The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) was awarded a $524,975.63 federal grant (Contract ID: 80NSSC18K0681) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide satellite products, emissions estimates, and chemical and tracer forecasts to support the FIRECHEM aircraft experiment. UCAR, which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), will leverage its expertise in satellite observations, fire emissions modeling, and chemical transport...
This federal contract award, valued at $649,143.68, was granted by NASA to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit organization that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The contract, titled "NASA's FIRE Impacts on Regional Emissions and Chemistry (FIRECHEM)," is part of an interagency collaboration focused on characterizing the emissions, chemistry, and impacts of North American fires. Under this contract, UCAR/NCAR will...
The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) was awarded a $299,320.00 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to improve the quantification of fire impacts on terrestrial hydrology. The grant will enhance land model processes using NASA satellite observations. UCAR manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and leverages its specialized atmospheric research and development capabilities to fulfill this award. The grant supports...
This is a $594,905.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is for a project titled "CONTINUOUS MULTI-SPECIES VOC MEASUREMENTS ABOARD THE NASA DC-8 AIRCRAFT DURING THE ASIA-AQ FIELD CAMPAIGN" and has a period of performance through April 30, 2026. UCAR, a non-profit organization, will provide specialized...
This $1,920,000.00 grant contract was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium of over 115 universities that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The contract supports UCAR/NCAR's work on the Network for the Detection of Atmospheric Composition Change (NDACC), a global initiative established in the late 1980s to provide long-term, calibrated measurements of...
This federal grant award, valued at $584,609.20, was issued by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the parent organization of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant funds research to better characterize and quantify heterogeneous halogen chemistry outside polar regions, using satellite data and the NCAR Community Earth System Model (CESM2). The research aims to understand the potential...
This federal contract award to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), also known as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), supports the science goals of the NASA FIRECHEM mission in summer 2019. UCAR will deploy a Trace Organic Gas Analyzer (TOGA) coupled with a high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer on the NASA DC-8 aircraft to provide continuous, sensitive measurements of a large subset of non-methane organic compounds. The $598,204.71 grant will...
This is a $322,171 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a non-profit research organization. The contract is for research on the "Global Impact of Convection on UTLS Clouds, Composition, and Dynamics Based on NASA Satellite and Airborne Measurements." This research grant does not have a set-aside designation and is...
This federal contract award, with a ceiling value of $629,940.00, was granted to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), a nonprofit consortium that manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The contract, awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), is for "MEASUREMENTS OF IN SITU NO, NO2, AND O3 FROM THE NASA DC-8 DURING.ASIA-AQ" and has an ultimate completion date of April 30, 2026. The contract is a grant for research...
This federal contract award, valued at $522,375.00, was issued by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The primary objective of this research is to support the Airborne and Satellite Investigation of Asian Air Quality (ASIA-AQ) science goals by deploying solar radiation measurement instrumentation on the NASA...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $414,386.50 grant to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to support the Fire Impact on Regional Emissions and Chemistry (FIRECHEM) science goals. The grant will fund the deployment of solar radiation instrumentation on the NASA DC-8 aircraft to measure spectrally resolved actinic flux and calculate photolysis frequencies for over 30 atmospheric species. This research is intended to improve understanding of the impact of wildfires on regional emissions and atmospheric chemistry. The contract does not have a set-aside designation and was awarded on March 15, 2018, with a completion date of March 14, 2022. UCAR/NCAR is a nonprofit consortium of over 100 universities that provides scientific research and services focused on the atmospheric and related sciences.