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Aeolis Research Inc
$3,410,943
Total funding
8
Grants
Funding over time
peak $2.6M · FY2016–22$5M$3.8M$2.5M$1.3M$0
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Funding mix
By agency
NASA$3,410,943 · 8
By mechanism
—$3,410,943 · 8
Investigators at Aeolis Research Inc
InvestigatorsiAttributed = a PI's even-split share of each grant — a $1M grant with 2 PIs counts $500K each.
Exposure= the full size of every grant they're on ($1M each).
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PAST ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND THE INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY OF LARGE DUST STORMS ON MARS HAVE MET WITH LIMITED SUCCESS. THE GOAL OF THE PROPOSED WORK IS TO EXPLORE THREE POSSIBLE MECHANISMS FOR PRODUCING SUCH VARIABILITY AND TO ASSESS THEIR RELATIVE IMPORTANCE AND CONTRIBUTIONS. GLOBAL DUST STORMS (GDS) HAVE A HUGE IMPACT ON MARS'S WEATHER AND CLIMATE. YET THE EXACT CAUSES OF GDS INITIATION WHAT DETERMINES ONSET TIME AND LOCATION AND WHY THEY OCCUR IN ONLY SOME YEARS REMAIN UNKNOWN. A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AND MODEL REPRESENTATION OF GDS ACTIVITY WOULD RESULT IN BETTER SIMULATIONS OF SURFACE CONDITIONS DURING A GDS IMPROVED CONFIDENCE IN PALEO-MARS MODELING AND POTENTIALLY THE ABILITY TO FORECAST GDS.$740,632
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE INSIGHT MISSION WILL RETURN CONTINUOUS MONITORING OF WINDS PRESSURE AND AIR AND GROUND TEMPERATURE OVER MULTIPLE SEASONS MAKING IT OF HUGE INTEREST TO THOSE WORKING ON MARS WEATHER AS WELL AS ON RELATED FIELDS SUCH AS DUST DEVILS AND AEOLIAN PROCESSES. THE INVESTIGATION PROPOSED HERE WILL GAIN INSIGHT BY DIRECT ANALYSIS OF THE DATASET COMPARISON WITH NUMERICAL MODELING (BY MESOSCALE AND LARGE EDDY SIMULATION) OF THE LANDING SITE ATMOSPHERE AND COMPARISON WITH MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY (MSL) ATMOSPHERIC DATA. THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF WEATHER DUST DEVIL ACTIVITY AND AEOLIAN PROCESSES ON MARS VIA THE ANALYSIS OF INSIGHT MEASUREMENTS AND THEIR COMPARISON WITH ATMOSPHERIC MODEL PREDICTIONS. THIS GOAL IS ADDRESSED THROUGH FOUR INTERRELATED INVESTIGATIONS: 1. DETERMINE THE CONTROLS ON THE DIURNAL AND SEASONAL PRESSURE CYCLE. HAVING ATMOSPHERIC DATA AT TWO LOCATIONS (MSL AND INSIGHT) IS VERY VALUABLE. MSL IS AT A SIMILAR LONGITUDE AND ONLY 9DEG AWAY IN LATITUDE BUT WITH VERY DIFFERENT LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY AND IN THE OPPOSITE HEMISPHERE HENCE REGULAR MSL PRESSURE MONITORING MAY BE COMBINED WITH CONTINUOUS INSIGHT MONITORING TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF DIFFERENT CIRCULATION COMPONENTS (FROM THE CO2 CYCLE AND HADLEY CELL TO TIDES AND TRAVELING WAVES TO CRATER TOPOGRAPHY) TO THE SEASONAL AND DIURNAL PRESSURE CYCLES. 