Research Projects

Current List of Projects by Principal Investigators

Biological and Environmental Research Abstracts Database

Fiscal Year	Title	Principal Investigator	Institution
2011	Isolating Weakly and Strongly-Absorbing Classes of Carbonaceous Aerosol: Optical Properties, Abundance and Life Cycle	Tami Bond	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2011	Study of Shortwave Spectra in Fully 3D Environment: Synergy Between Scanning Radars and Spectral Radiation Measurements	J.-Y. Christine Chiu	University of Reading
2011	Laboratory Experiments and Instrument Intercomparison Studies of Carbonaceous Aerosol Particles	Paul Davidovits	Boston College
2011	Collaborative Project: Cloudiness Transitions Within Shallow Marine Clouds Near the Azores	Simon Paul de Szoeke	Oregon State University
2011	Aging of Organic Aerosol: Cloud and Climate Effects	Neil Donahue	Carnegie Mellon University
2011	Using ARM Observations to Evaluate Cloud and Convection Parameterizations and Cloud-Convection-Radiation Interactions in the GFDL Atmospheric General Circulation Model	Leo Donner	National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
2011	Combined High Spectral Resolution Lidar and Millimeter Wavelength Radar Measurement of Ice Crystal Precipitation	Edwin W. Eloranta	The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
2011	Lidar Investigations of Aerosol, Cloud, and Boundary Layer Properties Over the ARM Sites	Richard Ferrare	NASA Langley Research Center
2011	Laboratory Studies of the Role of Amines in Particles Formation, Growth and Climate	Barbara J. Finlayson-Pitts	University of California, Irvine
2011	Advancing Models and Evaluation of Cumulus, Climate and Aerosol Interactions	Andrew Gettelman	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
2011	Evaluation of New and Proposed Organic Aerosol Sources and Mechanisms Using the Aerosol Modeling Testbed: MILAGRO, CARES, CALNEX, BEACHON, and GVAX	Alma Hodzic	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
2011	Characterizing Aerosol Distributions, Types, and Optical and Microphysical Properties using the NASA Airborne High Spectral Resolution Lidar (HSRL) and the Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP)	Chris Hostetler	NASA Langley Research Center
2011	Using Statistical Comparisons Between SPARTICUS Cirrus Microphysical Measurements, Detailed Cloud Models, and GCM Cloud Parameterizations to Understand Cirrus and Improve the Parameterizations	Eric J. Jensen	NASA Ames Research Center
2011	Collaborative Project: Study of Aerosol Sources and Processing at the GVAX Pantnagar Supersite	Jose-Luis Jimenez	University of Colorado, Boulder
2011	Improvement of Representation of the Cloud-Aerosol Interaction in Large-Scale Models	Alexander Khain	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2011	Advancing Clouds Life Cycle Representation in Numerical Models Using Innovative Analysis Methods that Bridge ARM Observations and Models Over a Breadth of Scales	Pavlos Kollias	McGill University
2011	Using Statistical Comparisons Between SPARTICUS Cirrus Microphysical Measurements, Detailed Cloud Models, and GCM Cloud Parameterizations to Understand Cirrus and Improve the Parameterizations	Paul Lawson	SPEC Incorporated
2011	Use of ARM Mobile Facility (AMF) Data to Study Aerosol Indirect Effects in China in Comparision with Those in US	Zhanqing Li	University of Maryland
2011	Development of Cloud and Precipitation Property Retrieval Algorithms and Measurement Simulators from ASR Data	Gerald Mace	University of Utah
2011	Modeling the Explicit Chemistry of Anthropogenic and Biogenic Organic Aerosols	Sasha Madronich	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
2011	Study of Shortwave Spectra in Fully 3D Environment: Synergy Between Scanning Radars and Spectral Radiation Measurements	Alexander Marshak	NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
2011	Process Studies of Climatically Relevant Parts of the Aerosol Life Cycle: Chamber Experiments on the Role of Aqueous-Phase Chemistry in CCN Activity of Secondary Organic Aerosol	Scot Martin	Harvard College
