Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) Projects

By Project Name By Startdate By Enddate By Location
4-D AEROSOLS: occurrence, type and evolution study using the GISS-E2 model and space/ground based observations 1/29/15 12/31/18
A Global Map of Feasible Residential Solutions-emphasizing Stoves with space Heating Uses 3/1/14 12/31/18 Global ; Alaska ; Nepal ; Mongolia ; China
A model-based investigation of climate variability and climate change: Focus on the West African monsoon system 8/1/10 7/31/13 Africa ; West Africa
A Modeling Approach in Climate Change and Natural Resource Education 4/1/17 2/28/20 North America ; Louisiana
A proposal to the Department of the Interior to Establish the Northeast Climate Science Center 3/1/12 12/31/18 North America ; United States ; Northeast United States
A Research and Decision Support Framework to Evaluation Sea-Level Rise Impacts in the Northeastern US: Sea-Level Rise and Storm Surge Projections 8/1/12 7/31/13 North America ; Woods Hole, MA ; Northeast United States
A Symbiotic Agent-Based Network Platform Linking Expert Knowledge and Machine Learning for Systemic Risk Mitigation 12/1/18 2/28/22 Africa ; New York City, NY ; New York ; East Africa
Adaptation for Development and Conservation-Advanced Partnership - Center for Climate Systems Research (CCSR) & WWF 8/10/15 12/31/18
Adaptation Planning for Climate Change Impacts using Advanced Decision Support and Remote Sensing: Irrigated Agriculture in California’s Central Valley 4/1/12 6/1/14 Global ; New York
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project- The Future of Food and Farming 1/1/15 3/31/17 Africa ; Asia ; United States ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; South Asia
An Ecosystem approach to climate change education 10/1/11 12/31/14 Global ; New York ; Louisiana
Assessment of Climate Induced Hazards in Ubekistan Asia ; Central Asia ; Uzbekistan
Atmospheric, Snow and Firn Chemistry Studies for Interpretation of WAIS-Divide Cores 9/1/11 8/31/12 North America ; California
Bayesian Cloud Property Retrievals from ARM Active and Passive Measurements 8/1/16 7/31/18 Global
Bridging the last few kilometers: Accounting for Subgrid mixing and spatial gradients in global aerosol models 8/15/09 8/14/14 Global ; New York ; Illinois
Building resilience to storm surges and sea level rise: A comparative study of coastal zones in New York City and Boston 8/1/12 7/31/15 North America ; New York City, NY ; New York ; Boston, MA
CityLinks Climate Adaptation Partnership Program 2/25/15 9/1/16 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Climate and chemistry changes from 1975 to 2000 as observed and modeled in the coupled chemistry-aerosol-climate GISS ModelE Earth System Model 5/14/09 6/30/15 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Climate Change Relevant Statistics and Guidelines to Estimate Data Uncertainty 12/31/18 12/31/19 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Climate Decision Support in the Gulf States: Assessing the Impacts of Key Uncertainties in End-to-End Assessments 8/1/10 7/31/13 Global ; New York ; Florida ; Alabama
Climate Risk Information for Ecosystem-Based Adaptation 2/15/16 6/30/16 Europe ; Germany
Climate Science Synthesis and Analysis to Support NPS Scenario Workshop 6/1/12 6/30/13 North America ; New York City, NY ; New York ; Fort Collins, CO ; Colorado
CNH-L: Volcanism, Hydrology and Social Conflict: Lessons from Hellenistic and Roman-Era Egypt and Mesopotamia 8/15/18 1/31/23 Africa ; Nile, Egypt
Collaborative Research Reconstruction of Carbon Monoxide in the Pre-Industrial Arctic Atmosphere from Ice Cores at Summit, Greenland 1/1/15 12/31/18 North America ; Arctic ; Greenland
Collaborative Research: DRK-12: High School Students Climate Literacy Through Epistemology of Scientific Modeling 9/1/17 8/31/21 North America ; United States
Collaborative Research: Separating Forced and Unforced Decadal Predictability in Models and Observations 9/1/10 8/31/13 Global
