← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc.
Newport News, VA
$13,114,099
Total funding
37
Grants
Funding over time
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Funding mix
By agency
NSF$8,669,174 · 24
NASA$4,144,699 · 12
DOD$300,226 · 1
By mechanism
—$13,114,099 · 37
Investigators at Global Atmospheric Technologies And Sciences, Inc.
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
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Collaborative Research: Deep Propagating Gravity Wave (DEEPWAVE)$1,502,502
· FY2014 · GEO
Collaborative Research: A Consortium of Resonance and Rayleigh Lidars$1,337,825
· FY2012 · GEO
KEY OBJECTIVES: WE PROPOSE TO DEVELOP AND TEST IN THE LABORATORY AND FROM A BALLOON PLATFORM A PROTOTYPE LIMB EMISSION SENSOR THAT WILL EVENTUALLY BE THE BASIS FOR A SPACE BASED HIGH ALTITUDE TEMPERATURE AND WIND SOUNDER REFERRED TO AS DWTS (DOPPLER WIND AND TEMPERATURE SOUNDER). THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO FURTHER THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SENSOR AND TO VERIFY IN-ORBIT CALIBRATION PROCEDURES BY FLYING IT ON A HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON. THIS WILL BRING THE DWTS TECHNOLOGY TO A HIGH TRL LEVEL IN PREPARATION FOR ORBITAL OPERATIONS. OBJECTIVE DETAILS: THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES ARE TO 1. BUILD A PROTOTYPE DWTS INSTRUMENT 2. DEMONSTRATE THE REQUIRED PERFORMANCE OF THE CRITICAL SUBSYSTEMS IN THE LABORATORY THEN 3. FURTHER DEMONSTRATE THE PERFORMANCE ON A NUMBER OF HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON FLIGHTS THAT WILL EXERCISE THE IN-ORBIT CALIBRATION PROCEDURES. MOST CRITICAL OF THESE IS THE CALIBRATION AND REMOVAL OF STRAY LIGHT FOR WHICH WE WILL DEMONSTRATE THE EFFICACY OF ON-BOARD PROCEDURES USING THE SUN AND MOON AS NATURAL CALIBRATION SOURCES. GATS INC. OF NEWPORT NEWS VA WILL LEAD INSTRUMENT DESIGN DEVELOPMENT AND CONSTRUCTION THROUGH CONTRACTS TO LASP OF BOULDER CO AND BRANDYWINE PHOTONICS OF EXTON PA. INSTRUMENT TESTING WILL PRODUCE DETAILED CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INSTRUMENT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ABSOLUTE PIXEL RESPONSE SPECTRAL RESPONSE STRAY LIGHT PIXEL FLAT FIELDING AND RESPONSE TO THERMAL CHANGES. WE WILL ALSO DEVELOP AND DEMONSTRATE AN ON-BOARD DATA PROCESSING SYSTEM REQUIRED FOR AN ORBITING DWTS INSTRUMENT. VIRGINIA TECH OF BLACKSBURG VA WILL PERFORM INTEGRATION AND OPERATION OF THE BALLOON FLIGHTS. THIS WORK WILL ALSO BE PART OF A SMALL SATELLITE INITIATIVE DESIGNED TO TRAIN VIRGINIA TECH STUDENTS IN SPACE MISSION TECHNOLOGY. ALL DWTS SENSOR COMPONENTS ARE COMMERCIAL-OFF-THE-SHELF OR MINOR MODIFICATION OF COTS COMPONENTS. SIGNIFICANCE: DWTS IS A VERY SIMPLE SYSTEM COMPOSED OF ONE OR MORE CHANNELS WITH EACH CHANNEL COMPRISED OF AN IR CAMERA AND SPECTRAL FILTERING PROVIDED BY A GAS CELL ALONG WITH A BROADBAND FILTER. BY USING A