← LeaderboardsInvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc
$22,204,218
Total funding
37
Grants
Funding over time
peak $7.4M · FY2008–23$10M$7.5M$5M$2.5M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NASA$15,022,521 · 23
DOE$6,093,513 · 12
DOD$1,088,184 · 2
By mechanism
—$22,204,218 · 37
Investigators at Atmospheric & Environmental Research Inc
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
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THROUGH METAMATERIAL FILTER DEVELOPMENT BUILDING AND TESTING OF A BENCHTOP PROTOTYPE SENSOR AND ATMOSPHERIC RETRIEVAL STUDIES THE CONCEPT OF AN ULTRA-COMPACT IR SENSOR FOR MEASUREMENTS OF TEMPERATURE AND WATER VAPOR IN BOUNDARY LAYER WILL BE BUILT$4,403,363
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
PROGRAM ON RADIATIVE TRANSFER MODEL DEVELOPMENT IN SUPPORT OF THE ARM PROGRAM$1,313,997
· FY2008 · Department of Energy
GNSS RADIO OCCULTATION DATA IN THE AWS CLOUD$1,219,046
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE OVERARCHING OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS THE APPLICATION OF THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING-STOCHASTIC TIME INVERTED LAGRANGIAN TRANSPORT (W$996,644
· FY2010 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ATMOSPHERIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH, INC. TOWARD ASSIMILATION OF SATELLITE DATA IN MODELING WATER VAPOR FLUXES OVER LAND THIS PROJECT APPLIES MI$928,856
· FY2009 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MEASUREMENTS OF THE EARTH S CHANGING GRAVITY FIELD FROM SPACE ARE A KEY COMPONENT OF THE CLIMATE OBSERVING SYSTEM. THE GRACE FOLLOW ON MISSION WILL CONTINUE TO GATHER DATA FOR IMPROVING ESTIMATES OF VARIABILITY OF OCEAN BOTTOM PRESSURE (OBP) AND CH$794,204
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE PRIMARY GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO USE NASA RETRIEVALS OF BOUNDARY-LAYER CONCENTRATIONS OF AMMONIA (NH3) FROM THE CROSSTRACK INFRARED SPECTROMETER (CRIS) ABOARD THE SUOMI NATIONAL POLAR-ORBITING PARTNERSHIP SATELLITE TO PROVIDE IMPROVED EMISSION INVENTORIES OF NH3 TO AIR QUALITY MANAGERS FORECASTERS AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS WHO NEED TO DETERMINE THE HUMAN HEALTH IMPACTS OF PM2.5 PRECURSORS LIKE NH3. AIR QUALITY MANAGERS HAVE INCREASINGLY FOCUSED ON CONTROLLING THE GROWING EMISSIONS OF NH3 AS A POTENTIAL STRATEGY TO REDUCE THESE HEALTH IMPACTS. FOR EXAMPLE THE LATEST EPA REGULATORY GUIDANCE ON ASSESSING THE IMPACTS OF NEW SOURCES OF PM2.5 PRECURSORS REQUIRES THAT EMISSIONS OF NH3 BE ADDRESSED. HOWEVER CURRENT NH3 EMISSION INVENTORIES ARE TOO UNCERTAIN TO PROVIDE CREDIBLE ESTIMATES OF THE ASSOCIATED HEALTH IMPACTS. OUR PROJECT TEAM HAS DEMONSTRATED THAT A FINITE-DIFFERENCE MASS-BALANCE APPROACH CAN USE CRIS NH3 OBSERVATIONS TO CONSTRAIN NH3 EMISSIONS AT THE RESOLUTIONS TYPICAL OF REGIONAL AIR QUALITY MODELING. IN THIS PROJECT