This is a Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Bay Area Environmental Research Institute (BAER Institute), a non-profit research organization. The contract, valued at $1,277,914.00, supports the Observations of Aerosols above Clouds and their Interactions (ORACLES) experiment, a multi-year effort to study the evolution of African biomass burning aerosol and its interaction with low-level clouds. The contract aims to determine the impact...
This is a $285,246 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, doing business as the Office of Sponsored Programs, for the "Observations of Aerosols Above Clouds and Their Interactions (ORACLES)" experiment. The ORACLES project provides multi-year airborne observations of key parameters that drive aerosol-cloud interactions in the southeastern Atlantic region, with the goal of determining the impact of African...
This federal contract award, NNX16AM05G, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) to develop a cloud, precipitation, and aerosol climatology for the Southern Ocean. The $537,705.00 grant is focused on studying the vertical and horizontal structure, as well as microphysical properties, of clouds, precipitation, and aerosols in the Southern Ocean and their relationship to the regional meteorology. This...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Oklahoma. The grant, valued at $474,473.00, supports the University of Oklahoma's contribution to the scientific objectives of the ORACLES (ObseRvations of Aerosols above CLouds and their intEractionS) project. Under this grant, the University of Oklahoma, through principal investigator Greg McFarquhar, will be responsible for acquiring and processing data from...
This federal contract award to the University of Washington (UW) was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The contract, valued at $108,402.99, is for research services to analyze data from the CALIPSO spaceborne lidar and CERES satellite measurements to understand the relationships between low cloud cover, cloud droplet concentration, integrated attenuated backscatter, and albedo. The goal is to examine trends in these parameters,...
This federal contract award, valued at $105,000.00, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to support research on the detection and radiative effects of above-cloud biomass burning aerosols over the southeast Atlantic region. The goals are to utilize satellite data from the A-Train constellation and the Spinning Enhanced Visible and Infrared Imager (SEVIRI) geostationary sensor, along with in-situ aircraft...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC19K0501, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) to investigate the relationship between phytoplankton and sea surface aerosol. The $99,710.26 grant will fund research to test two hypotheses related to the impact of phytoplankton blooms on organic enrichment and cloud condensation nuclei activity in sea spray aerosol. The research objectives are aligned...
This federal contract award was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University of Washington (UW) as the prime contractor. The $541,669 grant will fund research to investigate the dynamically forced changes in tropical lower-stratospheric temperatures through the fusion of satellite data from the Earth Observing System (EOS) Aqua and Aura missions. The research aims to reconcile observational analyses and climate modeling studies on...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $134,696.11 training grant contract to the Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government educational institution. The contract is focused on measuring the optical properties of brown carbon (BrC) aerosols, which can contribute to both the cooling and warming effects of atmospheric particles. Using cavity ring down spectroscopy, photoacoustic spectroscopy, Raman microscopy, and aerosol mass spectrometry, the...
This federal contract award is for a grant to the University of Washington (UW) for research on the role of giant cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) in influencing warm rain production from shallow liquid clouds. The award, valued at $200,884, is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and has an ultimate completion date of April 16, 2026. The University of Washington is the prime contractor for this grant and has no set-aside designation. UW is a prominent research...
This federal contract award is for a NASA Earth Venture Suborbital campaign called Observations of Aerosols above Clouds and their Interactions (ORACLES) to study smoke-cloud interactions over the Southeast Atlantic. The $135,000 training grant was awarded to the University of Washington to address five key research questions related to the extent and impacts of biomass burning aerosol mixing into the marine boundary layer and stratocumulus cloud deck in the region. The project will leverage remote sensing and in-situ aircraft measurements from the ORACLES field seasons in 2016, 2017, and 2018, along with trajectory modeling. The research aims to improve understanding of the magnitude and sign of the effective radiative forcing from aerosol-radiation and aerosol-cloud interactions in this climatically important region. There is no set-aside designation for this prime contract award.