Purchase Order 80NSSC19P0911

This is a $596,149.55 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York (Columbia University) to calibrate spectroscopic electron density diagnostics relevant for solar physics. The goal is to improve the accuracy of density measurements used to study various phenomena in the solar atmosphere, such as coronal heating, solar flares, and coronal mass ejections. The project will use the Electron Beam Ion Trap...

This is a Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I contract award to Cloudsci LLC, a small business based in Fort Collins, Colorado. The $182,955.51 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded on February 1, 2023 by the U.S. Army Materiel Command Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM). The contract is focused on the development of advanced instrumentation and technologies for aerosol measurement and analysis, which support atmospheric science and environmental monitoring...

This is a $249,898 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the University of Colorado to develop an improved radiative transfer model for processing data from passive and active microwave remote sensing instruments. The model will incorporate advanced capabilities to handle complex hydrometeors and cloud structures, improving applications in weather forecasting, climate science, and satellite data assimilation. Key enhancements include...

This is a firm fixed price purchase order awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Langley Research Center to Science & Technology Corporation (STC), a minority-owned small business. The $191,420.00 contract is for the formation and distribution of cirrus clouds in the tropical tropopause layer, which play a key role in the climate system. The work will involve evaluating cloud extinction and ice water content data from the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared...

This contract was awarded by the Department of the Air Force Materiel Command Research Laboratory to Stellar Science LTD. CO., a small but growing veteran-owned limited liability company, for the "Automatic Exploitation of Energetic Charged Particle Sensor Data" under the SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) Program Phase II. The $749,983 firm-fixed-price contract was awarded on August 6, 2018 and is set to be completed by December 3, 2020. Stellar Science LTD. CO. specializes...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Shared Services Center awarded a $1.27 million grant to The Johns Hopkins University for research and development of cloud-based analysis capabilities to support heliophysics data and modeling. Under the three-year contract starting in October 2021, Johns Hopkins will engage the Applied Physics Laboratory and Goddard Space Flight Center to develop tools for sharing, analyzing, and advancing open science using mission and model data in the...

This is a $513,248 research grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Modeling, Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program to the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), doing business as the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). The grant is focused on improving the representation of warm cloud microphysics in Earth system models, such as the GISS Model E, GEOS, and CESM. The research aims to better constrain model parameters using a...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration Langley Research Center awarded Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corporation a $655,815 cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order to provide one-year of sustaining engineering support for the Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observation (CALIPSO) program. Under the order, Ball Aerospace will deliver payload sustaining engineering and analysis in support of the ongoing CALIPSO satellite mission, with subcontractor Space Science...

This is a $88,000.00 training grant awarded by NASA's Shared Services Center to Michigan Technological University for a project to study the impact of aerosols on cloud microphysical processes and cloud radiative properties. The goal is to develop improved parameterizations for effective cloud radius and optical properties, which are crucial for satellite data retrieval and climate change research. The project will use the PI-chamber facility to create turbulent mixing clouds and vary the...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $315,074 grant to the University of Wisconsin System to study the 3D structure and frequency of occluded extratropical cyclones and their impact on cloud and precipitation patterns. The research aims to use observations from the CloudSat and CALIPSO satellites to analyze how cloud and precipitation distributions evolve during the occlusion process and how they are influenced by large-scale environmental factors. The findings will...