements investigating key mechanistic pathways and rate constants for the interaction of highly vibrationally excited hydroxyl (OH(v)) with ground state oxygen atoms (O(3P) or O). The grant has a potential value of $592,792.00 and a period of performance ending on August 31, 2023. The contract...
- This is a $92,578.61 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University to conduct research on water vapor concentration, cloud abundance, and their impact on the Earth's climate and stratospheric chemistry. The research aims to use measurements from various satellite instruments, including SAGE II/III, CALIOP, OMPS-LP, and Aura MLS, as well as transport and microphysical modeling, to better understand the processes controlling clouds and...
- This is a $678,447.00 grant awarded by a U.S. government civilian agency, the Shared Services Center, to the non-profit research institute SRI International located in Menlo Park, California. The grant is for research on the production pathways of the OH Meinel band emission, which is required for timed/SABER observations. The research will be conducted by SRI International, and the grant has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026. This award is not associated with a larger contract...
- This is a $280,284.80 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) for a research project to study the atmospheric coupling between the lower atmosphere and mesosphere. The goal is to improve understanding of the influence of obliquely propagating gravity waves generated over the monsoon region on the high-latitude summer mesosphere, as indicated by polar mesospheric...
- This is a $663,985.58 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates LLC, doing business as Orion Space Solutions, a small business research and development company. The grant is for a research project to study the time-dependent neutral chemistry and transport of water in the mesosphere and lower thermosphere, and determine the impact on temperature and ice cloud formation. The research aims to answer three key...
- This is a $497,395.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) division. The grant, which has a performance period ending January 31, 2023, supports a laboratory program that studies highly reactive polyatomic molecular ions in low density regions and photo-dissociation regions (PDRs). This research aims to advance understanding of the chemistry beyond light ions observed in these...
This is a $454,070.75 grant awarded to SRI International, a non-profit research institute, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The grant is for a laboratory study aimed at improving the reliability of non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) models for retrieving water vapor number density profiles in the Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) regions. The study will focus on determining the rate coefficient for the vibration-to-vibration (V-V) energy exchange between H2O(010) and O2(1), which is a key uncertainty in current non-LTE models. The low-temperature laboratory measurements from this project are expected to have a crucial positive impact on the quantitative extraction of water vapor altitude profiles from the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument aboard the Thermosphere-Ionosphere-Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite. This grant does not involve any set-aside designation and is set to be completed by July 12, 2023.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| P00004 | Funding Only Action | ($6k) | 7/11/23 | |
| Not listed | ($6k) | 7/11/23 | ||
| Not listed | $0 | 7/14/21 | ||
| P00003 | Other Administrative Action | $0 | 7/14/21 | |
| P00002 | Funding Only Action | $151.6k | 6/26/20 |