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Scientist-Stakeholder Relationships Drive Carbon Data Product Transfer Effectiveness within NASA Program

Carbon cycle science is at the heart of research on global climate change and its long-term impacts, as it examines the exchange of carbon between the atmosphere, oceans, land, and the impact of fossil fuel emissions on this cycling. Given the urgency of the climate challenge, NASA’s Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) requires all funded investigators to identify and work with stakeholder organizations at project inception to accelerate the transfer of the products developed by funded research into decision making systems. In this study, we contribute to the literature through the implementation of a quantitative analysis of 908 unique survey responses from funded investigators to explore the maturity of the scientist-stakeholder engagement. The paper employs multiple correspondence analysis to provide evidence to support policy options to increase stakeholder integration into research programs. Despite limitations of the dataset used, we demonstrated that multiple funding rounds, long-standing relationships between the stakeholder and scientist, and the scientific productivity of the PI, including the ability to produce datasets and research papers on these datasets, all contribute to carbon products moving from research to operational use. The maturity of relationships between scientists and stakeholders was shown to result improved stakeholder engagement. The use of carbon products should be identified in every stage of the program, and that capacity building is needed to support both existing and newly identified stakeholders better understand and use CMS products. As Federal, State, and local policy on climate adaptation and mitigation matures, the need for information on carbon will expand. Building of stakeholder-scientist relationships in CMS results in an effective generation and use of datasets to support this need and prototype ways that improved information needed for decision making can be created.

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Approximating the Lidar Ratio of Modeled Aerosol Species to Help Inform Lidar Ratio Selection for Marine Aerosols in the Forthcoming Version 5 CALIPSO Data Products

- After 16+ years, the NASA Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations (CALIPSO) mission will soon retire. - Narrow window of opportunity exists to improve quality of CALIPSO aerosol retrievals by advancing knowledge of aerosol lidar ratios for different aerosol types; - For CALIOP, the elastic backscatter lidar aboard CALIPSO, an aerosol lidar ratio (i.e., extinction-to-backscatter ratio) is generally assumed to retrieve vertical profiles of aerosol extinction and subsequently column-integrated aerosol optical depth (AOD). - Current CALIPSO lidar ratio selection process uses a single lidar ratio for each of the 7 CALIPSO tropospheric aerosol types, with large uncertainties for most aerosol types. Goal of this study: creation of regional and seasonal climatological lidar ratio maps for marine aerosols by leveraging passive aerosol retrievals (MODIS) and global model simulations (GEOS/GOGART).

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