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Cira Annual Report Fy 08/09 CIRA ANNUAL REPORT FY 08/09 COOPERATIVE INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN THE ATMOSPHERE CIRA ADVISORY BOARD Peter Dorhout, Colorado State University Vice Provost for Graduate Studies Bill Farland, Colorado State University Vice President for Research Richard Johnson, Colorado State University Department Head, Atmospheric Science A.E. “Sandy” MacDonald NOAA Deputy Assistant Administrator for Labs/Coop Institutes And Director, ESRL Al Powell, NOAA Director NOAA/NESDIS/STAR Graeme Stephens, Colorado State University Director, CIRA and University Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science Sandra Woods, Colorado State University Dean of Engineering CIRA ADVISORY COUNCIL V. Chandrasekar, Colorado State University Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Mark DeMaria, Colorado State University NOAA RAMM Branch Ingrid Guch, NOAA Chief, NOAA/NESDIS/CoRP Steven Koch, NOAA Director, Global Systems Division/ESRL Sonia Kreidenweis-Dandy, Colorado State University Department of Atmospheric Science Graeme Stephens, Colorado State University Director, CIRA and University Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science ____________________________ Cover Photos: Landscape: Laura Leinen, CSU/CIRA; Inset Photos: William A. Cotton, CSU/Comm Creative Services ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page INTRODUCTION 1 CIRA’s Mission and Vision 2 Institute Description and Core Activities 3 Education, Training and Outreach 4 NOAA Award Numbers 24 Organizational Structure 25 CIRA Fellows/Meetings 26 RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS 27 DISTRIBUTION OF NOAA FUNDING BY INSTITUTE TASK & THEME 37 PROJECT DESCRIPTIONS NOAA 39 Additional CIRA Funding 348 See List on Following Pages of All Projects by Title APPENDIX: NOAA PROGRAMS VS. CIRA PROJECTS COMPARISON MATRIX 451 AWARDS 456 PUBLICATIONS MATRIX 463 EMPLOYEE MATRIX 464 iii Project Title Page NOAA A GOES-R Proving Ground for National Weather Service Forecaster Readiness 39 A High Resolution Meteorological Distribution Model for Atmospheric, Hydrologic, and Ecologic ApplicationS 44 Advanced Environmental Satellite Research Support 47 Advanced Verification Techniques for the Hurricane Weather Research and Forecast (HWRF) Model 52 An Improved Wind Probability Estimation Program 54 Analysis of Clouds, Radiation and Aerosols from Surface Measurements And Modeling Studies 57 Analysis of Simulated Radiance Fields for GOES-R ABI Bands for Mesoscale Weather and Hazard Events 61 Applications of Satellite Altimetry Data to Statistical and Simplified Dynamical Tropical Cyclone Intensity Forecast Models 65 Blended AMSU, SSM/I, and GPS Total Precipitable Water Products 68 CIRA Activities and Participation in the GOES I-M Product Assurance Plan 70 Cloud and Microwave Emissivity Verification Tools for Use Within the CRTM 78 CoCoRaHS: The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network— Enhancing Environmental Literacy Through Participation in Climate Monitoring and Research 81 Continuation of CIRA Research Collaboration with the NWS Meteorological Development Lab 88 Data Fusion to Determine North American Sources and Sinks of Carbon Dioxide at High Spatial and Temporal Resolution from 2004 to 2008 92 iv Development and Evaluation of GOES and POES Products for Tropical Cyclone and Precipitation Analysis 102 Development of a Polar Satellite Processing System for Research And Training 109 Development of an Improved Climate Rainfall Dataset from SSM/I 111 Environmental Applications Research 114 Evaluation of Hurricane Mitigation Hypotheses Through an Interactive Program of Observational Analyses and Numerical Simulation 239 Expansion of CIRA Research Collaboration with the NWS Meteorological Development Lab 241 Funds for the Cooperative Institute for Research, Task 1 245 Further Expansion of CIRA Research Collaboration with the NWS Meteorological Development Lab 254 Getting Ready for NOAA’s Advanced Remote Sensing Programs: A Satellite Hydro-meteorology (SHyMet) Training and Education Proposal 261 Investigation of Aerosol-Cloud-Radiation and Surface Flux Interactions Using Large Eddy Simulations 267 IPCC Studies for Climate Observations 269 Monsoon Flow and Its Variability During NAME: Observations and Models 271 NESDIS Postdoctoral Program 274 POES-GOES Blended Hydrometeorological Products 297 Research & Development for GOES-R Risk Reduction 300 Satellite Analysis of the Influence of the Gulf Stream on the Troposphere: Convective Response 311 Simulation and Analysis of the Interaction Between Aerosols and Clouds, Precipitation and the Radiation Budget Over the Gulf of Mexico And Houston 314 Support of the Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) 330 v Transitioning ISCCP GOES-West Processing from CIRA to NCDC 335 Validation of Satellite-based