NOVEL IMPLEMENTATION OF GAS FILTER CORRELATION RADIOMETRY (GFCR) THIS SIMPLE SMALL STATIC INEXPENSIVE IR CAMERA CAN MEASURE THE DOPPLER BROADENING AND SHIFT OF THERMAL EMISSION SPECTRA ALLOWING THE SIMULTANEOUS INFERENCE OF WIND AND TEMPERATURE FROM LOWER MID STRATOSPHERE TO OVER 200 KILOMETERS CONTINUOUSLY DAY AND NIGHT EVERY 10 KILOMETERS ALONG-TRACK. DWTS COULD REVOLUTIONIZE GLOBAL MONITORING OF UPPER ALTITUDE WINDS AND TEMPERATURE. THEREFORE THE DATA PROVIDED BY SUCH A SYSTEM DIRECTLY ADDRESSES ITM SCIENCE. BEYOND THE ITM DATA FROM A CONSTELLATION OF DWTS SENSORS COULD PROVIDE THE NEXT LEAP IN BOTH LONG-TERM SURFACE WEATHER FORECASTING AND SPACE WEATHER NOW CASTING BY SUPPLYING GLOBAL COVERAGE OF HIGH ALTITUDE TEMPERATURE AND WINDS AT UNPRECEDENTED ACCURACY AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION. IN ADDITION THE INSTRUMENTS WILL PROVIDE A WEALTH OF THERMOSPHERE RESEARCH DATA INCLUDING THE EXTENSION OF TEMPERATURE AND NITRIC OXIDE EMISSION PRODUCTS NOW BEING SUPPLIED BY THE SABER INSTRUMENT ON THE AGING HSO TIMED MISSION. DWTS MEASUREMENTS WOULD DIRECTLY ADDRESS THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS STP PROGRAM GOAL OF UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICAL COUPLING BETWEEN LOWER AND UPPER ATMOSPHERE. DWTS COULD SUPPLY DATA TO UNDERSTAND THESE MECHANISMS CONTINUOUSLY FROM LOWER STRATOSPHERE UP TO MESOSPHERE AND INTO THE MID TO UPPER THERMOSPHERE AND THE GOAL OF FORECASTING UPPER ATMOSPHERE WEATHER.$896,367
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MODELING WAVE FORCING OF THE COUPLED ATMOSPHERE - IONOSPHERE SYSTEM EARTH S UPPER ATMOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE COMPRISE A HIGHLY COUPLED SYSTEM THAT RESPONDS STRONGLY TO TERRESTRIAL FORCING FROM REGIONAL TO GLOBAL SCALES. TIDES AND PLANETARY WAVES (PWS) ACHIEVE LARGE AMPLITUDES AND EXHIBIT STRONG VARIABILITY IN THE MESOSPHERE LOWER THERMOSPHERE AND IONOSPHERE (MLTI). THESE MOTIONS DRIVE GLOBAL DYNAMO ELECTRIC FIELDS AND CURRENTS AND PRECONDITION THE IONOSPHERE FOR VARIOUS PLASMA INSTABILITIES. SMALLER-SCALE GRAVITY WAVES (GWS) PROPAGATING FROM SOURCES IN THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE OR EXCITED IN THE MLT BY SOLAR AND TERRESTRIAL FORCING ALSO PLAY KEY ROLES IN REGIONAL AND GLOBAL DYNAMICS. THEIR EFFECTS ARE EXPECTED TO INCLUDE STRONG REGIONAL VARIABILITY IN WINDS NEUTRAL AND PLASMA DENSITIES ACCOMPANYING FIELDS AND CURRENTS LARGE ENERGY AND MOMENTUM INPUTS INTO THE MLT AND SEEDING OF EPBS AND TIDS FROM EQUATORIAL TO HIGHER LATITUDES. IMPORTANTLY THERE ARE MAJOR DEFICIENCIES IN THE DESCRIPTIONS OF TIDAL STRUCTURES AND IONOSPHERIC EFFECTS IN THE MAJORITY OF GLOBAL MODELS AT PRESENT THAT LIMIT GLOBALSCALE MODELING AND PREDICTABILITY. THERE HAVE ALSO BEEN NO SYSTEMATIC STUDIES TO DATE OF THE PROPAGATION AND EFFECTS OF NONLINEAR GWS ON REGIONAL AND GLOBAL MLTI COUPLED DYNAMICS. FINALLY THERE HAVE BEEN NO