WE WILL USE THESE NASA EARTH OBSERVATIONS TO PRODUCE IMPROVED MODEL-READY EMISSION FILES FOR NH3 (COVERING THE CURRENT AND FUTURE CRIS DATA RECORD) FOR THE MAIN US AND CANADIAN REGIONAL AIR QUALITY MODELS (CMAQ CAMX AND GEM-MACH). GIVEN OUR SUCCESSFUL PROOF-OF-CONCEPT TEST OUR PROPOSED APPLICATION IS CURRENTLY AT APPLICATION READINESS LEVEL (ARL) 3. IN THIS PROJECT WE WILL: (1) INTEGRATE THE NASA CRIS NH3 RETRIEVED PRODUCT AND OUR CMAQ-BASED INVERSION METHODOLOGY INTO A PROTOTYPE APPLICATION SYSTEM ON THE AMAZON CLOUD (ARL 4) (2) DEVELOP MODEL-READY UPDATED NH3 EMISSION FILES FOR CMAQ CAMX AND GEM-MACH AND BETA-TEST THEM IN THE END-USER APPLICATIONS (ARL 5) (3) DEMONSTRATE THAT THE PROTOTYPE APPLICATION IMPROVES THE SIMULATION OF NH3 AND INORGANIC PM2.5 IN END-USER MODELING AND LEADS TO BETTER DECISION MAKING (ARL 6) (4) FULLY INTEGRATE THE PROTOTYPE APPLICATION INTO END-USER DECISION-MAKING (ARL 7) WE WILL DESIGN OUR APPLICATION SO THAT THE EMISSION FILES CAN BE EASILY INCORPORATED INTO EXISTING MODELING ACTIVITIES BY GOVERNMENT AIR QUALITY MANAGERS (SUCH AS US EPA THE CENTRAL STATES AIR RESOURCE AGENCIES THE WESTERN REGIONAL AIR PARTNERSHIP AND ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE CANADA) AIR QUALITY FORECASTERS (INCLUDING THE NOAA NATIONAL AIR QUALITY FORECAST CAPABILITY RESEARCH TEAM) AND INDUSTRY STAKEHOLDERS (SUCH AS THE MEMBERS OF THE ELECTRIC POWER RESEARCH INSTITUTE). THESE FILES WILL BE PRODUCED VIA A CLOUD COMPUTING SYSTEM THAT BOTH AER AND END USERS WILL BE ABLE TO OPERATE AFTER NASA FUNDING ENDS. THE APPLICATION CODE WILL ALSO BE PROVIDED TO END USERS FOR THEIR OWN USE. AS NEW CRIS INSTRUMENTS WILL CONTINUE TO BE LAUNCHED OVER THE NEXT TWO DECADES OUR PROPOSED APPLICATION WILL PROVIDE INFORMATION ON THE EMISSIONS OF NH3 TO DECISION-MAKERS FOR MANY YEARS INTO THE FUTURE. OUR PROJECT TEAM HAS A RECORD OF PROVEN PERFORMANCE ON ALL ASPECTS OF THIS PROJECT INCLUDING SATELLITE RETRIEVALS OF NH3 INVERSION MODELING TO IMPROVE EMISSION INVENTORIES AND DEVELOPING CLOUD-BASED SCIENTIFIC SOFTWARE APPLICATIONS. THIS PROJECT WILL THUS USE NASA EARTH OBSERVATIONS TO DEVELOP AN IMPROVED REPRESENTATION OF NH3 EMISSIONS THAT WILL DIRECTLY IMPACT POLICY AND INVESTMENT DECISIONS RELATED TO AIR QUALITY AND HUMAN HEALTH.$764,879
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ESTABLISHING A HOLISTIC UNDERSTANDING OF MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM STRATIFORM
PRECIPITATION REGIONS$716,833
· FY2022 · Department of Energy
PROFILING WATER VAPOR IN THE PLANETARY BOUNDARY LAYER USING GNSS RO IN DATA ASSIMILATION$705,543
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
ACCELRATED LINE-BY-LINE CALCULATIONS FOR THE RADIATIVE TRANSFER OF TRACE GASES RELATED TO CLIMATE STUDIES$690,172
· FY2008 · Department of Energy
