The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $444,160.19 grant to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to conduct research on Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometers (AMS). The objective is to better constrain the uncertainties in AMS quantification, particularly for NASA aircraft measurement campaigns. The research tasks include investigating AMS quantification using existing NASA...
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 is a $690,489.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, for a research project focused on characterizing the volatility of organic aerosols (OA) in the atmosphere. The project aims to leverage data from multiple NASA and National Science Foundation (NSF) airborne measurement campaigns to develop improved parameterizations of...
This is a grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, in the amount of $839,559.91. The grant funds research to characterize primary organic aerosol (OA) and inorganic emissions from agricultural and wild fires, and study the evolution of OA and inorganic aerosols downwind of these fires, including secondary OA formation and...
This federal contract award is a $213,196 research grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Aerodyne Research Inc. (ARI), a for-profit manufacturer and R&D services provider. The grant funds a collaborative project between ARI and researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder to conduct measurements of ambient aerosol particles using ARI's aerosol mass spectrometry (AMS) instruments. The project aims to improve the calibration of...
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...
This is a $948,852 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Regents of the University of Colorado (CU), doing business as the University of Colorado, for a research project titled "AIRBORNE INVESTIGATION INTO SOURCES, PATHWAYS AND BUDGETS OF URBAN SOA AND SIA.PRODUCTION AND EVOLUTION OVER ASIAN MEGACITIES". The grant is for a research project focused on studying the sources, pathways, and budgets of urban secondary organic aerosols (SOA) and...
This is a $350,135.38 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Denver to collaboratively update the aerosol observing capability of high-altitude NASA aircraft. The award will fund the building, calibration, and flight-testing of a new Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) Aerosol Measurement Package (UTLS-AMP). This package includes several updated instruments, such as the Nucleation-Mode Aerosol Size Spectrometer (NMASS),...
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 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 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 characterize the inflow, outflow, and vertical/spatial distribution of aerosol composition and OA chemistry. This data will help determine the main OA sources, impacts of trans-boundary transport and biogenic emissions, and the role of aerosol nitrates. The grant does not have a set-aside designation.