ATTEMPTS TO INCLUDE SELF-CONSISTENT 3D ELECTRODYNAMICS IN A COUPLED GLOBAL MODEL PROVIDING SENSITIVITY TO THE FULL SPECTRUM OF TERRESTRIAL FORCING SCALES. ALL OF THESE COMPONENTS ARE CRITICAL TO ACHIEVING COMPREHENSIVE MODELING CAPABILITIES AND THEY COMPRISE OUR COLLECTIVE FOCI IN THE PROPOSED RESEARCH. GW TIDAL AND PW COUPLING IS A PHYSICAL PROCESS FUNDAMENTAL TO MOST PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES AND A KEY ELEMENT OF SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL COUPLING. THE PROPOSAL WILL SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS SCIENCE GOALS 2 AND 4 OF THE HELIOPHYSICS DECADAL SURVEY (SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS: A SCIENCE FOR A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY) WHICH ARE: 2. DETERMINE THE DYNAMICS AND COUPLING OF EARTH S MAGNETOSPHERE IONOSPHERE AND ATMOSPHERE AND THEIR RESPONSE TO SOLAR AND TERRESTRIAL INPUTS; 4. DISCOVER AND CHARACTERIZE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT OCCUR BOTH WITHIN THE HELIOSPHERE AND THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE. OUR APPROACH WILL INVOLVE APPLICATIONS OF GLOBAL AND REGIONAL MODELS EACH OF WHICH HAS UNIQUE CAPABILITIES NEEDED TO ACHIEVE OUR RESEARCH OBJECTIVES. THESE MODELS INCLUDE: 1) THE WACCM GCM (0-200 KM) FOR DEEP NEUTRAL DYNAMICS GCM TRUE METEOROLOGICAL FORCING REALISTIC TIDES AND PWS AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR DEEP (0-500 KM) REGIONAL HIGH-RESOLUTION (~200 M) MODELING USING A COMPRESSIBLE FINITE-VOLUME (CFV) CODE 2) A 3D CFV CODE ADDRESSING NONLINEAR GW DYNAMICS USING A STRETCHED GRID ENABLING FULL RESOLUTION OF GW DYNAMICS AT SMALL SCALES IN LARGE REGIONAL (3000X3000 KM) DOMAINS 3) THE COUPLED SAMI3 AND SAMI3/ESF IONOSPHERIC MODEL WILL BE USED TO CAPTURE 3D ELECTRODYNAMICS USING WACCM INPUT AND HIGH RESOLUTION GW DYNAMICS USING CFV INPUTS. THESE CAPABILITIES WILL ENABLE OUR TEAM TO EXPLORE 1) INFLUENCES OF REALISTIC TERRESTRIAL FORCING TIDAL FIELDS MLTI WINDS AND NEUTRAL-ION CHEMISTRY FOR THE COUPLED MLTI SYSTEM 2) REGIONAL AND GLOBAL INFLUENCES OF NONLINEAR GWS PENETRATING INTO THE MLTI AND 3) PLASMA RESPONSES TO THESE NEUTRAL DRIVERS FROM LOCAL TO GLOBAL SCALES. OUR TEAM WILL INCLUDE DAVE FRITTS BRIAN LAUGHMAN AND A GRAD STUDENT AT GATS HAN-LI LIU AND JOE MCINERNEY AT NCAR JOE HUBA AND JOHN KRALL AT NRL AND TOM LUND AT NWRA. DAVE WILL COORDINATE THE OVERALL TEAM EFFORT AND GW MODELING BY BRIAN TOM AND THE GRAD STUDENT. HAN-LI WILL EMPLOY WACCM TO DESCRIBE THE LARGE-SCALE ENVIRONMENT AND PROVIDE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR CFV CODE GW STUDIES BY GATS AND NWRA PERSONNEL. JOE HUBA AND JOHN KRALL AT NRL WILL EMPLOY THE SAMI3 AND SAMI3/ESF CODE FOR VERYHIGH- RESOLUTION STUDIES EMPLOYING THE WACCM AND CFV INPUT FIELDS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY ADDRESS SMALL-SCALE RESPONSES TO GWS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LARGER-SCALE TIDAL AND PW INFLUENCES.$887,376
