This is a $386,873 grant awarded by NASA to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to support research addressing NASA's Earth science goals. The research focuses on understanding the roles and interactions of the oceans, atmosphere, and ice to improve the ability to predict climate changes, with a specific emphasis on investigating mechanisms controlling sea ice and its interaction with the atmosphere...
The Regents of the University of Colorado received a $758,242 research grant award from a civilian federal agency for "Advanced Understanding of 21st Century Ocean Change Using CMIP6/AR6 Models and NASA Observations." Under this grant, which extends through February 28, 2027, the university will conduct research leveraging NASA satellite observations and climate models to understand externally forced ocean changes projected for the 21st century. The work focuses on separating...
This is a $110,362 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) for research on "Constraining Carbon Fluxes and Transport Patterns Using New Spatiotemporal Information in Remotely Sensed CO2." The award has a performance period from March 1, 2024 to February 28, 2027. CU, a prominent public research university in Boulder, Colorado, has extensive expertise in space sciences, climate research, and federal...
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 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...
This is a $659,604.00 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 research on the distribution and evolution of ocean heat content (OHC) and its importance for global climate change. The grant is for a period of approximately 5 years, with a final completion date of February 2, 2026. The award is not associated with a set-aside program. As a prominent public research...
This is a $150,000.00 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, to conduct research titled "CAN SPECTRAL OBSERVATIONS FROM AIRS ENHANCE THE DETECTION OF RECENT AND FUTURE ARCTIC CLIMATE CHANGE?". The award, which runs from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2026, is for fundamental research to expand scientific knowledge...
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...
This is a $71,846.42 grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to the Regents of the University of Colorado (doing business as the University of Colorado) to conduct research relevant to modeling and analyzing the Earth's upper atmosphere. The grant supports NASA's Earth Sciences Division goal of understanding global Earth system changes. As a U.S. state government entity and accredited public research university, the University of Colorado has extensive experience delivering research,...
This is a $450,340.00 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. The grant is for a research project focused on understanding the export of grounded ice from Antarctica's floating glacial ice shelves through calving and basal ice shelf melt, particularly in the Amundsen Sea Embayment (ASE) region where there have been accelerated...
This is a grant awarded by NASA to The Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado Office of Contracts and Grants Division, to study ocean export flux and its impact on atmospheric CO2 levels. The $437,319.88 grant aims to improve satellite-based estimates of ocean export flux, especially in high-latitude regions, and synthesize these with atmospheric potential oxygen data to understand trends in North Pacific ocean productivity. The research will leverage the University of Colorado's expertise in climate science, atmospheric modeling, and process-based ocean biogeochemistry models. This grant is not associated with a set-aside contract and represents a direct award from NASA's Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry program to the University of Colorado as a prime contractor.