ESSL LAR 2008: Table of Contents

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