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WOULD ADDRESS SMALL-SCALE GRAVITY WAVE INSTABILITY AND TURBULENCE DYNAMICS THAT PLAY CENTRAL ROLES IN THE TRANSPORT AND DEPOSITION OF ENERGY AND MOMENTUM THROUGHOUT THE ATMOSPHERE. THESE DYNAMICS ARE KEY TO DEFINING THE LARGE- AND SMALLER-SCALE STRUCTURE AND VARIABILITY OF THE MLT AND THEIR NEUTRAL AND IONOSPHERIC INFLUENCES EXTENDING TO HIGHER ALTITUDES. DESPITE THEIR IMPORTANCE AND NUMEROUS PREVIOUS STUDIES THESE DYNAMICS ARE POORLY UNDERSTOOD AT PRESENT. MULTIPLE ROCKET AND GROUND-BASED STUDIES HAVE PROVIDED IMPORTANT ADVANCES DEFINING LARGER-SCALE ENVIRONMENTS AND GRAVITY WAVES THE TYPES AND SCALES OF INSTABILITIES AND MEASURES OF THE INTENSITY AND VARIABILITY OF TURBULENCE AT SMALLER SPATIAL SCALES. HOWEVER NO PREVIOUS EXPERIMENT HAS SIMULTANEOUSLY DEFINED 1) THE SPATIAL CONTEXT OF THE DRIVING GRAVITY WAVE AND INSTABILITY DYNAMICS OVER EXTENDED HORIZONTAL SCALES 2) THE TRANSITION FROM LARGER-SCALE INSTABILITIES TO TURBULENCE AND 3) THE EVOLVING INSTABILITY AND TURBULENCE CHARACTER EXTENDING TO THE TURBULENCE INNER SCALE CONTINUOUSLY IN TIME THROUGHOUT THE EVENT. SERENDIPITOUS IMAGING OF SMALL-SCALE INSTABILITY AND TURBULENCE STRUCTURES IN POLAR MESOSPHERIC CLOUDS (PMCS) BY STAR CAMERAS SUPPORTING THE EBEX STRATOSPHERIC BALLOON EXPERIMENT HAS DEMONSTRATED THE POTENTIAL FOR SUCH OBSERVATIONS. THESE IMAGES REVEAL INSTABILITY AND TURBULENCE DYNAMICS EXTENDING FROM A FEW KM TO ~10-20 M SCALES (PIXEL RESOLUTION OF 3 M) AND OFFER A NEW WINDOW ON THESE DYNAMICS THAT WERE NOT PREVIOUSLY POSSIBLE WITH ANY MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUE. THE KEYS TO THIS SENSITIVITY LIE IN THE VERY THIN PMC LAYER BRIGHTNESS WHERE ADVECTION CAUSES STRONG PMC THINNING AND IMAGING FROM ABOVE ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE AT LOWER ALTITUDES. OUR PROPOSED EXPERIMENT WOULD EXPAND PMC IMAGING CAPABILITIES SPATIALLY AND TEMPORALLY. NEW IMAGING USING VERY-HIGH-RESOLUTION (50 MPIXEL) DETECTORS AND CO-ALIGNED WIDE AND NARROW FIELDS OF VIEW (FOV) WOULD EXTEND HORIZONTAL SPATIAL COVERAGE FROM ~100 KM TO ~10-M SCALES WITH IMAGING RESOLUTION AS HIGH AS 2 M. A FIXED ANTI-SUN VIEWING PLATFORM WOULD ALLOW TRACKING OF ENTIRE EVENTS THROUGHOUT THEIR EVOLUTION EXTENDING MANY BUOYANCY PERIODS (E.G. AN HOUR OR LONGER) WITH 2-S RESOLUTION. HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELING OF GRAVITY WAVE INSTABILITY AND TURBULENCE DYNAMICS THAT HAS ALREADY YIELDED TANTALIZING COMPARISONS OF SIMULATED AND OBSERVED DYNAMICS WOULD BE EMPLOYED TO GUIDE QUANTIFICATION OF THE OBSERVED EVENTS. THE FLIGHT PROGRAM WOULD UTILIZE A SMALL OR MID-SIZE CONSTANT-PRESSURE BALLOON FLOWN FROM MCMURDO STATION ANTARCTICA FOR A FLIGHT OF 1-2 WEEKS ALLOWING ONE ORBIT AROUND THE ANTARCTIC VORTEX IN AUSTRAL SUMMER. A LAUNCH WINDOW FROM 15/12/2017 TO 15/01/2018 