Not listed A NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET FOR THE DETECTION AND MODELING OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE ACROSS SUBSEASONAL TO DECADAL TIMESCALESTHE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW BENCHMARK CLIMATOLOGY OF THE LAND OCEAN AND SNOW ICE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS FROM THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE REANALYSIS DATA PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FROM NASA. WHAT DISTINGUISHES THE PROPOSED WORK FROM EARLIER EFFORTS IS THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INNOVATE ALGORITHM OF SURFACE FLUXES I.E. THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION MEP MODEL BASED ON THE MODERN THEORY OF NON EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS. THE MEP MODEL IS FIRST PRINCIPLES BASED RADIATION CONSTRAINED INDEPENDENT OF NEAR SURFACE MOISTURE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS WIND SPEED AND FREE OF SITE SPECIFIC CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS. IT PREDICTS THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET UTILIZING ONLY SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUXES TEMPERATURE AND OR HUMIDITY FROM REANALYSIS DATA SETSAND HAS MUCH REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE INPUT VARIABLES AND MODEL PARAMETERS COMPARED TO THE TRADITIONAL SURFACE FLUX MODELS THAT ARE BASED ON BULK FLUX FORMULAS. PRELIMINARY ANALYSES SUGGEST THAT THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET OBTAINED THROUGH THE MEP MODEL HAS SEASONALITY AND MAGNITUDE CONSISTENT WITH RADIATION FORCING GLOBALLY. IN THE PROPOSED PROJECT CONTINENTAL SURFACEENERGY BUDGETS ACROSS SUB DAILY TO SEASONAL TIMESCALES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED WITH THE MEP MODEL APPLIED TO THE NASA GLOBAL LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM GLDAS DATA SETS. SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS OF THE OCEANIC AND ARCTIC ANTARCTICA REGIONS WILL BE DERIVED USING THE NASA MODERN ERA RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS MERRA REANALYSIS DATA SETS. THE NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET WILL FILL THE GAPS IN THE CURRENT REANALYSIS DATA SETS WHERE OCEAN SURFACE HEAT FLUXES ARE NOT AVAILABLE ANDTHE ENERGY BUDGET OVER SNOW ICE COVERED POLAR REGIONS ARE INCOMPLETE. LONG TERM TRENDS AND SUB SEASONAL TO DECADAL VARIATIONS IN THE REGIONAL GLOBAL WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE WILL BE EVALUATED USING THE MERRA REANALYSIS AND THIS NEWLY DEVELOPED DATA SET OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET. IN ADDITION WE WILL IMPLEMENT THE MEP BASED MODEL OF SURFACE FLUXES IN THE NASA GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS THE GMAO GEOS 5 AND GISS MODELE TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT TREATMENT OF SURFACE FLUXES ON THE MODEL SIMULATEDVARIABILITY AND TRENDS AND ON THE MODEL PROJECTED FUTURE CHANGES IN THE WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL PROVIDE THE CLIMATE COMMUNITY AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTHS ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE AND SERVE AS A BASELINE FOR STUDIES OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE AND AS A BENCHMARK FOR EVALUATING CLIMATE PREDICTION MODELS AND IT IS THUS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE NEWSRESEARCH FOCUS AREA #2 ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE CLIMATOLOGY. ($3k) 5/24/22 7 A NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET FOR THE DETECTION AND MODELING OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE ACROSS SUBSEASONAL TO DECADAL TIMESCALES THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW BENCHMARK CLIMATOLOGY OF THE LAND, OCEAN AND SNOW ICE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS FROM THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE REANALYSIS DATA PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FROM NASA. WHAT DISTINGUISHES THE PROPOSED WORK FROM EARLIER EFFORTS IS THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INNOVATE ALGORITHM OF SURFACE FLUXES, I.E. THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION MEP MODEL, BASED ON THE MODERN THEORY OF NON EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS. THE MEP MODEL IS FIRST