This is a $454,070.75 grant awarded to SRI International, a non-profit research institute, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The grant is for a laboratory study aimed at improving the reliability of non-local thermodynamic equilibrium (non-LTE) models for retrieving water vapor number density profiles in the Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere (MLT) regions. The study will focus on determining the rate coefficient for the vibration-to-vibration (V-V) energy...
This is a $558,091.41 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the non-profit research institute SRI International. The grant is for a research project to investigate the vibrational relaxation kinetics of hydroxyl radicals (OH(v)) in the atmospheres of Mars and Venus. The goal is to improve the understanding of OH(v) emissions, which can serve as an indicator of atmospheric composition, variability, circulation, and temperature on these planets. The...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to SRI International, a nonprofit research and development institute, to conduct laboratory measurements investigating key mechanistic pathways and rate constants for the interaction of highly vibrationally excited hydroxyl (OH(v)) with ground state oxygen atoms (O(3P) or O). The grant has a potential value of $592,792.00 and a period of performance ending on August 31, 2023. The contract...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SRI International, a non-profit research institute. The $601,843 grant is for research on nitric oxide (NO), a key minor species in the Earth's mesosphere and lower thermosphere, and its role in upper atmospheric energy balance. The research will focus on the 5.3-micrometer band emission of NO. The grant has a period of performance from April 1, 2021, to March 31, 2025. SRI International has a history of...
This is a $678,447.00 grant awarded by a U.S. government civilian agency, the Shared Services Center, to the non-profit research institute SRI International located in Menlo Park, California. The grant is for research on the production pathways of the OH Meinel band emission, which is required for timed/SABER observations. The research will be conducted by SRI International, and the grant has an ultimate completion date of August 31, 2026. This award is not associated with a larger contract...
This is a $497,395.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Smithsonian Institution's Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO) division. The grant, which has a performance period ending January 31, 2023, supports a laboratory program that studies highly reactive polyatomic molecular ions in low density regions and photo-dissociation regions (PDRs). This research aims to advance understanding of the chemistry beyond light ions observed in these...
This is a $750,457.93 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Harvard University for a research project focused on improving laboratory data and reducing uncertainties related to the kinetics and spectroscopy of reactions involving inorganic halogens and nitrogen oxides. The objective is to better understand atmospheric chemistry processes that impact stratospheric ozone depletion. The work involves conducting a series of experiments over a range of...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) to continue research collaboration with the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) science team. The research topics include investigating the compatibility of oxygen and hydrogen species in the mesosphere, analyzing interannual variability in stratospheric and mesospheric winds, and studying the impact of altitude...
This is a $787,083.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to SRI International, a non-profit research and development institute. The grant is for a project that will study the role of mesoscale sunward convection driven by variations in the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) in energy deposition and heating of the ionosphere. This grant is not associated with a set-aside program. SRI International has significant expertise conducting research and...
This is a $1,527,566.24 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a division of the Smithsonian Institution. The grant's goal is to advance the development of the HITRAN (High-Resolution Transmission) molecular spectroscopic database and associated software to support NASA's atmospheric remote-sensing missions, including instruments on the Aura, Terra, Aqua, and other satellite platforms. The work will...
This is a $457,530.39 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the non-profit research institute SRI International. The grant funds a project to conduct laboratory measurements of the rate constants for the removal and relaxation of vibrationally excited hydroxyl (OH) radicals in the mesosphere. The goal is to improve the scientific analysis and modeling of the OH nightglow data collected by the Sounding of the Atmosphere using Broadband Emission Radiometry (SABER) instrument on NASA's Thermosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Energetics and Dynamics (TIMED) satellite. This work supports NASA's Heliophysics Technology and Instrument Development for Science (H-TIDES) program. The award does not utilize any set-aside provisions and was granted on September 1, 2017, with a completion date of February 2, 2021.