WOULD GUARANTEE HIGH SENSITIVITY BY OUR IMAGERS TO THE MULTI-SCALE DYNAMICS REVEALED IN PMC IMAGERY. THE EXPERIMENT WOULD LEVERAGE EBEX IMAGING HERITAGE THE PROVEN CSBF SOLAR POWER AND COURSE POINTING SYSTEMS AND ELECTRONICS AND SOFTWARE TO MINIMIZE RISK IN COST AND THE DEVELOPMENT TIMESCALE. THE ENTIRE PAYLOAD WOULD WEIGH ~1000 LBS FACILITATING A RELATIVELY SIMPLE AND COST-EFFECTIVE LAUNCH. MINIMUM TELEMETRY WOULD BE NEEDED TO EVALUATE IMAGER PERFORMANCE DURING THE MISSION WITH DATA STORED ONBOARD UNTIL RETRIEVAL OF THE PAYLOAD FOLLOWING THE MEASUREMENT PROGRAM. THE PAYLOAD WOULD BE DELIVERED TO THE NASA BALLOON FACILITY IN PALESTINE TX FOR TESTING AND SHIPPING TO MCMURDO ~4 MONTHS PRIOR TO THE ANTICIPATED LAUNCH WINDOW. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WOULD HAVE SPECIFIC RELEVANCE TO GOALS 2 AND 4 IN THE RECENT HELIOPHYSICS DECADAL SURVEY SOLAR AND SPACE PHYSICS: A SCIENCE FOR A TECHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY: - DETERMINE THE DYNAMICS AND COUPLING OF EARTH S MAGNETOSPHERE IONOSPHERE AND ATMOSPHERE AND THEIR RESPONSE TO SOLAR AND TERRESTRIAL INPUTS - DISCOVER AND CHARACTERIZE FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES THAT OCCUR BOTH WITHIN THE HELIOSPHERE AND THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE.$788,252
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Dynamics Studies Employing the Southern Argentina Agile MEteor Radar (SAAMER), Correlative Measurements, and Modeling$767,973
· FY2022 · GEO
Collaborative Research: New Pathways to Enhanced Turbulence and Mixing via Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability Tube and Knot Dynamics$748,570
· FY2021 · GEO
THE PROPOSED RESEARCH WOULD ADDRESS SMALL SCALE GRAVITY WAVE, INSTABILITY, AND TURBULENCE DYNAMICS THAT PLAY CENTRAL ROLES IN THE TRANSPORT AND DEPOS$611,338
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Modeling Dynamics and Impacts of a new class of Kelvin-Helmholtz Instabilities that Drive Enhanced Turbulence and Mixing in the MLT$539,588
· FY2023 · GEO
Large- and Small-Scale Dynamics and Comprehensive Meteor Studies with the Southern Argentina Agile MEteor Radar (SAAMER)$450,000
· FY2013 · GEO
Collaborative Research: Observations and Modeling of Primary and Secondary Gravity Waves at all Altitudes over the Andes$359,645
· FY2023 · GEO
Collaborative Research: Lidar Studies of Coupling in the Arctic Atmosphere and Geospace$349,103
· FY2018 · GEO
Atmospheric Turbulence - Detailed Modeling and Characterization from Radosonde Observations$302,025
· FY2015 · GEO
MODELING THE INFLUENCES OF ACOUSTIC-GRAVITY WAVES DUE TO SEISMIC EVENTSAND ATMOSPHERIC SOURCES ON THE LOW- TO MID-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE$300,226
· FY2014 · Department of Defense
A STEADY RAIN OF METEOROIDS ENTERS OUR ATMOSPHERE, MOST OF WHICH ARE VAPORIZED TO FORM METEORIC SMOKE PARTICLES (MSPS) IN THE STRATOSPHERE AND MESOSP$298,556
