Table of Contents
Director's Message
Discoveries
Improve understanding of the atmosphere, the Earth
systems, and the Sun
Strategic Priority: Exploring atmospheric, Earth
system, and solar processes, variability, and
change
Simulation of natural Earth system variability
#1 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Improving our understanding
and prediction of natural variability of the Earth system
| A. Chemistry and dynamics of the middle and
upper atmosphere [LAR Highlight] |
ACD |
| B. Paleoclimate |
CGD |
| C. Hurricanes |
CGD |
| D. CLIVAR |
CGD |
#2 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Understanding and numerically
representing precipitation and chemical processes, including multiscale
atmospheric chemical constituent transport, dispersion, and transformations
| D. MOZART: Global chemistry-transport modeling |
ACD |
| A. WRF-Chem |
MMM |
| B. Carbon in the Mountains Experiment (CME and ACME) |
MMM |
| C. Globalization of air quality and intercontinental transport |
ACD |
| E. Intense photochemistry in the Antarctic troposphere |
ACD |
F. Stratospheric ozone recovery (WACCM group) |
ACD |
#3 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Understanding solar influence
on the earth system
A. Long-term climate change in the thermosphere |
HAO |
| B. Analysis of lower thermospheric dynamics |
HAO |
| C. WACCM predictability study [LAR
Highlight] |
HAO |
| D. TIDI: Overview and recent results |
HAO |
E. Geoeffectiveness of CMEs and CIRs in the solar wind |
HAO |
| F. WACCM (with HAO and also solar proton events?) |
ACD |
Research on magnetic-flux eruptions from
the sun
#4 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Studying magnetic flux eruptions
from the sun and predicting space weather
| A. Space Weather |
HAO |
| B. Coronal magnetometry (CoMP, and
COSMO) [Highlight w/Detail] |
HAO |
| C. Simulations of magnetic flux emergence/CME initiation |
HAO |
| D. MLSO studies of CMEs |
HAO |
E. CISM/CMIT model improvements/community status |
HAO |
#5 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Working toward a comprehensive
understanding of the sun and the sources and manifestations of
solar activity
| A. Predictive flux-transport dynamo
developments [Highlight w/Detail] |
HAO |
| B. Non-kinematic flux transport dynamos |
HAO |
| C. Simulations of buoyant flux ropes in the convection zone |
HAO |
| D. Scattering polarization of spectral lines |
HAO |
| E. Current sheet formation in ideal MHD |
HAO |
Understanding the effects of gravity waves
#6 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Understanding and representing coupling
processes between the lower and upper atmosphere
| A. UTLS initiative |
TIMES |
| B. Gravity waves |
TIMES |
| C. UTLS dynamics, trends, and composition Possible highlight |
ACD |
| D. The role of cirrus clouds |
ACD |
| E. HIRDLS recovery and application |
ACD |
| F. WACCM middle and lower stratosphere |
ACD |
Strategic Priority: Investigating the interaction
of the atmosphere, the broader Earth system, and human society
The role of aerosols in climate and weather
#7 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Exploring the role of aerosols
should something be here? - Reta is sending
this
Ecosystem-biogeochemistry-climate
#8 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Improving our understanding
of ecosystem biogeochemistry climate interactions
| A. Global and regional carbon cycle |
TIMES |
| B. Fine mesh land model |
TIMES |
| C. Coupled biogeochemical cycles |
TIMES |
| D. Bioemissions and aerosol nucleation |
ACD |
| E. Bioemissions and photochemical processing |
ACD |
| F. Emission inventories and application |
ACD |
| G. iLeaps Contributions |
ACD |
#9 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Analyzing and understanding
atmospheric boundary layers, including surface interactions
| A. Marine strato cumulus (DYCOMS-II, RICO) |
MMM |
| B. Numerical simulation of turbulence |
MMM |
| C. Land/surface interactions (canopies) |
MMM |
D. Atmosphere/ocean interactions (OHATS) |
MMM |
Climate change, climate variability, and
extreme weather
#10 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Understanding and representing
teleconnections between multiscale precipitating convective systems
and other scales of motion
