This federal contract award is for $600,403.76 to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which manages the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), to provide measurements of nitrogen oxides (NO, NO2, NOy) and ozone (O3) from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the KORUS-AQ international air quality field study over South Korea. The measurements are critical to addressing the campaign's three key science questions related to satellite observations, ozone photochemistry,...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $387,176.11 grant to the University System of New Hampshire (UNH), through its University of New Hampshire division operating as the Office of Sponsored Research, to contribute to the payload for the DC-8 aircraft as part of the FIRE CHEM research program. This grant is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and does not have a set-aside designation. As a non-profit organization and 1862 land grant college, UNH has...
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), a division of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), was awarded a $508,559.76 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to support the KORUS-AQ field campaign. Under this grant, NCAR will provide near-real-time satellite data, regional and global chemical forecasts, and full chemistry simulations that incorporate satellite CO observations. The analysis will compare the model outputs to...
This federal contract award to the University of California, Irvine (UCI) is for the provision of whole air sampling (WAS) from the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the KORUS-AQ field campaign. Under this $649,106.46 grant, UCI will employ its proven technique of combining WAS with laboratory analysis using gas chromatography to provide high-quality measurements of various trace gas species, including nonmethane hydrocarbons, halocarbons, and alkyl nitrates. These measurements will address...
This is a $79,782.93 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Arizona to support the DC-8-Based Observations of Atmospheric CO2 in Support of the KORUS-AQ Regional Studies project. The grant will fund initial data analysis, interpretive modeling, and integration to elucidate anthropogenic carbon dioxide levels in Korea and their impact on regional and global air quality. The University will employ ensemble-based data assimilation systems to...
This federal contract award with ID NNX15AU17G was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The University of Iowa to provide regional air quality modeling in support of the KORUS-AQ (Korea-United States Air Quality) research mission. The $250,499.00 grant will fund an interdisciplinary team to utilize a comprehensive air quality prediction system, including data assimilation, to help design, execute, and analyze the KORUS-AQ experiment. The goal is to improve air...
This is a $1,404,420.05 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Georgia Tech Research Corporation, a non-profit research organization and state institution of higher education. The grant is for a collaborative research project between U.S. and Korean science teams to conduct multi-platform observations of reactive nitrogen species, sulfur dioxide, and halogen species. The project will involve deploying three chemical ionization mass spectrometry (CIMS)...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), through its Office of Sponsored Research, for a research project on plasma turbulence in the solar wind. The award, valued at $611,917.74, will support an extensive program of investigations involving hybrid simulations, data analysis, and theoretical modeling to explore the driving of turbulence by interstellar pickup ions in the outer solar system. The research aims...
This is a grant awarded by NASA to the University of Colorado in the amount of $752,955.23 to conduct research using an Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer (AMS) aboard the NASA DC-8 aircraft during the KORUS-AQ field campaign. The research aims to improve understanding of the sources and chemical evolution of organic aerosols (OA) over the Korean Peninsula, which is critical for improving satellite aerosol retrievals and regional air quality models. The University will use the AMS to...
This federal contract award is a $915,233 grant for research to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), part of the University System of New Hampshire (USNH), by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The goal of the research is to study factors affecting the heavy ion content, particularly O+, in the Earth's magnetosphere, using observational data from various spacecraft. The methodology involves a combination of statistical studies and case studies, leveraging data from the...
This federal contract award to the University of New Hampshire (UNH), through its Office of Sponsored Research, provides $373,914.32 in funding for UNH's contributions to the DC-8 aircraft payload for the KORUS-AQ (Korea-United States Air Quality) field campaign led by NASA's Tropospheric Chemistry Program. The award supports two primary objectives: 1) measurement and analysis of inorganic ions in bulk aerosols, and 2) measurement and analysis of atmospheric distributions of nitric acid and fine aerosol sulfate. This work will help address KORUS-AQ's objectives related to understanding how aerosol composition is impacted by different sources and chemical processing during transport, and how aerosol composition affects optical and microphysical properties. The award is a grant for research and does not have a set-aside designation. UNH is the prime contractor, and there is a collaboration with a scientist from Georgia Tech. The funding agency is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).