Thermodynamic Retrievals in the Tropics 337 Weather Satellite Data and Analysis Equipment and Support for Research Activities 341 OTHER FUNDING Department of Defense Five Year Cooperative Agreement for Center For GeoSciences/Atmospheric Research 348 Jet Propulsion Laboratory Monitoring Future Carbon Controls 355 National Aeronautical & Space Administration A-Train Data Depot: Integrating Atmospheric Measurements Along the A-Train Tracks Utilizing Data from the Aqua, CloudSat and CALIPSO Missions 357 Defining Subgrid Snow Distributions Within NASA Remote-Sensing Products and Models 362 GLOBE: Inspiring the Next Generation of Explorers (UCAR-NASA) 364 High Resolution Dynamic Precipitation Analysis for Hydrological Applications. Stage 1: Development of a Basic WRF-MLEF-NCEPos DAS 372 Improving an Air Quality Decision Support System Through the Integration of Satellite Data with Ground-based, Modeled, and Emissions Data 375 Improving the Representation of Global Snow Cover, Snow Water Equivalent, and Snow Albedo in Climate Models by Applying EOS Tera and Aqua Observations 381 Inspiring the Next Generation of Explorers: The GLOBE (Help Desk) 383 NRA/NASA-Modeling, Analysis and Prediction 388 Parameterizing Subgrid Snow-vegetation-atmosphere Interactions in Earth-system Models 392 vi National Center for Atmospheric Research AFWA Coupled Assimilation and Prediction System Development At CIRA 395 National Park Service Airborne Nitrogen Concentrations and Deposition in Rocky Mountain National Park 397 Analysis of Levoglucosan, K+, and Water Soluble Organic Carbon in Archived Filter Samples 401 Assistance for Visibility Data Analysis and Image Display Techniques 403 Characterizing Pollutant Deposition to Rocky Mountain National Park 413 Characterizing Wildland Fire Particulate Matter Emissions and Their Air Quality/Visibility Impacts 414 Transport and Deposition of Airborne Nitrogen and Sulfur in Rocky Mountain National Park 418 National Science Foundation Collaborative Research: Norwegian-United States IPY Scientific Traverse: Climate Variability and Glaciology 420 Improving Parameterizations of Non-convective Precipitation Processes by Data Assimilation 422 IPY: Collaborative Research: A Prototype Network for Measuring Arctic Winter Precipitation and Snow Cover (Snow-net) 432 The White Arctic: A Snow-Impacts Synthesis for the Terrestrial Arctic 434 Using a Regional-scale Model to Analyze the Scale Dependence of Convection, Cloud Microphysics, and Fractional Cloudiness 436 Winter Precipitation, Sublimation, and Snow-depth in the Pan-Arctic: Critical Processes and a Half Century of Change 439 Oklahoma State University East Pacific Intraseasonal Oscillations and Air-sea Interaction During Northern Hemisphere Summer 442 Western Governors Association Western Regional Air Partnership (WRAP) Technical Support System (TSS): A Web-based Air Quality Information Delivery System 447 vii This page left intentionally blank viii INTRODUCTION This report describes research funded in collaboration with NOAA’s Cooperative Agreement with Colorado State University for the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere (CIRA) for the period July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009. In addition, we also included non-NOAA-funded research (i.e., DoD-funded Geosciences, NASA-funded CloudSat and National Park Service Air Quality Research Division activities) to allow the reader a more complete understanding of CIRA’s research context. All of these research activities are synergistic to meet the objectives of the NOAA/CSU collaborations. The research infrastructure and intellectual talent are provided and used by both Federal and University sides of the funded activities. We are pleased to report on a very productive year of research partnership with NOAA. For further information on CIRA, please contact: Our website: http://www.cira.colostate.edu/ Or Professor Graeme L. Stephens, Director [email protected] 1 CIRA MISSION The mission of the Institute is to conduct research in the atmospheric sciences of mutual benefit to NOAA, the University, the State and the Nation. The Institute strives to provide a center for cooperation in specified research program areas by scientists, staff and students, and to enhance the training of atmospheric scientists. Special effort is directed toward the transition of research results into practical applications in the weather and climate areas. In addition, multidisciplinary research programs are emphasized, and all university and NOAA organizational elements are invited to participate in CIRA’s atmospheric research programs. The Institute’s research is concentrated in several theme areas that include global and regional climate, local and mesoscale weather forecasting and evaluation, applied cloud physics, applications of satellite observations, air quality and visibility,
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