Consortium for Climate Risk in the Urban Northeast (CCRUN) 10/1/10 9/30/16 North America ; Northeast United States ; New York City, NY ; Philadelphia, PA ; Boston, MA
Continued Evaluation of Fast Processes in Climate Models Using ARM Measurements 6/15/09 9/14/14 Global
Cooling the Liberal Arts Curriculum 3/1/10 2/28/13 North America ; Pennsylvania
Down to Earth Climate Science: Engaging Tomorrow's Leaders Today 1/1/12 12/31/13 North America ; Riverside, CA
Earth System Modeling, Comparative Planetary Climatologies and Remote Sensing 9/1/18 8/31/19 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Earth System Modeling, Comparative Planetary Climatologies and Remote Sensing 9/1/18 8/31/21 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York ; Greenbelt, MD ; Maryland ; Boulder, CO ; Colorado
EdGCM: A Realistic Global Climate Modeling Experience for Educational Institutions (EdGCM) 10/1/10 9/30/15 Global ; New York ; Wisconsin
EPSCoR - Building Statistical and Dynamical Downscaling Capacity at the University of Vermont 6/1/12 5/1/14 Global ; Vermont
Evaluation of the Impact of Changing Climate on Food Security Through Global Agriculture Models 9/24/10 9/23/15 Global ; United States
Examining the mechanisms of species responses to climate change: Are there biological thresholds? 9/1/16 8/31/18 North America ; Northeast United States ; Midwest United States
Facilitating regional and local decision-making for managing coastal wetlands and waterbird habitats 9/25/13 1/31/15 North America ; Amherst, MA
Faint Young Sun Paradoxes and Habitable Worlds: Comparative Climatology of Early Earth and Mars 8/1/15 7/31/19 Global ; New York City, NY
From precipitation thresholds identification to planning Helping communities plan and adapt to future extreme events 7/1/16 6/30/19 North America ; New England ; Connecticut ; United States
GAF Cool Roofs Monitoring Research 9/4/14 9/3/15
Global constraints on radiative properties of ice clouds using MODIS and POLDER measurements 3/25/11 3/24/14 Global ; New York City, NY
Global variation of the fundamental radiative properties of ice clouds 5/23/14 5/22/18 Global ; New York City, NY
Global, Local, Coastal: Preparing the Next Generation for a Changing Planet 9/1/15 6/30/19 North America ; Yonkers, NY
Greening the Bronx – Persistence, Survivability and Impacts of Tree Planting on Shaded and Un-shaded 6/1/18 12/31/18 North America ; Bronx, NY
Gridded Crop & Near Term Climate Modeling Workshops and Coordination 3/21/14 7/15/14
Health Vulnerability to Climate Variability in an Urban Setting: Temperature and Air Quality Impacts on Health in New York City 10/3/11 9/30/12 North America ; New York City, NY ; New York
Impact 2020- The Future of Cities Under Climate Change 8/1/17 12/31/18 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Improving Parameterization of Ice Microphysical Processes in Arctic Clouds using a Synergistic Modeling and Observational Approach 8/15/18 8/14/21
Integrating climate risk information for agricultural resilience and forest conservation in Paraguay 7/1/16 10/31/17 South America ; Paraguay
Integrating Climate Risk Information to Climate-Smart Marine Protected Areas and Coastal Management in the Mesoamerican Reef (MAR) Region 9/1/18 12/31/20 Central America ; Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System ; Belize ; Guatemala ; Honduras ; Mexico
Integrating Climate Risk Information to WWF's Natural Capital Assessment in Myanmar 6/1/15 10/31/16 Asia ; Myanmar
Integration of AgMIP results for the development of agricultural response functions for PNNL Models 4/26/16 8/31/18 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Integration of AgMIP Results for the Development of Agricultural Response Functions for PNNL Models - Phase 3 10/18/18 12/31/19 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Integration of Horizontal Unstructured Mesh Generation Code (JIGSAW) into MPAS-O and MPAS-SI 10/11/18 7/31/21 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York ; Los Alamos, NM
Interdisciplinary Global Change Research 6/2/11 9/1/14 Global
