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Science & Technology Corporation

$3,920,098

Total funding

8

Grants

Funding over time

peak $2.1M · FY2008–21

$2.5M$1.9M$1.3M$625K$0

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Funding mix

By agency

NASA$3,883,498 · 6

DOE$36,600 · 2

By mechanism

—$3,920,098 · 8

Investigators at Science & Technology Corporation

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Largest grants

CONTINUE TO REFINE AND IMPROVE AN INNOVATIVE AND PRACTICAL METHOD TO CONSTRUCT IR SPECTRAL BAND RADIANCES AT IMAGER SPATIAL RESOLUTION BASED ON THE USE OF THE AQUA MODIS SPECTRAL RESPONSE FUNCTIONS USING CRIS AND VIIRS DATA; PROVIDE THE RADIANCES OF THESE SPECTRAL BANDS IN THE FORM OF APPENDED BANDS TO THE VIIRS LEVEL 1B DATA AT THE ATMOSPHERE SIPS; CREATE NEW SPECTRAL BAND RADIANCES FOR SELECTED WAVELENGTH RANGES SUCH AS IN THE 6.7- M WATER VAPOR BAND THAT EXCLUDE STRONG LINES OF ABSORPTION BY TRACE GASES FOR POTENTIAL USE IN BOTH APPLICATIONS AND DATA ASSIMILATION; AND ESTIMATE UNCERTAINTIES USING SIMILARLY CONSTRUCTED SPECTRAL BAND RADIANCES BASED ON MODIS+AIRS DATA IN COMPARISON WITH MEASURED RADIANCES FROM AQUA MODIS; AND WORK WITH OTHER GROUPS FUNDED BY NASA INTERESTED IN IMPROVING THE CONSTRUCTED IR RADIANCES AND THEIR APPLICATIONS AS WELL AS ASSESSING ASSOCIATED UNCERTAINTIES.$1,023,115

· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

THE SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY REQUIRES SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS OF THE ATMOSPHERE'S THERMODYNAMIC STATE AS WELL AS ITS CHEMICAL COMPOSITION TO ADDRESS KEY WEATHER AND CLIMATE ISSUES AFFECTING SOCIETY TODAY. THE MICROWAVE AND HYPER-SPECTRAL INFRARED SOUNDERS ABOARD EOS/ AQUA AND SUOMI NPP PROVIDE A DIRECT AND DIAGNOSTIC MEASURE OF THE ATMOSPHERIC STATE WITH DAILY GLOBAL SPATIAL COVERAGE. ONE OF THE MAIN CHALLENGES IN BUILDING A CONTINUOUS RECORD OF SOUNDER PRODUCTS FROM EOS AND SUOMI NPP IS THE DIFFERENCE IN ORBITS AND INSTRUMENTATION (E.G. GRATING VERSUS INTERFEROMETER); BOTH AFFECTING TEMPORAL SPATIAL AND SPECTRAL SAMPLING. LEFT UNTREATED AND UNCHARACTERIZED SYSTEMATIC DIFFERENCES SUCH AS THESE CAN LEAD TO ERRORS THAT DISRUPTS DATA CONTINUITY LEADING TO MISTRUST IN THE VALUE OF SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS. QUANTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF ALL SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY IS CRITICAL FOR LONG-TERM SCIENCE QUALITY DATASETS THAT PROMOTES AN ACCURATE AND RELIABLE UNDERSTANDING OF WEATHER OR CLIMATE PROCESSES. WE PROPOSE TO FINALIZE THE COMMUNITY LONG-TERM INFRARED MICROWAVE COUPLED ATMOSPHERIC PRODUCT SYSTEM (CLIMCAPS) ALGORITHM THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY SELECTED FOR DEVELOPMENT UNDER ROSES 2013 A.29 SUOMI-NPP PROGRAM ELEMENT. CLIMCAPS HAS BEEN INSTALLED AT THE NASA SOUNDER SIPS WITH A TRAINED STAFF THAT UNDERSTANDS BOTH THE THEORETICAL AND CODING ASPECTS. PRIOR TO THE START OF THIS PROPOSED WORK WE WILL HAVE FULLY CHARACTERIZED CLIMCAPS RELATIVE TO REANALYSIS PRODUCTS AND OTHER ALGORITHMS. CLIMCAPS IS FULLY CONFIGURABLE TO RUN ON MEASUREMENTS FROM THE EOS/AQUA (AIRS/AMSU) AND SUOMI NPP OR JPSS (CRIS/ATMS) PLATFORMS. CLIMCAPS MAINTAINS PRODUCT CONTINUITY AND CONSISTENCY THROUGH REFERENCE TO A COMMON FRAMEWORK OF LABORATORY SPECTROSCOPY AND GEOPHYSICAL STATES (KNOWN AS THE A-PRIORI) USING AN OPTIMAL ESTIMATION INVERSION APPROACH. FOR TEMPERATURE AND MOISTURE PROFILES CLIMCAPS USES THE NASA MERRA-2 RE-ANALYSIS AS AN A-PRIORI WHILE TRACE GAS PRODUCTS USE A STATIC CLIMATOLOGY. WE WILL DEMONSTRATE THE PERFORMANCE OF CLIMCAPS IN THE CONTEXT OF INTER-ANNUAL VARIABILITY EXTREME EVENTS AND LARGE-SCALE PROCESSES SUCH AS THE ENSO CYCLE AND ARCTIC WARMING USING A CAREFULLY SELECTED SUB-SET OF MONTHS. IN ADDITION TO THE STANDARD SOUNDING PRODUCTS THIS ALGORITHM RETRIEVES MANY TRACE GAS SPECIES (E.G. OZONE CARBON MONOXIDE METHANE CARBON DIOXIDE SULFUR DIOXIDE NITRIC ACID AND NITROUS OXIDE). TRACE GAS RETRIEVALS NOT ONLY PROVIDE LONG-TERM STABILITY IN THE THERMODYNAMIC SOUNDING PRODUCTS BUT ALSO OFFERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS SCIENCE QUESTIONS RELATED TO AIR QUALITY AND POTENTIALLY GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS. THE PROPOSED WORK WILL ENHANCE THE UTILITY OF CLIMCAPS PRODUCTS BY PROVIDING DIAGNOSTIC METRICS THAT QUANTIFY ERROR PROPAGATION AND CHARACTERIZE RETRIEVAL QUALITY TO COMMUNITY-ACCEPTED REFERENCE STANDARDS (E.G. RETRIEVAL ERROR COVARIANCE AND AVERAGING KERNEL INFORMATION). THESE METRICS WILL ENABLE SCIENTISTS TO READILY UNDERSTAND CLIMCAPS PRODUCTS IN ORDER TO USE THEM CORRECTLY. A VITAL COMPONENT OF CLIMCAPS PRODUCT REFINEMENT WILL BE THE ACTIVE DIALOG BETWEEN THE DEVELOPERS AND USERS TO REACH COMMUNITY CONSENSUS ON QUALITY AND APPLICATION THUS ENSURING COMMUNITY ACCEPTANCE. THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO COMPLETE AND DEMONSTRATE THE CLIMCAPS APPROACH IN ACHIEVING NASAS STRATEGIC GOAL OF CREATING A CONTINUOUS RECORD OF SATELLITE SOUNDING PRODUCTS FROM THE EOS/AQUA AND SUOMI NPP PLATFORMS.$893,446

· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

A MULTI-INSTRUMENT MULTI-DECADAL RECORD OF COMMUNITY LONG-TERM INFRARED MICROWAVE COMBINED ATMOSPHERIC PRODUCT SYSTEM (CLIMCAPS) ATMOSPHERIC SOUNDINGS$660,699

· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

WE PROPOSE TO IMPROVE/DEVELOP THREE OZONE MAPPING AND PROFILER SUITE LIMB PROFILER (OMPS-LP) PRODUCTS: CLOUD HEIGHT PSC MAPPING AND UPPER STRATOSPHERE/LOWER MESOSPHERE TEMPERATURES.$629,614

· FY2021 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

IMPROVEMENT OF THE NVAP GLOBAL WATER VAPOR DATA SET FOR CLIMATE HYDROLOGICAL AND WEATHER STUDIES$512,466

· FY2008 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

THE DIVERSITY OF THE THOUSANDS OF EXOPLANETS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED SO FAR ENSURES THE EXISTENCE OF A WIDE RANGE OF PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES. IN PARTICULAR ROCKY PLANETS CLOSE TO THEIR STELLAR HABITABLE ZONES HOLD SPECIAL PROMISE FOR HABITABLE CLIMATES. THE ROCKE3D PROJECT SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND THE MANY IMPORTANT EFFECTS ON CLIMATE THAT CAN ONLY BE INVESTIGATED BY FULL 3D GCM MODELS. THE PROFOUND EFFECTS OF ORBITAL PARAMETERS ATMOSPHERIC/OCEANIC HEAT TRANSPORT AND THE SPATIALLY VARIABLE IMPACTS OF CLOUDS AND SURFACE ICE ON ANOTHER WORLD MUST BE UNDERSTOOD IN ORDER TO ASSESS ITS HABITABILITY. BECAUSE OF THE LARGE RANGE OF EXOPLANETARY CONDITIONS AND THE COMPLEXITY OF CLIMATE FEEDBACKS IT IS USEFUL TO HAVE VERY DETAILED 1D CLIMATE MODELS TO GUIDE THE COMPUTATIONALLY EXPENSIVE GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL CALCULATIONS. I WILL USE THE GENERAL-PURPOSE 1D RADIATIVE-CONVECTIVE MODEL QRT TO CALCULATE THE GLOBALLY AVERAGED TEMPERATURE AND CLOUD STRUCTURE OF EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERES OF INTEREST. THE 1D MODEL WILL BE USED TO EXPLORE THE PARAMETER SPACE NEAR THE INNER EDGES OF THE HABITABLE ZONE TO GUIDE FULL ROCKE3D CALCULATIONS OF CLIMATES NEAR THESE REGIMES. QRT WILL ALSO BE USED FOR FIRST-LOOK SIMULATIONS OF THE ATMOSPHERES OF ROCKY PLANETS THAT HAVE RECENTLY BEEN DISCOVERED [E.G. (JENKINS AND TWICKENS 2015)]. AN ADDITIONAL MODULE FOR EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL HABITABILITY OF EXOPLANET CLOUDS WILL BE DEVELOPED AND INCORPORATED INTO THE 1D CHEMICAL CONTINUITY EQUATIONS OF QRT. MICROBIAL GROWTH IN EXOPLANET CLOUD AEROSOLS MAY EVENTUALLY BE INCORPORATED INTO GCM CLOUD MICROPHYSICS TO EXPLORE THE EXTENT OF POSSIBLE BIOSPHERES IN PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE.$164,158

· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration

7TH INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE ON THE GLOBAL ENERGY AND WATER CYCLE AND ASSOCIATED MEETINGS: 3RD PAN-GEWEX MEETING, 1ST PAN-CLIVAR MEETING..$26,600

· FY2014 · Department of Energy

4TH WCRP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON REANALYSES, MAY 7-11, 2012$10,000

· FY2012 · Department of Energy