| Projects by Start Date (FY): 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 |
| FY 2008 |
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| Primary Investigators/Institution |
Project Title |
Duration |
| Caspar Ammann (UCAR),
Rasanna D'Arrigo (Columbia/LDEO), Nick Graham (Hydrologic Research Center)
|
The Paleoclimate Reconstruction (PR) Challenge: A Community Program to Benchmark Methods Used to Reconstruct the Climate of the Last 1-2000 Years |
3 years |
| Suzana Camargo (Columbia/IRI), Kerry Emanuel (MIT) |
Towards a Better Understanding of the Relationship Between Climate Change and Tropical Cyclones |
3 years |
| Julia Cole
(U. Arizona)
|
Reconciling Trends in Equatorial Pacific SST: Implications for ENSO Mechanisms |
3 years |
Qiang Fu
(U. Washington) |
Detecting Atmospheric Trends and Investigating Their Causes |
3 years |
Jim Kossin
(U. Wisconsin)
|
Maintenance and Annual Update of the Global Homogeneous UW/NCDC Tropical Cyclone Intensity Record |
1 year |
Frank Marks
(NOAA/AOML)
Chris Landsea
(NOAA/NHC)
|
Re-Analysis of the Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Database in the Modern Era |
3 years |
Carl Mears
(Remote Sensing Systems) |
Detecting Anthropogenic Changes in Atmospheric Temperatures in Microwave Sounder Measurements Using Multi Model Fingerprint Techniques |
3 years |
Sharon Nicholson
(Florida State) |
Examining the 19th Century Record of Sahel Rainfall in the Context of Global Change |
2 years |
Steve Schroeder
(Texas A&M)
|
Development of Adjustments to Compensate for Instrument Biases in Radiosonde Temperature and Moisture Data Using Complete Inferred Station and Instrument Metadata |
3 years |
Dave Stahle
(U. Arkansas)
|
Millennium-Long Reconstructions of Cool and Warm Season Precipitation Over the Southeastern and Southwestern United States |
2 years |
Axel Timmermann
(U. Hawaii)
|
Changes in the Tropical Pacific Climate Variability During the Last Millennium: External Forcing Versus Internal Variability |
2 years |
| FY 2007 |
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| Primary Investigators/Institution |
Project Title |
Duration |
| Stephen Burns
(U. Mass)
|
High Resolution Speleothem records of the South American Monsoon over the past 2000 years |
2 years |
| Julia Cole
(U. Arizona)
|
Patterns and Mechanisms of Late Holocene Drought: A Data-Model Synthesis |
3 years |
Art DeGaetano
(Cornell)
|
A Diurnal Temperature Profile-Based Index of Urbanization: Development and Application to U.S. Hourly High-Temperature Climate Indices |
3 years |
| Ralph Ferraro
(NOAA/STAR)
|
Improved Microwave Precipitation Retrieval over Land from TRMM through GPM Era |
3 years |
| Chris Forest (MIT) |
Identifying Structures and Impacts of Uncertainty on Climate Change Detection Results |
2 years |
| Pasha Groisman,
(NOAA/NCDC)
|
Precipitation Intensity Over the Northern Extratropics |
3 years |
| Carole Hahn
(U. Arizona) Steve Warren
(U. Washington)
|
Collaborative Research: Global Cloud Climatology from Surface
Observations: Analyses and Decadal Update
|
2 years |
| Shaopeng Huang,
(U. Michigan)
|
Extension and Further Exploration of Global Database of Borehole Temperatures for Deepening Our Understanding of Climate and Subsurface Environmental Changes |
3 years |
| John Janowiak,
(NOAA/CPC)
|
Improvement and Validation of a Multi-Satellite, Multi-Sensor Precipitation Estimation Algorithm: A Prototype 'Day 1' GPM Product |
3 years |
| Chris Kummerow,
(Colorado State)
|
Development of an Improved Climate Rainfall Dataset from SSM/I |
3 years |
| Ken Kunkel (Illinois State Water Survey)
Dave Easterling
(NOAA/NCDC)
|
Meteorological Causes of the Observed Secular Variations in Observed Heavy Precipitation Events for the Conterminous United States |
3 years |
| David Noone (Colorado State) |
Reconstruction of Global and Southern Hemisphere Variability and Regional Connectivity from Synthesis of Ice Core Isotope Records with Process Modeling |
3 years |
| Jonathan Overpeck (U. Arizona), Mark Bush (Florida Inst. of Tech) |
Variability in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific Climate, ENSO and North American Drought Impacts over the last 2000 years |
2 years |
| Mike Palecki (U. Illinois) |
Quantifying Spatial and Temporal Characteristics of 19th Century Extreme Climate Events |
3 years |
| Jason Smerdon
(Columbia/LDEO)
|
Spectral characteristics of climate proxies and their expression in climate field reconstructions |
