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Table of Contents

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