Interdisciplinary Research on Climate Science & the Impacts of Climate Change 10/1/10 8/31/14 Global ; New York
Interdisciplinary Research on Climate. Climate Modeling and the Impacts of Climate Change 10/1/13 9/30/17
Interdisciplinary Research on Earth System Modeling and the Impacts of Climate Change 10/1/17 9/30/20
Joint CCAFS-AGIMP Activities 4/1/14 3/31/16 Global ; New York City, NY ; West Africa
Linking NASA Models and Missions to Global Change 9/4/13 4/30/16 Global ; New York
Managing climate risks to smallholder agriculture in northern Ethiopia: Second phase of evaluation of the R4 program Africa ; Tigray, Ethiopia
New Tools and Incentives for Carbon, Nitrogen, and Greenhouse Gas Accounting and Management in Corn Cropping Systems 1/1/11 3/31/17 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York ; Fort Collins, CO ; Colorado ; Ithaca, NY
Next Generation Analytics: A roadmap for the global agriculture and climate modeling community 9/13/16 7/1/17 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Next Generation Models Groundwork 12/19/13 2/28/15 Global ; United States
NYC Panel on Climate Change to Perform Regional Projections 1/15/18 9/30/18 North America ; New York City, NY ; New York
Planning on Global Climate Change and activities Regional climate modeling in Italy: a new strategy 1/1/12 12/31/14 Europe ; Italy
Proposed technical study of the effects of sea level rise on coastal flooding in New York City 5/1/13 6/30/16 North America ; New York City, NY ; New York
Quantifying the climate and health benefits of improved cookstoves: and intergrated laboratory, field and modeling study 1/1/14 8/31/16 Global ; China ; India ; Kenya ; Honduras
Question of Carbon Curriculum (QOC) and Online Teacher Education Course R&D and Implementation 11/1/09 5/1/14 North America ; New York
Rapid Assessment of Agriculture in a + 1.5 Scenario: An AgMIP Coordinated Global and Regional Assess 9/30/16 9/29/17 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Reconstructions of a Snowball Earth: A Data/Model Perspective 6/10/14 6/9/18 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York ; Greenbelt, MD ; Maryland
Research in support of the USACE Institute for Water Resources training mission. 10/1/12 9/30/13 North America ; New York ; Alexandria, VA
Research Scanning Polarimeter (RSP) Team Support for CAMP2Ex 10/19/17 10/18/22 Asia ; New York City, NY ; Philippines
ROSES10 A24-COUND is a project of using NASA A-Train satellite data for IPCC climate model evaluations; NASA A-Train satellite data for IPCC climate model 11/17/11 9/30/12 Global ; New York
Sensitivity of Climate Variability to Anthropogenic and Natural Drivers during the Last Millennium 8/1/10 7/31/14 Global ; New York
Synergistic ice cloud observations from eMAS and RSP 12/22/14 12/21/18 Central America ; North America ; New York City, NY
Synthesis of observed and simulated rain microphysics to inform a new Bayesian statistical framework 8/15/16 8/14/19 Global
Temperature Projections to Support Impact Analysis on Infrastructure and Demand 10/15/14 12/31/15 North America ; New York City, NY ; New York
Testing the Scenario Hypothesis: The Effect of Alternative Characterizations of Uncertainty on Decision Structuring 5/1/11 4/1/13 Global
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) 3/1/11 2/28/14 Africa ; Asia ; United States ; Sub-Saharan Africa ; South Asia
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Agricultural Model System Training 3/1/13 3/30/13 Global ; Nepal ; India
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Third Annual Global Workshop 10/1/12 10/31/12 Europe ; Rome ; Italy
The Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project (AgMIP) Workshop 9/19/12 9/30/13 Global ; New York
The Impact of Organic Aerosol Volatility on Aerosol Microphysics for Global Climate Modeling Applications 9/1/17 8/31/19 Global
The New York City Panel on Climate Change: Mapping and Measuring Risk 9/1/16 9/1/18 North America ; New York City, NY ; New York
