Selected Science Team Proposals - FY 2003

The Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has accepted the proposals listed below in response to the Office of Science Notice 02-07. This notice requested applications for grants, both new and renewals, that address the broad Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) goal of improving cloud and radiation parameterizations in climate models.

• Dr. Robert Cahalan, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center: "Advances in 3-Dimensional Atmospheric Radiation: I3RC Toolbox, Interactive Aerosol Retrieval, and Cloud Inhomogeneity Parameterization"
• Dr. Robert Cess, State University of New York, Stony Brook: "Science Team Participation in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Program"
• Drs. Eugene Clothiaux, Mark Miller, and Howard Barker, The Pennsylvania State University: "Retrieval of Cloud Properties and Direct Testing of Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations Using ARM Observations"
• Dr. Judith Curry and Dr. James Pinto, University of Colorado: "A Coordinated Effort to Improve Parameterization of High-Latitude Cloud and Radiation Processes"
• Dr. Peter Daum, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "Studies of Cloud Microphysical and Optical Properties"
• Dr. Anthony Davis, Los Alamos National Laboratory: "Post-Independent-Pixel/Column Approximations in Three-Dimensional Radiative Transfer for the Modeling and Remote Sensing of Clouds"
• Dr. Anthony Del Genio, NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies: "Constraints on Cloud Feedbacks from Analyses of ARM Observations and Models"
• Dr. Christopher J. Doran, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "A Study of Factors Affecting the Cloud and Radiation Environments at Coastal and Inland Sites at the North Slope of Alaska"
• Dr. Catherine Gautier, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Understanding Radiative Processes in Realistic Cloud and Aerosol Distributions"
• Dr. Christian Jakob, BMRC: "Ensemble Single Column Modeling at the Tropical CART Sites - Provision of Forcing Data Stes, New Modeling Techniques & Quantitative Model Performance Assessment"
• Dr. Evgueni Kassianov, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Dr. Bruce Albrecht, University of Miami: "Parameterizations of Shortwave Radiative Properties of Broken Clouds from Satellite and Ground-Based Measurements"
• Dr. Zhanqing Li, University of Maryland: "Remote Sensing and Understanding the Impact of Cloud and Aerosol on Solar Radiation Budget"
• NEW-Dr. Guosheng Liu, Florida State University: "Satellite Determination of Large-Scale Concentration and Advection of Cloud Ice and Liquid Water In Support of ARM SCM Activities"
• NEW-Dr. Dan Lubin, University of California, San Diego: "A Study of Arctic Cloud and Aerosol Using AERI Data: Radiative Properties, Thermodynamic Phase, and a Search for the Indirect Aerosol Effect"
• NEW-Dr. Greg McFarquhar, University of Illinois: "Use of ARM Data for Improving and Evaluating Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations in the Tropics, Arctic, and mid-latitudes"
• NEW-Dr. Qilong Min, State University of New York at Albany: "Retrievals of Cloud Optical Properties and Photon Path Length Distributions Using Existing ARM Data Streams"
• Dr. Patrick Minnis, NASA Langley Research Center: "Development of Improved Techniques for Satellite Remote Sensing of Clouds and Radiation Using Arm Data"
• NEW-Dr. John Ogren, and Dr. Ellsworth Dutton, NOAA/CMDL: "Development of Aerosol Models for Radiative Flux Calculations at ARM Sites"
• Dr. Robert Pincus, NOAA/-CIRES Climate Diagnostics Center, and Dr. Stephen Klein, NOAA/Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: "Accounting for Unresolved Spatial Variability in Large Scale Models: Development & Evaluation of a Statistical Cloud Parameterization with Prognostic Higher"
• Dr. Henry Revercomb, University Of Wisconsin-Madison: "High Spectral Resolution FTIR Observations for the ARM Program: Clear and Cloudy Sky Applications"
• NEW-Dr. Kenneth Sassen, University of Alaska Fairbanks: "Improved Arctic Cloud and Aerosol Research and Model Parameterizations"
• NEW-Dr. Beat Schmid, NASA Ames Research Center: "Vertically Resolved Aerosol Optical Properties Over the ARM SGP Site"
• Dr. Richard Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: "Single-Column Modeling, GCM Parameterizations and ARM Data"
• Dr. Graeme Stephens, Colorado State University: "Refinement, Validation and Application of Cloud-Radiation Parameterization in a GCM"
• NEW-Dr. Zhien Wang, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: "Using Radar, Lidar, and Radiometer Measurements to Classify Cloud Type and Study Middle-Level Cloud Properties"
• NEW-Dr. Guang Zhang, University of California, San Diego: "Development and Evaluation of Convection Parameterization Using ARM Observations"

Note: NEW- denotes first-time principal investigators for the ARM Program.