2. UNDERSTAND REGIONAL FLOWS NEAR THE DICHOTOMY BOUNDARY. ALTHOUGH MSL'S WIND SENSOR IS NO LONGER IN USE THE SEASONAL RECORD OF WINDS IN GALE WILL BE COMPARED WITH INSIGHT WINDS TO BUILD A BETTER PICTURE OF THE REGIONAL FLOW IN THIS AREA. COMPARISON WITH MODELS WILL BE USED TO ASSESS THE RELATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE HADLEY OVERTURNING CIRCULATION DICHOTOMY BOUNDARY SLOPE FLOWS TIDAL FLOWS ETC. TO THE PATTERN OF WINDS IN THIS REGION. 3. UNDERSTAND VORTEX ACTIVITY. SHORT DEEP PRESSURE DROPS WILL BE USED TO INDICATE CONVECTIVE VORTEX PASSAGE. THEIR DEPENDENCE ON TIME OF DAY AND SEASON ARE IMPORTANT FOR CONSTRAINING OUR KNOWLEDGE OF THE BOUNDARY LAYER WHERE THEY FORM AND ALSO VITAL TO UNDERSTAND A MAJOR MECHANISM OF DUST LIFTING. AN IN SITU DATASET OF BOTH VORTICES AND THE ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS IN WHICH THEY FORMED AT ONE LOCATION OVER MULTIPLE SEASONS WILL BE INVALUABLE BOTH FOR UNDERSTANDING THEIR DEPENDENCE ON ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS AND FOR VALIDATING MODELS AND THEORIES OF VORTEX PRODUCTION AND DUST DEVIL-BASED DUST LIFTING. BOTH MESOSCALE AND LES MODELING WILL BE USED TO PREDICT VORTEX ACTIVITY WITH A COMPARISON WITH OBSERVATIONS USED TO INDICATE DEFICIENCIES IN THE MODELS OR THEORY. 4. MONITOR AEOLIAN ACTIVITY AND INFER THRESHOLDS FOR PARTICLE MOTION. WIND DATA WILL BE COMPARED WITH A) TEMPORAL CHANGES IN AEOLIAN FEATURES AND B) CHANGES IN SURFACE SOIL DECK OR SOLAR PANEL DUST COVER BETWEEN TWO IMAGES IN ORDER TO INFER PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF THE LOCAL ENVIRONMENT SUCH AS THE THRESHOLD FOR SALTATION. AEOLIAN FEATURE CHARACTERISTICS WILL ALSO BE PREDICTED USING WIND DATA AND MODEL OUTPUT AND COMPARED WITH OBSERVATIONS TO ASSESS AEOLIAN THEORY AND MODEL PERFORMANCE. THE PI HAS SIGNIFICANT EXPERIENCE IN WORKING ON SUCH INVESTIGATIONS AS A MEMBER OF THE MSL SCIENCE TEAM [E.G. BRIDGES ET AL. 2017]. THE PI WILL PARTICIPATE STRONGLY IN THE ATMOSPHERE THEME GROUP AS SHE DOES IN THE ENVIRONMENTAL THEME GROUP ON MSL AND ALSO IN THE GEOLOGY THEME GROUP TO E.G. HELP INTERPRET / DISSEMINATE METEOROLOGICAL DATA AND PROVIDE INPUT INTO WHEN HIGHER RESOLUTION DATA SHOULD BE SOUGHT. THE PI IS AN ASSOCIATE TEAM MEMBER ON REMS AND A CO-I ON THE MARS ENVIRONMENTAL DYNAMICS ANALYZER ON MARS2020 WITH STRONG EXPERTISE IN WORKING WITH MARS IN SITU ATMOSPHERIC DATA IN GENERAL AND IN PARTICULAR WITH THE WIND SENSORS TO BE FLOWN ON INSIGHT. THIS INVESTIGATION IS RELEVANT TO THE INSIGHT MISSION AND PROGRAM BECAUSE IT WILL "EXPAND ON OR ENHANCE THE SCIENCE RETURN OF THE INSIGHT PROJECT" AND INCREASE OUR ABILITY TO "BETTER UNDERSTAND MARTIAN METEOROLOGY."$630,000
