Grant For Research NNX17AB03G
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- This federal contract award to Texas A&M University, valued at $79,991.09, supports research efforts for NASA's ICECube mission. The research project will focus on studying the radiometric and polarimetric properties of ice clouds at 874 gigahertz, which could help advance scientists' understanding of ice clouds and their role in climate change. The specific tasks include computing the scattering, absorption, and polarization properties of ice crystals, developing a bulk ice cloud model, and...
- 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 to Texas A&M University, with a ceiling value of $114,512.11, is for a research grant to develop an improved energy balance framework using observations from the CERES (Clouds and the Earth's Radiant Energy System) mission. The project aims to leverage CERES measurements to constrain climate sensitivity by analyzing how controlling factors for each component of the energy balance change as the climate warms. The award is granted by a civilian federal agency, the...
- 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 to Texas A&M University is for research to improve the simulation of dust aerosols in global climate models and reduce the uncertainty of their radiative forcing on climate. The $202,219.98 grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will utilize satellite observations from CALIPSO, CloudSat, and other A-Train sensors to develop a new 3-dimensional dataset of dust aerosol distribution, evaluate dust simulation in climate models, and make...
- This federal contract award, valued at $184,959, was granted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Texas A&M University to assess the impact of tropical tropopause layer (TTL) cirrus clouds on climate systems. The research will evaluate and develop new data products from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) satellite to study the distribution, evolution, and properties of TTL cirrus clouds. The project aims to improve the...
- 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 grant award of $661,048 was issued on February 17, 2023, to Texas A&M University for research developing a geolocation and temperature-dependent ice cloud spectral optical property model to improve understanding of outgoing far-infrared spectra under ice cloud conditions. The work will be performed in College Station, Texas, with an ultimate completion date of February 16, 2028. The award carries no set-aside designation and was issued by a federal civilian agency through its Shared...
- 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 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. The award does not have a set-aside designation. As a leading research university, Texas A&M has extensive expertise in this specialized area of climate science and remote sensing, making them well-suited to support NASA's CERES program, which focuses on understanding the Earth's radiation budget.
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