SOLICITATION NOTICE
A -- RADIATION SCIENCES PROGRAM & GLOBAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS PROGRAM
- Notice Date
- 10/1/2002
- Notice Type
- Solicitation Notice
- Contracting Office
- NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA Headquarters Acquisition Branch, Code 210.H, Greenbelt, MD 20771
- ZIP Code
- 20771
- Solicitation Number
- NRA-02-OES-06
- Point of Contact
- Dr. Donald E Anderson, Radiation Sciences Program Manager, Phone (202) 358-1432, Fax (202) 358-2770, Email danders1@hq.nasa.gov
- E-Mail Address
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Email your questions to Dr. Donald E Anderson
(danders1@hq.nasa.gov)
- Description
- The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) intends to solicit proposals for the investigations that contribute to the NASA's Earth Science Enterprise's multidisciplinary research in climate, chemistry, and global modeling. The NASA disciplines included in this NRA are the Radiation Sciences program (RSP), the Global Modeling and Analysis Program (GMAP), the Tropospheric Chemistry Program (TCP) and cross-cutting Interdisciplinary Science (IDS) research. The research solicited in this NRA is designed to address several of the key issues included as part of the US Government's Climate Change Research Initiative. The CCRI notes the need to improve our understanding of the direct and indirect effects of aerosols as well as changes in concentrations of other radiatively active gases, including tropospheric ozone. Improved knowledge and understanding of tropospheric clouds and mechanisms that contribute to their evolution are critical to formulation and verification of methods to realistically capture cycling of water in regional and large-scale climate models. Proposals are solicited for instrument development/improvement, and modeling and analysis of data from past field missions (e.g. http://www-c4.ucsd.edu/NACIP ) concept and will establish NASA participation through this NRA. The TCP supports satellite remote sensing in the study of the distribution of and the processes that control tropospheric ozone and its precursor hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides and will emphasize chemistry-climate coupling, especially in the context of the potential climate impact of the generation and transport of regional pollution to global scales. Proposals are solicited for the analysis of existing field mission sets (e.g. http://aura.gsfc.nasa.gov/mission/validation.html ). Trace gases, in particular CO, CH4 and CO2, contribute to the uncertainty in our understanding of carbon cycling and their impact on radiative forcing. Understanding the large-scale distribution of these gases will be done in coordination with the North American Carbon Program (NACP) ( http://www.esig.ucar.edu/nacp/nacp.pdf ). Proposals for the improvement and/or intercomparison of existing instrumentation focused on the rapid response measurement of these gases from suborbital platforms are encouraged. The GMAP supports research to understand and predict the behavior of the global earth system on three important time scales: weather, near-term climate variability and long-term climate change. Research activities in this area must demonstrate direct linkage and contribution to NASA's core modeling efforts at Data Assimilation Office (DAO), NASA Seasonal to Interannual Prediction Project (NSIPP), and Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS). This NRA will consider proposals that address model initialization strategy, data assimilation, model integration, model uncertainty reduction, satellite and model data comparisons, and model products for management and policy decision support processes. The NRA will be available electronically on the release date, via the Internet at the Research Opportunities home page at http://research.hq.nasa.gov/research.cfm under ''Office of Earth Science (Code Y)''. This announcement will be open for the period from October 11, 2002 through December 12, 2002, and proposals may be submitted at any time throughout that period.
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- Record
- SN00179869-W 20021003/021001213420 (fbodaily.com)
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