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541 assets from 19 organizations
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Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
An airborne cavity enhanced spectrometer that uses two mirrors to create an optical path of several tens of kilometers within a 50 cm cell. It measures glyoxal, nitrous acid and nitrogen dioxide (30 pptv in 10 seconds for glyoxal and NO2)…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Issued patent for an airborne-particle detector with two emitter units (light emitters and imaging elements) that send opposed, antiparallel beams into a scattering region, and a photodetector that detects the scattered light.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Published patent application for a nitrogen dioxide measuring apparatus whose components, pump and power consumption suit use on a UAV, including measuring vertical profiles of ambient nitrogen dioxide from a rotary-wing UAV.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
Senior Research Scientist for NCEI who observes, understands and models Earth’s magnetic field from the core and crust to the ionosphere and magnetosphere. He has led development of the U.S./UK World Magnetic Model at CIRES/NCEI since 2014.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Geolocated land-ice surface heights (above the WGS 84 ellipsoid) with quality parameters, from the ATLAS laser altimeter on the ICESat-2 observatory, 14 October 2018 to 2 March 2025, with centimeter-scale precision along 40 m ground-track…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES Research Scientist studying how reactive trace gases and aerosols affect atmospheric chemistry, climate and air quality, using cavity-enhanced and cavity ringdown spectrometers in field campaigns such as UWFPS, FIREX and FIREX-AQ.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area covering the atmosphere from molecular to global scales: the ozone layer, tropospheric dynamics and urban air quality. It is supported by laboratories, the CIRES Center for Atmospheric Chemistry and NOAA aircraft.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on complex chemical systems in the atmosphere, soil and aquatic environments. It develops observational and monitoring systems, models chemical interactions, and works in both laboratory and field settings.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on the interplay between weather and climate across hourly to decadal scales and their impacts on biological, physical and social systems, including resilient system design, policy tradeoffs, and contributions to the…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on how the Arctic and Antarctic respond to global processes, including climate change. It uses drones, remote sensing and on-ice fieldwork, and CIRES hosts the international data repository for Arctic data.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A CIRES/NCEI group doing basic and applied research on Earth’s magnetic field. It builds field models from low-orbiting satellites and about 200 magnetic observatories that give the field’s direction and strength at any location, for use…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on the solid Earth (core, mantle and crust): geophysical fundamentals, geological hazards and links to landscape, climate, hydrology and ocean, using fieldwork and remote sensing.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES research area on the space environment and Sun-Earth system, done in partnership with NOAA: studying the Sun’s influence on the magnetosphere and upper atmosphere, mitigating space weather effects on technology, and using space-based…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A CIRES program that connects Colorado institutions with CIRES scientists for free, on-site science and career talks (a flash talk, the CIRES mission, a career story and optional Q&A), aiming to build connections and lower barriers to…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A compact time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer, originally built by Aerodyne Research in 2002 and customized by NOAA CSL. It measures non-refractory submicron aerosol composition (sulfate, nitrate, ammonium, chloride, organics) in…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Patent publication for a system that forecasts when and where solar flares will occur. It masks an image of the solar disk, builds an intensity histogram, stores full-disk images and sub-images of possible pre-flare signature sites, and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A CIRES center for data-intensive, open and reproducible environmental science, focused on extreme and natural hazards, adaptation science, Earth data across scales, teaching and learning Earth data science, Earth analytics and landscape…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A CIRES research center dedicated to understanding the Earth system, primarily through air- and space-based remote sensing. Its groups cover lidar, cold clouds and sea ice, water and climate, natural hazards, Greenland hazards and sea…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A package from Earth Lab and the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center for downloading downscaled past and future climate data (MACA Version 2) through a USGS API, and organizing it for visualization and analysis.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
An Earth Lab package that simplifies plotting and manipulating raster and vector spatial data: stacking and cropping bands, masking clouds, plotting RGB images, bands and histograms, and calculating vegetation indices and hillshades. Built…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A command-line tool that classifies fire events from the Collection 6 MODIS Burned Area Product. A user-set space-time window groups burn detections into discrete events, and the tool outputs data tables and shapefiles of event and daily…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A magnetic model compiled from satellite, marine, aeromagnetic and ground surveys. EMM2017 includes ESA Swarm satellite data and a crustal field from EMAG2-v3 at 2-arcminute resolution (degree and order 790), is valid 2000–2022, and comes…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
