Table of Contents

Director’s Message

Goal 1: Improve Understanding of the atmosphere, the Earth system and the Sun

Investigating the Interactions of the Atmosphere, the Broader Earth System and Human Society

• Formaldehyde and Ozone Formation [Highlight]
• Biogeochemical Initiative
• Water Cycle Initiative
• US Weather Research Program
• RICO Analysis

Improving the Prediction of Weather, Climate and other Atmospheric Phenomena

• THORPEX support with Hurricane Genesis Research [Highlight]

Goal 2: Increase Societal resilience to weather, climate and atmospheric Hazards

Building Capacity for Coping with Weather and Climate Hazards

• REFRACTT [Highlight]
• LIDAR “Standoff” Laser
• REAL for Homeland Security
• CP-2 Radar

• ISTP [Highlight]
• Mentorship of Airborne Platforms Facilities Development

Goal 3: Education and Diversity

Engaging a Broader and More Diverse Community in the atmospheric and geosciences

• Student Engineering Program [Highlight]
• EOL Women's Professional Development Group

Supporting and Enhancing Formal Science Education at all levels

• Student Field Project Support [Highlight]
• Chapter in undergraduate and graduate textbook, Analytical Techniques for Atmospheric Measurement
• Student Visits to EOL

• Science and Engineer Visitor Program [Highlight]

Goal 4: Provide Robust, accessible and innovative information services and tools

Developing Research Tools

• FODM Integration into EOL [Highlight]
• Field Programmable Gate Arrays
• Combined Data Acquisition System - NIDAS

Goal 5: Provide World Class ground, airborne and space-borne observational Facilities and Services

Enabling Innovative Field Experiments and Measurement Campaigns

• Virtual Operations Center (VOC) [Highlight]
• Facilities Assessment
• EOL User Workshop
• Field Programs
• T-REX
• MIRAGE
• IMPEX
• CuPIDO
• T-AMMA
• REFRACTT
• BUFEX I
• Planned Field Programs
• Observing Facilities Assesment Panel
• USCG Healy Support
• Instrumentation Improvements
  • REAL
  • S-Pol, Ka-band retrieval

• Community Airborne Remote-sensing Instrument Suite [Highlight]
• Driftsonde
• Difference Frequency Generator (DFG) Absorption Spectrometer
• Sunrise Project
• Development Advisory Committee
• OTIHS
• ASA
• TRAM
• Satellite Observing Systems

NSF/NCAR Gulfstream V (HIAPER)

• Progressive Science Missions [Highlight]
• T-Rex Campaign
• Improving the G-V Capabilities
• G-V Instrumentation and Development