This federal contract award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) aims to enhance the science value of the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) sulfur dioxide (SO2) data product. The $732,900.50 grant-funded research will improve the OMI SO2 retrieval algorithm using principal component analysis, producing significantly better estimates of anthropogenic SO2 and volcanic SO2 cloud height. This will enable new air quality and...
This $277,499.12 federal grant award to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) supports the development and production of sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) data products from the Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (SNPP) Ozone Mapping and Profiler Suite (OMPS) instrument. The goal is to continue the critical Earth Observing System (EOS) data records for these key air quality and climate indicators that were previously provided by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)...
This is a $368,388.65 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to conduct a three-year research project on calibrating and inter-comparing data from two satellite instruments that measure trace gas species like formaldehyde. The project aims to improve the consistency and long-term trends in these satellite products by reconciling differences between the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) and Global Ozone...
This is a $549,944 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory (SAO), a division of the Smithsonian Institution. The grant is for a 3-year study to improve the retrieval accuracy and long-term consistency of ozone profile and tropospheric ozone products derived from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite. The work aims to produce a significantly improved long-term and spatially consistent ozone...
This is a $267,948 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Michigan Technological University to continue development and maintenance of an algorithm for retrieving sulfur dioxide (SO2) data from the Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) instrument on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite. The project aims to validate and analyze EPIC's SO2 and aerosol index data for volcanic eruptions, leveraging the instrument's high-cadence ultraviolet...
This is a $430,641 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to continue the science team support for the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission. Under this award, UMD will maintain, improve, and validate the EPIC O3SO2AI product, which provides measurements of total column ozone, sulfur dioxide, scene reflectivity, and aerosol index. The team will apply soft calibration techniques to ensure the accuracy...
This is a $504,960.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) for a research project titled "The Future Recovery of Stratospheric Ozone: Influence of ODSs, VSLs Cl, and GHGs". The award has an ultimate completion date of April 20, 2026. UMD is a prominent U.S. state government entity, 1862 land grant college, and state-controlled institution of higher learning with extensive federal research...
This $608,878 federal grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was made to the University of Maryland, College Park to conduct research on surface ozone formation and atmospheric composition in the Mid-Atlantic region. The research will leverage observations from prior aircraft field missions, including the NASA-sponsored DISCOVER-AQ, OWLETS, and LISTOS campaigns, to characterize the vertical distribution and diurnal variations of ozone precursors. This analysis,...
This is a $379,999.63 grant award from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park for air quality and bromine research. The grant is focused on two main tasks: 1) evaluating and improving air quality models using NASA satellite and field campaign data to understand the relationship between surface ozone, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds; and 2) computing the stratospheric burden of bromine monoxide to quantify the...
This is a $188,104.11 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) to develop a global surface nitrogen dioxide (NO2) dataset using observations from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on the Aura satellite. The project aims to enhance the relevance of NASA satellite data to tropospheric composition, health, and air quality studies by improving methods to infer surface NO2...
This is a grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Maryland, College Park (UMD) to produce new and improved sulfur dioxide (SO2) measurements from the Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) on NASA's Aura satellite. The grant, valued at $311,752.24, will fund the development and implementation of an advanced Iterative Spectral Fitting (ISF) algorithm to retrieve SO2 data with higher accuracy and precision, as well as an Extended ISF (EISF) algorithm to directly measure SO2 cloud height for volcanic plumes. The enhanced SO2 products will provide a long-term global dataset of lower tropospheric SO2 from both natural and anthropogenic sources, and improve the mapping and quantification of explosive volcanic emissions. This grant does not have a set-aside designation and builds on UMD's expertise in satellite remote sensing and atmospheric constituent analysis. The work is being conducted under the University System of Maryland, the state's public higher education system.