THE OVERARCHING OBJECTIVE OF THIS PROJECT IS THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENHANCEMENTS TO THE RRTMGP RADIATION CODE TO SUPPORT KEY GMAO AND GEOS-5 PRIORITIES. RRTMGP WHICH IS BEING DEVELOPED UNDER CURRENT SUPPORT FROM THE NASA MAP PROGRAM IS A HIGH- PERFORMANCE RADIATION CODE DESIGNED FOR THE CURRENT GENERATION OF COMPUTATIONAL ARCHITECTURES. THE CODE IS A COMPLETELY RESTRUCTURED AND MODERN VERSION OF THE RRTMG RADIATION CODE USED IN MANY GCMS. RRTMGP PRESERVES THE STRENGTHS OF THE EXISTING RRTMG PARAMETERIZATION ESPECIALLY THE HIGH ACCURACY OF THE K-DISTRIBUTION TREATMENT OF ABSORPTION BY GASES BUT THE ENTIRE CODE HAS BEEN REWRITTEN TO PROVIDE HIGHLY EFFICIENT COMPUTATION ACROSS A RANGE OF ARCHITECTURES. RRTMGP IS PLANNED TO BE THE NEXT RADIATION CODE IN GEOS-5 AND ITS INITIAL VERSION WILL BE ACCURATE FOR THE TYPICAL GCM CONFIGURATIONS OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL RESOLUTION VERTICAL RANGE GAS ABUNDANCES ETC. THE ENHANCEMENTS TO RRTMGP PROPOSED HERE WILL EXTEND THE RANGE OF VALIDITY OF GEOS-5 TO SUPPORT IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC GOALS OF GMAO AND NASA-GSFC RESEARCHERS. IN PARTICULAR WE PROPOSE TO IMPROVE RRTMGP TO SUPPORT GEOS-5 NATURE RUNS AT HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION A CRITICAL PRIORITY FOR GMAO BOTH BY INCLUDING THE IMPACT OF TOPOGRAPHY ON RADIATIVE FLUXES AND BY IMPLEMENTING STRATEGIES TO SPEED UP THE CODE. WE WILL ALSO ENHANCE RRTMGP TO ALLOW SOLAR VARIABILITY TO BE SIMULATED MORE ACCURATELY IN GEOS-5 TO INCLUDE THE RADIATIVE EFFECTS OF KEY HYDROFLUOROCARBONS TO ACCURATELY COMPUTE THE RADIATION FROM MASSIVE EMISSIONS OF SULFUR DIOXIDE FROM LARGE VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND TO EXTEND THE UPPER VERTICAL LIMIT OF THE CODE ABOVE 65 KM. RRTMGP ALSO INCLUDES A SATELLITE SIMULATION CAPABILITY AND WE PROPOSE TO ADD CRIS AIRS IASI AND OCO-2 TO THE SUITE OF IMPLEMENTED SENSORS. THIS DEVELOPMENT WILL SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE THE GEOS-5 REPRESENTATION OF RADIATIVE PROCESSES OF CRITICAL IMPORTANCE ACROSS A WIDE RANGE OF SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES. THIS WORK WOULD THEREBY SUPPORT THE MAP PROGRAM OBJECTIVE OF ATTAINING A COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THE EARTH SYSTEM AS WELL AS ENHANCE THE QUALITY OF GEOS-5 SIMULATIONS AND REANALYSIS PRODUCTS PRODUCED BY THE MODEL. THESE BENEFITS WOULD APPLY ACROSS THE WEATHER-TO-CLIMATE CONTINUUM OF TEMPORAL SCALES AND EXTEND TO MAP PROJECTS RELATED TO GEOS-5 SUCH AS THE GLOBAL MODELING INITIATIVE AND THE NASA UNIFIED WEATHER RESEARCH FORECAST MODEL. THIS PROPOSAL WILL IMPROVE A COMPONENT OF NASA MAP SUPPORTED MODELS A PROGRAMMATIC PRIORITY IDENTIFIED IN THIS SOLICITATION AND IT IS RELEVANT TO THE RESEARCH THEMES IN THE SOLICITATION OF ASSIMILATION COUPLING IN THE EARTH SYSTEM CONSTITUENTS IN THE CLIMATE SYSTEM AND PREDICTABILITY IN THE EARTH SYSTEM.$679,871
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RRTMGP: A HIGH-PERFORMANCE BROADBAND RADIATION CODE FOR THE NEXT DECADE$626,952
