This federal contract award to Colorado State University (CSU) is for the CSU Science Team to focus on analysis of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite data. The award is for $435,993.90 and runs through June 30, 2020. The contract is a grant for research, with CSU responsible for developing the column carbon dioxide retrieval algorithm and assessing the OCO-2 data. This work is part of the larger Atmospheric Carbon and Transport - America (ACT-America) program led by the National...
This federal grant award to Colorado State University (CSU) Sponsored Programs Division for $326,136 seeks to reduce biases in satellite-based retrievals of carbon dioxide (XCO2) from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) instruments. The work will support the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its OCO missions. CSU, a public land-grant research university, has extensive experience providing research, technical assistance, and educational services to federal agencies like...
This federal contract award, identified as 80NSSC18K1312, was granted to Colorado State University (CSU) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for research related to measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations. The contract aims to develop an inverse modeling system using data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to better understand regional carbon flux processes. Key objectives include incorporating eddy covariance flux data to...
This is a $246,101.00 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Colorado State University (CSU) Sponsored Programs Division. The grant, which has a completion date of June 30, 2027, is for developing modern machine learning methods to retrieve column-averaged dry air mole fractions of carbon dioxide (XCO2) with associated uncertainties from data collected by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) and Orbiting Carbon Observatory 3...
This federal contract award to Colorado State University (CSU) is for research and analysis services related to inverse modeling of carbon dioxide (CO2) data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. The objectives are to assess biases in atmospheric transport within current OCO-2 inversion models, develop methods to tune these models to maximize information extraction while avoiding overfitting, and evaluate the ability to detect interannual flux variability, particularly the...
This federal contract award is for a $337,603 grant to Colorado State University (CSU) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The award is for research to "assess the broad scale carbon sources and sinks implied by OCO 2 and OCO 3 XCO2 retrievals using an ensemble of atmospheric transport models with controlled experiments in forward and inverse mode." The contract has a completion date of March 31, 2027 and does not have a set-aside...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $443,067 grant for research to Colorado State University (CSU) to reduce biases in satellite-measured carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations through optimization of aerosol schemes in physics-based retrievals. The contract, which runs from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2027, does not have a set-aside designation. CSU, a public land-grant research university, will perform the work through its Sponsored Programs division, which has...
This is a $620,080 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) to use data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2), OCO-3, and the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT) to obtain a robust global carbon source/sink distribution, addressing key science problems in the oceans and land biosphere. The grant has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025. This award is not associated with a set-aside program. CSU's...
This is a $563,954.55 grant award from the Shared Services Center of NASA to Colorado State University (CSU) for a project entitled "Inverse Modeling of Carbon Fluxes by Assimilation of XCO2 and Fluorescence from OCO-2". The goal is to perform inverse modeling of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to obtain monthly maps of carbon sources and sinks globally. CSU will use its Sim-ple Biosphere Model version 4 (SIB4) to simulate global CO2 levels, constrained...
This is a $397,378.80 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Colorado State University (CSU) to continue the activities of the OCO-2 Flux Inversion Theme Group's global CO2 flux inversion model intercomparison project for an additional three years. The project aims to help interpret the scientific content of new updates to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) and future OCO-3 CO2 data products, and validate them against in-situ measurements and flux...