The Role of Green Infrastructure in Resilience to Urban Flooding 7/18/13 7/17/16
The Role of Social Features in Urban Neighborhoods in Resilience to Flooding 7/9/14 7/8/16 North America ; New York City, NY ; New York
Towards a Multi-Scale Theory on Coupled Human Mobility and Environmental Change 4/2/18 6/30/21 Central America ; North America ; Africa ; Florida ; New York City, NY ; New York ; Syria ; South Sudan ; Honduras ; Somalia ; Puerto Rico
UCCRN Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.2) (2018) 8/22/14 8/31/17 Global ; New York City, NY
UCCRN Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (ARC3.2) Summary for City Leaders 4/21/15 4/20/16 Global ; New York City, NY
UNDP Climate Change Modeling 2013 9/15/13 2/28/14 Global ; New York City, NY ; New York
Updated Climate Scenarios for New York State 10/1/13 6/30/14 North America ; New York
Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN) 8/1/13 1/31/14 Global ; New York City, NY
Urban Climate Education Partnership 9/15/12 8/31/18 North America ; New York
US Army Corps of Engineers Institute for Water Research IPA 8/17/15 6/30/16
Use of GRACE to estimate terrestrial carbon fluxes 9/1/10 8/31/13 South America ; Amazonia ; Brazil ; New York
WWF's Asia's High Mountain's Project - Climate risk information, research and preparation for Nepal 10/12/14 2/28/15 Asia ; Nepal
Enabling Urban Residents to Adapt to Coastal Flooding: Evidence from New York City Neighborhoods 9/1/19 8/31/21 North America ; New York City, NY
Ag Out – An Enhanced IMERG-based Agricultural Outlook System to Support Food Security and Agriculture in the Developing World 4/1/19 3/31/21
Integrated Coastal Modeling (ICoM) 1/16/20 1/15/21 Atlantic Ocean
AgMIP Adaptation Teams Start-Up – A CLARE Transition Activity 1/1/20 7/1/21 Africa ; Senegal ; Ghana ; Zimbabwe
AgMIP GGCMI/PNNL Collaboration on Producing Next Generation of Gridded Crop Model Projections and Analysis for GCAM and Similar Models 4/16/20 9/30/20 Global
Grenada Readiness and Preparatory Support Proposal to the Green Climate Fund 2/17/20 4/17/20 Global
Understanding Current and Future Climate Risks within the Panj-Amu River Basin in Afghanistan 4/2/20 6/30/22 Asia ; Afghanistan
Impacts of Climate Change on Olympic Host Cities: Rapid Extreme Heat Assessment 6/15/20 8/15/20
A Comprehensive Assessment of Irrigation Agriculture and Drought-related Hazard Risks for the Aral Sea Region 7/20/20 7/22/21 Asia ; Aral Sea Region
19-PACESAT19-0030; Remote Sensing of Cloud Properties Using PACE SPEXone and HARP-2 7/31/20 7/22/22
PACE UV Retrieval of Ocean and Atmospheric data-products (PACE UV ROAD): CDM, BrC and BC polarimetry 7/24/20 7/23/22 Global
Evaluating and Constraining Models’ Stratocumulus and Cumulus Cloud Feedbacks in the Tropics using Satellite Observations to Reduce Uncertainties in Future Climate Projections 9/1/20 8/31/21 Pacific Ocean ; Atlantic Ocean ; Indian Ocean
The Role of Midlatitude Cyclones in the Seasonal Evolution of the Coupled Atmosphere-sea Ice-ocean System in the Labrador Sea and the Greenland Sea 8/1/20 7/31/21 Atlantic Ocean ; Labrador Sea ; Greenland Sea
Polarimetric Radar & Lightning Analysis and High Resolution Simulations to Support TRACER Science Goals 9/15/20 9/14/21 Global
Improving the Parameterization of Cloud and Rain Microphysics in E3SM using a Novel Observationally-Constrained Bayesian Approach 9/15/20 9/14/21 Global
Multi-Breadbasket Failures and Shocks to Food Systems: AgMIP Simulations 8/20/20 12/31/22 Global
Cascading impact of Covid-19: Re-Shaping Staple Food Value Chains in Zimbabwe (COVID19-AFS) 9/1/20 4/1/21 Africa ; Zimbabwe
Support for EPA's Activities - Examining Sectoral Impacts of Climate Change and Linking Observations and Projections 4/27/20 4/9/21
Early Stages in the Lifecycle of Polar Liquid-Bearing Clouds 9/1/20 8/31/23 Arctic
Environmental and Human Impacts of Nuclear War 7/1/20 6/30/22
Interdisciplinary Research on Earth and Planetary Systems Modeling, the Impacts of Climate Change, and-the Habitability of Other Worlds 10/1/20 9/30/21 Global