ESIIL enables a global community of environmental data scientists to use environmental data and emerging analytics to develop science-based solutions in biology and other environmental sciences, through team science, collaborative…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A vacufuge concentrator (Make/Model 5305) with plate and microcentrifuge tube rotors, in the CIRES Fierer lab. Open to the home department and all university users, and to academic and national lab users case by case.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Event-level and daily-level fire polygons for Argentina from the FIRED (fire event delineation) product, November 2000 to December 2024. Derived from the MODIS MCD64A1 burned area product with the firedpy algorithm, using 5-pixel/3-day and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Data files and plotting scripts (MATLAB or IDL format) supporting a Journal of Geophysical Research article on lidar observations of quasi-biennial-oscillation-induced interannual variations of gravity wave potential energy density at…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
The CIRES/Chemistry Integrated Instrument Development Facility combines design, precision machine, electronics and scientific glassblowing shops for complete scientific instrument development, from concept to testing. It serves customers…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A computer-controlled whole air sampling system (bellows compressor plus rack-mounted modules of twelve 1.4 L electropolished stainless steel canisters) that collects samples for offline GC-MS analysis aboard research aircraft and mobile…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A modified TOFWERK/Aerodyne time-of-flight chemical ionization mass spectrometer that uses iodide adduct formation to detect reactive nitrogen (HONO, N2O5, HNCO), halogen, sulphur (HPMTF) and organic species such as formic acid, with…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
Professor of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences and CIRES Fellow who combines observations and models to understand how radiation, clouds, precipitation and sea ice affect the coupled climate system. Her work includes the NASA PREFIRE…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
Senior scientist at NSIDC specializing in cryosphere remote sensing. She improves satellite retrievals of sea ice thickness and snow depth, studies the impacts of sea ice loss, and does Arctic and Antarctic fieldwork, including radar work…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
NCEI geomagnetism web calculators for declination, U.S. historic declination, magnetic field and magnetic field component grids, plus a compass correction tool.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES Senior Research Scientist in Geomagnetism working with NOAA’s NCEI. He develops and evaluates models of Earth’s magnetic field (crustal structure, time-varying disturbances, navigation and surveying uncertainty) and leads the…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A Chemistry/CIRES research group studying atmospheric heterogeneous chemistry: aerosols and clouds in the stratosphere and troposphere, their effects on ozone, climate and visibility, and aerosols on early Earth, Mars and Titan. The work…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Expired patent (filed 1987 by CIRES) for a post-column photochemical reaction that improves HPLC detection limits, to about 0.5–10 pg, for compounds absorbing at 240–800 nm. It uses singlet oxygen reactions with substituted furans, with UV…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Intellectual Property
Patent for a fast digital light source tracker on a moving ground-based or airborne platform: two rotating mirrors, a lens, an imaging camera and a real-time motion compensation system. It can feed UV-Vis and FTIR spectrometers to measure…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A global daily composite of snow cover and albedo at 500 m resolution from MODIS on the Terra satellite, in 10°x10° tiles on a sinusoidal grid, from 24 February 2000 to the present.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
NASA’s NSIDC DAAC distributes cryosphere and related geophysical data from NASA Earth-observing satellite missions, airborne campaigns and field observations: over 1,400 data sets from more than 20 missions. It also offers visualization…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
The National Snow and Ice Data Center, part of CIRES at CU Boulder, conducts research and provides open data on snow, ice, glaciers, frozen ground and climate interactions in Earth’s cryosphere.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Near-real-time maps of sea ice concentration for the Northern and Southern Hemispheres from DMSP SSMIS on a 25 km grid, 1 January 2024 to 14 January 2026. Retired as of 18 June 2026 and no longer available for download.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
NOAA’s data stewardship program at NSIDC, preserving snow and ice data for researchers, decision makers and the public. Products include the Sea Ice Index viewer, MASIE-NH Arctic sea ice extent, the Glacier Photograph Collection and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A diode laser cavity ring-down spectrometer measuring NO, NO2, O3 and NOy at 1 second with a 30 pptv detection limit, used in field projects from ACCRONIM 2009 to SUNVEx 2021.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A toolkit that lets operations staff and data producers create metadata files conforming to NASA’s Common Metadata Repository UMM-G specification and ingest data directly into NASA EOSDIS’s Cumulus archive.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A Python library to search, download and access laser altimetry data from (pre-)Operation IceBridge and ICESat/GLAS datasets, with ITRF transformations so datasets can be compared.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
