This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University in the amount of $725,892.13. The grant is for a research project to study microphysical processes that control water and clouds in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere (UTLS), the role of convection in generating cirrus and moistening the lower stratosphere, and the water budget of the lowermost stratosphere. The research will use models and observations from NASA's Aura...
This is a $2,595,534.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University to conduct a field measurement campaign using the NASA ER-2 high-altitude research aircraft. The research will investigate the dynamics and chemistry of the summer stratosphere over central North America, combining in-situ aircraft observations with satellite, radar, and model data to understand the role of convection in the composition and dynamics of the lower...
This is a $100,815.45 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas A&M University. The grant supports three key activities: Refinement of NASA's Level-2 cloud mask, cloud-top property, and cloud optical property datasets from the MODIS sensors on the Terra and Aqua satellites. This includes completing ongoing refinement work and developing a new infrared optimal estimation algorithm to replace the current CO2-slicing heritage...
This is a $339,193.00 federal grant awarded to Texas A&M University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project titled "CONSTRAINING CLOUD FEEDBACK RESPONSES ASSOCIATED WITH PRECIPITATING CLOUD DISTRIBUTION SHIFTS UNDER CHANGING TROPICAL ASCENT AREA". The grant is for a period of performance ending on October 16, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. Texas A&M University, a public land-grant research university, is the prime...
This federal contract award, valued at $303,312.99, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University, a public land-grant research institution in College Station, Texas. The award supports a research project that aims to investigate the relationship between precipitation, cloud cover, and large-scale climate patterns. Specifically, the research will leverage data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite to study how...
This is a two-year grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas A&M University for $196,984.00. The grant is for research to develop accurate optical properties of ice clouds for active remote sensing applications. Texas A&M University is the prime awardee, and there is no set-aside designation for this contract. As a public research university, Texas A&M University has expertise in remote sensing, atmospheric science,...
This federal contract award to Texas A&M University is for research to improve the simulation of dust aerosols in global climate models and reduce the uncertainty of their radiative forcing on climate. The $202,219.98 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will utilize satellite observations from CALIPSO, CloudSat, and other A-Train sensors to develop a new 3-dimensional dataset of dust aerosol distribution, evaluate dust simulation in climate models, and make...
This is a $523,033 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University for a project titled "GLOBAL DISTRIBUTION OF MINERAL DUST LOAD AND MICROPHYSICAL PROPERTIES INFERRED FROM SYNERGISTIC CALIPSO OBSERVATIONS AND STATE-OF-THE-SCIENCE LIGHT-SCATTERING SIMULATIONS." The grant is for research related to studying the distribution and properties of mineral dust in the atmosphere using observations from the CALIPSO satellite and...
This federal contract award, valued at $184,959, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University to assess the impact of tropical tropopause layer (TTL) cirrus clouds on climate systems. The research will evaluate and develop new data products from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite to study the distribution, evolution, and properties of TTL cirrus clouds. The project aims to improve the...
This is a $134,529.72 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas A&M University on September 1, 2017. The goal of the research is to develop a bispectral retrieval technique using sub-millimeter and thermal infrared wave radiometry to accurately measure ice water path (IWP) and ice particle effective diameter (D_eff) in clouds. This research aims to address discrepancies in IWP values in general circulation models due to...
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 stratospheric water vapor, with a focus on optically thin cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer. The award does not have a set-aside designation, and Texas A&M University is the prime contractor. The research seeks to address critical gaps in understanding upper troposphere/lower stratosphere humidity and cloud formation, which are not well represented in current climate models.