· FY2014 · Department of Defense
THE FAR-INFRARED OUTGOING RADIATION UNDERSTANDING AND MONITORING (FORUM) MISSION SELECTED BY ESA TO BE ITS NINTH EARTH EXPLORER MISSION IS SLATED FOR LAUNCH IN 2026. FORUM WILL FILL A LONGSTANDING SPECTRAL GAP IN THE MEASUREMENT OF EARTH OUTGOING$597,959
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH WILL COMBINE NASA-SPONSORED AIRCRAFT AND SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS WITH LIGHTNING ASSIMILATION AND LARGE-EDDY SIMULATIONS (LES) TO ANSWER FUNDAMENTAL SCIENTIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT DEEP CONVECTIVE TRACE GAS TRANSPORT. DEEP CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT SIGNIFICANTLY AFFECTS THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION AND WATER VAPOR CONTENT OF THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE AND LOWER STRATOSPHERE. FOR EXAMPLE THE RAPID CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT OF OZONE (O3) AND ITS PRECURSORS CAN SUBSTANTIALLY INCREASE O3 PRODUCTION IN THE UPPER TROPOSPHERE. DEEP CONVECTION ALSO LOFTS TRACE GASES INTO STRONGER UPPER-LEVEL WINDS FACILITATING LONG-RANGE TRANSPORT AND LONG-DISTANCE EFFECTS ON ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION. HOWEVER THIS TRANSPORT REMAINS A CHALLENGING PROCESS TO SIMULATE IN CLIMATE AND CHEMICAL TRANSPORT MODELS IN LARGE PART DUE TO THE INADEQUATE PARAMETERIZATION OF DEEP CONVECTION. FOR THESE REASONS DEEP CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT WAS A MAJOR FOCUS OF THE NASA DEEP CONVECTIVE CLOUDS AND CHEMISTRY (DC3) AND STUDIES OF EMISSIONS AND ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION CLOUDS AND CLIMATE COUPLING BY REGIONAL SURVEYS (SEAC4RS) AIRBORNE CAMPAIGNS. IN THIS RESEARCH WE WILL ANALYZE DEEP CONVECTIVE TRACE GAS TRANSPORT DURING DC3 AND SEAC4RS. OUR TEAM PARTICIPATED IN SEAC4RS AS PART OF THE METEOROLOGICAL FORECAST TEAM AND HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE COMBINING AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS WITH HIGH-RESOLUTION MODELING TO STUDY DEEP CONVECTIVE PROCESSES. WE WILL USE THE LARGELY UNEXPLORED SEAC4RS CONVECTIVE DATASET ALONG WITH THE EXTENSIVELY STUDIED DC3 DATASET TO ADDRESS THE FOLLOWING SCIENCE QUESTIONS FROM THE NASA ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION FOCUS AREA: WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF GLOBAL ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AND CLIMATE CHANGES ON REGIONAL AIR QUALITY? AND HOW WILL FUTURE CHANGES IN ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION AFFECT OZONE CLIMATE AND GLOBAL AIR QUALITY? WE ALSO WILL BE DIRECTLY ADDRESSING THE PRIMARY UNIFYING SCIENTIFIC GOAL OF DC3 AND SEAC4RS WHICH WAS TO UNDERSTAND HOW RADIATIVELY AND CHEMICALLY IMPORTANT ATMOSPHERIC CONSTITUENTS ARE TRANSPORTED VERTICALLY THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERIC COLUMN FROM