Sponsor: NASA NSPIRES
When
Step-1 Proposals are due March 7, 2023, and Step-2 Proposals are due May 05, 2023.
The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem (PACE) mission is part of NASA's implementation of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report, Thriving on Our Changing Planet: A Decadal Strategy for Earth Observations from Space (Decadal Survey) released in early 2018.NASA is seeking proposals to support the post-launch validation of PACE science data products. Here, validation refers to performance assessment and ‘ground-truthing’ of the science data products produced by PACE to evaluate and reduce uncertainty in these products. The primary goal for this program element is the accumulation and/or collection of in situ or other fit-for-purpose data to validate ocean color, atmospheric aerosol, and/or cloud data products from PACE’s trio of instruments.
While scientific investigations utilizing PACE data are of utmost importance to continue critical climate characterization, further our understanding of aquatic biogeochemistry and ecology, and pioneer new data products that will expand our appreciation of life in the ocean and how it is changing, this program element is specifically focused on data collection for the assessment of performance and validation of PACE data that would enable such scientific investigations to take place.