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE PROPOSED WORK WOULD CONSTITUTE THE FIRST SYSTEMATIC INVESTIGATION OF WAVE SOURCES WAVE MODES AND WAVE DAMPING MECHANISMS OF IMPORTANCE IN THE MARTIAN MIDDLE ATMOSPHERE AND THERMOSPHERE. SIGNIFICANTLY IT WOULD ALSO BE THE FIRST TO USE FULLY COM$614,962
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO DEVELOP A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF HOW SURFACE SOURCES AND SINKS OF WATER AT THE MARTIAN POLES INTERACT WITH THE GLOBAL CLIMATE SYSTEM. THE PROPOSAL WILL PRIMARILY USE DATA PRODUCTS FROM CRISM MCS AND MARCI ABOARD MRO. A MAJOR CONTRIBUTION OF THIS PROPOSAL WILL BE IN THE THERMAL AND METEOROLOGICAL MODELING "NECESSARY TO ANALYZE OR INTERPRET THE DATA" IN TERMS OF THE WATER AND DUST CYCLES. THIS PROPOSAL SEEKS TO ADDRESS FOUR MAJOR QUESTIONS: - HOW IS THE LOCAL CYCLE OF WATER (AND DUST) CONTROLLED AT SITES OBSERVED BY CRISM/MCS/MARCI? - CAN SUCH AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONTROLS ON SURFACE WATER EXCHANGE BE SUMMARIZED INTO A PROGNOSTIC FRAMEWORK LIKE A LAND SURFACE MODEL (LSM) IN TERRESTRIAL STUDIES? - HOW IS THE GLOBAL CYCLE OF WATER AND DUST CHANGED IF BETTER REPRESENTATIONS OF THE POLAR EXCHANGE PROCESSES ARE INCLUDED IN GLOBAL MODELS? - CAN THE SEASONAL PROGNOSTIC PICTURE OF ICE AND DUST DEPOSITION AT THE POLES BE USED TO HELP UNDERSTAND THE FORMATION OF POLAR LAYERED TERRAIN? THE LATTER QUESTION SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES THE MDAP CALL REGARDING "NONDATA-ANALYSIS TASKS THAT SIGNIFICANTLY ENHANCE THE USE OR FACILITATE THE INTERPRETATION OF MISSION DATA" AS IT ALLOWS DATA ON CURRENT PROCESSES TO BE USED TO ADDRESS LONGER-TERM QUESTIONS IN MARTIAN CLIMATE DYNAMICS AND GEOLOGY. THE WATER CYCLE IS A MAJOR COMPONENT OF THE MARTIAN CLIMATE SYSTEM YIELDING A SIGNIFICANT FEEDBACK ON THE CLIMATE THROUGH ITS EFFECTS ON SURFACE ALBEDO VIA FORMATION OF ICES AND ON ATMOSPHERIC EMISSIVITY AND REFLECTIVITY VIA CLOUDS. CLOUDS ALSO INTERACT WITH THE ATMOSPHERIC DUST DISTRIBUTION VIA THE MICROPHYSICS OF CLOUD PARTICLE EVOLUTION YIELDING ADDITIONAL MODIFICATION OF ATMOSPHERIC RADIATIVE FORCING. WHILE THE MAJOR PROCESSES OF THE WATER CYCLE AND ITS INTERACTIONS WITH THE DUST AND CO2 CYCLES HAVE BEEN SKETCHED IN OUTLINE FOR SEVERAL DECADES THE SPECIFICS OF HOW THE WATER CYCLE IS CONTROLLED REMAIN UNCERTAIN E.G. THE IMPORTANCE OF REGOLITH EXCHANGE. THE NATURE OF THE NORTHERN CAP AS A DOMINANT WATER SOURCE AND THAT OF BOTH THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH AS SINKS AGAIN SEEMS CERTAIN IN OUTLINE BUT THE DETAILS OF HOW THESE SOURCES AND SINKS FUNCTION HAS NOT RECEIVED MUCH ATTENTION AND MAY DOMINATE THE EFFICACY OF HOW THE WATER (AND RELATED CLIMATE) CYCLES ARE CONTROLLED GLOBALLY. CRISM DATA SUGGEST SIGNIFICANT LOCAL CYCLING AND IN SOME CASES BURIAL OF ANNUAL WATER LAYERS WHICH IS LIKELY THE BASIS FOR POLAR LAYER FORMATION AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHICH WOULD BE KEY TO UNRAVELING THE RECORD OF CLIMATE STORED IN THESE LAYERS. WE PROPOSE TO USE THE PLANETWRF MODELING SYSTEM TO UNDERTAKE IDEALIZED LOCAL THERMAL / WATER EXCHANGE MODELING OF SPECIFIC SITES OBSERVED BY CRISM TO UNDERTAKE RESOLVED-SCALE SEASONAL MODELING OF THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN CAPS AND TO UNDERTAKE MULTI-ANNUAL MODELING OF THE CLIMATE SYSTEM USING LSM SCHEMES DEVELOPED WITHIN THIS PROJECT. NEW DATA PRODUCTS FROM CRISM WILL BE DEVELOPED AS NEEDED WITHIN THE ANALYSIS. THIS PROPOSAL IS RELEVANT TO THE MARS DATA ANALYSIS PROGRAM AS IT SEEKS TO UNDERTAKE WORK NECESSARY FOR THE ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION OF MARS SPACECRAFT MISSION DATA AND WILL HEAVILY USE MISSION DATA IN THE GENERATION OF IMPROVED UNDERSTANDING OF THE MARTIAN CLIMATE SYSTEM. IT WILL ALSO IMPROVE ATMOSPHERIC MODELS THAT FURTHER THE UNDERSTANDING AND FORECASTING OF ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS THAT AFFECT SAFE PASSAGE OF SPACECRAFT THROUGH THE ATMOSPHERE. COLUMN WATER VAPOR ABUNDANCES RETRIEVED FROM CRISM SPECTRA WILL BE ARCHIVED AT NASA'S PDS ATMOSPHERES NODE. MODEL OUTPUT FROM OUR MOST REALISTIC GLOBAL WATER CYCLE SIMULATION WILL BE ARCHIVED IN THE NEW PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES AND CLIMATE MODELING ARCHIVE NODE (PACMAN) HOSTED AT DATA.NASA.GOV. IN ADDITION THE VERSION OF PLANETWRF WHICH WITH THIS OUTPUT WAS PRODUCED WILL BE ARCHIVED AT NASA'S GITHUB REPOSITORY FOR COMPLETE TRACEABILITY.$608,337
· FY2020 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
RECENTLY JUNO MWR MEASURED DEEP WATER AND AMMONIA VAPOR DISTRIBUTIONS ON JUPITER FOR THE FIRST TIME. THE MOST DISTINCTIVE FEATURE IS THAT AMMONIA FAR BELOW JUPITER S AMMONIA CLOUD BASE$339,099
· FY2022 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MOIST CONVECTION IS LIKELY A CRITICAL PROCESS FOR DETERMINING ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION AND THE DRIVE FOR THE LARGE SCALE CIRCULATION ON GAS GIANT PLANET$242,697
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
THE GOAL OF THIS PROPOSAL IS TO INVESTIGATE THE PROCESSES ON TITAN CONTROLLING (1) THE ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION, (2) THE METHANE CYCLE, AND (3) THE AC$205,530
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration
MISMATCHES BETWEEN THE OBSERVED DUST AND WATER CYCLES AND THOSE SIMULATED BY GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS (GCMS) ARE TYPICALLY ASSUMED TO BE DUE TO ERR$29,686
· FY2016 · National Aeronautics and Space Administration