This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to produce new and improved sulfur dioxide (SO2) measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite. The grant, valued at $311,752.24, will fund the development and implementation of an advanced Iterative Spectral Fitting (ISF) algorithm to retrieve SO2 data with higher accuracy and precision, as well as an Extended ISF (EISF)...
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 is a $368,388.65 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct a three-year research project on calibrating and inter-comparing data from two satellite instruments that measure trace gas species like formaldehyde. The project aims to improve the consistency and long-term trends in these satellite products by reconciling differences between the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Global Ozone...
This is a $504,960.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a research project titled "The Future Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone: Influence of ODSs, VSLs Cl, and GHGs". The award has an ultimate completion date of April 20, 2026. UMD is a prominent U.S. state government entity, 1862 land grant college, and state-controlled institution of higher learning with extensive federal research...
This federal grant was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) on May 25, 2018. The $101,434 award funds research to analyze results from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to improve inverse models of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. The key objectives are to identify and address biases in atmospheric transport modeling, develop methods for optimizing inverse...
This federal contract award was granted to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project focused on atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements. The contract, valued at $224,561.61, is a grant for PI Sourish Basu to coordinate various collaborative activities, including working with NASA, NOAA, and international partners to collect in-situ and satellite-based CO2 data. The project aims to design and perform...
This $608,878 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was made to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on surface ozone formation and atmospheric composition in the Mid-Atlantic region. The research will leverage observations from prior aircraft field missions, including the NASA-sponsored DISCOVER-AQ, OWLETS, and LISTOS campaigns, to characterize the vertical distribution and diurnal variations of ozone precursors. This analysis,...
This federal contract award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) is to support a mission by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to validate instruments on the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-R) using the ER-2 aircraft. UMD will provide assistance with flight planning, analyze data from the Geo-Cape Airborne Simulator (GCAS) instrument on the ER-2 to study nitrogen oxide (NOx) production by lightning, and report the findings. The total...
This federal contract award, valued at $476,241.00, was granted by the Shared Services Center (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct research on leveraging machine learning techniques to derive aerosol optical depth (AOD), fine mode fraction (FMF), particulate matter (PM1 and PM2.5) using data from various satellite sensors (MODIS, VIIRS, and AHI). The contract is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UMD, a prominent U.S. state government...
This is a $430,641 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to continue the science team support for the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission. Under this award, UMD will maintain, improve, and validate the EPIC O3SO2AI product, which provides measurements of total column ozone, sulfur dioxide, scene reflectivity, and aerosol index. The team will apply soft calibration techniques to ensure the accuracy...
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 climate research using the OMI data. The work builds on UMD's long-standing role in developing and delivering OMI SO2 products and will leverage the university's expertise in satellite remote sensing. The award has no set-aside designation. The research is relevant to NASA's Earth science focus on understanding changes in atmospheric composition and will support other NASA and international satellite missions like GEMS and TROPOMI.