Selected Science Team Proposals - FY 2000

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.