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...
The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, was awarded a $349,856.32 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center to conduct research related to atmospheric transport biases in inverse models of carbon dioxide from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) satellite. The proposed research aims to improve CO2 flux estimates by addressing transport errors, developing bias...
This federal contract award is a $417,795.50 grant to the University of Colorado, a public research university, to continue its activities as part of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) Flux Inversion Theme Group's global carbon dioxide (CO2) flux inversion model intercomparison project (MIP) for an additional three years. The project aims to help interpret new updates to the OCO-2, Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), and OCO-3 CO2 data products, specifically by assimilating...
Colorado State University's Sponsored Programs division has been awarded a $337,603 grant by a civilian federal agency to conduct research assessing broad-scale carbon sources and sinks using data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and OCO-3 satellites. The project, which commenced on April 1, 2024, and is scheduled for completion by March 31, 2027, will employ an ensemble of atmospheric transport models to analyze XCO2 (column-averaged carbon dioxide) retrievals through...
This is a $272,283 grant contract awarded by a civilian federal agency, the Shared Services Center (part of NOAA), to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) on March 1, 2024. The contract is for "Assessing 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 February 28, 2027 and was not set aside for...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $479,697 research grant from a civilian federal agency (Shared Services Center) to conduct research on the role of ocean surface salinity and salinity stratification in modulating tropical atmospheric intraseasonal oscillations. The grant, awarded on May 5, 2022, with an ultimate completion date of May 4, 2026, was issued without set-aside designation, reflecting the university's competitive capabilities in atmospheric and oceanographic...
This is a $246,101 grant awarded by the Shared Services Center (a civilian federal agency) to Colorado State University (CSU) on July 1, 2024. The purpose of the grant is to develop modern machine learning methods to retrieve XCO2 with associated uncertainties from OCO-2 and OCO-3 solar absorption spectra. This work supports the agency's mission objectives related to climate change and environmental monitoring. The grant does not have a set-aside designation and is expected to be completed by...
This federal contract award to Colorado State University, a public land-grant research university, was issued by the Shared Services Center on behalf of NASA. The $682,223.64 grant is for a project titled "Tackling Aerosol-Induced CO2 Uncertainties Through the Synergistic Use of MODIS and OCO-2 Observations." The objective is to explore the benefits of combining data from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) and Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors to...
This federal contract award, valued at $203,998.00, was granted to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), doing business as the University of Colorado, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to use data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) and OCO-3 satellites to explore decadal trends in the carbon balance of the Amazon region. The contract is a grant for research, with no set-aside designation, and has an ultimate completion date of February 28, 2027. As...
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 federal grant award, valued at $537,338.13, was issued by the Shared Services Center (an alternate name for the agency) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado, to support research related to the validation of column carbon dioxide (CO2) measurements from the Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 (OCO-2) satellite over the Amazon basin. The grant aims to make calibrated in-situ CO2 measurements from aircraft and tower sites in the Amazon region to help assess the accuracy of the OCO-2 column CO2 retrievals, which are critical for understanding the global carbon cycle. The research will also explore the use of carbon monoxide measurements to differentiate between CO2 fluxes from fires/deforestation and natural biome processes. No set-aside designation was applied to this grant award.