Climate Aerosol & Pollution Research LLC

Climate Aerosol & Pollution Research LLC is a sole proprietorship limited liability company registered as a for-profit organization in SAM.gov since June 2016, with an expiration date of February 2024. It provides atmospheric and climate modeling services to the federal government.

Through prime federal contract awards, Climate Aerosol & Pollution Research LLC has provided programming, research reports, model calibration, and technical project management to NASA related to evaluating dust representation in models, developing the GISS earth system model, and studying the impact of space weather on exoplanets. The contract awards were made by the NASA Shared Services Center with no set-aside designations, ranging from $35,289 to $188,977 in potential value.

Through prime federal grant awards, Climate Aerosol & Pollution Research LLC has provided similar programming, modeling, analysis, and research services to NASA, including evaluating mineral-specific heterogeneous chemistry in the GISS earth system model, estimating uncertainties in radiative forcing, comparing model simulations to satellite and ground-based measurements, and addressing research questions related to dust aerosols' role in atmospheric processes. The grants were awarded by the NASA Shared Services Center under NASA's Atmospheric Composition Modeling and Analysis program, with amounts from $35,289 to $372,385.

Based on Jan Perlwitz's expertise, the company specializes in Earth system studies, especially the modeling of aerosols in the atmosphere, their role in various physical and chemical processes, and their effect on climate. The company's scientific research is focused on predicting the mineral composition of dust aerosols, dust mineral chemistry, ice nucleation in mixed phase and ice clouds, minerals as cloud condensation nuclei, soluble iron processing in the atmosphere, radiative forcing by dust minerals, and the relevance of all of these processes for paleo-, present, and future climate. The work is done in close collaboration with scientists at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University in the City of New York.

The company also does consulting work in the areas of climate analysis, aerosols, and pollution research for private sector companies and other organizations.