This is a $105,000.00 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas A&M University. The contract is focused on retrieving the degree of roughness of ice cloud particles from satellite polarimetric observations to improve understanding of cloud radiative effects and climate modeling. The work involves developing a continuous parameter space approach to quantify the variability and uncertainty in ice cloud particle...
This federal contract award to Texas A&M University, valued at $79,991.09, supports research efforts for NASA's ICECube mission. The research project will focus on studying the radiometric and polarimetric properties of ice clouds at 874 gigahertz, which could help advance scientists' understanding of ice clouds and their role in climate change. The specific tasks include computing the scattering, absorption, and polarization properties of ice crystals, developing a bulk ice cloud model, and...
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 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,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $135,000.00 grant for research to Texas A&M University. This grant is focused on improving the understanding of the energy budget of Earth's atmosphere, with a particular focus on ice clouds. The award has a completion date of August 31, 2022 and was originally made on September 1, 2019. There is no set-aside designation mentioned for this contract. Texas A&M University is part of the larger Texas...
This $99,990.67 federal grant was awarded by NASA to Texas A&M University as a subaward for the SWIRP (Compact Submm-Wave and LWIR Polarimeters for Cirrus Ice Properties) project. Texas A&M will support the SWIRP project by conducting radiometric-polarimetric simulations using their unique modeling capabilities for ice particle scattering calculations. The grant will fund tasks to determine the scattering, absorption, and polarization properties of ice crystals, develop a bulk ice...
This is a $431,012.22 grant awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC) to Texas A&M University to validate the "consistency hypothesis" related to the use of ice cloud microphysical models in satellite remote sensing and climate modeling. The research will involve analyzing data from multiple NASA satellite instruments, including MODIS, CERES, and AIRS, along with CALIPSO lidar data and MERRA atmospheric reanalysis, to assess the impact of using consistent ice cloud models...
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 $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 contract award with ID 80NSSC19K1316 was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University for research on the single-scattering properties of ice crystals, which are fundamental to radiative transfer simulations and remote sensing related to ice clouds and snow. The $290,062.00 grant supports the development of a two-habit model (THM) for ice cloud optical properties to improve downstream applications to satellite remote sensing. The award is...