PRINCIPLES BASED, RADIATION CONSTRAINED, INDEPENDENT OF NEAR SURFACE MOISTURE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS, WIND SPEED, AND FREE OF SITE SPECIFIC CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS. IT PREDICTS THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET UTILIZING ONLY SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUXES, TEMPERATURE AND OR HUMIDITY FROM REANALYSIS DATA SETS AND HAS MUCH REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE INPUT VARIABLES AND MODEL PARAMETERS COMPARED TO THE TRADITIONAL SURFACE FLUX MODELS THAT ARE BASED ON BULK FLUX FORMULAS. PRELIMINARY ANALYSES SUGGEST THAT THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET OBTAINED THROUGH THE MEP MODEL HAS SEASONALITY AND MAGNITUDE CONSISTENT WITH RADIATION FORCING GLOBALLY. IN THE PROPOSED PROJECT, CONTINENTAL SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS ACROSS SUB DAILY TO SEASONAL TIMESCALES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED WITH THE MEP MODEL APPLIED TO THE NASA GLOBAL LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM GLDAS DATA SETS. SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS OF THE OCEANIC AND ARCTIC ANTARCTICA REGIONS WILL BE DERIVED USING THE NASA MODERN ERA RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS MERRA REANALYSIS DATA SETS. THE NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET WILL FILL THE GAPS IN THE CURRENT REANALYSIS DATA SETS WHERE OCEAN SURFACE HEAT FLUXES ARE NOT AVAILABLE AND THE ENERGY BUDGET OVER SNOW ICE COVERED POLAR REGIONS ARE INCOMPLETE. LONG TERM TRENDS AND SUB SEASONAL TO DECADAL VARIATIONS IN THE REGIONAL GLOBAL WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE WILL BE EVALUATED USING THE MERRA REANALYSIS AND THIS NEWLY DEVELOPED DATA SET OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET. IN ADDITION, WE WILL IMPLEMENT THE MEP BASED MODEL OF SURFACE FLUXES IN THE NASA GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS THE GMAO GEOS 5 AND GISS MODELE TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT TREATMENT OF SURFACE FLUXES ON THE MODEL SIMULATED VARIABILITY AND TRENDS, AND ON THE MODEL PROJECTED FUTURE CHANGES IN THE WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL PROVIDE THE CLIMATE COMMUNITY AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTHS ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE AND SERVE AS A BASELINE FOR STUDIES OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE AND AS A BENCHMARK FOR EVALUATING CLIMATE PREDICTION MODELS, AND IT IS THUS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE NEWS RESEARCH FOCUS AREA #2 ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE CLIMATOLOGY. Funding Only Action ($3k) 5/24/22 6 A NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET FOR THE DETECTION AND MODELING OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE ACROSS SUBSEASONAL TO DECADAL TIMESCALES THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW BENCHMARK CLIMATOLOGY OF THE LAND, OCEAN AND SNOW ICE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS FROM THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE REANALYSIS DATA PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FROM NASA. WHAT DISTINGUISHES THE PROPOSED WORK FROM EARLIER EFFORTS IS THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INNOVATE ALGORITHM OF SURFACE FLUXES, I.E. THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION MEP MODEL, BASED ON THE MODERN THEORY OF NON EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS. THE MEP MODEL IS FIRST PRINCIPLES BASED, RADIATION CONSTRAINED, INDEPENDENT OF NEAR SURFACE MOISTURE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS, WIND SPEED, AND FREE OF SITE SPECIFIC CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS. IT PREDICTS THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET UTILIZING ONLY SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUXES, TEMPERATURE AND OR HUMIDITY FROM REANALYSIS DATA SETS AND HAS MUCH REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE INPUT VARIABLES AND MODEL PARAMETERS COMPARED TO THE TRADITIONAL SURFACE FLUX MODELS THAT ARE BASED ON BULK FLUX FORMULAS. PRELIMINARY ANALYSES SUGGEST THAT THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET OBTAINED THROUGH THE MEP MODEL HAS SEASONALITY AND MAGNITUDE CONSISTENT