Selected Science Team Proposals - FY 2002

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"