2011	The Radiative Role of Free Tropospheric Aerosols and Marine Clouds Over the Central North Atlantic	Claudio Mazzoleni	Michigan Technological University
2011	Collaborative Project: Understanding the Chemical Processes that Affect Growth Rates of Freshly Nucleated Particles	Peter McMurry	University of Minnesota
2011	Collaborative Project: Cloudiness Transitions Within Shallow Marine Clouds Near the Azores	David B. Mechem	University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
2011	Retrieving 4D Atmospheric Boundary Layer Structure from Surface Observations and Profiles Over a Single Station	Zhaoxia Pu	University of Utah
2011	Vertical Microphysical Profiles of Convective Clouds as a Tool for Obtaining Aerosol Cloud-Mediated Climate Forcing	Daniel Rosenfeld	The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2011	Simulating the Artic Winter Longwave Indirect Effects: A New Parameterization for Frost Flower Aerosol Salt Emissions	Lynn M. Russell	Scripps Institution of Oceanography
2011	Use of DOE SGP Radars in Support of ASR Modeling Activities	Steven Rutledge	Colorado State University
2011	Organic Aerosol Formation: Laboratory Studies to Guide the Development of Comprehensive Formation Mechanisms and Representation in Global Aerosol Models	John Seinfeld	California Institute of Technology
2011	Laboratory Investigation of Contact Freezing and the Aerosol to Ice Crystal Transformation Process	Raymond A. Shaw	Michigan Technological University
2011	Investigations of Mixed-Phase Cloud Microphysical, Radiative, and Dynamical Processes	Matthew Shupe	University of Colorado
2011	Collaborative Project: Understanding the Chemical Processes that Affect Growth Rates of Freshly Nucleated Particles	James Smith	University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
2011	Connecting Organic Aerosol Climate-Relevant Properties to Chemical Mechanisms of Sources and Processing	Joel A. Thornton	University of Washington
2011	Collaborative Project: Study of Aerosol Sources and Processing at the GVAX Pantnagar Supersite	Joel A. Thornton	University of Washington
2011	Advancing Cloud Life Cycle Representation in Numerical Models Using Innovative Analysis Method that Bridge ARM Observations Over a Breadth of Scales	George Tselioudis	Columbia University
2011	Lidar Investigations of Aerosol, Cloud, and Boundary Layer Properties Over the ARM Sites	David D. Turner	University of Oklahoma
2011	Collaborative Project: Study of Aerosol Sources and Processing at the GVAX Pantnagar Supersite	Rainer Volkamer	University of Colorado, Boulder
2011	Improving Mixed-Phase Cloud Parameterization in Climate Model with the ACRF Measurements	Zhien Wang	University of Wyoming
2011	Vertical Air Motions Over the Tropical Western Pacific for Validating Cloud Resolving and Regional Models	Christopher Williams	University of Colorado
2011	Analysis of Data and Development of VAPs from the AMF Azores Deployment to Understand Cloud-Aerosol-Precipitation Interactions in the Cloud-Capped Marine Boundary Layer	Robert Wood	University of Washington
2011	Collaborative Project: Study of Aerosol Sources and Processing at the GVAX Pantnagar Supersite	Douglas R. Worsnop	Aerodyne Research, Inc.
2011	Improving Boundary-Layer Turbulence and Cloud Processes in CAM with a Higher-Order Turbulence Closure Scheme and ASR Measurements	Kuan-Man Xu	NASA Langley Research Center
2011	Collaborative Project: Cloudiness Transitions Within Shallow Marine Clouds Near the Azores	Sandra Yuter	North Carolina State University
2011	Roles of Shadow Convection in the Cloud Life Cycle in the Tropical Western Pacific Region	Chidong Zhang	University of Miami
2011	Characterizing Organic Aerosol Processes and Climatically Relevant Properties via Advanced and Integrated Analyses of Aerosol Mass Spectrometry Data Sets from DOE Campaigns and ARM Measurements	Qi Zhang	University of California, Davis
2011	Development of Integrated ASR Model Forcing Data and Their Applications to Improve CAM	Minghua Zhang	State University of New York at Stony Brook
2011	Quantifying the Relationship Between Organic Aerosol Composition and Hygroscopicity / CCN Activity	Paul Ziemann	University of California, Riverside