In-development code that creates sea ice concentration estimates from passive microwave data, using code adapted from NASA Goddard’s Bootstrap and NASA Team algorithms, rewritten in modular Python.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Python functions that convert between longitude/latitude and generic polar stereographic x, y (km) coordinates, and between longitude/latitude and i, j grid coordinates for specific AMSR-E and SSM/I datasets.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Source code and configuration for building the QGreenland Core zip package, a free GIS mapping tool for Greenland-focused research, teaching, decision making and collaboration. It combines key datasets in an all-in-one analysis and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Hourly measurements of near ground-level ozone from separate Arctic sites, 1974–2018, quality checked and used to calculate expected monthly variation; collected to investigate climatological variation in Arctic ground-level ozone.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A modified Aerodyne high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometer that measures volatile organic compounds (aromatics, biogenic VOCs, alcohols, ketones, acids, aldehydes, nitriles, dimethyl sulfide) by proton-transfer chemical…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Monthly mean anomaly proxies (January 1980–December 2025) for dynamical and natural variability: solar cycle, quasi-biennial oscillation, El Niño-Southern Oscillation, Arctic and Antarctic Oscillations, Brewer-Dobson Circulation,…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
The Atmospheric Trace Molecule Spectroscopy Laboratory designs, assembles and validates optical spectroscopic instruments for in-situ and remote sensing measurements of trace gases, radicals and aerosol optical properties, from land, ships…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Physical Infrastructure
A Retsch MM 400 shaker adapted for 96-well plates, used for bead beating during DNA extraction, in the CIRES Fierer lab. Open to the home department and all university users, and to academic and national lab users case by case.
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A consistent time series of Arctic and Antarctic sea ice concentrations generated from passive microwave brightness temperatures, on a 25 x 25 km polar stereographic grid, covering 26 October 1978 to 31 December 2025. Forward processing…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Quick-look sea ice extent and concentration images (PNG) and data values (GeoTIFF and ASCII text) for the Arctic and Antarctic from November 1978 to the present, including trends and anomalies against a 1981–2010 reference period; daily…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Model output, processed data and analysis files from a global simulation (1901–2025) with the SiBCASA-Hg land surface model, which couples terrestrial mercury cycling with carbon, water, energy, vegetation and soil processes. The files…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Horizontal wind speed and direction profiles retrieved with a VAD algorithm from conical scans by the CLAMPS2 Halo Streamline XR+ Doppler lidar (PPI scans at 60° elevation every 5 minutes), in 24-hour netCDF files, collected during the…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Solar irradiance data from flights of the HELiX uncrewed aircraft system, equipped with up- and downward-looking pyranometers, at the Avery Picnic and Kettle Ponds sites in the East River watershed of the Colorado mountains during the…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
Daily files from a Vaisala CL31 ceilometer deployed at Roaring Judy in the East River Watershed, Colorado (21 October 2021 to 28 January 2022), during the NOAA SPLASH campaign. Files contain backscatter profiles, cloud base heights and…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
US television coverage of climate change or global warming from 2000 to August 2026, one of the Media and Climate Change Observatory data sets that monitor 131 newspaper, radio and TV sources in 59 countries using the Lexis Nexis, Proquest…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
CIRES-sponsored visiting fellowships, funded mainly through the CIRES cooperative agreement with NOAA: two-year postdoctoral terms ($70,000 first-year salary, up to $8,000 research budget) and sabbatical terms of up to 12 months for senior…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
The Working Group on Space-Based Lidar Winds advocates the earliest possible deployment of a space-based Doppler wind lidar to provide accurate global tropospheric wind data for climate studies and weather forecasting. It also discusses…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
The standard model for navigation, attitude and heading referencing systems that use the geomagnetic field, also used in civilian navigation. Updated every five years; the current WMM2025 was released December 17, 2024 and expires December…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
An advanced geomagnetic field model, more detailed than the WMM, with core field and secular variation coefficients for degrees 1–15 plus crustal field through degree 133 (18,210 non-zero coefficients). NGA recommends that all DoD systems…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Data & Digital Tools
A large-scale, physics-based model of the inner heliosphere that the Space Weather Forecast Office uses to give 1–4 days’ advance warning of solar wind structures and Earth-directed coronal mass ejections. It couples the WSA near-Sun…
Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES)Capabilities & Access
A research group that develops new lidar technologies and laser spectroscopy and studies physical and chemical processes across the whole atmosphere, with lidar observations in Antarctica (McMurdo) and lidar development on campus in…