This federal contract award to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc. (AER) is a $178,869.46 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center. The purpose of the grant is to provide direct assessment and validation of the capability for NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to accurately resolve regional-scale gradients of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations in an urban domain. AER will leverage a network of...
This is a $451,032 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a subsidiary of Verisk Analytics, Inc. The grant is for a research project titled "Using OCO 2 and OCO 3 Carbon Dioxide and Solar Induced Fluorescence Observations to Explore Decadal Trends in Amazonian Carbon Balance." The research will leverage NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite data to study...
This is a $80,245.19 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to support research on monitoring atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels from space-based observations. The primary objective is to improve understanding of the processes controlling atmospheric CO2, including the anthropogenic emissions that drive long-term CO2 growth. The research will leverage data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Trustees of Boston University, a private university in Boston, Massachusetts. The $87,379.26 grant is for a 3-year research project to quantify urban biogenic carbon dioxide (CO2) fluxes in the Los Angeles (LA) basin. The project aims to disentangle anthropogenic and biogenic contributions to urban carbon cycling and atmospheric CO2 enhancements by leveraging remote sensing data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon...
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $354,129.83 grant to the Regents of the University of Michigan (doing business as the University of Michigan) to conduct research on the variability of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) levels measured by the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. The research aims to characterize the spatial and temporal patterns of CO2 mole fraction (XCO2) variations, attribute these anomalies to land, ocean, and human-caused flux...
This is a research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado, doing business as the Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to study the impact of 3D cloud and surface effects on the accuracy of carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. The $543,955.44 grant will fund the development of algorithms to detect 3D cloud effects, quantify associated biases in retrieved CO2 data, and assess...
This is a $162,136.72 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Utah's Office of Sponsored Projects Division. The grant, titled "Quantifying Global Megacity CO2 Emissions", supports research to utilize data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite to improve understanding of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions, particularly in major urban areas. The project will focus on megacities like Los Angeles, London,...
This is a $568,011.92 grant awarded to The Johns Hopkins University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center on July 19, 2018. The grant supports research on interannual variability in the global carbon cycle, using data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT). The research aims to estimate multiple years of global terrestrial and marine CO2 fluxes, diagnose and quantify the effects of...
This is a $206,697.88 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to quantify global carbon cycle flux responses to climate variation and trends over the course of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) mission and earlier Greenhouse gases Observing SATellite (GOSAT) record. The project combines expertise in atmospheric,...
This is a $440,227.28 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado (CU) to support research related to the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite mission. The grant will fund a multi-year effort to utilize high-altitude aircore measurements and aircraft data to improve the bias corrections and scaling of OCO-2 total column carbon dioxide (XCO2) retrievals, and to evaluate the accuracy of flux estimates from OCO-2 data in climate...
This is a $177,770.54 federal grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc., a for-profit corporation that provides weather and climate research services to the government. The grant supports the validation and application of data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite in the northeastern United States. The key objectives are to: 1) assess OCO-2's ability to accurately measure regional-scale gradients of atmospheric carbon dioxide in an urban domain, 2) refine aerosol correction methods for OCO-2 data, 3) estimate regional CO2 emissions by combining OCO-2 data with ground-based measurements, and 4) characterize urban vegetation and its impact on the carbon budget. This work leverages a comprehensive CO2 observation network in the northeastern U.S. and will provide critical insights to improve OCO-2's capability to quantify emissions in data-poor regions globally. No set-aside designation was used for this grant award.