WITH RADIATION FORCING GLOBALLY. IN THE PROPOSED PROJECT, CONTINENTAL SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS ACROSS SUB DAILY TO SEASONAL TIMESCALES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED WITH THE MEP MODEL APPLIED TO THE NASA GLOBAL LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM GLDAS DATA SETS. SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS OF THE OCEANIC AND ARCTIC ANTARCTICA REGIONS WILL BE DERIVED USING THE NASA MODERN ERA RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS MERRA REANALYSIS DATA SETS. THE NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET WILL FILL THE GAPS IN THE CURRENT REANALYSIS DATA SETS WHERE OCEAN SURFACE HEAT FLUXES ARE NOT AVAILABLE AND THE ENERGY BUDGET OVER SNOW ICE COVERED POLAR REGIONS ARE INCOMPLETE. LONG TERM TRENDS AND SUB SEASONAL TO DECADAL VARIATIONS IN THE REGIONAL GLOBAL WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE WILL BE EVALUATED USING THE MERRA REANALYSIS AND THIS NEWLY DEVELOPED DATA SET OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET. IN ADDITION, WE WILL IMPLEMENT THE MEP BASED MODEL OF SURFACE FLUXES IN THE NASA GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS THE GMAO GEOS 5 AND GISS MODELE TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT TREATMENT OF SURFACE FLUXES ON THE MODEL SIMULATED VARIABILITY AND TRENDS, AND ON THE MODEL PROJECTED FUTURE CHANGES IN THE WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL PROVIDE THE CLIMATE COMMUNITY AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTHS ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE AND SERVE AS A BASELINE FOR STUDIES OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE AND AS A BENCHMARK FOR EVALUATING CLIMATE PREDICTION MODELS, AND IT IS THUS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE NEWS RESEARCH FOCUS AREA #2 ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE CLIMATOLOGY. Other Administrative Action $0 8/6/20 Not listed A NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET FOR THE DETECTION AND MODELING OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE ACROSS SUBSEASONAL TO DECADAL TIMESCALESTHE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW BENCHMARK CLIMATOLOGY OF THE LAND OCEAN AND SNOW ICE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS FROM THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE REANALYSIS DATA PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FROM NASA. WHAT DISTINGUISHES THE PROPOSED WORK FROM EARLIER EFFORTS IS THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INNOVATE ALGORITHM OF SURFACE FLUXES I.E. THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION MEP MODEL BASED ON THE MODERN THEORY OF NON EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS. THE MEP MODEL IS FIRST PRINCIPLES BASED RADIATION CONSTRAINED INDEPENDENT OF NEAR SURFACE MOISTURE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS WIND SPEED AND FREE OF SITE SPECIFIC CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS. IT PREDICTS THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET UTILIZING ONLY SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUXES TEMPERATURE AND OR HUMIDITY FROM REANALYSIS DATA SETSAND HAS MUCH REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE INPUT VARIABLES AND MODEL PARAMETERS COMPARED TO THE TRADITIONAL SURFACE FLUX MODELS THAT ARE BASED ON BULK FLUX FORMULAS. PRELIMINARY ANALYSES SUGGEST THAT THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET OBTAINED THROUGH THE MEP MODEL HAS SEASONALITY AND MAGNITUDE CONSISTENT WITH RADIATION FORCING GLOBALLY. IN THE PROPOSED PROJECT CONTINENTAL SURFACEENERGY BUDGETS ACROSS SUB DAILY TO SEASONAL TIMESCALES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED WITH THE MEP MODEL APPLIED TO THE NASA GLOBAL LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM GLDAS DATA SETS. SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS OF THE OCEANIC AND ARCTIC ANTARCTICA REGIONS WILL BE DERIVED USING THE NASA MODERN ERA RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS MERRA REANALYSIS DATA SETS. THE NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET WILL FILL THE GAPS IN THE CURRENT REANALYSIS DATA SETS WHERE OCEAN SURFACE HEAT FLUXES ARE NOT AVAILABLE ANDTHE ENERGY BUDGET OVER SNOW ICE COVERED POLAR REGIONS ARE INCOMPLETE. LONG