The Office of Biological and Environmental Research, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), has accepted the applications listed below in response to the Office of Science Program Notice 08-23. This notice requested applications for grants, both new and renewal, that address the broad Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) goal of improving the representation of cloud and radiation processes in climate models.
- Dr. Thomas Ackerman, University of Washington: “Evaluating and Improving Cloud Processes in the Multi-scale Modeling Framework”
- Dr. Bruce Albrecht, University of Miami: “Collaborative Research: ARM Observations for the Development and Evaluation of Models and Parameterizations of Cloudy Boundary Layers “
- NEW – Dr. Zafer Boybeyi: “Assessment of the Indirect and Semi-Direct Aerosol Effects During ISDAC Through Integrated Observational and Modeling Studies”
- Dr. Anthony Del Genio, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies: “Evaluation and Improvement of Cloud and Convective Parameterizations from Analyses of ARM Observations and Models”
- Dr. Graham Feingold, NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory: “The Radiative Properties of Small Clouds: Multi-Scale Observations and Modeling”
- NEW – Dr. Joshua Xiouhua Fu, University of Hawaii, “Improve the Representation of Convection-PBL Interactions in Two Global GCMs (CAM and ECHAM)”
- Dr. Qiang Fu, University of Washington: “Radiative Energy Balance in the Tropical Tropopause Layer: An Investigation with ARM Data”
- Dr. Robert Houze, University of Washington, and NEW – Dr. Wei-Kuo Tao, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center: “Use of ARM Observations and Numerical Models to Determine Radiative and Latent Heating Profiles of Mesoscale Convective Systems for General Circulation Models”
- Dr. Christian Jakob, Monash University (Australia): “The Relationship Between Large-Scale and Convective States in the Tropics – Towards an Improved Representation of Convection in Large-scale Models”
- NEW – Dr. Peter Liu, Environment Canada: “Cloud Droplet Number Closure Study Based on ISDAC Observational Data”
- NEW – Dr. Brian Mapes, University of Miami: “Parameterizing Convective Organization”
- Dr. Roger Marchand: “Atmospheric Classification for the Analysis of ARM Observations and Global Climate Models”
- Dr. Greg McFarquhar, Univeristy of Illinois: “Improved Representations of Cloud Microphysics for Model and Remote Sensing Evaluation Using Data Collected During ISDAC and TWP-ICE”
- Dr. Qilong Min, State University of New York at Albany: “Retrievals of Cloud and Aerosol Optical Properties and Photon Path Length Distributions Using Existing ARM Data Streams”
- Dr. David L. Mitchell, Desert Research Institute: “Improving the Representation of Ice Sedimentation Rates in Global Climate Models”
- NEW – Dr Vaughan Phillips, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “Study of Mechanisms of Aerosol Indirect Effects on Glaciated Clouds”
- NEW – Dr. Anthony Prenni, Colorado State University: “Ice Nuclei Relation to Aerosol Properties: Data Analysis and Model Parameterization for IN in Mixed-Phase Clouds”
- Dr. David Randall, Colorado State University: “Challenges for Cloud Parameterization in a Model with 20 to 50 km Grid Spacing”
- NEW – Dr. Michael Reeder, Monash University (Australia): “The Role of Gravity Waves in the Formation and Organisation of Clouds During TWP-ICE”
- NEW – Dr. Lynn Russell, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: “High Latitude Climate Modeling: ARM Takes us Beyond Case Studies”
- Dr. Courtney Schumacher, Texas A&M University: “Radiative Heating Associated with Tropical Convective Cloud Systems: Its Importance at Meso and Global Scales”
- NEW – Dr. Samuel Shen, San Diego State University: “Using ARM Observations to Evaluate GCM Cloud Statistics for Development of Stochastic Cloud-Radiatio…”
- Dr. Richard C. J. Somerville, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: “Using ARM Observations and Advanced Statistical Techniques to Evaluate CAM3 Clouds for Development of Stochastic Cloud-radiation Parameterizations”
- Dr. David Turner, University of Wisconsin: “Characterizing the Microphysical and Radiative Properties of Optically Thin Clouds and Evaluating Radiative Closure in the Far-Infrared”
- Dr. Guang Zhang, University of California San Diego: “Improving Convection Parameterization Using ARM Observations and NCAR Community Atmosphere Model”
- NEW – Dr. Ping Zhu, Florida International University: “ARM Observations for the Development and Evaluation of Models and Parameterizations of Cloudy Boundary Layer”
Note: NEW– denotes new applications or first-time principal investigators for the ARM Program.