This federal contract award, valued at $488,352.00, was granted to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning. The contract is a grant for research to continue and enhance efforts to provide validation and increased understanding of the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment (SAGE) III-ISS (International Space Station) aerosol extinction...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $288,522.37 grant to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to validate satellite observations of atmospheric trace species such as aerosols, ozone, nitrogen dioxide, and water vapor against other measurement platforms. The effort will use a chemistry model to reconcile sunrise and sunset observations from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) instrument on the International Space Station. This...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the National Institute of Aerospace Associates (NIA), a non-profit research and education institute. The grant, valued at $459,461.00, is to support research related to the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) instrument installed on the International Space Station. The research aims to improve the understanding of the sources and processes affecting stratospheric aerosol and cirrus cloud...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $159,090 grant for research to the University of Colorado, Boulder. The grant, which runs from June 2024 to June 2027, is for "AEROSOL FORECASTING CONSTRAINED WITH SATELLITE DATA TO SUPPORT FLIGHT PLANNING AS WELL AS ARCSIX REMOTE SENSING, MODELING, AND CLOUD LIFE CYCLE RESEARCH OBJECTIVES." The University of Colorado is a U.S. state government entity and accredited public research university that has previously...
The University of Colorado, through its Office of Contracts and Grants Division, has been awarded a $135,000 training grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to improve the interpretation of remote sensing data on stratospheric and upper tropospheric aerosols. The research objective is to enhance the stratospheric aerosol simulation capabilities in the Goddard Earth Observing System Version 5 (GEOS-5) model by further developing the Community Aerosol and Radiation...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), also known as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The $587,951.20 grant is for studies of geophysical variability in measurements from the Stratospheric Aerosol and Gas Experiment III (SAGE III) instrument on the International Space Station, focused on seasonal and inter-annual changes in the upper...
This is a $690,489.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for a research project focused on characterizing the volatility of organic aerosols (OA) in the atmosphere. The project aims to leverage data from multiple NASA and National Science Foundation (NSF) airborne measurement campaigns to develop improved parameterizations of...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $1,077,985.00 grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to measure spectrally resolved shortwave irradiance with the Solar Spectral Flux Radiometer (SSFR) onboard the NASA P-3B aircraft in support of the Cloud and Aerosol Monsoonal Processes Philippines Experiment (CAMP2EX). The data collected will be used to address mission objectives...
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 is a $538,533.00 grant award to the Regents of the University of Colorado, a U.S. state government entity and institution of higher learning, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The grant is for the "HIGH-RESOLUTION DETECTION OF THIN CLOUDS AND AEROSOLS FACILITATED BY THE DENSITY-DIMENSION ALGORITHM FOR THE ATMOSPHERE: DEVELOPMENT OF NEW CALIPSO LEVEL-2 DATA PRODUCTS" project, which aims to develop new data products for the CALIPSO...