The University of Iowa was awarded a $300,001 research grant (Contract ID: 80NSSC19K0946) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct a multi-year study on characterizing trends in summertime atmospheric composition over North America from 2000-2020. The research will leverage satellite data and advanced modeling techniques to evaluate the impacts of changes in anthropogenic emissions on regional air quality and inform emission reduction strategies. The university...
This is a $661,465.54 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Institute of Technology's research organization, Georgia Tech Research Corporation. The grant funds research to analyze satellite, ground-based, and in-situ observations of tropospheric nitrogen oxides (NOx) over the United States. The goal is to better understand air quality and emission trends using satellite data, particularly from instruments like the Ozone Monitoring...
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 $78,368.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa for research related to the GEOS-CHEM adjoint model and multi-sensor data. The grant is focused on constraining aerosol source emissions over East Asia in specific years, ascertaining the impact of reducing aerosol emission uncertainty on estimates of aerosol direct radiative forcing and transboundary transport, and characterizing uncertainty and validating results. The...
The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1.5 million grant to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to integrate satellite data, in situ measurements, and process-based models to quantify and attribute agricultural emissions of ammonia (NH3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) for the US Midwest. As the prime contractor, the University of Illinois will leverage its expertise in agriculture and the environment to deliver research that supports NASA's efforts to monitor...
This is a federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa for a research project related to the interactions and feedbacks between biomass burning and the water cycle. The $165,872.31 grant will fund a study led by Dr. Wang that uses a mesoscale meteorology-chemistry coupled atmospheric model, satellite data, and fire emission data to quantitatively assess the semi-direct effect of sub-Saharan African smoke on atmospheric lapse rate and...
This is a federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Iowa for the Geostationary Trace Gas and Aerosol Sensor Optimization (GEOTASO) instrument. GEOTASO will be deployed on the NASA DC-8 aircraft to measure spatially resolved vertical abundances of trace gases such as nitrogen dioxide, ozone, formaldehyde, and sulfur dioxide, as well as aerosol optical depth, in support of the Korea-US Air Quality (KORUS-AQ) study objectives. The...
The University of Iowa was awarded a $90,000.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to conduct research on the observation of nighttime aerosol conditions. The grant supports efforts to improve the prediction of aerosol transport, which is important for understanding radiative forcing, visibility, air quality, and public health. The University of Iowa has a long history of conducting research for various federal agencies, including the Department of Veterans...
This is a $879,221.36 grant awarded by NASA to the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) to conduct research on how nitrogen oxides (NOx) chemistry and emissions affect air quality and climate. The grant supports measurements of NOx from NASA aircraft during the KORUS-AQ field campaign, analyses linking these observations to understanding the quality of measurements from upcoming geostationary satellites, and evaluations of chemical transport models. The research aims to...
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)...