Details of Award
NERC Reference : NE/X002403/1
NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative Research: ICECAPS-MELT
Grant Award
- Principal Investigator:
- Dr RR Neely, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment
- Co-Investigator:
- Dr BJ Brooks, University of Leeds, National Centre for Atmospheric Science
- Co-Investigator:
- Professor IM Brooks, University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment
- Grant held at:
- University of Leeds, School of Earth and Environment
- Science Area:
- Atmospheric
- Overall Classification:
- Panel B
- ENRIs:
- Global Change
- Science Topics:
- Aerosols
- Cloud droplets
- Cloud dynamics
- Dusts and particles
- Ground-based measurement
- Heat fluxes
- Moisture fluxes
- Radiation balance
- Snow
- Surface temperature
- Weather prediction
- Boundary Layer Meteorology
- Aerosols
- Cloud distribution
- Cloud formation
- Cloud physics
- Ice nucleation
- Lidar sensing
- Radiation budget
- Remote sensing
- Tropospheric processes
- Weather forecasting
- Radiative Processes & Effects
- Aerosols
- Atmospheric sounding
- Cloud formation
- Microphysics
- Mineral dust
- Radiation budget
- Remote sensing
- Tropospheric modelling
- Water vapour
- Weather forecasting
- Tropospheric Processes
- Aerosols and particles
- Atmospheric humidity
- Atmospheric ice
- Atmospheric modelling
- Atmospheric profiling
- Boundary layer
- Circulation modelling
- Cloud droplets
- Cloud dynamics
- Cloud physics
- Cloud types
- Lidar sensing
- Light scattering
- Mixed phase cloud
- Nucleation
- Radiation balance
- Uncertainty estimation
- Weather forecasting
- Water In The Atmosphere
- Remote sensing
- Sea level rise
- Regional climate
- Climate & Climate Change
- Climate modelling
- Abstract:
- Overview: A three-year extension is proposed to the Integrated Characterization of Energy, Clouds, Atmospheric state, and Precipitation at Summit (ICECAPS) project. This project is an international collaboration that funds the original ICECAPS researchers through the U.S. National Science Foundation's Arctic Observing Network and a team of researchers at the University of Leeds through the U.K. Natural Environment Research Council. The ICECAPS project has continuously operated a sophisticated suite of ground-based instruments at Summit Station, Greenland since 2010 for observation of clouds, precipitation, and atmospheric structure. The project has significantly advanced the understanding of cloud properties, radiation and surface energy, and precipitation processes over the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) during a period of rapid climate change. The project has supported numerous national and international collaborations in process-based model evaluation, development of new measurement techniques, ground comparisons for multiple satellite measurements and aircraft missions, and operational radiosonde data for weather forecast models. We propose to complement the ICECAPS Summit observatory by building, testing and deploying an additional observatory for measuring parameters of the surface mass and energy budgets of the GrIS. The observatory takes a novel approach for unattended, autonomous operations by supporting a suite of instruments that require moderate power and manageable internet bandwidth. The new observatory will be deployed in successive summers at Summit Station in the dry-snow zone and at Dye-2 in the percolation zone. If this pilot project is successful, a network of these observatories will be proposed for future deployment that will observe the processes of air parcels as they move along Lagrangian trajectories in southwestern Greenland.
- NERC Reference:
- NE/X002403/1
- Grant Stage:
- Awaiting Event/Action
- Scheme:
- Standard Grant FEC
- Grant Status:
- Active
- Programme:
- Lead Agency Grant
This grant award has a total value of £243,838
FDAB - Financial Details (Award breakdown by headings)
| DI - Other Costs | Indirect - Indirect Costs | DA - Investigators | DA - Estate Costs | DI - Staff | DA - Other Directly Allocated | DI - T&S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| £42,522 | £80,090 | £17,687 | £16,171 | £62,780 | £2,311 | £22,278 |
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