3-D Modeling of a Secondary Ancient Lunar Atmosphere: The Effect on Volatile Distribution 10/26/20 10/25/23
RSFO - CCRUN - Resilience of small and medium businesses in coastal communities in the New York - New Jersey metropolitan region 4/12/21 8/31/21 North America ; New York, NY: New Jersey
Collaborative Research: Global Agricultural Impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Climate Intervention 4/1/21 9/30/22 Global
Evaluating and Constraining Models’ Stratocumulus and Cumulus Cloud Feedbacks in the Tropics using Satellite Observations to Reduce Uncertainties in Future Climate Projections
UNS: Collaborative Research: Global Agricultural Impacts of Stratospheric Aerosol Climate Intervention 4/1/21 9/30/22 Global
Support of Analysis, Integration, and Modeling of the Earth System Project 5/1/21 10/31/21 Global
Collaborative Research: Processes Determining the Climatology of Atmospheric Unstable Layers 10/1/21 9/30/24 North America ; United States
Climate Attribution through Enhanced Fingerprinting 12/16/21 9/30/22 Global
Modeling Forest Physiological and Structural Responses to Climate Extremes and Feedbacks in GISS Model E 7/9/21 7/8/25 Global
Quantifying Uncertainty and Constraining Parameterizations of Clouds in Earth System Modelsusing NASA Observations 7/9/21 7/8/25 Global
Discovering Physically Meaningful Structures from Climate Extreme Data 9/1/21 8/31/22 Global
Library of Terran Worlds: Assessing the Habitability of Earth-Similar Planets Among Nearby Stars 11/1/21 10/31/24
Evaluation of Tropical Cloud-Radiation-Circulation Coupling in NASA GISS ModelE3 Using Observations and Reanalysis 8/6/21 8/5/25 Global
Combining Remote-sensing Observations and a PPE Approach to Constrain Low-cloud FeedbackProcesses in the NASA-GISS ESM 5/27/21 5/26/25 Global
Bridging Spatio-temporal Scales to Observationally Constrain the Cloud Feedback Pattern Effect 8/15/21 8/14/22 Global
Integrative Research in Earth System Modeling and Observations 1/1/22 12/31/25 Global
Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers and Consumption of Marine Resources, c.100 BCE to c.1860 CE (4-OCEANS) 7/1/21 6/30/27 North America ; United States
Addressing Climate Challenges to Agriculture and Water Quality in the New York City Watershed 9/27/23 9/30/26
Co-developing a Decision Support Framework for Adaptation to Coastal Flooding: A Comparative Case Study of Communities in New York and Virginia 9/1/23 8/31/26
Collaborative Research: Cloud-Radiative Feedback as the Coupling Mechanism of the Madden-Julian Oscillation and Quasi-Biennial Oscillation 7/1/23 6/30/26 North America ; United States
Inferring Middle- and High-Level Cloud Feedbacks Using A-Train Observations 10/17/22 10/16/25 Europe ; Austria
Assessing Pluvial-Coastal Flood Risk and Potential Climate Inequities in New York City 9/1/23 8/31/25 North America ; United States
Building a Next-Generation Microphysics Scheme for E3SM: a Data-Driven, Physically Constrained, Single-Category Approach 9/28/22 8/31/25 North America ; United States
Global Climate Role of Biomass Burning Aerosols and Brown Carbon 9/1/22 8/31/25 North America ; United States
Freeze/Thaw Pulsing of Nitric Oxide: Mechanism, Magnitude, And Regional Impacts 4/1/22 8/31/24 North America ; United States
Advanced Crop Modeling for the Vision for Adapted Crops and Soils (VACS) Initiative 4/1/23 3/31/24
Climate Change Impact to Local Communities Across Northern Part of Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan 6/26/23 9/25/23
The 9th Global Workshop of AgMIP (Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project) 6/15/23 8/8/23
Evaluating the Relative Influence of Maize Breeding, Field Management, and Environmental Setting on Crop Production and Sustainability Targets 3/1/23 6/30/23 North America ; United States
Secondary School Field Research Program: Engaging NYC Students in Local Field Research 6/14/22 6/27/23 North America ; United States
MAC-B: Mitigation and Adaptation Co-Benefits Modelling trial in Bangladesh 9/3/21 4/30/23 Asia ; Bangladesh