THE GROUND TO THE LOWER STRATOSPHERE. WE WILL INTERROGATE FIVE DIFFERENT CASES SPANNING A WIDE RANGE OF CONVECTIVE MODES INCLUDING A SUPERCELL (DC3) A MESOSCALE CONVECTIVE SYSTEM (DC3) AIRMASS AND PREFRONTAL CONVECTION (SEAC4RS) AND MARINE CONVECTION (SEAC4RS). AIRCRAFT AND SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS OF ATMOSPHERIC KINEMATICS (E.G. VERTICAL VELOCITY) CLOUD PROPERTIES (E.G. CLOUD TOP HEIGHT) AND TRACE GASES WILL PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO THE MESOSCALE AND DYNAMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SAMPLED CONVECTION AND ITS VERTICAL REDISTRIBUTION OF POLLUTION. A NOVEL YET DEMONSTRATED LIGHTNING DATA ASSIMILATION METHOD WILL BE USED TO IMPROVE THE TIMING AND LOCATION OF PARAMETERIZED DEEP CONVECTION IN THE WEATHER RESEARCH AND FORECASTING MODEL WITH CHEMISTRY (WRF-CHEM). THE IMPROVED SUB-GRID CONVECTION FROM THE LIGHTNING ASSIMILATION WILL PROVIDE A MORE REALISTIC COMPARISON OF SIMULATED SUB-GRID CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT WITH AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS OF TRACE GASES. IDEALIZED WRF-LES WILL THEN BE PERFORMED AT ~100 M GRID SPACING. THE RESULTS WILL BE INTEGRATED WITH AIRCRAFT OBSERVATIONS TO UNDERSTAND THE PHYSICAL PROCESSES MODULATING THE ACCURATE SIMULATION OF DEEP CONVECTIVE TRACE GAS TRANSPORT. FINALLY THESE NEW INSIGHTS INTO DEEP CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT WILL BE TRANSLATED INTO MODEL IMPROVEMENT PATHWAYS FOR THE CLIMATE AND COMPOSITION COMMUNITIES.$553,099
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EXPLOITING ARM SPECTRAL RADIATION MEASUREMENTS TO INCREASE UNDERSTANDING OF ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES$545,588
· FY2012 · Department of Energy
CLIMATE-RELEVANT GAS ABSORPTION PROPERTIES FROM AWARE AND OTHER ARM SPECTRAL MEASUREMENTS$521,289
· FY2017 · Department of Energy
AMMONIA (NH3) PLAYS A KEY AND NOT COMPLETELY UNDERSTOOD ROLE IN THE REACTIVE NITROGEN CYCLE. IT IS THE PRINCIPAL FORM OF REACTIVE NITROGEN DEPOSITED TO THE SURFACE OF NON-URBAN REGIONS AFFECTING ECOSYSTEM HEALTH AND WATER QUALITY. NH3 IS ALSO A SIG$494,645
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SUBTROPICAL SOUTH AMERICA (SSA) IS HOME TO SOME OF THE MOST INTENSE CONVECTION IN THE WORLD AS DETERMINED BY DEPTH OF CONVECTION SIZE OF ORGANIZED CONVECTIVE SYSTEMS LIGHTNING FLASH RATES AND SATELLITE-ESTIMATED HAIL PRODUCTION. UNSURPRISINGLY$482,241
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RRTMGP DEVELOPMENT IN SUPPORT OF NAVY ATMOSPHERIC MODELING NEEDS$461,232
· FY2017 · Department of the Navy
ACCURATE TIMELY FREQUENT AND SPATIALLY COMPLETE RAINFALL INPUTS ARE ESSENTIAL FOR FLOOD DISASTER FORECASTING. IN DATA-POOR REGIONS SATELLITES ARE OFTEN THE BEST SOURCE FOR COMPREHENSIVE RAINFALL OBSERVATIONS. NASA S GLOBAL PRECIPITATION MISSION$459,741
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration