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Projects

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Steven Businger

Office of Naval Research

Advanced Use of Soundings from Hyperspectral IR Spaceborne Observations to Improve Arctic Prediction

$1,062,534

6/25/18-5/31/23
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Steven Businger

FEMA/HDoH

Dispersion Modeling and Forecasting of Volcanic Air Emissions

$566,920

6/25/18-5/31/21
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Steven Businger

USGS

Vog Measurement and Prediction (VMAP) Project

$322,802

01/01/10-07/30/11
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Steven Businger

Vaisala

Vaisala Data Implementation and Integration

$40,000

11/01/09-10/30/10
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Steven Businger

ONR

Long-Range Lightning Detection over the Western Pacific

$580,478

01/01/07-09/30/10
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Steven Businger

NOAA/UNH

Targeted Winds

$100,000

7/01/03-6/30/04
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Steven Businger

NASA

Pacific Lightning Detection Network (PacNET)

$230,000 yr 1 ($308,831 for 5 years)

04/01/01-03/31/06
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Steven Businger

NSF

Investigation of the Inflow Boundary Layer of Atlantic Hurricanes  (Poster) 

$197,000 (plus $270,067 for NOAA)

12/01/99-11/30/02
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Steven Businger

NOAA/University of New Hampshire

Groundwinds Hawaii Updated link

$164,957

06/01/99-12/31/01
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Steven Businger

NASA

A Volcanic Plume Dispersion Monitoring and Prediction Capability (Poster) (Vog Animation)

$347,210

05/01/00-09/30/01
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Steven Businger

University of Hawaii: Institute for Astronomy (IFA)

Development of Custom Meteorological Forecasts and Nowcasts in Support of Astronomical Operations at Mauna Kea

$308,511

01/01/99-12/31/01

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

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Steven Businger

NSF

University of Hawaii VISION-LAB'98

$23,310 (plus 50% SOEST cost match)

10/01/98-09/30/99
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Steven Businger

NSF

Development of a Second Generation Smart Balloon Capability (Poster)

$106,254

01/97-04/00
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Steven Businger

NOAA/UCAR

Flash Flood Prediction in the Tropical Pacific (Poster)

$84,353

01/97-01/00
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Peter Mouginis-Mark

NASA

Role of Active Volcanism on the Quality of Life

$350,000 in year one

01/01-12/02
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Steven Businger and Michael Bevis

NOAA

Implementation of a real-time precipitable water capability using the Global Positioning System (Poster)

$240,000

10/95-09/01+
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Steven Businger and Michael Bevis

NASA

Investigation Title: Atmospheric delay corrections for radar interferometry; Development and testing of a GPS-based approach at Kilauea, Hawaii

$320,000

07/95-06/99
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Steven Businger and Michael Bevis

NASA

Modeling and Assimilation of Water Vapor With a Mesoscale Atmospheric Model: A Proof of Concept Using the Southern California Integrated GPS Network

$40,000

01/96-12/98
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Steven Businger, Shiv Sharma and others

NASA

Center for the Study of Water Vapor Fields and Their Radiative Effects over Hawaii.

$310,000 (plus a $125,000 UH cost match)

09/01/97 - 08/31/00
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Steven Businger, Michael Bevis, and others

NSF

Acquisition of GPS Equipment for Consortium Studies of Global Change and Tectonics of the Western Margins of the Americas

$222,000 (plus a 33% UH cost match) ($2,000,000 awarded for UNAVCO Consortium as a whole)

09/01/95 - 08/31/98
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Steven Businger

NOAA

Regional; Environmental Analysis Project for the Pacific (REAPP)

$90,673 (plus $35,412 in equipment funds from NOAA
and a $17,736 UH cost match)

01/94-12/96
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Steven Businger

NOAA

Pacific Mesoscale Tropical Workshop

$16,675

07/94-06/95
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Steven Businger

NSF

University of Hawaii VISION-LAB

$19,968 (plus a 50% cost match from UH)

03/01/95 - 02/28/96
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Steven Businger

Air Force:Air Weather Service

Nowcasting Convective Activity During Onshore Flow Regimes for Space Shuttle Launches and Landings.

$46,638

09/01/92-08/31/95
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Steven Businger

NSF

Development of a Smart Tetroon Capability

$238,894

01/95-02/98
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Steven Businger and Michael Kaplan

NSF

Investigation of Interactions Among Terrain Drag, Ageostrophic Frontogenesis, Mesoscale Cyclogenesis and Drylines

$343,042

12/01/91-12/31/96
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Steven Businger, Yuh-Lang Lin, and Michael Kaplan

NOAA

SE Consortium/Tornado Outbreaks in the SE US

$396,000

04/01/92-03/31/93
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Steven Businger and Sethu Raman

Office of Naval Research

Tetroon Tracking for the ASTEX/MAGE Lagrangian Experiment

$171,868

01/01/92 - 12/31/93
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Steven Businger, Harriet Stubbs, and Walter Heck

NSF

GLOBE-NET:Changes in the Global Environment:A Curriculum Development Project Grades 4-12

$1,400,739

09/91-08/95
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Steven Businger and J. Pelissier

National Weather Service/COMET

Storm Analysis, Research and Training (START) Center

$60,483 (plus $8,300 data donation from COMET)

10/90-06/94
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Steven Businger, G. F. Watson, and J. Davis

NSF

Investigation of the Evolution of Mesoscale Systems and Processes Associated with East Coast Cyclones During GALE

$206,100

01/89-12/91
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Steven Businger

NSF

North Carolina State University NEXT-LAB

$192,000

09/90-12/91
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Michael Kimberley and Steven Businger

NSF

Field course in Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences in Northeastern Venezuela

$22,127

09/90-12/91
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Steven Businger

Environmental Protection Agency

Determination of Flow Fields Associated with Cloud Occurrence and Acid Deposition on Mt. Mitchell

$102,500

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Steven Businger

NCSU faculty development grant

Development of Global Climate Research Facility Based on Optical Disk Storage Technology at NCSU

$3,500

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Steven Businger

US Dept. of Education

Strengthening Research Library Data Resources in the SE US

$25,000

08/31/92-09/01/93

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