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Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates Llc
$8,051,466
Total funding
13
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NASA$7,785,973 · 12
DOD$265,493 · 1
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—$8,051,466 · 13
Investigators at Atmospheric & Space Technology Research Associates Llc
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
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THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED CUBESAT MISSION IS TO INVESTIGATE THE UNDERLYING CAUSES BEHIND THE APPEARANCE OF F-REGION PLASMA STRUCTURES AND THE EVOLUTION OF THESE STRUCTURES AFTER FORMATION. OUR APPROACH TO ADDRESS THIS COMPLEX CHALLENGE PLACES SENSORS THAT MEASURE KEY PLASMA PARAMETERS IN A CIRCULAR LOW TO MIDDLE INCLINATION ORBIT NEAR 400 KM ALTITUDE TO STUDY THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CONVECTION ELECTRIC FIELD VARIATIONS AND PLASMA DENSITIES AT DIFFERENT LOCAL TIMES AND LONGITUDES. TO DO THIS MEASUREMENTS OF ION-DRIFTS AND PLASMA DENSITIES WILL BE MADE BY A MINIATURE ION VELOCITY METER AND A MICRO PLANAR LANGMUIR PROBE. THESE INSTRUMENTS WILL FLY ON A 6U CUBESAT WITH PRECISE 3-AXIS ATTITUDE CONTROL AND BODY MOUNTED SOLAR PANELS. THE SORTIE CUBESAT TAKES ADVANTAGE OF ALREADY MATURED CUBESAT TECHNOLOGIES AND REQUIRES NO DEPLOYABLE MECHANISMS. THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES SCIENCE QUESTIONS IN THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS ROADMAP (2009) INCLUDING (A) UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBAL AND LOCAL ELECTRODYNAMICS OF THE ITM SYSTEM IN RESPONSE TO GEOMAGNETIC DYNAMICS AND (B) DISCOVERING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES IN THE IONOSPHERE-THERMOSPHERE SYSTEM THROUGH RECURRENT MEASUREMENTS OF IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES AND THE BACKGROUND CONDITIONS IN WHICH THEY FORM. WE EXPECT THAT THE PROPOSED MISSION WILL ADVANCE THE CAPABILITY TO PREDICT THE APPEARANCE OF LOW-LATITUDE IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES BY OBSERVING THE PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS THAT LEAD TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ANY PRE-EXISTING WAVE STRUCTURES AND THE SPECTRAL CONTENT OF THE IRREGULARITIES THAT APPEAR AFTER SUNSET.$1,937,235
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE TURBOPAUSE REGION REMAINS ONE OF THE MOST POORLY EXPLORED YET CRUCIAL REGIONS OF THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE. IN THE VICINITY OF THIS ALTITUDE THE ATMOSPHERE REACHES ITS LOWEST TEMPERATURE AND THE COMPOSITIONAL STRUCTURE CHANGES FROM BEING GOVERNED BY TURBULENT MIXING PROCESSES TO DIFFUSIVE PROCESSES. DYNAMICAL ENERGY IN THE FORM OF TIDES AS WELL AS GRAVITY AND PLANETARY WAVES PROPAGATE FROM THE LOWER ATMOSPHERE TO THE IONOSPHERE$1,136,567
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES FST 3.1.3 STUDIES OF THE GLOBAL ELECTRODYNAMICS OF IONOSPHERIC DISTURBANCES. DERIVING STORM TIME IONO-SPHERIC ELECTRODYNAMICS IS OF PARTICULAR IMPORTANCE TO: LWS SSA-2 PHYSICS-BASED SATELLITE DRAG FORECASTING CAPABILITY; SSA-4 PHYSICS-BASED TEC FORECASTING CAPABILITY; AND SSA-5 PHYSICS-BASED SCINTILLATION FORECASTING CAPABILITY. WE PROPOSE TO DETERMINE STORM-TIME IONOSPHERIC ELECTRODYNAMICS FROM OBSERVATIONS AS FULLY AS POSSIBLE USING VARIOUS SATELLITE AND GROUND-BASED DATASETS AND QUANTITATIVELY TEST EXISTING EMPIRICAL AND PHYSICS-BASED MODELS THUS DERIVING ADVANCES IN MODELING CAPABILITIES TO