· FY2010 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE - IONOSPHERE COUPLING AT SMALL SCALESSECTIONOBJECTIVES:WE PROPOSE TO ADDRESS NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE - IONOSPHERE COUPLING AT SMALL SPATIAL SCALES INITIATED BY GRAVITY WAVES (GWS) ARISING FROM VARIOUS SOURCES IN THE LOWER NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE. SPECIFIC RESEARCH GOALS ARE ANTICIPATED TO INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:1) EXPLORATION OF GW INITIATION OF MSTIDS AT MID-LATITUDES AND THE DEPENDENCE OF GENERATION EFFICIENCY ON GW SCALES ORIENTATIONS AND AMPLITUDES 2) CONTRIBUTIONS BY UPWARD-PROPAGATING OR DUCTED GWS TO MID-LATITUDE SPREAD F AND3) RESPONSES TO SPECIFIC GW SOURCES ESPECIALLY DEEP CONVECTION AND AURORAL HEATING. PROPOSED METHODS:OUR APPROACH WILL EMPLOY TWO STATE-OF-THE-ART MODELS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN APPLIED TO A RANGE OF NEUTRAL AND PLASMA PROBLEMS. THESE INCLUDE:1) A FINITE-VOLUME 3D CODE DESCRIBING GW GENERATION PROPAGATION INTERACTIONS AND INSTABILITIES FROM THE GW SOURCES TO ~300-400 KM IN EITHER A COMPRESSIBLE OR AN ANELASTIC FRAMEWORK AND 2) A 3D ELECTRODYNAMICS CODE THAT DESCRIBES PLASMA INSTABILITIES AND TURBULENCE AND CAN EMPLOY NEUTRAL FORCING IN VARIOUS FIELD AND PLASMA CONFIGURATIONS. IN OUR APPLICATIONS THE NEUTRAL FV CODE WILL PROVIDE THE INITIAL AND BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR THE ED CODE WHICH WILL THEN ALLOW US TO EXAMINE THE PLASMA RESPONSES AND THE COUPLING PHYSICS. PERCEIVED SIGNIFICANCE:OUR PROPOSED RESEARCH WOULD ADDRESS NEUTRAL ATMOSPHERE - IONOSPHERE COUPLING AT SMALL SPATIAL SCALES THAT ARE DIFFICULT OR IMPOSSIBLE TO QUANTIFY WITH CURRENT OBSERVATIONAL METHODS. OUR RESEARCH FOCUS WOULD ALSO HAVE SPECIFIC RELEVANCE TO SEVERAL STRATEGIC GOALSARTICULATED IN THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS 2009-2030 ROADMAP INCLUDING THE FOLLOWING F3.1 (AND H3.1): "WHAT GOVERNS THE COUPLING OF NEUTRAL AND IONIZED SPECIES?"F3.2 (AND F3.2): "HOW DO COUPLED MIDDLE AND UPPER ATMOSPHERES RESPOND TO EXTERNAL DRIVERS AND TO EACH OTHER?F3.3: "WHAT IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DRAMATIC VARIABILITY IN MANY OF THE STATE VARIABLES DESCRIBING THE IONOSPHERE-THERMOSPHEREMESOSPHERE (ITM) REGION?"$291,191
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Collaborative Research: Quantifying KHI, Turbulence Processes and Radar Biases Using Radar Observations and In Situ Measurements at JRO and Very-High-Resolution DNS$284,997
· FY2012 · GEO
Collaborative Research: CEDAR--Observational and Numerical Studies of Tide-planetary Wave Coupling$260,491
· FY2012 · GEO
Collaborative Research: Modeling the Nonlinear Dynamics of Deep Gravity Waves in the Mesosphere and Thermosphere$251,124
· FY2018 · GEO
CEDAR: Numerical Investigation of Observed Multiscale Dynamics in the Middle Atmosphere$244,022
· FY2012 · GEO