- Director's Message
- Table of Contents
- Strategic Goals: Science, Facilities & Technology
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Strategic Goal #1, Strategic Priority #1:
Exploring atmospheric, Earth System, and solar processes, variability, and change
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Strategic Goal #1, Strategic Priority #2:
Investigating the interaction of the atmosphere, the broader Earth system, and human society
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Strategic Goal #1, Strategic Priority #3:
Improving prediction of weather, climate, and other atmospheric phenomena
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Strategic Goal #1, Strategic Priority #4:
Developing community models
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Strategic Goal #5, Strategic Priority #1:
Enabling innovative field experiments and measurement campaigns
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Strategic Goal #5, Strategic Priority #2:
Developing new instrumentation
- Research Catalog
Table of Contents
- Message from the ESSL Director, Dr. Guy P. Brasseur
- Table of Contents
- Goal 1: Improve understanding of the atmosphere, the Earth systems, and the Sun
- Strategic Priority: Exploring atmospheric, Earth system, and solar processes, variability, and change
- Paleoclimate
- High Resolution Dynamics Limb Sounder (HIRDLS) recovery and application
- Solar dynamo modeling and solar cycle prediction
- Upper Troposphere and Lower Stratosphere (UTLS) initiative
- Simulations and observations of magnetic flux emergence and CME initiation
- Globalization of air quality and intercontinental transport
- Model for Ozone And Related chemical Tracers (MOZART): Global chemistry-transport modeling
- Hurricanes
- Climate Variability and Predictability World Climate Research Program (CLIVAR)
- Convection, flux tubes, and waves in the solar interior
- Spectro-polarimetric studies of magnetic fields in the lower solar atmosphere
- MHD physics of the solar corona and wind
- Chemistry and dynamics of the middle and upper atmosphere
- UTLS dynamics, trends, and composition
- Gravity waves
- Weather Research and Forecast model coupled with Chemistry (WRF-Chem)
- Stratospheric ozone recovery [Whole-Atmosphere Community Climate Model (WACCM)] group
- WACCM
- Intense photochemistry in the Antarctic troposphere
- Severe atmosphere convection
- Strategic Priority: Investigating the interaction of the atmosphere, the broader Earth system, and human society
- Regional carbon cycle
- Landfall impacts of hurricanes
- Global and regional water cycle
- The impacts of climate and weather on society and ecosystems: Polar climate The impacts of climate and weather on society and ecosystems: Polar climate
- Megacities Impacts on regional And global Environments/Megacity Initiative: Local and Global Research Observatories (MIRAGE/MILAGRO)
- Biosphere-Atmosphere Exchange of Aerosols with Cloud, Carbon, and Hydrologic cycles including Organics and Nitrogen (BEACHON) program objectives and plans
- Global biogeochemical cycles
- Bioemissions and photochemical processing
- Ecosystem - biogeochemistry - climate interactions
- Numerical simulation of turbulence Numerical simulation of turbulence
- Exploring the role of aerosols
- Convection organization: Observational analysis and resolved simulations
- Atmosphere/ocean interactions
- Long-term climate change in the thermosphere
- The impacts of climate and weather on society and ecosystems: Climate change - probabilistic climate change, and solar forcing of climate
- Land-atmosphere coupling
- Emission in ventories and application
- The impacts of climate and weather on society and ecosystems: Water cycle
- Parameterization
- Role of the oceans in climate
- Structure and evolution of clear and cloudy atmospheric boundary layers
- Fine mesh land model
- NASA African Monsoon Multidisciplinary Analysis (NAMMA)
- Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Processes Study (iLEAPS) contributions
- Texas air quality study
- Strategic Priority: Improving prediction of weather, climate, and other atmospheric phenomena
- Weather Research and Forecasting/Advanced Research WRF (WRF/ARW)
- Community Climate Systems Model: Advancing Climate Science
- U.S. Weather Research Program/Short Term Explicity Prediction Program (USWRP/STEP)
- Data assimilation / ensembles
- The Observing-System research and predictability Experiment (THORPEX)
- Climate change and regional air quality implications
- Model physics
- Chemistry-climate coupling: Past and future
- Prediction across scales
- Strategic Priority: Developing community models
- Community Climate Systems Model: Development of Scientific Capabilities
- Space weather: Model development and data analysis
- Nested regional climate modeling
- WRF
- WACCM
- WACCM development and extension
- MOZART
- Community Atmosphere Model combined with the MOZART chemical Mechanism (CAM CHEM)
- Upper atmosphere community models
- Carbon/Nitrogen cycle modeling
- Climate and tropical cyclones
- Comparative solar system studies
- Intraseasonal/tropical climate variability
- Analysis, Integration and Modeling of the Earth System (AIMES)
- Master mechanism
- Tropospheric Ultraviolet and Visible (TUV) - Radiation Model
- Strategic Priority: Enabling innovative field experiments and measurement campaigns
- Mauna Loa Solar Observatory facility
- Community "chemistry" instruments
- Informatics: virtual observatories and data services
- Planning of DC3 field programPlanning of DC3 field program
- Planning of START08 field programPlanning of START08 field program
- Strategic Priority: Developing new instrumentation
- Development of a COronal Solar Magnetism Observatory (COSMO)
- High-performance Instrumented Airborne Platform for Environmental Research (HIAPER) instrumentation
- Analysis of data from Hinode and STEREO
- HIRDLS
- Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT)Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere (MOPITT)
- Atmospheric chemistry instrumentationAtmospheric chemistry instrumentation
- Community Spectro-Polarimetric Analysis Center (CSAC)Community Spectro-Polarimetric Analysis Center (CSAC)
- Instrument and experimental meteorologyInstrument and experimental meteorology
- Development of instrumentation for the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
- Fundamental physics of radiative processes
- Virtual remote sensing facility
- Analysis of data from TIMED and COSMIC
- Development of the Sunrise balloon mission