| A. Landfall of hurricanes |
MMM |
| B. Convection organization: observational analysis and resolved
simulations |
MMM |
| C. Super parameterization |
MMM |
| D. NAMMA |
MMM |
Interactions of the water cycle with climate
and weather
#11 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Understanding and representing
coupling processes at the interface between biosphere, hydrosphere,
and atmosphere
| A. Global and regional water cycle |
TIMES |
| B. Impact of Amazonian landcover change on isoprene emissions |
TIMES |
| C. BEACCHON program objectives and plans |
TIMES |
The impacts of climate and weather on society
and ecosystems
#12 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Analyzing the climate system
by linking diagnostic, theoretical, and idealized modeling capabilities
with observation
| A. Water cycle |
CGD |
| B. Climate change |
CGD |
| C. Ecosystem-biogeochemistry-climate interactions |
CGD |
| D. Polar climate |
CGD |
| E. Role of the oceans in climate |
CGD |
Megacities and the effects of urbanization
#13 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Studying megacities and the
effects of urbanization
| A. MIRAGE/MILAGRO [Highlight w/Detail] |
ACD |
| B. Texas air quality study |
ACD |
Strategic Priority: Improving prediction of
weather, climate, and other atmospheric phenomena
Improving climate models
#14 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Understanding and predicting
the influence and impacts of atmospheric composition on the evolving
climate system
| A. Chemistry-climate coupling: past and future |
ACD |
| B. Climate change and regional air quality implications |
ACD |
Exploring new approaches to prediction across
scales
#15 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Understanding and representing
coupling processes at the interface between weather and climate
Global and local weather prediction
#16 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Studying the dynamics and
predictability of weather systems on time scales up to 48 hours
| A. WRF/ARW [Highlight w/Detail] |
MMM |
| B. Data assimilation / ensembles |
MMM |
| C. USWRP/STEP |
MMM |
| D. Model physics |
MMM |
Strategic Priority: Developing community models
Climate
#17 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Developing and evaluating
a comprehensive community climate modeling capability
| A. CCSM and IPCC [Highlight w/Detail] |
CGD |
| B. WACCM |
CGD |
| C. AIMES |
CGD |
| D. Prediction Across Scales |
CGD |
Weather
should something be here?
Atmospheric chemistry
#18 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Developing community models
| A. MOZART |
ACD |
| B. WACCM |
ACD |
| C. CAM CHEM |
ACD |
| D. TUV |
ACD |
| E. Master Mechanism |
ACD |
Solar-terrestrial
should something be here?
Toward an Earth system model
#19 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Taking new approaches to multiscale
analysis
| A. Nested regional climate modeling
[Highlight w/Detail] |
MMM |
| B. Intraseasonal oscillation/tropical climate variability |
MMM |
| C. Climate and tropical cyclones |
MMM |
| D. Coupled chemistry-climate |
ACD |
Provide world-class ground, airbrone, and space-borne
observational facilites and services
Strategic Priority: Enabling innovative field
experiments and measurement campaigns
#20 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Goal: Develop and maintain
high-quality instruments and field campaign service
| A. Community "chemistry" instruments |
ACD |
| B. Planning of DC3 field program |
ACD |
| C. Mauna Loa solar observatory and data |
HAO |
Strategic Priority: Developing new instrumentation
#21 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Improve measurements of key
atmospheric constituents and parameters
| A. HIAPER instrumentation |
ACD |
| B. Atmospheric chemistry instrumentation |
ACD |
| C. Instrument and experimental meteorology |
MMM |
#22 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Develop and operate a one-meter
aperature coronagraph - ?Should this be
D. under #21?
#23 - ESSL Strategic Goal: Enhance the use of space-based
remote sensing data and develop new space-based instrumentation
| A. HIRDLS |
ACD |
| B. MOPITT |
ACD |
| C. Virtual remote sensing facility |
ACD |
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