3 years |
| Brian Soden
(U. Miami)
|
Detection and Attribution of Anthropogenic Changes in Atmospheric Water Vapor |
3 years |
| Kevin Trenberth
(NCAR)
|
Evaluation of New Reanalyses and the Vertical Structure of the Atmosphere |
3 years |
| Connie Woodhouse,
(U. Arizona) Stephen Gray,
(U. Wyoming),
Kurt Kipfmueller,
(U. Minnesota)
|
Interpreting and Refining the Climate Signal in Millennial-Length 5-Needle Pine Chronologies |
2 years |
| FY 2006 |
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| Primary Investigators/Institution |
Project Title |
Duration |
| Jim Anderson (Harvard) |
Climate Benchmarking: GPS Radio Occultation |
3 years |
| Phil Arkin
(U. Md./ ESSIC)
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Improved Global and Regional Precipitation Analysis |
3 years |
| Kim Cobb (Georgia Tech), Nick Graham (Hydrologic Research Center),
Mike Mann (Penn State),
Michael Alexander
(NOAA/ESRL)
|
Constraining the Tropical Pacific's Role In Low-Frequency Climate Change of the Last Millennium |
3 years |
| Art Douglas (Creighton U.) |
Climate Variability in Mexico and the Border Region: Some Currency and Coverage Issues for Climate Change Monitoring |
2 years |
| Pasha Groisman,
(NOAA/NCDC)
|
Homogeneity of Snowfall and Precipitation Estimates Across the U.S. - Canadian Border |
2 years |
| Ken Hubbard,
(U. Nebraska)
|
Improvement and Implementation of Instrument-Change Adjustment Models for the U S Historical Maximum and Minimum Temperatures (1950s' to 2000s') |
3 years |
| Malcolm Hughes
(U. Arizona)
|
Developing and Using Realistic Synthetic Tree-Ring Data to Constrain Climate Models |
2 years |
| Tom Johnson,
(U. Minnesota - Duluth)
|
The Thermal and Hydrological History of East Africa Since the Last Glacial Maxmium |
3 years |
| Julian Sachs
(U. Washington)
|
Extreme Cooling of the US-Canadian Eastern Seaboard During the Holocene |
3 years |
| Lonnie Thompson
(Ohio State)
|
Integration of Paleoclimate Records Since the Early Holocene From a Suite of Tibetan Plateau Ice Core Records |
3 years |
| June Wang (NCAR) |
Developing A Global Atmospheric Precipitable Water Based from GPS Measurements and Constructing Corrected Global Radiosonde Humidity Records for Climate Studies |
3 years |
| FY 2005 |
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| Primary Investigators/Institution |
Project Title |
Duration |
| Rob Dunbar (Stanford),
Tom Guilderson
(U. California - Santa Cruz)
|
North Pacific Dec-Cen Variability from Deep Sea Corals: A New Archive for Climate Change Detection. |
3 years |
| Ralph Ferraro
(NOAA/STAR)
|
Improved Global Precipitation Estimates for the Global Precipitation Climatology Project (GPCP) Using Microwave Data from Multiple Satellites. |
3 years |
| Qiang Fu
(U. Washington)
|
Analyzing Tropospheric Temperature Trends Using MSU Observations: Global and Regional Distributions |
3 years |
| Pasha Groisman
(NOAA/NCDC)
|
Representativeness of Estimates of Changes in Weather Extremes |
3 years |
| Chris Landsea
(NOAA/NHC)
|
A Reanalysis and Testing of Trends of Tropical Cyclone Data During the Aircraft Reconnaissance and Satellite Era |
3 years |
| Syd Levitus
(NOAA/NCDC)
|
Ocean Heat Content |
4 years |
| Carl Mears (Remote Sensing Systems) |
Inter-annual and Decadal-Scale Behavior of Atmospheric Temperature and Oceanic Column-Integrated Water Vapor and Surface Winds |
2 years |
| Gary Mock
(U. So. Carolina)
|
Atlantic Basin Tropical Cyclone Reconstructions for the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries |
3 years |
| Richard Seager
(Columbia U.)
|
Collaborative research: Tropical forcing of hydrological variations over North America during the last millennium |
3 years |
| Richard Smith
(U.North Carolina)
Gaby Hegerl (Duke)
|
Statistical Assessment of Uncertainty in Present and Future North American Rainfall Extremes |
3 years |
| Konstantin Vinnikov
(U. Maryland)
|
Homogenization of MSU/AMSU Time Series for Climate Change Studies |
3 years |
| Daqing Yang
(U. Alaska-Fairbanks),
Dave Robinson (Rutgers),
Hengchun Ye
(Cal State - LA)
|
Assessment of Arctic Snow Cover Change and its Impact on Large River Runoff |
3 years |
| FY 2004 |
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| Primary Investigators/Institution |
Project Title |
Duration |
| Ed Cook
(Columbia U.)
Connie Woodhouse
(U. Arizona)
|
Collaborative Research: Development of a 'Living' Gridded Network of Drought Reconstruction for North America |
4 years |