IMPROVE QUANTITATIVE PREDICTIVE CAPABILITY OF STORM-TIME IONOSPHERIC ELECTRODYNAMICS. WE WILL (1) ASSESS STORM-TIME IONOSPHERIC ELECTRODYNAMICS FROM OBSERVATIONS INCLUDING THE IONOSPHERIC CONDUCTIVITY CURRENTS AND ELECTRIC FIELDS; (2) QUANTIFY THE VALIDITY OF EXISTING EMPIRICAL AND PHYSICS-BASED MODELS OF IONOSPHERIC ELECTRODYNAMICS; (3) IDENTIFY KEY AREAS OF DISCREPANCY AND ASSESS TECHNIQUES INCLUDING DATA-ASSIMILATION TO INCORPORATE AVAILABLE DATA INTO IONOSPHERE/THERMOSPHERE MODELS AND TO INFER EXTERNAL FORCING WHERE NOT WELL MEASURED; (4) TRANSLATE MODELED/ASSIMILATED GLOBAL ELECTRODYNAMICS TO BOTH MAGNETOMETER AND GIC MEASUREMENTS THAT CAN BE VALIDATED ON THE GROUND. THE STUDY WILL CONSIDER UNCERTAINTIES AND HOW THE SOURCES OF ERROR IMPACT THE RESULTS. NASA WILL FACILITATE INTERACTION WITH USER COMMUNITIES.$850,778
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED CUBESAT MISSION IS TO INVESTIGATE THE UNDERLYING CAUSES BEHIND THE APPEARANCE OF F-REGION PLASMA STRUCTURES AND THE EVOLUTION OF THESE STRUCTURES AFTER FORMATION. OUR APPROACH TO ADDRESS THIS COMPLEX CHALLENGE PLACES SENSORS THAT MEASURE KEY PLASMA PARAMETERS IN A CIRCULAR LOW TO MIDDLE INCLINATION ORBIT NEAR 400 KM ALTITUDE TO STUDY THE CORRELATION BETWEEN CONVECTION ELECTRIC FIELD VARIATIONS AND PLASMA DENSITIES AT DIFFERENT LOCAL TIMES AND LONGITUDES. TO DO THIS MEASUREMENTS OF ION-DRIFTS AND PLASMA DENSITIES WILL BE MADE BY A MINIATURE ION VELOCITY METER AND A MICRO PLANAR LANGMUIR PROBE. THESE INSTRUMENTS WILL FLY ON A 6U CUBESAT WITH PRECISE 3-AXIS ATTITUDE CONTROL AND BODY MOUNTED SOLAR PANELS. THE SORTIE CUBESAT TAKES ADVANTAGE OF ALREADY MATURED CUBESAT TECHNOLOGIES AND REQUIRES NO DEPLOYABLE MECHANISMS. THIS PROPOSAL ADDRESSES SCIENCE QUESTIONS IN THE NASA HELIOPHYSICS ROADMAP (2009) INCLUDING (A) UNDERSTANDING THE GLOBAL AND LOCAL ELECTRODYNAMICS OF THE ITM SYSTEM IN RESPONSE TO GEOMAGNETIC DYNAMICS AND (B) DISCOVERING THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALES IN THE IONOSPHERE-THERMOSPHERE SYSTEM THROUGH RECURRENT MEASUREMENTS OF IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES AND THE BACKGROUND CONDITIONS IN WHICH THEY FORM. WE EXPECT THAT THE PROPOSED MISSION WILL ADVANCE THE CAPABILITY TO PREDICT THE APPEARANCE OF LOW-LATITUDE IONOSPHERIC IRREGULARITIES BY OBSERVING THE PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS THAT LEAD TO THEIR DEVELOPMENT AND EXAMINING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ANY PRE-EXISTING WAVE STRUCTURE AND THE SPECTRAL CONTENT OF THE IRREGULARITIES THAT APPEAR AFTER SUNSET.$766,823
· FY2014 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO STUDY THE TIME-DEPENDENT NEUTRAL CHEMISTRY AND TRANSPORT OF WATER IN THE MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE (MLT) AND TO DETERMINE THE RESULTANT IMPACT ON THE LOCAL TEMPERATURE AND ICE CLOUD FORMATION. TO REACH THIS GOAL WE WILL ANSWER THREE SCIENCE QUESTIONS: 1. WHAT IS THE ENERGETIC AND CHEMICAL RESPONSE OF THE UPPER MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE TO WATER DEPOSITED IN THE LOWER THERMOSPHERE? 2. HOW DOES THE INJECTION OF LARGE AMOUNTS OF WATER VAPOR CHANGE THE THERMODYNAMICS AND IMPACT THE PHYSICS OF PMC FORMATION? 3. HOW IS THE WATER VAPOR THAT GETS INJECTED INTO THE LOWER THERMOSPHERE REDISTRIBUTED VERTICALLY TO THE PMC REGION NEAR 82 KM?$663,986
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
