This is a two-year grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas A&M University for $196,984.00. The grant is for research to develop accurate optical properties of ice clouds for active remote sensing applications. Texas A&M University is the prime awardee, and there is no set-aside designation for this contract. As a public research university, Texas A&M University has expertise in remote sensing, atmospheric science,...
This contract award with ID 80NSSC19K1316 was made by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University for research on the single-scattering properties of ice crystals, which are fundamental to radiative transfer simulations and remote sensing related to ice clouds and snow. The $290,062.00 grant supports the development of a two-habit model (THM) for ice cloud optical properties to improve downstream applications to satellite remote sensing. The award is...
This federal contract award, valued at $303,312.99, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University, a public land-grant research institution in College Station, Texas. The award supports a research project that aims to investigate the relationship between precipitation, cloud cover, and large-scale climate patterns. Specifically, the research will leverage data from the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite to study how...
This federal contract award from NASA to Texas A&M University, with a ceiling value of $203,257.19, is for the development of ice cloud and snow optical property models to support the Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System (CERES) science team. The research aims to improve and validate a new ice cloud bulk radiative property model, generate lookup tables for cloud property retrievals using NASA satellite data, and develop a novel snow albedo model for radiative transfer calculations....
This is a $339,193.00 federal grant awarded to Texas A&M University by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for a research project titled "CONSTRAINING CLOUD FEEDBACK RESPONSES ASSOCIATED WITH PRECIPITATING CLOUD DISTRIBUTION SHIFTS UNDER CHANGING TROPICAL ASCENT AREA". The grant is for a period of performance ending on October 16, 2025 and does not have a set-aside designation. Texas A&M University, a public land-grant research university, is the prime...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center awarded a $135,000.00 grant for research to Texas A&M University. This grant is focused on improving the understanding of the energy budget of Earth's atmosphere, with a particular focus on ice clouds. The award has a completion date of August 31, 2022 and was originally made on September 1, 2019. There is no set-aside designation mentioned for this contract. Texas A&M University is part of the larger Texas...
This $99,990.67 federal grant was awarded by NASA to Texas A&M University as a subaward for the SWIRP (Compact Submm-Wave and LWIR Polarimeters for Cirrus Ice Properties) project. Texas A&M will support the SWIRP project by conducting radiometric-polarimetric simulations using their unique modeling capabilities for ice particle scattering calculations. The grant will fund tasks to determine the scattering, absorption, and polarization properties of ice crystals, develop a bulk ice...
This is a $135,000.00 grant for research awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University. The research aims to advance the understanding of light scattering properties of aerosols. The award does not have a set-aside designation, indicating it was competitively awarded. Texas A&M University is the prime contractor for this grant, which has a period of performance through May 11, 2024. Texas A&M University is a prominent research institution...
This federal contract award, with the ID 80NSSC23K0651, was granted to Texas A&M University by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a geolocation/temperature-dependent ice cloud spectral optical property model. The $661,048.00 grant, which has a performance period ending on February 16, 2028, is aimed at improving the understanding of outgoing far-infrared spectra under ice cloud conditions. Texas A&M University is a prominent research institution with...
This is a $134,529.72 training grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Texas A&M University on September 1, 2017. The goal of the research is to develop a bispectral retrieval technique using sub-millimeter and thermal infrared wave radiometry to accurately measure ice water path (IWP) and ice particle effective diameter (D_eff) in clouds. This research aims to address discrepancies in IWP values in general circulation models due to...