TERM TRENDS AND SUB SEASONAL TO DECADAL VARIATIONS IN THE REGIONAL GLOBAL WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE WILL BE EVALUATED USING THE MERRA REANALYSIS AND THIS NEWLY DEVELOPED DATA SET OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET. IN ADDITION WE WILL IMPLEMENT THE MEP BASED MODEL OF SURFACE FLUXES IN THE NASA GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS THE GMAO GEOS 5 AND GISS MODELE TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT TREATMENT OF SURFACE FLUXES ON THE MODEL SIMULATEDVARIABILITY AND TRENDS AND ON THE MODEL PROJECTED FUTURE CHANGES IN THE WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL PROVIDE THE CLIMATE COMMUNITY AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTHS ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE AND SERVE AS A BASELINE FOR STUDIES OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE AND AS A BENCHMARK FOR EVALUATING CLIMATE PREDICTION MODELS AND IT IS THUS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE NEWSRESEARCH FOCUS AREA #2 ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE CLIMATOLOGY. $0 8/6/20 5 A NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET FOR THE DETECTION AND MODELING OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE ACROSS SUBSEASONAL TO DECADAL TIMESCALES THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEW BENCHMARK CLIMATOLOGY OF THE LAND, OCEAN AND SNOW ICE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS FROM THE STATE OF THE SCIENCE REANALYSIS DATA PRODUCTS AVAILABLE FROM NASA. WHAT DISTINGUISHES THE PROPOSED WORK FROM EARLIER EFFORTS IS THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN INNOVATE ALGORITHM OF SURFACE FLUXES, I.E. THE MAXIMUM ENTROPY PRODUCTION MEP MODEL, BASED ON THE MODERN THEORY OF NON EQUILIBRIUM THERMODYNAMICS. THE MEP MODEL IS FIRST PRINCIPLES BASED, RADIATION CONSTRAINED, INDEPENDENT OF NEAR SURFACE MOISTURE TEMPERATURE GRADIENTS, WIND SPEED, AND FREE OF SITE SPECIFIC CALIBRATION COEFFICIENTS. IT PREDICTS THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET UTILIZING ONLY SURFACE RADIATIVE FLUXES, TEMPERATURE AND OR HUMIDITY FROM REANALYSIS DATA SETS AND HAS MUCH REDUCED SENSITIVITY TO THE UNCERTAINTY OF THE INPUT VARIABLES AND MODEL PARAMETERS COMPARED TO THE TRADITIONAL SURFACE FLUX MODELS THAT ARE BASED ON BULK FLUX FORMULAS. PRELIMINARY ANALYSES SUGGEST THAT THE SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET OBTAINED THROUGH THE MEP MODEL HAS SEASONALITY AND MAGNITUDE CONSISTENT WITH RADIATION FORCING GLOBALLY. IN THE PROPOSED PROJECT, CONTINENTAL SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS ACROSS SUB DAILY TO SEASONAL TIMESCALES WILL BE CONSTRUCTED WITH THE MEP MODEL APPLIED TO THE NASA GLOBAL LAND DATA ASSIMILATION SYSTEM GLDAS DATA SETS. SURFACE ENERGY BUDGETS OF THE OCEANIC AND ARCTIC ANTARCTICA REGIONS WILL BE DERIVED USING THE NASA MODERN ERA RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS FOR RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS MERRA REANALYSIS DATA SETS. THE NEW CLIMATOLOGY OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET WILL FILL THE GAPS IN THE CURRENT REANALYSIS DATA SETS WHERE OCEAN SURFACE HEAT FLUXES ARE NOT AVAILABLE AND THE ENERGY BUDGET OVER SNOW ICE COVERED POLAR REGIONS ARE INCOMPLETE. LONG TERM TRENDS AND SUB SEASONAL TO DECADAL VARIATIONS IN THE REGIONAL GLOBAL WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE WILL BE EVALUATED USING THE MERRA REANALYSIS AND THIS NEWLY DEVELOPED DATA SET OF SURFACE ENERGY BUDGET. IN ADDITION, WE WILL IMPLEMENT THE MEP BASED MODEL OF SURFACE FLUXES IN THE NASA GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS THE GMAO GEOS 5 AND GISS MODELE TO INVESTIGATE THE IMPACT OF DIFFERENT TREATMENT OF SURFACE FLUXES ON THE MODEL SIMULATED VARIABILITY AND TRENDS, AND ON THE MODEL PROJECTED FUTURE CHANGES IN THE WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL PROVIDE THE CLIMATE COMMUNITY AN UPDATED DESCRIPTION OF THE EARTHS ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE AND SERVE AS A BASELINE FOR STUDIES OF WATER AND ENERGY CYCLE CHANGE AND AS A BENCHMARK FOR EVALUATING CLIMATE PREDICTION MODELS, AND IT IS THUS A DIRECT RESPONSE TO THE NEWS RESEARCH FOCUS AREA #2 ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE CLIMATOLOGY. Other Administrative Action $0 7/10/19