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 01-23. 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. Shepard A. Clough, Atmospheric and Environmental Research, Inc.: "Radiative
Transfer for Clear and Cloudy Atmospheres: Spectral Modeling and
Validation" - Dr. Robert G. Ellingson, University of Maryland: "Development,
Validation and Testing of 3-D Longwave Cloud Parameterizations for General Circulation
Models" - Dr. Graham Feingold, NOAA/Environmental Technology Laboratory: "Investigation
of the Aerosol Indirect Effect at the SGP Using Ground-Based Remote Sensors
and Modeling" - Dr. Richard A. Ferrare, NASA Langley Research Center/Georgia Institute
of Technology/Sandia National Laboratories: "Characterizing
the Vertical Distribution of Aerosols Over the ARM SGP Site" - Dr. Jennifer A. Francis, Rutgers University/Institute of Marine and
Coastal Sciences: "A 20-Year Data Set of Surface Longwave Fluxes
in the Arctic" - Dr. Steven J. Ghan, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory: "Cloud
Parameterization for Indirect Effects of Aerosol" - Dr. Georgy S. Golitsyn, Institute for Atmospheric Physics: "Cloud-Aerosol-Gas-Radiation
Climatology in Central-Continental Stations" - Janet Intrieri, NOAA/Environmental Technology Laboratory: "Using
Radar, Lidar and Radiometer Data from NSA and SHEBA to Quantify Cloud Property
Effects on the Arctic Surface Heat Budget" - Dr. Robert O. Knuteson, University of Wisconsin/CIMSS: "Continuation
of Data Analysis Software Development for the Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer
(AERI)" - Dr. Steven K. Krueger, University of Utah: "Parameterization
of Clouds in the NCEP Global Model" - Dr. Andrew A. Lacis, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies: "Cloud/Aerosol
Radiative Forcing and Feedback in a Climate GCM" - Dr. Dana E. Lane, Rutgers University: "Evaluation and
Development of Stochastic Radiative Transfer as an Atmospheric General Circulation
Model Parameterization" - Dr. Gerald Mace, University of Utah: "Investigation
of the Coupling Between the Large Scale Atmospheric State and Cloud Properties:
An Observational Synthesis of the ARM Data Steam – Renewal Proposal" - Drs. Joseph J. Michalsky/Lee Harrison, State University of New York,
Albany: "Spectral and Broadband Shortwave Radiometry and Analysis" - Larry M. Miloshevich/Dr. Barry M. Lesht, National Center for Atmospheric
Research/Argonne National Laboratory: "Development and Implementation
of the Best Means of Correcting Vaisala Radiosonde Humidity and Temperature
Measurements" - Drs. Patrick Minnis/Charles Long, NASA Langley Research Center/Pacific
Northwest National Laboratory: "Assimilation and Analysis to
Produce a Continuous 3-D Cloud Properties Field for the ARM SGP Network Area" - Drs. David L. Mitchell/Robert P. d’Entremont, Desert Research Institute/Atmospheric
and Environmental Research, Inc.: "Development and Comparison of Ground
and Satellite-based Retrievals of Cirrus Cloud Physical Properties" - Drs. Joel R. Norris/Stephen Klein/Christopher P. Weaver, Scripps Institution
of Oceanography/NOAA – Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory/Rutgers University:
"Parameterization of Mesoscale Circulations and Frontal Cloudiness in GCMs
Based on ARM Observations" - Dr. David A. Randall, Colorado State University, Fort Collins: "The
Use of ARM Data to Address the Climate Change Problem" - Dr. Christian Rocken, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research:
"Measuring 4-D Water Vapor Fields with GPS" - Dr. Stephen Schwartz, Brookhaven National Laboratory: "Shortwave
Radiative Influences of Tropospheric Aerosols" - Dr. Tim Tooman, Sandia National Laboratory: "Two Dimensional Mapping
of Thin Cirrus Optical Depth and Ice Water Advection" - Dr. Alexander Trishchenko, Canada Centre for Remote Sensing: "Improving
the Understanding of Surface-Atmosphere Radiative Interactions by Mapping Surface
Reflectance over the ARM CART Site" - Dr. Andrew Vogelmann, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: "Aerosol
and Cloud-Field Radiative Effects in the TWP: Analyses and General Circulation
Model Parameterizations" - Dr. Ed R. Westwater, CIRES/NOAA Environmental Technology Laboratory:
"Improved Water Vapor and Cloud Retrievals at the NSA/AAO" - Dr. Warren J. Wiscombe, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: "Understanding
and Coping with the Effect of 3D Cloud Structure on ARM Data" - Dr. Xiaoqing Wu, National Center for Atmospheric Research: "Application
of Seasonal CRM Integrations to Develop Statistics and Improved GCM Parameterizations
of Subgrid Cloud-Radiation Interactions" - Dr. Kuan-Man Xu, NASA Langley Research Center: "Use of Cloud-Resolving
Models and ARM Data for Cloud Parameterization Development" - Dr. Minghua Zhang, State University of New York, Stony Brook: "Development
of Accurate Forcing and Evaluation Data in Support of SCM/CRM Activities in
ARM"