IN SPITE OF RECENT PROGRESS IN DIAGNOSING WAVES IN MARS ATMOSPHERE THERE ARE MANY UNRESOLVED QUESTIONS REGARDING THE VARIABILITY OF THESE GLOBAL-SCALE WAVES AND TIDES THE SECONDARY WAVES GENERATED BY THEIR INTERACTIONS AND THE IMPACTS OF THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF THESE WAVES ON MARS' UPPER ATMOSPHERE IN RELATION TO IN-SITU SOLAR FORCING. IT IS OBVIOUS THAT THE CONFLUENCE OF THE RELATIVELY RECENT OBSERVING CAPABILITIES GIVEN BY THE MRO AND MAVEN MISSIONS HOLDS THE PROMISE TO SIGNIFICANTLY ADVANCE OUR UNDERSTANDING AND QUANTIFICATION OF THE VERTICAL COUPLING OF WAVES IN MARS UPPER ATMOSPHERE. THE OVERALL OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH IS TO QUANTIFY THE SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY OF NEUTRAL DENSITIES IN MARS THERMOSPHERE (150-200 KM) AND TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINS OF THIS VARIABILITY IN TERMS OF WAVES ORIGINATING IN LOWER ATMOSPHERE REGIONS AND IN-SITU SOLAR FORCING. IT IS USEFUL TO TRANSLATE THIS OBJECTIVE INTO THREE BASIC QUESTIONS THAT WE SEEK TO ANSWER AS A RESULT OF THIS PROPOSED RESEARCH. Q1: TO WHAT DEGREE IS SOLAR IRRADIANCE RESPONSIBLE FOR SHORT-TERM (<30-SOL) NEUTRAL DENSITY VARIABILITY IN MARS THERMOSPHERE (C.A. 150-200 KM) DURING SOLAR QUIET TO MEDIUM CONDITIONS? Q2: HOW PREVALENT ARE PW-TIDE AND UFKW-TIDE INTERACTIONS IN MARS THERMOSPHERE AND WHAT ADDED LATITUDE LONGITUDE AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY DO THEY IMPOSE? Q3: IS THERE EVIDENCE TO SHOW THAT THE ABOVE PW-TIDE AND UFKW-TIDE INTERACTIONS ORIGINATE IN MARS MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE? THREE MAJOR ADVANCES PROVIDE SOME CONFIDENCE THAT ANSWERS TO THE ABOVE QUESTIONS CAN BE ACHIEVED. FIRST CONCURRENT SOLAR IRRADIANCE AND COMPOSITION (CO2 AR N2 CO) MEASUREMENTS FROM MAVEN S EXTREME ULTRA-VIOLET MONITOR (EUVM) AND NEUTRAL GAS AND ION MASS SPECTROMETER (NGIMS) OFFER THE UNPRECEDENTED OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY SOLAR FORCING EFFECTS ON MARS THERMOSPHERE DENSITIES FROM THE SAME OBSERVATIONAL PLATFORM. SECOND THE PROPOSED PSEUDOLONGITUDE SPECTRAL ANALYSIS METHOD (SEE SECTION 4) WAS DEMONSTRATED TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT IDENTIFYING NONLINEAR WAVE-WAVE INTERACTIONS IN MAVEN S OBSERVATIONS [GASPERINI ET AL. 2018]. THIRD AS NOTED IN SECTION 1 OBSERVATIONS AND MODELS HAVE REACHED A LEVEL OF SOPHISTICATION AND AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE SOME REASONABLE IDEA ABOUT THE GLOBAL-SCALE WAVES AND TIDAL COMPONENTS THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR DYNAMICALLY COUPLING THE 60-80 KM REGION TO THE 150-200 KM REGION. THE MRO AND MAVEN DATA TO BE UTILIZED ARE BRIEFLY DESCRIBED IN THE NEXT SECTION. IN SECTION 4 THE METHODOLOGIES AND TASKS THROUGH WHICH WE PLAN TO USE THESE DATA TO ANSWER Q1-Q3 ARE DESCRIBED INCLUDING THE EXPECTED TIMELINE. THE ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE AND RELEVANCE TO NASA AND MDAP STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH ARE DESCRIBED IN SECTION 5. ROLES QUALIFICATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES ARE DISCUSSED IN SECTION 6.$511,264
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
SPACE WEATHER-DRIVEN GEOMAGNETICALLY INDUCED CURRENTS (GICS) POSE A SERIOUS THREAT TO GROUND-BASED TECHNOLOGICAL SYSTEMS. THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF THE PROPOSED INVESTIGATION IS TO IMPROVE AND EXTEND EXISTING SPHERICAL ELEMENTARY CURRENT(SEC) PATTERNS$499,936
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE GOAL OF THIS PROJECT IS TO DEVELOP A NEXT-GENERATION SCINTILLATION MODEL$453,134
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
