1. NSF Proposal Title: Duration: 5 year Amount: 0.75-1.5 M/yr
A Community Facility for Radio Occultation Data Processing and Analysis OR
A Radio Occultation Data Processing and Analysis Center in Support of Science Applications OR …
Duration: 5 year
Amount: M/yr
Due to Jay: mid-Dec?
Questions:
Do we include effort for out years 5-6 (~2.7M/yr)? Yes
How to best separate/combine research/operations?

2. Outline Project summary, 1 pager (Kuo)
science
technical
community development and educational efforts
Results from prior NSF support (All)
Motivation and Scientific Background (Rocken et al)
1 Multi-mission RO processing Facility (Schreiner)
2 Improve/development RO analysis (Sergey)
3 RO Instrument validation, validation of other instruments
4 Support and conduct Science applications (All)
5 Education and Outreach (Kuo)
SOW

3. SOW 1 Multi-mission RO processing Facility
Functional Overview
System Improvements/developments to make s/w mission independent
Multi-Mission Data Processing
Dissemination/Archival
2 Improve/development RO analysis
re-structuring of the neutral atmospheric inversion process
Improve inversion in LT
optimization of the bending angles for Abel inversion
Investigate reduction of large and small scale higher order ionospheric
Investigate methods to estimate ABL depth, and study variations

4. SOW 3 RO Instrument validation, validation of other instruments
RO validation via mission inter-comparison and inter-agency comparison, verification with theoretical error estimates
Instrument (MSU/AMSU/AIRS/Radiosonde/..) Validation/calibration
4 Support and conduct Science applications
Development of climatologies, BA, T, PBL, Tropopause,
Climatology of F2-layer, Plasmasphere
Support Climate model evaluation/verification
Support Iono model evaluation/verification
Support NWP DA and iono DA efforts
5 Education and Outreach
WS’s, host/train students visitors, Webcasts,