National Aeronautics and Space Administration

National Climate Assessment

NASA National Climate Assessment (NCA) Activities

NCA Research Funded at NASA Centers

National Climate Assessment - 2011 NASA Centers Projects

GRIP

An artist's rendition of the next Landsat satellite, the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM) launched Feb. 2013. Credit: NASA

In 2011 the NASA Earth Science Division (ESD) announced a competitive opportunity to fund work at NASA Centers regarding climate assessment activities. This was in support of the 2013 National Climate Assessment (NCA) and future assessments.  Proposals were to be funded in three areas:

  1. Enabling tools: NASA will support projects in order that data production and modeling efforts can respond to and support the NCA Where appropriate, NASA models will be run to support the assessment.  NASA tools can support creation of scenarios, and data sets (either directly retrieved or assimilated) will be provided for the assessment.  Also of interest are efforts to visualize scientific and other information for purposes of the assessments, including analyses and communication of findings.
  2. Assessment Capabilities & Products: NASA will support projects that provide direct contributions to assessment products in the Sectors, Regions, and Cross-Cutting Topics. Projects will be expected to produce and deliver assessment products on specific topics, with appropriate coordination with NCA and other agencies. Projects should support analyses of existing data sets and models and principal investigators should expect to participate in the technical input, writing, and/or development of relevant section(s) of the 2013 NCA. Proposed projects may include specific visualization activities within their proposal to support analysis and communication of results.
  3. 2013 NCA Sections: NASA will support contributions to NCA writing teams for the sections on Human Responses to Climate Change, Scientific Basis for Climate Change, and Future Scientific and Societal Needs.

In total, fourteen proposals were funded through 2014. The four enabling tools projects were renewed in 2014 and will be supported through 2017.

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

TITLE

CENTER*

RESEARCH

CATEGORY

STATUS UPDATES
(login required)
Oct. 2011 Feb. 2012 Nov. 2012 April 2014** June 2015
Ramakrishna Nemani NASA Earth Exchange (NEX) ARC Enabling Tools select select
addenum		 select select select
Christa Peters-Lidard/
Mike Jasinski		 An Integrated Terrestrial Water Analysis System
for the NCA		 GSFC Enabling Tools select select select select select
Michele Rienecker/
Mike Bosilovich		 A Reanalysis Synthesis of EOS Observations at Regional Scales to support the National Climate Assessment GSFC Enabling Tools select select select select select
Duane Waliser Enabling Regional Climate Model Evaluation: A Critical Use of Observations for Establishing Core NCA Capabilities JPL Enabling Tools select select select select select
Drew Shindell Analysis of Climate Drivers and Mitigations Options Within the Energy, Transportation and Agriculture Sectors Using GISS ModelE2 GISS Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
George Collatz Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Fire Activity in the US GSFC Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
Timothy Hall Hurricane Wind and Inundation Risk on the U.S. Northeast and New York City GISS Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
William Koshak Assessing Global Change Impact on the US Using National Lightning Data MSFC Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
Thomas Painter Snow and Ice Climatology of the Western United States from MODIS JPL Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
Dale Quattrochi Development of National Future Heat Scenarios to Enable the Assessment of Climate Impacts on Public Health MSFC Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
Cynthia Rosenzweig Urban Vulnerability Assessment for the Health and Infrastructure Sectors GISS Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
Paul Stackhouse Assessing the Impact of Potential Climate Changes on Surface Meteorological and Solar Energy Flux Parameters Relevant to Energy Usage and Efficiency LaRC Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
Christopher Potter CASA-CQUEST Modeling for Carbon Cycle Assessments in Forested Ecosystems of the United States ARC Assessment Capabilities & Products select select select select  
Graeme Stephens Proposal to Participate in the 2013 NCA Sections Writing Teams (Stephens) JPL 2013 NCA Sections select select select select  


*CENTER
ARC Ames Research Center
GISS Goddard Institute for Space Studies
GSFC Goddard Space Flight Center
JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory
LaRC Langley Research Center
MSFC Marshall Space Flight Center

 

** Additional information from the April 2014 webex:
•       Agenda
•       NCA overview – Fred Lipschultz