EO14042 LOW-LATITUDE IONOSPHERE-THERMOSPHERE VARIABILITY DUE TO GLOBAL-SCALE WAVES AND THEIR NON-LINEAR INTERACTIONS AS REVEALED BY THE ICON GOLD AND SORTIE SATELLITES$449,515
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
OBSERVATION AND MODELING OF TSUNAMI-GENERATED GRAVITY WAVES IN THE EARTH'S UPPER ATMOSPHERE$265,493
· FY2014 · Department of Defense
THE OVERALL GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO STUDY THE TIME DEPENDENT NEUTRAL CHEMISTRY AND TRANSPORT OF WATER IN THE MESOSPHERE AND LOWER THERMOSPHERE ML$234,562
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
UNDERSTANDING THE HIGH-LATITUDE GEOSPACE SYSTEM TO THE POINT OF PREDICTION: THE HELIOPHYSICS KNOWLEDGE NETWORK (HELIO-KNOW)$207,689
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
INDEPENDENT MODEL VALIDATION IS CRITICAL FEEDBACK TO UNDERSTAND WHERE OUR FORECAST MODELS ARE PERFORMING WELL AND WHERE THEY ARE UNRELIABLE. SCIENTIFICALLY VALIDATING SOLAR WIND MODELS IS A NECESSARY GOAL TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY AND UNDERSTAND WHERE PHYSICS OF THE SYSTEM IS CORRECTLY CAPTURED. HELIOSPHERIC MODELS ARE REGULARLY UPDATED WITH NEW PHYSICS INCORPORATED OR IMPROVED DEFINITIONS OF EMPIRICAL RELATIONSHIPS BUT WITH THESE IMPROVEMENTS THE QUESTION STILL REMAINS HOW ACCURATELY DOES A MODEL REPRODUCE OBSERVED SOLAR WIND CONDITIONS? THIS QUESTION IS MULTIFACETED AND NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED PIECEWISE. WHEN IS THE MODEL ACCURATE? TO UNDERSTAND WHEN A MODEL IS ACCURATE THERE FUNDAMENTALLY NEEDS TO BE TIME RESOLUTION IN ANY OF THE STATISTICS USED I.E. A BULK MEASUREMENT SUCH AS A MEAN SQUARED DIFFERENCE IS NOT ENOUGH. IN ADDITION THE STATISTICS REPRESENTING ACCURACY NEEDS TO BE ABLE TO COPE WITH STATE CHANGES IN THE SYSTEM. THE SOLAR WIND WILL PERSIST IN A CONSISTENT STATE WITH STABLE CONDITIONS FOR A LENGTH OF TIME AND THEN RAPIDLY CHANGE TO A NEW STATE (E.G. THE TRANSITION BETWEEN FAST SOLAR WIND STREAM TO SLOW). THE ACCURACY STATISTICS NEED TO CAPTURE THIS FUNDAMENTALLY NON-GAUSSIAN STATE-CHANGING BEHAVIOR. HOW DO MODELS COMPARE AGAINST EACH OTHER? TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE ACCURACY OF A MODEL IT IS NECESSARY TO COMPARE MULTIPLE MODELS AGAINST EACH OTHER. THESE MODELS MIGHT REPRESENT TWO DIFFERENT PHYSICAL APPROACHES TO MODELING THE CORONA (E.G. A POTENTIAL FIELD SOURCE SURFACE [PFSS] OR MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC [MHD] APPROACH) OR MIGHT REPRESENT TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME PHYSICAL MODEL (E.G. WANG-SHEELEY-ARGE [WSA] MODEL VERSIONS 1.4 AND 2.2). AS NEW PHYSICS IS ADDED INTO A MODEL OR A PHYSICAL THEORY IS REINTERPRETED IN A MODEL UPDATE ROBUST STATISTICS OF HOW THIS UPDATE IS PROPAGATED INTO THE SOLAR WIND IS NEEDED. WE BELIEVE TRADITIONAL KIRK ET AL. EVALUATING AND VALIDATING HELIOSPHERIC MODELS AGAINST DATA NNH17ZDA001N-HSWO2R 2 TECHNIQUES OF STATISTICAL ERROR ANALYSIS ARE NOT ENOUGH TO FULLY CAPTURE THE SUBTLE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN MODELS. IN THIS PROPOSAL WE SEEK TO DEVELOP A REGULAR SET OF STATISTICAL MEASUREMENTS TO EVALUATE SOLAR WIND MODELS THAT ARE: RESOLVED IN TIME NOT BOUND TO A GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION ASSUMPTION AND DIRECTLY COMPARABLE BETWEEN MODELS. THESE STATISTICS WILL EMPOWER FORECASTERS AND FUTURE MODEL DEVELOPERS TO FULLY UNDERSTAND WHEN AND HOW ACCURATELY ANY MODEL REPRODUCES THE SOLAR WIND.$74,483
· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration