The Office of Biological and Environmental Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE), has accepted the proposals listed below in response to Solicitation Notice
99-16. This notice requested applications for grants to support renewals of
activities currently funded by DOE under previous Special Research Grant Program
Notices issued for the ARM Program. A limited number of new research efforts
also were funded.
- Dr. Bruce Albrecht, University of Miami: "Development and Evaluation
of Boundary Layer Cloudiness Parameterizations Using ARM Observations" - NEW- Dr. Bryan A. Baum, NASA Langley Research Center: "The
Remote Sensing of Overlapping Cloud Properties Using MODIS Data and ARM Cart
Site Data" - NEW- Drs. Edward V. Browell/Richard A. Ferrare, NASA Langley
Research Center: "Characterization of Water Vapor Measurements at the DOE
ARM Central Facility by Comparison with LASE Measurements During WVIOP3" - Dr. Robert F. Cahalan, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: "13RC
(intercomparison of 3D Radiation Codes) Applied to ARM and Landsat Retrievals" - Dr. Robert D. Cess, State University of New York, Stony Brook: "Science
Team Participation in the Atmospheric Radiation Measurements (ARM) Program" - Dr. Catherine C. Chuang, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: "Cloud/Aerosol
Parameterizations: Applications and Improvement of Global Circulation Models" - Dr. Eugene E. Clothiaux, Pennsylvania State University: "Retrieval
of Cloud Properties and Direct Testing of Cloud and Radiation Parameterizations
Using ARM Observations" - Dr. Shepard Clough, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.: “Improved
Shortwave Radiation Modeling and Longwave Cloud Treatment for Climate Models” - Dr. Judith A. Curry, University of Colorado: "Towards Understanding
and Parameterization of High Latitude Cloud and Radiation Processes" - Dr. Anthony D. Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies:
"ARM Analysis of Optical Thickness Feedbacks for Low Clouds and Cumulus
Anvil Clouds" - Dr. A. Shelby Frisch, NOAA/Environmental Technology Laboratory: "Ground-Based
Retrieval of Arctic Stratus and Altostratus Cloud Microphysical and Turbulence
Parameters" - Dr. Catherine H. Gautier, University of California, Santa Barbara: "Studies
of Clouds and Aerosol Interaction with Radiation Using Radiative Transfer Modeling
& Observational in Support of Process Modeling and GCM Parameterization" - NEW- Dr. Evgueni I. Kassianov, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory:
"Simulation of Solar Radiative Transfer in Statistically Inhomogeneious
Broken Clouds" - Dr. Steven K. Krueger, University of Utah: "Parameterization of
Clouds and Convection in the NCEP Global Model" - Dr. Zhanqing Li, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing: "Remote Sensing
and Understanding the Role of Cloud and Aerosol on Solar Radiation Budget" - NEW- Dr. K.N. Liou, University of California – Los Angeles:
"Radiation Parameterization for Three-Dimensional Inhomogeneous Cirrus
Clouds Applied to ARM Data and Climate Models" - NEW- Dr. Greg McFarquhar, University of California – Los Angeles:
"Improved Parameterizations for Cloud Microphysics and Radiation for Mid-Latitude
and Tropical Clouds for Use in Single Column Models" - NEW- Larry Miloshevich, National Center for Atmospheric Research:
"Improved Water Vapor Measurements and Treatment of Ice-Supersaturation
in the Upper Troposphere from VaisaLa RS80-H and RS90-H Radiosondes" - Drs. Patrick Minnis/Thomas Charlock, NASA Langley Research Center: "Development
of Improved Techniques for Satellite Remote Sensing of Clouds and Radiation
Using ARM Data" - Drs. David L Mitchell/ W. Patrick Arnott/Da Koracin, Desert Research
Institute: "A New Treatment of Cirrus Radiative Properties: Testing with
Field and Laboratory Measurements" - Dr. David B. Parsons, National Center for Atmospheric Research: "Integrated
Data Assimilation/Sounding System (IDASS)" - Dr. Joyce Penner, University of Michigan: "Cloud/Aerosol Parameterizations:
Application and Improvement of General Circulation Models" - NEW- Dr. Peter Pilewskie, NASA Ames Research Center: "Retrieval
of Ice-Water Content Using Near-Infrared Remote Sensing" - NEW- Dr. Robert Pincus, University of Wisconsin: "Accounting
for Sub-Grid Scale Variability of Clouds and Water Vapor in Large Scale Models
Based on ARM Observations" - Dr. Michael R. Poellot, University of North Dakota: "Analysis of
In Situ Cloud Microphysical Measurements from the ARM Remote Cloud Sensing IOP" - Drs. Veerabhadran Ramanathan/G. Zhang, University of California, San
Diego: "Use of ARM for Understanding and Parameterizing Scale Dependent
Cloud Properties in GCMs" - Dr. Henry E. Revercomb/David Turner, University of Wisconson, Madison/Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory: "High Spectral Resolution FTIR Observations
for the ARM Program: Clear and Cloudy Sky Applications" - NEW- Dr. Laurence S. Rothman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics: "Hitran Database Developments for ARM" - Dr. Kenneth Sassen, University of Utah: "Improving CART Data Products
and GCM Parameterizations for Clouds" - Dr. Stephen M. Sekelsky, University Of Massachusetts: "Improved
Cloud Radar Ice and Water Content Estimation" - NEW- Drs. Brian J. Soden/Steven A. Klein, NOAA/Geophysical
Fluid Dynamics Laboratory: "Satellite Measurement of Upper Tropospheric
Water Vapor: Development and Applications and Applications for the ARM Program" - Dr. Richard C.J. Somerville, University of California, San Diego: "Single-Column
Modeling GCM Parameterizations, and ARM Data" - NEW- Dr. David O’C Starr, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center:
"Evaluation of Cirrus Cloud Simulations Using ARM Data" - NEW- Dr. Si-Chee Tsay, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: "Applications
of Sunphotometry to Aerosol Extinction and Surface Anisotropy" - Drs. Peter J. Webster/Judith A. Curry, University of Colorado: "Cloud-Radiation
and SST Feedbacks in the Tropical Western Pacific"
Note: NEW- denotes first-time principal investigators for the ARM Program.