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.