Active, Funded Projects as of November 2004
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

NASA as a CIRES Sponsor

CIRES Research Theme: Advanced Modeling and Observing Systems
PI Project Title
ARBETTER Characterization of Arctic Albedo and Its Relationship to Sea Ice Conditions: a Collaborative Study Between NCAR, the University of Colorado, and US Army CRREL
ARBETTER Investigation of the Assimilation of Ice Motion Data in Sea Ice Models
ARMSTRONG Detection of Change in Glacier Systems and Assessment of Their Importance Using the Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Database
ARMSTRONG Development of an Internally Consistent Multi-Sensor, Multi-Platform Long-Term Series of Global Snow Cover Using Heritage and EOS-era Data
ARMSTRONG Global Land Ice Measurements from Space (GLIMS) Core Functions: Populating and Mining the GLIMS Glacier Database to Assess Glacier Change with EOS Sensors
ARMSTRONG NASA Cold Land Processes Field Experiment Plan
ARMSTRONG Validation of AMSR-E Snow Products
GOETZ Moving Spectroscopic Remote Sensing Techniques for the Identification of Swelling Potential of Expansive Clays into Engineering Practice
JIMENEZ Development and Application of a Size and Chemical compostion-Resolved Aerosol Flux Measurement
JIMENEZ Quantitative Real-Time Measurement of Size-Resolved Aerosol Chemical Composition On-Board the NASA P-3B
SERREZE Assessment of Recent Hydrologic Change Over the Arctic Terrestrial Drainage System
STEFFEN Greenland Ice Sheet Melt Climatology Based on Passive and Active Satellite Data: Combining SSM/I and QuickSCAT Data
STEFFEN Validation of AMSR Sea Ice Products in the Southern Hemisphere
STEFFEN Variability and Forcing of Climatic Parameters on the Greenland Ice Sheet: Greenland Climate Network (GC-NET)
STROEVE Satellite Studies of Arctic Climate Connections Between Sea Ice, The Greenland Ice Sheet, the Adjacent Land and Atmospheric Cloud Properties
VELICOGNA Geopotential Heights for Grace De-Aliasing: Comparison of SAC-C, CHAMP, and GRACE Occultation Data with Global Cireculation Models
VOEMEL Ballon Borne Soundings for Validation of Upper Tropospheric Humidity and Temperature
WEAVER Snow and Ice Distributed Active Archive Center
CIRES Research Theme: Climate System Variability
PI Project Title
AKMAEV Solar Activity and Long Term Trends in the Ionosphere (SALT): A Historic-Data Analysis and Modeling Study
CASSANO Greenland: Reanalysis of the Energy Budget of the Ice Sheet (GREBIS)
MOLNAR Topographic Forcings on Climate (Student: Katherine Dayem)
PINCUS Continuing Oversight and Development of a Community Monte Carlo Radiative Transfer Model
PINCUS Global Analysis of MODIS Level-3 Cloud Properties and Their Sensitivity to Aggregation Strategies
SCAMBOS Improved Ice Sheet DEMs using MODIS and GLAS: Applications to Ice Dynamics and Surface Climate Parameters
SERREZE Integrated Analyses of the Freshwater Cycle in the Arctic Terrestrial, Cryospheric, Atmospheric, and Oceanic Systems
STEFFEN Aerosol - Cloud - Climate Interactions
STEFFEN Assessment of Basal Melt of Petermann Gletscher in NW Greenland
WEATHERHEAD Detecting Future Trends in Ozone-Looking for Initial Signs of Recovery in TOMS and SBUV/2 Records
ZUIDEMA An Assessment of the Angular Radiance Signature and Climatic Impact of Tropical Cumulus Congestus
ZUIDEMA The Radiative Behavior and Climate Change Impact of Arctic Clouds by Cloud Phase and Aerosol Amount
CIRES Research Theme: Geodynamics
PI Project Title
WAHR Mass Imbalance in Antarctica and Greenland
ZHANG Freeze-Thawing Cycle of Soils at Local, Regional, and Global Scales
CIRES Research Theme: Integrating Activities
PI Project Title
BARRY A Twentieth Century Sea ice Conditions in the Eurasian Arctic from a Comprehensive Reconstitution and Synthesis of Russian Data Sources with Modern Satellite Data
FRODEMAN The New Directions Initiative: Integrating Ethics and Values into Science-Society Relations
CIRES Research Theme: Planetary Metabolism
PI Project Title
MILLER Intensive Airborne Flask Measurements of O2/N2, Ar/N2, 13C, 18O, and Other Species During Cobra - Brazil
TOLBERT Laboratory Studies of Early Earth Hazes: Aerosol Mass Spectrometer and Optical Measurements
TOLBERT Particles in Reducing Atmospheres: Applications to Early Earth and Titan
TOLBERT Production and Analysis of Early Earth Tholins
WESSMAN Regional NPP and Carbon Stocks in SW USA Rangelands: Land Use Impacts on the Grassland-Woodland Balance
WESSMAN Regional Scaling of Biogeochemistry in Larrea tridentata Ecotone: Implications for Carbon Sequestration in the Southwestern United States
CIRES Research Theme: Regional Processes
PI Project Title
PERSSON MM5 Simulations of Northeastern Pacific Ocean TRMM/GPM Cases
WAHR Hydrological and Oceanographic Applications of GRACE
Other CIRES Research Projects Funded by NASA
PI Project Title
FREHLICH Algorithms for Dopplar Lidar Wind Measurements
FULLER-ROWELL LWS Proposal to Provide Scientific Guidance and Modeling Support for the Ionospheric Mapper Mission
HERZFELD A High-Resolution DTM for Pine Island Glacier, Antarctica
JIMENEZ Using the Aerodyne Aerosol Mass Spectrometer AMS to Decipher Aerosol Morphology and Improve Quantitative Analysis of Tropospheric Aerosols in Aircraft Studies
KINGSMILL Microphysical Validation for NASA Precipitation Measurement: The Transition from TRMM to GPM